Chapter 19: Massive Headaches

With Barricade and Shein, the two were currently in the said mech's quarters. Nothing had changed since the femme had been gone but there was evidence of the room being forgotten and not cleaned.

His berth was still as large as him and his stuff that included a big rag, some wax (coming from Shein) and some pieces equipment that femme had said that he needs to be always in plain sight so she could attend to him without a second worry of having no supplies at all, were there at the side, some touched and some not (more like the tools for repairing were touched).

Ignoring everything else, Barricade dropped the femme on his berth not to gently to spare her pain but not too hard to give her a bruise. She had then landed on her aft and stayed disheveled for a few seconds before curling into a tiny ball that she was in earlier.

Barricade growled in annoyance as he saw her do that with a look of lost on her face. It was quite annoying if you ask any mech on the Nemesis when the teen starts to fold into something like this… And it was Barricade's job to take her out of her sudden glitching when it happens.

Where was the femme he had known that had emerged from that feeble personality of hers? Well, currently, she was hiding in that ball…

With a growl and a snarl, he said, "If you don't straighten up and look me in the optics, I'll make you myself." Barricade wasn't even lucky enough to elicit a response from her.

"Don't you test me, femme…" Feeling the frustration bubbling underneath his armor, he gave another warning which bore no results either.

He waited with every non-fried wire in the processor that he still had left until he was ready to burst and lash out on her. But then again, he remembered that the femme, no matter what he would do… there was only one thing that would make her respond… He decided that it will be his last resort if ever… He still could use other methods without resorting to that ugly display.

As he was about to speak up again, he saw her quiver and shake before he heard her voice that was void of emotion but you could clearly pick up her inner turmoil with its icy impact.

"First… I found Starscream was hurt and put into medical stasis… I want explanations for it." Her body had stopped shaking but her face was still hidden from his sight.

"Second… I find that Frenzy has contributed to whatever had happened to the seeker… What had I warned you guys, huh? About being an awful role model to the younger sparks…?" Her voice got louder and icier than the North Pole.

"Third, you had broken something… I won't even tell what it is, even if you're processing like a stupid glitching, microchip processing tin can…" He had flinched when her head slowly rose to his direction. Now, he could practically see the fury she had pent up.

"Fourth but not the last, you call me a baggage around here! Wh—" Barricade stared in shock as the femme suddenly stopped midsentence as her hands flew to her head and had grab a hefty amount of her shortened hair to pull out as she screamed.

He immediately activated his holoform and went besides her. Barricade was trying to stop her from banging her head hard on his berth as she went berserk with the pain she must have been induced with.

::Hook… I need you right here… NOW!:: The mustang shouted through the com as the other flinched in shock from the urgency or his voice.

::Slag! What in the pit…? What is happening?!:: Hook was by that time, dragging a stasis induced mech in the name of Thundercracker, to his doom. Poor seeker had been suddenly let go off … then hit the hard metal floor from shock but it didn't manage to awaken him.

::Just get here NOW!:: The urgency was still there as Barricade tried to restrain the girl from hurting herself. She was still screaming as she liquid pass her cheeks onto his shirt. His hands were holding hers with her head now laid on his holoform's shoulder.

The door to his quarters was suddenly opened in haste as he saw the medic burst in. Hook had heard the screaming and immediately thought that it was the femme.

"What in the pit had happened?!" Hook angrily shouted through the girl's screaming. He took out one of his needles and activated his own holoform to help calm her down.

Barricade had only glared and growled at the medic as he felt the femme quivered harder and harder as she made motion to hit her head on his shoulder. He didn't feel pain from it but he can say that the force she was inserting with every bang was increasing in a faster pace.

As immediately it had happened, it had dispersed. Hook had the needle inserted in her arm when her body fell limp on him… If they could pant, they would have by now from the sheer difficulty she had given them0…

The medic sighed and rubbed the bridge if his holoform's nose in a sign that he was stressed out by what happened. This motion had been influenced by Shein so it wasn't that foreign to understand and the holo he has now was one of the upgrades he had made on his self to be more of help to the femme when his servos can't handle her. The added bonus was now, he could even do smaller parts in the process.

"Only a few kliks out of my Med Bay and this happens? What in the pit did you do, you slagging glitch?!" He shouted at the mech as his holo disappeared. Barricade can see that he had taken out a crowbar and hit his bipedal form that was at his side.

There was a satisfying clang of the metal connecting with another metal indicating that the crowbar had reached its target. Even though Barricade was in his holoform, he could certainly feel the impact… but he won't dissolve with just that. It was fairly not threatening enough to really take him out. He just stayed there, holding the femme tight to him in an indescribable feeling.

As he ignored the pain and confusion, he looked down at her and saw her face was scrunch up as she whimpered. Her hands found its way to his shirt and had grabbed a hold of it tightly.

Barricade glared at particularly nothing but he did take the femme's hand into his. She was squeezing it tight but not hard enough to hurt.

Another sigh can be heard as it echoed with the whimper filled room… It came from Hook as he crossed his arms in front of his chest plates. He started scanning the femme for any damages and was shocked to find out the results.

Was there any time in her life wherein she wasn't hurt? Well, yes… That was when she was still kept under their care without the Autoscums meddling or knowing of her existance.

Hook glowered in thought as his hate for the other faction had risen. He had immediately let it go though for he knew that all the hard work that Shein had put in effort to make them like the other faction would die in vain. The only constraint here was that no matter how easy it was to forgive, no one can tell if one has truly forgive the other… He would just try and forget about it (eveb though it was kinda hard for a mechanical being like him to forget).

It was just that if it weren't for them, she would still be fine and harms-away.

"I need to take her back to my Med Bay…" He cut off his thought and focused on a different topic. He just called out to the mech as his servo reached out to the femme, demanding to be given.

"What is wrong with her all of a sudden?" That was all Barricade had asked, not even moving to give the femme. His voice was void of emotion as his expression told the medic that he wouldn't hand her over if he won't tell anything to him.

Hook vented again and glared at the defiant mech. He doesn't need an aft head right now… but if telling the other what he had wanted to get the femme, then he wouldn't mind.

"From your lack of response and my analysis of her health, you had managed to trigger her anxiety, stress and rage all in the same time creating a painful reaction to her mind." The medic said with his professional tone.

"I had reported to you earlier, she was functioning relatively with 95 percent brain activity that had just come back within the past 3 cycles but that didn't mean that she was ready to handle emotion processing… and extreme ones at that." He glared at the mech briefly before continuing.

"…That had caused her to break down… or as we call it, glitch… as her mind tried to keep up with processing everything that she was thinking. And in this process, it made a strain on her brain giving her a very painful migraine.

Since her pain was in the cortex area, she must have instinctively tried to remedy the pain by looking for another source of pain that could distract her, ending up with her banging her head as she leaked fluids." Hook explained to the mech what he could but until Barricade hasn't given the femme, he wouldn't be able to give the girl a deeper scan like he did earlier.

There you go.

Happy TF weeK. Hah! Massive headaches? I have one currently... And I think I am going to be sick.