Hi again everyone! I am here to just let you guys know that I finally posted my drawings for this story on my DeviantArt account, so if you want to check out what Saphira or any of my OCs look like for this fanfic go and check it out. My DevianArt account is the same as my fanfic account. So enough chit chat and let's get on with the story.
Chapter 9: The Assistant
Miko was patiently waiting for Bulkhead to wake up from his power down and take them back to the ship. She checked her phone for the time. It read that it was already half past seven, which made Miko a bit anxious. "Come on Bulk, what's taking you so long?" she asked herself as she sat up straight on her sleeping bag. She then heard metal footsteps coming from the hallway.
Bulkhead was walking towards Miko's room to wake her up so that they would arrive at the Con's ship with plenty of time to spare. He walked into the room and turned on the light switch.
"What took you so long?" said the impatient teenager.
"Miko? You're already up?" asked the surprised bot.
The teenager rolled her eyes and replied, "I've been up for hours now. It is already 7:35 am. We got to get going, now!"
Bulkhead looked at her confusingly and replied, "What are you talking about? It is only half past six…" He paused for a moment before saying; "Time here on Cybertron is different than on Earth."
"Really" replied Miko.
He nodded and explained, "Here it is an hour behind than Earth's time zone in Jasper, Nevada."
Miko nodded in reply as she got up off her sleeping bag. "Well, I guess it doesn't hurt if we got there extra early today" she said as she grabbed a few things.
Bulkhead was confused to Miko's sudden interest in getting to the ship early to clean the vacant rooms that Knock Out assigned for her to do.
Miko turned around and said, "We going or what?"
Bulkhead snapped out of his daze and replied, "Uh, be there in a second. I got to do something first before we leave."
Miko nodded as she left the room to go exploring.
After a few minutes later, Bulkhead and Miko were ready to leave. But before they left, Miko had to run into her room and grab some things to bring with her. She grabbed her school bag that had her lunch, cell phone, sketchbook, color pencils, and the girl's sack bag with all of the belongings in it. She slung her bag over her shoulders, and left the room to go meet up with Bulkhead outside.
It took the duo only a half hour to get to the ship because there wasn't as much traffic on the streets compared to last night's drive. Once they got inside the ship, Miko got out of the truck so that Bulkhead could transform back into his robotic form. Miko took off her helmet and started to go on ahead to the med room to see what happened while she was gone.
Once she walked into the room, she noticed Knock Out hovering over the computer that was reading the girl's vitals. He then went to the medical table and pick up a syringe full of a blue colored liquid. The doctor was about to inject the blue fluid in the girl's left arm when she interrupted his concentration.
"What are you doing!" shouted the suspicion young teenager.
Knock Out was so surprised that he almost dropped the needle. He quickly caught it before it could shatter into little pieces. He breathed a sigh of relief before he sharply turned towards Miko and said angrily, "Try that again and I'll..."
"What's going on in here?" interrupted Ratchet as he walked into the room with Bulkhead by his side.
The red bot pointed at the girl and replied, "She almost made me drop this serum before I got the chance to inject it into the femme's energonstream."
"But what kind of serum are you putting in her body, Knock Out?" she said to the bot.
He rolled his red optics and replied to the suspicious girl, "I was just injecting her with more energon supplements so that her body doesn't run out of fuel."
"Again? How is it possible that she is using all of that fuel when she is in stasis?" questioned Ratchet.
The red bot just shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I don't know how she is doing this, but it must be because of her human biology that altered the normal Cybertronian biology of her tank system." Then he went back to the cyborg and injected the energon supplement into her system.
Ratchet rubbed his chin and said out loud, "Interesting, very interesting."
Knock Out then went to a closet and got out a metal bucket, mop, duster, etc. He turned to Miko and grinned evilly and said in a singsong voice, "Oh Miko."
Miko's expression turned sour as she leered at Knock Out as he waved the metal pail in the air.
"Since you are here early," he said before Miko cut him off with a loud sigh.
"Yeah, yeah, just give me a moment to get out of this suit and set my things down," she said with a bit of annoyance in her tone.
Knock Out then set the pail down on the floor. Miko's jaw dropped when she saw the size of the equipment as she said stubbornly. "Hey, how the heck can I even pick up all of this!" she exclaimed as she expressed her point by using both her hands to show him.
Knock Out huffed and replied, "Obviously," he paused for a second, "you're going to use the apex armor to help you handle the cleaning equipment."
"Oh" replied Miko as she walked to the same corner to drop off her stuff.
After Miko put her stuff down, she walked towards Knock Out as he handed her the apex armor. She touched it as the object morphed around her body. Then Knock Out lead her out of the room and towards the empty rooms down the hallway.
"Alright, you are to clean rooms 101 to 110 for now. After you are done here you can take a short break before starting to clean rooms 120 to 130" said Knock Out as he noticed Miko's jaw dropping at how many rooms she must clean.
Then he went on explaining how to use some of the equipment so that she knows how to work it properly. After he left to return back to the medical room, Miko opened the first room and started to clean it.
Knock Out walked tiredly to the room after getting Miko started with her chores. He overhead Ratchet talking to someone on the comlink, and tried to listen in on the conversation.
"When will you be done with your work, Shockwave?" asked Ratchet.
"It will be quite some time before I completely finish my research on this new energon resource," replied Shockwave.
"I see, but if you do have..." Ratchet was explaining to the scientist before he was interrupted.
"When I have the time, Ratchet. I will come and help you with your predicament with this cyborg. But I will send you one of my assistants to help you in your research on this cure" replied Shockwave mildly.
