Nanosec leaned back in his chair and watched, from across the table, as Slo-Mo restlessly paced back and forth in front of him. The villainess silently fumed as she thought of what to do next in her plans. Since the baby robots weren't in the warehouse when she and Nanosec had returned that same night, the once brilliant plans had backfired worse than Slo-Mo anticipated. The baby bots were gone to who knows where. And what was worse—there was someone out there who knew what she and Nanosec were up to and had followed them to the warehouse that night. What to do, what to do. Slo-Mo paced harder.

"I could have told you they wouldn't be there." said Nanosec, interrupting Slo-Mo's thoughts, "Whoever that was outside probably heard the bots' crying and took them."

"Don't you think I've already come to that conclusion?" Slo-Mo said through gritted teeth. "Agh! I can't believe this is even happening! My plan was flawless! Once I succeeded in turning all of those troublesome robots into babies and dumped them in the lake, the city would have been ours for the taking! Think of it, sweetheart—jewelry, money, priceless artifacts and paintings from museums—it could have all been ours! We could have been rolling in dough." Slo-Mo, in frustration, pulled out her timepiece, which resembled a huge pocket watch with a piece of the Allspark for the hands. It looked like her old one, except this one was silver in color.

"I wouldn't worry too much, Slo. I'm sure we'll find those bots sooner or later. At least they won't be bothering us anytime soon. As long as you hold that timepiece, they'll remain babies. And what good is a band of baby robots gonna do for this city?"

"You're right," Slo-Mo's lips curled into a pleasing smile, "This timepiece is the only thing that can turn them back, and I own it." she snapped her fingers and pointed to her partner. "Nanosec, we're going out on the town tonight. Even though every part of my plan didn't go as I would have liked, we're still rid of those robots. And I feel like celebrating."

Nanosec smiled, "That's my girl."

"But we must remain cautious and keep our eyes open for those bots. You never know when they might show up. And when they do…" Slo-Mo's smile turned into an evil grin. Nanosec met hers with one that seemed to be twice as evil.

After getting her sense back, Sari walked into the common room again while carrying Bumblebee in her arms. Swindle and Blitzwing walked along beside her, trying desperately to keep up with the girl. The other sparklings were still busy tearing the place apart and making as much noise as they possibly could but Sari apparently didn't care. She dragged her feet over the garbage strewn floor and plopped herself down in one of the huge beanbag chairs placed in front of the TV. Blitzwing and Swindle watched the rest of the sparklings in silent fascination. Sari almost groaned when Blitzwing's Icy face switched to Random. The triple changer clapped his hands gleefully before giggling in a most eerie way and running off to join the ruckus. Swindle was ready to run after him, but Sari caught him and pulled him back.

"Don't you dare," she glared at him. "I've got enough problems as it is. I don't need every single one of you running wild."

Swindle lowered his head as if pondering what he had just been told and roughly sat down on the floor. Sari sighed and turned a menacing glare behind her at hearing a loud pop and crackle. The answer to her unasked questions came next as the remains of a busted plastic coke bottle flew upwards through the air, followed by an explosion of giggles and laughter from several of the baby bots. Leave it to Wreck-Gar to provide hours of entertainment with his non-stop supply of trash.

Sari turned back around to Bumblebee resting in her arms. The little yellow bot smiled innocently at the girl before nestling himself closer to her. He grabbed hold of the key strung around her neck and fingered it lazily. The girl's mind was temporarily taken off her problems as she continued to watch her little friend. But it wasn't for long. Suddenly there was a scream—then crying followed. Sari immediately jumped out of her seat and ran behind the cement couch to see what the problem was this time. Swindle followed closely behind. Aside from the floor being covered in several inches of garbage, there were sparklings dotted here and there. The one crying was Blitzwing, and not too far away from him was a cowering Starscream. What had actually happened was not known, but Starscream, obviously the guilty one, got up and ran to another part of the room before Sari could get her hands on him. Much to the girl's horror, Blitzwing's face switched to Hothead, who was out for revenge in the worst way possible. He glared in Starscream's direction and positioned his tiny guns over his shoulders. Before Sari could stop him, there was a burst of light. Sari screamed and jumped backwards. Starscream was too far away for Blitzwing to harm him, but the trash that littered the floor was successfully ignited by the short jets of flame that shot out from Blitzwing's twin tank barrels.

Putting Bumblebee down next to Swindle, Sari ran and snatched one of the fire extinguishers from the wall and quickly dowsed the fire before it could get out of control. Optimus slowly walked over and helped by squirting solution from his built-in extinguishers. When the blaze was completely out, Sari placed the extinguisher down and turned an angry face towards Blitzwing. His face turned back to Icy.

"Satisfied?" she said, crossing her arms over her chest.

Blitzwing cowered and whimpered a little. He moved his guns into firing position again and shot out a stream of ice that covered and froze the area that had moments before been aflame.

"I think it's a little late for that. You should have done it when the trash was still on fire!" said Sari. She walked over and grabbed Blitzwing by his arm and pulled him along with her, the little triple changer protesting and struggling all the way. She continued to pull him until she reached the beanbag chair, where she picked him up and set him down in it. Blitzwing was on the verge of breaking out in tears as he watched what Sari was going to do next.

"You stay here and behave yourself, if that's anyways possible." Sari pointed her finger at him. "And I don't want to see you setting anything else on fire. If you do, you're gonna regret it. Do you understand?"

Blitzwing nodded his head frantically, more than glad that she didn't spank him. Blitzwing buried himself deeper in the oversized beanbag and placed one of his thumbs in his mouth while he watched the girl make her way to the chaos that was still going on in the other part of the room.

