sv. Autobot Base and Pink Squad's warehouse. Babies

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Nightwish: *still holding poutine box in hand* Ratchet?

Ratchet: *Fussing over Arcee again, glances over his shoulder* Yes, Nightwish?

Nightwish: I need help. *sets the box down on a table as she comes in*

Ratchet: *Fearing the worst* What'd Sideswipe do this time?

Nightwish: ...I don't think it was him. But I might be wrong. I don't know.

Ratchet: ... *raised brow ridge* Okay.... What do you need help with?

Nightwish: *points to her belly* Listen to that.

Ratchet: *slight frown, coming over* Your paint and armor're making it hard to get a good scan...

Nightwish: *takes the panel off, leaving her protoform exposed. Behind her the box clicks*

Ratchet: *raised brow* I take it the twins are eating carry-out? *Scanning Nightwish now*

Nightwish: Yes. It seemed like the best course of action to come back right away.

Ratchet: Did something happen in the Nexus? *scanning again to make sure of what he's found*

Nightwish: A lot of things happened. What kind of thing do you mean?

Ratchet: Did you drink from any strange sources? Anyone gas-bomb you again?

Nightwish: No. I went to the Black Dog, picked Sideswipe up, and then collected the twins before a free spark told me I had extra little sparks behind that panel.

Ratchet: ... Well, the free spark is right... There're two newsparks there....

Nightwish: They're in the wrong place. And I don't understand how they could have been started. *and she's watching you to see how she's supposed to react to this*

Ratchet: *Silent for a few moments, before he's moving back to Arcee's table and scanning the same area of the pink and white femme's body* ... *and then his legs are giving out on him*

Nightwish: *catches him with one hand and lifts him back to his feet, her brow ridges drawing together in a frown*

Ratchet: *Quietly, is clearly shocked and brain-broken* That... shouldn't be like that... I....

Nightwish: *calmly* I should look at Arcee more often.

Optimus: *is that pained yelp that just happened. Seems someone tripped over Sideswipe where you left him in the hall, Nightwish*

Ratchet: No, it doesn't make sense! Why would the newsparks be in that section? *Clearly confused*

Nightwish: I don't know. But they're there. *absently putting her panel back on*

Optimus: *Dragging Sideswipe into the medbay, is limping now* Why was Sideswipe on the floor in the hall?

Nightwish: *turns her head to look at the Autobot CO* I left him there.

box: *giggleclick!*

Optimus: ... *lets Sideswipe go* Alright... Why did you leave him there?

Nightwish: Because he didn't want Ratchet to see his new dents. *still holding Ratchet up*

Ratchet: *As he's held up* Never mind that! It's more important that we figure out why Nightwish and Arcee both have newsparks in the wrong place!

Sideswipe: 0_o Arcee's aren't my fault!

Optimus: ... *Blink blink* O_o What do you mean, in the wrong place?

Nightwish: *taps her midsection* I have two in here.

Ratchet: What's more... The twins Nightwish is carrying, and the little one Arcee is carrying... They've got protoforms already....

Optimus: .... *Waitaminute, that sounds familiar*.... Nightwish, Arcee... Were either of you LOL'd human after the last time?

Nightwish: No. *watching him. She saw that start of recognition*

Arcee: *Quietly* I was... briefly... The last time I went to get cookies for the sparklets...

Ratchet: ... *worriedly* And you didn't say anything?

Arcee: I was able to find someone to reverse the LOL before I returned here...

Sideswipe: Totally not my fault....

Optimus: This is like what happened to someone I met in the Nexus once... She was bonded to someone, and when she was human, the LOL translated "bonded femme spark" into pregnant...

Stella: *From the doorway* Koko, right?

Optimus: *Startles, moves wrong, PAIN OW*

Nightwish: *reaches out her spare hand and holds him up too, then looks at Stiletto*

Optimus: *Winces and nods*

Stella: *quick nod, PINpoints out to try and find the other femme*

Ratchet: ... Who is Koko?

Optimus: *Still wincing* Someone from a different reality.... She helped me bring groceries home one time when we were still on Cybertron...

Nightwish: So these have been here for several months?

Ratchet: It's possible... *clearly wants to fuss and fret over Arcee*

Nightwish: *lets go of the old bot, and then goes and picks her mate up before turning to look at the door as Sunstreaker looks in*

Ratchet: *Going to fuss and fret over Arcee and ignore Sunstreaker as the yellow mech starts laughing himself silly because Sideswipe's in the medbay and he isn't*

Nightwish: *setting Optimus on the floor so that she can open her belly panel again and look* Two more sons.

Sunstreaker: .... *Cracking up anew*

Nightwish: And they're poking each other in the optic.

Ratchet: *silent. Is too brain-broken to formulate a response to that, because he's taken another look at the newspark Arcee is carrying, and found out that he's got another daughter*

Nightwish: *tucking Sideswipe absently under one arm, and going out to have a look at all the other femme's bellies*

box: *click click*

Optimus: *going to limp over to the box and see who or what is in it*

box: *poutine and little peeps!*

Optimus: *Soft chuckle, pings First Aid's comm and tells her that things are going to be way more interesting very shortly*

First Aid: //...What do you mean, Optimus?//

Nightwish: *back* Nobody else has one, unless First Aid does.

Optimus: //Let's just say... there're a few side-effects to the last time we were turned human...//

First Aid: *worry* //Are you alright?//

Optimus: //I'm fine... aside from twisting my knee because I tripped over Sideswipe... but Arcee and Nightwish... well... // *Not sure how to explain what's happened*

First Aid: //Optimus?//

Nightwish: Oh yeah. Those guys. *sets Sideswipe down near the box of take out, then vanishes and walks out to go check on Mistfire*

Optimus: //They're both carrying newsparks... but not like they would normally...//

First Aid: //But I thought Nightwish couldn't.... What do you mean?//

Optimus: //I mean that the newsparks have protoforms already.... and they're located where they would be if Nightwish and Arcee were human females...//

First Aid: //Oh, they're pregnant!//

Optimus: //Er... Yeah... Stiletto went to find someone we know of from a different reality who experienced the same situation....//

First Aid: //I'll tell Kathy.//

Optimus: //Alright... And we'd probably better let Cragbuster know that he's getting another sister...// *hesitantly trying to put weight on his knee, inadvertently transmits his 'ow' over comms*

First Aid: //Stay where you are. My shift is nearly done.//

Optimus: //Alright... I'm in the medbay.//

First Aid: //Alright! I love you. First Aid out.//


Meanwhile


Nightwish: *looking at Mistfire* Yes. You've got one too.

Mistfire: *lifts her head from where she's making a lovely mess with grease at the counter and smirks* Got what? A great bod?

Nightwish: No. *glances over to where the rest of Pink squad is vegging on the couch* A sparklet in your belly. Yours is a femme.

Scattershot: .... *Doorwings UP*

Wheelie: *Blink blink*

dRumrunner: :o

Mistfire: *turns and gives the bigger femme a skeptical and unamused look* You realize, right, that sparklets form up here? And that I can't bud?

Nightwish: I can't either, but I've got two more sons behind this panel. They're already poking each other in the optic.

Mistfire: Uh huh. What's mine doin'?

Nightwish: Admiring her pink colour.

Scattershot: .... *freezes halfway to standing, SQUEAL. Thud*

((co-written with random_xtras))

(originally posted on 4-18-2010)