Ok.... changing their father/daughter relationship would be weird... sooo I'm changing the pairing a bit XD

... and sorry for the wait

Chapter 4 – Welcome to the Autobots.

By the time the mechs had gotten outside, Phoenix had successfully... flown off in panic.

"Wheeljack what is the meaning of this?" Optimus asked with a slight irritation in his calm commanding voice.

"Uhh... well you see, I'd show you but the thing I wanted to show you kinda isn't here anymore," Wheeljack mumbled embarrassedly.

"Flew away?" Ratchet asked offhandedly, a small smirk on his face.

"Uh-huh," Jazz smirked leaning against the rock she'd took off from. "Blue ere was sayin how excited you'd all get an well, bye-bye birdy!" he chuckled making the hand movements to go with his speech.

"Blue!" Wheeljack growled as he face palmed

"W-what?! I was just warning her I mean it's better if I do that than let her be terrified of em!" he cried indignantly

"Where would she of gone to?" Perceptor asked, walking forward slightly in front of the baffled group of mechs.

"You know what he wants to share?" Optimus asked curiously, a brief nod was his response

"I don't know! She's never been outside without me and I only brought her this far!" Wheeljack practically whimpered, filled with worry.

"Maybe taking things this fast wasn't such a good idea," Blue mumbled then a loud bleep caught their attention, Optimus ran inside to Teletraan one and growled

-We have Cons heading our way!- he sent through the comm links. Wheeljack gasped in horror and looked to the skies, hoping to spot some kind of glint from her armour anything!

"We can't leave her out here!" Wheeljack yelled frantically

"'Jack she can fend for herself, trust me" Ratchet sighed "we need to get everything ready," he hurried, helping Jazz and Blue drag the frantic scientist inside.

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"Have you seen her yet?!" Wheeljack yelled above the roars of battle, gun shots and photon charges shot over his head as he ducked, narrowly missing being hit.

"Not that I can tell!" Ratchet replied strained, trying to push Skywarp away from him.

"Fraggit!" Wheeljack exclaimed then turned around, coming face to face with Starscream, who smirked evilly before aiming his null ray at the scientists face.

All of a sudden, a loud shriek was head, all heads turned towards the sky as a glint of red flew through the clouds.

"Oh thank primus," Wheeljack muttered in relief, then his optics widened to double their normal size as she flew up, did a backflip and spun around in mid air, then nosedived, pulling her wings in tightly against her body as she dove.

"What the slag?" Megatron growled as he watched the large bird go into a spiral motion, open her large wings and slam right into Starscream. "..... Nice shot..." he mumbled.

Starscream went flying as her large bird like form rammed into him, her drill like beak piercing his stomach armour as she flew, but she too tumbled along with him and ended up breaking a wing joint as she tumbled. A sharp trill of pain caught Wheeljack's attention as Starscream held his wound and slammed his foot down on the injured wing joint

"What is this?!" Starscream snarled as she hissed at him with angered optics.

"I'll give you... three to... get off," she snarled

"A femme?!" Starscream hissed as he pressed his foot harder, earning another squawk of pain from the injured femme.

"Get off, Starscream," Wheeljack warned, anger practically radiating from his body.

"... That's the thing isn't it?" Prowl asked Jazz, who nodded with an expression of pure livid fury directed at Starscream; the entire fight had stopped to stare at the bird who'd just flown from the heavens to save the Autobot mad scientist. Bluestreak also wore a similar expression of anger.

"One........ Two...." Phoenix hissed then groaned in pain "THREE!" she snarled and transformed, her wing pulling out from under Starscream's foot, tripping him over as her transformation sequence began in front of everyone's optics.

".... A FEMME!?" Optimus AND Megatron cried in unison as her 'heel' came down and slammed into the wound on Starscream's stomach, a sharp cry of pain shooting from his vocalizers as the feathered armour on her lower arms began to move and glow at the tips while her optics swirled with fury. Starscream gulped and pushed her foot off his stomach long enough for him to roll over, transform and fly off.

Phoenix stared at the sky angrily before craning her head to the side to view her broken wing joint, then looking at the gawking mechs around her she gulped, instantly becoming nervous again.

"Decepticons, Retreat for now!" Megatron called then ran off along with his soldiers.

"Wheeljack..." Optimus said as he placed a hand on the scientists shoulder

"Yeah Optimus?" Wheeljack asked as Phoenix decided to hide behind a rock out of pure shyness. Jazz and Bluestreak ran over to try and get her to come out again.

"We need to talk," he frowned

"To cover the questions before asked: no i do not know how I made her, she came from a few spare parts in the lab, the body idea came from a picture of a Phoenix on the internet and her name is Phoenix." He replied dryly before roaming over to the frightened femme and lifted her arm gently to show he wasn't mad then slowly pulled her out from behind the rock, instantly she hid behind him instead. "It's ok, nobody's gonna hurt you, i doubt they could anyway but still nobody's gonna hurt you," Wheeljack spoke soothingly to the softly chirping femme.

