*bla bla bla* is talk over the bond
"bla bla bla" is talking in Paraxian
Jazz, Mirage, and Prowl were the ones to find them, going down the halls.
::do we go back to her old room or do we look for a lab?::
::its more then likely that they will be in a lab, Shockwave is known for his experiments.:: Prowl answered over the comms. Jazz lead the way down the halls to inch around the corner seeing Shockwave and Soundwave exit a room Ravage right behind them. Ravage paused to sniff the air currents *Soundwave, three Autobots behind us. What do we do?*
*nothing. We won't go against what Megatron wants.*
*this is what Shockwave wants.* she said resuming her walk
*under Megatrons permission. In all its his order.*
once they walked around the corner the three Autobots ran forward and into the room, where Lemondrop was strapped down on a table flickering her visor on and off
"Lemondrop, ya okay?" Jazz asked coming to look her over while Prowl unlocked the controls and Mirage kept watch at the door.
"Jazz? No, no you have to save Bumblebee and Cliffjumper first, they are in more trouble then me."
"don't worry, another group is getin' them."
sure enough Hound, Brawn, Bluestreak, and Gears were making their way down to the brig, being told that if they were not in the lab with her then they would have to check the cells. They went to everyone but couldn't find them until Brawn opened Lemondrops door and gasped drawing the others attentions. Inside he found the stasis locked forms of Bumblebee and Cliffjumper hanging by their hands. Cliffjumper looked like a dusty red color his bright red color faded and energon trickling from different places, his frame littered with dents, he looked so broken that they feared that if they touched him he would fall apart. Bumblebee wasn't faring any better with his own color faded his horns bent outward and both his windshields busted out and he was also leaking energon.
"primus!" Bluestreak exclaimed "are they even online?" he asked entering the room behind Brawn and Hound.
"in stasis lock, come on guys we need to get them out of here fast."
::Jazz, we got them and are on our way back to the rest of the group. They are in bad condition.::
::neither is Lemondrop. See ya soon guys, be careful.::
Shockwave turned to Soundwave after they watche each group leave the rooms with their packages "so you knew the Autobots were, in a almost literal sence, right behind us?"
"at one point they were. What is the point for telling you if they needed to be taken away anyway?" he said with a shrug
"once at the base we can finally test to see if it actually works." Shockwave said sounding a little giddy at the prospect of having new 'toys'
her entire body ached like crazy and the bright lights were not helping. She opened her optics slowly to look around and spot Ratchet at one end of the medbay with his back turned to her, she looked around and saw Bumblebee and Cliffjumper next to each other on different berths. She gasped quietly enought to catch Ratchets attention.
He turned and walked over to her "you should have seen them when they first were brought in." his tone quiet.
Cliffjumper looked less riddled with dents but like he could still fall apart if hit hard enough and he had his red color back. Bumblebee had his glass replaced his dents fixed and his horns back in place.
as she looked over them she mumbled "this is all my fault. I should have donw something."
"no, don't go blaming yourself for this, Lemondrop! No one knew any of this would happen."
"they would have done this sooner or later, Ratchet. Sometimes you can't avoid the nightmares." she said looking at him.
at her solem tone he seemed to back off "will they wake?" she asked turning their attention back to them
"yes, but not for a while. Their damage was heavy so even if they do wake they will have to be resting. Just like you. Now rest." and he turned away heading into his office.
she looked back to the two and whispered "i'm sorry mechs, I know that a thousand apologize won't even help but for now this is all I can do, the bigger stiff comes later." and she closed her optics thinking 'you won't get away with this, Shockwave. You won't see anything.' it was answered with a slight shock enough to know it was there. She fell into a restless recharge.
a few days past and she gained enough strength to sit up while Ratchet worked on Cliffjumper and Bumblebee. They sat in peaceful silence when Lemondrop got nervous and out of habit her wings twitched noticeably.
Ratchet slowed his work and glanced over at Lemondrop "is something wrong, Lemondrop?"
