Jade sighed. I'm in Jazz's quarters. Ratchet thinks he's gone around the bend. can you help out? she finally said back.
Alpha hmphed. "I'm not crazy, HT!" She huffed, crossing her arms. Her optics widened. "Jade! Uh...sure." she nodded, running towards Jazz's room.
Ratchet frowned, running the scanner around the saboteur's head.
Jade made a face behind him, and mimiced horns, although nobody could see her.
"Hey! CMO witha hatchet! you're a dork!" she snickered.
Alpha walked into the room and saw Jade. She snickered.
Jazz laughed, but blamed it on Alpha. "Hi."
"Heyas." Alpha smiled.
Ratchet looked up, then went back to what he was doing. "So, what are you doing here?" he asked.
"Erm..." Alhpa blinked. "Well..."
Ratchet looked over at her. "Well what?"
Jade reached out and batted a hand through the scanner. It beeped. "huh?"
Ratchet whacked it with the side of his hand. "huh, that's funny." he scrutinised it for a second. "Must've just been a power fluctuation."
Alpha smirked. She rolled her optics. Nice one, Jade. She snickered.
Compass lifted his head lightly, and looked around. He was somewhere...his bunk. That's where he was. How did he get here? "...Did I fall asleep in here?" He stood up and looked up.
Driveby silently took a seat at the rec. room table, and her friends glanced at each other, ignoring the glares coming from the other Autobots.
Alpha smirked and then rolled her optics. She sighed and leaned against the wall.
Jade scowled at the back of Ratchet's head, mocking him.
Alpha snickered.
Jazz grinned.
"Well, Alpha, any reason in particular you're watching me work, or were you just making a social call?" the CMO asked.
Alpha choked back laughter. "I, uh...I came here to talk to Jazz..." She said, snickering slightly at Jade's antics.
"Uh huh. Well, I have orders from Prime to drag him down to the repairbay, willing or not. So maybe you can save your social call for later." he glanced at her.
Jazz sighed, "Aw, Ratch. Let 'er talk. It won't take long."
"Yeah...pwease Ratch..." Alpha smiled.
"Fine, but I'm not going anywhere." the white ambulance sighed after a minute, and started checking over his scanner readings.
alpha smiled she walked over to Jazz. "How the hell are you talking to Jade?" She whispered.
Ratchet eyed the two, trying to hear what they were whispering about.
Jade grinned.
"He's connected to me through the device." the 'ghost' supplied
"Cool." Alpha whispered back. She smiled. "You know, they probably think I'm crazy because I said I know you're here. Oh the woes of being a psychic." She rolled her optics.
"Who are you talking to?" Ratchet demanded.
"yeah." the invisible voice said, kind of sadly. "Whenever I get blown to bits, or whatever, I get instantly sent back to my home-dimension. with a huge hangover. But it takes a week, that's two weeks your time, for the device to fully cycle out so I can return to normal." The spectre glanced at the floorpanels.
"I normally just...fade, like a hologram when that happens." she added, glancing up momentarily. "I don't know why this happened..." she trailed off.
Alpha sighed. "Me neither...but at least you're okay. You know how worried everyone is/was? Kit was in tears..." She trailed off and looked at the ground. "anyways, glad to know you're okay." She smiled.
The spectre gulped. "um... I'm not, really." she glanced at Ratchet. "I'm kinda...well..." she shrugged in a here-I-am motion.
Ratchet glanced at the two. "Alpha?" he said
Alpha turned her head. "What?" She asked, looking at him. "I'm talking here..." She blinked. "Oh crud...I hate you." She glanced at Jade.
Ratchet walked up. "Jazz? may I ask who you two are talking two?" Ratchet was really trying to keep calm, but was pretty sure he had overheard.
"Sorry. there's nothing I can do." the ghost said. "It's only time that'll tell, as they say." she glanced at Jazz also.
Alpha sighed. "Erm...I was talking to someone using my...psychic powers?" She offered and then glared at Jade. "I really wish you could help." She hissed low.
