Transformers do not belong to me apart from Dark Orbit and Clash.
Lou, Marianne, Anna, Mick and Ebony.
CHAPTER 10
ATTACK
The Autobots were expecting a Decepticon attack at any time. Everybody in the base was tense as they waited for the Decepticons to make their move. A few mechs had become good friends to Lou, in particular Clash, Sunny, Sides, Bluestreak, Ironhide and Jazz. Even Ratchet had a soft spot for the feisty blond, curly haired woman. He sat in his office and smiled at the first time she opened her eyes to find herself face to face with him, and when she challenged him because he wouldn't let Marianne leave the med bay before the party. The thought of losing them to the decepticons deeply weighed upon his spark and he resolved himself to protecting her no matter what the consequences would be.
Optimus Prime didn't know what the Decepticons were planning. He knew that Starscream intended to attack the Autobot base, and he knew that Starscream was after Lou but he couldn't work out why, and this bothered him! At least when Megatron was alive he would make his plans known at some stage but Starscream was a different case altogether. Apart from Dark Orbit telling Mirage that they were going to attack the base and come for Lou, he couldn't help but think Starscream had another motive for his attack. There was a knock at his door,
"Come in" Optimus Prime called as he shifted data pads and piled them up neatly on his desk.
Ironhide walked in through the door, sat in front of Optimus and glared at his leader. Prime glanced up from the pile of data pads. Optimus knew that look,
"What's the matter old friend?" he questioned
"Have we heard from the Decepticons yet?" Ironhide snarled,
"No Ironhide we haven't" Optimus Prime replied sadly,
"Cowards! They want to catch us on the back foot, hoping we aren't ready, no doubt!."
"I know Ironhide, and that bothers me, but we will be ready and I am hoping that will surprise them"
Optimus Prime got up and moved to look at the picture on the wall, Ironhide followed Prime's movements. He loved the picture of Iacon and hoped they would ber able to return someday,
"Me too Prime. I don't want to see Lou or her children hurt or caught by the Decepticons. Just wait till I get my hands on that glitch of a husband of hers" he said as he punched one fist into a hand, "I'll give him a piece of my…."
"Easy there Ironhide!" Prime soothed gently, he walked back to Ironhide and placed a hand on his shoulder and squeezed it, "The last thing Lou needs at the moment is one of my best warriors going on a vendetta against her husband"
"Yeah Prime you're right"
Ironhide sat there thinking about the first time he met her, and when he took Lou to her house. He smiled as he remembered when they went to the Lennoxes place for a barbeque, the look of joy on Lou's face as she watched Marianne being chased by Jazz and Sideswipe with the water bombs, and the new friendship Lou had found in Sarah and Judy. Ironhide smiled, but suddenly it disappeared, his mood changed to one of anger,
"I'm going to do all I can to protect this family from Starscream and his followers." he snarled, "They are not going to get their hands on the family and it would be over my dead body if they do!"
Ironhide had a look of determination in his optics as he got up and walked out of Prime's office. Optimus Prime knew what Ironhide had said was true, he knew that if there was someone worth fighting for then Ironhide would go all out to protect whoever the victim was. And beware anybody who tried to stop him!
The base had been put on full alert again! Lou and the girls knew that a Decepticon attack was imminent and Lou knew she had to stay calm for the sake of her children. It didn't mean she wasn't frightened because she was overwhelmed with fear. Fear of the unknown! The family had been told they couldn't go anywhere without their guardians and they weren't allowed too far from the base. She put Anna into bed and lay with her to help her settle down. Lou placed her head on the pillow and thought about the happy times she had with her family before all this happened, and wished she could go back there. A tear slid down her eye, this was going to be her hardest test of all. Sure with everything that has happened there had been trying times but now she faced a fear so great and she didn't know how to fight it. The thought of losing her children, or seeing her children taken from her and not being able to do anything about it made her feel hopeless, she felt so lonely and wished her husband was there with her. Then there was the thought of what would happen to her children if anything happened to her or Mick. She wasn't sure she could trust him with them if she died, what if they took her and tortured her because of her husband? There was no way of being able to answer these questions or prepare herself for what lay ahead. She lay on her bed and let out a simple prayer asking for strength to face what may lay ahead. She could hear footsteps then a gentle knock on her door brought her out of her thoughts,
"Lou, you in there?"
