Drabble - Prowl/Smokescreen/Children
Prowl watched the parade of unruly sparklings go by with a tinge of distaste. “Why would a mech ever decide to create sparklings?” Prowl wondered aloud once the sparklings’ harried caretaker had vanished around the corner after his gaggle.
Smokescreen shrugged, “Perhaps it fulfills a need to take care of a helpless being and see it become an adult? I am not entirely sure myself, but there are different types of benefits to creating a mech as a sparkling and beginning as a preprogrammed mech. We are, after all, largely self-sufficient from the beginning.”
“But what benefits do sparklings have?”
Master Archive - November 2010 Archive - 100 Drabbles - Prompt Table
Smokescreen shrugged, “Perhaps it fulfills a need to take care of a helpless being and see it become an adult? I am not entirely sure myself, but there are different types of benefits to creating a mech as a sparkling and beginning as a preprogrammed mech. We are, after all, largely self-sufficient from the beginning.”
“But what benefits do sparklings have?”
Master Archive - November 2010 Archive - 100 Drabbles - Prompt Table