Hey, sorry for the kinda mixed up updates, but my mind doesn't want to get in the mood of a few of them. So I decided to start a bit more on this one. Hope you like it.
For the next hour or so, Bee and I stayed in the rec room, trying to concentrate on other matters until Ratchet seen the time fit to tell us what's wrong with me. If anything, we deserved to know most, seeing as it's my health and Bumblebee's my guardian. If anyone had the right to worry, it was him.
"Sam, has your captor come up with a ransom yet?" Skids asked, approaching us. He and his twin were the two we encountered on the way to the med bay.
"It isn't money he wants." I glanced up at Bee. "I'm actually quite sure he and his comrades are content to leave me to suffer."
They smiled, "We can help you escape."
"Did I say I wanted to escape?" I asked, acting offended. Everyone had their own way of dealing with the twins. Usually, it involved cannons or a variety of Cybertronian cusses and threats. I tend to take a less drastic measure, just play along.
"And that's why they call him alien kid." Mudflap said. It was a name I had earned amongst the NEST soldiers. When the twins first heard it, they brought it to themselves to make it my official nickname. But they're still the only Autobots that called me that. Usually if they referred to me not by name, I'm 'the boy'.
"Slag right-" I was caught off by the doors opening again and Optimus entering with Ratchet on his tail. Bee and I immediately turned our attention to them, but the twins didn't understand what's going on.
"Hey, something's happening, and I wanna know." Skids demanded. Bee turned to them.
"Don't tell me you haven't noticed Sam's ailments. Check his heart." and they did. They gasped and Mudflap shook his head.
"Bee, you gotta be messing up something here. How are you doin' that?"
"I'm not doing anything." he said, concerned for me. "Something is wrong with Sam and Ratchet seems to know what it is." Just as he finished talking, the two mechs we had been waiting for what seemed like forever came to a stop in front of us.
"Optimus, Ratchet." I greeted. Bee turned to them and the twins stepped back a bit, so they weren't in the way. But they didn't go too far, wanting to know what's going on.
"So it is true. Your heart has slowed dramatically." Optimus frowned.
"Yes, have you two found the cause?" Bee asked eagerly. Ratchet nodded, but didn't say anything immediately. He glanced around the room, for what I wasn't sure, then nodded to himself, assured of something.
The only things I could tell about the room were that Ironhide, Arcee, the twins, and Sideswipe were here and that there weren't any humans other than myself. This wasn't unusual for they had their own rec room and most humans prefer to stay on their side, intimidated by the Autobots' size. Only Lennox ever comes here alone. If anyone else does, they come in groups of at least five.
"I have found the cause of all this." he started. "And I'm surprised none of us had put a thought on the matter before. When you found the shard of the All Spark in your jacket before you even went off to college, you absorbed it, correct?"
"Yes, obviously. I mean, that's why most of the stuff that happened, right? Optimus wouldn't have died if the Decepticons hadn't have been after me. We wouldn't have found the Matrix if the symbols hadn't have lead us there. I wouldn't have resurrected Jetfire if I hadn't have found it, and in turn, he wouldn't have sacrificed himself to give Optimus the parts he needed to kill The Fallen." I said, he didn't even have to ask.
"Yes, all this was caused by the shard and the All Spark energy you absorbed. But what do you think happened after the battle? The All Spark can't be destroyed, let alone vanish for no reason." Optimus helped explain things. I got it about three seconds after Bee had.
And I gasped. "It's still here? It's still in my mind?" they nodded. "But why haven't I had a melt down or been seeing symbols?" I asked.
"I think the only reason you seen them in the first place was because the All Spark sensed danger and went to drastic measures to help you. Notice you didn't have a melt down after you gave in and decided to try and figure out what they meant either." I stared at the largest of the mechs with wide eyes. "Now that we don't need its assistance, it isn't contacting you anymore."
"But why has his heart started to slow, and why only recently?" Bee asked. Ratchet answered this time.
"We believe that now that the war has died down a bit, the All Spark has tried to reform its self and that it isn't just the small amount he had absorbed that day in his mind now. And with all the radiation, it has taken its toll on his heart. But, the radiation is of the All Spark, which is that of life, so as long as the boy contains the All Spark, he won't go off line."
We were quiet for a moment. Then, "What does it mean?" I asked.
"What do you mean by that, youngling?" Optimus asked.
"I meant, what now? Do we just move on and say, 'oh cool, Sam lives off from the All Spark now', or do we remove it? And if so, once it is gone from my body, how will I live?" Bee was disturbed by the thought of nothing keeping me alive and tightened his hands around me.
