Babysitting

"So do you think you can find out what's wrong with him? Or if there's any way to help him?" Prime's voice asked as he looked at his CMO. Ratchet was working on Red Alert for the fifth time in 30 cycles and Ratchet was getting sick of it. He knew that Red Alert couldn't control when he glitched, but having to fix and reboot him every time he did was time consuming, and he could have used the time to focus on other things for the Ark. That was why in the last meeting the CMO had with the other officers he said that it would be a wise decision to give Red some time off so that he could have a throe exam over him in hopes of finding a way so that the glitch wouldn't be in the way of his work. Curious as to what it could have been Prime, Prowl, and Jazz were with the CMO, in the medbay, as well so that they could understand just what was wrong with the young officer. Inferno had also been there for as luck would have it just as Prowl was about to set up the vacation days the security director had glitched from yet another prank by the twins, who were also in the medbay recovering from their injuries from the 'cons.

"It might take a while but yeah I should be able to figure out the problem. I won't be able to get rid of the glitch but I know I'll be able keep it under control a bit," Ratchet replied as he continued to look at the screen carefully looking through everything, making sure that no servo went unsearched. He grumbled as several of the wires connected to the Security Director's helm fell off as he struggled to online himself, "Damn it that..." the CMO trailed off grumbling his curses softly as he tampered with a servo in Red's helm to offline him forcefully, and reconnected the wires.

"So, exsactly how long is this going to take?" Jazz asked getting bored of just sitting and watching Ratchet look through Red's head.

"Hard to say really could take a couple of breem, maybe even a couple cycles it all depends where the problem is."

"Heh, bet you guys five energon cubes it was because of something the twins did while they were younger, after all who won't become glitching growing up with them?" Jazz said while chuckling a bit, Inferno joining in.

"Hey we were good brothers! Whenever our creators weren't there we watched him, played with him, even fed him so you can't accuse us for him being glitchy," Sideswipe argued back. Of course he left out all the details about alot of things they have done, but of course he wasn't going to mention it. After all he was trying to make a good case, and he couldn't do that if he gave evidence against himself and his twin. It had been a week now since everyone on the Ark had found out about their being related, and they have been making fun of it any chance they got despite the threats each of the lombos gave them.

"Some how I fine that hard to believe," Prowl spoke in his usual dull voice.

"Believe what you want," Sunstreaker spoke up as he sat up in the berth he was suppose to be resting on, "But as Sides said we were good brothers and--"

"Found it!" Ratchet interrupted every bot in the room looking toward the screen, Sunstreker winced at the pain in his side, but his curiosity about what caused his brother to glitch so often. Ratchet closed up on the area in which he meant, although none of them could tell what was wrong just by looking at it.

"So whats wrong?" Prime asked still staring at the screen with confused optics.

"There are several loose chips which have a large effect on his mental processor thus the frequent glitches, and by the looks of things..." Ratchet trailed off as he moved over to the offline Red Alert, carefully removing part of his helm so he could look at the chips with his own optics. Once he caught it he examined it for a moment before finally continuing, "It looks like they've been loose for a long while, probably during his sparking ages or so."

"What would have caused it?" again Prime asked.

"By the look of it a blunt hit on the head, probably hit himself on the head or something," Ratchet explained not turning away from Red Alert. As the officers spoke among one another none of them seemed to notice the twins flinching, nor did they notice the guilty expression on their faces as they looked at one another. Although Inferno noticed it so he tuned out what they were talking about something although he couldn't quite make it out. He concentrated harder and heard a bit more of what they were saying but it was still hard to make out.

"Do you think it was from then?"

"No, couldn't have been, oh what about... no"

"Oh it's gotta be that one time with the... well you know"

Inferno glared at the twins they obviously knew what had happen to Red but were keeping it from them. With a growl he stormed over toward the twins and slammed his fist down on the berth Sunstreaker was on making both bots jump as they were forced to stop their conversation. "What did you two do</i>!?" Inferno yelled, optics angry as he glared at the twins, grabbing the attention of all the 'bots in the room.

"We don't know what your talking about," Sideswipe said defensively trying to avoid the gazes of the officers.

"Then explain what Ah just heard right now between you two," Inferno replied still glaring at them.

"It was nothing," Sunstreaker said a little too quickly.

"You two better tell me what happen now or else I will personally disassemble you and throw you both into the scrap heep!" Ratchet yelled in anger as he slap his wench against his hand to show that he wasn't kidding. The twins panicked when they heard this, looking at one another before sighing in defeat.

"Alright, alright, alright we kind of... might have... dropped him on his head while he was a sparkling, while our creators were gone," Sideswipe said first caution in his voice as they all stared at them.