Lou got up and walked to the human door and opened it, it was Clash. She opened the door Autobot sized door and let him in. She didn't greet him with her usual happy self, her appearance wasn't as neat and tidy as it usually was and there was a heavy frown across her forehead. He did a light scan, her heart rate was beating rapidly and her system seemed to be all over the place. He knew she was fretting over the what may happen to them, he gently picked her up and held her close to his spark chamber while he rubbed her back and gently soothed her. She felt safe there, ohhh sooo safe! She felt like she was in a place where nobody could get her and her fears melted away. She wished this moment would never end but knew it would. Clash knew there was really nothing he could say to her that would reassure her that everything would be okay, there was no guarantee it would! Ratchet had warned him against telling her things would be okay because as in all wars you never know which way they are going to swing. Marianne came bursting through the door with a huge smile which quickly disappeared when she saw Clash with her mother,
"Mum? You okay?" she asked, "Mum?" She went up to Clash who bent down to pick her up. They both sat in Clash's hand hugging each other,
"Marianne I know I say this to you all the time but I love you. Please remember that. No matter what happens I. will. Always. Love. You. Both!" she said,
"We love you too mum" Marianne replied.
"Lou, Bluestreak and I have been instructed to stay with you until the threat is over. We know the Decepticons will attack but we don't know when, so we need to be ready to move you to a safe place immediately"
Lou nodded in affirmation of this,
"It's really going to happen isn't it?" Marianne asked, "Can't I stay with Sam and Mikaela? I would be safe there!"
"No Marianne! You can't because Bumblebee is on his way back now, and if you are there we can't protect you and it would also put Sam and his family in danger."
Wheeljack hid his invention in a vault buried deep under the base. This was where most of his inventions ended up so that the Decepticons couldn't get hold of them. It was also the place where they'd hide Lou and the girls if necessary.
Hound and Red Alert were both in the monitor room watching, waiting in silence. The atmosphere in the room was tense as both had optics peeled to the screens. They didn't have to wait long!
"Here they come" Red Alert growled.
Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp flew towards the base all prepared for the battle that lay ahead, they were accompanied by the coneheads. Starscream had briefed his warriors so each and every Mech knew what they had to do and understood what part they played in the battle. Barricade and Dark Orbit were racing through the woods to get to the base, their red optics shining in the dull light created by the shadows from the leaves of the trees, their mission; to retrieve Lou and the girls if possible. They got to a clearing before they heard the roar of the engines from the seekers. They stopped and waited before they could go the rest of the way. Starscream would fire missiles at the base first to create confusion, and take down the Autobot guards, then Barricade and Dark Orbit would go in and collect the woman and the children while the coneheads locate Wheeljack's lab and collect the weapon.
"Whoosh!" the first missile had been released,
"Whoosh!" went the second one.
Barricade and Dark Orbit watched with glee as the missiles made a direct hit on the base sending up flames and plumes of smoke from the explosion, debris went everywhere and already the blood curdling screams from injured Mechs could be heard.
The morning had started off quiet and there was an odd serenity about the base. It was quickly interrupted by Red Alert's voice booming over the intercom and the sound of sirens signalling attack,
"Incoming!"
Optimus Prime rose up from his chair and raced out of his office, he heard the call for all Mechs to be at their battle stations, ready! He raced through the corridors to the ops room,
"What's happening?"
"Missiles inbound!" Red Alert growled,
"And Decepticons!" Hound continued, "Flying and coming in on ground"
"Boom!" the first missile hit shaking the base,
"Boom!" the second one hit causing the monitors to glitch. Red Alert's fingers flew across the keys on the keyboard desperately as he tried to stabilise the computer.
