Ask away

It had been a long time since they could have a ceremony to honor the ones that had been lost in the war. In this war, so many cybertronians had been left behind without a service or even a word of parting. It was all because they often did not have the time or the place to honor them. After all, every second could be your last on the battlefield. But this time, they all took the time they had to say a final farewell to one of their fallen comrades. Everyone at the gathering was silent and subdued; this was a reminder of what could happen to them all at some point. Every one of them in this room could be next. Nobody knew what Primus had planned for them in his bigger picture or what he would think of what had happened to his creations.

Optimus would hold the honorable speech, and he would let everyone who wanted to say something speak up, the body of their fallen comrade lay in front of them in a coffin made of a crystal material. Luna was close to her carrier and hidden from the outside world in his arms. She did not fully understand what had happened, but the pain her carrier had been feeling as this bot had gone into an eternal recharge was enough for her not to like the situation. Luna hated the sad looks on her family, all of them. She had not met this mech that had fallen in deep recharge, but her creators had, and it was enough for her to feel the sorrow too.

Ratchet held his sparkling closer to his spark as he could feel her trembling in his arms, she was so young, and he hated that she had to be a part of this. He had tried to put her in his hold for her to recharge and not be there for the ceremony of Cliffjumper. But the sparkling had completely refused and had almost screamed their audio receptors off; Luna would not accept to be put away, even if it was for her sake. Even if she did not understand, she wanted to be with them right there, and then, so Ratchet had accepted it. Ironhide stood closer to his bondmate and sparkling as he looped an arm around his waist and held Ratchet close; he was going to miss Cliffjumper and that cocky moth of his. Ratchet fight a wave of fear and panic at the reminder that he had a lot to lose in this war, both Ironhide and now also Lunastorm.

" As it stands in the Legacy of Primus, the Cybetronians was created from the dust of an exploding star," Optimus said as he looked at his fallen comrade. "Primus once created us, and when our journey is over, he will take back what is his; our sparks leave for the well of Allspark to meet the Matrix and our creator once again. "Our frames will be given back to the stars to become new dust for a new dawn as it is written in the beginning and as it is in the end. Till all are one" He pressed the button that made the casket lowering down in a pod below them.

"Till all are one" All the bots echoing their Prime as the casket was shoot out from the ship, and they all looked out to throw the window as it sailed away into the galaxy. To be one with the Allspark and to lay in a final recharge under the stars that glimmer all around them.

~*`--´*~

This, whatever this was, was not happening.

No fragging way!

Sunstreaker had known this would happen eventually; deep down in his central processor, he had known. Because the damn sparkling had been getting too close to his brother for his liking, and Sides would play with her as often that he could. This Sunstreaker had thought, would keep the sparkling away from him and that she would leave him alone, but nooo. His irritating brother just went out on a small mission, and timely enough, he forgot to hand over the newfound sparkling back to her creators. He did not even care what she had been doing in the hallway by herself. That slagging glitch of a brother was so out from their quarter for the rest of this Luna-cycle, leaving him on unwillingly sparklings duty.

"What ya 'doing?" The curious sparkling asked the yellow bot that ultimately tried to ignore her, and Luna looked up at Sunstreaker currishly. Maybe had he not heard her? Luna could have sworn that she saw his optics move tower her, but yet he did not answer.

"Unni?" Luna asked again only to earn a growling from the mech, making her flinch away from him and hunch down a little.

"Don´t! call me that!" Sunstreaker thundered at the sparkling, staring her down as she whimpered lowly, and he silenced himself as she curled up in a sparkling defense position.

Sunstreaker looked at her with a disgusting expression, but then he looked down at his paint again and kept waxing himself, trying yet still to ignore her. The sparkling really could not take no for an answer; this was why Sunstreaker did not want her anywhere near him! Why did Sideswipe leave the sparkling with him again? He had found her in the hallway! But then he had gotten the memory replay for the event, and that slagging brother of his smudginess filled him with irritation.

Sideswipe was so late, but as he went outside of their quarter, he was stopped right in his tracks as something was blocking his path, something small and white. Sides looked down in surprise as he was in a hurry and was now standing in his doorway, with the sparkling right outside. Prowl would be so mad at him if he did not come in the next klik.

