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Chapter 22- Elita
"Do you want to go to the market?" Orion er Optimus asked, Ariel still hadn't rapped her helm around Optimus' new name she still called him Orion occassionally.
"Uh yeah sure, when?" She asked, she was busy organizing another Autobot rally and was going to be submitting the plans to two of her representatives later. "We could go now and put some posters up on our way over" he said, Ariel grabbed a couple stacks of posters she gave one to Optimus before saying "Alright then let's go" and headed to their front door.
It was nice for a Cybertronian solar-cycle (day), there were some femmelings and mechlings playing cube down the street from where Ariel and Optimus lived, It seemed peaceful out.
"Our first stop on the way to the market is the soilder class neighborhoods, I need to post some of these while we're there" she said, Optimus just gave her a look in response "Oh come on stop being a sparkling" she replied walking away from him. She was a little ways up the street before he started to catch up to her, the day was already starting off perfect just how Ariel hoped it would be, just a little bit normal.
They walked around their neighborhood posting some posters here and there, making sure their message of 'hope' spread. Once they got to the first solider class neighborhood Ariel left Optimus behind , keeping her distance from the prime incase someone tired to attack him. Within the few short weeks of becoming a prime, Optimus had been sent a couple of death threats and had even been assaulted on the street presumably by some of Megatron's Decepticon supporters. People called him a 'false prime' because of the way he'd come to his position of 'power', he never faught back though, always claiming that "My fight is with Megatron".
Keeping her distance and watching her back Ariel posted a couple of her posters on both crumbling and non-crumbling buildings or handing them out to passersby while they were walking in the neighborhood. So far there had been nothing, no attacks or throwing of objects at either of them "This is going surprisingly well" Ariel thought as she stopped to post another poster to a building.
She didnt hear it through her thoughts but Optimus did, the whizzing of jet engines overhead "ARIEL WE NEED TO GET INTO THE SHADOWS!" he yelled to his femme up the street from him. She still didnt hear him, and through his shouting he missed the dispatching of a missle.
And then their world went bright, not as bright as it had been when Primus had given Optimus his Matrix of Leadership but still pretty bright. After everything had dimmed Optimus' audio receptors (ears) rung and were only in taking a white noise. It took him a moment to shake off the ringing and when he look up he saw the damage the missile had inflicted.
Where the street had been up ahead of him was a shallow creator "Wasnt Ariel standing around there before?" he thought and then relization hit him "Ariel? ARIEL WHERE ARE YOU!?" he called out to the mass amount of rumble in front of him, a small groan that came from beneath it told him whoever was under there was still alive or just barely. "Give me a minute and I'll get you out" he said to the rubble and began move the large amounts of metal that had collapsed whe the middle hit.
After a moment or two he began to see a pad and the extension of a leg from the spot he'd been unburrying, he removed the metal from around it hoping to uncover the person or body that was under it. It didnt take him very long to do but he managed to uncover up to the persons waist, above that there was a huge chunk sitting on their shoulders, neck and faceplates. "One big push should be enough force to move it off of whoever this is" he thought, because if the amount if metal that had hit whoever this was, metal dust and some if the debris had chipped and covered their paint job making them almost unrecognizable.
"On the count of 3" he said bracing both himself and whoever this was underneath the rumble if they were still alive "1...2...3!" Optimus shoved his shoulder into the rock giving it enough momentum to roll off of the person he was trying to save, he watched it roll away from him before looking down. Shock, pain and sadness welled up in his spark, before his optics was the slightly crush body of his femme Ariel.
He dropped to his knees at the sight of here "For the love of Primus please be alive!" he whispered horrified at the sight of her state. He got his barrings and checked for a pulse "Shes still got one this is good!" He thought scooping her limp body into his arms, now he just needed to get Ariel to a hospital.
Making quick work of his situation, and the fact that Ariel's spark was dying fast he made a call on his communicator "This is Optimus Prime, I have a civilian severely injured. Use my current coordinates to track me, send help as fast as you can". The response on the end of the line confirmed if there was anyone else injured and gave him a time frame of 6 minutes before an ICU ( intensive care unit) transport vehicle would arrive on scene to take Ariel to the hospital.
The transport vehicle arrived moments later and loaded Ariel onto a stretcher, once she was on the back of it the medics hooked her up to an oxygen and an energon line. "Her condition is stable enough for us to transport her to the hospital, we will meet you there" a medic said before closing the doors to the vehicle and speeding away, leaving Optimus by himself.
Instead of trying to follow the ICU vehicle, Optimus returned to his home and took his ship to the hospital to meet with the medics and doctors who were with Ariel.
Once he had arrived Optimus went to the front desk, "I need to know which ICU room Ariel is staying in" he asked the nurse at the front the desk, "Oh shes in unit 117, there might still be some doctors in her room so you need to wait outside until they leave" she said to him. He dismissed himself and left to go find room 117 in the ICU unit wing of the hospital.
