chapter 1

Red alert was a medic at a local hospital on Cybertron he enjoyed his job but seeing many bots and cons brought in day to day due to uncalled for gang violence that has been flooding Cybertron lately has been a little hard for him to swallow.

"Red Alert," a voice called. It was one of the medics. Red alert came over to him.

"What is it?" Red alert asked as they entered the room.

"This femme she just passed away," the medic told him.

"Oh, but this is hospital you know it's impossible to save every patient." Red alert said. But he knew it was a sad thing never the less.

"You see Red alert the femme has two sparklings," the medic said.

"Where are they?" Red alert asked.

"Who?" the medic asked.

"I think he means the sparklings," said a younger medic who was in the room.

Red alert nodded his head in agreement.

"The two of them are outside in the waiting room. One appears to be a bit older than the other," the first medic said.

Red alert made it to the waiting room and saw the two sparklings. One was bright red and yellow with little black goggles sitting on top of his head. The second sparkling was a bit younger than the first, he was blue, yellow and silver. Both sparklings had big blue optics. Red alert came over to the sparklings.

The two sparklings huddled together. They were a bit frightened.

"There is no need to be frightened, I won't hurt you," Red alert said. The sparklings visibly relaxed. Red alert sat down next the two sparklings. "What are your names?" he asked.

The older sparkling made scribbling motions. Red alert figured out what he was asking for and gave him a Cybertronian clipboard and pen. The sparkling wrote something down. "Hot shot and Side swipe?" he asked.

The eldest sparkling nodded. "Are you Side swipe?" Red alert asked the sparkling. The sparkling shook his head no. "So you are Hot shot, and he's Side swipe," he said.

Hot shot nodded and smiled then Side swipe gave a shy smile. Then Hot shot pointed at Red alert.

"My name is Red alert," Red alert said.

Side swipe whimpered and tugged on Hot shot's arm. Hot shot hugged him and Side swipe started to settle down. "Is Side swipe your little brother?" Red alert asked.

"Yes," Hot shot said.

"Uh huh," Side swipe said.

"That's nice," Red alert said.

"Red alert, where's mommy?" Hot shot asked.

"I want mommy," Side swipe said.

Red alert's face clouded over.

"You two little ones should probably not talk about such matters," the medic who came from the other room said.

"Leave the kids alone," Red alert said standing up. The he felt something brush against his legs. He saw Hot shot and Side swipe. Hot shot was trying to grab his hand. Red alert then took Hot shot's hand.

"Red alert, mommy is dead isn't she?" Hot shot asked.

Red alert nodded his head.

"Can Side swipe and I see her?" Hot shot asked.

"Yes," Red alert said and picked up Side swipe because he was much smaller than Hot shot and probably couldn't keep up.

They passed the medic who spoke rather rudely. "Meanie!" Hot shot said.

The medic was shocked as Red alert left with the sparklings.

Red alert took them into the other room where their mother laid dead. Hot shot and Side swipe were heart broken. They didn't know what to think. It was such a heartbreaking thing to look at. "Hot shot, Side swipe I'm sorry we tried everything we could to save her," Red alert said.

"It's okay, not your fault," Hot shot said.

"Bubby," Side swipe said.

"It's okay Side swipe, it's going to be okay," Hot shot said hugging Side swipe.

"What are we going to do? We can't just leave them at some random orphanage and forget about them," one of the medics said.

"But we have to leave them there because there is no where else they can stay because the father hasn't been found and it is not known if he is even alive." the second medic explained.

"They will be staying with me, because they trust me," Red alert said.

"Are you sure?" the first medic asked.

"Yes I'm sure," Red alert said.

Red alert took the two young brother's his home. "This is where I live and where you two are going to stay." Red alert explained. Hot shot and Side swipe looked around.

Red alert placed the brothers on his couch. Then placed a bag down. A medic told him there was somethings in there that belonged to Hot shot and Side swipe. Red alert went into the other room to prepare some energon. He heard laughter and he came into the living room and saw Hot shot and Side swipe went through the bag and found two different toys.

Hot shot was holding a plush dog while Side swipe was holding a plush cat.

"Okay you two it's time to refuel," Red alert said.

"Yay!" Hot shot and Side swipe said.

Red alert gave them the cubes of Energon and the two brother drank down there cubes. Once finished Red alert showed them a small room and set up two small cots. "This where you two are going to sleep. My room is next to this one so if you two need anything let me know," Red alert said.

Hot shot and Side swipe nodded. "Okay now it's time for you two to have a bath," Red alert said picking them up. He placed Hot shot inside the tub and proceed to wash him once he was clean he placed Side swipe in the tub and washed him too. "Okay you two are nice and clean," he said.

Then Red alert tucked the two brothers in. "Night light?" Hot shot asked.

Red alert nodded and plugged one in. "Good night," Red alert said.

"Night," Hot shot said.

"Night-night," Side swipe said.

Red alert turned out the light and left the room. Poor kids. He thought.