"Hello, little Princess, what are you doing here?" The red mech looked at Luna with a smile as the sparkling stopped right in her track and looked up at him with large optics as she had been caught. Oh, this was so good! She must have snuck away again. Sides thought as he bent down slightly. He could not just leave her there in the hallway; there were so many things that could hurt her, or she cut herself on something that was not clean enough.

"Do your Creators know that you are here?" Sides asked amused

"Ye...s?" Luna asked in a hesitant voice, obviously lying; she was a horrible liar. The red twin held in a chuckle as he looked at her and now put a knee down in the ground

"You do know that it is not nice to lie" He scolded her softly and smiled; angry was not his thing; it was Sunny's. And he was so not the right bot to scowl her over that, now was he?

"Come, I let you stay with my brother until your creator can pick you up," Sides said, as he looked at the time, he was already late.

Luna gave away a low whirring sound as she hunched down some and then looked at Sides and let her optics roam over him. He did not look angry at her.

"What are you doing here, anyway? Playing?"

"Yes!" Luna smiled now when Sides asked, "Play a fun game!"

"Is that right? Would you want to play inside our room for some time?" He asked and nodded into his and Sunny's quarter behind him.

"Unni?" Luna asked and looked inside and then squealed as she runs inside and leaving a surprise Sides behind as she chuckled

~Sorry, brother, roll with it, ~ Sides said as he grinned, Sunny had no idea what he was getting into, and Sides would not be there when he understood what it was either. Maybe he should leave theme for a breem or so by themselves before he contacted Ratchet? Yes, that would be fun. Sunny needed to loosen up around the sparkling anyway. He was too afraid for his good and had to face his feeling sometimes.

Now Luna was staring up at Sunstreaker with wide optics and was for the time being quiet after his outburst, that had been scary. The yellow one was one frightening bot, and she had no idea why she wanted to get close to him, but there was something in her that was poking at her attention. It was like he needed her there, so who was she to ask that? Maybe he just needed to have a friend!. Luna looked at Sunstreaker as the yellow Autobot started to do his waxing again, and for a klik, as she thought, he would answer her question at least if she were silent. But when nothing else happened, she tilted her head a little to the side; why was he so difficult?

"Why?" she asked him instead; she wanted to know why he hated his nickname, Luna liked it, and yet again, she got no answer from him. Was he ignoring her still? Why did he do that? Or maybe he did not hear her question?

"Why?" she asked again, a little bit higher this time but didn't get any reaction from the yellow one as he just kept going on whatever he was doing, and she started to pout.

"Unni!" she said a little louder as that was the only word he reacted to, and he started to growl at her.

"WHAT?!" he snapped and glared down at the small sparkling

"What ya 'oing?"

Sunstreaker was now more than ready to bang his helm into the wall right there and then; why was the sparkling even there? Why all these fragging questions?. Never mind that, she was the pit spawn of Hatchet and Ironaft after all. Of course, she would be slagging irritated, and be everywhere where she would not be allowed. He was so close to throwing her out of there right now and then, but that meant that he had to touch the sparkling, and that was not something he was willing to do. No touching the leaking sparkling, her leaking fluids would destroy his finish before it even was dryer.

Luna seems to puff out her cheek plates when he just kept ignoring her question; why was he doing it?. Slowly she rose on her pedes and went forward to the box with the sticky stuff was in that he took over on his paint job and looked at it. It smelled funny.

"Unni!" she said, now so much irritated as sparkling could get for being ignored, she wanted to know what this was. It was making him look pretty and shiny.

Sunstreaker growled and slammed his servo down on the table, making her stumble on the shaking table and fall back on her rear with a huffing vent slipping away from her vents.

"DON'T FRAGGING CALL ME THAT! is there something wrong with your audio receptors?" he more or less boomed at her as he leaned down to the sparklings' optic level, growling furiously at her. It made the sparkling curl into a small protective position again with her thin protective plating all out in an attempt to make her more significant than she was, which was failing big time. But he had successfully scared her, so she would hopefully be quiet for a while now.

~ Don't scare her! ~ Sides voice went over their bond, annoyed at his twin.

~She won't mute it! ~He growled right back, irritated; it was Sides fragging fault that he had to endure this torture.

