Disclaimer: Although I wish I owned transformers I have to live with the fact that I do not...just the three siblings.
Squish
"Something is wrong with Saber."
"Nothing is wrong."
"I'm sorry, I think I need my audio processors cleaned but I thought I heard you say that nothing is wrong with Saber." Romulus couldn't believe what his older brother had just said. It was odd enough to watch the large feline dote over the injured mech during the long ride to the Autobots base; the black bot now had to deal with the planets so called dominant species...the humans. As soon as they had entered the base the green colored mech was taken away for repairs causing Saber to become agitated.
"Like I said, there is nothing wrong with Saber." Helios gave the young wolf a small smile before joining the Autobots who were entering a large hanger. Vehicles and jets were scattered in the fenced off parking area while men dressed in green clothes went about their business, paying no real attention to the fact that several giant aliens were walking among them.
'Great, not only are you being all cryptic, we now get to deal with the ignorant humans.' Romulus couldn't help but growl out. There was a reason as to why they avoided the humans.
'You will understand when you're older.'
With a shake of his helm the younger bot watched as the lead Autobot greeted two humans.
"Hey big guy, what happened to Ratchet?" Will had been worried when Optimus had excused himself so quickly from their "meeting" with the "Director"; not that he minded the nice break, there was the fact that more questions would be asked.
"Starscream attacked Ratchet and Jazz while they were investigating a signal that turned out to be a pod."
"And I take it that those three are the owners." William thought he had seen it all since the Autobots and Decepticons had landed, but apparently he was in for more.
"Yes. The seekers destroyed their pod during the attack. I have offered them sanctuary...if that is alright with you." Optimus knew that there would be no problem with the three new bots staying but it was still nice to have the major's approval. Things were difficult enough with the government officials trying to get access to their weapon plans.
William quickly glanced around to make sure a certain thorn in his side wasn't nearby before giving an answer. "I don't have a problem with it. The way I see it, the more on our side the better."
"Then let me introduce you to them." Setting down his large hand the Autobot leader patiently waited for the man to get himself situated before rising back up; directing his hand so that William could see the three strangers. "This is Helios, Romulus and the feline one is Saber...This is Major William Lennox."
"Wow, they are so different from you guys...I mean the animal ears, the hair...are they from Cybertron?" Will was fascinated with the differences between the two types of bots.
"No, we are from a neighbouring planet called Trolian. Unfortunately while my siblings and I were on a mission, a rouge asteroid hit our home and destroyed it." Helios felt he should play diplomat and interact with the human.
"I'm sorry that your home is gone, but I'm sure everyone at the base will welcome you all." The Major couldn't even fathom the idea of earth being destroyed.
"Thank you, we will try and do what we can to help with this battle, but I request that you do not ask for any schematics on our weapons." Like Optimus, Helios knew how violent humans could be.
"You don't have to worry about hearing that request from us here at the base, there might be a problem with some of the government officials though."
'Foolish power hungry humans.' A growl could be heard from the bay entrance where Saber was pawing at the closed door that the Autobot medic had been taken though.
"Saber, I think that they would like to keep that door intact." Romulus took a hold of the saber toothed cat's tail and pulled the feline away from the door.
'Hey!'
William couldn't help but chuckle at the pair as the sight before him brought back memories of his childhood. "And here I thought my brothers were bad."
"Saber has become attached to your medic."
"Yes, and it would be nice if you would tell us why." The wolf grumbled out for a second time since coming to the base.
"We are more 'organic' than the Autobots, making us more sensitive to others emotions even if they are not aware of it." Helios wouldn't give away all of the details since he wanted his younger siblings to learn on their own.
"That sounds like us, just not as complicated." William was shocked that the alien robots could differ from each other so much.
"It's called bondin Will, or in your terms love." Jazz came to the group and made to cuddle with the weapons specialist only to be pushed off.
"Don't even think about it."
"Awwww c'mon Ironhide, I was only playin." The silver solstice pouted up at his close friend.
The relaxed atmosphere was broken by a very disgruntled voice. "Just what in the hell is going on?"
Rolling his eyes, William looked to see the all mighty Director making his way over to the group. "We are just working out a few issues."
"What, bringing in more aliens without my permission and putting the countries safety at risk?"
"I invited them to stay here Director Galloway, Major Lennox is just finding out." Optimus kept William in his hand instead of placing the man on the ground; feeling that the major needed a little boost of power being higher than the Director.
"Oh, so now you are inviting more freaks-" The Director was cut off by a menacing snarl and found himself facing a giant, black saber toothed cat.
Raising a clawed paw, Saber threatened to squash the pitiful human that wasn't looking quite so tough now. In fact the man looked as though he was about to evacuate his holding tank. This thought brought a toothy grin to the cats face as green optics glowed brighter. 'I can squish him if you want, no one would miss him...right.'
Helios and Romulus looked at each other in silent contemplation. After a few seconds the brothers came to the conclusion that it might be better to play nice. And so taking on that diplomatic role and switching to the cybertronian language so that the humans wouldn't know what was being said, Helios voiced the cats offer. –Saber is offering to help us out be disposing of the Director with a quick little squishing session and was wondering if anyone would miss the human.-
The bear and wolf watched as Optimus struggled not to laugh at the request. Meanwhile, Ironhide and Jazz made no attempt to hold back their laughter as images of a flat Galloway crossed their processors.
