Hey guys! I am so sorry that I took an unexpected hiatus. I struggled really badly this semester and that literally took all of my time but I'm so happy because It's almost over! I only have two weeks left! and then I don't have to be in school until next January! But thank you for those who haven't given up on this story it makes me feel so happy that I still get messages saying that people are following Scars. Also did you guys see the new Transformers movie? What did you guys think? let me know! I know for a fact that I absolutely love the Score! Steve Jablonsky is amazing! Oh!Just letting you guys know, I went back and spell checked all of the other chapters!
Reviews!
The Prime Writer- Thank you! I'm glad that you find Deadlock interesting! and Ellie will find out soon enough and as for pairings, I'm planning on Ellie being paired with Deadlock because Wheeljack is already taken ;) with who? You will just have to find out!
Answerthecall- OOOOOOOH! I'm glad you like him! It's sad that I haven't seen him in many fanfics, he's such a great character! and Thank you!
The Cybertronium Warrior- I'm so glad you love it! and sorry about the break, I had other things I needed to take care of but I still hope you enjoy this story because there is more to come!
Now onto the story!
"Ratchet, we are in need of a ground bridge…and prepare the med-bay," Ratchet heard Optimus over his com-link. By the way Optimus sounded, one of their own must have gotten hurt badly.
"Rafael, I need you to man the bridge and bring the others back," Ratchet said while preparing the med-bay.
Raf did as he was told and ran down to the main controls and typed away on his laptop. Once the ground bridge opened Optimus walked through first, everyone relaxed a little when they realized he wasn't injured but everyone still felt weary because of the look he had on his face as he walked to stand by Ratchet. Bulkhead came through next, shoving a bloody, not too happy, Wheeljack. Everyone gasped and Miko ran near to her guardian's friend.
"Dude, What happened!?"
Wheeljack put out his servos in a calming manner, "It's not mine alright? It's his,"
Everyone looked at the ground bridge when they saw Bumblebee and Arcee half carrying, half dragging a bloody, dented and scratched up mech. Everyone looked appalled by seeing such a horrendous scene
"By the Allspark!" Ratchet gasped. He quickly rushed toward the trio and took Arcee's place and, with Bumblebee's help, they were able to carry the wounded mech to the examination table. Once they had situated the fallen warrior on the table, Ratchet started to search for the correct medical tools.
"What in blazes happen out there?! Who is this mech?" Ratchet yelled over his shoulder as he started tried to clog the poor mech's main life lines from spewing anymore energon. All the Autobots remained silent, seeing how they couldn't find a good answer for the medic. Finally, Bumblebee stepped up and said, "He kind of came out nowhere Ratch'. It looked like he lost complete control of his ship and it crashed landed."
"Wait, a ship? Are you saying that this mech is one of the Decepticons that was chasing down Wheeljack?" Ratchet asked surprisingly.
Optimus stepped up to Ratchet and placed a servo on his shoulder pad, "All that matters right now is making sure he receives proper medical attention, we can learn more about him when he comes back online."
Ratchet grumbled, "I suppose your right, but if I'm going to get any work done, I need you all to leave my med bay!"
Everyone quickly complied and walked out of the med bay, but just as Wheeljack was about to leave, Ratchet let out an "Eep, Eep!" Wheeljack halted and looked toward the medic.
"Come on Doc, I'm fine,"
"No you are not, you damaged your shoulder plating, now get your aft over here before I have to come drag you."
The Wreaker rolled his optics and grumbled to himself but went to the medic nonetheless.
Back at the main central hub, everyone tried to get back into their normal routines, the 'Bots were watching the children play a race car game and, not having been forgotten, Optimus went to talk to Mr. Reed, who, seemed to be enjoying the sight of the young playing.
"I apologize for the inconvenience, but as you saw, it was urgent, now would you mind telling me why your daughter need's our protection?" He asked politely.
Michael looked up at the navy and crimson leader and smiled, "Totally understandable Optimus and the reason why I'm seeking your protection is that I am afraid that my daughter, Ellie, will be attacked by Deceptions." He wasn't smiling now.
This got everyone's attention, especially Miko's "Wait, so Ellie really is your daughter?"
Mr. Reed nodded "Yes, did you see her at school?"
"Yeah, she is in one of my classes. I even walked with her to your guys' house." She smiled but was gone just as fast as it came. "Why would the Decepticons want to hurt Ellie?"
The surgeon frowned and leaned against the railing. "After the Decepticons left after raiding our military base, I went out looking for Ellie and -," He stopped and took in a shaky breath, "and when I found her, her chest was scorched and was bleeding heavily I immediately took her to the hospital where we had to put her on life support, later I figured she had been hit by one of the enemy's cannons because an unknown substance was eating away Ellie's body. I tried so desperately to find a cure for her, but she was deteriorating at an alarming speed. It came to a point when I had to make the most difficult decision of my life. Either I let my daughter suffer or I pulled the plug." Mr. Reed took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, while the children paled and stared wide eyed at the surgeon.
"Well you obviously didn't pull the plug so what happened?" Jack said worriedly
Michael let out a weak laugh, "a miracle happened. Just before I pulled the plug, I prayed my heart out to anyone that would listen and begged to let my daughter live, she didn't deserve to die. After a minute of waiting for any signs of hope, I decided that it was hopeless and pulled the plug, but just as I did, a bright light hit Ellie and I felt the whole hospital shake and the lights blacked out for a second before coming back on. The next thing I heard was Ellie gasping for breath."
All the kids were shocked from what they just heard and the Autobots, especially Optimus found this information a little strange.
"So," Arcee spoke up, "You think the Decepticons might be after this thing that saved the kids life?"
