Disclaimer- I do not own Transformers they belong to Hasbro and Michael Bay, but I do own my OC's.
Finally! Saturday! And it was bot time! I was the only one up, since mum had already gone to work. I admit that every day since we meet the Autobots are best time of the day, but now it was the weekend me and others get to spend more with the bots, including grumpy old Ratchet.
After getting breakfast I packed my fencing gear and thought I should bring my Epee's today since it's been a while since I used them.
Not long after packing and waiting outside with Jack, Bumblebee came and picked us up, speeding towards the base. We got there in record time, even though Bulkhead was already there. I climbed out of 'Bee and waved.
"Miss us doc bot?" I asked cheerfully. Ratchet sighed and turned towards Optimus.
"Shouldn't they be in school?" He asked irately. Miko walked up next to me as walked.
"On Saturday? We have the whole weekend off... To spend with you." I snickered at how enthusiastic she sounded, and Ratchet just glared at her.
"I wasn't expecting a car pool. What gives Arcee?" Jack asks, walking towards his guardian. Arcee places her hands on her hips as she briefly explains.
"Tag-team, Jack. It's my turn for exploration duty."
"Huh... too bad. It's a beautiful day out for a ride. Would hate for you to feel guilty for leaving me indoors..." Jack pouts, attempting to persuade her. It wasn't working.
"Arctic exploration duty." She states.
"Indoors where it's warm." Jack says as cocks his fingers into the direction of the sofa, and quickly walking towards it. I laugh and shake my head at his antics, only just catching Ratchet's eyes on me. He quickly turned away, though.
Raf walked up to Optimus, hope gleaming in his eyes. "The Arctic! I've always wanted to see snow!" Prime shook his head sadly.
"I would invite you to join, Rafael, but the conditions are much too extreme, even for we Autobots." He says. He boy deflates slightly but still nods in understanding.
"I... I understand." Raf sighs, disappointed. I walk over to him and ruffle his hair, which he smiled at. Prime and Arcee were about to leave but Optimus turned back to Raf.
"But, I will bring you back a snowball." He says, a smile playing on his lips. That was not something you'd expect a 30 foot alien robot to say. I grinned as Raf brightened up.
"That would be awesome!" He exclaimed. Boss bot nods to him before walking through the groundbridge
"Transport complete." I hear Ratchet mutter, shortly followed by the sound of a small explosion. I slowly turned around to face Ratchet, who was staring wide eyed at the groundbridge lever, which was sparking.
"By the allspark…"He trailed off. I simply shook my head and walked away to where Jack, Miko and Raf were.
They were too occupied in the racing game they were playing to notice me. Sighing, I decided to start doing some practice.
"Hey, where you going" I spun around to see Raf. He smiled and shrugged.
"Dunno, I'm bored," An idea suddenly popped up in my head ", wanna play artic exploration?"
Raf grinned and for the next half hour we 'faced a snow storm' and 'struggled to survive'. It was actually fun.
"Temperature sub-zero and dropping!" Raf says as he 'attempts to walk through the strong wind and snow'. "We gotta... get back to base." I added with a smile enjoying this.
We stopped when we heard something drop onto the floor. Curious, we looked around. We heard the noise again and turned around, gasping at what we saw.
It was a small, round, metal creature with huge purple eyes. It looked adorable, but I was suspicious.
As the thing walks closer to us, I feel the bad vibe radiating from it, but ignore it as I stare at the thing.
"W-Where did you come from?" Raf stutters. The thing only blinked at us and walked closer.
"The Autobots never said anything about pets." I state as Raf picks up an over-sized bolt which just about fit in the palm of his hand.
"You wanna play fetch?" Raf giggles as the creature cutely nods and starts running in circles and jumping around.
Raf throws the bolt and the thing chases after it. "Good boy! Go get it!" The thing gets closer to the bolt and starts eating it. "No! Don't eat that! You're going to choke!" The thing then turned back around, the bolt gone, and it seemed fine. "Or... Not."
