Chapter 4, Sparklings Of Optimus

Three weeks later, in the middle of the night...

(From Optimus's point of view)

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAA WA!!!!!"

That's what woke me up, Primus, not again.

"Optimus!!! Phoenixfire's crying!" Ariel yelled in my audio receptors.

"I'm on it." I muttered back as I got up from bed.

I slowly walked down the hallway, passing photos and books, until I got to the nursery.

I entered the room and switched on the lights, in one crib was Draco awake but not crying; instead he was staring at his older sister, who was in the second crib crying her optics out.

I picked her up and told Draco to try and get back to sleep.

Phoenix on the other hand, had stopped crying when she noticed me.

I then rubbed her head, while I was doing that I heard a growling noise from the Energon Storage Unit, she was hungry.

"Ariel!!! Where are the Energon bottles?" I yelled.

"In the cupboard dear!!" She yelled back.

So with that I took Phoenix into the kitchen, placed her on the table and searched the cupboards.

Eventually I found one; I picked it up and put it in her mouth.

She accepted it without trouble and finished it quickly.

I picked her up and stared to make our way back to the nursery.

She kept hold of the empty bottle as we left the kitchen, but when we walked out of the door she started to shake it and put it in her mouth again...

She was trying to tell me something, but she couldn't talk yet, thankfully I understood what she was trying to say.

"Dear!!! Phoenix is still hungry!!!" I yelled into the bedroom.

"Give her another bottle then, while you're at it, give Draco one too." She yelled back.

So with that I got the other twin, put them on both on the table and got them both bottles.

As usual she finished it first and then she did something that shocked me.

Draco had only drunk half of the watered down Energon milk and he was doing it slowly and happily.

His sister then grabbed the half-full bottle off him and she drunk it instead, this whole thing caused him to cry loudly, very loudly.

She continued to drink it until she looked up at me, I had my hands on my sides and was tapping my foot on the floor, I said, "Phoenixfire, give that bottle back to your brother."

She handed the quarter empty bottle back then he whacked her on the head with it. Oddly she didn't cry, I guess she knew she had it coming.

When he had finished I took them both back to their room and got back to sleep.

The next morning.

*YAWN*

I turned to see that Ariel wasn't there, but I could hear her in the kitchen and the children laughing in the living room.

I slowly got out of bed; I wasn't in a hurry so I looked at the clock.

10.45 a.m.

I usually started work at 11, but since I was taking care of the kids Sentinel Prime gave me six months off.

But I was heading into work later with Ariel and the children.

Why? Because I asked Sentinel if we could hold a party there and invite some friends a few days ago, he said that would be fine if he was invited, I was going to invite him anyway so I said yes.

I entered the living room to see Draco and Phoenix sucking on Energon-milk bottles, their optics followed me as I headed for the kitchen.

"Good morning dear, how did you sleep?" Ariel asked.

I replied that I had a good sleep and inquired how she was.

She was fine too.

I then asked how the kids were; she said they were fine after last night and that they were hungry... again!

We took our breakfast to the dining table to eat. While we both ate the Sparklings played with each other nearby.

When we were done, my wife got the pram out and put the Sparklings in it and put the blanket over them, she also put bottles, toys and other stuff besides in the pram basket underneath.

With that we both left for the Iacon HQ...

Two Hours Later in the Iacon HQ.

"Oh Optimus they're so beautiful."

"Yeah, twins too! What a rare sight!"

My work partners were going gaga over my children, even Sentinel loved them.

He had even got two rattles for them, through Phoenix being Phoenix she thanked him by whacking him on the nose with one.

“Ow! What a troublesome little female. I wonder who she gets it from.” Prime said.

“She must have got it from Ariel because I wasn’t a trouble-maker when I was a child.” I said.

At this comment Sentinel started laughing.

“What’s so funny?” I asked.

“Get real Optimus, there wasn’t a moment when you weren’t a little trouble-maker. And your adopted parents knew it.” He said smiling.

“Most of the trouble I got in when I was a kid was because of Megatron.” I justified.

“Very true Optimus.” He said nodding his head.

“Speaking of kids, how are the newborn Hatchlings?” I asked.

“Absolutely fine. Flatline can’t keep up with the rate they’re hatching at. And all of the new parents couldn’t be happier.”

“That’s good to hear.” I said grinning.

I looked back to my son as he started to play with the other rattle, and then he put it in his mouth and sucked it.

My old friend Ratchet and Wheeljack were glad that after I had left that meeting in a hurry, everything had went well.

Beta and her team turned up as well and they were saying things like, "Oh they've grown quite a bit since I delivered them." and other things besides.

The females work-partners were happy that there friend had kids while my mates asked if I was up for a drink tonight, I mentioned that since they were born I haven't drank and I wasn't going to change that now.