Clash and Bluestreak immediately went into action as they picked up Lou and the girls and raced out the door,
"Mummy I want my baby!" Anna screamed as she tried to wriggle out of Bluestreak's arms,
"No Anna! There is no time we have to get you to safety. NOW!" The red and white sniper insisted.
Marianne screamed and Lou looked around Clash's arm for Bluestreak and her children but she couldn't see them through the thick orange smoke,
"Clash my children!" she screamed, he stopped and turned around. Bluestreak burst through the smoke with both children in his left hand, punching any Decepticon out of the way who tried to get near him with his other hand. He had a look of determination on his face as he maintained his promise to keep the children safe; a promise he had made to Optimus Prime from the very first time he took on guardianship of the girls.
"They're safe Lou!" Clash yelled and continued charging through the base desperate to get Lou safely to the vault.
Decepticons were now pouring through the hole in the wall caused by the missiles the coneheads were amongst them. They made their way down the corridor through the chaos caused by the smoke and rubble, it didn't take them long to find the white scientist just outside his lab. Dirge grabbed hold of his fins and pushed him back into his lab, he held the white mech down on a table while Thrust pulled his lab apart trying to find the weapon,
"Can't find it!" he growled,
Dirge got right into Wheejack's face, his eyes narrowing into mencing slits,
"Where is your weapon?" he snarled dangerously,
"It's on my shoulder! I can give it to you, if you want it?" Wheeljack growled back while fighting off the blue mech.
Dirge got off Wheeljack and pulled him up. Wheeljack cried out in pain as Dirge hauled him up and threw him back against the wall,
"Don't get smart with me AUTOSCUM!" He spat back, "Where is the weapon you invented?"
Outside the door Ramjet was guarding the door to keep any Autobots away, Perceptor hid around the corner of the corridor waiting for his perfect opportunity to attack, his weapon ready to fire. Mirage saw Ramjet standing by the door and the red scientist waiting around the corner, the blue and white mech activated his cloaking device and raced towards Ramjet grabbing him and pulled him away from the door. Percy saw the opportunity and raced to the door, he opened it and went straight for Dirge,
"You will never find it!" the white inventor hissed through his mouth components as he lifted his legs and aimed a kick at the the blue decepticon, shoving him into Percy. Thrust grabbed Wheeljack and pushed him to the ground. He heard Percy cry out in pain after a terrible noise. When he looked around Percy was laying motionless on the floor with his arm ripped off exposing delicate wiring and broken fuel lines. Dirge menacingly approached Wheeljack,
"Now" he snarled darkly, "The weapon!"
"You are not going to get it!"
Wheeljack growled as he released a missile but Dirge avoided it, it hit the ceiling of the base sending rubble all over the place, which hit Thrust on the head, denting it. Dirge pointed his weapon at Wheeljack,
"You are going to pay for that! You will end up like your little Autobot friend there but first we'll get Soundwave to help you offload your information"
Soundwave entered the room staring at Wheeljack menacingly. Thrust and Dirge held Wheeljack down and opened a panel on his right arm while Soundwave pulled out a probe from his own arm. The probe was placed into an interfacing port in Wheeljack's arm. Soundwave didn't waste anytime searching for the information he wanted; the whereabouts of the weapon. Wheeljack fought hard to stop the information being retrieved as as he felt Soundwave getting closer, but the harder he fought the greater the pain, "I'd rather die than let the Decepticons get hold of the weapon," he thought as he desperately tried to stop Soundwave. He knew that not only would the decepticon find the weapon but Lou and the children as well.
"Stop fighting, you are making it more difficult for me" Soundwave roared.
Wheeljack carried on groaning in pain and fighting Soundwave, in the end it was too much. Wheeljack shut his systems down as he went into stasis, if this is what it would take to protect the whereabouts of the weapon then this is what he would do!
"Kill him!" Soundwave ordered.
