Honestly, Miko had no idea how to react when she woke up in Starscream's spindly arms. In fact, she became increasingly worried when she looked up at him and saw that he was awake, his gaze fixed on her and a smile edging onto his scarred faceplates upon seeing her awake. The poor little femme decided that being an emotional wreck would feel quite nice considering the situation she was in.

Miko's optics began to tear up and her little lip plates quivered before she let loose an agonisingly adorable cry of complete dismay. Of course her agitated sparkling cries was not something Starscream wanted to hear from "his" precious young one. He immediately cradled her against him and stood up from his berth, beginning to stroll around his nicely sized personal quarters. Milo's cries were becoming louder though and that made Starscream's already long enough face become even longer with a monumental frown.

"Hush, my little seekerling," he cooed as he began massaging her wings to try and relax her. Unfortunately for him, Miko kept on crying as she thought about the consequences of being with the Decepticons.

Would she ever see Bulk again? Or Optimus? Or Raf, Arcee, Bumblebee and Ratchet? Agent Fowler and Mrs Darby? Her parents and her host parents? Her normal life?

Miko never thought she'd want to see her normal life ever again but here she was, in Starscream's arms as a Cybertronian sparkling. She was beginning to go into deep depressing thoughts but was shaken from them when Starscream began to speak to her.

"Come now," he lifted her up to look at her fully before bringing her back down the rest against his chest, "I'm not going to hurt you, little one. Now, what's your name, my seekerling?"

Miko, still not being capable of proper speech just stared at him with watery optics as he looked down at her.

"Opmus!" She demanded angrily.

"No, my dear spark. You are safer with me rather than those wretched Autobots," he ran a pointed claw down her soft faceplates, "Well, I guess you need a name then, don't you?"

He continued massaging her wing nubs as he thought of a name for her and smiled when he realised her cries had quietened down to sniffles. He sat down at his desk and turned on his computer terminal, he noticed that Miko had placed all of her attention onto it almost instantly making him smile. A thought came to his processor and he typed in a few commands bringing up some old sparkling shows that had been shown on Cybertron. Starscream honestly had no idea why these were on the system but he guessed it was just for historical documentation.

Miko, having never seen anything as strange as Cybertronian sparklings' shows was fully interested in the weird sight in front of her. She didn't know how long she'd been watching the show but by the time Starscream turned it off she had almost completely forgotten that she was on the Decepticon warship in the care of their second in command,.

Whilst she had been watching the show, Starscream had been looking at the colours on her little frame to see what sort of name he could give her. She was black with pink streaks, she was a seeker and she was a femme. Three things to consider. Suddenly an Earth material came to mind and for some reason it really seemed to suit her visual appearance and her personality.

"Hmm, how about Onyx, my little one?"

Miko had forgotten what Starscream was originally doing, so when he said this she tilted her head showing her confusion. Starscream chuckled.

"Yes, I think Onyx is a nice name for you," he stood up from his computer terminal and over to his energon storage compartment to get them both something to eat.

"Yeah its alright," Miko said in sparkling babble causing her new guardian to smile down at her.

"For spark's sake," Starscream activated his comm link, "Knock Out I thought I told you to put some sparkling mix in my quarters!"

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"Sorry, Starscream. I've been busy looking after the other little monster," Knock Out growled down his comm link, "If you really want some then come and get it."

The medic hung up before he could hear Starscream's shriek of anger at being told to come and do it himself. But Knock Out couldn't give a single frag about anything right now. The sparkling had been awake all night, keeping him from recharging. He looked back at the little mech that was asleep in Breakdown's arms and rolled his optics; finally he didn't have to listen to the child's satanic cries. The little sparkling seemed to be quite a fast crawler as well, which made him kind of proud but that was besides the point, it only led to Knock Out feeling more exhausted.

The energetic mechling had been named Ryker and the thought of the name made the medic's chest push out a little.