I wasn't sure about the creature. The cute ones were always the deadliest. Mind you, Megatron isn't a picture you want to look at.
"Raf, I'm not sure about this…." I started, trailing off. The thing then skipped over and started rubbing against the boy's leg.
"Awww, come on Jessie, it's not going to hurt anybody!" Raf protests. Then the thing gave me look and started rubbing on my leg as well. I couldn't help it was so cute doing it, I sigh in defeat. But still got a bad feeling from this bug.
But my suspicions of the thing grew as the lights started to flicker as we walked back into the main room. Raf was petting the thing, which had snuggled up into his arms.
"Hey guys, look what I found!" He says excitedly, holding the thing up in full view.
"We're busy!" Ratchet snaps, but when he looked up at him, suddenly yelled in shock. All the bot's backed away warily as they pointed their weapons at Raf and the thing. Jack and Miko run over to us.
"Hey, hey!" Miko shouts, attempting to calm the Autobots. She placed herself in front of Raf, along with Jack. "What's with you guys?"
"Scraplet! Scraplet!" Bulkhead screeches, actually sounding terrified. I tell you, any other moment I would be laughing my ass off at them, but this was serious.
"What's a scraplet?" Raf pipes up, jumping slightly to see over the two teens.
"The most dangerous vermin ever to crawl upon the face of Cybertron." Ratchet says. I turn to Raf and give him a look.
"The most 'dangerous' vermin ever, Raf, is what you are currently hugging." I stated. Miko stares at the 'bots wide eyed and Jack just gives them a confused look
Miko and Jack then look back at the scraplet. "This...?" he finally asked. "Are you kidding me?"
"Your giant robots! Scrappy here is... Tiny." Miko exclaimed, pinching her fingers together for emphasis.
"You have no idea how much damage that tiny thing can do!" Bulkhead retorted.
"Awww, he wouldn't hurt anything." Raf said. Oh, how wrong can you get? The thing focused on the bot's and stared at them, as if analyzing them. Suddenly its mouth opens wide and it reveals chainsaw-like teeth as it charged towards the bot's. They shot at it repeatedly but the scraplet dodged and jumped onto 'Bee's leg. All I could do at the moment was watch in horror as it started chewing away at his armor. 'Bee finally shook the scraplet off, but it got ready to charge again.
It was stopped when I ran over and kicked it over to the wall. Hard. I was amazed it didn't hurt, and I'm pretty sure the others were too. Raf let out a battle cry and raced towards the already-dead scraplet and whacked it multiple times with a crowbar he had found.
I just folded my arms and looked on in amusement as the scraplet turned into a pancake. It took Jack to stop him.
"Easy there, killer." He said. Raf sighed then ran over to 'Bee worriedly.
"I'm sorry, Bumblebee!" Raf apologizes.
It's not your fault, Raf Bumblebee replied, attempting to soothe the boy's nerves. It only worked a little bit. Raf looked up to Ratchet, who was examining 'Bees leg.
"Is he going to be okay?" I asked. Ratchet turned to me and nodded.
"Only a mesh wound. He'll live." Ratchet assured us. Raf breathed a sigh of relief.
"Now do you believe me?" Bulkhead exclaimed "All scraplets do is dismantle machinery and eat anything metal! Especially living metal!" That was very unnerving. Jack then walked over to where I was.
"Well, bug squashed game over... Right?" He said unsurely.
"No!" Ratchet stated firmly "When it comes to scraplets, there's never just one. And I fear I know how they got in here."
Ratchet stood up and walked towards the corridors when, gently grasping me in the process. I looked up at him confused.
"What was that for?" I asked. He glanced down at me.
"Don't you want to know how the scraplets go in here?" He retorted, sounding slightly irritated. I kept silent after that. We eventually got to the room in question and Ratchet placed me down on the floor.
He walked forward and examined this giant metal egg container, which had a hole in the side, with his wielder. "It's a trap. A scraplet trap." 'Bee cowered behind Ratchet, which I found incredibly adorable.
