Chapter 7: More powers Revealed
"Hello? Anybody in there? Hellllloooo Big Guy!"
Optimus came online slowly to find a small face shoved into his.
"Hooray! Ladies and Gentlemen he lives! It's… ALIVE! Muhahahahahaha!"
Phoenix had obviously gone crazy. Optimus looked up her strange behaviour and the only word he could find for it was 'hyper'. Apparently it came from a combination of too much excitement and not enough sleep. Optimus wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not. She certainly seemed happy enough, but not entirely rational.
Phoenix was bouncing up and down, now singing 'I'm so Rumbly in my Tumbly' from Winnie the Pooh.
"I'm so rumbly in my tumbly, time for something sweet… hey! We should eat breakfast. Do you have sugar? Let's have sugar! Lot's and lots of sugar!"
Optimus could hardly understand her she was speaking so fast.
"Is this 'sugar' a cure for your current ailment?" he asked.
"What ailment?"
"From my recent research, I have determined that you have an extreme case of Hyper." He said soberly, hoping she wouldn't be to upset by the news.
Phoenix looked at him and promptly burst into hysterical laughter. She laughed so hard that tears streamed down her face, and Optimus began to be alarmed. He scooped her up and fairly ran down to the medical bay.
"RATCHET!" He hollered so loud that doors slammed open and Bumblebee, Ironhide, Sam and Michaela all came running down the hall after him.
Phoenix had stopped laughing. Now she looked as alarmed as Optimus felt.
"What's wrong?" She asked, oblivious to Optimus's misguided concern. "Are you OK Big Guy?"
By this time they had reached Ratchet and Optimus was hurriedly explaining the symptoms of Phoenix's mysterious sickness. Ratchet had no idea what it could possibly be, but Sam and Michaela were now struggling to hold in their laughter.
"Uh Optimus?" Phoenix was grinning, "Hyper isn't a sickness, and it's just what happens when you're over tired or if you're having way too much fun. It's a good thing really! I was just super happy. I didn't mean to scare you."
All the Autobots were looking thoroughly relieved, and everyone burst into laughter, although Sam was grumbling about being woken up by something so dumb.
"Well then, Little One, let's get something to eat. But NO sugar!" Optimus said.
"Sounds great!" Phoenix giggled.
"When you are done, Phoenix, come back to the medical bay so we can test your powers, please." Said the yellowish green one that Phoenix now knew was Ratchet.
"OK, but maybe we should test my fighting with Ironhide first, so then if I hurt him, I can heal him." Phoenix replied.
Ironhide huffed, "You actually think you're even gonna get a scratch on me?"
"We'll see." Phoenix smiled mischievously. 'You didn't see what I did to Starscream.' She thought. 'And that was by accident.'
Ironhide had to say he wasn't entirely sure he liked the 'I know something you don't know' look on the girls face.
A little while later Phoenix and Ironhide were facing each other in a makeshift wrestling ring. Optimus and the others sat around waiting for the fight to begin with bated breath.
"3,2,1… Go!" Optimus shouted.
Neither girl nor robot moved. Slowly Ironhide raised his arm and let it transform into a cannon at as wide as Phoenix was tall. Phoenix smirked. Just as Ironhide aimed carefully so as not to actually make contact with her and pulled the trigger to fire, Phoenix yelled and threw up her palm.
Ironhide was blasted off of his feet. He landed some distance away feeling shaken. Nothing had been bruised yet but his pride.
"All right it's on now!" He grimaced and rushed at her.
Once again he was shoved away. Phoenix hadn't even broken a sweat.
After an hour or so of watching Ironhide beat himself up trying to get to Phoenix, Optimus cut in.
"Perhaps we should see if anyone else could get through." He said kindly.
Ironhide shoved the comment away. "I'll get her! She. Can't. Beat. Me!!!" He panted in between shots.
Phoenix was hardly paying attention to the situation at hand anymore. Now she was just bored.
"Let me try." Said Optimus.
Ironhide shook his head, then gasped weakly and dragged himself over to the sidelines.
"If there are no injuries that need immediate attention, then I'd like to wait and see how Phoenix does with healing." Ratchet said after scanning the scratches that Ironhide had received.
Ironhide just grunted.
Meanwhile, Optimus had pulled out his glowing sword and was presently trying to hack Phoenix apart with it. No matter which direction he came from the blade was stopped as if by some invisible force field.
"I need a book or something." Phoenix yawned. "This is getting so boring."
Finally Optimus stopped, knowing that it was no use.
"All right." He said, "That was well done. Now as soon as Ratchet is finished with you, you can go relax."
"Good. Oh Ratchet dear! Let's get it on!" Phoenix called.
Ratchet muttered something about teenagers and no respect. Optimus was reminded again of just how casual she was. He didn't think that Ratchet appreciated it the same way he did.
"I still have work to be finished." Optimus spoke with Ratchet. "Come see me when she's done, to tell me how she's doing."
"Yes sir." Ratchet picked Phoenix up and had Ironhide follow them to the medical bay.
"So what exactly did you do to heal Optimus?" Ratchet asked.
Phoenix felt like she was in a particularly boring exam, with a particularly boring examiner.
"He pretty much died. I was sad so I put my palm on that glowy, sparky thingy in his chest, because it looked like his heart. I didn't think it would do anything."
Ratchet muttered something about improper use of language. Phoenix thought he 'muttered' a lot.
"OK, let's see what you can do with Ironhide." He said.
Phoenix concentrated and placed her hand on Ironhide's massive chest. At once light washed over him and he was completely fixed. Every scratch was gone, as if he was brand new.
"That's what happened with Optimus." Phoenix told him. "He had this absolutely HUGE hole in his chest and when I healed him, it was as if it was never there."
"Hmm." Ratchet looked thoughtful. "If you do a couple more tests I'll let you go."
A bit later Ratchet dropped Phoenix off inside Optimus's room.
"After I discuss… things with Optimus, I'll send him back to you." Ratchet left her on her own.
About an hour later Phoenix was bored out of her mind. She tried to entertain herself with thoughts of different places she'd take Optimus if they were dating or all the great gifts he'd give her.
'That's silly. We can't be together. We aren't even the same size, let alone the same species.' She thought. 'I wish we were the same size though. I don't mind so much that we're different, but if he were smaller.' She could just imagine it.
A few minutes later she heard the sound of footsteps running to the room. Thinking it was Sam she got up to go say hi. But scrambling under the door, she was shocked to see none other than Optimus Prime!"
"Phoenix, what did you do to me?!?!"