Hello everyone! Here's the next, longer chapter! Please excuse any medical mistakes I may have in this chapter. I'm a writer, not a doctor, and I had to use several websites and videos to have an idea of what I was writing about.
The reason this took so long to get out was because 1. I've been traveling for a few weeks, and 2. because I'm preparing for the sequel to this story which will include the kidnapping arch! Yay! I'm honestly getting really pumped about this, and I hope you guys will like the story as much as I like writing it. The next chapter should be out soon! Summer is here and I'm ready to write! Please review and tell me what you think!
As always, I own nothing.
~Mel
Alise and Ironhide continued to drive in the direction of the battle zone through a row of ruining stone houses, the sounds of gunfire growing louder as they drove onward. Even though she knew that she was in one of the safest places she could possibly be in given her situation, the interpreter couldn't help but feel nervous. She was waiting for someone or something to appear out of nowhere and start attacking them, just like what happened with her and Bee earlier. And speaking of which, she was worried about him too, but more so about Sam and Mikaela. Bee could at least defend himself. Mik and Sam were just two humans in a war of mechanical men.
As Alise continued to muse over the whereabouts of her friends, Ironhide suddenly stopped, but he stayed silent, not telling her the reason why they were no longer moving. The girl in the cabin felt her heart start to beat rapidly, and she couldn't decide whether to turn and see if she could find their asslinate, or stay as still as possible.
"Alise," 'Hide quickly stated through the speakers. "Lennox and Epps are about 200 yards away if you continue to travel north. They're waiting for you there, but we're being watched. When I tell you to go, go." The girl inside, now on edge from this information, nodded in understanding.
For a few moments, Hide just stayed in position, waiting for something that Alise couldn't see or hear. In those minutes, it was so quiet in the Topkick you could have heard a pin drop, neither Alise nor Ironhide making any sound at all. For a few seconds, the girl wondered if the Autobot was mistaken and was just being paranoid. But then, all of a sudden, the driver's seat door rocketed opened, and Hide quickly yelled, "Go, now!"
Alise all but flung herself out of the large vehicle, falling into a large pile of sand a few feet away from the Topkick. Then, quicker than she'd ever seen him do so, Ironhide transformed into his bipedal mode, and not a few seconds later did Scorponok jump from the sand below them and into the large Autobot's back. Hide yelled out in anger, and began to try and rip the con off of himself.
"Hide!" Alise cried out, quickly getting up off the ground.
"I said go, girly!" he yelled at her, as he managed to get a grip on the scorpion con and slam him to the ground. Knowing and now reaffirming that he was more than capable of handling himself, Alise turned around and took off in the direction he told her to go.
Alise was never much of a runner, so her body started to ache as made her way down the road that she was instructed to take. However, she continued to run, knowing if she didn't it could prove to be fatal. She made it to the end of the rows of the stone houses, her lungs burning and sweat lining her forehead, to see the battlezone in front of her.
The area was being destroyed, both human and Cybertronian forces battling one another with mass quantities of bullets, explosions, and fire. Large groups of humans were doing their best to fight against the Decepticons, however, for the most part, their efforts with futile. She immediately stopped running and hid around the side of one of the houses when she saw this danger, and from her spot she looked for any sign of her friends, human or Cybertronian. However, she was unable to see anyone she would trust enough to run to.
All of a sudden, there was an explosion over her head, and Alise was hit by a force of hot air, knocking her onto the ground. She turned around, and saw that stone and wood wreckage from the building she had been standing next to was coming towards her. Now set into action by a new threat, Alise quickly got up and had no choice but to run into the war zone to avoid being crushed by the burning pieces of stone.
