[Location: Decepticon War Ship]
Knockout was in the medical bay of the ship, looking over the schematics of the newest Autobot, Elita. Megatron had ordered them to figure out who she was, and in turn where she came from. So in the following week since the defense of the space bridge the Decepticon medic was still as confused as day one. Even Soundwave found nothing on the mysterious Autobot.
The red car-alt Decepticon liked her style. Both in paint 'n body as well as her marksmanship. After seeing her weapon of choice in action, he put two and two together about the large piece of target metal with the single, well placed dent in the center. Fixing the damage she had done to Megatron's helmet gave him an up close view of her handy work, too. She was probably the Autobot who had come the closest to finishing off Megatron, right behind Optimus of course.
The computer beeping drew his attention back to the issue at hand. Knockout was running a configuration program to figure out her vehicular mode based on her robotic structure. When no earth based vehicle came up, he did have a rather extensive image collection of cars for his personal enjoyment, he ran known Cybertronian alternative modes. That scan was now showing inconclusive.
Giving a thoughtful frown, he settled back in his stance. "Who exactly are you, Elita?"
[Location: Autobot Base]
The Autobots were recovering after a small skirmish with some Decepticon drones in a smaller energon mine, but had succeeded in securing it for their own. With the kids back at base, Agent Fowler on hand that night with them, all the Autobots had managed to mine what little energon was available which tripled their stockpile.
Bulkhead was setting the last few crates that they had piled up in Optimus' trailer in the storage area with while the rest organized it into straighter piles. Elita was taking inventory when she paused, her hands resting on a crate's edge as she waited out the pain. Arcee, who was next to her, stopped to check on her friend.
"E? Are you alright?" the smaller motorcycle asked.
Smiling it off, Elita straightened. "Just got stuck in a thought."
"Wanna go ride it out?"
The trike kept her smile the best she could. "Nah. Gotta try to get that new computer system in tonight.
"Well, if you change your mind let me know." The blue fem-bot smiled at her friend as they walked out of the room. "I'll try to talk Optimus and Ratchet into letting you patrol with me tonight."
Elita smiled, nodding. "Sounds good."
Elita did not feel up to going out, nor working on the computer system. There was a terrible pressure in her torso now. Her still very human mind told her it was alright to try to sleep it off, like when she'd go through her womanly cycle, but it was hard to get her body to actually go into its recharge state.
Rolling to her side, her legs curled up a bit, Elita opened her eyes at the odd feeling that ran over her arms that were crossed over the pressure. Looking down, she sat up as quickly as she could. Glowing blue liquid energon was leaking from between her torso plating, panic crossing her face as she looked at it as it covered her hands. Stumbling to her feet, Elita slowly made her way out of her room, using one hand on the hallway walls to support her as the other held her torso.
It was painfully slow, but she managed the distance to the opening of the hallway, leaving a glowing trail of energon on the floor and wall, having used one of her hands to support herself on the wall. Lifting her head up as she came to the opening, she spotted Ratchet at his console, speaking with Optimus about something.
"Ratchet…" she squeaked, making both bots turn and their eyes going wide. She stumbled a few more steps into the room before falling to her knees as they rushed to her side. Looking up at them, she winced in pain before her eyes dimmed, her arms dropped to her sides, and the lower part of her torso chasse split open, made up of three hinged parts with one moving up and two to the side, with a rush of the liquid energon spilling to the floor, a mass falling with it. Optimus and Ratchet shared a look before they focused down at the human female form that was lying in a pool of energon, with a large red Autobot symbol that covered her whole back.
"By the All Spark," Ratchet mumbled, his scanner running over both the robotic body and the human one that fell out. "The two life signals have completely synchronized." He looked up at the Autobot leader. "Optimus, they both have the same component make-up in their structures."
[Author's Note]
I DO NOT OWN TRANSFORMERS PRIME NOR ANY CHARACTER IN THE SHOW.
Yes, I know it's another short chapter, but got to the point I intended. Don't fret. More to come! Thanks for reading!
