(TFP Starcee) Unexpected Turn of Events

The Happiest Moments in Life

"Starscream!" Arcee screamed in agonising pain as her entire body writhed from within and no matter how loud she called out his name, nobody came to save her. "Star ahhhh ahhhhhhhhh please Starscream help me!!!" A water fall of tears streamed down her check plates, soaking the the earth below her. The femme's face was contorted into the expression of a terrified Carrier who was on the verge of splitting apart, just so her sparklings can be born into this world of war, but that hope of new life didn't stop the violent act of labour ripping her body apart. "STARSCREAM!!!!!!"
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Starscream shot up from the berth with the speed of a flying bullet as his frame shook from pure fear inserting a needle into his pounding spark, the venom flowing through out his nerve systems. His bright ruby red optics nearly bursted out of his metal skull from the force of his sudden awakening, breathing uncontrollably as he sucked in air into his non existent lungs. It took a full five minutes to calm himself down by closing his optics and putting a servo on his chest plates, feeling the beat going from ten thousand beats to a hundred than seventy per minute. after calming down he then realised that he was crying by a few sheded  tears splashing onto his servos and the liquid sliding into the joints of his digits, he has never really cried like this before in his life, but then he remembered that very rare moment when he spilt a single tear after a close death sentence from Megatron and Starscream stumbled back his quarters on the nemesis in a bloody mess and he spilled that single drop of innocent fear of dying.
Starscream was never same after that night and he shuddered at the memory, he then looked over at Arcee who was slowly steering awake with a moan.
"Mmmph star are *yawn* you okay Hun?" She tried to get up but Starscream quickly wiped away his tears and slipped back under the covers and wrapped his arms around her.
"Yeah I'm ok, please don't get up sweetspark, you'll disturb the sparklings" he urged her with a few ticklish kisses to her nape and left cheek. She giggle in response and laid back down on her side. He crept his thin frame neatly against hers like a jigsaw puzzle, carefully avoiding her winglets with his wings lowered down against his lower back and legsunder the covers too. He then rested his helm on her shoulder. Basically they were spooning, luckily their berth was big enough for the both of them, well four of them now as she was now seven and a half months pregnant, it is was quit amazing how Arcee can still walk or waddle with her sparkmate helping along side with her everyday. And everyone was excited for Christmas as it was only two weeks away.

(Author's note: yes yes, I know that Christmas is months away but for time line reasons, it has to be done)

"So what were you dreaming about?" Asked a very sleepy Arcee as she saw it was three o'clock in the morning, she yawned again, "and please don't lie to me or else I will belly bump you off the bed like last time" they both laughed quietly at the memory of when he lied about going out to get some energon yogurt cubes for her when really he snuck out to go flying in the night, even though Optimus said no. He chuckled and sighed, he knew that he could never lie to her and so he explained in a scared and soft tone.
"I had a nightmare and you were in it"
"What happened?" She asked, becoming worried herself.
"And.....you were.........screaming" he said slowly with the visions of his dream appearing in his processor, he didn't say another word and Arcee understood perfectly of his pain and she held his servos in her's tightly. "I love you Arcee and I would do anything to make sure our sparklings see their first dawn of the day when they are born, I promise"
"Thank you my love" with that promise set in stone the couple went back to sleep, dreaming of their children's happy smiles.
During the rest of the night Starscream thought he could feel his upper thigh plates being pinched by small servos of his mate, it seem like his mate was having a very nice dream compared to his and he smiled with a blush.

The next morning

Something unusual happened this morning, it wasn't the typical wake up call of Arcee whispering/tickling him awake, but no it was the tapping noises of tiny little feet walking across his berth all the way up to the head of the berth where a sleeping giant resided. Starscream tried to ignored it but the intruder wouldn't go away, but then he soon felt them, yes there were two small things climbing on top of his wide chest, the silver seeker groaned and slowly opened his optics. In his haze he saw blurry silhouettes of Miko and Rafael.
"Are you sure about this Miko? He may get angry"
"Don't worry he won't mind" she giggled again and they both then dragged a giant Santa hat up onto the bot's chest and tried to figure out how to put it on his helm. This whole time Starscream stayed quiet to see how they would reacted to him waking up. But it was already too late as Rafael saw Starscream flutter his optics open and closed slightly.
"Uhh Miko I think he's awake and has been this whole time" Rafael said bluntly and Starscream fully opened his optics and slide up a little to lay against his pillow.
"What are you two younglings doing?" Starscream asked with a yawn. Miko presented him the red hat and he raised an optic ridge, confused by what she was trying to imply.
"Put it on" she insisted and Starscream pick it up and examined it, he looked back at them and soon after placed the hat on his pointed helm spike. Both humans started to laugh as the hat looked like it was hovering right above his helm on the spike.
"What you told me to put it on?" Starscream complained and he took it off then putted it on right the way the second time and the kids cheered in excitement.
"Perfect now let's go and show everyone, and don't worry everyone else is wearing a hat too" raf said and the humans were about to get off but Starscream carefully picked them up and placed them on each of his large shoulder plates."Haha thanks for the ride Starscream"
"No problems Rafael" The silver mech smiled softly and soon after they went into the main room where it was all decorated with green and red lights hanging from railings. Cute Santa, snowflakes and elf posters adorned the walls and a huge Christmas tree stood tall in the corner of the room with thousands of decorations of all colours hang from it. Starscream couldn't help but to awe at its gorgeous exterior, this was also his first time experiencing Christmas.
Wheeljack was the first one to see Starscream standing in the hall way.
"Aw it's look like sleepin' beauty is awake"
"Yes, well I could've been out earlier if theses two didn't crawl over all over me, just to make me wear this silly hat" he pointed to the two perpetrators on his shoulders, they shouted hey in response and Starscream chuckled then walked over to bee who was talking with bulkhead and wheeljack. "So has there been any decepticon activity today?"
":nope, they've been strangely quiet lately and I'm pretty sure it's not in the good spirit of Christmas too to leave us alone for the week:" bee answered in his classical beeps, he too was also wearing a hat along bulk and wheeljack too.
"Unless he's pretending to be Santa this year and give presents to all children of the world" bulkhead joked making everyone laugh.
"I don't think so bulkhead, he's properly thinking about his precious dark energon" Starscream said and he carefully gave the humans to their guardians, all though Miko had a hard time choosing between bulkhead and wheeljack. In the end she chose bulkhead.