"yes, but I don't know if I can tell you." she said keeping her head down.
this made Ratchet stop working and put down his tools "you know you can tell me anything."
"is it possible for somebot to have cameras for optics?" she said after a long hesitation.
it completly caught him off guard, he crossed his arms to think aobut it "well, I suppose so. It would be almost like three way connection in the prossesor." he mused "why would you ask that?"
"Ratchet," she looked up at him "I think, when I was still in my cell Schockwave as-!" she cut off in a scream as an electric shock was set off in her prosseor making her grab her helm and double over.
Ratchet rushed over to make sure she didn't fall off the berth when Masky and Wheeljack rushed in "what happen?!"
"Lemondrop, can you hear me?" she just kept screaming "slag!" Ratchet shouted then shot his head to Wheeljack as he pulled out a scanner
"we need to sedate her!" he yelled as the scanner beeped with the results.
Masky stood frozen at the situation, Ratchet pushed Lemondrop down but she only struggled harder "now, Jack!"
"i'm here! I'm here!" he said syringe in hand
Ratchet held her shoulders down and Wheeljack grabbed Lemondrops jaw gently but hard enough to keep her from thrashing it from side-to-side and injected the mild sedative into an exposed neck tube. She jerked and whimpered as it took effect and went limp. Ratchet wordlessly got a coolent line and plugged it into the back of her neck.
"Ratchet? What just happen?" Wheeljack asked.
Ratchet hooked her up to a few monitors before answering "I dont know, she was saying something about Shockwave when she just doubled over. The scan said her possessor was just over heating by an electrical surge but I can't tell where it's coming from."
"what do we do now?"
"will she be okay?" Masky asked reminding them of her presents
"she should be fine if we don't set off whatever it was that triggered it."
"maybe a word? Maybe its the word Shockwave?"
"she had the attack after the word."
"maybe the memories then?" suggested Wheeljack.
"with her behavior its not the memories, she was thinking about it before the attack. She was trying to tell me something about him. She knows what happen to her because she said she couldn't tell me. Guess this is what she meant."
"she Shockwave has plans and purposely showed her, only for her not to be able to tell us."
"she might go crazy if we don't find out the hard way first."
"she's smart. She might figured out away before it happens. She's got to." Masky said looking at Lemondrops pron form.
Lemondrop slowly opened her eyes to star at the ceiling. Her helm was pounding and uncomfortable "you're awake? Ratchet said you'd be out for a while."
Lemondrop looked to her left to see Masky sitting on a chair next to the medberth
"since when do you listen to Ratchet?" Lemondrop joked.
the door opened and said bot walked in "yes, since when do you listen to me? Either of you?"
"hey! I listen better then she does!" Lemondrop said sitting up on the berth
"you're right! You listen wehn I threaten, she listens after I hit her. Want a energon goodie for listening?" he mocked
Lemondrop shrunk in on herself. Ratchet rolled his optics and unhooked her from the monitors "Lemondrop, whatever you said or were trying to say, t would be best if you didn't try to say it."
"but Ratchet it-!"
he held up his hand for silence "your possessor might have handled that but that was because we were here. You cannot take another jolt like that so soon. Next time you might do irreversible damage. Whatever it is i'm sure we could figure it out."
Lemondrop stared hard at the ground. Ratchet and Masky nodded to each other before Ratchet walked away.
"you're clear to get up and walk around. Wanna come with me to get some energon? Your systems will need it." Masky suggested
she watched Lemondrop's doorwings go from droopy to high on her back, Lemondrop looked up and smiled at Masky "sure, why not?"
they left the medbay with Masky in lead. She would look behind her everyone in a while to see Lemondrop looking at the ground but she had massive wing movement. Before they entered Masky stopped "alright, whats wrong?"
Lemondrop stopped and looked up at Masky confused "what? What are you-"
"come on, you're not the only one who watches. Your wings were going crazy! Now either tell me or I can asked Bluestreak to translate."