~ what did you suspect? She is a sparkling and doesn't know better! Don't make her scared of us again, please, Sunstreker. give her a chance~ He could feel Sides vent out at his words

~Easy for you to say, you are out on one of your missions, and I am fragging stuck on this Primus forsake ship with an irritated sparkling that can't mute it! ~ Sunstreaker growled, showing his anger and irritation openly to his brother. The feeling of need to be close to him only growing by the breems that went by, and he did not like to be separated from him, not even for a short period. Sides had been sent on a smaller scout mission with Bumblebee. Contrary to what many bots thought, the twins could be apart; even though they were at their best in battle placed together, they could hold out just as well separated. He didn't like it, and he could feel the distance in his spark; it was surprising that he still could talk and hear Sides over the bond, with the distance between them, but that was something he never questioned.

Luna looked up slightly from her protecting position as the yellow twin was now silent again, and when Sunstreaker didn't do anything more, she started to unfold. Everything with the yellow bot screams danger, and he did not want her there, so why did she feel the need to make him happy? She unfolded herself entirely and looked at him carefully but did not say anything this time. He had started to do that thing to his armor again, and the sparkling looked at his servo and the movement he held up the whole time she had been there. Luna noticed how his armor shone when the cloth travels over it, and she looked down at her hands that were just pure white and not shiny at all, and she wanted to be shiny too!

"Unni?" she asked again in a low voice as the bot in question went back to ignore her, and she tensed as he clenched his fist so hard that she could hear the metal in his joints emit a complaining sound. Luna backed off again, prepared for the next scream session, but it never came this time, and for a klik, she thought that it would. But soon, he started to relax again; patience was not his best feature right now. But he could feel his brother's praying words, and he sighed, perhaps he had to try and be a little nicer, for Side's sake.

"Sparkling, how many time have I told you not to call me that?!" he growled yet again to her and looked down at her

"Three times!" Luna said and held up three digits in front of her, and Sunstreker looked at her in surprise as she talked back and then sneered at her as he tried to turn away slightly. If he did not look at her, maybe she would lose interest in him. He should have known better than hope for that.

"Tell me why?" Luna asked again, and Sunny was taken aback by her question; the sparkling was dense, was she? Maybe she was having a malfunction problem? She really could not take a no for an answer!. Sunstreaker vented out hard; was she not afraid of him yet? He had screamed, scared her more times than he could count, and he was soon going to throw her out of there. But instead, she was asking him the same fragging question all the time, she had asked that simple question a lot, and he had already forgotten what she started to ask about in the first place.

"Why what? "

"Why no call u' that?" she asked him and looked over the yellow bot; he looked like the sun, so why did he not like the nickname Sunny? It fitted him so right. She had seen the sun before; it had been fantastic.

Her Sire had shown her the room where they control the ship one day, and she had seen so many things outside in the dark. The different suns her creators had shown her was the most excellent and perfect thing in her opinion. So many stars, so many colors. But what she remembered best was a bright big yellow and orange globe in the distains. That color was radiating warmth, and she liked it.

Ironhide had told her that the globe was called a sun, a star where they could collect their energon. Could her Sunny produce energon to? He was yellow! So he had to be a Sun! She smiled as her processor had come to this conclusion and looked up at the bot giving him that smile. She had a sun! A personal Sun that was only hers, and maybe Sides too. He could have a part in the ownership of their sun, but mostly hers.

Sunstreaker looked down at the sparkling the whole time as she now had thought of something that made her happy; he would never understand how sparklings were thinking.

"Because it is a femme's name, and I don't like it" he huffed and started to do his buffing again

"Why?"

"I told you why already," he only said as he tried to get back and ignore the sparkling; why was she even there alone with him? She had walked over and started to climb up, On him! without him even recognize her present before she scared the living pit out of him, again.

" Ah, like it! Unni! Unni!" she said, still smiling and sat where she first had fallen

"You do, don't you? I had not noticed that or heard you say that for the last 15 kliks," he grumbled sarcastically as she nodded as he started to ignore her again and clean himself, finally, some peace and quiet, just as he wanted it.

But the silence did not hold long.

"What ya 'doing?"

Sides chuckled over the twin bond as Sunstreaker was close to slamming his helm down on the table this time. Was silence too much to ask for? He needed to concentrate on this part of buffing, or he had to do everything over again.

