'Thoughts'
'Bumblebee'
"Talking"
"Communications link"
"~Broadcast~"
The rest of the week flew by and before you knew it, it was Saturday. I look up from my breakfast as Jack walks down the stairs. "Mornin'!" I say. He just glares at me.
"Tell me again why I am up this early...?" I roll my eyes at Jack's question. I got him up 10 minutes ago because Bumblebee is talking us to the base.
"Like I told you earlier, Arcee is at the base. She asked Bee to pick us up and he's going to be here in 10 minutes." Jack sighs but nods. He walks over to the cupboard and pours himself a bowl of cereal. After finishing breakfast we hear a honk we go outside and climb into Bee. We speed into the base and it looks like Optimus and Arcee were going somewhere.
Miko jumps out, "Miss us doc Bot?" Miko asks as Jack, Raf and I climb out of Bee.
Ratchet sighs, "Shouldn't they be in school?"
"On Saterday?" Miko states. "We have the whole weekend off... To spend with you." Ratchet glares at her.
"I wasn't expect a car pool. What gives Arcee?" Jack asks.
"Tag-team, Jack. It's my turn for exploration duty." Arcee explains.
"Huh... To bad. It's a beautiful day out for a ride. Would hate for you to feel guilty for leaving me indoors..." Jack says, trying to make Arcee take him with her.
"Arctic exploration duty."
"Indoors where it's warm." Jack says as he quickly walks away. I laugh at him. I walk over to Ratchet as he watches Miko with an annoyed expression oh his face.
Raf walks up to Arcee. "The Arctic! I've always wanted to see snow!"
"I would invite you to join, Rafael. But the conditions are much to extreme. Even for we Autobot's." Optimus says.
"I... I understand." Raf says, disappointed.
Optimus and Arcee turn to leave. "But, I will bring you back a snowball." Optimus says while looking at Raf.
His eyes light up. "That would be awesome!" Optimus nods and him and Arcee walk into the ground bridge.
"Transport compete." Ratchet says after they disappear. Suddenly the ground bridge lever blew up. Ratchet grabs me and shields me from the sparks. "By the Allspark...!"
I stare at the lever, clinging to Ratchet's finger so I don't fall off. "That's not good... Right?" I ask, looking up at his face. He nods. My eyes widen. "What about Arcee and Optimus!"
"Hopefully I can fix this before they freeze to death." Ratchet says as he drops me off at the second platform. "Bulkhead! Bumblebee! Here NOW!" Bulkhead and Bee walk over.
I look over to the others, Jack and Miko were playing video games while Raf was walking down the stairs. I run after Raf. "Hey Raf." He looks up at me. "Mind if I join you?"
"Sure, I'm just going to explore the base a little thought."
I smile, knowing he needed some cheering up. "Cool! Lead the way."
We walk throught the hallways admiring it all. "Hey Raf, we should play a game!"
He looks up at me, "Yea, like what?"
"Oh... I don't know. Maybe we should pretend to be explorers stuck in a snowstorm." Rafs eyes light up and I know I hit the jackpot.
"Chhhhhhh!" I say, trying to imitate the sound a snow storm made.
"Tempature sub-zero and dropping!" Raf says as he 'struggles to plow through the strong wind'.
"What are we going to do, captain?" I cry as I 'fall into the snow'.
"Head back to base!" Raf says as he helps me out of the 'snow'. Suddenly we hear something drop. We look around and notice a bolt had fallen loose. Raf walks over and grabs it. We hear something crawing on a pipe above us. I look up and try to pin-point the noise. The sound appears behind us and we find ourselves staring at some type of small metal spiter thing with big purple eyes.
The thing walks closer to us. I get a bad feeling as I stare at the thing. "W-Where did you come from?" Raf asks. The thing blinks and walks closer. Raf laughs at it.
"The Autobot's never said anything about a pets." I mumble as it blinks at the two of us.
"You wanna play fetch?" Raf asks as he pulls out the bolt. The thing jumps up and runs around, excited. I smile at the thing, 'I have to admit, it is adorable.'
Raf throws the bolt and the thing chases after it. "Good boy! Go get it." The thing grabs it and starts eating it. "No! Don't eat that! Your going to choke!" The thing turns around and it's fine with no bolt anywhere. "Or... Not."
My bad feeling intensifies. "Raf, I have a bad feeling."
The thing comes over and rubs against Raf's leg. "Aww! Come on Cal, it's not going to hurt anybody." I sigh but nod. Raf smiles and we start heading to the main room.
The lights flicker as we walk into the main room. I can't help but think the damaged lever and power failures to have something to do with the thing Raf is holding. "Hey guys!" Raf says happily as he practically skipped into the room. "Look what I found!"
"We're busy!" Ratchet says and looks up at him. He suddenly yells in shock. All the bot's jump up and point their weapons at Raf and the thing. I growl, I knew something was off about that thing, it ate metal and the bot's are made of metal... Right?