Lemondrop rolled her optics "its not what im saying, its what i'm doing. And dont worry about it, just feeling around." Lemondrop said pulling in front of Masky and walked through the doors. Lemondrop skillfully managed around the chars and bots as she found an empty table to sit at.
Masky not far behind and sat down "since you're not even on light duty and that was a ways away do you want me to get you a cube?"
"sure." Lemondrop said keeping from looking around the room. Her wing movements didn't go unnoticed as two of the chairs at the far end of the table moved out and go occupied by Smokescreen and Bluestreak
"whats up, Lemondrop. " Bluestreak said trying to get optic contact.
"nothing much, blue, just bored. I wasn't even put on light duty." she said in a normal tone and shrugged.
it was quiet at the table again for a moment before Smokescreen said "its not your fault."
that got the reaction they almost wanted, she stiffened and slowly looked up at them both "they took me to make you guys surrender, so yes it is my fault."
"don't think like that you sour bot." Masky said putting the cube in front of Lemondrop.
she put her head back down and watched the glowing cube. Bluestreak and Masky entered a conversation with Smokescreen putting in his thought here and there. Discretely Smokescreen engaged Lemondrop in conversation "its really not your fault."
"look, Smokescreen, I don't want to have this conversation right now."
"you're going to have to sometime because the unneeded guilt will kill you emotionally."
"can we not talk about it right now."
"do you want to go somewhere privet and talk?"
"NO!" Lemondrop yelled, braking the cube with the pressure she unknowingly put on it.
Every conversation stopped and looked at their table. Lemondrop got up from the table and ran out of the room confusing everyone. When she got out of the room she kept her head down but it was her fault, even from way back when she first meet them, she should have pushed them away harder then she wouldn't have gotten out. She clenched her servos and made her way down to the security room but stopped outside the door and knocked. It was inferno who opened the door "well hi there, Lemondrop. what can I do for ya?"
"I need to speak to Red Alert, but I don't want to enter the room."
"why not? He won't kick you out."
"please, Inferno. This is really important." she said keeping her head down.
"well, if you really need to."" he said with a curious look and want over to get Red Alert.
Lemondrop waited out side and could feel a slight buzz in her possessor again like another warning. Only Red Alerts head popped up and he looked annoyed "what? What do you want?"
"Red you can find cameras in almost everything right?"
he came out a little more "yes, why?"
she lifted her head a little "because I -AHHH!" she clutched her head and fell to her knees.
Red Alerts horns sparked as he went forward to help her but not ouch her, Inferno rushed out "what happen?!"
"I-I don't know! She was talking about cameras!"
::Ratchet!::
::Inferno? What is Red freaking out about this time?::
::Its not Red, Its Lemondrop.::
Ratchet dropped his tools and grabbed a scanner and sedative and bolted down the hall towards the security room ::Inferno you two have to hold her down until I can get there, make sure she doesn't hurt herself.::
when he rounded the corner he saw Inferno and Red Alert holding her down. He dropped next to her head and did a scan to made sure that putting her under would do no damage. When she stopped moving he got up and ordered "put her into my cab!" and they put her in before he drove off he called down to the medbay and called back "Red Alert you might also need come to the medbay."
when he got to the madbay Sunstreaker ans Sideswipe were sitting on a berth, Sideswipe was missing his arm and Sunstreaker looked like he was going to rip off the other one but when he screeched to a stop him his altmode they were startled "figures. You two be useful and unload Lemondrop onto he berth, now!"
his shouts got them moving "what happen, Ratchet?"
Ratchet transformed and plugged a coolent line into the back of her neck and started another scan "she is trying to tell us something but every time she does she gets a shock in her processor and it doesn't turn off until she is offline or in stasislock. This time she was near the security room, this is the second time shes tried to say something her first was yesterday. She is lucky to be alive."
he looked at the pair with a scowl "no excuses. Table. Now." and they scrambled onto the berth.
little short but still...enjoy ^_^'