Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, Hasbro does. The Efforts and their story, how ever, are mine.
Chapter 25: Vision
A few days later, Ferrofluid was working with Shockwave on a compute council. Suddenly, his pupils dilated with an enormous difference; his right dilated normally while the left pupil suddenly sprouted to fill the entire eye. Then he simply closed his eyes and collapsed.
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"Bio-scans suggest that his vision mental areas are rapidly changing," the medic-bot said. "And that his mind has put him into stasis until the work is done. No telling when he'll wake up… if he'll wake up."
"Oh, Ferrofluid!" Cartwheel whined.
"Come on, Cartwheel," Mextron said, placing an arm around her shoulders. "We got work to do and Ferrofluid isn't waking up any time soon.
It was an hour after Ferrofluid's collapse and now the Effort was in a bed taken from one of the barrack rooms not yet converted to something more useful and lay there, unconscious, with Shockwave and the other Efforts gathered around him in the med bay. Shockwave was lucky that he didn't have a face, or he would be unable to hide the grimace of sheer worry and fear for his organic Sparkling.
"Aw, do we have to, Mex?" Shadowleap whined.
"Yes," Mextron said sadly, watching as Smartmouth betrayed herself to reveal mothering side as she adjusted the pillows and blankets to cover the unconscious Ferrofluid more. "We can't hold everything for one complication. But I'm sure the good doctor here will inform us if there's been any change, right doctor?"
Mextron fixed his red and silver eyes on the medic and the medic was suddenly positive that if he answered anything wrongly, his Spark would be powering half the base for the next eon. Quite terrifying, actually.
"Yes, sir," the medic-bot replied with full truthfulness, in spite of automatically being the superior of an organic. Something about that kid made him terrified and respectful of him at the same time.
"I'll be listening," Skynet warned, prodding the medic telepathically to show him what he meant.
"Good. Come on, guys, we got work to do," Mextron said, reluctantly pulling his comrades away from Ferrofluid.
Cartwheel jumped up and gave Ferrofluid a peck on the cheek before she followed her friends.
Shockwave stared as the shifting mind in Ferrofluid began to slowly settle down then finally made himself turn away and leave. He couldn't betray exactly how much he was worried for his Effort for the sake of reputation, but rest assured that he would act if anything would happen to make Ferrofluid's strabfe condition worsen.
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Hours later, Ferrofluid slowly opened his eyes. His left eye was still pure pitch black, but his right eye's gold iris was larger now with a thick black line around it, showing little white and creating quite a creepy affect. As he stared into the darkness of the recharging base, his right eye saw the base as he usually saw it as a regular human. But the left eye cast everything in a strange, eerie sort of vision, like the negatives of a camera film. A hyper cruiser appeared, measuring and examining objects and their properties. He could see their geometric shapes, chemical compounds and physical properties appear like a glowing white hologram on screen, scrolling around their items and informing him of all that he saw without issue.
"What the...?" he muttered, rubbing his eyes and looking again.
He still saw the world in its two layers, regular and camera-negatives, but when he focused on something far away, his vision seemed to zone in on it, expanding it until he could see all the details of the object he peered at. Curious, he focused on a Transformer tool box in the corner; a large wrench, to be specific. He stared at the head of the wrench. After a moment, the negatives side of his vision shuddered and zoomed in on the wrench head, making the C-shapped grip fill his vison. His hyper cruiser pointed and tapped at the head and Ferrofluid learned that it was an inch thick and four inches from one end to the other, made of an alloy of iron and steel and slightly electrically charged.
Ferrofluid blinked and reared his head back, making his vison with draw back into a normal distance of seeing. Was this a result of his Energon diet? It was logical to believe so; he had not started having eye issues until he began his diet of Energon, and it would make sense for his powers to develope more slowly, as he was an adult by legal standards.
He smiled.
He had powers.
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"Are you sure that you don't want to wear an eye patch?" Shadowleap asked. "Or at least a visor or shades like Skynet, because seriously; that's freaking me out."
"What's freaking you out?" Ferrofluid asked, making his gold and black eye shake uncontrollably.
"Fluid!" Smartmouth yelped. "If you do that freaky voodoo eye thing again, I'm going to knock it out of your skull!"
"What 'freaky voodoo eye thing', Smartmouth?" Ferrofluid asked, turning his creepy eyes on Smartmouth and shaking his eyes again with a huge grin plastered across his face.
Smartmouth screeched in terror at the trick and made to smack Ferrofluid, but he dodged her easily, laughing.
"Okay, dude, that is creepy," Skywarp informed. "Even by my tastes."
The Efforts were in the Garage, hanging out and reading the latest books Thundercracker had stolen from the latest raid. Ferrofluid had been discharged from the medical bay once it was determined that he wasn't developing a brain tumor or anything of the sort. But even Shockwave found his black and yellow eye creepy, and Corona the turbofox had ran around him, yipping madly, until Solarflare had called it back.
"I'll stop only if Thundercracker promises to keep getting books," Ferrofluid said, grinning at the indigo and black Seeker.
Thundercracker stared back at him, determined to win the fight, but Ferrofluid shook his black and gold eye again, focusing quickly on a distant object, and the Seeker flung his hands up in exasperation.
"Fine!" he yelled. "I'll be your slagging book mobile just for Primus' sake, wear some glasses!"
"Ah, I love to win," Ferrofluid chuckled, turning back to his book on fossils.
"Yeah, don't we all?" Mextron chuckled in agreement.