Sparkling time will be written In this. So that it is clear.
Bumblebee talking in his beeps will by Bold.
And this will be though the bond.
That was all.
Disclaimer: transformers aren't mine.

Nanoklik: 0,4 seconds.
Klik: 1,2 minute (so 180 astroseconds)
Breem: 4 minutes (so 600 astroseconds)
Joor: 1 cybertron day
Orn: 13 Joors, so 13 days, I will be calling this a cybertron week.
Quartex: 4 orns, cybertron version of a month.
Solar cycle: 1 cybertron year (about 40 quartrex, which is in turn 2080 joors)
Vorn: 83 solarcycles

The transformer will stay a sparkling for the first 100 vorns of its life, they will go through the baby and toddler state.
Next up, younglings.
Age time, 100 vorns to 1000 vorns.
The first 600 vorns it will be like a child grow from years 3 till about 13. and the last 400 vorns will be like from 13 to 18.
After that it is an adult.

.~,~.
.~,~.

The six autobots were quiet as both cons lay faceplates down in the dirt. Both offline for the time being. The first one to snap out of it was Smokescreen as his spark demanded him to go make sure if Bumblebee was okay.

Smokescreen shook his helmet and made his way down by gliding down the cliff and and pulled out his gun as he walked back the downer seeker. No need for it as that Starscream was not going to wake up anytime soon.

Once the youngest Autobot concluded that the seeker really wasn't going to move he quickly ran over to the other much younger mech. He quickly checked him over and felt like purging. The damage honestly looked horrible... How had he been fighting with this?

Thankfully the other bots had quickly followed after smokescreen and came over as well, all a bit more guarded.

"Well, That is two cons down at least." Wheeljack seemed rather pleased.

Arcee looked at the other displeased "He is still a youngling and we don't even know why the kid is with the cons."

"And so we shouldn't take any risks! I know the cons wouldn't think it over for a second. If they found a downed Autobot they would finish it! I say we return the favour." Wheeljack continued and reached for his swords.

Optimus held up his servo at the wrecker. Wheeljack looked shocked "But prime-"

Optimus shook his helmet at the wrecker "I am well aware of what Megatron would expect from his followers. But as we are Autobots I expect us to help those who are in need."

Wheeljack looked ready to go against it but seemed to know better and kept his mouth shut. Smokescreen meanwhile was trying very hard not to start grinning at that, he know that he could count on Optimus! There was a good reason why he looked up to the Prime.

Arcee had walked to the still offline yellow decepticon and was looking him over "Well, If we are taking him back we better call Ratchet. This damage seems really serious."

Optimus nodded and told Arcee to comm Ratchet for both the Groundbridge and to get the medbay ready as he carefully lifted Bumblebee, noting to himself that the mech was a lot lighter than any full grown Mech should be. The group had a small discussion if they should take Starscream. Optimus was ready to help the seeker as well but that went too far for Wheeljack and the Prime decided that the Seeker was in less danger of permanent offlining then the small one he was carrying in his arms.

The groundbridge appeared and the group walked though.

.~,~.

When Optimus had told him to prepare the medbay Ratchet had thought one of the bots had gotten hurt. When the group returned with the blue opticed Decepticon he had paused. That was before he had seen the damage and he had rushed Optimus to the medbay asking what had happened.

Optimus had simple answered that it had been Starscream and he would tell what he knew later.

With that the old medic had started to work. The damage had been serious as if seemed like it wasn't just mostly armour damage. The complete upper leg protoform had been burned and crushed. After asking about it Arcee had answered that Starscream had blown energon up into the parts. Ratchet decided that he would wait with his questions until the mech was at least going to online again.

The mechs left hip had also been twisted and partly melted as for his left lower side, that had been much in the same state of condition.

All the other damage was only cosmetic and so Ratchet ignored that as he set up an energon drip to battle the low energon levels.

And now he was sitting next to the still offline youngling with his own cube. And it was just a youngling, while he had been repairing him he had to keep a close look on the younger ones spark. While doing so he had discovered that the mech was only just reaching his eight hundred vorn of functioning.

