Skylight's P.O.V:
Well, my life now sucks. Since I snuck out of the med-bay, Ratchet has made it quite sure that I stay here until he sees fit. He barely leaves and when he does he turns on the door alarms so I can't get out without the base flaring up in sirens.
I know Ratchet's only doing this so he can make sure that I'm back to being at 100% better but I'm beginning to suffocate in here! So far my injuries have healed up nicely, besides the scar over my optic screen; that will take some time. By now I think Ratchet's just keeping me in here as a form of punishment.
It's not too bad though, I get visits from the team and they keep me company… well, almost everyone comes. So far, I haven't seen helm or tailpipe of Smokescreen since I saw him speed out of the base like a mad mech.
I still wanted to talk to him about something but since he never comes and I can't leave…
As of right now, Ratchet has left me alone in the med-bay and I have nothing better to do than just lay on my berth staring up at the ceiling; flickering my optic screen from its spark scanner to its normal clear covering.
Hearing the doors open, I turned to see if it was Ratchet but I was surprised so much by the familiar bright white and purple spark energy that I stumbled off the berth and fell to the floor with a loud CLANK!
"Forgive me Skylight. I did not mean to startle you." Optimus' low baritone voice spoke out as he helped me back onto my legs. "It's alright Optimus, I was messing with my optic screen when you walked in and your spark just blindsided me." I said as I switched my optic screen back to its normal clear covering.
"Where's Ratchet? he kind of left me here to rust a while ago." I asked as I looked up at the larger Prime who had his servo on my shoulder plating. "Ratchet and the others have gone on a scouting mission and I offered to watch over you."
Giving a shrugged, I slid my digits over the scar on my optic screen; almost like a human would do when they would move their hair out of their face. "Fine by me but you don't have to stay here and watch me Optimus. I bet you have more important things to attend to than just staying here and watching me."
Optimus shook his helm and turned us to the door. "I do but… I believe that I will be needing some assistance with them." Optimus pushed the door open and looked down at me with a smile. "I smiled back at the thought of getting out but it disappeared when I thought of something else.
"But won't Ratchet get mad? He did say that I am to stay in the med-bay until he says otherwise." Optimus nodded at this but continued to smile down at me. "What Ratchet doesn't know won't hurt him. Besides, I believe you deserve to stretch your legs by helping me work around the base."
Holding his servo out for me to leave, Optimus looked at me and gave a sly wink. I knew it would end badly if I disobeyed Ratchet again this soon but how could I refuse an offer like this and from a Prime.
Walking out of the med-bay with Optimus next to me, I allowed Optimus' words to fixate into my CPU. 'What Ratchet doesn't know won't hurt him'
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"Where do you want these boxes Optimus?" I asked as I set down the three boxes that I was holding on a table. Optimus looked away from the computers where he was working on some Cybertronian codes and pointed to the hallway. "Those boxes can be placed in my quarters. Just place them on my table and I'll get to them later."
I nodded and began to carry the boxes to Optimus room. It didn't take me long till I finally reached Optimus room and giving it a gentle push it opened to show the Prime's room. It wasn't spectacular; gray walls, a large berth off to the side, an energon container, and a large table near the wall.
Placing the boxes down on the table, I noticed something that looked extremely old and out of place. Amongst the many normal datapads was a red tinted medical datapad with a familiar symbol on it. The symbol was of the old medical building Ratchet and I used to live in.
Curiosity got the better of me and I lifted the datapad up and flipped on its screen but oddly it had a lock on it that required an eight lettered password to enter it. Normally datapads like this never had passwords because they usually held medical information that could be of aid when needed.
"Skylight, could you come here please?" Optimus voice broke through the silence and startled me enough to where I dropped the datapad and it hit the table hard enough to where it left a dent on the screen.
"Oh Slag." I whispered and I rushed out before Optimus began to wonder what was taking me.
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When I finally came back into the main room, Optimus was waiting for me next to the computers. "Skylight, could you assist me with these codes? The both of us working on them will quicken it." Optimus asked while taking a step aside for me to come next to him.
"I don't know how much help I'll be; I've never really tried to work on codes before." I said as I walked over but Optimus didn't make any movement to what I said. "But I you really want me to." Placing my hands down on the keyboard I started out slowly.
Suddenly my optic screen began to quickly ramble the codes around and my digits were going just as fast to press the keys that my optic screen was decoding. I don't know what was happening but at this rate Optimus and I would be don't in no time.
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Who knows how long I've been here; nano klicks, minutes, hours? All I do know is that Optimus was next to me and that we were working at lightening quick speed.
As my screen continued to decode the codes, my processor suddenly popped up an image. I believe it's was one of my block memories but all it was just an image of a bot; a mech.
This mech was young, not as young as me, but just at the age of courting from the brightness of his spark, his spark was a deep blue-violet and his optics were shining with so much love and care that I could feel it radiating in my spark.
As the image began to become clearer I thought I saw something familiar of this mech but just as quickly the image came it disappeared as I felt a sudden slap on the back of my helm.
"GAH!" I shouted and by instinct I activated both my guns and my elbow blades and turned them onto who had hit me. Before my optics could process who I was attacking, I jumped the bot and slammed them into the floor and held one of my elbow blades to his neck cables while I had a gun pointed at.
