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When she woke, she was lying on a hospital bed in what looked like a warehouse. She noted that it had a rather high ceiling. She looked around, craning her neck as far as it would turn, and saw that the bed she was on was a short distance from some industrial pipe railing, which seemed to surround a raised platform. On one side it connected to a wall containing an elevator. On another side of the railing there was a couch with a TV a few feet in front of it. A woman in scrubs was asleep on the couch, and a boy appearing to be about her age leaned against the side of the sofa. Alex kicked her feet over the side of the bed and noticed a bandage on her right leg. She sat up, only to fall back onto the bed as a searing pain ran all the way down her front and her left arm down to the tips of her fingers. She let out a yelp, trying not to cry out in pain, and hit the bed with a gasp. She whimpered. Her shoulder hurt so much. Suddenly the events of the previous night came flooding back. She gasped and sat there, eyes squeezed shut, then tried to sit up again, more slowly this time. A hand pushed her back down.
"Whoa, hang on! You need to rest. You've got a hole in your shoulder!"
She heard a boy's voice. She must have woken him with her scream. Alex slowly opened her eyes to see who had spoken to her. She could make out his face perfectly in the soft light: neat, short black hair, brown eyes, and a concerned look on his face. He stared at her, looking into both of her eyes and trying to see if she was fully awake.
"W-where a-am I?" she managed through her dry throat. Man, her voice was in worse shape than she thought!
"Hang on," he said, looking at her. "I'll go get you some water." He turned and walked off.
In a couple seconds he had returned with a glass.
"Here," he said, handing it to her. She set it on the bed next to her and tried to sit up, but to no avail. She was greeted with the intense pain that shot through her entire frame. Seeing that she was struggling, he reached over and helped her to sit up. She nodded to him in thanks and took the glass in her hands and began to drink. Once she had finished off what was in the glass, she handed it to him and tried again.
"Where am I?" she asked, looking confused and slightly worried.
"Um." He started to say. "Well, um, I'm not su-" He was cut off by a strong and gentle voice. "You are in the Autobot's home base. We brought you here after the fight with Starscream."When Alex looked where the voice was coming from, she froze. Please, not more of them! She thought. But having a human there with her helped a little. The boy placed his hand on her shoulder and flashed her a small smile. She looked back at the speaker. Alex recognized him from the robot fight. He was the largest of the group, with a red and blue head, silver face, and blue eyes.
"I am Optimus Prime, and due to what has befallen you, I have brought you here to be examined by my medical officer, Ratchet, and a human nurse, Ms. Darby, Jack's mother."
Alex looked from the red mech to the boy standing next to her.
"Oh! Uh, I'm Jack. I guess you already know that he's Optimus, and, well, you are?"
She stared at both of them for a second before speaking.
"Alexa. I'm Alexa, but you can call me Alex." She looked at the two of them. Well, if this wasn't awkward! She thought to herself.
"Alexa," said the blue-headed mech, "It is unfortunate that you were caught in the crossfire. But Ms. Darby and Ratchet have done what they can for your wounds. Now only time will tell how you recover," he said, offering her a sympathetic smile.
"Ca-can I." She began, desperate for answers. "Can you tell me how bad my injuries are? Are they really bad, or just a broken bone, or something?" She asked hesitantly. The red mech sighed, closing his eyes, then looked at her.
"Your shoulder was pierced by Starscream. Luckily, though, it was not serious enough to cause permanent damage. Your chest wounds are deep, but not as severe as your shoulder, and the gash on your elbow is nothing more than a small cut, though still deep enough to require stitches. All in all, along with your shoulder and chest wounds, you have a total of fifty- three stitches. However, your leg is not completely broken, but simply fractured, and your left wrist was sprung," he said. It took a while to sink in. Fifty- three stitches? That was a lot! Alex gulped as Optimus continued in a grave voice.
"However, we do not yet know what the Energon that was mixed into your blood stream will do. But I can tell you that you are the only human that did not have an immediate reaction to it. Normally, if a human were to make any contact to raw energon, they would suffer an electric shock and perhaps even perish as a result."
"Energon?" Alex asked, looking confused.
"It is the life force and blood of our race." Optimus replied, his voice still serious.
Alex looked the red and blue mech in the eye as she replied.
"So, in other words, my blood's been mixed with your kind's blood-stuff, and you have no idea what it will do to me?"
"That is correct."Optimus said.
"Wouldn't my body reject the unfamiliar substance? You know, like if you got a heart transplant and it wasn't the right type, your body would reject it and stop working or attack it?" Alex asked in dismay. It hadn't occurred to her that he was a robot and might not have a clue what she was saying. The large mech looked at her, his eyes soft.
"I am not a medic, nor am I familiar with human biology. But from what Ms. Darby and Ratchet have told me, it is still undetermined as to why you have yet to have a reaction, or if you will even have one." He said solemnly.
"And what if my body doesn't reject it? Then what happens?"
Now Alex was glaring at him. Her breathing became faster. She was about to have a serious mental breakdown and was desperately trying to hide it. The large mech sighed.
"That we are still uncertain of. An incident like this has never occurred before." He finished. Wow, he's got a lot of patience. Alex laughed, then sighed and put her head on her good hand. God, what on earth was she going to do? She tried so hard not to, but to no avail. Crap, she could feel the hot tears running down her cheeks. She was crying.