All of us were very happy, until...

"Megatron!?!" One robot shouted.

My wife and I turned around to see my other step-brother sitting on an office chair, legs up on the desk above us on another platform.

I should mention now that Ariel carries a small weapons belt around her hips, on that was a small gun and two swords.

She drew those swords and put them in a guarding position in the air as an X, she barked, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK!!"

"Well it’s been ages since I last set foot in Iacon City and its HQ. And I’ve been hearing of rogue Transformers in the area so I thought ‘why not visit my brother and his very beautiful wife while I’m here’." He answered.

"Alright, so beat it then! I'm sure you've got other things to do!!" She snapped back.

"I don't know," He said, getting out of the chair, "I come back to Iacon after a month of being out of town and this is the welcome I get. I have a feeling that I’m not wanted here.”

“Whatever gave you that idea?” Ariel sarcastically said.

Sentinel narrowed his optics and finally stepped in saying. “Megatron this is not a good time for a visit.”

“And why isn’t....” But he had suddenly stopped mid-sentence, staring at the pram behind us.

He then jumped down and pushed his way through the party and looked at the Sparklings in the pram then at us.

“Are these your Sparklings?” He asked.

“Yes brother, your niece and nephew.” I said as my wife relaxed and put her swords back on her belt, but she kept staring at Megatron in suspicion.

“I guess that’s why you ran out of that meeting three weeks ago.” He said.

I nodded my head, putting my hand on my wife’s shoulder.

He looked closer at my Sparklings in the pram and asked, "So what are these little cybermites* (*termites), I mean dears called then?"

I answered, "Phoenixfire and Draco, one on the right's Phoenix and on the left is Draco."

“Good names.” He muttered.

But as he put his head closer into the pram, Draco started to cry and Ariel was close to losing her temper, but then we all heard...... "OW!!!!!!"

Megatron swiftly lifted his head and put both of his hands on the centre of his forehead.

Draco stopped crying and I heard his sister giggling, she had whacked her uncle on head with the rattle.

My wife yelled, "Let that be a lesson Megabutt. I don't like you; my Sparklings don't like you SO GET LOST!!!!"

He growled and walked off, muttering curses under his breath.

Afterwards I thought Sentinel would have gone mad at me for making a bit of a scene.

But when I later sat down, he joined me and I told him my concern and he said. “Sparklings will be Sparklings Optimus, you couldn’t have controlled what Phoenix did, cheeky little thing.”

“Thanks for not shouting at me at least.” I said smiling.

“That’s alright my friend. Besides between you and me, Megatron had it coming.” He said chuckling to himself.

“Yeah he did.” I said also chuckling.

But as I sat there laughing, a nagging thought came into my head.

“Sentinel can I ask a favour of you?” I asked rubbing the back of my head.

“Anything Optimus anything. Well within reason of course.”

“I was thinking and... Would you like to be Phoenixfire and Draco’s Godfather?”

A stunned look appeared on my mentor’s face, it then changed to deep thought.

“Have you talked to your wife about this idea?”

“Yes I have, and she agreed with me that it’s a good idea. So what do you say?” I asked.

Sentinel stroked his metallic moustache then his beard as he went into deeper thought.

He then smiled warmly and said. “I would be honoured Optimus, truly honoured.”

“Oh thank you Sentinel, thank you very much.” I cried.

Just then Ariel walked up to us with pram and asked. “What’s going on dear?”

So I told her about the conversation my mentor and I just had and how he had agreed to be the Godfather to our children.

“That is brilliant, I’m so glad you agreed Sentinel!” She cried in delight.

But before he could say anything in return a loud crying noise filled the air.

We all looked into the pram and saw that both Sparklings were crying.

I guess they must have been asleep and Ariel’s shouting must have woken them up.

Ariel picked Draco up and rocked him back and forth in her arms, trying to stop him crying.

I picked up Phoenix and looked at her; I then put her over my shoulder and patted her back in case she had a bit of wind.

“Hush Phoenix hush, its okay. Dada’s here.” I whispered.

“How sweet.” My mentor said.

After sometime Phoenix burped and I felt something else on my shoulder armour.

Then the smell hit my nose, it smelt just like digested Energon milk.

I then realised that she had just been sick all over my new shoulder armour plates.

Sentinel was trying not to laugh but was failing miserably. And so was Ariel.

I sighed deeply, brought Phoenixfire face to face with me and said. “You were just sick on me weren’t you?”

She clapped her hands and giggled as a simple yes.

Draco had finally stopped crying as well and Ariel put him back into the pram.

I handed her back Phoenix and got a towel to wipe off the sick.

“Remind me to have a wash later to remove the smell dear.” I said to my wife.

She nodded her head as she put our daughter back in the pram.