Dirge stood up above Wheeljack and shot him. Mirage returned after his fight with Ramjet and went into Wheeljack's lab. He was horrified when he saw his fellow Autobot unconscious,
"Over here!" he bellowed, "I need some help!"
Ironhide came up beside Bluestreak aiming his cannons at any Decepticon who dared to come near Bluestreak and his charges. Ravage was following closely behind them but took a shot from Ironhide's cannon. He snarled as he fell, his optics dimming as he struggled to get up.
"Go!" Ironhide yelled to Bluestreak, "Get them to safety!"
Bluestreak and Clash continued heading toward the vault. The battle was in full swing! Everywhere Lou turned she could see Autobot and Decepticon Mechs fighting, groaning and falling. It was noisy as cannons blasted and Mechs screamed in pain. The smell of leaking energon and Mech fluid was acrid. Suddenly a red and a yellow mech turned up beside Clash,
"We'll clear your path!" they yelled at the dark blue mech, "Just get her to the vault!"
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe started to fight as Decepticons made a rush for Lou and Clash but the thick of the battle lay ahead. Lou started to shake when she realised he had to get her through it,
"It's okay little one, shh, shh." He wrapped a hand around her to protect her from the sight that lay ahead of them.
"Keep moving!" Clash demanded to Bluestreak who by now was right beside him with Ironhide on the other side.
Clash fired shots at Decepticons that tried to lunge at him and Lou. On the battle field he is formidable but right now he's only focus was to get Lou and the children to safety. Ironhide saw a Mech go for Lou, he shot his cannon and the Mech tumbled to the ground splattering energon everywhere, just missing Lou. On the way to the vault she saw Barricade. He saw her and snarled as he made a grab for her. Clash clenched his fingers tightly around Lou and drew his arm away from Barricade's terrifying claws. He used his other hand to stop Barricade but the black and white saleen pushed Clash out of the way against the wall, Soundwave was livid at the failure to retrieve the weapon and when he saw the dark blue Autobot down he didn't waste any time and took the opportunity to shoot Clash. The Autobot took two shots in his leg and one in the hand which was holding Lou, she screamed as he cried out in pain. The shot hit a wire which stopped his hand from working, he was no longer able to hold onto Lou as his fingers involuntarily unwrapped themselves from Lou, exposing her to the mercy of the two decepticon mechs. He buckled and watched helplessly as Barricade grabbed Lou from his hand, laughing evilly and run away with her. Marianne watched in horror her eyes wide and her mouth open to scream but nothing came out. Ironhide turned around as he heard Clash call out. He looked to Clash who was on the floor and then to Barricade running off with the distressed woman.
"Nooooo" Clash yelled as he tried get up but Dark Orbit caught the Autobot warrior as he took a step forward and plunged his sword into dark blue Mech's chassis, slicing through metal, fuel lines and narrowly missing his spark chamber before he threw him across the corridor. Clash lay there helpless cursing the decepticon spy as energon trickled out of the wound. Dark Orbit walked up to him, smirking
"We have your human pet now and you can't do anything about it" he snarled darkly as Clash started to lose consciousness and his world blackened.
"Nooo!" Sunstreaker growled as he pushed Dark Orbit away from Clash,
"Sunstreaker get Clash to the Med bay. Sideswipe come with me!" Ironhide ordered. They both run in the direction that Barricade took, fighting their way through the battle.
Lou started to fight Barricade,
"Let me go you evil…" Lou growled as she struggled and tried to get free of Barricade's grip but he just tightened his fingers around her midriff.
"Shut up femme" Barricade snarled darkly, "There is no point in screaming, your guardian can't do anything for you now. He's dead! You may have escaped us in the car park but we have you now!"
Lou wasn't going to accept that and she certainly wasn't going to be taken from the Autobot base quietly. She screamed a high pitched scream, causing Barricade to stop and shake his head as he tried to bring his audio sensors back to normal function. Sideswipe and Ironhide saw him and seized the opportunity to rescue Lou
"Let her go you useless hunk of metallic junk" Sideswipe growled as Ironhide shot at him but Barricade avoided the onslaught and continued racing down the corridor.
