Rain in the Middle of Nowhere
Chapter Four: The Examination
Fiorla: Okay, here's chapter four. Man this is scary, I'm having a major writers block here, sorry if it's taking forever to upload!
Berry: Oh, it's okay. But…how long will the next chapter take?
Firola: …That's a little secret of mine. I'm still roughing it out, so don't expect fast chaps.
Berry: Fast chaps…that's a fun way to say it!
Fiorla: Uh oh… here we go again with the sayings.
Berry: Fast chaps, fast chaps, fast chaps…People you try saying it, it's a tongue twister:D
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers, only Hasbro does. I, however, own Aria and the plot.
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"Optimus, sir. I trust you have Aria with you?"
Optimus carefully placed Aria in the hand of the trusted medic Ratchet, who thoroughly examined and scanned her body, startling the tiny human a bit. She flinched slightly, but relaxed as the green light quickly disappeared as rapidly as it came, and retreated back into Ratchet's eyes in a flash.
"She's quite healthy for her age, considering she's been living on the street's for a month." He noted, his optics and Aria's meeting for a moment, before Ratchet glanced up at his waiting leader.
"Ratchet, can do you have a moment to spare? I'd like to speak with you in private." His optics lowered to Aria, noticing how her own eyes were gazing back at his. Surprisingly, she didn't flinch under his glance, but merely switched to Ratchet's face.
"Alright, but…hold on." Ratchet curled his fingers up until a wall had surrounded Aria, walked over to the metal table, and gently discarded the girl from his hands. Once she stood up, his head lowered down to her, and he said in a quiet voice, "I'm trusting you not to run off while no ones watching you. Okay?"
Aria nodded her head, and smiled, showing that she wouldn't try it. Where could she go on a giant table about twenty feet off the ground anyway? If she tried to jump, she would very likely die, and that was not a possibility at this moment. She wasn't THAT desperate. So she simply watched as the giant white figure of Ratchet lumbered off behind a second door, smaller, and off to the side more, and close it with a hiss once Optimus had entered. Unexpectedly, Aria kneeled down, and grasped her arms after suddenly feeling cold for a moment. For some reason, she felt lonely without the presence of anyone in the room, and surveyed her area in hopes of someone she could possibly chitchat with. There was no one, not even patients that Ratchet was tending to. Sighing in regret, Aria sat down, and began to wait.
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After Ratchet had closed the door, Optimus walked to the front of the office, where a camera that showed surveillance of the med bay revealed the girl's presence on the table outside. Ratchet followed him, curious about what his commander wanted to converse so privately.
"Sir? What is it you wanted to talk about?" He asked, after a minute of silence. Optimus's head came up slightly, as if he were waking from a recharge session, and turned to face the medic.
"It's Aria. I'd like you to scan her with one of our computers and send it to me once you're done."
"Why?" the medic wasn't going to do a random sort of command like that unless it had a good reason.
"Did you see the generator she picked up during our fight?" Optimus inquired, baffling Ratchet for a second.
"Uh…no sir. Should I have?"
"Yes. Once I returned it, the workers checked the power to make sure that there was still plenty left, but for some reason, the machine exploded on contact with the generator." Ratchet stared at Optimus, optics wide with renewed interest.
"I did a scan of my own, and found the results quite…interesting. The power on the generator had multiplied ten times of the normal electrical current it receives. And everyone knows that something can only receive more power if it had contact with an extremely powerful source of energy. However, the only object that generator had touched was Aria. I suspect that something is inside of her…and the Decepticons may want it."
Ratchet gaped at Optimus, almost lost with what words to respond with. After a few seconds, he said, "A human with an energy source? Optimus, do you know how unlikely that is? "
"Yes, but it isn't impossible. Aria has a secret, something she isn't telling us. Whether it's because she doesn't trust us yet, or doesn't know it herself, we have to find out before someone else does." Optimus returned his gaze to the small girl outside of the room, his back to the bewildered Ratchet.
"How do you think the others will react to this?" the doctor asked quietly. He feared the answer he would get.
"…We won't tell anyone about this if an energy source is found within Aria. Only the two of us shall know, understand Ratchet?" Optimus turned his helmed face to Ratchet, revealing intense blue optics to his medical officer.
Ratchet nodded, agreeing with the wise leader. He too looked at Aria, almost amazed that such a small organic, such a young life form, could prove to be such a dangerous threat if brought into the wrong hands. The only thing that worried him was if the Decepticons did hear of their little discovery.
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Aria was falling asleep on her back, just about to nod off into her dreams when the door suddenly slid open with a soft hiss. Alerted by the approaching footsteps, she brought her head up to see who was coming her way, and once she saw it was Ratchet and Optimus, quickly stood up, pretending like she had been that way the whole time. The two figures stopped a short distance away from the ledge, and Aria walked up to a comfortable distance between herself, and the edge, absorbing their presence as best as she could.
Optimus said, trying to be to loud, "I'm leaving now, Ratchet will be taking good care of you, so don't worry little one." And slowly brought his hand forward, and when no reaction came from her, gently touched her shoulder with the tip of his finger.
Aria nodded her head, staring at the large finger that had been placed on her shoulder, a bit concerned as to why he was doing this. But…it felt good at the same time. Ratchet took note in his processor about how amazing humans could be sometimes. 'When you've been learning about them, studying them, and living among them for fifty years, you'd think we'd know all about them. But then they just come up with another way to surprise you.' He shook his head, still bewildered at how fast her trust in them was growing.