"Hey! Hey!" Miko shouts, trying to calm the bot's down as her and Jack stand in front of Raf. "What's with you guys?"
"Scraplet! Scraplet!" Bulkhead yells.
"What's a scraplet?" Raf asks.
"It's probably the thing your holding." I say.
Ratchet nods, "The most dangerous vermon ever to crawl apon the face of Cybertron."
Miko and Jack look at the scraplet. "This...?" Jack finally asks. "Are you kidding me!"
"Your giant robots! Scrapy here is... Tiny." Miko says.
"You have no idea how much damage that tiny thing can do!" Bulkhead shouts.
"Aww!" Raf says, petting the scraplet. "He wouldn't hurt anything." The thing focuses on the bot's and stares at them. Suddenly it's mouth opens wide and it's like a little chainsaw was turned on. It charged towards the bot's and they shoot at it. The scraplet dodges and jumps onto Bee. I watch in horror as it starts chewing away at his armor. Bee finally is able to get it off of him, it charges agian but doesn't gt far because Raf starts destroying it with a crowbar he found.
I quickly walk over and stop Raf from hitting the scraplet again. "I think it's dead, Raf." He looks down and sure enough, it was sparking and not moving. Raf gasps and runs over to Bee, I quickly follow.
"I'm sorry Bumblebee!" Raf says, concerend.
'It's not your fault Raf.' Bee says, trying to calm him down.
"Is he going to be alright?" I ask Ratchet who is checking out the damage.
"Only a mesh wound. He'll live." Ratchet says. Raf gives a breath of releif.
"Now do you believe me!" Bulkhead exclaims. "All scraplets do is dismantal machinery and eat anything metal! Especially, living metal!"
"Well..." Jack says, "Bug squashed, game over... Right?"
"No!" Ratchet says. I stare up at him, shocked. "When it comes to scraplets, there's never just one. And I fear I know how they got in here."
Ratchet stands up and grabs me, carrying me through the hallways. I look down at Jack who just shrugs his shoulders. I then look up at Ratchet as he walks through the hallways.
I didn't know I had been staring until Ratchet puts me down. He checks out this giant metal egg container with a hole in the side with his wielder. "It's a trap. A scraplet trap."
Bee hides behind Ratchet. "An empty scraplet trap..." Bulkhead points out.
"Most likely injected into space eons ago. Only to wind-up in the Arctic where the Arctic tempature kept them in stasis." Ratchet explains.
"Until we brought the thaw." I say, taking a step forward.
"Now their wide awake and ready to brunch." Miko says, looking at Raf.
"Soo..." Raf says.
"How many are we talking about?" Jack finally asks.
"Thousands." Ratchet says, my eyes widen. Ratchet transforms his hand back. "With the power malfunctions and ground bridge damage. A sure sign that their infestation is well under way." I look around, trying to find any trace of scraplets. Ratchet picks me up again and quickly runs back to the main room.
He walks up to the computer and try's to get ahold of Optimus and Arcee... With me still in his hand. "Ratchet to Optimus! Do you read me? We have a situation." The screen's go black. Ratchet turns away. "The scraplet's have gotten into the commlink system! If we don't eradicate these creatures immediantly, they will reduce the entire base to a scrapheap." Ratchet places me onto the second level with the other humans.
"Well... I say we bug out of here and let them keep it!" Bulkhead says. Bee agree's with him.
"Evacuation is not an option. If we don't get the ground bridge back online stat. Optimus and Arcee will perish." Ratchet says.
"They will...?" Jack asks.
Miko walks over to Bulkhead. "Bulkhead! You never run!"
"Miko, you haven't seen a swarm of these things devour a bot. I have." Bulkhead states. "They pick you apart from the inside out. Going for the small juciy bits first, fuse by fuse. Circuit by circuit. Till there is nothing left. And I mean nothing! Not even your optics."
I walk forward. "You have to let us help." Jack nods beside me.
"We're not made of metal!" Raf points out.
"Ya!" Miko says, supporting Raf.
"They can't harm us." Jack says.
"Typically I find your fleshiness your least engaging quality." I glare at Ratchet's words. "But it would appear to provide an advantage, under these extremes."
"Okay, good." Jack says, I nod beside him. "So, we pair off. One bot one human. I'll watch your back while you repair the ground bridge."
"And me and Raf go bug hunt with Bulkhead and Bumblebee." Miko says. Bulkhead and Bee look at each other before shuddering.
"What about me?" I ask.
Ratchet looks at me. "Stay here. I may need some help with the ground bridge." I smile and nod. He holds his hand out and I jump on. He brings me down to the main level and I jump off his hand and get to work. Ratchet explains what I should do to help while doing his own part.
"How's it going over there." Jacks voice broke my concentration.
"Jack, if I had something in my hand, I would throw it at you." I say as Jack rubs the back of his head.
Ratchet snickers, "We've repaired the damage conductors and rerouted the centeral condiuts. But the ground bridge still won't receive any power." I could easily tell Ratchet was fructrated.