"Sam, I don't know what we do. If we work fast enough, we could remove the All Spark before your heart stops, then you would be in a coma at the least." Ratchet replied, frowning.
"A coma, but then we wouldn't know if my heart would heal enough for me to come out." I objected, bee's hands tightened slightly again.
"No, with our technology, you would stand a better chance than left in the care of human doctors." he shook his head.
"It's still too risky for me." Bee spoke up. "We aren't extracting the All Spark from him even if there's the smallest chance he won't survive." We could all tell he held his ground.
"Bumblebee, if we work out a way to do it, Ratchet would undoubtedly work to no end to bring the boy's heart rate back to a normal pace." Optimus assured.
"But what if he can't? Then Sam would be gone merely because we wanted to try something this risky. And what is the harm in leaving it? His heart would eventually stop, but he will live completely from the All Spark. It is better than his heart stopping along with his life. I refuse to let this happen."
Everyone was quiet. Before now, we only spoke loud enough for the twins to hear, for they were fairly close. But with Bumblebee's outburst, everyone was listening in now. When Optimus spoke, he didn't lower his voice as there was no point now.
"I know you will not risk anything concerning your charges health and safety, and I understand this. I would refuse to do this as well if we did find a way extract the All Spark if I didn't trust in Ratchet's ability enough. But this is your choice. I may be your commander, but I do not have authority to override any decision you have with the boy. As long as you refuse to try anything, even if the opportunity arises, no one will make a move. But it would be wise to get the boy's input as well."
Bee sighed and glanced down at me. He was at this point holding me tightly to his spark, trying to protect me from something he had no control over. Though it was tight, I was not uncomfortable.
"Do you approve of my choice to not take chances on your life?" he asked.
"I approve of anything you see fitting." I said. He seemed to relax a bit, then turned back to Optimus.
"Then I will not budge. Unless you can convince me the boy is in a greater danger of not removing it, I won't let any one touch him." Optimus nodded, accepting.
"But Optimus, we have already come up with a theory on extracting it. If we start now, then surely his chance of survival are greater than any other." Ratchet objected.
"Ratchet, neither one of us are Sam's guardian. Bumblebee is. And in situations like this, concerning so much of our technology and the All Spark, not even his parents override his decision." I hadn't known this, but it made since. And I honestly didn't mind this. At my age, most everything is actually completely my decision. But there are still things that my parents must decide on. Like things concerning my health and other stuff like this. But in a situation like this, my parents wouldn't know enough to make a proper decision and Bee would be to protective to let them go through with whatever theory they had even if y parents agreed. And it couldn't fall to me, for Bee is my guardian and this is why. It's for situations like this, he's basically in charge of me under topics concerning war or anything to do with their race.
"But the scout is over reacting. His opinion is clouded."
"Because he cares or the boy so much." Optimus concluded. "Whatever we do, we aren't extracting the All Spark unless we find leaving it to be threatening his well being." After a moment, Ratchet gave in and nodded.
"Alright. Then what do we do?" he challenged.
Everyone was silent again for a while as we thought.
"There are multiple issues here." Sideswipe came into the conversation. Now that one argument was over, the others felt they should join. "There's how this might overall affect the boy, because heart failure can't be the only symptom. Then there's the fact the All Spark either soon will be, or already is, completely together again. And then there's the fact that the All Spark will be complete, within Sam. I think he will obviously have access to it."
"Well, yes. One would think so. But we can't know anything until time comes to pass and we know for sure." Optimus replied. "But in the mean time, Bumblebee," he turned to my guardian who, even though talk of my possible death was over, refuses to let up on his grip. "Keep an optic on the boy for any change. I'm worried about what else might happen."
"Of course." Bee nodded. With that, everyone started to go their separate ways, but an explosion was heard from the outside and Will came running in.
"Decepticons, got, past, alarms. Hurry!" he took a big breath in between each word, but he ignored his exhaustion in the end and hitched his gun back into position before running back the way he came.
We all looked at each other for a second before everything rolled into action.
"Everyone, prepare for battle and attack. Bumblebee, get Sam out of here. There is no need for him to run through the middle of the battle and save the day this time." Optimus shouted. Bee nodded and transformed around me before racing against the crowd as everyone rushed to defend the base.
Things just went to unexpected to war, how can so many things happen in one day?
I will be updating more before I leave again, so you can count on that. And I am working on the next chapters for the two stories I haven't updated yet. It's only, I don't have to think as much on all these and with those two, I'm constantly trying to figure out what to write. But I might be getting the next to Sam 'All Spark' Witwicky soon.
R&R