Jade glanced at the CMO, who didn't even see her, then back at Alpha.
"I can try." she said unsuredly.
Alpha smiled. She sighed and then looked at the medic.
"Please tell me you're not talking to who I think you're talking to." Ratchet said.
the seekerfemme reached out and batted the CMO's shoulder. He brought the scanner back out, ignoring the icy chill that just went through his shoulder.
Alpha smiled. "If yer talkin' 'bout Jade...then yep."
Jazz nodded. "Both of us are."
Rathet's optic's widened for a second, then he glanced between the two of them. Then composed himself.
the white Autobot sat so he was looking both of them in the optics. "Yaknow, I hate to say this." he said in a gentle voice. "But..Jade is dead." he said in a gentler voice.
he glanced at Alpha.
Jade swatted him again, glaring daggers.
this time she actually hit him.
"What the.." he looked around. "But how...I was just looking straight at you two..it couldn't have been..." he shook the thought out. "You can tell Omega to stop playing around. this isn't funny." his scowl came back, turning into a glare.
"Jade sighed. This is taking too much energy..." her figure wavered for a minute, like a bad hologram flickering in and out.
"Oh man." Alpha muttered, "Alright, Jade, you wanna go, leave." She said, "If your tired." She then looked at Ratchet, "I know, but she ain't dead 'cause I can talk to her. Jazz can too...why? I dunno."
Ratchet gave Alpha a look. "Okay, that's it! Both of you to the medbay, right now! I'm gonna make sure you're not loosing your minds." he motioned towards the open door. The ghost/voice giggled and reached out to whap the CMO on the side of the head.
Ratchet froze as her hand passed through him, his expression going suprised, like a cold chill had just passed through him.
"what. was. that." Ratchet turned and looked around, but saw nothing. he blinked.
then shook his head. "Come on." he headed for the door.
"We're not crazy! I'm a psychic, but not a psycho!" Alpha growled, standing up. She looked at Jade and then smirked before bolting out of the room towards hers.
"Alpha get back here!" Ratchet yelled. He clicked his comm and sighed. "Wheeljack, I need you to go find a way to convince alpha to come to the medbay."
"Sure... why?" the engineer asked. Ratchet glanced at Jazz. "I'll tell you when you get her there."
Alpha giggled as she ran from the medic. She grabbed Kit and laughed. "Jade's okay!"
Kit beamed. "Really?"
Alpha nodded.
Kit giggled and hugged Alpha. "Yay!"
Jade smiled, then glanced back at Ratchet as the room started to fade to darkness...
Alpha sighed and then put Kit down she ran to tell Omega, but stopped. "Everyone thinks I'm crazy..."
Alpha sighed and then leaned back. She put Kit down and watched her run off before transforming and heading out for a drive.
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe drove up on either side of her.
"Oh this is gonna be fun." alpha sighed. "Whaddya want, boys?" She asked, going a bit faster.
"we were sent to escort you to the med-bay." Sunstreaker grumped.
"Doc's orders." Sideswipe piped. "Just come on, okay? We don't want any trouble."
"Hey, I don't need to see the doc." Alpha shrugged, "I know what I saw and just because he doesn't believe me, doesn't mean I didn't see what I saw." She explained, speeding up more.
"So? It's just one little itty bitty brain scan, that's all." Sunstreaker replied. "You're not afraid are you?"
"Ha! Afraid of that boozo? Nope. I'm more afraid of his breath than I am him." Alpha smirked.
"Then what have you got to lose?" Sideswipe shrugged, simply a motion of the car riding higher on it's axles, then dropping down again.
"Come on. We'll go with you."
"Speak for yourself, aft-head." Sunstreaker said. "I have an appointment with a carwash and wax place down on Broad Street."
Alpha rolled her optics. She sighed. "you two...if I didn't know how you feel about having someone like Sunny as a brother, Sides, I'd kick your aft." She muttered, transforming. "Come on. If it'll make the doc feel better...I'm still gonna kick his aft, though, if he says I'm crazy..."
the twins followed.