"And we kind of... might have... never told them about it," Sunstreaker added in the same caution voice. There was silence in the room after the twins had admitted their crime before the CMO finally yelled.

"What do you mean you dropped Red Alert on his head while he was a sparkling and never told your creators about it!?" Ratchet yelled so loud that it seemed like the entire Ark could have heard him. The twins as well as everyone else in the room had their audio's covered with their hands so that they wouldn't blow out. When they uncovered their audios Ratchers was still yelling about how stupid they were to pull such a stunt as he walked closer to them. Sides tried backing away however yell off the berth in his attempts to do so. "Did you two at least have the slightest idea what damage you could have done!?"

"Woah, woah, woah Ratchet," Sideswipe exclaimed bringing up his hands in front of him as he stood up and backed away into Sunstreaker's breth still in pain from the fall. "We were younglings we didn't know any better at the time! Gives us a chance to explain what happen at least."

"Fine but it better be good," Ratchet said as he crossed his arms every 'bot in the room waiting for an explanation

"And here they called themselves good brothers.." Jazz whispered into Prowl's audios

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"Come one mom it's not like we're going to burn down the house while your gone!" Sunstreaker groaned to his mother as the was going on with a list of what not to do while she was gone. This was going to be the first time that she would leave her sparklings alone since they were first sparked. She hated the idea of leaving them alone, especially with Red Alert being as young as he was. Bluetracer couldn't help but worry how her sparkling would react to either her, nor Ringracer not being there. They had never left the twins alone at such an age for one of them had always been there.

Although as time went by they had to do more and more hours at their work place, and for the first time in who knows how long neither she, nor her bond mate were going to be there. They had thought about taking them to work with them, but knowing the twins they would damage something, and Red need to much attention to focus on any real work. They tried calling friends to see if any of them would look after her children however they all had refused for each of them has fallen into one of the twins' many pranks and had refused to look after them any more. Just as Firestrip, a old time friend of her, whom had watched over the twins while they had to leave to place Red Alert's spark into his protoform.

When they had returned they saw that the house was a complete and utter mess, and they heard muffled screaming of pure fear, and panic. Both Ringracer and Bluetracer ran to where they heard the screaming thinking that something had happen just to see Sunstreaker and Sideswipe sitting on their edge of the their berth eating energone goodies as he looked at the storage door, where Firestrip was pounding on the door begging to be let out. When Ringracer let him out of the closet Firestrip ran out yelling that they have raised hellions and left without another word. And Bluetracer hadn't herd from him since, and any other sitter they had place to take care of the twins hadn't been much better.

"No I'm just going to have to call a sitter."

"But we can take care of ourselves we don't need a sitter!"

"I'm not going to leave you alone with Red"

"There's only a 3 joor difference between your leaving and dad returning, it won't be that long!"

"No!"

"Please! Besides your running late there's no time to get a sitter," Sideswipe finished knowing that he and his brother had won this argument. The femme checker her

internal clock giving a groan at the time. How she managed to lose to her own sparklings she didn't know, maybe it had something to do with all the stress.

"Fine, but this is the first time your going to be left alone alright, and it will be your last if you two can prove to me if you can't take care of yourselves and your brother, then you'll never be allowed to stay home with a sitter again understood?" the light blue femme asked as she looked at her children

The twins nodded, and after going over several rules they had to go by if they ever wanted to be trusted again they were going to have to follow them. The first one was obvious, keeping the house clean, which was something they knew they could do, take care of Red. More of a challenge, but nothing they couldn't handle, and of course no energon goodies. They were hyped up enough and they didn't need any more than that. And the moment she left ans was far enough away enough that she wouldn't come back randomly the immediately went over to their creator's room to check on their younger brother, and luckily for them he was a sleep. The red twin smirked, "This is going to be easy," he whispered softly as the left the room to leave Red in peace.

"So what do you think we should do?" Sunstreaker asked as the walked down the hall. So many things to sneak into, so many places to explore even in their small house there was something to do.

"I say we gets some goodies," Sideswipe smiled as he rubbed his hands together, he could already taste the sweet energon. Suntreaker smiled and nodded in agreement as they both ran into the cabinet to where they're creators hid the goodies, they jumpped onto the counter to open the cabinet however the goodies weren't there. "What did they do with them!?" the red twin yelled.

"Odd," Sunstreaker muttered as he jumpped down from the counter and stepped back finally spotting the goodies they were trying to get, "Found them, problem though."

"What?"

"They're to high for us to reach on our own, if we had a little more height to add then yes, but--"

"What about Red?"

