Prologue

Starscream's welder was scraping the sides of the sleeping minicons that formed the Skyboom shield. Every few joors or so they would give out a small burst of energy that would wrap around their sleeping state and then dissipate. He gently put the microscopic scrapes in a container. Why hadn't he thought of this before? Megatron's orders and the many battles with the Autobots had rendered his scientific side to quiet down and forget itself. But now with some extra time to himself, it had reared its head and its devious questions to haunt him once again. He walked down a small hallway to his quarters. Being the scientist that he was he always found ways to experiment even if he wasn't in his lab on Cybertron.

He put the container on top of a large counter that took up part of his room. He took out various supplies and appliances. A microscope and a laser were put next to a small Petri dish. Next he used his welder and took out the small microscopic particles that he had gotten and placed them in the Petri dish. Putting the dish underneath the microscope, he looked through it and found out a rather startling surprise.

'They moved!?'

The small particles moved and darted in the dish. They started to try to attach to one another, but with out the appropriate energy the bonds had failed. Starscream stared in awe as he watched his little discovery. His CPU filled to the brim with hypotheses and questions. But one deliberately stuck and engraved itself into his processors. If they could move, they were energized particles. This wasn't possible unless there was some kind of spark energy, no matter how small, left to power the particles for a short period of time. His idea got bigger. Could he possible make another being with the particles? He would need to hurry for every second the particles were getting more sluggish.

He started to think out an idea of what to do. Then it hit him as he looked at Megatron's Leader 1 walking past his entrance way over to Megatron's throne. They needed minicons, but even if he could make the body, it wouldn't have a spark to make it move even less give a power surge through a mech. He looked through his room, hoping another idea would come up. Going through a list of options he decided to choose the one that would most likely work.

It had taken a few Earth weeks but he finally finished. With frequent scrapes from the Skyboom minicons he was able to get enough fresh particles to examine before they died out. On his counter was a small femme with a light lavender color. He decided to call her Wisteria after a climbing plant on the Earth that had flowers resembling her color. He took her to the room where the minicons were being held. As soon as he reached the door he walked quietly in and stood completely still. The minicons stared at him coldly. Starscream gently put Wisteria's protoform on the floor and left, hopefully his plan would work that the minicons would give the little femme minicon a chance to online. He would come back later to see if they actually gave the mercy of life to the little protoform on their floor.

The minicons stared at the lifeless protoform. It was the first time they had seen a femme their size. How did Starscream get a hold of one?

"How the frag did he do this?" One of the minicons spoke up. Only the others knew what he was saying. Neither the Autobots nor the Decepticons could understand their speech completely.

"He only brought it here so that we would finish his work for him…" another voice spoke out.

"But, her protoform can hold a spark…there is a chance that she can live." This quiet voice came from a minicon who inspected Wisteria's frame.

"Why did he even think to bring it to us? I mean sure we can make some pretty impossible things come true, but to give life to one that hasn't even existed at all?" Quizzically the minicon sat down in annoyance.

" Find her another spark." The other minicons stared at the unemotional minicon in the corner. Despite his short sentences and gloomy behavior, he was a compassionate being.

" How? We aren't femmes." Another said looking sadly at the femme. It was such a waste to have her there looking like she was just in stasis, but only to continue being an empty shell.

"Take from someone else."

"That would work if we could get out of this room!" They were getting frustrated. It was possible to give the little femme a chance to online, but how?

Before they could bicker any longer they heard the giant footsteps of a Decepticon coming down towards their door. They grabbed the femme's protoform and put her safely in the back so that the mech that came wouldn't see. The door swung open giving off a small crunching sound then a hiss as it slowed down. Tidal Wave's huge form could be seen hovering over them. Every once in a while Megatron would send one of his soldiers to check on the minicons to make sure they were being good little prisoners. The second they saw him, the answer to their problem had been solved. Tidal Wave's form was gigantic, therefore his spark had to be as well in order to support him. They could get a fragment of his spark and it could be used as the femme's spark. She also wouldn't have any of Tidal Wave's traits since the piece would lose its connection with him once they officially onlined her. But how to get the fragment was a completely different question.

"Minicons being good. Tidal Wave go back to Megatron." Tidal Wave almost spun around completely before one of the minicons gave him a shock through his leg.

"Hurt! Minicons hurt Tidal Wave!" Tidal Wave stared at the small minicon with the paralyzing shock tranquilizer he had in his hand.

He opened up his cannons and fired, but nothing came out. Not even a boom or a splat of minicons on the floor. Soon warning signs appeared in his view.

:SYSTEMS FAILING. OFFLINE IN .5 JOORS:

When the time had run out he offlined. He couldn't give out any signal with the shock that went through his systems in mere seconds. Quickly the minicons got to work. This could be their only chance. They had nothing to lose, but if the onlining worked they possibly had something to gain.

: REBOOT. SYSTEMS ONLINE:

Tidal Wave woke up outside the minicon door. He checked his processor and databanks to what had happened. All he could recall was that he had offlined and that Megatron had ordered him to check the minicons. He opened the door and the familiar crunch and hiss was heard throughout the room. The minicons stared at him, the only movement was their heads moving over to see him. Having seen that they were alright and nothing wrong Tidal Wave went back out and towards the room to report to Megatron. He ignored the slight tingling feeling his spark felt. Gradually it faded away.