"Starscream!" Sari called once she was standing in the midst of the trash again. The small jet robot peeked out from behind some of the machinery and slowly inched his way to Sari's side. Without saying a word, she grabbed him by the arm as well and pulled him over to a corner of the room. There she pushed him face first into the corner and told him to stay there until he learned to behave.

Sari sighed yet again as she picked Bumblebee up and carried him with her. She stopped and watched the other sparklings play in the floor. They had calmed down a little bit and occupied themselves with whatever was around them.

"Mind if I join your little party? You know I just love sparklings."

Sari almost dropped Bumblebee while she spun around at hearing the familiar voice. Her eyes nervously dotted around the room for a few minutes before locking themselves on the gigantic black and purple spider that peered in through one of the shattered windows. Not giving Sari a chance to answer, it wriggled through the open window and crawled down the wall before transforming into a tall, slim female robot. She put one hand on her hip and gazed around at her surroundings. All four of her red optics blinked curiously as if taking in everything with fascination. Sari wasn't sure if she wanted to know what was going on inside the female Decepticon's head.

"Charming place you have here." the female 'Con commented at last. "But if I were you, I'd have those windows fixed. You never know when someone might want to crawl in."

"W—what are you doing here?" Sari asked, clutching Bumblebee closer to her. Blackarachnia smiled at the girl's question, her upper lip revealing perfect white fangs. "And how did you know about the sparklings?"

"Well, to answer your first question: I thought I might be able to help out. As for your second question: I saw everything happen." Blackarachnia walked over and picked up Optimus Prime and placed him up to her face to nuzzle him.

"You saw everything happen??"

"I didn't plan on it," Blackarachnia replied, running one of her fingers over Optimus's belly in a tickling way. She smiled at his giggling. "It just sort of happened that way. I was standing on a rooftop not too far from the warehouse."

"Then you must know how they managed to get turned into sparklings!"

"I might know."

"You've got to tell me so I can get them back to normal!"

"What's in it for me?"

"Why should you get anything in return? This is a crisis! You should want to help them for nothing." Sari tilted her head and peered at the woman bot standing in front of her. "I know there's good still in you somewhere. Why won't you let it come out?"

Blackarachnia remained silent and stared, still holding the sparkling Optimus in her hand. She sighed to herself before turning to face Sari.

"I think he's even cuter as a sparkling." Blackarachnia smiled, holding Optimus up for Sari to see. Optimus giggled and cooed at feeling Blackarachnia's gentle touch as she ran her fingers over his helm and massaged his aerials. "So how about it, sister?—do I get to help out or not? It's my final offer. Let this one slip by and you're on your own."

Sari remained staring at the half organic, half robot creature in front of her while thinking over the offer. She really needed the help if she was ever going to get everyone back to normal. But Blackarachnia was a Decepticon! Could she be trusted? Even though she had a good streak that showed itself occasionally, she was still unpredictable and cunning. Still…

"Alright, you can help out. But you'd better not turn on us."

"Oh, don't worry about that." Blackarachnia waved the warning off before turning to the sparklings. "The first thing we need to do is clean up this place. What happened in here?—did a trash bot explode?"

Sari walked over to stand beside the female bot. "In a manner of speaking, yeah it did. That one did." She pointed to Wreck-Gar.

"Figures," Blackarachnia replied. The room, by this time, was silent. All of the sparklings stood still and looked up at the female bot as if they had never seen such a creature before. They continued to watch as she bent down and started picking up the garbage. Sari put Bumblebee down and started helping her.

"How did you find this place?" Sari asked.

"I followed a blue car—" Blackarachnia answered, "the same one that saved the sparklings."

"So you know who it is?"

"Haha—no, I don't." Blackarachnia smiled. "I followed it here, watched it drop off the sparklings, and take off just as you came out of the front door. Since you were here alone, I figured you would need someone to look after the place if trouble showed itself. So I settled myself on the top of your roof."

Sari looked up at the female bot. "Thanks," she softly said.

"Don't mention it."

Blackarachnia suddenly stopped in the middle of picking up a piece of trash and gasped. Sari wondered why and looked up to see what had caught the female's eyes. She saw Megatron standing right in front of them, innocently watching.

"What's wrong?" Sari asked.

"Nothing," Blackarachnia cleared her throat. "I didn't realize he got turned into a sparkling too. How ironic."

Not another word was said as Sari and Blackarachnia finished clearing the room of the filth that Wreck-Gar had so kindly decorated it with. The female 'Con transformed into her spider form and allowed the sparklings to climb onto her back for a ride. Sari watched—Bumblebee still clutched tightly in her arms. Bumblebee pointed to the spider and made a squeak sound as if telling Sari he wanted to join the others. Reluctantly, Sari placed him on the floor and watched him make his way to Blackarachnia. Since the sparklings were occupied for the time being and she wasn't needed, Sari decided that she would take this time to rest and grab something to eat since she hadn't eaten all morning. For the first time since she woke up she felt hungry.

Later that same day, Sari returned to the common room after resting, eating lunch, and taking a quick shower to wash the stench of Wreck-Gar's garbage off her. When she entered the room, she was met with a napping Blackarachnia who was still in spider form. She lay in the middle of the room, legs curled up under her and all of the sparklings nestled next to her huge arachnid body. Sari smiled. Maybe she hadn't made a bad choice after all. As much as she hated to, she was going to have to wake everyone up. It was time she got some answers as to who turned the robots into sparklings.