Running behind a small group of soldiers currently firing at a con she didn't even dare look up at, she made it to the middle of the battle zone where an island of houses were settled, where she quickly dove into for safety, landing in the sand covering the ground. Propping herself against one of the broken houses, she took a moment to catch her breath, taking shelter from stray bullets flying in the area. She could hear them hitting the stone around her. After a moment, Alise slowly started to make her way to the other side of the buildings, knowing she had to keep moving out of the battle zone. She quickly got up and peeked out of the other side of the island of homes, when she saw the opportunity, ran through the other side of the battle zone, and into the rows of buildings on the other side.
She continued to travel north until she made it to the end of the row of houses, where she was only greeted with more bullets and chaos of war. However, this time she had a little more reason to be hopeful.
In the middle of the war zone, in what seemed like an island of ruins of homes in a sea of sand, was Lennox and Epps, both looking to be yelling at each other, giving orders to soldiers, and talking into mobile phones. Even though the obstacles that stood in her way included short bursts exchanging gunfire, random balls of fire, and the Decepticon Scrapper duking it out with Ratchet, the first Autobot besides Ironhide she had seen yet, she knew she was closer to safety than before . Standing near the edge of the row of buildings, Alise started to scream at the top of her lungs, hoping to get the soldiers' attention.
"LENNOX! EPPS!" She began to yell with all the air in her lungs, but unsurprisingly, she could not be heard over battle in front of her. As she continued to scream with all she had, she began to become dizzy and lightheaded, and she realized that she'd have to make another dangerous journey across the open field. She looked over at the path to her destination and saw that no one was currently firing anything, so if she was going to run, now was the time to do it. The idea didn't exactly thrill her, but if it was her only opinion, she'd have to take it.
Waiting only enough time for her head to be less clouded, Alise quickly crossed the row to the house that was closest to the island where the soldiers were, and after checking her left and then right, Alise took a deep breath, and started to sprint.
She had quickly made it across about a quarter of the way there, when she heard some stray bullets whizzing past her head as she did. She did her best to avoid the flying ammunition, however she couldn't see them as they passed her, so she only continued to run the best she could. All of a sudden, she felt a stinging on her side, but didn't dare look what it was, knowing that even turning her head could be her last action.
"Will!" she started yelling again, now closer to her destination. "Epps! Please!" Neither of the men, however, even turned their heads towards her. But she saw there was good reason why. They were now currently occupied because Sam and Mikaela had arrived. Mentally, there was a relief within her as she ran, knowing that her family had made it to the soldiers and now it was only her own ass she had to worry about. But something kept weighing on her mind; she didn't see Bee.
The gunfire had now ceased, however, Alise was now in the line of footsteps of Ratchet and Scrapper, an area she was trying to avoid but was unable to because of the bullets. Not wanting to get Ratchet's attention and distract him, she tried to get by the pair without being noticed, keeping quick on her toes as she danced around the two's constantly shifting feet. There was the harsh sounds of clashing metal over her head, and the noises made her flinch as she ran, but it wasn't until the sound of a metallic yell of pain rocked her ears and a piece of Cybertronian landed in front of her did she halt and quickly her change her course, still unable to get out of their path of destruction. Sand and dust were being kicked up all around her, making her have trouble navigating, and it came to a point where she had lost her way for awhile and got off course, heading in the wrong direction. However, it was then that Ratchet, who had just happened to glance down below him, realized Alise was there.
"Alise!" he cried out as Scrapper had the upper hand for the moment, the con's chain weapon making it difficult for the medic to move as he had it pushed over top of him. However, in a moment of strength, Ratchet growled and pushed the con upward, sending him off of him. He quickly turned towards Alise, spotting her once more in the dust. "Alise! Head north to Lennox!" He pointed in the direction he meant just as Scrapper started to barrel towards him again.
"Ratchet, behind you!" Alise screamed at him, as the con began to swing his weapon at the Autobot. She knew the medic was not one for violence, and she didn't know what his capacity for fighting was, never seeing him train with the other bots. However, she underestimated him, for with a grace she had never seen in an Autobot before, the medic turned on his foot and grabbed the chain being used against him. He then gave the chain a strong pull, and forced the con to fly in the direction of the force. After the deafening crash that came afterwards, she looked up to see Ratchet unfazed, pointing again to the course she needed to be.