He had told his team and they had all been shocked. The Autobots had always tried to keep younglings out of the war as much as possible, Smokescreen had already been a rare case with having just reached adulthood. The humans had asked for explanation and Cliffjumper had been helpful to convert it to about sixteen human years, which had let to the question of how old they all would be and Ratchet had returned to the medbay in that discussion.

Ratchet looked the young mech over again, for his age he had surprisingly well fitting armour,and taking into consideration that he would still grow a bit, it was surprising that he didn't just have the basics. Ratchet wondered about that as he looked that spark signature over. It looked like another spark signature he had seen before but he just could not put his servo on where he remembered it from.

The old medic ignore the bots talking outside of his medbay, they were wondering if they should even allowed the kid to go back to the Cons, as he sat next to the youngling on a metal box that could support him. He had been wondering why the youngling had been this well armoured and trained. Especially seeing as Bumblebee seemed to have no experience on the field. He had looked all the files they had on Decepticons over and not a single one even spoke of the possibility of the youngling exciting.

Why did they go through so much trouble to equip and train a youngling that they weren't even setting in for missions? It seemed so unlike Decepticons to do something like that.

Ratchet looked over the small report on the battle, he had requested that everyone who had seen it would work together to get a complete report so he could connect damage to the events that had occurred and to make sure he didn't miss any damage that had been inflected. The medic looked the youngling over again and noted that for going through an energon mine explosion he had made it out rather well, if his armour hadn't already been broken by Starscream, then Ratchet would have doubted that it would have left any damage.

Ratchet froze as his processor worked in overdrive. That rang a bell somewhere… Ratchet took a much closer look at the armour and at the structure it had. It was rough even though you wouldn't say or see that at first and it was made out of a complex layering of different metals. It was interesting that his protoform could work with such a specific type of armour.

Their kind had a lot of different frame types. But the armour that was compatible was a bit more complex. Not everyone could just get any armour they wanted, they had a kind of universal armour for repairs but specific kinds of armour needed to be compatible. A Cybertronium was emerged, human language born, with a bit of armour and colour. This was the type and the primary colour that the protoform would be most compatible with. Which in turn meant that someone couldn't just get this type or armouring without it being just right but getting it in times of war must mean that the kid had some good connections.

Ratchet sat back as he thought, he was missing something. Something important. He had to be everything about the kid seemed to be ringing a bell but he could just not lay his servo on it.

Old optics looked at the scanner that was keeping a watch on the spark. The pulsing was still steady as it had been ever since he had finished and the energon levels were even again.

The youngling wasn't out of the danger zone though. Ratchet hadn't been able to repair the damage, the medic simply didn't have the supplies for it. He had managed to close all the wounds and had gotten the kid into a stable condition but he couldn't do much more.

Ratchet was staring at the Spark signature when he suddenly recognised a few peaks in the diagram. He quickly walked over to the chard and took a closer look. The longer he looked the more things he started to recognise. He quickly brought up Optimus's chard.

Spark signatures where a lot like DNA from the humans. A sparkling got half of the signature from the carrier and half from the sire. That would make a completely new signature that couldn't be recreated, unless you had a sparktwin but no one was sure how does happened or worked yet.

Ratchet set the computer to look for parts that were the same. If he was right then… Ratchet looked over his shoulder to the youngling and the computer beeped as the scan was completed.

The scan showed a 25% overlap of the signature… Meaning that Optimus and the youngling were in matter of fact family… And seeing as Ratchet knew that Optimus did not have any sparklings, let stand grandsparklings, that only left one option as what the humans would call uncle, which meant…

"Oh primus you are Megatron's son." Ratchet muttered as he looked at the youngling in shock. This explained when the kids armour was so much like Megatron's and why he seemed to be high in the ranks while never out in the open.

How was he going to tell this to the others?

.~,~.

After some thought Ratchet decided to tell Optimus first. Seeing as Bumblebee was Prime's brother's creation it would only be fair. He had called Optimus to his medbay and he had pointed him towards the computer with the message to make his own conclusion.