Suddenly we hear the sound of tiny footsteps and we look on the wall to find a bunch of scraplets crawling along the wall. Suddenly they jump off the wall and start FLYING towards Ratchet.
"They fly! You never said they flied!" Jack cries as he trys to hit them with a pipe. Ratchet falls over as the scraplets attack him.
"RATCHET!" I cry. Jack runs over and starts trying to hit them off with the pipe. I look around and quickly notice a fire extinguisher. I grab it and start spraying the scraplets on Ratchet.
After I get rid of the scraplets on Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee walk in with Miko and Raf. "Ratchet, get the patch kit. We're leaking energon like- Woh!"
I look up and notice alot of scraplets flying around our heads. The scraplet's attack againn and soon enough the bots are coverd in them.
"Guys! Go find a fire extinguisher, it seems to put them in stasis!" I tell them as I start sparying down Ratchet agian. Jack looks around and finds another one on the other side of the room. Jack grabs it and starts spraying down Bulkhead and Bee. After awhile the scraplets drop to the ground in stasis. The bot's were leaning against the wall, exhausted.
"Did we get them all?" Jack asks. Then we hear gnawing in the hallway.
"Hardly." Ratchet says. "These were just scouts."
'Why us!' Bee says as he lays down.
"So the rest of them know were in here?" Bulkhead asks.
"And if we allow ourselves to become their next meal, Optimus and Arcee will never make it home. We must get the ground bridge operational." Ratchet says.
"Then we can use it to sent the scraplets anywhere on Earth, like the Arctic where they will go into stasis again."
I say. Ratchet looks down at me with a thoughtful look on his face. "Not a bad idea. Given the body mass of the scraplets, sub-zero tempature should freeze them on contact. So, think Ratchet, think! If the ground bridge is still down here must be a breach in the energon fuel line."
'Come on! I can't move. Let alone fix a breach!' Bee says.
"If we weren't breaching, one of us could get back over there and fix it." Bulkhead says.
"Where do we find it?" I ask.
"And how do we fix it?" Raf asks. Ratchet explains on how to patch the pipe and we head off down the hallway with the right tools. As we follow the pipe, scraplets are walking past us.
"Remember. We're okay. We're not metal." Jack says.
"Look! There's the breach." I say, pointing at where the pipe was leaking. "Come on. We have to work fast." Raf and Miko hold a extra peice of metal to the leak as me and Jack wield it to the pipe. After a few minutes we finish. Suddenly the scraplets go crazy and leave the hallway.
"Their ready to feed." Raf says. That was all I needed to hear before I'm running back to where Ratchet is. I run in and find a swarm of scraplets flying above our heads.
"RATCHET!" I cry. The bots look at me.
"All systems go!" Jack says as he runs past me. Ratchet stands up and activates the ground bridge before collapsing. The fimilar green light is a major relief. Now the next problem, how do you get the scraplets to go through the ground bridge?
Bulkhead stands up and starts jumping around. "Hey! Ready for the main course!" The sparklets zero in on him. "Come and get it!" Bulkhead runs into the ground bridge and the scraplets follow. Soon there was no more scraplets in the base other then the ones which were dead.
After a few minutes Bulkhead, Optimus and Arcee walk through. Jack and Miko rush to meet their guardian. I walk over to Ratchet. "Hey, how are you feeling?"
He looks down at me. "Exhausted and sore." I smile sadly. The Autobot's drag themselves over to the medic bay area. The Autobots rest and let us take care of them.
"Report bio circuitry statis?" Ratchet asks me.
"Levels are rising." I tell him.
"Excellent. Rafael, keep a close watch on Bumblebee's electropulse monitor. Miko, check Bulkhead's connection patch."
"It's steady." Raf says.
"Lookin' good!" Miko give a thumbs up.
"Perhaps you should get some rest yourself, old friend." Optimus says. "You saved quite a few lives today."
"You should listen to Optimus, Ratchet." I say.
He looks down at me. "Hhi... It wasn't all my doing." He smiles at me. My heart speed up at the sight of his smile, making me look away, blushing. "We're just fortunate that this infestation happened on a... Saturday."
"Our human friends maybe small, but they are strong." Optimus says, staring down at us. I smile at his words.
Suddenly Miko screams. We all look over towards her.
Jack and Raf grab a crowbar. "Scraplet?" Jack asks.
"Spiter!" Miko screams. We all watch as Miko starts dancing around. "Is it on me! Ah! Oh! Ah!" Then she runs away.
"Did she just scream like a little girl...?" Bulkhead asks. I look at Jack and we burst out laughing.
"What a day..." I mumble after I calm down. "What a day..."
Well... Another chapter in record time!
Anyway, I'm still having a road block on how Calypso should express her feelings for Ratchet.
I have also decide to make Cal a Autobot later on. But I haven't figured out how and when this takes place.
Any Idea's would be helpful! :D
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