"Go."
Alise took off in that direction.
"I hope these F-16s got good aim," Epps said suddenly to Lennox, the two crotched in the sand next to one another. It had already been a chaotic mess, this battle, and they hadn't even been there for an hour. The battle was leaving them with high human casualties, and the Major knew the Autobots wouldn't be able to hold out forever on their own. The only light in the darkness was that they may be able to bring Optimus back, and he hoped that all this effort and loss was worth it.
Lennox scowled for a moment, and then turned to his comrade, giving him a questioning look.
"Yeah?" Lennox asked. "Why is that?"
"I told them to hit the orange smoke."
Lennox bit his lip for a moment.
"You mean that orange smoke?" he asked his friend lightly, gesturing to the smoke that wasn't more that a few hundred feet away from them. Epps gave him a worried look.
"It wasn't my best toss, okay?"
Suddenly, the radio strapped to Lennox's shoulder came to life, and a man on the other end said, "Viper, thunder," and the two soldiers knew what that meant. Wide-eyed, they looked at each other for a split second before before yelling, "RUN!" to one another and the people around them, and then hauling ass to get away from the orange smoke.
They both began to run as fast as they could away from the targeted smoke, and but they weren't more than a hundred or so yards away when the airstrike came. The explosions were behind them for now, but it was only a matter of moments before they would be right over their heads. Taking the opportunity for shelter, the two soldiers dove into a ditch of sand next to the only standing wall of a collapsed building, keeping their backs to the hard structure, other soldiers with them mimicking their actions. Not even taking a moment to catch his breath, Epps looked behind the wall to see where the location of the blasts were, when a terrifying sight caught his eyes.
"Oh hell, NO!" he angrily spat out, and he began to get up from his spot. Knowing it would probably kill his friend his he left this area, Lennox quickly got to his feet and grabbed Epps, keeping him from moving. Just then, Will turned in the direction his friend was looking, and what he saw made his heart stop.
In the middle of the desert was Alise, who seemed to be running in the direction of the orange smoke, unaware that it would undoubtedly kill her if she made it there. She looked bruised and dirty, and Will could see an angry red seeping from her right side through her shirt. She didn't see them taking cover in the opposite direction.
"ALISE!" Lennox yelled like he never had before, and when the name left his mouth, she stopped almost dead in her tracks and looked over at them. She first saw Lennox, and a smile came on her face before she saw the look on his. Her smile dropped.
It seemed to happen in slow motion then.
Eyes still locked with hers, Lennox watched in horror as multiple missiles landed in a row in front of Alise. At first, he just watched as her hair blew forcefully back, and then as she turned her head, a wall of heat much too close to her knocked her back, fire licking her skin and burning her clothes. She had made it a good three feet off the ground as she flew into the air, and landed about ten feet from the spot she had been standing in. He couldn't even see where she landed.
Will wasn't able to see anymore of her then, because at that moment, Epps grabbed him and pulled the Major behind the wall as another blast came near them.
The group could feel the force of the blast on the wall they were behind, and only traces of the heat only dotted their uniforms. None of them were injured, but they knew to wait a few moments to make sure there were no more strikes heading their way. So when the planes flew over their heads and the blasts continued ahead of them, they knew they were safe for the time being. It was then that Epps and Lennox shot up to try and get to Alise.
They couldn't see the girl's body at first, but when they made it to the spot she had been standing at when the blast hit, they were able to spot her lying in the sand directly behind it. They ran to her, and then dropped next to her on their knees, surveying the damage.