While the Prime was working though the newly given information Ratchet had turned back to the kid. Bumblebee had somehow managed to turn unto his side and roll up a bit. His left leg above the other and hardly moved from its original position. The youngling seemed so different from the Decepticon lord.

"Are you sure of this my old friend?" If it had been another time Ratchet would have been amused at the lost sound in Optimus's voice. But for now he kept focused.

"Yes Optimus, I am sure." Ratchet answered and watched his leader think over the results.

They stood in silence before Ratchet asked a question "How are we going to break the news to the others… And more importantly… How do you think your brother is going to react once he finds out what happened to his sparkling?"

.~,~.

Megatron awake with a snap, he did not know why he had been suddenly awoken and after a scan around his room he could not find any reason for his systems panic. He turned his focus on his sparkbond with his sparkling and found no panic there either. A check on his chronometer showed that it was his sparkling's free time which meant he was most likely recharging.

The should have calmed the Decepticon lord down but it did not, Megatron figured that was because of the left over damage from his… out of body experience in the Autobot's processor. Instead he rose from his berth and moved towards Bumblebee's room. He would quickly check in on his sparkling before he would see how everything on the ship was going.

The Decepticon lord made his way to Bumblebee's chambers. He would have liked to travel faster but he wasn't in his prime condition which made him slower. He soon reached the room and put the code in the unlock the door.

Megatron looked into the room, expecting to find his sweetspark to be resting, only to see an empty berth. Panic returned to his spark as he searched over his bond, he still got no reaction.

The old mech turned and made his way to the bridge, Soundwave would know where his sparkling was, Soundwave always kept an extra optic out for Bumblebee for him.

Megatron arrived on the bridge and looked around. The Vehicons were working and Soundwave stood alone at the computer. Megatron walked over to his third in commend.

"Soundwave." Megatron greeted, no one would hear it but the worry in his voice made clear to the silent mech just what was wrong.

Soundwave turned to his lord "Greetings my Lord. Starscream, out. Bumblebee, out. Relic hunt. Starscreams orders." The silent mech quickly explained as the Decepticon lord looked displeased.

"Starscream and Bumblebee are on a relic hunt…" This wasn't good, he didn't trust Starscream to be alone with the youngling at all. That seeker was always planning something.

Megatron focused back on Soundwave "Where are they right now?" Hopefully bumblebee would soon return and he could make sure his sparkling wouldn't be dragged even more into this war.

Soundwave stood silent as ever but Megatron could feel the uneasy from the other mech "Location, unknown. Signal blocked by electric field in mountains."

Megatron felt uneasy as he looked at the spacebridge "Start it up and go retrieve them." In his mind he was already happy with just his sparkling and the cassette master knew that.

Soundwave nodded in understanding and moved though the spacebridge.

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The thunderstorm had become worse as Soundwave made his way over the path leading to where the signal had been located. The ground around the cliffs to unstable to walk upon. Soundwave reached the cliff and looked down and at the battlegrounds below. Soundwave quickly located Starscream but couldn't locate Bumblebee.

Soundwave made his way down and walked over the second in command. He quickly noted the damage, which wasn't to difficult to figure out. He scanned the grounds and could not locate Bumblebee. He sat down and made sure that the wounds of the seeker were closest up. After making sure the seeker would online again he started his round.

It wasn't long until he found the destroyed cave entrance. The entrance had been destroyed by Starscream's missiles which gave the dark blue mech pause. Why had the other destroyed it? Soundwave started to rip the stones away from the entrance. He noticed the yellow stripes on some rocks and paused. That was Bumblebee's colour.

Soundwave made his way into the cave and looked around. Noting the energon on the ground and walls. "Bumblebee. Report!" The comment echoed in the cave. It was silent until he heard something move. It was smaller than Bumblebee would have been and Soundwave activated his weapons.

"Sir Soundwave!" A small mech ran out of the darkness. The yellow dots showing it was Stinger.

Soundwave went down and picked the small cassette up. "Soldier Stinger. What happened?"

Soundwave noted that the small mech was shaking and seemed to have difficulties.