Suddenly, there was a loud smash and Knock Out cringed hoping that Ryker would stay in recharge.

"Breakdown, what on Cybertron are you doing?"

"Sorry, Knocks, I wasn't looking where I was-"

A small squeak interrupted the big blue mech. Breakdown chuckled when he heard Knock Out groan in protest as he looked down at the wide opticed sparkling he held. His smiled widened when Ryker started babbling up at him.

"Dude, I'm hungry. Get me something to eat," obviously came out in sparkling talk so the bright blue opticed sparkling looked around until he saw any form of energon and began desperately reaching for it.

Luckily enough for him, while Breakdown had no clue what Ryker was doing, Knock Out smiled and understood straight away. The crimson medic walked over to one of the many storage units in his medbay and pulled out a sparkling bottle that he had already made up. He then walked back to Breakdown and held out the bottle for him to take.

"Knocks, you're gonna have to feed him. Megatron wants me to do something for him," Breakdown passed the mechling to his friend.

"For sparks sake, fine. Go," Knock Out growled as he took the sparkling into his own arms and placed the tip of the bottle near his mouth.

Luckily enough for the medic, sparkling Jack latched on straight away and began to suckle, enjoying the sweet energon that poured into his mouth. Knock Out actually smiled and watched as the sparkling continued to suckle until the bottle was empty. Knock Out took the bottle from his new charge and placed it to the side before lifting the sparkling against his shoulder and patting his back. Ryder let out a little burp and was once again cradled against the sports car's red chest plates.

The doors to the medbay opened and Starscream entered with a wiggling seekerling in his arms. He was trying to keep her still but was learning the hard way that Miko wasn't one to stay still for long periods of time.

"Onyx, calm down, I don't want to end up dropping you," he scolded lightly as he tightened his hold on her tiny frame.

"Ah, Herr Kommandant, here for the sparkling formula I presume?" Knock Out grinned at the trouble Starscream was having with the other sparkling. However, Knock Out's grin was wiped clean off of his face when he felt something warm and wet slip down his chest plates.

The well-groomed medic looked down to see that Ryker had spewed up his energon all over him and was now looking up at him innocently. Starscream released a laugh and even Onyx began to giggle at what her friend had done to the Decepticon medic.

"I guess I'll help myself then, Knock Out. It looks like you're going to have some cleaning up to do," Starscream cackled as he walked towards the same place Knock Out had gotten the sparkling bottle from.

He reached in an took out a fresh bottle, resulting in Miko holding her hands out to it expectantly. Starscream smiled and cradled her so she'd be more comfortable, then he lowered the bottle to her mouth so she could feed.

As Starscream fed Miko, Knock Out placed Jack on one of the medberths so that he could clean himself up.

"This is exactly why I didn't want to look after a sparkling. Ugh, for all I know, Megatron did this to me on purpose," Knock Out growled to himself.

Miko began laughing resulting in her sputtering energon onto the floor, luckily for Starscream. The adult seeker tried to place the tip of the bottle back into her mouth but she turned her head away, indicating that she'd had enough.

"As it seems you are incapable of preparing sparkling energon for their future meals, I may as well begin making some more while I'm here," Starscream sneered at the vain medic. The winged mech put Miko on the same berth as Jack and then walked off expecting Knock Out to keep them in his line of site.

Unfortunately, Starscream hadn't realised that Knock Out had entered a side room in the medbay and vice versa. That left two mischievous little sparklings able to do whatever they wanted. First things first, hug and have a little babble.

"Okay dude, we really need to get out of here and back to the bots," Miko told her friend.

"I agree, although they're being nice to us, I'm not completely comfortable with being cuddled by the cons..."

Miko nodded her head and flicked her wing nubs a little as she looked around the room. They'd already discovered that the both of them were decent climbers but not very fast crawlers. That meant they'd be unable to escape through the door as it would attract attention with the noise and they wouldn't be able to flee from the scene fast enough.