"Who else knew of this?" Optimus asked and slowly Ratchet and Perceptor walked over to Phoenix and stood in front of Wheeljack.

"We helped make her bigger," Ratchet shrugged

"She was just a sparkling when Wheeljack made her... her processors still have that sparkling touch to them, so naturally she tried to protect her creator, and in this special case, that defence mechanism built into all Sparklings came in handy and she could actually be of assistance, unfortunately now we have to fix her wing," Perceptor continued for Ratchet before walking around Phoenix and offering a goodie to calm her down, which worked effectively and she eagerly munched on it, chirping in appreciation.

"... Right, so what was that?" Sideswipe asked "how'd she learn how to fly like that?" he continued curiously

"...Flying is easy to pick up... if you have wings," Phoenix mumbled, obviously her speaking had improved on its own.

"Which would be extremely cool," Sideswipe winked then immediately earned a 'DOOM' glare from Wheeljack.

'Optimus, please talk to them about communication to a femme with the processor of a SPARKLING, I'd rather not find out she's been touched or talked to inappropriately.' Wheeljack pleaded through a privet comm. Link. Optimus smiled behind his battle mask and nodded.

"Autobots listen up!" Optimus ordered with SURPREME authority, gaining EVERYONES attention... yes even the Twins. Optimus then walked in front of Phoenix as if shielding her from the mechs in front of him. "Now if any of you soldiers think yourselves as special enough to go NEAR this femme in any other way than a friendly conversation you will find yourselves in the brig with your hands amputated by Ratchet until you learn your lesson. That means YOU TWO as well," Optimus pointedly turned to glare at the twins, whom winced and backed up slightly. "Phoenix is OFF LIMITS, to EVERYONE!" Optimus boomed, a dangerous edge to his usually gentle tone, which even had Phoenix herself flinching at. "DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!" Optimus boomed, all Autobots present immediately nodded

"Yes sir!" came the chorus of replies from each and every Autobot, save Wheeljack, Ratchet and Perceptor, all of which had already sworn to protect the femme.

"Ratchet," Optimus rumbled, turning to face the now at attention CMO

"Yes sir?" Ratchet questioned, standing forward.

"Take Phoenix and get her wing fixed up." He instructed, Ratchet nodded in response and coaxed Phoenix out of her hiding spot from behind Wheeljack then took her inside, to fix her broken wing joint.

"Wheeljack, you should have come to me about this immediately." Optimus sighed, turning to face the inventor, who nodded his head.

"I know it's just i wasn't sure how i would explain it... so i kept it to myself," Wheeljack replied sheepishly, kicking a small rock gently... well to him it was a small rock, to a human, BOULDER.

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"That was very irresponsible Phoenix," Ratchet sighed as he worked on the wing, Phoenix just started at him, kicking her legs gently to pass the time

"...What was?" she asked softly

"Showing yourself to the Cons like that, now they'll be after you," Ratchet explained, her optics flashing in fear at first before dying down to their normal fiery glow.

"Daddy... Daddy was in danger...." she mumbled lowering her head in apology, even Ratchet couldn't stay mad at her for that and pulled her into a comforting hug.

"I understand perfectly Phoenix but you must be more careful now more than ever, the Cons know you exist now... Megatron will stop at nothing to take you from us," Ratchet spoke softly as she twittered and cuddled against him, curling her legs up onto the berth.

"Sorry..." she mumbled into his chest armour as he sighed.

"Ratchet?" a soft voice came from the door, Ratchet looked up from his consoling of the femme to see Mirage... flashing in and out of visibility

"What's wrong with your Electro disrupter?" Ratchet asked, raising and optical ridge in confusion.

"Thrust got a lucky hit" Mirage grumbled before his optics came to rest on a very curious looking femme. "How's her wing?" he asked

"It'll be fine now. Sit," Ratchet instructed as the ex-elite sat down on one of the medical berths, "didn't know Thrust had such good aim," Ratchet grumbled as he assessed the damage to the spy's main weapon.

"Neither did i at first," Mirage chuckled as Phoenix's inquiring optics blinked a few times as he went in and out of visibility.

"... How's he doing that?" Phoenix asked softly, tilting her head to the side, her widened optics giving her a rather cute appearance.

"Mirage is a spy Phoenix, he has a weapon in his arsenal that allows him to bend photons around himself, allowing him to appear invisible, this is the thing that does it," Ratchet explained, tapping the broken piece of equipment on his shoulder softly, Phoenix responded with a few clicks and chirps as she leaned in to get a better look. Mirage just smiled and let her examine what was left of the equipment, his loss of his most treasured weapon seeming to not matter as he watched the birds curious observing.