~if you want her to be quiet, then answer her, It is so simple, or tell Hatchet; he must be worrying that his sparkling had been gone this long~ Sides laughed at his brother's misery

~I already had answered the fragging questions! But she only asks more, and more, it is like an enigma, there no end to it all~ Sunstreaker vented out again as he heard the sparkling get up and now get to the wax box when he did not answer her, and she looks down in it curious as a sparkling can be.

"It's a kind wax," he suddenly answers her Luna looked up at him

"What wax?" she asked him then instead

He knew it; fragging issues gave birth to new questions. That's why he kept quiet for most of the time, so he didn't talk to anyone or risk holding a more extended conversation and what was up with this entire flow of question? He tried not to scream at the smaller sparkling; his pleading brother on the other end of their bond nagged him about it all the time.

"it is a buffing product."

"What b'ffing?"

~Someone pleases offline me now!~ Sunstreaker complained, and the only answer he got was Sides laughing at him, stupid mech, he was going to get it when he was back.

"It is what I´m doing," he said as he was trying not to blow anything up. Maybe he should tell somebody to pick her up? Did they even know where she was? But the event earlier was still there in his processor. Perhaps if he just answered her, she would go away? But that would probably not work.

"Mak ya s'iny?" she asked him then and looked at his armor with that smile on her mouth plates. "Ah to wan' to bee shiny!" she said happily and tried to reach the wax, but when she was leaning down to the substance in question.

But it was too deep down for her to reach just like that, and she started to tip over and would have fallen in it if Sunny would not have picked her up, and she gave away a squealing sound at the motion. The moment he had picked up the sparkling, he could feel tingling feeling travel throw the whole frame that made him shuddered in pure pleasure, and his spark jumped over a beating as he gasped in surprise.

That felt so good. No, that could not be right. She was an awful leaking sparkling, and Sunny did not want anything to do with her.

~What was that? ~ Sides asked his brother, clearly had felt it through the bond

~I don't …know~ he answered hesitated, he did not understand what just had happened as he was staring at the sparkling that was looking at him too.

~Whatever it was you did, do it again!~ Sides said as it was a warming, fussy feeling that filed the both of them. Sunny shook his helm slightly and looked down at the giggling sparkling.

He held her in front of his faceplate, and Luna beamed up at him merrily as only a sparkling could do as the sparkling was still hanging in mid-air, not at all afraid of him. Only happy that he played with her this time.

It was then Sunny realized what he was doing; he was touching the sparkling! As fast as he could, he dropped her back on the table without hurting her too much, and Luna stumbled slightly on her pedes. The sparkling found her balance again and turned around, so she looked up right at Sunny, still smiling happily. As soon as he had let her go, the feeling inside his spark ebbed out, and he could vent out a hot intake. That had been intense, and he did not want to do that again.

Luna smiled up at Sunstreker; she had known that he was a funny bot, he just needed a bit more encouragement, and the warm feeling she had gotten when he touched her made her feel secure. It had been worth it all. Sunstreaker stared down at her, and this had to end now; he could not have the sparkling here with him anymore. This whole situation started to become too itchy for his comfort and liking, as the optics of the sparkling had dimmed some. His entire frame was tense like a spring that could loosen at any time. He wanted to move away, screaming at the clouds and just getting apart from all this before he snapped. It was close, he could tell.

:: Sunstreaker to Ratchet::

:: Ratchet here, don't tell me you get yourself injured again:: Ratchet growled in his usual irritated voice.

Sunny huffed low; what did the medic think of him? It was Sides that was the most prone to injured himself all the time, not him.

:: No, I'm not injured::

:: Then what is it? :: The grumpy medic asked

:: Do you know where your sparkling is?:: Sunstreaker asked, suddenly feeling really satisfied when the doctor was quiet for some Astro-seconds as he had to look for said sparkling.

:: She is supposed to be in recharge in her crib:: Ratchet said before Sunny could hear a rumbling sound of curses, so the sparkling had sneaked out from her recharge time? Without anyone noticed her?

:: Well, apparently she is not; she is here with me, talking my audios off::

There was a quiet moment over the comm as Ratchet did not answer him, and Sunny could not help feel a little amused over the whole scenario.