"An empty scraplet trap..." Bulkhead stated the obvious, and I had a hard time trying not to roll my eyes at it.
"Most likely injected into space eons ago. Only to wind-up in the Arctic where the Arctic temperature kept them in stasis." Ratchet explained. Jack took a step forward.
"Until we brought the thaw." Jack said anxiously. Miko looked from me, to him, to Raf.
"Now their wide awake and ready to brunch."
There was a short, almost awkward, silence. That is until Raf broke it.
"Sooo..." He trailed off.
"How many are we talking about?" I finally spoke.
"Thousands." Ratchet replied, turning towards me. My eyes widened.
"Seriously!" I exclaimed. Ratchet then transformed his hand back.
"With the power malfunctions and ground bridge damage, a sure sign that their infestation is well under way." Ratchet picked me up again and quickly ran back to the main room. When there he desperately tried to get a hold of Optimus or Arcee, seemingly forgetting that I was still in his hand.
"Ratchet to Optimus! Do you read me? We have a situation!" The screen glitches and switches off, causing Ratchet to growl in frustration "The scraplets have gotten into the com-link system! If we don't eradicate these creatures immediately, they will reduce the entire base to a scrapheap." I look up at him and flail my arms.
"Ummm…hello?" I asked. He finally noticed me and places me onto the platform next to Miko.
"Well I say we bug out of here and let them keep it!" Bulkhead exclaimed. 'Bee chirped in agreement.
"Evacuation is not an option. If we don't get the ground bridge back online stat, Optimus and Arcee will perish." Ratchet states. Mine and Jacks eyes both widen.
"They will...?" Jack asked, now worried. I placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, which earned me a small smile from him. Miko, however, looked extremely pissed as she marched over to where Bulkhead was currently standing.
"Bulkhead! You never run!" Bulkhead looked down to her, his expression deadly serious.
"Miko, you haven't seen a swarm of these things devour a bot. I have. They pick you apart from the inside out, going for the small juicy bits first, fuse by fuse, circuit by circuit, till there is nothing left, and I mean nothing! Not even your optics." I shuddered.
"Thanks for the nightmares." I muttered.
CLANG!
Bulkhead yelped as a wrench came into contact with his head, leaving a dent. The wrench dropped to the floor with another 'clang'. Jack, Raf and Miko all glared at me. I held my hands up in surrender.
"Wasn't me!" I yelled. Bulkhead, however, looked behind me.
"What was that for?" He asked, annoyed. I turned around and ended up facing a smirking Ratchet, whose arms were folded. He shrugged.
"For giving Jessie nightmares." Ratchet simply shrugged. I giggled, covering my mouth and he looked down at me briefly before walking over to pick up the wrench he threw. Jack suddenly stepped forward.
"Okay, back to the situation at hand. You have to let us help." He said bravely, and I found myself nodding my head in approval.
"We're not made of metal!" Raf stated. Miko then leaned on me.
"Ya, they can't harm us!" She claimed.
"Typically I find your fleshiness your least engaging quality." I rolled my eyes at Ratchet's words. "But it would appear to provide an advantage, under these extremes."
"Okay, good." I say, partially relieved that we can help "So, we pair off. One bot one human. I'll watch your back while you repair the ground bridge." Ratchet nods "Jack, go with Raf and 'Bee."
"Good idea." He agreed.
"Let's go on a bug hunt." Miko announced, punching her fists together. Bulky and 'Bee both shuddered violently.
Once they had all left, Ratchet started working on the ground bridge, and I just stood by, watching. I had my Epee with me. Although I doubt it would do any good, but it wouldn't hurt to try?
No signs of any scraplets I quickly got bored, pacing around, arguing with myself on what I should do. I settled sighing and sat on the floor. Ratchet turned to me, his eyebrow raised, before shaking his head at my antics and continuing his work.
"Sooo…Uhhhh….." I turned to Ratchet "How's it going over there?"