Alise's clothes were shredded and burnt, the front of her shirt almost completely black and barely still there. She had cuts all over her arms, many that were going to require stitches, and they were all bleeding, making what was left of her and the sand she was on a bright, unforgiving red. The side of her face was also bloody, a cut on the left side of her hairline making a stream of blood run down her face, which also starting to form a large bruise. Her left hand seemed to be burnt also, her entire left arm bent in an unnatural direction. Her legs were just as beaten, her right pants leg actually missing to her knee, ripped off in the blast. That leg seemed to have a large gash in it, some kind of debris inside, and seemed to be the wound having the most blood coming from it. And yet all of these were only details that painted a greater, more terrifying picture.
Alise Brown was not moving.
Lennox quickly pulled off his gloves and put his hands on her bloody face, starting to lightly smack her cheek to try and awaken her.
"Alise?" Will started to loudly say, continuing to tap her cheek with his hits growing harder with passing seconds. "Alise! Lise? Lise, you gotta get up! Come on, Alise, COME ON!" His hands were starting to turn red from her blood, but he continued to try and wake her to no avail. He looked up at his friend with a horrified expression. "She's not breathing." Will began to perform CPR.
"Come on, girl, you can make it," Epps started to beg. "Come on, we've brought you back before, we can do it again." However, in the pit of his stomach, there was a doubt that Epps didn't want to acknowledge. When they found her in Mission City, she wasn't nearly this broken.
Taking his radio in his hand, Epps quickly pushed the button and spoke into the speaker.
"We need medical assistance!" he stated urgently. "Ratchet! Are you available?!" Normally for human injuries, a human medic would be used. But being that Ratchet became Alise's doctor while on base, he thought it would be appropriate for him to come.
There was a short pause before the medic Autobot hacked into the radio feed and answered the Sergeant Major.
"For the moment, I am," he said grimly. "I will trace your location. What happened?"
"Ratch... is Bumblebee with you?" Epps asked cautiously. Lennox looked up from Alise to his friend, and the two shared a pained look.
"Yes, he is standing right next to me..." Ratchet answered. "Why?"
"Will's already doing CPR, but you two need to get here now. Ratch... it's Alise."
"So what is this place?"
The man in front of her shrugged, not being able to really give her a good answer.
"It's a little of a lot of things, I guess," he told her. "A little bit of life, a little of death. We're kind of in an in between." He then gave her that little smirk that she had grown up with as a child. She rolled her eyes at him.
"Wow, that's not vague at all," Alise said with a laugh, not believing what was before her eyes.
She didn't know where she was at the moment. She didn't know how she got there, why she felt like she was standing on an invisible solid force, or what had happened to her that she had gotten there. But she didn't care at the moment, because wherever she was, she was with them.
"Well, I gave it my best shot, Al." He smirked at her, and his language changed. "So tell me. What's been happening since we've been gone?"
Alise laughed, both at the statement and his change in tongues. "Oh, not too much. Got a new job, met someone, helped save the world a few times..."
"Aaaa! Stop!" the woman there silenced them, looking at them both with a smile. "Speak a language I can understand! I haven't talked to my daughter in years, I can't do it in Russian!"
"Aw, Piper," Jeremy Brown said to his wife. "You know I'm just testing her."
"Oh, I know. It's just..." She didn't continue. Instead, she reached up and touched her daughter's cheek, starting to tear up as the brown haired girl in front of her smiled down at her. "My little girl. You've been through so much."
Alise looked down a little as her mother said this. "Yeah, I guess so."
Her mother nodded. "And as much as I wished it wasn't true, this isn't the end of it. But, Al... you'll always be okay. Things are going to happen in the future. Things that will test you, and push you over limits you didn't know you had. But you... you will make it. And for most of the way, you will have people with you you can trust. Don't forget that. Trust your friends. But when the time comes that you feel most alone, when no one can be there for you, remember that that storm will pass, and you will make it through. Because my girl..." she took her daughter's hand in hers and clutched it, "you are strong. So, so strong."
Alise was tearing up at this point, finding that she could still cry in this strange place. She stepped forward and embraced her mother, letting the tears fall on her sleeve, as her father came to their side and wrapped his arms around the two of them, the three staying in that position for many moments. They were finally together as a family after what was a very long time.