"Bee send me out. Mission protect capsule. Bee disappeared outside and I waited for the rain to stop. Lots of sounds of battle." Stinger pointed at the capsule and Soundwave was happy to see that the relic had been protected. "But… signal with Bee disappeared…"

Soundwave turned back to Stinger, no wonder the cassette was shaken. Stinger had never had Bumblebee truly away from him. "Bumblebee, will be found. Return Relic to Lord Megatron." Stinger nodded.

Soundwave picked the capsule up and lifted the downed seeker with the other arm. Stinger was also helpful by lifting the wing that had been throw aside.

The two returned to the nemesis.

.~,~.

Megatron was not happy.

He stood in the medbay next to his downed second in command.

Knockout had with difficulty put the wing back on the seeker's back. The red mech had muttered about how he could have just left it off because if Starscream had gone anything to get Bumblebee into trouble that Megatron would rip it back off again. Megatron know that if Starscream had done anything to his Sparkling the seeker had a lot more to worry about than just his wings.

The seeker groaned and the red optics onlined.

Megatron let out a small growl "I see you have finally awoken."

Starscream sat up with a shook "Lord Megatron!" But soon groaned as the wing was still sensitive. "What a surprise you came to visit me…"

Megatron was unamused and unimpressed "Leave the small talk Starscream. You went out on a relic hunt, without my permission, and dragged a soldier with you. Now. What happened and where is Bumblebee?" Megatron had to force himself to not show his true anger. His son was missing and it was because of the idiot of the seeker.

Starscream seemed honestly confused "He was not there?" Megatron looked unimpressed but Starscream continued to talk "It where the Autobots! YES! They had the drop on us! They attacked us as we were looking for the relic. Bumblebee was in the cave where the signal had come from at the moment but it was three against one and I was defeated. I do not know what happened after that."

Megatron stared at the seeker as said seeker tried to keep optic contact, knowing that breaking it would be a sign of weakness. Megatron nodded and left without another word.

If the Autobots had Bumblebee, and they found out the truth… Megatron didn't want to know what would happen to the youngling.

.~,~.

"HE IS MEGATRON'S?!" The autobots were beyond shocked and horrified at the news. Optimus and Ratchet looked calm as they told the news.

Ratchet replied with a shrug "Most likely. His spark signature is 25% the same as Optimus'. So either Optimus had a sparkling and they got him. Or Megatron got a sparkling himself."

Optimus nodded "And I am very sure that my creators hadn't another sparkling that could have been the creator of him."

"I knew we should have just finished him off…" Wheeljack muttered as the rest looked lost at what to do.

Smokescreen panicked at the sentence, Surely they wouldn't do that right? He knew that Megatron was his creator but they wouldn't hold him accounted for it right?

Optimus turned to Wheeljack calmly "And why do you think that?" silence followed before Wheeljack found his voice.

"He is Megatron's creation! Of course who should end it! He is probably just as much as a monster as Megatron."

The children had been listening and looked shocked. Jack spoke softly "But… I thought the files said nothing on him…"

Optimus nodded at Jack "That is a correct observation."

Wheeljack glared at the ground. And Arcee looked like she was going to agree with the wrecker. She hated the Cons with her whole spark. She had lost her partner because of them and almost her other. Then she remembered that if it hadn't been for the kid Starscream would have ended Cliffjumper. And then back when Megatron had taken over Cliff's mind the kid hadn't stopped them from entering the spacebridge. Surely he wasn't a monster like his creator right?

Optimus looked at Wheeljack disappointed "you say that we should punish does who have done nothing wrong for the deeds of their family? Then it would only be right it I met that fate as well, Megatron is my brother."

Wheeljack looked shocked. And Cliffjumper grinned "I say let the kid heal a bit. Not like he can go anywhere, And I kinda own him a favour for keeping Screamer off of me."

Ratchet nodded at that. He knew that telling Optimus before the others had been the best choice. Optimus always knew what to say so that the least amount of lives would be lost.

The medic looked back at the medbay with the youngling sleeping. He may have had bad luck with his father but he had a damn good uncle.