Think Ahead
AN: Re-Edited this chapter
Time:
Cycle: 1 hour
Decacycle: 10 days
Stellar Cycles: 1 year
Enjoy
Ultra Magnus slowly moved his joint as he tried to get used to some new wires that are connected to his old protoform.
It had ben stellar cycles after his sudden attack from the enemy Shockwave and had to be in a hospital for long time. He hoped Optimus was leading things well during his absense and that Sentinel was not making anything worse.
He checked the time to see that Optimus would be here to see him in few cycles, maybe earlier and in few Decacycles he will finally leave this prison, the medical Energon was terrible enough.
Then he heard a door knocking and entering a nurse. Oddly, this one is golden in yellow, not the usual white or red but there is a sure sign that it is a medic with the traditional red and white cross plastered on its chest.
"Hello." replied the femme as she shook his hand, "I'm Viceroy, pleasure to meet you sir."
"Same with I." Ultra Magnus replied as he shook back. After the greeting, Viceroy then announced that she will do some few physical therapy check-ups to see if there is no further problem. Ultra Magnus waited patiently as the young nurse checked each of his newly connected wire to see if they are not torn yet.
"So far things are going well. You could be released much quicker than I thought." Viceroy replied as she written some few notes for doctors to read, "Now I want you to lay down please."
Ultra Magnus did as she was told and saw that she took out some sort of a needle.
"The doctor said that this will help you adjust with your newly connected bodies so you won't have any trouble with it tonight, but I guess you heard it from other doctors and nurses haven't you?"
"Yes that is true." Ultra Magnus replied as he thought back a little, he felt a little jab from his arm and soon feeling nothing, he sort of felt better.
"The effect will kick in few nanoclicks so you might feel a little drowsy, so take a rest and you will have a guest coming over after your nap."
Ultra Magnus nodded his head as he sighed deeply and felt his systems shutting down. He might talk better with Optimus after his well stasis nap.
As the old leader slowly decent into stasis, Viceroy walked out of the patient's room and laid the work down on the main desk to be taken for later and went off to the storage room to clean some item out. It might take few cycles but she is sure that the patient will be well slept.
However-she missed a blurr of yellow entering in Ultra Magnus's room.
-.-
Optimus transformed back from his alt. mode as he saw the familiar building of where Ultra Magnus was kept, he sort of came a little too early but he just wanted to be sure that Ultra Magnus would be much more aware of Yellow Butterfly roaming through the town. Behind him, he can feel the deep vibration of heavy footsteps.
"Alright Megatron here are the rules." Optimus ordered as he pointed at the ferocious leader, "Be nice. And don't do anything."
Megatron growled as he tugged on the cloak that was randomly given by Bluestreak, the gossiping Praxian who said that it looked cool on him for his disguise. Not many of few towns knew of his sudden alliance to Optimus Prime so just walking out with himself would probably cause a panic and Optimus really don't want that.
Megatron was still in his silver paint but he was forced to wear a blue visor to protect his red optics from being seen and had a large brown cloak that covers his chest of his Decepticon's symbol well-also due to the fact that he's a well known war spacecraft , Ratchet forced him to scan a grounder vehicle for his disguise. Make it short he absolutely blew up on Ratchet but gave in as Ratchet had threw him the 'doom of wrenches' at him. Now he had some few chains dragging and hanging around his waist as his legs share the same quality of Optimus's but had more additional wheels on. Even face mask was given to him and was forced to wear it through out the whole day-making Megatron a not so happy camper.
Making sure Megatron was well set and ready, Optimus opened the door in and entered right in the hospital.
The hospital that Ultra Magnus was in was well constructed on the inside, it was impressive and Megatron could not help but gap at it.
"Who knew due to my absence Cybertron had changed..." Megatron grunted as he saw this. Optimus could not help but agree, he too was the same way when he returned back to Cybertron after he had defeated Megatron. 50 years of locked stasis was long enough to be impressive.
"Right, let's go and meet Magnus." Optimus replied as he dragged cloaked Megatron to the reception desk and sighed up to see Ultra Magnus for the visit and walked off to the main elevator.
