[That was the start of a series of events that lead up to where I am now. But before you ask, you all have not reached the point in my story where you get to meet me once and for all. Let's continue, shall we?]
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As the two medics were working in silence, Optimus Prime walked into the room with a single data pad for Ratchet to read. As the two mechs were speaking, Nicole overheard about the two murders of civilians from two different locations. She paled a little, 'If it was..' she didn't finish her thought as the two stopped talking with each other, and Optimus left the Med bay.
[I don't really remember the rest of that day at the base, but I do remember what happened when Nicole got back to her home...]
When Nicole reached her home, she thanked Ratchet for dropping her off. She watched as Ratchet drove away, heading back to base. Knowing that he would be back in the morning to pick her up. She made her way into her home, and locked the door behind her and shut the blinds on the windows. Then she walked over to was her laptop was resting on the table and opened it up. 'I'll have to do this quickly...' She thought to herself, as she opened Google Chrome. First she opened up three tabs, one she sat up , the other two were to and . Then she when back to the Google tab, and looked up the recent murders. She stared at the pictures of the two murdered men, right then she knew; they were coming, coming for them. She quickly closed that tab, and deleted it from the history. Nicole made sure that there was no way anyone could trace what she just did, and closed here laptop as she made her way up the stairs into her bedroom to get some sleep.
[The murdered men were great soldiers. They worked with them, and helped them through many things. Too bad that they were killed; I heard they got a good life going for themselves. Both married and had children of their own. And don't worry about them; you'll learn who they are soon enough.]
Days went by since Nicole overheard about the murders. So far there hadn't been any other murders reported, but that meant nothing. Nicole debated with herself on whether or not she should tell the others about them, or if she should hunt them down herself. Right before she could decide, Optimus called a meeting about the murders.
"There has been no recent Decepticon activity lately, but the murders," Here Optimus used his eyes to project the two images of the dead men, so that everyone could see. "traces of energon were found on their dead bodies." "Meaning?" One of the stupid soldiers on base asked. "Meaning that the Decepticons have been busy." Optimus finished his sentence as he looked around at everyone in the large room. Nicole was internally fighting with herself at this point, but then Ratchet spoke up. "If the Decepticons killed them, that means they had something that the Decepticons wanted." "True, so we did a background check on the two men. They have nothing in common, I mean nothing. Two different jobs, on the other side of the globe from each other, and they never left their home towns for anything." Now everyone was confused, not counting Nicole. "If they had nothing in common with each other and had never met, then why were they killed?" "So far, we are not sure. But the two of them both was killed the same way and also both were tongue-less." There were a lot of 'ew's coming for around the room. "Tortured?" "It was done before they died, and done the same exact way. One wound to the heart, but it didn't kill them all the way. And we are lead to believe that the men cut their tongues themselves and that's why they were left for dead." Now many of the humans in the room, looked like they were bout to puke. "What could be so important, that they would cut their own tongues off?" Optimus sighed, and said, "That's what we don't know. And we've got to learn it soon."
[Nicole lasted a few more days then you would think she would. But she finally started cracking at the pressure. What she didn't know then was that, the longer the wait, the worst the outcome would be.]
More days pasted as the Autobots and their human friends tried to learn what the 'Cons were up to. In the Med bay, Nicole was at her desk again, only this time she had climbed the latter up. For the past few days, Ratchet had been working on what they had learned so far. Which was nothing. So far the only thing he could do at the moment was bounce ideas off Nicole and hope something would make sense. But she had stopped even doing that with Ratchet, because the secret had been eating her alive. And Ratchet was starting to notice it too.
"Nicole? Are you alright?" She dropped her head into her hands and sighed at the old medic. Ratchet moved over from his desk over to the platform where her desk laid."Nicole?" He asked once more, out of worry for the female human medic. At the moment, Nicole was decided on whether or not she should tell. Finally, she gave in. "Ratchet…there's something you should know…" She started off.
[They called a meeting right after that, I'm afraid that the Autobots never really did regain their trust in Nicole completely. Not for a long time. Till the day she almost killed herself with guilt…]