Miko grinned cheekily and her gold optics glowed when she spotted a vent right next to the berth they were on.

"Jack, look! We just need to pull the cover off and then we can climb through!"

"Great thinking, Miko! Come on, it'll take both of us to do it," he began crawling over to the vent with Miko following closely behind him.

They both reached the vent without attracting the attention of either of their guardians. Their little servos pulled and pulled until they heard creaking. Every so often they'd look back to see if Knock Out or Starscream were watching them. Eventually they managed to pull the cover off without creating too much noise. The duo smiled at each other victoriously before scampering off into the vents.

They didn't know where they were heading but they couldn't help but laugh out loud when they heard their guardians calling their "names" back in the medbay. The two sounded like they were mad with worry, probably because Megatron wouldn't be happy with them losing his two future elite warriors.

They continued crawling through the vents until they reached a dark room. It looked like someone's personal quarters but no one was in there so they figured they could hide in there for a while so that they could then progress to a ground bridge station. The two looked at how high up they were and realised they'd probably have to jump if they wanted to get in there.

They braced themselves as they pushed the cover off of this new vent. Their hands linked and they jumped but before they could land something grabbed them out of the air and held them in some sort of thin claws.

It was Lazerbeak, they were in Soundwave's quarters and now they could only guess that the symbiont was taking the two to his master.

"Soundwave means theres a ground bridge nearby though, right?" Miko tried.

Soon Lazerbeak had reached the helm and had dropped the little sparklings onto the surveillance officer's computer terminal. Said mech looked down at them through his visor causing them to whimper in fear. He prepared a couple of voice clip and compiled them together to speak to the little ones in front of him.

"Sparklings... must stay... with... guardians," Soundwave told them.

Miko and Jack looked at him defiantly as if to say "frag off". But their attention was quickly turned towards the door of the helm which opened for Megatron himself. Almost immediately, the Decepticon leader noticed the sparklings with his most trusted mechs and walked over to them.

"Now what are our two new additions doing without their guardians?" he sneered. He should have known Knock Out and Starscream were too incompetent to look after sparklings. Sparklings that couldn't even walk yet.

"No!" Miko squealed at him with an angry pout. She was quite annoyed that of all things, Lazerbeak found them and had taken them to the two big shots of the enemy faction.

"No what, seekerling," Megatron smirked. He seemed to like Miko, her fearlessness and courageousness was not something that was easily stumble across, "I don't think Starscream deserves the fun of getting to look after you, perhaps I'll take over your guardianship myself."

The door to the helm opened again but this time entered Starscream and Knock Out.

"My liege, I'm afraid we lost Onyx!" Starscream flicked his wings nervously.

"And Ryker!" Knock Out added on before looking at Soundwave and face palming.

"No!" Miko shouted and pointed at the two new mechs in the room.

Megatron smirked and picked Miko up and tightened his grip as she struggled against him. "So her name is Onyx, is it? It suits her, Starscream," his faceplates contorted into a growl, "If any of you lose one of these sparklings again, the payment is your empty spark chambers. These two will be trained when they are older to take over the roles that you so pathetically occupy."

Megatron then placed Onyx on the floor and allowed her to crawl away from him. Starscream took this as an opportunity to scoop up his little seekerling into his arms.

"Onyx, you must never run off like that again. Do you understand?"

"No!" she squealed at him causing Megatron to chuckle darkly.

"Leave," Megatron told them all making Knock Out pick up his charge and following Starscream and Onyx out of the room, "Soundwave, I want you to continue finding out how these sparklings came to be on Earth. They don't show any sign of relation to the Autobots."

Soundwave nodded and began typing at his super speed pace while Megatron went through reports.

"Hmph, the Autobots won't know what to expect when they find out about the Decepticons becoming their adoptive creators," Megatron smirked evilly. He knew Starscream would follow the plan but he was unsure of Knock Out. After all, it involved creating permanent spark links...