Boti: On with Chapter Three! And yes, I survived! Whoo hoo!
Warning: Mention of battle with Decepticon. It won't be bad but I had to put the warning if it bothers people (like remembering wars and such).
Disclaimer: How many times do I have to mention to you copyright people? Me no owny Transformers. And me never willy!
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Chapter Three
Everyone ducked behind cover, Casey knelt beside me, and I was popping up every now and then, sending off a burst of bullets at the enemy. People fell in pain, dirt exploded into the air, and the heavy cover of smoke was choking everyone dumb enough to inhale. But it was war.
"Get down, dumb ass!" Casey pulled my arm as part of our cover exploded into shards. A piece of shrapnel hit my cheek and I flinched before wiping away the blood that ran down my cheek.
"Doesn't this thing have a weakness!" I yelled over the shouts and sharp pings of weapons hitting metal. Casey squealed in surprise as the ground beside us seemed to move.
"Casey," she looked at me as we spotted an ambush team with Arcee and her sisters. They were waiting for the Decepticon to look the other direction, or get distracted and Casey seemed to know my plan.
"Are you nuts?"
"Do you want to get home faster?"
Silence, comtemplation, before a nod, and agreement on our unspoken plan. I already knew Lennox was going to have my ass, but the faster we got this damn Decepticon down, the faster we got out of here.
"Okay, 3...2...1. Now!"
"HEY! DUMB DECEPTICON! OVER HERE!" we both jumped out from our hiding place, opposite from the ambush team. Our arms were waving wildly and insult after another escaped our lips. I could hear Lennox screaming at us but I ignored it as the Decepticon looked at us.
"Oh shit!" I pushed Casey quickly as a bullet grazed my leg. But I didn't stop as I jumped over my new cover, hiding from the disgruntled enemy. That's when I realized that I didn't just get grazed but hit. Still, it didn't really hurt...OW! Take that back, it hurts.
Cybertronian met my ears but so did a cry for help before silence. I peeked over my hiding spot and saw that my planned had worked. Except the injury. The Decepticon was down and dead, Arcee was circling it to make sure, and Lennox was giving me the look of murder.
"What the fuck was that? Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
I didn't move as Casey stared at me, wondering why I wasn't moving. Of course, her leg wasn't bleeding with a hole in it that felt like someone burning you. And it was known something was wrong when I moved my leg, a scream of bloody murder my reply for the pain.
"Hallie!" Casey was by me in a second, immediately looking at my injury. Lennox was staring at her fantic movements and only when her blood covered hands were seen did he actually move.
"You dumb ass!" he reprimanded me as he called for a medical team. I shook my head, laughing, until Casey decided to dig her fingers into my leg. My reaction was to try and rip her damn eyes our her sockets. And I would have if Lennox and Sergent Epps didn't hold down my arms.
"I fucking help with your ambush team and get reprimanded than forced to suffer pain! What the fuck kind of thank you is that? If I died then who gives a damn, at least there would only be one loss of life than 40, 50, or 100!" I ranted. Lennox didn't say anything but I could tell that he understood my reasoning. Until I dug my nails into his arm. Then he was ranting at me as Casey pulled the bullet out of my leg. It was from the Decepticon and it had a strange glint to it. Still, I didn't remember anything as my body started shaking before I fell unconscious on the ground.
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"You allowed her to do it? Are you fucking stupid?"
"Hey, she kept several others from dying! Don't yell at me! It was her idea and I didn't agree with it until she explained why!"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
Oh, my head hurt and my outburst sure wasn't helping anything. And I didn't understand why my leg felt numb and heavy. Then again, my whole body felt numb and heavy. What the hell was wrong with me?
"Hallie, how are you feeling girlfriend?"
"Like someone is stomping my head flat," I answered as my eyes slowly opened. Everything was dim for me to adjust to the light as I found myself looking at Casey. She looked...purple. And Lennox looked green. Dear god, I'm tripping on pain meds.
"Casey, what pain medicine did I get cause you look purple and Lennox looks green?" I giggled, poking her side. Casey started laughing, the relief easily heard, as she patted my hand. She felt extremely hot for some reason and I pulled my hand away, hissing.
"Damn, do you have a fever?"
"No, why?" Casey tilted her head toward me (we both had a tendency of doing that) and waited. I touched her again and yelped when the same burning sensation came back.
"Cause you feel like you're on fire."