Meanwhile Sunny picked up Clash and took him to the Med bay. Dark Orbit wasn't going to allow them to get past and tried to wrestle Sunstreaker down but Cliffjumper and Inferno pushed Dark Orbit off allowing Sunstreaker safe passage with the injured mech. He turned up in the med bay covered in bright pink streaks from where Clash had leaked energon on him,
"What happened?" Ratchet growled,
"Soundwave and Dark Orbit injured Clash and Barricade took Lou,
"Alright put him on that berth there." Ratchet ordered, "This is not going so well!" Ratchet thought to himself but didn't mention it to anybody else, morales of injured mechs were already getting low as more mechs arrived at the med bay
Sunstreaker did as he was told and went back out to find his brother and help him retrieve Lou but he was too late. Barricade laughed evilly as he saw Marianne, his prize in his hand followed by a small army of decepticons who were shooting at anything which moved. Marianne watched everything that was happenning and quickly turned around to shelter Anna from the scene,
"Mum no Mum!" Marianne whimpered quietly so as not to alarm her little sister anymore than she was, "Bluestreak we have to go back! You have to get Mum!" she whispered
She tried to wriggle out of his hands but had a hold of her firmly. Two Decepticon Mechs come up behind Bluestreak but were quickly brought down as Jazz and Prowl grabbed them.
"No little one. We can't do that!" Bluestreak gently repiled as he stroked her hair away from her face, he cringed at the pain in her eyes,
"Let me go! she screamed as she wriggled but she couldn't get out. She turned to Jazz,
"Jazz please!Tell him!" she cried,
"No! Can't happen little one! Be brave we'll get your mum, Barricade has a long way to go before he gets outta here."
"Please" she begged. But it was to no avail.
Jazz saw the door to the vault,
"Blue go!" The silver mech yelled, two shots rung out, one of which hit Blue in the side ripping apart his armour. He yelled out in pain and slid to the ground, the other just scraped Jazz on his leg. Bluestreak tried to get up but stumbled and dropped Anna and Marianne. Both the girls screamed! Sunstreaker turned around when he heard their screams, he lunged forward and caught them before they fell to their death.
Both Sunstreaker and Prowl run with Ironhide following them firing at anyone who tried to stop them. They got to the vault and punched in the code while Jazz took Bluestreak to the med bay
"Look out" Sunstreaker yelled. Ironhide turned around just in time to see Dark Orbit's blade move toward him, he quickly jumped out of the way missing any injury.
The Decepticon tried again but this time they were prepared. Sunny spun around, lifting one leg into the air as he did and swiped the decepticon across the chassis, it knocked him back giving the mechs a chance to put the children in the vault.
Prowl and Sunstreaker took the girls into the vault,
"Stay here! We will come and get you when this is over" they instructed.
They run back out and locked the door behind them before rejoining the battle. Prowl and Sunstreaker heard a cry for help and when they looked around they found Wheeljack and Perceptor seriously injured on the floor with Thrust and Dirge above them. Dirge was aiming his weapon at Wheeljack ready to give one final shot but Prowl shot him first. They run to Wheeljack and carried him to the Med bay, with Mirage and Ironhide following closely behind with Perceptor.
The vault was dark, apart from the little light Jazz had produced from his sub space and given to Marianne, and cold. Marianne started to shiver as she looked around the room. In the dim light, they saw all Wheeljack's inventions sitting on the shelf, well the ones that didn't blow up in his face! Marianne turned around shining the light around the room, the light came upon a clear area which was just enough space for the girls to sit in. It was also partially secluded so they would be out of sight if a decepticon were to find the vault. They sat there, both of them sobbing and shivering as they heard the faint rumbles of the battle above them. Marianne could hear Anna sobbing,
"Shh Anna. We must be brave" Marianne whimpered as she tried to sooth her sister and huggged her tightly,
"I want my mummy!" Anna wailed. "Where's my mummy?"