When Alise's tears had finally subsided and she was let go from the hold of her parents, she wiped her eyes as she began to speak, finding her voice once more.
"So," she sniffed, trying to gather herself together. "I take it this isn't my time then."
The two in front of her smiled, but they both shook their heads.
"No, Ally, it's not your time yet," her father said to her. "You still have a lot to get done on earth. You have to keep, umm," he chuckled and scratched the back of his head, "keep some giant, alien robots in line." Alise chuckled at this statement, realizing just how ridiculous it sounded, but how true it was.
"Your friend Ratchet is going to wake you up in a few moments," Piper continued. "And I think there's a certain yellow fellow down there who's a little upset right now, so I guess he should probably do that soon."
"Oh, and by the way." Her father crossed his arms in front of him "I'm going to be keeping an eye on this blondie of yours from way up here, and if he makes one wrong move, I'm going to fry his metallic ass with a lightning bolt."
Alise blushed, and laughed at this statement. "Could you actually do that?"
"Believe me, I'll try."
The young girl stopped for a moment then. "So you guys... approve?"
"Oh, hunny," Jeremy answered her. "He's a male dating my daughter! I'll never approve!"
Piper rolled her eyes, but smiled at her daughter. "What he means is, yes, of course we do. He loves you, and you love him, and that's all that matters." She laughed. "We always knew you'd probably go for someone not from around here, but you've taken our expectation to the extreme."
Jeremy nodded next to her. "Yeah, I'll say."
Suddenly, Alise didn't feel as though she was standing on a solid surface anymore. The invisible force beneath her feet now felt like a loose floorboard. Along with that, she herself didn't feel entirely present. She felt as if she was fading away...
"Mom? Dad?" she quaked, the feeling frightening her. "What's happening?"
"It's fine, Ally," Jeremy said. "You're leaving us now. Do some good down there, okay?"
"We love you, Alise," Piper finished.
"I love you both, too," she let out. She felt like paper, ready to blow away in the wind. She looked at their faces one last time with the final moments she had left.
"Oh, and dear? We're sorry, but this is going to hurt. A lot..."
And with that, Alise had drifted away.
Will had already been trying to revive Alise for almost a minute now, continually looking for movement in the frame of the young woman. Instead her battered body just stayed there, no signs of life showing in the girl. It wasn't more than a minute after Epps had radioed them that the two soldiers heard the sound of vehicles behind them, car doors slamming as running feet carried two men over to them. However, before the two with the girl saw them, they heard a noise that made both of them hang their heads.
"ALISE!" they heard Bumblebee's holoform cry out behind them, and seconds later he dropped to his knees next to her, his face a mixture of anger and pain. He quickly took her face in his hands, softly trying to wipe away some of the dirt and blood that had wound up on her cheeks, not knowing what else to do. His fingers were shaking. "Alise?! Lise?! Belle, please wake up!"
"Bumblebee, move," a stern voice said from behind, and the holoform of Ratchet came through, almost pushing Bee over to get to the spot Lennox wasn't performing CPR on. "Will, on three, I'll continue. Ready? 1... 2... 3." Lennox stopped and fell back into the sand, trying to regain his breath. He had been trying, and trying hard to bring this girl back, but couldn't. Bumblebee took his spot, taking Alise's hand and holding it in both of his, his expression now unreadable.
Ratchet tried to revive Alise the same way Lennox was for a few moments before he angrily muttered, "Frag it!" and stopped. He then took her left hand, careful of the burns on it and that her arm was seemingly broken, and tried to search for a pulse, but found he couldn't locate it, even a weak one at the very least. He didn't say anything, only continued to work.
Ratchet then speedily started to search through the bag he had brought with him, looking for something intently. As he did this, he quickly asked, "What happened to her?" without looking up at the soldiers. Bee, however, did turn towards them, his eyes looking pained and defeated as he regarded the two, still holding onto her hand. Lennox sat up as Epps answered for them both.