"Well...um, Ratchet. You may want to explain it to her. You're the one who knew the after effects," Casey backed away from me like I was some sort of plague. I felt my eyes prick with tears as I looked at the medic. It took me a moment to realize that I was in the med bay on the rather large counter made for Ratchet's size. Prime was in the room with us but seeing that I was awake, had taken my friend (I hope she still is) and Lennox out of the room.
"Hallie," Ratchet immediately got my attention and I flinched when I felt his robot holoform touching my arm. He felt perfectly fine but his holoform had no body heat. So why did he feel warm?
"Hallie, that injury you sustained was covered in a Cybertronian poison. And after studying your body for a bit, it seems you're changing. And you've lost all body heat," Ratchet saw my eyes widen in panic as I just stared at him. I've lost all body heat?
"So I'm a god damn zombie? I'm dead but not dead?" I covered my mouth. Oh my god, I can't have any kids. And what about sex? I mean, I've never really had any good sex but...
"No, you're still alive. Just changing. The poison kills Cybertronians but apparently, it changes humans into...technological organics."
"Which means what? How does that change me?"
"To put it simple. You will have to come to me for your medical needs and you can't die unless you're killed in battle and such."
My heart pounded against my chest as I digested all he told me. I can't die, well, that ain't all that bad. But the idea of going to Ratchet for medical needs...
"Don't tell me that parts of me are mechanical?"
Silence.
"It's an ironic phrase. It really means that I want you to tell me."
Puff of air (I think a sigh of annoyance, don't know though) before answer.
"Yes. Your blood vessels are now tubing and your blood is energon at this point in time. I don't know how far the change will go. So, you are on military leave until changes are done. And no, the pain meds are causing your human friends to look like they are different colors. That's not part of the change," Ratchet explained. I heard him even more lowly say, "Stupid Earth phrases."
My eyes started to water and I closed them. Holy shit, this was all difficult to understand. I'm not 100% human and who knows what Gal - I mean - he-who-must-not-be-named will do to me. Probably make me some sort of freaking experiment and use what knowledge is gathered to make all humans like me.
"Hallie, what don't you vent on me? You allowed me to vent on you," Ratchet gently placed his hand, or whatever you call it, on my shoulder. God, this was so fucking confusion. I mean, come on. Really? But he had a point. I can't keep this all to myself.
"This isn't fair!" I shrieked as I looked at Ratchet. I saw his optics widen (which I still think is impossible but who cares) as he looked into my eyes. Great, what kind of change was I going through now?
"Your eyes are slowly changing to a blue color. Your normal brown eyes are fading away."
"Well, that ain't bad," I mumbled before continuing in my normal ranting course, "But still. This freaking sucks. I have to relearn about my body, probably have to figure out how to walk again, and now I won't be able to get a boyfriend. Hell, I don't even know if sex will be the same."
Ratchet's metal eyebrow lifted in surprise at my words. I shrugged it off, not really caring if he found my sentence a little weird for humans to discuss. The Autobots had learned that humans had a tendency to avoid sex talks but I needed to know if sex would be different for me.
"Sexual intercourse will probably remain the same. I doubt your pleasure will be inhibited but the fact that human skin feels painful to you, it would be uncomfortable," Ratchet sat next to me, watching as I stared at the bed. My thoughts were filled with my friends and what little family I had left. How my life would change because of this. The Decepticons would hunt me down because of it as well.
"I'm stuck being around you, ain't I?"
"Ain't is not a word."
"Yes it is. It's in the dictionary," I crossed my arms, not realizing that he was distracting me. But it also proved that I did have to around him. My body's changes would need to be monitiored until the changes ceased.
"So it is," Ratchet disappeared and I heard his real body start to transform. It was weird seeing him twirl at the waist as he reached down, offering me his hand to get on. I took it, wobbling beside the bed, before taking heisitant steps. I found that my body was a bit heavier, but walking wasn't all that difficult.
"So, what will I eat now? Gasoline?"
"Seeing as how your stomach is beginning to change, you will consume what I myself and the others consume."
"Which is?"
"Energon. So does this mean that you are hungry?"
I could already see that he knew the answer to that. Still, I nodded as a strange sounding noise came from my tummy. It was like the gurgle of my old stomach but a strange revving noise joined it too.
Great. I'm becoming complicated.
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Boti: Well that was an interesting twist. Okay, for some of you who need some explainations, I really don't control my stories. I allow my fingers to type whatever comes to mind and shape it. So I am mainly a zombie on my computer and get aggitated when someone disturbs my mojo. So...see you next time!