Alpha walked into the med bay. "alright, I came. Time to go."
the CMO pointed to a chair. "Sit."
He nodded to the twins, Sunstreaker left, and Sideswipe folded his arms.
"You can leave now." Ratchet hinted.
"No way, I wanna see if she's really nuts or not." Sideswipe gave Alpha an impish grin.
Ratchet and Alpha threw him identical glares.
"All right, all right, I'm going." and Sideswipe walked out.
Alpha growled. She glared at Ratchet. "Let's get this over with."
He finished quickly, and looked at Alpha, and Jazz who was sitting not too far away. "Okay, everything came out normal. But I'm ordering both of you to go back to your quarters and get some rest. understood?"
Alpha huffed. "Sorry. I'm a medic. I can order myself...don't need your orders."
Ratchet frowned and folded his arms. "Either you follow my orders, or be subject to Prime's disciplinatry actions. your choice.
Neither of you are acting... normal, but I can't prove anything. So go get some sleep. or else." he said gruffly, but not unkindly.
"Or else what?" Alpha shot back, smirking.
"Or else you will be subject to Prime's diciplinary action." Ratchet replied. His look softened. "look, I'm not trying to boss you around, or anything, I just think you should go back to your quarters, and get some rest is all."
Jazz blinked. "erm...Alpha?"
"I'm gonna get a few cycles of rest..." Alpha shrugged.
Ratchet nodded. "Okay."
"See ya." alpha sighed, walking out of the room.
Jazz followed.
Alpha sighed again and walked into her room.
Jazz followed Alpha. "So...you can see her too?" he asked.
"Yep." Alpha nodded. "Psyhic powers rule..."
Jazz glanced around. "uh, can I come in?"
Ratchet went to the wall comm. "Ratchet to Optimus. I have the results, if you'd like to discuss them." he said.
"Sure." Alpha nodded.
Optimus nodded. "I'm on my way." He said, walking over to the med bay.
Ratchet looked up as he walked in, and handed the autobot leader the datapad. "They're perfectly fine mentally. Although Alpha and Jazz both claim to have heard, if not seen Jade." he scowled.
Prime blinked. "I see..." He muttered, reading the pad.
Ratchet glanced at the small storage room across the bay, then back at Prime expectantly.
"What?" Prime asked. He blinked. Today was not a good day and he did not want to be bothered anymore than he had to...
Ratchet nodded. "I don't know why." he glanced at the smaller room, as though wanting to see if it was true. Knowing the jet had in the past faded out like an illusion every time this had happened up until now.
the jet watched the two invisibly from where she was standing against the wall. Ratchet had looked at her twice and not seen her.
But Prime...Prime could sense the Transmognifier, the device she held. So why was he not sensing it now?
Prime blinked. He thought he had fel;t...something. But he wasn't sure before. Wait...was that? No...it couldn't be...could it? "Jade?" He whispered. He was sure it was her.
the jet smiled. but I'm not ready to let you see me yet.
heck, I'm not even sure I'm alive even. for all I know, I could just be a wandering ghost.
"Alright..." Prime muttered. He looked at Ratchet and sighed. "Please leave for a minute."
the CMO cocked an optic ridge at his leader. you want me to leave my med-bay for a minute he thought.
I't only for the best a female voice replied.
Ratchet blinked.
"It's okay, Prime. let him stay." this time the voice was aloud.
the CMO glanced over, and there was a half-visible figure, against the far wall of the repairbay.
Ratchet squawked in suprise and dropped the datapad.
the jet smiled at Ratchet's gawk. don't look so suprised. there was a strange lack of emotions in her voice.
Prime smiled. "Are you...stupid question..."
Jade blinked. what, here, or dead? because I honestly don't know the answer to that one. My chassis right now is probably so-much scrap metal. I know, I usually just dissapear. But I don't know if it's maybe because I say it coming, or 'cause I... guess I let it happen." she looked at the floor.
"Are you...alright is what I was going to ask." Prime said, looking away.
Jade didn't answer.