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A guide for some of the Cybertronian words in this story-
Cybertronian Time-
Atrosecond= less than a second
Breem= 8.3 minutes
Joor=1 hour
Orn= 1 Cybertronian day.
Cyberweek= 1 week
Quartex-= 1 month
Stellar cycle= Cybertronian year.
Vorn= 83 years
Cybertronian Measurements-
Mechanometre= 1 metre
Klik= 1 Kilometre
Disclaimer- I don't own Transformers. They belong to Hasbro. I don't now nor will I ever make any money from this fan fiction.
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Assistance Needed
"About time you two showed up." Knockout's arms were buried inside the twisted wreck of a Vehicon's chassis as he worked on the damaged energon lines leading to the spark chamber. He operated with urgency while still keeping a calm and professional demeanour. Grace under pressure was a valuable quality in a medic. One not all mechs were born with.
"I had to come from another planet, I don't know what First-aid's excuse is." A Typical Ratchet response. "Update us on the situation."
There were a dozen Vehicons set out on makeshift medical berths placed around the tragically under-equipped med-bay.
"The good news is that no one in here is in danger of immediately off lining. Triage is complete, I've stemmed any serious energon leaks and ensured spark chambers and CPUs are all stable for now. The most critical injuries are over here." Knockout gestured with a nod of the helm to the most urgent cases, one of whom he was currently working on himself. There were three other Vehicons that looked like they needed surgery fast or they may very well shut-down permanently.
"You said in your comm. that this is the result of an explosion in an energon mine. How many more wounded miners are there?" First-aid asked while getting to work on who he thought was the most critical case.
"And that's the bad news. I just got word from the on-site medics and they say we are going to get a lot busier than this before the orn is through. This was the largest mining operation on Cybertron. That mine is or should I say was thousands of kliks deep. There are hundreds of Vehicons still trapped down there, most likely injured or dead. The Rescue Bots are constantly pulling dead and wounded out of the collapse but they already know they will not be able to reach all areas of the mine. The deeper down in the mine they go, the more dangerous and unstable it gets. The lower levels have completely compacted in on themselves. They aren't even going to bother to send rescue teams down that deep because of the risk to themselves and such slim chances of there being any survivors."
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It was Steve's first orn of work at the energon mine located between the newly rebuilt Kaon and Blaster City. He wasn't made for this kind of work. As a Decepticon he used to guard energon deposits, not dig for it. Well at least they weren't being shot at. Anything was preferable to losing another of his comrades to a war they didn't even start .
That had been earlier that orn. His outlook had changed slightly since.
Steve looked around at the other dust covered mechs and femmes who were trapped in this structurally unsound hole in the ground. At least he assumed there were femmes down here too, it was impossible to tell the difference with Vehicons. Although the Autobot's snide tone had been unnecessary in Steve's opinion, the Mine Supervisor was right, "all Vehicons really do look alike."
As Steve all but collapsed down onto the floor of the cavern that his small group of survivors had set up as a base of operations, every joint, gear and cog whined at him for recharge. There had been 40 Vehicons in this section of the mine. Of those 40, it was confirmed that eight had been killed in the collapse and 11 were still unaccounted for. His remaining team mates had gathered together and started working on a plan to dig themselves free.
If you are wondering why the Vehicons were trying to dig themselves out when everybot knew that in a situation like this the safest thing to do was to stay put and wait for the Rescue Bots to save you. The answer is simple. No one ever rescues the Vehicons. The whole point of Vehicons was that they were expendable. Cannon fodder, sparkless and disposable were only some of the terms commonly used by higher ranking Decepticons to describe the low ranking Vehicons. If a Vehicon wanted to be saved, he had to save himself and that was exactly what they were going to do.
Steve wanted to drop into recharge right in the middle of the busy cavern. His shift working on the escape tunnel had just ended so he had every right to but there was no way he was going to get an optic shutter of recharge tonight or was it day? It was impossible to tell. There was no such thing as day or night this far underground. Just the darkness. The deep, black, suffocating darkness.
Steve had heard that the newly rebuilt Blaster City was quite beautiful to behold when viewed from the air or out a window of one of its multi-storey sky scrapers. You had a view of most of the city and surrounding landscape, including the popular tourist destination, the Rust Sea. The beauty of the sunsets there rivalled even the famed sunsets over the acid wastes of Stanix. And way off in the distance you could see the entrance to one of the largest energon mines on Cybertron.
Down in that mine though, the view was not nearly as spectacular. All Steve could see was the walls of the mine where his headlights shone. Even if he had x-ray vision and could see through the walls, which he did not, all that he would be able to see was the trillions of tons of metallic rock surrounding him on all sides, pressing in on and weakening the walls of the cavern he was currently seeking refuge in. It was above him, below him and all around him; layer upon layer of Cybertron pressing down on the mech trapped thousands of kliks below the surface.
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