"She was looking for us and ran into the air strike's path," he said grimly. "She got too close to one of the blasts and flew about ten feet back."
Bee closed his eyes and clenched his teeth tightly, looking as if he was trying to hold back a scream. He gave the lifeless hand in his a tight squeeze, before turning to the medic in front of him.
"Ratchet..." he said weakly, his deep voice sounding so lifeless. "Please, I can't-"
"I know, Bumblebee," Ratchet replied, cutting him off, as he started to pull objects out of his bag. "Let me work." That shut Bee up very quickly.
Suddenly, another sound rocked through them.
"Sam!" they heard Mikaela scream in the near distance. She sounded terrified, and they didn't hear Sam respond. This sound made Ratchet pause for only a moment, before he gently shook his head and continued to look in the bag. The two soldiers looked at each other with grim, devastated. And Bee... Bee looked as if he wanted to fall in the Pit, his eyes full of despair and pain. First Alise, and now Sam. He was losing everything.
"No, no, no, no," Will started to say, but couldn't continue. He was exhausted from the continuous CPR on the girl. "I have to... I have to-"
"Will, go to them," Epps said from Alise's side. "Someone needs to be with them. If there's nothing we can do here... There may be something you can do there. Go."
He lowered his head sadly, but knew his comrade was right. Maybe there was some good he could do there. He had done what he could here. Before moving, Will placed a hand on the side of Alise's face and gave her a quick kiss to the temple, not knowing if this would be the last time he would see her again. Then, slowly getting up and taking one last look at the broken girl he considered family, William turned around and began to make his way to where Mikaela, and hopefully Sam, were, sorry he couldn't do more there.
Epps watched Lennox walk away for a moment before suddenly, something was thrown at his head. He turned to see rolls of wrapped gaze lying beside him, and next to Bee was a bag of cotton balls and a bottle of what looked like peroxide.
"Make yourselves useful," Ratchet said quickly, as he seemed to begin to prepare a long needle. "Disinfect and wrap as many shallow cuts as you can. Leave the deeper ones and the leg wound for me for later, and try not to disturb her arm. I'm going to try something and I have to do it now, but if she wakes up, she is going to be in pain. Start now, before I do this."
Bee and Epps quickly did as Ratchet instructed, the holoform rubbing the peroxide on her cuts and then having the soldier wrap them. They were able to finish both her arms and her legs, avoiding the massive gash, before the medic instructed them to back away, the two following orders. Suddenly, Ratchet tore the remains of her shirt off of her, making Epps and even Bee unsure of whether to keep watching or not. However, Ratchet didn't tell them not to, so they focused on him and the needle.
"Ratchet, what are you going to do?" Epps asked him then. The bot didn't even turn towards him.
"Intracardiac injection," he stated simply, and without missing a beat, he drove the needle into Alise's chest, making sure it landed in the correct location.
Bumblebee and Epps both physically jumped at the sight of Ratchet and the needle, both of their faces filling with mixtures of horror and queasiness. They looked at each other, both of their mouths hanging open, and then back at the two in front of them, watching as whatever liquid in the tube of the needle started to disappear into their friend. When the liquid had been all used, Ratchet slowly took the needle out, place a cloth over the spot where the needle went. After, he put the needle down next to him, and waited.
"Come on, come on," the medic muttered under his breath, watching the girl intently for any new sign of life. This was their last option. If this didn't work, that would be the end of Alise Brown. This was their last hope.
Suddenly, Alise's back arched up as she inhaled a deep breath, her eyes shooting open, and then almost immediately closing from the bright light over her head. She began to start taking continuous deep breaths, trying to get oxygen to her head and stop the feeling of numbness from continuing to spread throughout her body. The only place she could feel pain was in her left arm, and damn, did it hurt. She was confused as to where she was for a moment, and why so was in so much pain, but then her mind was flooded with memories of the explosion and she remembered... She had died.