Sunstreaker raised an optic at this as he stared at his twin in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"We wake up Red Alert I'll have him climb on my shoulders, I'll climb on yours and together we can get the goodies!"

"Your crazy you know that?"

"Yeah, but you love me for it and you know it," Sideswipe went back to their creator's room looking at Red in the sparkling berth, "Red... heya Red," sung softly so that they could wake up their little bro. When the sparkling's onlined slowly, Sideswipe sung the same words making the young sparking sit up rubbing his eyes. Heya Red your up" Sides said with a smile across his face.

" 'idewhip?" the sparking muttered still tired and obviously wanted recharge.

"It's Sideswipe, or you can just call me Sides, can you say 'Sides'?"

"IDE!" the young sparkling said with a smile across his as he through his ands up for emphases.

"Close enough," Sideswipe said with a laugh as Sunny chuckled behind him, "What about Sunny? Can you say 'Sunny'?"

The red and white sparkling looked over toward the yellow twin repeating his name, "Unny, Unny," Red cried out clapping his hands together as he said the name. This made Sideswipe burst into laughter as he picked up his little brother and rubbed his helm against his little brother's.

"Your so cute you know that Red, don't see why mom and dad have trouble with you."

"Can we just get to what we were going to do Sides we only got two joors left before dad comes home."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Sides replied as he removed his helm from Red's, "Hey Red you want a goodie?"

Red nodded his head at this, "Okay well your gonna help gets some kay?" the sparkling wasn't to sure what his older brother meant by what he said but nodded and clapped his hands anyway.

After getting Red the twins went back to where the cabinet was. "Okay Red we're going to pull you up and you grab the goodies okay?" Sides asked, while Red seemed confused. Although that confusion turned into fear as he Placed Red to sit on his shoulder. The sparkling's little hands held onto Sides' helm as if his spark depended on it. "Don't worry Red, I've got you, kay?" Still scared Red Alert nodded and loosened his grip a bit as Sides turned to Sunny, "You ready?"

The yellow twin nodded as he kneeled down so that his twin could climb on his shoulders, once he was securely on Sunstreaker stood up doing his best to carry the weight of both his brothers, and again Red Alert grabbed hold onto Side's helm with a tight grip offlining his optics so he wouldn't have to see how high he was.

"It's okay Red I told you I've got you, there's nothing you have to be scared about, just look ahead and grab hold of the goodies," Sideswipe reassured his sparkling brother taking hold of his waist to make sure he wouldn't fall. Red Alert onlined his optics again still scared, but he did as Sideswipe told him looking toward the goodies that were barely withing his reach.

"Come on you guys I can't hold you forever," Sunstreaker grummbled.

"Come on Red you need to grab the energon goodies," Sideswipe tried hurrying up the sparkling to grab the goodies before Sunstreaker could no longer hold them. Red leaned forward reaching out with his little arms as he finally grabbed the bag. Red clicked with happiness however Sunstreaker could no longer hold them up and fell over losing his grip on Sides how had lose his grip on Red Alert as they both fell down. Sunstreaker was lucky enough to have just fallen off his aft, where as Sideswipe landed hard on his back. Although was was considerably lucky compared to Red Alert landing on his head.

"Red" both the twins yelled ignoring their own pain as they looked after their brother, there was a dent in his helm although it was barely noticeable. The sparking had energon entering his optics before releasing a very loud cry, which made both of the twins wince.

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"And after that we comforted him until he stopped crying and knowing that we would never be trusted to stay alone again we didn't say anything," Sunstreaker said

"And since the dent in his head was barely noticeable our creators never asked about it, it was never mentioned, and we're pretty sure that if effected some memory chips or something because I don't think ever remembered if ever happening," Sideswipe finished up both the twins looked at the shocked expressions on everyone else.

"Ah I can't believe you two endangered Red just for some, energon goodies," Inferno finally spoke up.

"We already told you we were only younglings ourselves it's not like we knew any better," Sides defended him and his brother.

"Stupid twins..." Red muttered, once again his glitch was fighting to force himself online and he seemed to be dreaming about something if he mentioned the twins, "Brig..."

"Heh even in his sleep he sends you to the brig," Jazz laughed, as Red Alert muttered some more although they couldn't really tell what he was saying.

"But he can't-" Sunstreaker said before being interrupted by Prowl.

"He can and he did now go," he looked over to Inferno, "Please escort them there."

"You got it," Inferno replied as he led the twins out the Medbay and into the bring.

"Did Red Alert over hear the story or was it just a coincidence?" Prime asked curious if Red don't that on purpose or not.

"I'm sure it was just random, but it's not like they didn't deserve it," Ratchet replied as he looked over Red Alert and began the repairs.