#nauticam

“Sorry son, you know I love you right?”

Undex only looked down and puffed out his cheeks. “You always say that….and then you always leave…” Undex tries his best not to tear up. Rodimus bents down on one knee and sighs “Sorry Undex but I have responsibilities of the shi to take care of. Even if I’m co captain now…” Rodimus whispered the last part a bit begrudgingly.

“Yeah I know…” Undex whispered, he really wanted to hang out with his dad today, it had been way to long. “Nope. None of that now!” With that Rodimus swiftly picked Undex up and kissed him continuously on his cheek, something he knew Undex hated of course.

“EW! EW! STOP! I’M GONNA GET DAD GERMS!” Undex chuckled while tiny servos playfully swatted his Sires face plating. “Then now pouting! You creator should be back in an hour.” Rodimus gently plopped Undex down and rubbed his helm. “Promise me you’ll be good okay.”

Undex makes a small smile back “I promise!” And with that his dad was gone. Undex sighed and walked around the habsuite, it was littered with his toys and creators things. “Well I should at least try and put these up…” hem mumbled to himself. Undex picked up the data pads and went to his parents closet, while on his quest to actually tidy up for once he manger to find an old unfamiliar data pad in the box. It didn’t take long for Undex’s Sparkling curiosity to get the best of him. Plus he was bored.

So very bored.

Undex blew dust off the old data and smiled, maybe he could find some cool videos of his dad on here! As Undex scrolled through the data pad he noticed what looked like a younger version of his sire, but he looked way different. Maybe he had to grow into his looks later?

There were several pictures of Rodimus with a bunch of unfamiliar bots and what looked to be humans! But what stood out the most seem to be one reoccurring bot next to him, usually smiling or shout at him about something. Regardless what it was sire seemed glad that he was around, then he scrolled to the very last picture with the two. It showed him and the bot side hugging as the person behind took the picture, underneath it scribbled:

“If you ever want to hear from me or my old stories again make a call kid.” Sincerely “cup?”

The name was glitching a bit, but that’s what it looked like at least. Undex stared at the com line number for a bit, this bot had good stories? Using his com line was a big “no no” for Undex at his age, but talking to strangers was twice as bad.

“Well…if dad had so many pictures of him, he couldn’t be a complete stranger…right?”

Undex pondered to himself as he stared at the the numbers. “Screw it.” He was dialing this mech he needed answers and possibly entertainment. Undex waited as the dial up noises began, he wasn’t even sure if this line would still even work-

:….Hello? Hello? Who is this?:

An old bot answered, he actually answered it!

:Is this you kid? You there?:

Well there’s no turning back now!

: "H-Hi.. I read a datapad that said you tell stories... can I have one?": he spouted in a innocent and child like tone.

:I mean…yah but who's this? This is hotrods private line..?":

Undex squinted a bit at those words, who was hot rod?

:"I'm undex, hotrod? Sires name is Rodimus…did you mix up your bots? You must must have spelled your his name wrong":

The other line was silent for quite some time before the old mech answered again. : “....Yah it's rodimus….my apologies.“: Undex smiled, so he did remember his Sire.

:“Anyways- you spell your name with a “k” not a “c” that’s weird.”:

:“ Yep that’s the weird thing about this conversation…and kid, you're name means underwater explosion... you're Sires not the brightest"

Undex groaned :” Oh yeah at least my name sounds cool! Besides my Sire and creator made my name!”:

Kups sigh could be heard across the com line. : ".....why am I arguing with a toddler":

Undex grumbled again :”stupid”:

Kup :“tiny”:

Undex :”old”:

Kup :“baby“:

Undex :“ugly”:

Kup :“Short!”:

Undex gave an exaggerated gasp, how did know?! :”Undex just goes “Yeah! You sound old, how do you know my dad anyways?”:

:”Well that’s because I’m his adoptive Sire-“:

:”WHAT!”: Undex jumps from his seating position out of shock.

:”whoops…”: Kup honestly wasn’t ready for today. First he got a call from Hot Rod which he hadn’t heard from in years, now he’s talking to a Sparkling who didn’t even sound to be 10 vorns. knew from the moment Undex corrected him that this was Rodimus’s kid. Dear primus….

:”Listen kid…”:

:”…. I have a grandsire?”: Undex whispered.

:"Yeah….you do”:

Undex face slowly lite up with joy :”I HAVE A GRANDSIRE! I HAVE A GRANDSIRE!”: Undex cheered jumping up and down.

Kup chuckled to himself :”Yep I’m your grandsire, I’m surprised Rodimus didn’t tell ya earlier.”:

This boring day just got ten times better, Undex always wanted more family members and now he has a grandsire! :”I have so many question-“:

“Undex sweetie! Where are you? Aaaww did you try and tidy up.~”

Uh oh that was definitely his creator, he had to go. NOW.

:”Um my creator just cam back, I have to go now….but can we talk again soon grandsire? I still wanna hear some of your stories.”: Undex asked ever so innocently.

Kup chuckled once more :” Don’t worry Undex I’ll make sure to tell plenty of stories to you. Now go to your creator, she’s probably worried sick.”:

Undex smiled :”Okay see you later grandsire!”: Undex then ended the com line and hid the datapad. He couldn’t wait to talk to his grandsire again.

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It had been a whole week since Undex heard from Kup. He had started to get worried, he’d didn’t tell his parents about this but did they figure it out already?

Undex was walking down the hallway dialing the number again. This was his fifth time already.

Please pick up. Please!

:”Hello?”:

“Hello kid.”

Undex jumped and turned around at the raspy yet familiar voice. His optics widen out of pure joy.

“…So your my Grandson huh, I knew you’d be tiny but-“

Normal Undex would be angry at comments on his height, but he was to overjoyed to care. “GRANDSIRE! GRANDSIRE!” Undex cheered as he went to hug his ped.

Kup just scoops him up, and ruffles his helm a bit. " I told you I’d get back to ya didn’t I. It's nice to meet you, lad.. I'm Kup.."

Undex lifted his head Undex: “”K-U-P” right? That’s still weird!” he then let’s out a laugh.