"CODE BLUE, I REPEAT CODE BLUE!" a doctor yelled over the pa system as Optimus enetered the ICU wing, a series of doctors and nurses rushed by him all headed to one room, 117. "What's happening in there?" he asked a passing by doctor "The patient in there is spiraling, her condition has worsened so it's all servos on deck!" He replied escaping the prime to follow his colleagues.
The next 20 minutes were a kaon pit for Optimus as doctor after doctor and nurse after nurse rushed in and out of Ariels room. When he stopped one to ask how she was the reply was "She's doing better now please sit back down sir", the responses didnt help him calm down as he waited for any news any real news about Ariel.
Finally after 20 minutes a doctor came over to him "Are you the family of Ariel?" He asked, "Yes I am, how is she doing?" Optimus replied at this time the prime didnt know how to hide his emotions well so a concerned look crossed his faceplates. "Well sir I need you to follow me and I'll explain as we go" the doctor said leading Optimus towards Ariels room. He opened the door for the prime to go in first, it was the first time Optimus had seen Ariel since he'd called for the ICU vehicle. She looked calm and peaceful even though she had an energon line, an oxygen mask and a spark monitor which read she breathing, vital signs and spark beat on it. The dirt had been cleaned from around her wounds and the wounds had been sealed shut to stop her from leaking more energon.
"We need to rebuild her armour and most of her protoform because of how badly damaged they are from the explosion" the doctor said "Her processor and spark will still remain the same but the rest of her will have to be rebuilt so she doesnt spiral again".
It worried Optimus that all this was going to have to happen in order for Ariels survival, what if she didnt remember him when she woke up? What if her spark stopped beat during the operation? Could his risk losing her? Those questions crowded his mind, taking him a minute to shake off before continuing his conversation with the doctor. "So if all goes according to plan what will happen?" He asked.
"Well if everything goes according to our plan then she'll wake up with all her memories and new armour and protoform". Optimus with this information weighted his options "On the one hand she'd wake up fine and perfectly healthy but she could have the possibility of dieing during the operation, on the other hand the doctors patch her up the best they can and get her into a stable condition but who knows if she'll spiral again?" He thought to himself.
"When would the operation take place if I agree that it's the best thing for her?" Optimus asked the doctor. "Well it would take place right after this conversation and last about 13 hours" the doctor replied. "Alright then, I give you my permission to rebuild her. On the one condition that you try your best to make sure she leaves that operating room alive" all the doctor did was nod his helm and say "I'll do what I can" before radioing the necessary people to perform Ariels operation.
Optimus got to see her one more time before they wheeled her into the operating room. "I love you" he said kissing her on her helm and watching her disappear behind the doors of the operating room.
For the next 13 hours all Optimus did was pace back and forth in the waiting room listening for any code announcements to go over the pa system or one of the doctors to come out and say the operation was finished so he could go see Ariel again.
Every once and a while a thought crossed his mind that would make him stop dead in his tracks "What if she died?" he thought "Or what if her vitals are dropping? Maybe while they were attaching her armour to her protoform they cut and energon supply line?" this would worry him even more and the longer she stayed in the room the wilder his fears got "What if she was fine all along and just left me here? What happens if the Decepticons bridged her into their base? What of the doctor is a Decepticon and is going to kill Ariel on purpose?" he was clearly going crazy with worry.
At the end of 13 hours of torture, one of the operators came out of the room and into the weighting area to get Optimus. "The operation was a success and the even better news is that you're allowed to go visit her, though I warn you she is still unconscious", there were no second thoughts as Optimus grabbed the operation by her wrist and dragged her until she told him to stop becuase they were at Ariels room. Bursting inside Optimus found his femme, her paint looked the same everything did except her shoulders were wider and she seemed just slightly taller than she has before.
"I'll give you some time alone and she should be awake within the hour" the operator said before she exiting the room leaving Optimus and Ariel alone.
The worry that had been nagging at the prime slipped away as he took in the fact that his femme was safe, we was finally able to recharge after staying up most if the night worrying about the out come of her operation. But now it was all over and he could finally recharge.
Optimus recharged until a tap of his servo woke him up, a little startled at first from being woken up suddenly his optics powered on suddenly making Ariel jump. "Oh it just you" he said after he had finished twisting his helm around Airels room to see who had woken him up "How are you feeling Ariel?" He asked to his femme.
She gave him a small smile before replying to his question "I'm fine Optimus" she said "But I dont want to be called Ariel anymore", it shocked Optimus a little but he had changed his name after becoming a prime and Ariel or whatever she wanted to be called could do the same "Well what do you want to be called then?" he asked her. " I want to be called Elita" she said to him, and so Optimus and Elita were now formed. Two of the most powerful and high ranking Autobots the Decepticons would ever see.
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