In the meantime Arcee was getting a check up with ratchet and Jack, the young teen liked to see how the sparklings are going. Ratchet did the usual routine of squeezing the gel on her belly then using the scanner on the surface, the x-Ray showed the normal black and white screen of the twins snuggled nicely together in the hot fluid of energon, crystallised in a blue egg under the femme's mesh skin.
Ratchet hummed in thought as he still couldn't identify their genders, no matter they'll figure it out when they come out. "Hmm I thinks it's about time that you should use a wheelchair from now on acree, or else your spinal strut will give out  and we definitely do not want that to happen" he explained. Arcee didn't like the idea of being more useless around base but she nodded anyway, she knew that she wouldn't have a choice sense every time she tried to walk, pain would strike itself into her spine and through out her body. So she thought that it would be a nice present from bulkhead for Christmas.
"Yeah that's ok ratchet, 'cause I'm pretty sure my peds were swelling up anyway from the weight" she said with a slight smirk to herself.
"Don't worry Arcee it'll be all over soon in another five months" Jack said, he leaned on the railing just above them as ratchet gave Arcee a clothe to clean herself and then slowly got up to swing her legs over the side of the berth.
"Whoop de Doo, this is really fun, *sigh* at least they stopped growing at six months and I won't like I have just eaten one of cybertrons moons" Arcee said with a chuckle, Jack laughed too and ratchet rolled his optics with a smile. Arcee was then about get up but ratchet stopped her.
"Ep, Ep, no sudden moves Arcee" ratchet said and then called over smokescreen with a brilliantly designed wheelchair that looked almost looked like her alt mode.
"Oh wow.... That's uhh awesome, thank you" she was utterly speechless as the medic and rookie helped her in the chair.
"How do feel Cee, do you like it, Bulk made it just for you months ago" Smokey happily said with a thumbs up, acree looked it over with a shrug.
"Eh I like it thanks, it feels good to have wheels again, but are sure that ratchet doesn't need this more than me sense he's the oldest of all of us" she snickered and slowly looked behind her see a grumpy lookin' doctor with a wrench in his servos with a twitchy left optic.
"You have about 10 nanoklicks to roll out of here before I thump ya Arcee" that said she and smokescreen. escaped from the mad doctor's wrath, as soon as they escaped, both Arcee and smokescreen were laughing mess.
"Haha at least we can dodge a wrench but can we dodge a ball?" Smokescreen laughed again then rubbed a tear for his optic.

Everyone in the room turned around to see what was going on and Starscream was not expecting to see his mate in a wheel chair.
"Wow, sweetspark this is an improvement" he looked down as she was now half of his height in the chair, he then bent down to her level.
"Don't get used to it, it's just temporary"Arcee said and pecked him on the lips. Everyone around them made teasing sounds and Starscream rolled his optics mad stood back up, "No one can make any jokes about wheelchairs or old femme's or else I will bite your your ankles, got it" she added on with a thank you to bulkhead for his kind craftsmanship and soon after all the mech's went back to their chats or went for patrol duty. Arcee walked-- uh I mean rolled over to watch some Christmas movies with the kids for the next few hours. Her favourite was the Christmas carol with jim Carey in it.

It was now 7:55pm in the afternoon and the humans went home early and the autobots were getting ready to go bed themselves, seeing as how Arcee fell asleep in her chair and Starscream went out to go flying for a while with Optimus' permission for an hour or two. The base was quiet and peaceful.
Just as bee was going to walk over the sleeping femme to take her to bed, but wheeljack made it there before him and grabbed the handles of the chair and took her away without saying a word, bee was confused but let it go for now and went to talk to smokescreen.

Once they were in her and Starscream's berthroom wheeljack carefully picked her up bridal style from the chair and slipped her under the covers, he tucked her in. She groaned quitely and shifted get more comfortable on her back with her winglets pressed under her, her huge belly stuck out so far that it was hard for the blanket to cover it fully.
Wheeljack then sat beside her on the berth and gently placed his servo on her belly and rubbed it tenderly.
"As soon as they are born, the universe will do anything to take them away for you" he whispered and leaned over to place a small kiss on her belly after taking the blanket away for a nanoklick and after he was done he tucked her back in again and left the room.