"What happened?" Optimus asked as he made his way into the medical bay of the ship in his robot form. His blue optics looking from one of the three bots hovering over an open berth chamber to another, taking in the furious expressions of Ratchet and Jazz then the guilty expression on Hot Shot's face and raised one of the ridges over his left optic as Jazz and Ratchet both started talking at once while shifting from foot to foot nervously.

"We don't know what happened-" Jazz said in a slightly panicked tone.

"One second we were shutting down the ship and the next the engines were firing. We knew something was up and figured that it was one of the sparklings-"

"We went looking for the one responsible-" Ratchet added absent mindedly as he scanned the small figure laying on the berth to see the full extent of the human's injuries.

"Hot Shot is guilty as sin! He messed with the engines, lied about it, and unwittingly created an opening-"

"And now we have a wounded human female laying in our ship medical bay... I say we disassemble Hot Shot and reprogram him!" Jazz said the last part quickly, a hopeful expression on his face.

Optimus looked at Hot Shot and gave the younger bot a weird patient/curious look and the bot shook his head slowly and backed away from the berth and the two older bots in a silent indication that the current situation was not his fault.

Even though he knew deep down that it probably was.

Optimus sighed and muttered something about 'sparklings and their intelligence level' and then walked over to the berth and took a look at the human laying there. It was the woman who owned the beat up jeep at the base of the mountain. Saya Evens had made a true mess of herself when she had fallen through one of the long buried vent shafts. Her skin was cut, bleeding and bruised under all of the dirt and dust that had attached itself to her skin.

The right side of her face looked like it had been crushed from the eye socket down. Perhaps she had hit it far too hard on the metal shoots that had dropped her into the ship. There was a sparkling 'hand' sized bruise on one of her sides and she seemed to be having trouble breathing. She kept making a gurgling sound-

Ratchet put his hand on his shoulder jolting Optimus from his own thoughts as he turned his head and looked at the medic bot. "Optimus, her body is very damaged-"

"I can see that." Optimus said in an unnatrually quiet tone as he looked back at the woman.

Ratchet shook his head a little bit and removed his hand from Optimu's shoulder. "I know that you can see the external damage, but you can't see the mass of ruptured organs in her stomach and abdomen. Or the four broken ribs and punctured lung..." Optimus looked at him again, his expression blank for a moment.

"She's dying." Ratchet nodded his head and Optimus got a sad look on his face and reached one hand out and gently ran the tip of his index finger along the curve of her uninjured cheek and jumped a littel bit when she opened her one undamaged eye and looked up at him. Optimus stilled and stared down at her while she stared up at him.

"Ratchet- Please tell me that you gave her a seditive. Something to make her sleep through the pain..."

Ratchet shook his head even though Optimus wasn't looking at him. "No. I was afraid to give her anything due to the extent of her wounds-"

"Then give her something slaggit! She should not spend the rest of her time in this world writhing in pain." Optimus said in irritation, his spark vibrating painfully in his chest. Ratchet looked at his leader for a moment wondering if he could dissuade him from giving the woman anything so that he might get permission to use some of their nano bot technology to try and save the woman's life.

But if he got permission he would have to keep her in a semi conscious state through most of the reconstruction her body would go through until it was almost completely done. Then once he was sure it was safe to give her something then he'd give her a sedative and let her sleep through everything else.

"Before I give her anything Optimus; I'd like for permission to use some of our technology to save her." Ratchet said in a cautious tone. He wasn't sure how Optimus would react since it wasn't their normal policy to interfere with the fates of most humans.

Though from time to time they did make a special exception. Optimus looked at him with an unreadable expression on his face for a moment before looking back at the woman and seemed to be mulling over Ratchets request before sighing. "Very well. One one condition-"

Since he was giving the med bot permission to use some of their tech to save the woman, it meant that her life span would be extended considerably. Which meant that they would have to slow her aging process to a crawl so that her body wouldn't end up decaying before she died.

It also meant that she would need to be protected and watched all the days of her life. And since Optimus was the one giving permission to have the procedure done- The responsiblity fell squarly to him.