"I've repaired the damage conductors and rerouted the central conducts, but the ground bridge still won't receive any power!" 'Ratch' explained.
I suddenly heard tiny footsteps and I looked up and, on the wall, a bunch of scraplets were crawling along the wall. My eyes widened at how many there were. I realized that my epée wasn't going to stop them so I toss it aside and I grab the nearest thing to me, which happened to be a meter long metal pipe.
My eyes literally popped out of my head when they started FLYING towards Ratchet.
"They fly! You never said they could fly!" I cried as I attempt to hit them with a pipe. Ratchet fell over as the scraplets attacked him, showing no mercy.
"RATCHET!" I yelled desperately as I ran over, kicking and hitting the scraplets with all the power I had. There were just too many, though, and I was losing hope. Ratchet then looked to my right.
"The fire extinguisher!" He exclaimed. My brain switching back on, I sprinted over to said object, picked it up, aimed it and sprayed the ice-cold foam onto the metal demons.
"DIE YOU LITTLE BASTARDS!" I shouted and eventually managed to kill them all. I then shiver, the foam dampening my clothes. Ratchet groaned as he slowly stood up, his armor literally covered with scraplet bites. He looked battered.
'Bee and Bulky when came limping in with Jack, Miko and Raf, not looking much better than Ratchet.
Bulkhead was holding his right arm "Ratchet, get the patch kit. We're leaking energon like- Woah!"
We all looked up to see hundreds of scraplets flying around our heads. They looked at the 'bots and started attacking again. I sprayed Ratchet again while the others repeatedly hit the scraplets. It only took one his to knock the little bastards out, so it didn't take too long to kill them all.
The autobots ended up sitting on the floor, exhausted from the struggling and the injuries that they had received from the scraplets.
"Did we get them all?" Jack asked. Ratchet shook his head and we suddenly heard metallic gnawing down the corridor.
"Hardly, these were just scouts."
Primus hates us! 'Bee exclaimed as he collapsed backwards, now lying down. I snickered at his comment and Raf was giggling as well.
"So, the rest of them know were in here?" Bulkhead asked nervously.
"And if we allow ourselves to become their next meal, Optimus and Arcee will never make it home! We must get the ground bridge operational!" Ratchet yelled urgently.
"Then we can use it to send the scraplets anywhere on Earth." Jack stated. An idea suddenly popped into my head.
"How about back to the Artic?" I suggested "We already know they don't do cold." I held up the extinguisher.
"Not a bad idea, Jessie. Given the body mass of the scraplets, sub-zero temperature should freeze them on contact. So, think Ratchet, think!" It was amusing watching him scold himself, I must say. "If the ground bridge is still down here must be a breach in the energon fuel line." I giggled. He looked so proud of himself, his optics widening and brightening up.
Were slagged. Bumblebee moaned
"If we weren't breaching, one of us could get back over there and fix it." Bulkhead spoke.
"Where do we find it?" Jack asked, gently hitting the pipe he found on his palm. When did he get that?
"And how do we fix it?" Raf asked. Ratchet then went on to explain what we needed to do. We then headed off in search of the breach. Raf eventually figured that the pipe above us should lead us too it. As we continued to follow the pipe, we had to step over and dodge many scraplets.
"Remember, we're okay, we're not metal." Jack assured us. I looked forward and spotted a pool of a bright blue substance, which I quickly realized was energon.
"Guys, I found the breach!" I exclaimed, running over to it, the others following closely behind.
"Come on. We have to work fast." Jack said and we got to work, Miko and Raf held the metal in place whilst Jack kept an eye out and I wielded the piece on.
It didn't take too long, and when we had finished, the scraplets went crazy again, heading towards the main room.
"Their getting ready to feed!" Raf exclaimed, and we all sprinted back into the main room.
"GUYS!" I shouted, and they all turned to me. "FIRE IT UP!"
Ratchet weakly stood up and activated the ground bridge before collapsing again. Now all we had to do was get the scraplets out. But how?
