Ironhide was on the floor, but he wasn't regular Ironhide. He was a sparkling. He still looked like himself, but smaller, no weapons. His cannons laid on the floor on each side of him, his plasma cannon on the left, his missile cannon on the right.

"IRONHIDE! WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" Came Will's very angry voice.

"Uh, Will--" Epps started.

"Jack.. what the hell did you do?!" Sideswipe snapped.

"I... I don't know! It must've malfunctioned!" Wheeljack stated.

"'Must've'?! Ironhide is a fragging sparkling!" Jolt yelped.

Bee was walking by and he saw little sparkling Ironhide. He froze in his tracks, and did a double-take. "Is that... is that Ironhide?" The scout asked.

"Touch him and find out." Fig replied. Hound put his finger near Ironhide, and Ironhide bit him. Hard.

"OW! GET HIM OFF ME! GET HIM OFF! BAD SPARKLING! BAD IRONHIDE! GET OFF!" Hound yelped. Optimus tried and tried, but Ironhide wouldn't let go. The young sparkling was growling, and gave Hound his still famous death glare.

"Wheeljack, I needed that! We needed that! You turned my weapons specialist into a sparkling!" Optimus yelled. Wheeljack flinched a little, and looked downfallen. He just walked off to his lab, trying to figure out what had happened. He made sure the ray was powered off, so he had no clue.

"Optimus, who the fuck is that?" Will asked, pointing to Ironhide, who was still biting Hound.

"Ironhide." Ratchet replied, calmly. Optimus was at a loss for words. He knew he was harsh on Wheeljack, he hadn't meant to be.

"What happened to him?" Will asked.

"Wheeljack being a fucking idiot. He built some new shrink ray, and suggested we use it on the Cons. But then, bam! He shot Ironhide with the ray, and instead of 'shrink mode', he used 'sparkling mode'. Talk about a useless pile of scrap." A new bot by the name of Starfire, snarled.

"Hey! You fucking listen! Wheeljack made a mistake, it's not the end of the god damn world! If you have nothing nice to say about MY bondmate, either shut up, or I'll shut you up! He's not useless, he's not a pile of scrap, if anyone is, it's you, Starfire!" Ratchet snapped. He was protective of his bonded. 

Just as the two were about to get into a huge fight, Bee quickly stopped them. "Uhh, guys?" He stated.

"What?!" Starfire snapped.

"Ironhide's yelling at Hound. Any idea why?" Crosshairs asked. Ironhide was spouting angry gibberish in Cybertronian, he couldn't even pronounce any words. It was both hilarious and terrifying. Ironhide was a sparkling, and he was quite small, so he could fit into places other bots couldn't.

Hound couldn't help but run behind Optimus. "Tell him to stop." He whined.

"Ironhide, I understand you're angry, but yelling at Hound won't solve anything." Optimus murmured. Crosshairs bent down and picked up Ironhide. 

"Hey, now you look kinda cute. Not so terrifying without your cannons, aren't you?" He chuckled.

"Uh... Cross? Don't provoke him--"

"OW! YOU PIT-SPAWNED SLAGGER!"

"My warning came too late." Sideswipe sighed.

Ironhide was biting Crosshairs in the face. He growled, refusing to let go, same thing as he did with Hound.

"Prime! Make him stop!" Crosshairs yelled. Optimus sighed, he hoped Wheeljack could fix this.