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(Crack, Patchy, Jazz, Skyfire, Red Alert. Updating this as I haven't actually covered how Jazz and Patchy actually met. enjoy!)

How Jazz met Patchy

The battle had been going well, until Jazz managed to get separated from the main skirmish.

"Come out Autobot" Skywarp called cockily as he stalked around a large pile of rocks, crushing the savannah grass underneath his pedes.

A low growl made him pause before giving a shriek of surprise as a huge lion pounced up onto the rocks and let out a vicious roar.

"Ha! Scared of a little kitty are we Skywarp?" Jazz called from where he was hiding behind a clump of trees

"Shut up!" the jet shouted back firing his null rays at the trees causing the Autobot saboteur to abandon his hiding place. "Get back here you coward!" the purple and black jet roared taking flight after the running bot.

"Come get me, you sorry excuse for a can opener!" Jazz hollered back as he evaded the Null ray blasts.

The jet warped with a howl of rage at the insult, reappearing ahead of Jazz, making the TIC squeak in surprise as they bowled into each other, the clang of metal on metal sending the African wildlife scattering with shrill cries or hisses of fright. Jazz groaned as they skidded to a stop, giving a yelp as the jet somersaulted him off of the Decepticon and straight into a rock formation, his helm clanging against a particularly sharp looking rock, knocking the saboteur offline.

Skywarp grumbled as he rolled up into a sitting position and turned a smug smirk at the collapsed TIC as he rose aiming a null ray at the frame. "Night, night!" he crowed his weapon powering up with a high hum, the muzzle's end gathering a ball of purple energy.

The ground started to vibrate, the air filling with loud trumpets and thundering strides. "What the?" Skywarp snarled turning "Holy…"

A large herd of stampeding elephants trampled over him, sharp ivory tusks nearly piercing his wings as they knocked him flying.

-Some time later-

Booting up…

Error… Complete reboot of all systems…

Parental programming online…

Visual centre online…

Jazz groaned as he onlined his optics finding himself staring at a rock face, his own pink energon dried on the heated face of the grey rock. His helm ached and one of his audio horns was broken and sparking. Something was licking his other horn…

He flinched as he moved the thing beside him giving a startled bleat and back pedalled away as he concentrated on not slamming his face back into the rock, placing his servos under him as he managed to right himself with a groan of pain.

He glanced around and jumped when his optics locked with the frightened ones of a small baby animal with a long neck. His HUD sprang into action, scanning the creature and placing a circle around the creature in his vision, the small tag attached reading 'My Sparkling'. His old files of nurturing Sparklings coming to the forefront of his processor; nearly blinding him with the familiar files that he had referenced so many times when raising Bluestreak, it was funny... he didn't remember creating this sparkling or even placing her spark into its femme frame for that matter.

His baby was covered in dirt and looking up at him with wide cute brown eyes, her tail swishing to keep the flies at bay. He crooned to his new baby, the sparkling flicking its audios forward and wearily stepping forward craning its long neck forward at the low lullaby he was singing. His sparkling's soft muzzle nuzzled his plating, before a long blue tongue shot out and trailed across his plating. Jazz gave a winning smile carefully picking up his baby and cuddling her to his chest.

He suddenly took notice of where they were…

"Oh, my Primus" Jazz muttered in mortification "What'll Ratchet say if I told him I somehow brought you along" he assumed, his fingers stroking his sparkling's back as she gave a soft coo at the attention his was lavishing on her. "But first… what did I call you again…? Delilah?"

The giraffe wrinkled her muzzle, tongue flicking out.

"Okay… Patchy?"

The femme gave a bleat wiggling in place within Jazz's arms.

"Patchy it is" Jazz said, pleased as he stood up "Now… how to get you home without the others finding out I somehow brought you here in the first place…"

-Landing zone-

Skyfire wasn't pleased that Jazz had knocked him out before the other Autobots had come back. He had woken up to see Ratchet berating Jazz for getting clocked on the noggin, dragging the oddly fidgety saboteur towards his backend. He was sure something was moving back there…

-The ARK-

Red Alert sat in his chair watching his beloved camera monitors like a hawk watching a rabbit. The others had returned from their mission in Africa, Optimus and the others reporting straight to Ratchet's medbay. He spied Jazz creeping down the halls, his helm badly dented and leaking energon and sparks, followed by, what appeared to be a giraffe sparkling. Red Alert looked up from his bank of monitors and rubbed his optics.

When he looked back Jazz's little follower had disappeared.

"Huh… maybe Inferno was right" the paranoid Security Director muttered as he began to watch the movie playing in the Rec-Room again through his monitor "I do need a vacation"