I suddenly came up with an insane idea. Picking a large piece of scrap metal up, I waved it at the scraplets, who, to my surprise, zeroed in onto it.
"Hey you little buggers want the main course?" I teased, now running into the groundbridge. "Come and get it!"
I faintly heard Ratchet calling my name as I rushed through and into the freezing temperatures of the Artic. I moved off to the side as they swarmed through. I noticed Optimus and Arcee in the near distance. They too looked incredibly weak.
"GET DOWN!" I screamed. They looked at me briefly, shocked, before focusing back onto the scraplets.
I yelped when Bulkhead suddenly limped through, falling into the snow. He turned to me, concerned.
"Are you alright?" He asked. I nodded, though I was now freezing my ass off.
I looked back over to Prime and Arcee, who were now giving Bulkhead pointed looks. Said mech rubbed the back of his neck.
"I'd invite you in, but the place is a mess." I would have chuckled, but was too cold to do so. I stiffly entered the groundbridge, knowing that the others would follow.
Once out of the groundbridge vortex I collapsed onto my hands and knees, only just truly feeling how cold it was. I yelped when something picked me up from behind.
Without a word, Ratchet held me against his warm chest, his spark humming. I felt my cheeks heat up as I was in shock about why he was holding me close. This is something I've never expect from him.
"You're freezing!" He exclaimed. That ruined the moment as I rolled my eyes at him.
"Well, duh, I was in the artic for about a minute." I retorted. I vaguely heard Miko laugh as I looked up at his optics softening when they landed on me.
"You don't look so good." I grinned. He shook his head in amusement before looking at me seriously.
"You shouldn't have gone to the Artic." He scolded. I bowed my head.
"I know, but you're my friends. I'm just, me. I don't know what will if I didn't do it." I said. I gave him no time to reply asked him to put me down and walked over towards the med bay, gesturing him. We all, 'bots included, dragged ourselves to the medical bay.
Jack, Miko and Raf were all rapidly typing into a computer. I had already done my part, so I folded my arms, watching with interest.
"Report bio circuitry stats?" Ratchet asked Jack. Jack looked up to him, smiling.
"Levels are rising."
"Excellent. Rafael, keep a close watch on Bumblebee's electro pulse monitor. Miko, check Bulkhead's interface patch."
"It's steady." Raf informed Ratchet, who nodded.
"Lookin' good!" Miko gave him thumbs up.
"Perhaps you should get some rest yourself, old friend." Optimus said to Ratchet "You saved quite a few lives today."
"He's right, Ratchet." I joined in, grinning at Prime, who had smiled at my concern towards Ratchet.
"It wasn't all my doing." Ratchet said, smiling down at us, though he was looking at me. I instantly thought to myself that he looks a lot better with a smile on his face. It was so warm and comforting. "We're just fortunate that this infestation happened…on a Saturday."
I smirked up at him. He should a lot better than that, cause I think Ratchets smile twitch slightly wider. It was a miracle in itself that he was nice, let alone for him to smile!
"Our human friends maybe small, but they are strong." Optimus stated, gazing down at us all. Suddenly Miko screamed. Everyone looked to her in slight panic. Heck, Jack and Raf both rushed over, crowbars in hand. They stood in front of her in a mini battle position.
"Scraplet?" Jack said.
"Spider!" Miko shrieked, rushing around, generally looking like a complete retard. "Is it on me?! AAGGGHHH!" She then ran away, trying to swipe the 'spider' off of her back.
"Did she just scream like a little girl...?" Bulkhead asked, confused. Everyone exchanged glances. I shook my head in amusement.
"What else can possibly happen this week?"
A/N- Anyone see the latest Prime episode? Feeling gleeful at Silas's fate? I am and that fragger got what was coming to him. Good thing Megatron still didn't like him. I have never approved of Megatron's decisions in the past….but I never thought I would smile about something like this…
One more note, Smokescreen is growing on me after he helped Bulkhead. He seems like a fun guy to have around.
