It was zero five hundred hours pacific time within the western U.S. state of Nevada, one hour before sunrise. At this time, a mech by the designation of Paradox, was going through his earlier solar cycle routine within the Decepticon warship, The Nemesis. Like the Decepticon C.S.O (Chief Scientific Officer) Shockwave, Paradox was a scientist, specializing in two specific fields of study. Psychology and palaeontology. Now while Shockwave had his own lab created for him outside of the Nemesis, Paradox himself was not gifted with such luxuries. Instead, the scientist had his personal quarters rebuilt into a small but efficient unit for his studies. He rarely used his quarters anyways, even for recharge.
Green optics blinked slowly in a relaxed manner as the mech they belonged to looked over the observational data made the night before. Paradox hummed in thought as he took a small sip of energon from his morning rations, a clawed digit slowly scrolling through the transcribed reports complied on his personal data pad. Perched comfortably upon a metal stool in front of his makeshift desk/lab bench. However, he was soon interrupted from his musings by the soft clicks and chitters of an awakening new spark.
Placing the data pad safely upon the makeshift desk, the mech slowly got up from his seat before quietly making his way over to the incubation pod on the far side of the room. He came to a halt a few inches in front of the incubator before peering down through the pod’s glass hatch to the tiny new spark within. The sparkling inside was a Predacon clone given to him by Shockwave to study and observe. The tiny mech was about a stellar cycle old (the Cybertronian equivalent of a year) at this point, bright, alert, and full of energy, just like any other sparkling within his stage of development. Paradox quietly opened the pod’s glass hatch, allowing the warm air within the incubator to escape as he reached inside. Clawed servos gently picked the tiny sparkling up, carefully cradling him against his chest plate with one arm as he used the other to close the pod’s hatch, checking his chronometer to confirm that it was indeed time for the sparkling’s morning energon. The mech wanted to take the young Predacon out onto the Nemesis’ landing strip to eat so he could observe his behaviour within a different environment outside of the normal lab setup. Picking up a cube of diluted energon he prepared the night before, the scientist slowly began to make his way towards the landing strip, sleep dazed sparkling in one servo and a cube of diluted energon in the other.