"Where does this...Magnus of yours is staying in?" Megatron growled as he tried to ignore many stares he got from the patients and nurses, he shifted his cloak to hide his Decepticon's symbol more, "I hope it's not too far."
"Well the Hospital is 134 levels up and we're on the first floor, Ultra Magnus would be in the level 45."
"And...we're in second level now?"
"Nope just passed the third level and going on fourth." Megatron growled as he looked out of the elevator, seeing the whole building and many cybertronians getting smaller.
Peace he guessed, seemed such long ago ever since the day the war had started. Maybe he should've settle like Barricade had told him, maybe he should retire and just get along with Autobots. He'll think this over once this was over.
As the two leaders had finally reached the level Ultra Magnus is in, they were both met up with a golden yellow femme.
"Optimus sir, pleasure to be meeting you." femme replied as she shook Optimus's servo, "Ultra Magnus is currently resting so you can stay there until he wakes up."
"Pleasure is all mine..." Optimus paused as he doesn't know the femme's name "Viceroy, sir." she replied and Optimus nodded his helm and gestured to Megatron, "This is Silver (Megatron glared at that) he is my 'temporary bodyguard' and an 'old friend' of Ultra Magnus, he will be excited to see Magnus well."
"Well, follow me." Viceroy replied as she gestured them to follow her, "Ultra Magnus is making a good quick recovery, he might be released less than Decacycles."
"Really?" Optimus asked as they neared the Magnus's room, "he might be excited to leave this place sooner than enough."
Viceroy pressed the keypad on and the door opened, but as she was about to say anything-she screamed.
Optimus and Megatron quickly made themselves into the room and gasped as they had saw shocked them.
Ultra Magnus was all gun-metal grey-leaving nothing but a clear message that was written all over.
Bumblebee was here.
-.-
Many cycles had come and Ratchet was scanning through the dead body of the old leader for any abnormal scars or marks. Unfortunately, Bumblebee must've been smart to never leave trails of what he had done to the leader.
"Anything strange?" Optimus asked as he looked around the room to see many Autotroopers making a line to signifies the crime scene investigation. Ratchet growled and shook his head, "I can't even find what was going on to Ultra Magnus. It was as if Bumblebee knew how to kill him painlessly."
"Painlessly?"
"Ultra Magnus was obviously killed during his sleep," Ratchet explained as he pointed at the dead body, "and it was no more than seven cycles ago."
"Mega-I mean, Silver and I came in here a five cycles ago," Optimus replied as he thought about it, "That means he was killed before we could even get here."
"Hold on-what's this?" Ratchet mumbled as he rubbed the arm part of Ultra Magnus, "There's some kind of an odd dent-like he was either bitten or given a shot."
"Maybe Viceroy knows, but she went off to find the doctor of this room." Just as Optimus said a different bot with all red and few bits of white on him came rushing in.
"What is going on?" The mech replied as he glanced at Optimus and Ratchet, "There are ruckus going on in Ultra Magnus's room and I need some explanation!"
"Hold there fellow medic." Ratchet eased the doctor, "I just want to ask you some few questions, did you visit Ultra Magnus today?"
"Today? He wasn't even scheduled to be checked in earlier cycles!" The red medic explained as he massaged his helm, "I was supposed to see him in next cycle!"
"Next cycle?" Optimus wondered, "wait, so who does all the checking patients?"
"I am." The red medic huffed, "Every level a medic is assigned to check on every patient. Nurse is not allowed to see patients unless asked to or in the emergency call, but I am a busy medic at this time so I had assigned few of my nurses to check on few patients. And I just got here to hear all of this ruckus going on!"
"Wait for a second there medic." 'Silver' interrupted as he shoved Optimus away, "did you just say 'just got here to hear this ruckus going on'? Haven't you heard from Viceroy?"
"Who's Viceroy?" the red medic asked in confusion, "We have no nurse named Viceroy."
"And the shot?" Ratchet quickly butted in as he raised Ultra Magnus's arm up, the red medic blinked in surprised, "We didn't give Ultra Magnus a shot-in fact, he wasn't scheduled to have one today. He only required those shots when he was in critical condition."
"Frag!" 'Silver' cursed reading everybody's mind so quickly, "we've been beaten by that yellow scout!"
