A/N: XD
Disclaimer: Don't own TF
Chapter 3
Mirage landed quietly on the edge next to Blurr, his team-mate. They had been called in for a mission-well, Mirage was anyways- Blurr was still on the job. Mirage, he was in the early stage of carrying a sparkling. Ratchet and Mirage already cleared out a quarter for their soon to be sparkling and was excited to become Creators. Unfortunately, Mirage was called in a mission because they were short on bots to go to Shockwave's lab and the only one who was available to go was Blurr. Sure Mirage wasn't happy about the call, neither was Ratchet, but there was no way Mirage was letting his friend go to Shockwave's lab alone, and have a huge chance of not making out alive. So Mirage decided that he'll go but made a strict demand that he'll get extra credits for going.
"I'll distract, you get the information,"Blurr said. Mirage nodded as he turned invisible, both jumping down at the same time. Mirage made his way to the computer while Blurr had already gotten Shockwave's attention. Mirage opened up his downloading file and began the process of downloading Shockwave's experiment files in his hard drive. Blurr was running past, knocking Shockwave down, then letting him get back up before he does something else again.
Blurr went to go attack again but Shockwave got the upper hand, hitting him hard enough to make him fly back and smash against the wall. Blurr came crashing down, unconscious. Mirage looked back to see his team mate injured and Shockwave was loading up his gun making his way towards the unconscious Autobot. Mirage ran and tackled the Deception. Shockwave tried to force himself free from whatever the invisible thing was that was holding him down. Mirage held him down, still invisible, and hoping for Blurr to online again.
Shockwave was still struggling until he did something. He mentally communicated with his computer that was controlling a shock lazar. When Blurr finally came online, he was dizzy, he tried to focus on Shockwave and why he was down.
Mirage was still holding onto the Deception. None of the two Autobots noticed the shock lazar until it was too late. Shockwave mentally turned it on and it shot at Mirage. The lazar shocked Mirage, causing him to turn visible and making him a scream on the top of his lungs. Blurr forced himself to focus and ran to the computer while Shockwave pushed Mirage off of him. He turned off the computer, by the time he turned around, Shockwave was already making his way out the door. The lazar stopped and Mirage stopped screaming and collapsed.
"Mirage!" Blurr ran to him and dropped down by his side. Mirage was unconscious and not at all in a good condition. "Slag." Blurr picked up Mirage and ran. He was running back to Autobot City, back to Ratchet.
-_(Shockwave Transition)_
Ratchet was frowning at the two medics in front of him. Red Cross- Ratchet's medical partner and boss- and Inferno- Mirage's cousin husband and a sparkling/youngling medic- was laughing at him because he wasn't paying attention to where he was going and ran smack in the wall. "It's not funny!" Ratchet growled.
"Are you going to be like that when your sparkling comes?" Red Cross chuckled. "Running into doors?"
Ratchet growled again, throwing a wrench at him, which Red absolutely missed and it hit Inferno. "Ouch," was all Inferno said, rubbing his helm. "Stop that."
Ratchet waved off whatever Inferno said.
"So, how's Mirage doing?" Inferno asked, as he took a seat.
"Good," Ratchet said. "We cleaned out a quarter not that long ago. He has another check up coming up."
Red Cross smiled. "Ah, I remember when Wingflare was carrying. His cravings and emotions were at an all time high. Especially his se-"
"NO!" Inferno interrupted. "I rather not here about your sex life."
Red Cross stared at him. "I wasn't mentioning it." He smiled. "However, I can tell you how amazing Wingflare is in be-"
"NO!" Inferno waved him off. "No, no."
Ratchet chuckled. "Well, when you and Red Alert decide to have a sparkling of your own, you'll be bragging about your interfacing life."
Inferno groaned, putting his helm in his palm. "I rather not."
Red Cross laughed. "You say th-"
"MEDICAL EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY SURGERY!" The medical alert system went off, making Red Cross and Ratchet jump to their feet and taking off. "C-843 EMERGENCY!" Inferno jumped to his feet and chased after the older medics down the hall. C-843 meant that the Carrier and the unborn sparkling would both die if nothing is done.
The three of them quickly got the surgical room all ready before Blurr came rushing in, carrying Mirage, obviously he ignored the other medical bots when he entered. Ratchet felt numbness wash over him as he watched Blurr put Mirage down on the medical berth, before being taken out by a nurse. Mirage had scratches and some signs of being shocked and he was bleeding out energon. Inferno quickly checked Mirage's and the unborn sparkling's pulse. "Both pulses are in distress," Inferno said.
Red Cross was checking out the severe injury before putting pressure on it to hold the bleeding, he looked to Ratchet. "He's losing too much energon, Ratchet. We're going to lose both of them if you don't make a choice."
Ratchet just stared at Mirage. He hadn't even move a joint when he watched his mate be laid on the medical berth. His processor was completely blank; he couldn't process anything through. "RATCHET!" Red Cross shouted, finally snapping the other medic out.
Ratchet sucked in a breath. He all ready made up his processor and right now, it was for the best. "Save Mirage."
_(Transformers Transitions)_
It took a bit to finish the surgery for Mirage. Red Cross went to go talk to Blurr to let him know how his teammate was doing, Inferno went back to his ward and called Red Alert who probably wouldn't get the message until he was on break. And Ratchet… he sat beside Mirage in the recovery. He wanted to be there when he woke up, he had to find away to tell Mirage that…that in order to….. in order to save his life….his life…
Ratchet offlined his optics, thinking a possible way to tell him. :Ratchet to Red Cross. Can you come in and delivery the news?: He sent the comm. A couple of kliks passed before he felt Mirage's hand move which he quickly onlined his optics. Mirage stirred before coming online, he looked around the room, before up at Ratchet. "My sweet spark, how are you feeling?"
"Sore."
:I'll be there momentarily. Red Cross out.:
Ratchet rubbed and squeezed Mirage's hand. "Understandable."
Mirage tried to sit up, realizing how much it hurt, he laid back down. "Where's Blurr? Did he make it out okay?"
"He's fine. He was more freaked out about you."
Right on cue, Red Cross came in, which Ratchet was very grateful. Red Cross gave a friendly smile to the both of them. "How are you feeling, Mirage?"
"Sore."
Red Cross nodded. "The surgery took quite a while. You were losing a lot of energon before we could replace it."
"Work accident," he sighed. "So, you when you did the surgery, you had to take out my sparkling. The sparkling is in the incubator, right?"
Ratchet felt his spark-break. "Mirage…"
"Femme or mechling?"
Ratchet squeezed his mate's hand tighter. Red Cross cleared his vocal processor. "Mirage, I don't know how to say this but I'll tell you as I told Ratchet. The damage was to bad to save the both of you." Mirage went still. "In order to save you, we had to exterminate the sparkling. I'm so sorry."
Ratchet held his breath, waiting for Mirage to freak, but he did nothing. Mirage was just still and silent. "My sparkling's gone," Mirage whispered to himself. He kept whispering it to himself over and over again. Red Cross looked to Ratchet . :I believe it's best if Mirage didn't find out for a while.:
:I think you're right: Red Cross left the room.
Ratchet gently climbed beside Mirage, comforting him. Mirage let out a choke sob, and Ratchet held him close, shedding a few unknown tears too.
a/n: Damn, I'm such an awful person to Mirage and Ratchet