HeroBots, The Mansion, Newcomer
Hound: *groans softly and tries to get his optics to come online as hazy memories of fighting intelligent dinosaurs intent on taking over the galaxy trickle through his processor. Wonders why it feels like the ground underneath him is so soft and why he can't hear any guns going off*
Desinex: *snuggles close to him and murmurs something nonsensical*
Hound: *crackle pop* Uh?
Showtime: *just about took a header off her chair*
Hound: *startles at the sound and groans again*
Desinex: *awake, and reaching to gently smooth her mate's helm*
Showtime: *bleary blinking and then she's moving to get up off the floor* He's awake?
Hound: *struggles to focus his optics* Sky?
Desinex: *quietly* Shhh... I'm right here... *gentle touches to his face*
Hound: *soft static and crackling, then* Mis... sion?
Desinex: Accomplished... We raised enough Cain to get the IGP's attention... *chuckle* And Sunstreaker and Sideswipe are trying to figure out where we can keep the big lug...
Hound: *quizzical expression on his battered face plates* Big... lug? *never even saw what hit him*
Showtime: The tank dino that was sent to charge us...
Hound: *concern* Any... body... hurt?
Desinex: Other than a few dents and dings on Streaker's part, and a few dents that I dealt with earlier, you were the only one... *and now she'll fuss over you a bit more, Hound*
Hound: *relief, and then a soft hiss as the time dosed painkiller program expires*
Desinex: *worried fussing now, will check everything*
Hound: *soft whimper escapes as his optics go glassy*
Desinex: *getting one of the painkiller tabs the medic left and applying it* Easy, Hound... We've got you...
Hound: *quiet sound. And then goes o.0 at something behind her shoulder before dropping back into stasis*
Desinex: *quick glance over her shoulder*
spark: *hovering there*
Desinex: ... What the....
spark: *continues to float quietly and confidently. And no, he's not a Starscream*
Desinex: *scans the spark, wondering just who it is*
spark: *healthy and strong, though bigger than he should be because of tampering*
Primus: *sends an image of glass globes breaking and sparks floating upward from a box as a large, dark-skinned human man watches with horror and a smaller version of Hound stares blankly*
Desinex: *slight wibble, before she's sending Showtime to get a shell for this young spark, and to make it quick* *gentle clicks as she builds a slight charge in her frame. She's no medic, but she can at least generate some static to feed the spark with...*
spark: *perks and scoots over, then sinks into her shell. There is no discomfort. This youngster is very much alive... and not alien in the least*
Desinex: *moves to sit down, also asks Showtime to get a medic while she's at it* *will gently click to the spark, and wonder why the spark doesn't feel strange to her*
Primus: *softly* *this is the child of another like Desinex, and another Hound. Many of this youngster's siblings went with him to the Well, but this one wishes to live before he comes to stay*
Desinex: *will protect this youngster as she protected Sunhalo, Lumen, Mira, X-Brawn, Sideburn, Hot Shot, and Ridgeback so many vorns ago*
Primus: *knows this. Soft approval*
Showtime: *back with a shell, and a medic of the big-chin tech*
svWakeJumper: *may not be Ratchet, but he's learned from one!*
Primus: *approves of that guy, too!*
spark: *has hiccups. Is excited about this*
Desinex: *trying to get the spark to calm down*
spark: *might accidentally give new mama spark burn*
Desinex: *wince*
svWakeJumper: *has seen that look before, will get Desinex laying down and her chest opened before he's scanning the spark*
spark: *oh. Draft. Whut? Investigates!*
svWakeJumper: *gentle clicks as he carefully corrals the spark and feeds it small amounts of energy through his force field-encased hands*
Showtime: *helping by getting the shell up and running*
spark: *excited fizz that lacks temper* *...and then a super dose of hiccups*
svWakeJumper: *chuckle* Well, someone's in a good mood... *will gently transfer the spark to the waiting spark compartment in the shell*
spark: *barely fits in there, and manages to look funny as he tries to wriggle around comfortably without hiccuping himself right back out of the compartment* *another excited fizz*
Showtime: ... I should've gotten a bigger shell...
svWakeJumper: *gently closing the spark chamber and chestplating as Desinex sits up*
sparklet: *almighty hiccups* *and trying to laugh at the same time even before his face is finished taking shape*
Desinex: *reaches for the sparklet and cuddles him, having closed her own chestplating while the medic was doing the transfer*
sparklet: *bright blue optics... Hound's optics... sparkle up at her as the hiccups and laughter continue* Mama.