:: I will pick her up:: Ratchet said he had not found his sparkling in recharge in her crib.

That was it, Ratchet would come and pick up the irritated sparkling, and Sunstreaker could get back to buffing his new paint job without her slagging questions. Sunny looked down at the table to look at the sparkling, only to be wholly taken back by what he saw. The sparkling was now in deep recharge, right on his buffing cloth posted in one of his servos. But he had not noticed her when she had walked over there. Sunstreaker ventilated, irritated, and closed his optics as he tried to collect himself before he opened them again and looked down at the white sparkling. Well, at least now, he would not need to answer any more questions, but he could not either finish his buffing as she was recharging on his cloth.

Why him? He did not want anything to do with the sparkling! But as he looked down at the tiny form, he could not help to smile, just a small one almost non-existing. Not that anyone would have seen it; he did not smile if it was not for his excitement to offline cons in battle. They did call him a psychopath for a reason. But this sparkling did not know of that, but she would sooner or later understand about the war and everything in it. She would be vulnerable and an easy target as soon they were in a battle and would indeed be seen as a weak point in their defense. The suddenly protective feeling flamed up inside of him when he realized that, and not only that, when had he started to care for the sparkling and her safety?.

Frag him sideways in a seeker's thrusters; this was why he did not want anything to do with the sparkling in the first place!

~*`--´*~

-Later-

~what had got into your circuits now, Ratchet?~ Ironhide asked his spark mate when he felt all the different feelings from his sparkmate; he was angry, no furious was a better word, and almost confused and impressed.

~She did it again! And I did not notice it, also ~

That made Ironhide stop with his shooting practice as he turned all his attention to his mate over the bond. Amusement tickled his side of their connection; what had their sparkling done this time?

~ What do you mean?~

~I mean that our sparkling is worse than Jazz when it comes to disappearing without any trace! ~ Ratchet growled then and kept his bond with the sparkling on a minimum so she would not wake up after he had picked her up from Sunstreaker. Sunstreaker of all mechs!! Ironhide was quiet for some kliks as he was thinking over his spark mate's statement, and he did not like the result, but then again, he was proud of his creations. She was a fast learner.

~ We don't need another Jazz! That will extinguish my spark prematurely, Not if I had something to say about~ Ratchet grumbled at that, he would never let anybody extinguish before he had done everything he could do, especially not his mate.

~I know~ Ironhide said as he targeted the new target in front of him.

There was a bream of silence, and Ratchet walked into his med-bay and his office when he was thinking about putting a tracking device on the sparkling and paint her in the most conspicuous color he could find, maybe neon pink?, which made Ironhide snort on his laughter.

~You are not painting the sparkling in pink! ~

~ I don't think it would help anyway, but it was an excellent thought, ~ Ratchet said and gave away low laughter as he sat down with the sleeping sparking now in his sparkling chamber. Soon she was going to be too big for the sparkling section, probably as soon she would be in her fist alt form if she did not scan anything without wheels that were. Then she probably would fit some time more in there.

~*`--´*~

It was early, and not many bots were active; those who were awake had all something ells to do. At the moment, the ship was docked at a space station in some galaxy to refuel and get some information that Luna did not know. Her creators had left her with First Aid as her company for the orn as she was not allowed to leave the ship for her safety and as a punishment to the last fun game, she had played on her creators that did not end well. At least not for them, she still felt proud of herself that she had succeeded.

In other words, she was grounded.

Luna stared at Aid as he worked and tried to figure out what she could do for the orn, she was bored, and Jazz was out on a mission, and the twins were not on the ship. Her Creators was also out for the time been, and she vented out and flopped herself down at her beck structure and looked at her arms and tried to process different things but was soon too bored even to do that.

" Done yet?" Luna asked the medic in training

"As that question right and I will answer that for you," First Aid said as he was looking over his reparation

"Are you done yet, Aid?" Luna tried again slowly

"Almost," First Aid answered with a smile

Luna blinked. Had she asked that wrong? But as she was going to ask him again, he started to put his tools back.

"Now, I'm done."

"Finally!" she cheered and sat up again and smiled. "What we do?"