Gathering himself, Optimus finally gave his answer. –I don't think that would be a good idea, though im sure it would make many happy.-
'Fine.' Saber huffed out before turning back to a certain door that was in the way.
It only took the Director moments to come back to his senses now that the life threatening situation was over. "If you want to stay at this base then you have to obey my orders."
Before Optimus could even let Director Galloway know that the rules set by the government didn't apply, the large bear approached the man.
"We do not have to listen to any of your rules Director, we are not under Optimus' command and therefore not under yours. I would also like to remind you that we are stronger and smarter than humans." Helios liked the Autobot leader but he would not let these humans order his family around like dogs.
With new fear in his eyes Galloway backed away from the large mech as he looked to both Optimus and Major Lennox for some help. Unfortunately he wasn't going to find any.
"I'm afraid that Helios is right, I can only ask that they not harm anyone but they do not have to lis..."
'Prime, we have a problem.' Optimus was cut off by a com link from a panicked Wheeljack who happened to be working on Ratchet.
Everyone went quiet as it became obvious that the Autobot was currently dealing with a more important situation. 'What is wrong Wheeljack?'
'It's Ratchet, he's going into stasis lock.'
Optimus shuttered his optics; he did not like hearing that his primary medic was not doing so well. 'Alright Wheeljack, I'll be there right away. Just keep him stable.'
'You got it.'
"Is everything ok big guy?" Will had a bad feeling about the private conversation that just happened.
"Ratchet isn't doing well; he is going into stasis lock. Wheeljack is currently doing all he can to stop it."
"What can we do?" The Major was now truly concerned, since having contact with the Autobots he had discovered that the mechs were not easy to take down. Ratchet going into stasis lock could not be a good thing.
"There is nothing to stop it, Ratchet's systems are trying to repair themselves and it's the only way to do the automatic repairs."
"Hey, what's going on with Saber?" Ironhide's attention had been drawn to the cat that had been pawing at the door but now seemed to be having a difficult time staying upright.
The groups gaze moved to the stumbling feline, while the mechs simultaneously performed scans. It appeared odd that the cat that had just been fine a few moments ago was suddenly in the process of shutting down.
'Saber...Saber what's wrong?' Romulus quickly went to his sibling's side, reaching out in hopes of steadying the unstable bot.
'I...I don't...know...systems...shutting down.' Saber could barely speak and with one last shudder collapsed to the floor.
"Saber! Helios, she's gone into stasis lock!" The black wolf didn't mean to reveal the cats secret but he was in a panic.
Helios moved to his younger sibling's side and pulled his now exposed sister's form into his arms. Standing back up he turned to face the Autobot leader. "Is there a place we can put her?"
"Yes there is another berth in the medical bay." Optimus entered the hanger and began to lead the three bots to where his medic lay.
Major Lennox looked over at the limp feline with worry. "So she is your baby sister, is this her only form and what made her go into stasis?"
"We felt it would be safer to keep her a secret and let any strange mechs think she was only a sentient until we knew that we could trust them." Helios pulled his unconscious sister closer to his chest plates hoping to comfort her as he could feel her spark quivering with fear. "As for the stasis lock, it has to do with the bond that she had begun to form when she found Ratchet."
"What? How...they are not bonded..." Romulus was now more confused about the whole bonding situation between his sister and the Autobot medic.
"They do not need to bond their sparks in order to create a bond."
"So wah your sayin is tha the Ratch man is pretty much ah married bot." Jazz found the bonding of the medic highly amusing.
"Not quite, but close enough." Helios gave a small laugh at the silver bots excitement.
There was nothing but sand and white sky; where the bright light was coming from Saber didn't know and as she tried to adjust her optics to the light a flash of yellow-green caught her attention. Aside from the pale colored form, Saber also noticed that she wasn't in her alt form.
Looking down at her slender form –built for both speed and strength- Saber could only come up with more questions than answers. "Where am I?"
"In a safe place."
Refocusing her optics, Saber recognized the voices owner. "Ratchet? Why are you here, better yet where is here?"
"It's a place in the matrix." Ratchet stood up from his place on one of the large boulders that were scattered across the desert like landscape.
"How did we get here?" Saber brushed the long strands of hair like appendages from her face as a breeze picked up.
"I know that I went into stasis lock and that is how I got here, but I'm not sure how you got here." Ratchets spark seemed to pulse with excitement at the sight of the black femme that stood before him. "You seem very familiar...have we met before?"
"Ummmmm...well...yeah, we sorta met when my brother and I found you near our pod." If Saber could blush she would have been red from head to toe as her own spark was feeling strange around the large mech. "My name is Saber."
"Well Saber...perhaps you would do me the honour of taking a little stroll with me." Ratchet could only mentally shake his head at what was coming out of his mouth...*since when did I get so slaggin polite?*
Yes I know that there wasnt much of Ratchet in this chapter but I had to have a little in between chapter to get things going ^_^ there will be more of our favorite medic in the next chapter...thanks for all the positive feedback. cheers