Marianne simply shuddered as she tried to hold in the sobs, but it didn't work. They heard someone trying to punch in a code, the girls sat on the ground looking toward the door, trembling, scared to breath. It stopped! a sigh of relief could be heard from both of the girls.
Bumblebee was fighting, out of the corner of his optic he noticed Barricade running with Lou clenched tightly in his fist. "Oh no you don't!" He raced toward Barricade but was too late. Lou was placed in Thundercracker's cockpit. Thundercracker didn't waste any time as he took a run than flew into the air as he transformed, Lou was shifted around then strapped in tightly. Jetfire saw what happened, he took off after Thundercracker but he was soon outnumbered when Thundercracker was joined by Skywarp and the coneheads.
Starscream was fighting with Optimus Prime and not doing so well. He got the message from Barricade that they have Lou,
"What about the weapon?" he snapped,
"Thrust couldn't find it! Barricade snarled. Starscream suddenly took off,
"Oh no you don't! Come back here you coward! Prime growled as he aimed his cannon at the seeker and shot him. He hit Starscream in the wing causing him to lose balance and altitude but Starscream still managed to get away. Prime turned around and saw Bumblebee,
"Prime. I'm so sorry." Bumblebee lifted his hands as he apologised, "I tried to stop Barricade taking Lou, but Thundercracker took her and flew off with her."
Optimus Prime put his hand on Bee's shoulder. He knew the young Scout would have tried his hardest but sometimes things just don't go as planned,
"Don't worry Bee I know you did!" Prime reassured him, "I want you to go to the vault to collect the girls"
Nobody heard the order go out from Soundwave to Rumble to pummel the base with his piledrivers. Rumble raced to the top of the base and started to hammer the roof until the base started to shudder. He jumped off as the roof caved in burying Prime and Bee, and causing others standing nearby to run for cover. Jetfire came back to see the entrance to the base falling apart. He circulated the base and found Rumble, he swooped down low and grabbed the casseticon before landing. He opened his com link,
"All available Mechs to the base entrance NOW! The entrance to the base is destroyed and Prime and Bee are under the rubble"
He landed in front of the pile of rubble, energon was seeping from underneath. The seeker looked in horror at the realisation of who the energon may be coming from. He lifted up Rumble so they were optic to burning blue optic,
"You. Will. Pay!" he growled menacingly before thrusting the small, purple against the wall. Rumble looked up at Jetfire and laughed at him, Jetfire lifted his foot,
"Jetfire that's enough!" a voice boomed. It was Ironhide, who was injured from falling debris from the base entrance. "As annoying as the little rust bucket is, we can use him as a bartering tool."
"Sorry!" Jetfire replied, "You'd better get to the Med bay and get those wounds sorted. We can deal with this!",
"I'll be okay" Ironhide nodded, "I've been through worse than this!" he continued muttering as he trudged towards the med bay.
Rumble was watching the conversation and seeing the two mechs were distracted had seized his opportunity to escape and took off. He could hear Soundwave calling him back, he quickly transfomed back into a cassette and slid back into Soundwave's chest. Sunstreaker came out to the entrance to help dig out Prime and Bee,
"Hey was that little fragger meant to be getting away?"
"No!" Jetfire snarled at Sunstreaker.
Meanwhile the door to the vault opened. Marianne and Anna held their breath, as they heard the footsteps of two mechs entering the room. They both heaved a sigh of relief when they saw Prowl and Sideswipe walk in. The two mechs picked them up and took them out,
"Where's my Mum?" Marianne snapped. Sideswipe looked at Marianne sympathetically, he didn't know how to answer the upset girl. She knew what the answer was and Sideswipe knew she knew. He wrapped his fingers tightly around them and held them to his spark chamber and gently rubbed their heads trying to soothe them,
"Better take them to the Med bay" Sideswipe said,
"No Sideswipe!" Prowl replied, "Take them to your quarters and comfort them there."
