Chapter Seventeen
"I'm fine, my injuries…" Surefire began as he walked into the medbay only to stop talking as Ratchet put his hand up.
"I didn't call you here about your injury but since you brought it up I'll take a look." The medic said gesturing to the medi-berth. The Ferrari grumbled and took a seat on the side of the berth "you need to lie on your front."
After a few more grumbles the white mech complied, he lay there for a few moments before curiosity got the better of him. "So why did you call me here then?"
"How long have you known Moongaze?" Ratchet asked suddenly.
"Gaze?" Surefire asked surprised. "Why do you want to know?"
"Just answer the question." The medic snapped.
"Since we came to Earth." He thought for a moment "actually that isn't quite true, she kept mainly to herself for the first few years only talking to Skybolt. Though Cruiser and I managed to get her to open up around the rest of us."
"And how long have you loved her?"
Surefire turned on his side and looked at the medic, "I don't think that's any of your business." He replied.
"I will tell you why later. Now answer me, how long have you loved her?" the Ferrari narrowed his optics for a moment before getting up and heading out. "If you want her to be slagging safe and back here you'll slagging answer me!"
The white mech turned back to the ambulance, "what the frag are you on about? Gaze is…"
"Gone." Ratchet interrupted.
"Gone? What do you mean gone? Gone where?"
The ambulance gave a frustrated sigh before retrieving a datapad. "Read it." He said holding it out to the mech. Warily Surefire walked over, took the datapad and began to read it. As Ratchet watched he saw sadness spread across the mech's face.
"Why did she leave?" the white mech suddenly asked.
Ratchet turned to the medi-berth next to him looking down at it, "I don't know, I had tried to find her only to find out that she left the medical program completely and they didn't know where she went afterwards." He replied sadly.
"I'm sorry." Surefire almost whispered.
"Yeah, so was I. Sorry I didn't tell her how much she meant to me." He looked back at the Ferrari "but you still have that chance, now go and make sure she comes back safely." A stern undertone to his voice.
Surefire gave a nod. "I will." He went to run out only to realise he still had the medic's datapad in his hand. "Here, you should keep this." Handing it back and running out.
"Oh Shadowstrike." Beat almost sang as he walked into the control room only to have the BMW glare at him. The black mech had been in a foul mood ever since the 'disappearance' of the human female a few days ago and with the seekers still around it meant that the iPod couldn't prove they were the ones who took her. "Stampede has bought back something you'll like. He found them a mile from here."
"I don't care what he found unless it was that slagging human!" Shadowstrike snapped.
"Oh believe me, you'll like this."
The BMW raised an optic ridge, "if you were trying to get me curious, Beat, it worked. Now let's see this 'interesting' thing Stampede brought back." Getting up and walking to the door.
"I was hoping you'd say that." Beat grinned "and trust me when I say you'll get a lot of fun out of it." Peaking the black's mech curiosity even more.
"Where is Stampede anyway?" Shadowstrike asked wondering why the Nissan hadn't told him of the capture himself.
"He's keeping an optic on them, wanted to make sure they didn't disappear like the last one." The iPod answered then cringed slightly when he heard the mech growl.
They walked into the holding cells just in time to hear, "don't touch me!" "I'll do what I want, Autobot!"
"Stampede." Shadowstrike called out wondering where the electric blue mech had go to.
The Nissan's head popped out of the cell furthest from the door, "Shadowstrike." He said half surprised "I have something I think you'll like."
"So Beat tells me." The BMW said, "Though I don't see how one Autobot is going to change anything."
"Perhaps you should take a look at them, then decide." Beat suggested with Stampede eagerly nodding his head.
Shadowstrike sighed, "If I must." He headed over to the cell and looked inside. A smirk suddenly came to his face. "Well well well, what do we have here?" he half chuckled.
"Told you, you would like it." The black and silver mech said.
"Indeed you were right. Both of you, I do indeed like it."
"Don't get any clever ideas, Decepticon. You won't get anything out of me."
The BMW walked over to them, "oh I think I can get quite a few things out of you, Femme." He almost purred as he ran the back of his fingers down her cheek. She smacked his hand away and he gave a small growl slapping her the force of the hit sending her to the floor. "Do not test me, Autobot." He snarled.
"We can also find out what happened to that human too." Stampede reminded.
"Oh we can do so much more than that, Stampede." Shadowstrike said evilly as he stared down at the fallen femme.