Alexis's Sparkmate 20

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, they are owned by Hasbro.  Aires, Orion, Taurus, and Lyra are tlcoopi7’s creations.  Moonraiser is my little creation.  No slash here.  This is strictly a fan fic.  no flames or harsh comments.  Constructive criticism welcome.  Enjoy!

(10 years after Alexis and Starscream met)

Starscream sat there, watching his little princess play energon tea party with her seeker doll Samkalia, which was a present that she had received from Sam and Mikalia on Lyra’s last creation celebration day.  Little Lyra had just turned four earth years old.  Her triplet brothers were nine.  Since they were old enough to study, the boys were sent off to follow different Autobots as well as former Decepticons to learn all kinds of skills.  A school had yet to be built, and so the Autobots improvised as the triplets were the oldest sparklings since the war had ended.  But since little Lyra was not old enough for school, she stayed at home with her daddy, Starscream.

Alexis was not able to stay home as she had a job to do in the sparkling nursery because the number of sparklings grew as transformers stopped fighting and had started pairing up and creating new sparklings.  Alexis had her hands full as she was chasing little Moonraiser, the first born sparkling of Optimus and Elita-1, around the nursery, who was quite the little twerp.

And so Starscream was left watching little Lyra.  Starscream absolutely adored his daughter.  Although Starscream was originally saddened that they would be unable to have any more sparklings, he quickly realized that it was for the best.  They had enough trouble just trying to work with the triplets who, as they had grown older, had become even more different in their personalities, if that was possible.  

Aires, always being the responsible one, was extremely protective of his younger sister, and made sure that nothing ever happened to her.  Aires was studying with Ratchet and Red Alert, and when he was not busy fixing and tinkering with things, he was playing with his younger sister Lyra, usually her favorite game – energon tea party.  Aires even put up with the strawberry flavored energon while playing with his younger sister.  

Orion, the middle triplet, was studying hard with Jetfire, a bot that Orion looked up to immensely; in fact the only bot that Orion looked up to more than Jetfire was his dad, Starscream.  When Orion was not practicing his aerial acrobatics or training, there was nothing Orion loved better than to prank some of the other bots.  Thanks to Sunny, Orion became one of the best pranksters at the base, even fooling the older twins who taught him how to prank in the first place.  While Orion was protective of his sister, Lyra, he was not as found of playing with her.  Every time she asked to play energon tea party, he would turn her down.  While Lyra did not like to be turned down, she left Orion alone, as she did not want him to pull a prank on her.  Besides, dad and Aires were always willing to play energon tea party with her.

Taurus, the most obnoxious of the three, was training hard with his uncles Thundercracker and Skywarp, as they had the experience of being the best seekers in the universe.  When Alexis did not have to work in the nursery and could watch little Lyra, Starscream did his best to teach the youngest triplet how to be a seeker commander.  Unfortunately for screamer, Taurus had inherited his father’s stubbornness and his attitude.  Starscream had a difficult time getting through to Taurus at times, but Starscream was patient, as he knew it was only a matter of time before Taurus would return to what they were working on.  And Taurus, while he loved his little sister, he was not really into playing energon tea party with her.  He would protect her from harm, but Taurus felt that his duty to his sister stopped there.  Besides, since Aries usually was around, Taurus was usually off the hook.

Starscream continued to watch as Lyra practiced pouring the “tea” in each cup in front of her guests.  First Samkaila, then her daddy, and finally herself, as she knew a good host always serves herself last.  Starscream pretended to sip the pink, “watered-down” fluid.  It was sparkling approved energon, what could he say.  He was used to much stronger stuff, but then he was having “energon tea” with a sparkling, his little princess.  Starscream could not get over the fact how much Lyra resembled her mother.  In fact, Starscream remembered, it was Alexis who had first introduced the game ‘energon tea party” to Lyra after a time when Lyra would not take in her energon.  Since then, while Lyra started her own energon, she loved the game so much that she continued it.

After having enjoyed playing the game for an hour, the little sparkling grew tired.  Starscream watched as Lyra fell into recharge in her little chair.  After she fell asleep, Starscream carried her to her birth.  Starscream could not have been happier, he had the best family in the universe.