Hello! First (published) Transformers Prime fic, so exited! I honestly don't know how well this will turn out, but I'm posting it anyways. The kitten idea was my first so...please don't be weirded out or anything.

Inspired by ThreeinOne's Decepticon Activity list

Disclaimer: Unfortunately, Transformers belong to Hasbro. I do, however, own a cat and some bolts ^^

"Ah! My aching joints!"

Megatron had ordered Starscream to scope out an air force base for possible supplies, but unfortunately that meant that the Seeker had to stay in jet-form until the majority of the staff wasn't as active. As much as Starscream loved his wings, he was cramped.

Finally, after taking a brief stasis nap, the Seeker saw that the coast was clear. He quietly transformed to his bi-pedal form and snuck around. He found absolutely nothing of interest though (stupid primitive human tech…) and flew back to the Nemesis.

That was a waste of twelve hours.

Luckily, Megatron wasn't that upset that Starscream came back empty-handed. After all, they didn't really need supplies that badly. So he simply gave his SIC a good, classic back-hand and sent him on his way.

"I get no respect around here," Starscream grumbled, stalking to his quarters. "At least it's better than living off scra-,"

"Meow."

Starscream froze, wondering why a strange noise came from his armor. He carefully inspected himself, but saw nothing.

"Meow!" Suddenly a small white fuzz ball, partially covered in soot, crawled out of his armor and onto his shoulder.

"AHHH! Vermin!" Starscream flicked the creature off his shoulder and quickly backed up, tripping over his berth. The Seeker scrambled behind the berth, hiding from the strange being; said creature, an innocent kitten, starting licking its paw.

Starscream slowly emerged from his hiding space, blaster ready. He aimed it at the creature, intending to blow it to dust. The kitten looked up at him with big blue eyes just as he was about to shoot, and Starscream found himself unable to fire upon such an adorable creature.

"Huh, just what are you tiny fleshling?" Starscream asked the kitten, shifting his blaster to his servo and gently prodding the thing with a single digit. The kitten rubbed against his long digit and purred, causing Starscream to smile to himself. It was kind of cute…

He determined that the creature must have crawled into his chassis while he was sitting in the air force base, more specifically, during his stasis nap. Whatever it was, Starscream was going to found out.

Starscream blinked at the screen, then back at the creature. He was nearly positive that it was a human animal called a "cat", or more specifically, the sparkling equivalent of one called a "kitten". Apparently the beasts were common for humans to keep as pets. But after further research, Starscream was sure that it was the kitten that kept the humans as pets. Maybe this adorable little kitten was worthy enough to hang around after all…

He turned to the kitten and found that it was rolling around and running throughout the quarters sporadically, before finally darting towards his foot and tackling it.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Starscream yelled, unsure why the kitten was attempting to eat his foot. The kitten was chewing on it while grabbing it with its forepaws and kicking with its hind legs, claws out. Starscream was annoyed and was about to kick it off, but the kitten paused and looked up at him, mouth still partially open. Now that it was clean (Starscream discovered that they had the weirdest ways of bathing…) he noticed that it was all white and fluffy, except for a black patch on its face that covered part of its eye and an ear. Why did it have to be so slaggin' adorable?

"Oh I see, you're 'playing' aren't you?" Starscream smiled at the kitten. "Alright, let's play." The Seeker found a small bolt and tossed it to the kitten. It rolled off, the kitten hard on its trail. It swatted the bolt with amazing precision, and lined itself up with the now motionless toy. It carefully stalked the piece of metal, and then pounced, continuing the cycle. Starscream couldn't help but marvel at its predatory grace.

The kitten all of a sudden lost interest in the bolt, and looked around. Almost randomly the small cat leaped and swatted at a spare wire hanging over the edge of a table. Starscream couldn't help but laugh at the fuzzy creature's antics. Seeing that the kitten was having trouble properly reaching the string, Starscream grabbed the wire and lowered it, allowing the white fuzz ball to get a better swing at it. He then was about to put it up, moving the wire, and the kitten promptly chased after it.

Experimenting, Starscream waved around the wire some more. Naturally, the playful kitten kept running after it, swiping its claws at it. "That's it! Attack! Kill!" Starscream cheered as the kitten clawed at the dangling wire. This went on for quite some time, seeing as both the tall mech and the fuzzy kitten enjoyed the game.

"Hey, Starscream, what did you do with my- What's that?" Knock Out entered Starscream's quarters to find the location of a missing tool, but ended up staring at Starscream holding a wire for a tiny creature to swat at.

The Seeker immediately dropped the wire and froze, leaving the kitten to pick it up in its mouth and prance away to chew on it.

"Starscream," Knock Out started slowly, "Why are you playing with a kitten?"

"I- but- it just-," Starscream stuttered, motioning helplessly to the kitten. "Wait a second," he pointed an accusing digit at the red medic, "How did you know that the tiny organic creature was called a kitten?"

It was Knock Out's turn to be flustered and defensive. "W-well… I-I may of… seen some of those human television shows…" he explained nervously. Honestly, he grew strangely fond of human entertainment, but there was no need to express his love for it in front of Megatron's SIC (not that the Seeker would tell him).

Starscream smiled slyly. "You like watching it, don't you?"

"Why is there a kitten in your quarters?!" Knock Out pointed at the playing cat, changing the subject. The kitten looked up at the red mech with its big blue eyes. "Why is it staring at me like that?!"

The kitten walked up to Knock Out and rubbed its head against his foot, purring loudly. "Heh, heh, it is strangely adorable…" the medic admitted. He reached down and scratched its back with a digit. "Aren't you a cute little guy?" he told the kitten.

"Wait, how do you know the kitten is a male? It could be a femme for all we know," Starscream pointed out.

Knock Out shot an annoyed glance at Starscream. "Hellooo! Doctor in the house!" He scooped up the kitten in his servo and calmly walked over to the computer where the Seeker had pulled up information on the felines. After finding the desired info, he raised an eyebrow and gently turned to the kitten over onto its back. He apprehensively looked under its tail, and then quickly averted his optics. "It's a girl," he deadpanned.

Starscream smiled. "Ha! I was right!"

"You guessed," Knock Out snapped.

The kitten rolled over in his hand and rubbed against Knock Out some more, mewling softly. "So what are you going to do with Fluffy here?" Knock Out asked, genuinely curious. After all, they already determined that it was too cute to destroy.

The two Decepticons leaned against the wall of Starscream's quarters, the kitten fast asleep, snuggled in between their shoulders.

"As long as Megatron doesn't find out, what's the harm?" Starscream shrugged (not too hard that it threw the kitten off), glancing at the kitten.

"Sure, but you have to deal with her…by-products…" Knock Out agreed.

Starscream blinked. "Say what now?" What did he get himself into? Darn kitten and her cuteness…

If, by any chance, you want more kitten action, I have some stuff planned out *smirks and chuckles evilly* If you have any requests, I'll be happy to see what I can do! Seriously, I need ideas.

Review! Don't leave me hangin'!