"Quite the experiment this one isn't she," Mirage chuckled

"Not just an experiment," Ratchet mumbled "she's an Autobot... she was just made by Wheeljack," Ratchet chuckled

"My mistake, quite the Autobot then," Mirage corrected himself as she smiled and twittered before looking straight at the door where seconds after two front liners walked in, one had no paint on his left arm and the other had scratches and a few gashes in his leg and arm. Phoenix instantly recognised the red one who'd made the remark about her wings and clicked at him.

"Hey there!" Sides grinned and waved his good arm, Ratchet grumbled some incoherent curses and turned around

"What do you two Pit spawns want now?" Ratchet glared

".... Hatchet i think your optics are damaged, can't you SEE what those fraggin stunticons did to us?!" Sunstreaker raged, pointing to his scratched up armour.

"Yeah-yeah Cinderella i get it, now sit down and stay still and don't make a sound," Ratch growled pointing to a berth next to Phoenix, Sideswipe immediately jumped on it and looked at Phoenix

"Hiya, i'm Sideswipe this is Sunstreaker my twin brother," he smiled, pointing to a huffing Sunstreaker who was growling indignantly at Ratchets 'Cinderella' remark as he stomped over to his brothers side.

"P-Phoenix," She replied, staring up at the rather intimidating golden Autobot warrior in something akin to fear but not quite that.

"What?" he growled

"N-nothing," she squeaked and ducked her head

"Awh be nice bro, not her fault Wildrider decided to play chicken with you," Sideswipe sighed, petting his brothers arm, only to receive a glare which promised definite 'i'm gonna kick your ass if u don't stop' threats.

"Whatever," Sunstreaker grumbled; crossing his arms across his broad chest, Phoenix suddenly felt a new feeling! Curiously she looked down at herself and poked her chest.

"Ratchet?" Phoenix asked curiously and instantly the medics optics were on her

"What's wrong?" he asked

"I feel something.... strange," she mumbled, prodding her chest absentmindedly, Ratchet looked at Mirage who nodded his acceptance, basically telling Ratch that helping her instead of him was fine by him. Ratchet then walked over to Phoenix and scanned her, be blinked then scanned again then immediately face-palmed.

"You two, step away from the femme," Ratchet instructed and instantly Sideswipes head snapped up

"... Why we're not hurting her or trying to touch her," Sideswipe pouted

"Yeah but you're effecting her now back off," Ratchet grumbled, Sunstreaker slowly let a smirk grace his face as he turned his head to look down at Phoenix "....SWOOP!" Ratchet yelled and instantly the large Dinobot pterodactyl walked through from Ratchets office and looked down at Ratchet.

"What you Ratchet need?" Swoop asked curiously

"Separate them," Ratchet instructed and around 3 seconds later, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were on the other side of the room on a FAR away berth.

"Who is that?" Swoop asked curiously walking over to Phoenix, who looked up at him curiously then chirped.

"That would be technically you're little sister, Phoenix." Ratchet chuckled "Wheeljack created her just like he did with you and the other Dinobots," he smiled,

"Me Swoop have sister?" Swoop blinked before leaning down and locking optics with Phoenix "you Phoenix cute!" he smiled and hugged her, Phoenix chirped and happily huggled back.

"Her wing is fine now Swoop, why don't you take her to go see the other Dinobots, they've gone back to their fishing game," Ratchet chuckled as Swoop nodded

"Come Sister Phoenix... me Swoop take you to others!" he grinned and helped Phoenix off the table then out of the room as she cheerfully talked to the larger mech.

"... Sure that was wise?" Mirage asked curiously, watching the scene while the twin warriors pouted in the corner.

"Why wouldn't it be, they're family," Ratchet chuckled and continued on his work "plus that empties my med-bay a little," he smiled

"They could hurt her... i mean Grimlock's not exactly the gentle type now is he?" Mirage replied sceptically

"... This is true, but i'm sure Swoop won't let any harm come to her, now be silent and still and let me work in peace," Ratchet grumbled after making a privet comm. To Wheeljack telling him where Phoenix was.

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"You Grimlock!!" Swoop called as he flew over the group of Dinobots

"You Swoop want to come fishing?" Snarl asked curiously, looking up at the circling dinobot above.

"No me Swoop wants to show you something!" Swoop transformed, landing beside his fellow teammates

"What is it?" Grimlock asked, Swoop then ran back behind a rock and pulled Phoenix out from behind it

"We Dinobots have Sister!!" Swoop grinned as Phoenix chirped softly and hid behind Swoop, whom she'd quickly come to trust on their way outside.

"She no dinobot!" Grimlock grumbled

"She our sister, Phoenix" Swoop pouted, then nudged Phoenix to transform, which she did and squawked loudly, earning a brief nod from Grimlock

"Me Grimlock, king of Dinobots, accept you as Dinobot sister!" Grimlock declared as Phoenix's beak turned upwards in a smile.