"That is what I'm afraid of," Mr. Reed said, "In fact I have a feeling that beam of light might be related to you guys somehow,"
"What would make you think that Mr. Reed?" Optimus asked.
"It's because of Ellie's eyes,"
"What about her eyes? You both have blue eyes, but hers are a lot cooler," Miko said while leaning against the railing.
Michael Reed let out a soft laugh, "Ellie had her mother's eye color, and hers were brown.
"Whoa!" The children gaped, especially Miko
"That's totally rad!" she shouted
"I don't get it," Bulkhead said, "Why is that so surprising?"
Raf looked up at the former Wreaker and adjusted his glasses "Well Bulkhead, Human eyes can't change their color that drastically, the only possible way to do that is if you had colored contacts,"
"Ah. Got it,"
"If that is the case," Optimus said, "I would suggest that Ratchet take a look at her and see if there are any anomalies,"
Mr. Reed gave a nervous laugh, "Well, you see, that might be difficult,"
"How so?"
"Ellie wasn't just physically scared, she was also scared mentally, he said, pointing to his head. "I'm afraid that if she sees you she will start to have a panic attack, and while she recovered, she still has complication with her heart and if she gets over excited, she will start coughing up blood. Not the prettiest sight,"
"I understand, in the meantime, I will have my fellow Autobots take shifts in guarding you and your daughter until I can find you a more permanent solution,"
Mr. Reed nodded his head, "Thank you Optimus,"
Just then, Ratchet and Wheeljack came out of the med bay, with Wheeljack rubbing his shoulder plating, "Geez, Doc go easy with the blowtorch next time!"
"Quit complaining," Ratchet snapped, then looked to his leader and friend, "Optimus, he's stable and awake, you can go talk to him if you would like,"
"I'll be right there," Prime said, "However I do believe that it is time to get the children home,"
"I'll take them!" Bee volunteered and transformed, opening his doors for the kids.
"May I also get a ride from you?" Mr. Reed asked, "It's about time I head home as well,"
He got his answer when Bee honked his horned and flashed his headlights and opened the driver's seat.
"Thank you," he said and got it in. Once everyone was in, Bee sped out of the Silo and drove into the desert.
Optimus and the others followed Ratchet to the med bay. When they got inside they saw the now patched up mech still laying down and he was staring at the group that just entered. "Well, thanks for the save, I guess." His voice sounded strained.
"Friend or foe, we couldn't just leave you there," Optimus said, "let me introduce ourselves, this is Arcee," He said gesturing to his right, "and Bulkhead, and our youngest of the group, Bumblebee, is currently out, but you will see him soon enough, and of course you already met our CMO Ratchet and our friend Wheeljack," he pointed to the two closer to him. "And my name is Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots,"
This got the former deceptions attention, "your Optimus Prime?" He chucked to himself followed by coughing "never thought I would get the chance to meet you."
"Well," Arcee spoke up "since you know our names, and the fact you don't like the name Deadlock," Ratchet's optics grew wide by the mention of the name.
"What do we call you?" Arcee finished.
The mech was silent for a moment, "the names Drift. Deadlock was the name Megatron gave me when I was in his army but that changed once he put a bounty on my head," he said calmly.
Wheeljack snorted, "What did you do to frag him off that badly?"
Drift smirked "nothing big, just offlined my superior officer. He was going to rat me out just because I disobeyed a direct order."
He frowned then, "how they did things didn't really sit well with me."
"Wow a Decepticon that actually cares," Arcee said sarcastically, "you killed many of our comrades in the battle field without remorse. Why should we believe you had a change of heart?"
Drift glared at Arcee, and growled "listen here femme! I'm not asking for your forgiveness. I know what I did and as much as I would like to take everything back, I can't." He got up, ignoring ratchet who tried to lay him back down. " thanks for the help but I can clearly see that I am unwanted so I'll take my leave," drift all but took one step before his legs gave out and collapsed. Ratchet caught him just before he hit the ground.
"Absolutely not!" Ratchet exclaimed as he set the ex- Decepticon back on the examination table, "You are under my care and you're not leaving until I give the okay, and besides, if you even managed to somehow get out of here, where would you go?"
"And don't say that you're going to just fly out of here, last that I recall, your ship just became a nice addition to the scrap heap,' Wheeljack cut in.
Drift looked down, thinking, He really didn't have many options left. "What do you suppose I do then?" he said to Optimus.
Optimus gave Drift a reassuring smile and placed a servo on the mech's shoulder plating, "For the time being, rest and heal your injuries and if you so choose, there is always room for one more on Team Prime,"
Drift stared at the Autobot leader in surprise, "You would actually let me, someone who once served under Megatron, join your team?"
"If you can prove to me that you are willing to stop Megatron's evil treachery and help others, then I don't see why not,"
Drift thought for a second and then smirked, "I'll think about it,"
Just then, the proximity sensors went off and Bulkhead groaned out of annoyance, "Ugh, Fleshy's back,"
One by one the Autobots left the med bay to meet up with Fowler, but Arcee stayed and walked up to Drift, "You may have Optimus fooled, but trust me when I say this," she got closer to Drift's face plates, "It's going to take a long time before any one of us is going to trust you. Do you know why? It's because when I look at you, I still see an energon craving lunatic," Arcee stood back and walked to the entrance of the med bay but stopped and looked back toward Drift who, at this point, was glaring daggers at the femme, "You will never change, once a 'Con, always a 'Con," Arcee then left.
Drift sighed and looked down at his hands, his optics grew hard as he clenched his fists, "But, I did,"
Well? What did you guys think? Let me know! and also if you find any spelling errors, please let me know! I don't have a betta to tell me.
