Star Saber is an incredibly friendly, well-behaved angel of a baby that is so small that he fits in Rumble's two hands. Starscream takes him everywhere, and this has affected certain dynamics.
Nobody can raise their voice when Star Saber is around because one hint of a whimper and Starscream is ripping plating. A lesson that Motormaster learned the hard way. Star Saber imitates the adults around him and is clearly very interested in everything going on and despite his size very clearly not a newborn. Hook guestimates he was born just under six months ago. Given his paint nanite development Hook guesses he was "overcooked". Kept from emerging for an extended time which led to more developed frame and partial code transfer more advanced than normal.
Star Saber attends command meetings and pays attention when someone is talking and since Starscream takes notes a small baby size pad with appropriate writing tools appeared as well. Star Saber will look at Starscream and when he does it doodle on his own pad.
They have more than once been forced to endure Starscream being soft and baby talking and then switching on a dime to vicious sneering.
When Starscream is presenting with Star Saber never from his arms, he pauses every few slides to allow Star Saber to happily babble at the room his own presentation.
Ratbat, previously the youngest member of the crew before the Stunticons, and the Stubticons minus Motormaster are a little fascinated with Star Saber. Ratbat, Breakdown, and Drag Strip team up and rob a Babies R Us and several toy stores before presenting these things to Starscream and the baby. For their troubles Starscream allows Ratbat cuddling time and Breakdown supervised holding, Drag Strip almost dropped Star Saber so he is banned but can watch him with Breakdown.
This infuriates Skywarp who had proclaimed dibs and so he and Thundercracker one up this and use a drop off the Cybertron to go raid the remains of old Mansions in Iacon for rich people ancestral baby things of fine quality and present their more Cybertronian appropriate findings.
Thus starts the baby holding competition.
Megatron doesn't participate, but whenever Soundwave is permitted to watch him, he always hovers nearby and looks at Star Saber, who always notices and happy babbles "My-Me" (his attempt at Starscream's Mighty Megatron) at him. He occasionally wiggles fingers and smiles. Once Soundwave has enough of Megatron constantly pretending disinterest and simply plops him in his lap and Megatron freezes unsure and Star Saber happily pulls himself up Megatron's body to make kissy faces as he has been seeing Skywarp do to Thundercracker when he's "grumpy". Megatron has a baby fall asleep on him and doesn't move an inch until he is removed.
Megatron refuses to admit he likes the baby but this is the smoothest his and Starscream's relationship has been in years and he does compliment him which makes Starscream preen and will snap at people about Star Saber being a Decepticon as much as his progenitor.
All Decepticons have simultaneously gotten their communal care taking senses activated. Because there is no 1 baby.
Once the kibble has gotten more developed and they notice his eyes settling on a color no one can deny it anymore. Especially not when during a conference call Shockwave bluntly points it out. The baby has blue optics and no in built weaponry it is rather obvious he has Autobot ancestry.
Starscream says that Star Saber is his baby and to get back on topic.
The blue color does not fade and Star Saber does have a certain roundness and tininess to his frame they can't deny and he definitely didn't get his personality from Starscream.
So...which one was it?
Awwww yes.
Tiny
He is just such a tiny and polite sparkling. If you were going on personality alone you'd never expect him to be Starscream's child.
oh Motormaster learned a damn lesson that day, damnnn
hmmm, Starscream, hmmm. Interesting, interesting.
Omg aww yes the doodle pad
Minus Motormaster
MM isn't taking any risks this time lol (I wouldn't be surprised if he's afraid of Star Saber if just for who the sparkling's carrier is and what he's learned)
The true reason Toys-R-Us went out of business /jk
Zdfyfdf ah yes, Star Saber gets both human toys and cybertronian toys!!
aWW YES MEGS STAR SABER SOUNDWAVE YES YESSS
That's adorable. Yes. "My-Me" is an adorable as hell caretaker, yes yes this.
I fucking knew it was an autobot
I knewwwww that Starscream got knocked up by a bot
I'd blame Optimus, if not for the detail about roundness and small stature.
So, my next best suspect is Bumblebee.
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