Optimus took his finger off of her shoulder, and turned to leave, his bulk leaving a monstrous shadow behind him as he exited the room. Once his footsteps were out of earshot, Ratchet glanced down at the human girl with curious optics.
"Okay Aria, Optimus wants me to do a quick scan on you with one of our computers, so climb on." He lowered his hand down onto the table so Aria could step into his waiting hand. She quickly obliged, and watched as once again, her surroundings began to shift and change as Ratchet walked to the far side of the room where a desk with a machine waited for use.
"So, how does this work?" Aria didn't like the way the machine had a long needle like thing poking out of it…
Ratchet shrugged his shoulders. "It's simple, really. All you have to do is stay still and relax. I'll bring this rod over you…" He grabbed the needle/rod in his hand to show her, "And the results will appear on that screen over there."
Ratchet pointed to the computer, which had just been activated and was awaiting instructions. Aria glanced at the blue screen, and back at Ratchet, who had just placed his hand down onto the desk, waiting for her to climb off. She did so, and walked over to a small metal pad, and watched as the rod began to glow a green color in Ratchet's hand.
"Now, relax." Ratchet's voice seemed distant somehow, when Aria started to focus her eyes on the green rod, her breathing slowing and her brain becoming slightly lazy.
Then, the rod began to approach, and slowly came over her head, and traveled around her body in waving procedures. Aria felt somewhat sleepy as the scanning continued, her lids coming over her eyes when the glow went away and disappeared back into the needle with a flash, the humming fading away with a soft click. And when it did, the sudden feeling of sleep traveled from her head, down to her toes, and she fell with a soft thud on the metal sheet, fading into her dreams.
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Ratchet stared at the small lump that had just fallen to the floor, clearly out of commission. 'How did that happened? I just turned off the scanner, and she's out like an over energized sparkling!' he examined the scanner, turned it on, and glanced back to Aria. Nothing happened. 'I wonder…she did seem a little sleepy when I brought it over her…' Ratchet shook his head in disbelief, and turned to the computer to see the results. He'd think about it later.
Slowly, the results of her body overtook the screen, and once they did…Ratchet gasped and stumbled backward a short distance. Most of her body was covered with pure red, except her skin and the area around her brain, which meant that most of her body was made completely of energy! What kind he had no idea, but he would soon find out. Curiosity overtook his state of shock, and he clicked a few buttons before looking back at the computer screen. It took a few seconds before the computer responded with a blinking light, clearly saying, "ENERGON".
"That's impossible…humans can't take the radiation of energon!" Quickly, he rebooted the page, making the computer do it once more before he placed a hand over his mouth, and viewed the results with renewed shock and worry.
If Aria was indeed made completely of energon, or at least her innards depended on it for life, then she could contain unlimited pulses of energy that could be used to create the ultimate weapon. In fact, there was so much energy inside of her…it was possible that she was more powerful then the Allspark itself!
'But how did she get so much of it…?" He knew that some traits could be passed down from the parents to the child, so he took a closer look at her DNA, and found a discovery that could explain the history of Cybertron itself. In her DNA, it clearly placed that this was from both parents. Both were brother and sister. 'I think I know why, if they had mated with one who didn't have the right endurance, then if they had mated with that certain human, they would've killed them.' This was starting to make sense, Aria's family had somehow come in contact with Energon, but instead of dying, their bodies absorbed it and became an extremely powerful energy source. But one thing stumped the medic, where did the Energon come from? As far as he knew, there was no pure Energon on this planet, it had to be converted from the resources Earth had. So…how did they receive the energy?
While Ratchet was pondering on this, a small microphone had been listening to everything the medic had said, and a small camera was locking onto the computer screen, made a click, and then snapped a photograph of Aria herself. After this was done, the camera transformed into three small purple robots with ember visors, but did so carefully in what space the vent had to offer.
"This is…an interesting discovery. What do you propose we do Soundwave?" All of the robots whispered, keeping the same tempo and voice as if they were one.
The microphone retracted back into a blue recorder in the shadows. It's was cassette rolling, but stopped when it's comrade asked a question, it's purple triangular, menacing and evil emblem gleaming in darkness, almost smiling like a cat about to pounce a rat. A monotone voice responded simply…
"Report to Megatron."
End of Chapter Four
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Fiorla: Uh oh! Soundwave found out about Aria! What will the Autobots do when he reports to Megatron? Oh, I'm just so cruel[Evil cackle
Berry: You are cruel! Another suspenseful ending, you are torturing the readers! And what's with the shortness?
Fiorla: You wanna complain? We'll, complain to Optimus here, tell him all of your problems.
Optimus Prime: Fiorla, leave me out of this, please…
Berry: Tell my problems? Okay. Well, to start off, Fiorla won't give me any breaks, she always includes me in these conversations, she's a big grump to me, she never respects anything I do, she never lets me do anything fun, and she…
Fiorla: Keep this up, and you will never see the light of day. Ever heard of pocari sweat?
Berry: …no, have you?
Fiorla: Nope, but I don't think I'll be trying it anytime soon. Look out for the next chapter guys! Thanks for the favs!