Sideswipe was just about to leave when they were called to the front entrance to help dig out Prime and Bee. Not knowing what to do with them, he took them to the Med bay.
In the Med bay Ratchet and First Aid were up to their elbows in energon, unconscious bodies and Mech fluid when news got to them that Optimus Prime and Bumblebee were buried under rubble and leaking energon,
"What are we going to do?" First Aid asked, "We need to go and get them!"
Ratchet calmly looked around the Med bay, most of the Mechs injured in the battle had been stabilised and were now recharging or in stasis lock. He knew he had to get to Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in case they needed stabilising before they were moved to the Med bay but there were also Mechs in the Med bay who needed attention as well. He knew Wheeljack wouldn't be able to help as he himself was injured and was in need of medical attention. The neon green medic swiftly moved towards Wheeljack and noticed his panel open in his arm and his interfacing port damaged. He knew what had happened and called First Aid,
"Connect him to this machine, he's gone into stasis to protect whatever Soundwave was after, most likely his weapon." They then went to work on Wheeljack to get him stabilised. The two medics moved over to Clash who was laying on a berth, Ratchet looked up and saw Sideswipe with the girls.
"This is no place for them, get them out of hear!" he barked.
"I know but they saw their mother kidnapped by Barricade. I can't calm them and I need to help dig out …" Ratchet shook his head,
"Fine, fine" he huffed, "Put them in my office" he snapped as he glared at the silver mech "This should never have happened, they shouldn't be here" he went over to Clash,
"Oh Clash" he groaned. Ratchet started working on him, he started off first of all by stabilising the injured Autobot and then treating his wounds which although they were serious; he would survive. Clash opened his optics.
"Hey there Doc. How am I doing?"
First Aid produced a syringe with sedative in it. Ratchet nodded at First Aid, he was impressed by the young Mech's quick thinking, especially as Clash was Lou's guardian,
"She's gone isn't she? I've failed!" Ratchet scanned him, he was starting to get angry and stressed
"SShh! Sshh!" Ratchet soothed as he placed the needle behind his neck and watched Clash offline slowly. Clash's optics dimmed and his systems powered down to a steady rhythem. Ratchet attached the blue mech to a machine to pump energon through his systems then he carried on working on him. Ratchet moved him to a quiet area where he could keep an eye on him; once he came around again he would be distressed because Lou was taken by Barricade,
"First Aid I need you to go to the front entrance and report to me the damage Bumblebee and Optimus Prime have sustained. Try to stabilise them there and I'll prepare for their arrival. I need to sort out these two younglings"
First Aid left the Med bay while Ratchet walked into his office. Air cycled through his vents as he looked at them with sympathy. They looked up at him, Anna was holding on tightly to Marianne and sobbing, Marianne looked at him then looked away as she tried to hold in her tears. Ratchet walked towards them and bent down, he gently wiped away Marianne's tears, picked them up and hugged them while shaking his head. What was he supposed to do with them? He looked into the Med bay and saw Ironhide and Jazz sitting on the berth, both under strict instructions to stay where they were for a while. Ratchet took them out of his office and walked up to Jazz and Ironhide,
"Here you are you two. Look after these younglings for me"
Jazz looked down at Marianne. Her eyes were puffy and her face was blotchy from crying so much. She was numb! First her Dad had betrayed them then her mum was kidnapped. Jazz held her close to his spark chamber and gently rubbed her back with his claw she snuggled in closer to the warmth his spark chamber emitted,
"It's okay little one. Jazz has you!" he soothed.
She looked around for Anna but couldn't see her, Jazz shifted a bit so he was facing Ironhide. There was Anna lying in Ironhide's hand sobbing while he gently rocked her and sung a gentle melody in Cybertronian, stroking her head at the same time. Jazz smiled, it had been ages since he heard that melody. Most femmes who had sparklings knew it.