0011's words sank in.
Of course, none of them exactly understood what they meant.
"Wait, what do you mean?" 1196 asked.
IB and PC came forward and displayed their data on their face screens.
"PC has the data for 2153 right here." 0012 told them.
"While IB has the data for 3803." 0011 added.
The group looked at what was presented.
Data Entry For AE-3803
Cell Type: Red Blood Cell
Sickle Cell?: Yes
Current Health Status: Weak
Data Entry For AA-2153
Cell Type: Red Blood Cell
Sickle Cell?: Yes
Current Health Status: Weak
They didn't even have enough time to process learning this information before reading the last piece of data right below both entries.
Specifications For Health Status: All But Dead
Needs Immediate Treatment
"I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary out of him before, but now that I think about it, he did look really drained." 0012 pointed out.
"Same here. I'm ashamed to not have noticed that detail about her sooner." 0011 added.
1146 and 1196 didn't even listen to that.
They were darting their gaze left and right, trying to search for any kind of hint that could help in finding them.
"Stupid." 1196 uttered.
She looked in the general direction of the lungs.
"To think he's been suffering all this time, and I wasn't ever able to notice anything wrong!"
She kicked the ground in frustration.
1146 wasn't even able to come up with anything to say.
After all, 1196 worded his own frustration perfectly.
"Some friend I am..." he whispered.
PC's face changed back and it hovered upwards.
"If anything, we should first head to the lungs. Maybe we can find something from there," it suggested.
They ran through the remaining chaos from the accident straight to the lungs.
They were not there.
1146 asked a couple of cells if they have seen them.
"I could have sworn I've seen them come by for oxygen a while ago." one red blood cell told him.
"Yeah, and they should have been back here by now. We spend a long time helping the newer cells here, so we should have seen them." another red blood cell added.
"Well, which direction were they heading in?" 0011 asked.
The two cells pointed somewhere, and that's where they went next.
Along with following the general area where the two cells told them that 3803 and 2153 were supposed to go, they began asking around.
After a bit of asking with various cells, they found one who knew something about their whereabouts.
"Based on your description of them, they delivered my oxygen a while ago. I believe they went that way."
They pointed in the direction of a vessel.
PC once again took the lead.
"I wonder if I can use this ability of mine to try and find them."
Within a matter of seconds, it began to make chirp sounds that seem to follow a certain pattern.
"Allow me to explain. When I was originally renovating it, I decided to install an echolocation feature in it to look for things like injured cells." 0012 explained.
A few minutes passed.
With each minute passing, the two neutrophils got more nervous.
"Hm, I may have found something."
They all looked up at it.
It simply looked on through the empty vessel.
"Follow me."
While they were running, 5100 and 4201 was yelling her name.
"Please be alright. We just got to this body!" 1196 thought.
No matter how many times, they yelled, they got no response from either of them.
They did pass some of the other neutrophils while looking for them.
The four neutrophils had a feeling that it wouldn't be wise to interrupt 1146 in whatever he was doing, so they didn't interfere.
The group turned corner after corner, and just as PC was about to declare looking somewhere else, it saw a box peeking out of a corner.
It then increased it's speed and turned the corner.
The others reached it and stopped.
What they found were their two friends sitting against a wall unconscious.
The two other red blood cells didn't waste any time to be right next to their partner.
0001 did the same for her own friend.
1146 approached the two unconscious cells.
"They're breathing rather faintly," he said.
He moved out of the way to give space for the nanobots and their assistants to come through and look at them.
They approached them and kneeled down.
Each nanobot simply placed a finger on their respective cell and stared at them.
The two assistants were waiting behind them for instructions.
Only a minute has passed before they removed their fingers.
"According to our analysis, they already lost a lot of hemoglobin and energy." 0012 started.
They directed their attention to their mouths.
"Traces of it can be seen on their lips. We both imagine that with it also leaking from their mouths, who knows how much more they lost around this time." 0011 added.
Their hearts sank.
They didn't want to lose their friend and potentially another new friend already.
They didn't deserve this.
"However, it is our jobs to help repair the body, and that's exactly what we're gonna do here." 0011 suddenly said with a determined tone.
They turned to face IB.
"Please pull up those simulations and tests I had you do a while ago," they ordered.
"I wasn't able to find much in terms of a proper remedy, but that doesn't mean I have nothing to offer."
After saying this, it displayed data and opened a port on the side of its head.
PC followed, displaying a different set of data and opened a port on the side.
"Now, this may take a bit of time." 0011 stated before the two began to work.