Ratchet sighed and replied, "Thank you, Shockwave." He then turned off the comlink and went back to work.
Knock Out walked in and asked, "You called Shockwave for help?"
Ratchet nodded and replied, "I don't know what else to do. I need his help."
Knock Out nodded and said to Ratchet, "You should power down for a while. You've been up all night. You need some rest."
"What about the girl?" questioned Ratchet.
"I'll keep a close eye on her" he replied.
Ratchet sighed in defeat and replied tiredly, "Alright, I'll power down for a while, but if you do something to harm that young femme. I swear I'll…" he was interrupted by the red bot.
"Ha, still don't trust me? Eh, I don't blame you for not trusting me, but if I wanted to kill her," he paused for a second and grinned evilly, "I would have eliminated her a long time ago" he stated sinisterly as Ratchet looked at him in disgust.
"I'll just send Bee here to supervise you in my absence" said the medic.
Knock Out just rolled his optics and said mildly, "Whatever" as he went back to work.
After ten minutes had passed, Bee and Arcee went to the med bay to 'babysit' Knock Out and to see how things are going along as well as help the red Con with whatever he needs help with.
Arcee walked over to the cyborg femme to look at her. The femme's metal skin color was dulling because her illness was draining her of her pigment. The young femme's body was covered with the green lines from before but this time the illness seems to be spreading even more. Arcee looked at the femme with sad eyes. She silently said a prayer to Primus to heal the cyborg of her illness.
Knock Out noticed Arcee's gloomy expression for a moment before continuing his work. His optics was trying to scan the cause of this sudden mutation of this new toxic substance, and why it only affects her and no one else. A half an hour had passed before everyone heard the comlink beeping again.
Bee went over to the comlink, pressed the blinking button, and said, "Hello, who's calling?"
"It's me Bee." Raf replied on the other side of the comlink.
"Hey Raf, you want me to open up a spacebridge for you guys?" replied the black and yellow bot.
"Ah huh, if that's no trouble for you guys" Raf said with concern in his voice.
"Ah, it's no problem at all Raf. Just let me get the bridge up and running for you guys," said Bee as he went to the controls and put in the coordinates for the jump from Earth to Cybertron.
The spacebridge opened up with a flare of green, blue, and white light. A few seconds later, June, Jack, and Raf came out of the portal. Jack's mom still felt a little woozy because she wasn't use to be going by portal just yet.
"You okay Mom?" Jack asked his mom after noticing her slouching a bit.
"I'm alright now. Still not use to portal jumping yet" she replied.
"Where's Miko?" asked Raf while looking up at Bee for the answers.
"She's cleaning the rooms right now, but I don't know where she is cleaning exactly" replied the Autobot.
"Already? That's unusual for her to start work so early" said Jack.
"Yeah well, she needed that head start because the rooms are filthy. Ugh, some of the troopers that used those rooms weren't always the most organized of Decepticons," said Knock Out while examining the girl's vital signatures.
"Wow, I thought that they would keep it organized if Megatron would happen to walk into one of their rooms," said Raf.
Knock Out shook his head and said, "That is one of the other general's jobs to make sure that the troopers corridors are clean, not Megatron's. But there are occasions where he would step in if the troopers were giving the general a hard time. And boy was it priceless when it happens!" he said while laughing. "It's funny to see one of the troopers standing at the edge of the hallway to look out for Megatron and the general that they are in trouble with. The scout would then run all the way back to the others and tell them to hurry and stuff their junk into the closet."
There was a moment of snickering in the room before Knock Out could finish his story.
"Oh, and the rich part is when Megatron would tell the general to go and open up the closet as all of the junk fell literally all over the place! Megatron would then tell the soldiers to clean it up and 'find a better place to hide their junk then the closet because it is too obvious'" he said as he finished his story.
"Hmm, sounds like something I would tell Jack when he was younger," said Mrs. Darby as she looked at her only son.
Jack looked at his mom and said, "Mom, in front of all the cool robots"
Everyone laughed at one of Jack's teenager attitude moments when they heard something. They heard two engines of two Cybertronian individuals coming there way towards the medical bay.
A blue, yellow, and white sports car came racing into the med room. It swerved to a stop, transformed, and said, "Hey, you guys miss me?"
"Smokescreen?!" everyone said simultaneously in shock of the energetic young Autobot.
"In the metallic armor" he said with a bow. He then saw Jack, Raf, and June and said warmly, "Well, long time no see, how are you guys doing?"
"Alright, you?" asked Jack.
"Me, I'm always gearing for some action around here, but there is none since the Decepticons were disbanded" he replied. His optics then saw the femme on the medical table and asked, "Is that the femme that has that mutated Tox-En?"
Knock Out looked at Smokescreen curiously and asked, "Wait, you're Shockwave's assistant that he sent over here to help us?"
The sports car laughed and replied, "Me, nauh! I am more of an athletic type than the scientific type. I came here with my femmefriend."
"A femmefriend huh? Where is this femme, Smokescreen?" Arcee questioned curiously.
"Huh, she should be here right now. Oh wait there she is," he said as he pointed at the entrance.
A light purple yanko speed demon motorcycle was parked outside the entrance. The bike has magenta and pink streaks, light green diamonds under the headlights and under the seat pad, and two big wings sticking out behind the seat.
Arcee's optics widened in shock as she said, "Techna?"
The bike transformed into her robotic form and replied, "Hi sis, it's been a long time."
~To Be Continued~