Desinex: *expression softens* Yes, that's right... What do we call you?
sparklet: *thinks this over, and then laughs some more*
Desinex: *gentle clicks as she moves to get up with help from the medic* Are you hungry, little one?
sparklet: Oh. Uh huh. o.0
Desinex: *soft chuckle* Let's get that taken care of then. *will move to bring the sparklet to the kitchen as svWakeJumper PINpoints back to the Nexus*
sparklet: *looking around, and then suddenly wearing an expression of concern as he searches for something*
Desinex: *getting some of the mid grade energon and a container of calcien, will also nab a bit of carbon*
sparklet: *pats her and looks up* Mama?
Desinex: *attention on the sparklet* Hm?
sparklet: Dad? Aunty? Uncas?
Desinex: Dad and Aunty are upstairs... Uncas are outside... *will bring the sparklet over to the big window, where he'll be able to see Sunstreaker and Sideswipe*
Sunstreaker: *trying to pry his head out of the dino's mouth as Sideswipe rolls around on the grass and howls*
Desinex: ... *would facepalm, has arms full of bebeh currently*
sparklet: *is laughing again, his optics shining with delight as he watches the scene and hears his uncles' faint shouts and laughter*
Desinex: *pings Showtime's comm, and soon the smaller femme is down in the kitchen and making something for the sparklet to eat*
Showtime: *making several batches of sparklet fuel, and humming quietly as she works. This is something she's missed doing*
sparklet: *looks up at Desinex* Sekani.
Desinex: *blink* Is that what we should call you then?
sparklet: *nod nod*
Primus: *Sekani=merriment and joy*
Desinex: *soft chuckle* That's a good name. *backrub, will move to bring the sparklet over to Showtime*
Sekani: *big grin and quiet clicks for Aunty. Would like to tell her about what's going on outside, but hasn't got enough words yet, so he points to the window and laughs*
Showtime: *will offer a sippy-cup of fuel and look out the window* *chuckle* Those two....
Sekani: Uncas. *takes cup and shakes it experimentally*
cup: *makes a soft sloshing sound, and the smell of energon sweetened with carbon is emitted*
Sekani: *intrigued. Gnaws on cup*
Desinex: *gentle clicks, will carefully tip the cup so some of the energon gets into Sekani's mouth*
Sekani: *pause* ... o.0 *sniff sniff lick?*
Desinex: *encouraging clicks*
Sekani: *gets the spout in his mouth*
Desinex: *will help him hold the cup so he can take in fuel*
Showtime: *is going to mix up some sweet energon for Hound, since she's down here now*
Sekani: *blows hard! And laughs*
Sideswipe: AAAAH! He's gonna EAT ME! *laughing as he runs from Sunstreaker*
Sekani: *pauses and looks up* AHHHHH EAT!
Sunstreaker: ...The slag's up with the echo? *stops in the doorway, a frown on his slobber-streaked face*
Showtime: *giving her mate a Look for cussing*
Sideswipe: Whoah... When'd we get a new kid?
Sunstreaker: ...Kid?? *optics widening now as he spots the little teal form cuddled against Desinex and drinking quietly*
Desinex: Primus brought him here.
Sideswipe: .... *looks at Sunstreaker*
Sunstreaker: But I thought this was supposed to be our retirement pad. *frowny frown*
Desinex: *absently swaying a bit, being careful not to disturb Sekani while he eats* *will ping Sunstreaker's comm and share what Primus told her about the little one*
Sunstreaker: *frowns* Well that's not fair. Wait. I guess it is. You guys only made one kid before. *frown...* Still...
Desinex: *quietly, with a slight edge to her voice that Sunstreaker will likely recognize as her 'Con programming acting up* We're keeping him. End of discussion.
Sunstreaker: *rolls optics* Duh. *looks at brother* The whiskey's mine.
Sideswipe: Aww.
Sunstreaker: Quit whining, you didn't get Barney off my head. *turns and books it for the cellar door*
Sideswipe: *will chase after his brother then* Dibs on the tequila!
Showtime: *sigh* Those two.... *headshake and moves to head upstairs to bring Hound some fuel*
Desinex: *will follow her sister then*
Sekani: *stops drinking as lots of new data and a full tank knock him out* *is one of those sleepers that just goes limp and sleeps hard*
Desinex: *will gently take the sippy cup and set it on the night stand where it won't get knocked over. Then she'll move to get a blanket nest started around Hound*
Showtime: *knows better than to get in Desinex's way when she gets that certain look in her optics, will wait for her sister to get settled next to Hound before setting the cube of sweet mid grade where the tracker will see it and where Desinex will be able to reach it*
Hound: *running sounds are stronger now and steady. And a bit of a smile comes to his battered face as he senses Sekani's presence even in his stasis*
Desinex: *will keep watch over her family's newest member, and her mate, until she can't keep her optics unshuttered. Is hit by sleeping baby and sleeping mate magic*
Showtime: *will make sure her sister, brother, and new nephew are covered with blankets. Then she's making her wobbly way down to the liquor cellar to join in the festivities with her mate and his twin brother*
((co-written with random_xtras))