"Now I will start on the next one," First Aid said as he put up the next one and looked over funny at the sparkling as she groaned and flipped dramatically back down on her back structure. Maybe she could try and sneak away? Jazz had taught her this neat trick to soften her steps. First Aid looked at the bored sparkling and stopped what he was doing; maybe it was time for a break? He had been doing this for some time now. However, he did not know what he could do to maintain that little sparkling. He did not use to have her as a company, and she was already tired of this place and the view of him working.

"If you would like I can show you a special room on the ship" he suddenly asked her and smiled, he knew the right place to take her

That sentence caught Luna's attention, and she raised her head and looked up at him "can we?" she asked with hope in her voice

The medic in training smiled and put down the new generator he had started to prepare and nodded. "Yes, your creator said that you needed to stay with me, but they did not tell us to stay here in the Med-bay."

Luna giggle, she liked the sound of that and rose to her pedes and started to try and climbed down on the floor, and when First Aid attempted to help her, she swatted his servo away. She could do it herself, and the other one let her do it. Soon she was standing on the ground, and First Aid nodded and started to walk and held up the door for her to walk out before he began to lead the way. First Aid walked inside the circulate room and held the door open for the little sparkling to step in before letting it close behind them, walked to the center of the circular room, and looked around it.

"What this?" Luna asked and walked forward, tower the welded side, and looked up at the dark glass all around them.

"This is a lockout post," Aid answered and walked to her and smiled. "Come here," he said and retched down to her and then helped the sparkling to get up at the edge.

"Look....out?" she asked, and he nodded and held a hand at the sparklings back so that she would not fall off.

"Wait for it."

Luna looked at the black glass, then suddenly, the light inside the room went off with a soft dimming light, and a sense of fear struck her; she hated the darkness.

"....Aid," she asked in a small and uncertain voice as the other bot smiled, even thou she could not see it

"Just let your optics readjust," he told her calmly as he looked out, and Luna could feel his servo at her and calmed down some. Soon something started to become more evident to Luna, and she focused her optics and then shut them off and on again. Suddenly, small spots of light began to light up in front of her, and soon the whole room was filled with lots of white spots. And some looked stronger than others, and she drew a sharp intake of air in sheer delight. This was not the same thing her creators had been showing her on the big projector.

"Astonishing, isn't it?" First-Aid asked and smiled as the sparkling suddenly had put all her weight on his palm and was laying so far back that she could to try and look at the roof of the room. Everything that before had been dark was now a sky, or in this case galaxy, full of stars and different planets that could only be seen as other light dots.

Luna had no idea what that word meant, but this had her processor in an ultimate twist; this was amazing.

"As I see it, This region of the galaxy is the most beautiful one," First Aid said as he lifted the sparkling in his servo and put her close to his shoulder. Luna walked off and sat on his shoulder, and was holding on to his plating.

"Don't fall off," he warned and could not stop smiling; the little sparkling was speechless as he looked at the galaxy outside the thick glass wall. " Every light you see is a planet or a star. It makes you feel a lot smaller, right?" He asked and looked over tower Luna that nodded.

They stood there in comfortable silence a few more kliks before Luna started to move on his shoulder. "What's that?" she asked and pointed tower a big light silver dot on their right side.

"The Silver one?" Aid asked, and Luna nodded as she looked it over, it was a nice light silver cooler and a bigger dot than others.

"It is another space station, but that one is not safe," he said and smiled "There is a lot of different station like this one we are on with different kinds of inhabitants.

"Dif-front?" she asked curiously and felt Aid nodded

"Yes, as many dots you can see, there are at least as many different kinds of species out there."

"Nooo," she gasped and stared at him and then back at the galaxy again, "really?"

"Yes, Really," Aid chuckled. "I even heard that there are organic beings out there with green or blue carbon matter,"

"Ah,' what"? she asked and did not even try to pronounce that word.

"You and I are made of living metal, our structure can shift into what we want with the help of different programs, but this species cannot. You might be surprised to learn that several species have another living material for their structure, more organic and softer. "

"But you're so soft!" Luna protested and petted him on the cheek; Aid could not help to laugh low at the innocent statement.

"If it comes from you, Luna, I will take it as a compliment," he said and put her down on the floor again and let the lamp slowly also for not to hurt their senses.

"Come, you can come back at another time. The others are back now." Aid said as he started to walk, and the sparkling took a last look at the lights above here before the glass wall turned black again.