"Skylight Stop! It's me, Bulkhead!" finally my optic screen showed who I had jumped and it was indeed Bulkhead. Gasping in surprise, I jumped off Bulkhead and accidentally bumped into Optimus who held a concerned look in his optics.
"what was that about Skylight?! You nearly blasted Bulk's helm off." Bumblebee shouted out at me as he and Arcee helped Bulkhead up. "I'm sorry. I just… it was… just that…" words seem to fail me as the familiar pain suddenly crept into my chassis.
All the pain from all those horrible beatings, all those attacks, from all those sparkless mechs and femmes who had attacked me when I was such a young femmeling.
"Leave her be you lot! Bulkhead why did you smack her like that? It was uncalled for." Ratchet's voice broke me away from those hurtful memories that had escaped my block. Looking over to where he was, I saw that he was standing next to Bulkhead and the rest.
"She wouldn't answer us Ratchet, what else was I going to do? If I had known that she would have tried to kill me I would have done something else." Bulkhead stated and gave me a questionable stare. "Skylight?" turning around, I looked up at Optimus who's concerned looking optics now held a form of comfort in them and I couldn't help just break down in tears.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean it." I said quietly but it was loud enough for everyone to hear. Stepping away from Optimus, I rushed pasted the others and rushed down the halls to my room. I needed to be alone; way from criticizing optics, away from all the hate and pain.
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Ratchet's P.O.V:
As Skylight rushed past us, I couldn't help but feel the grief rubbing off her; and I wasn't even feel or see spark like she was o see it.
True, I was a little cross when we came back and saw her out of the med-bay with Optimus but that disappeared when she didn't respond to us returning. When we drove in Optimus turned to great us but he did a double take when he remember that Skylight was with him.
I began to shout out at Skylight for disobeying me but when she didn't respond I became concerned. Skylight just looked so enveloped into the codes that it looked like she wasn't caring about the world around her. If a Decepticon started to attack I bet she still wouldn't respond.
After each of us had tried to get her attention, Bulkhead decided that the best thing to do was to slap her on the back of the helm. I was about to tell him that it wouldn't end well when he went and did it. Once Bulkhead had delivered the blow, Skylight's body tensed up and her weapons sprung out like it wasn't under her control.
But when she attacked Bulkhead that was when I truly became worried. She lashed out at him like he was a Decepticon, maybe even something worse…
Once Bulkhead had shouted out at Skylight, she seemed to relax but when she laid her optics on him she panicked.
I knew right away why she attacked and I knew why she wanted to be alone right now; she just needed to sort out something on her own.
"What in the name of Primus was that about?" Arcee asked as she had her optics locked on the hallway where Skylight had rushed away down. "That, Arcee, is called reliving many horrible memories." I said as I closed my optics trying not to picture the young skylight in such a state I knew she was once in.
"what do you mean Ratchet?" Bumblebee asked. "Sky has a… troubled past. She didn't live a life like we did before the war. Skylight's past was one of many hardships." I stated as I remembered the day Skylight came to me and how badly see looked.
"What kind of past could she have that would cause her to attack me like that?" Bulkhead asked and I figured they had a right to know; considering what just happened. "Sky was once… a street orphan." I said sadly and the looks from the others didn't surprise me.
"Skylight's an orphan? A-and lived on the streets? But she seems just so… so happy. You would never think that she-" Bumblebee spoke but he couldn't finish. And I couldn't blame him; Sky didn't look the type to be any of those things with her smile and colorful armor.
"Well, she isn't an orphan anymore since I took her under my care when she was younger but she did start out her life on the streets." This got me looks from everyone but I gave them a look that said 'Say anything and I'll whack you with my wrench.'
"But that doesn't fit to why she-" "She was abused by the bots around her." I stated interrupting Arcee. "When Cybertronians found out about her power they thought of her as a monster and would beat her. Some of them even tried to offline her; that is how she came to be under my care. Somebot brought her to me nearly offlined from a group beating."
The rest of them gave off saddened looks but none more than Optimus. I knew Optimus was taking this the worst and we both knew that he couldn't do anything about it since Skylight's memories were so sketchy.
Suddenly a soft clank of pedes against the floor came and we turn to see Skylight coming from the hallway; she still had a few tears under her optic screen. "I'll be outside if you guys need me. I need some night air to cool me off."
I nodded and we all watched as she walked off; her steps even quieter and he posture showing the pain she was holding in. "Just give her some time and don't bring up her past. She blocked out most of her bad memories because they were so bad and if we start talking about it they might come crashing in on her at once."
The team nodded and I soon began to walk down the hall. "Where are you going Ratchet?" Bulkhead asked. "I need to go check something. I'll be back shortly."
Leaving my friends in the room, I walked down the halls to where I hoped would show some light to what Skyt was holding in.
SOOO Sorry about the wait guys!
My momma took my laptop from me and I wasn't allowed to update for you guys. :'-(
But I promise, as best I can, that I will try to not get in trouble again.
Sorry again that this is a bit shorter but I will update soon so you can see what happens next.
Review please. I wanna see what you guys think.
Maybe some of you smarties are catching on to the other half of Skylight's life that is still a mystery.