Chapter 21
Bouncer slowly woke up and started to cry. Prowl ran over to him and picked him up. Prowl grabbed the bottle and started to feed him.
"How am I going to raise Bouncer without Karai?" Prowl asked.
"I don'tknow." Ratchet replied "Do you want me to tell the others?"
"Yes." Prow answered and Ratchet walked out.
Ratchet walked out into the main room and saw everyone else smiling.
"Hey Ratchet, where's Prowl and Karai?" asked Sari.
"That's what I wanted to talk to you guys about. Karai has virus x." Ratchet said.
"How? Virus x hasn't affected anyone in stellar cycles."Optimus exclaimed.
"It might have something to do with the atmosphere and the climate. When Karai had Bouncer the virus must of somehow seeped into her systems." Ratchet explained
"What's virus x?" asked Sari.
"It's the most dangerous virus ever." Ratchet replied.
"How did she catch it?" Optimus asked.
"After she had Bouncer the virus must have somehow got into her systems."
"Can we see her?" Bumblebee asked
"Only if she's feeling up to it."
When Ratchet walked back into Prowl and Karai's quarters he was hit with the foul smell of regurgitated energon. He then noticed Karai leaning over the latrine with Prowl behind her rubbing her back struts. Ratchet ran over to them and saw that Karai looked very pale and she was shaking violently. Karai eventually passed out and fell into Prowl's arms. Prow carried Karai to their berth and laid her down. Ratchet felt Karai's forehead.
"She's burning up." Ratchet said as he ran to wet a rag. After a few minutes he came back and placed it on Karai's fore head. Karai really wanted to open her eyes but when she tried they stung badly. When she tried they stung and she closed them tightly. Then tears started to flow from her eyes in an effort to stop her eyes from stinging. Then an alarm went off.
"Decepticons." Ratchet said, "If there's a cure for virus x, Megatron must have it." Prowl looked at Karai and made his decision.
"I'll go, only to save her." And with that Prowl ran out of the room.
"Lord Megatron the Autobots are heading towards the trap." Catlinet announced.
"Catlinet, take Blizwing and make sure you actually bring me the sparkling." Megatron sneered, "That Mepozalar will have no choice but to fall to her knees before me once we take her sparkling."
Karai awoke to the sounds of two different 'bots talking. She shot up as soon as Bouncer started crying. She was met by a blaster being pointed at her face.
"Don't move or you sparkling will die!" Catlinet pointed her own gun at Bouncer. Karai kicked Blizwing in the abdomen and threw a dagger at Catlinet, making her drop the blaster. Karai wasn't supposed to be fighting, but her son's life was on the line. Blizwing kicked Karai in the stomach and then punched her in the same spot. She collapsed completely.
"Think she's had enough?" Blizwing asked and Catlinet gave him a look as if it was a question you'd teach a sparkling. Then Blizwing shot Karai in the chest. Catlinet made sure she had the crying sparkling secured with both her arms and flew off with Blizwing.
Meanwhile the rest of the Autobots were fighting Megatron, Starscream and Lugnut. Optimus had Megatron pinned under his axe.
"Where is the antidote?" Optimus asked angrily.
"I have it right here!" Megatron smiled evilly as he gave Optimus a small syringe, "But I think that you have bigger problems to worry about." And with that he kicked Optimus off him and flew off with the other Decepticons behind him. Prowl pondered what Megatron had just said, then he realised that he could only mean one thing.
"Oh no, Karai and Bouncer!"