She opened her eyes again, this time, the light of the Egypt sun not hurting so much, and looked up. She found that she was surrounded by Ratchet, Epps, and Bee, all looking at her with dumbfounded and cautious looks, as if they were waiting for something.
"Guys?" she said weakly, trying to find her voice. "Let's not do that again, okay?"
That was enough to know Alise was back.
Directly in front of her, Epps let out a heavy sigh and fell back on the sand behind him, laughing out of relief.
"Jesus, Alise," he said chuckling. He continued to do so on the sand, so happy that the girl was alive.
To her one side, Ratchet's holoform let out a relieved breath also, closing his eyes and rubbing the bridge of his nose with his fingertips.
"Welcome back, Alise," he said without opening his eyes, exhaustion racing through him. He was already so tired, and he knew this battle wasn't over yet. He then looked down at her. "Does anything hurt in particular?"
She tried nodding, but found she couldn't really do it so she stopped. "My arm," she choked out, but then silenced herself. As she regained feeling, she found it harder to talk. Ratchet understood, and now having the time, scanned her arm.
"You have a compound fracture on your left radius and ulna," the medic informed her. "Try not to move it around. It will increase the pain and make it harder to treat later."
"Okay, Ratch," she answered softly. "Thanks." The medic nodded at her.
She then slowly turned her head to her other side.
Bee was looking down at her, his breathing seeming to be a little unsteady from stress. His bright blue eyes looked at her with the greatest sense of relief, but they were also cautious, as if he was afraid to say anything. He had once again taken her hand in his, and even though she couldn't feel it yet, she herself felt calmer after knowing he was there.
"I'm sorry," she whispered, knowing that the scene had hurt him. "I-"
He shook his head. "Stop." He bent over and placed a soft, lingering kiss on the top of her forehead. "This is not your fault, so stop apologizing. Just stop." He choked out that last part a little, his deep voice cracking ever so slightly as he did. Bee was very expressive in his bipedal form, but not as much in front of others in his holoform. However, even she had never heard him sound like this before, and it almost broke her newly revived heart to hear him sound so sad. She didn't say anything, but just nodded.
"Damn, what was that stuff, Ratch?" Epps suddenly said, getting up from his spot in the sand. "I could use some of that in my coffee."
"That stuff," the Autobot answered, "was an eight milliliter dose of Epinephrine."
"Adrenaline?"
"Yes. It should only be used in absolute emergencies, such as this. There are so many possible complications that could arise if not administered correctly."
"Well, it worked, that's all that matters." He then smirked a little. "I feel like I'm in Pulp Fiction."
Alise laughed a little at that, however, she realized that wasn't such a great idea afterwards. Everything ached, despite the numbness. But in her legs she could tell the feeling was coming back. But it wasn't just feeling that was returning, it was a burning, intense and unforgiving.
"Ratch," she said suddenly, making everyone, including the medic, look down at her. "My legs are starting to hurt, like really burn." Her arms were starting to feel the same way.
When she told him this, Ratchet nodded quickly at her and started to go in his bag once more, pulling out more bandages and a pair of forceps in a bag. As he reached in again and put on a pair of gloves, he explained what was about to happen.
"Alise, your legs and arms are covered with many minor, but some major cuts. There is a major gash on your leg, and I'm going to need to fix it now. That means I need to pick debris out of the wound and then sterile it with peroxide. I don't have enough painkillers to make what you are about to feel go away, and I'm sorry, but I didn't expect to be a human medic today. I'm going to give you this." He pulled out another needle with a clear liquid inside. "It'll take off a little of the edge but you feel still feel everything. I'm going to try and stop the bleeding then and wrap it. I will do this as quickly as possible, but this... this will not be pleasant. Alright?"
Alise bit her lip, not wanting to experience the pain she was told she was about to, but nodded. Her skin felt like hell, and she could feel every cut, every bruise on her body. But she felt a squeeze on her good hand, she looked up and saw Bee giving her a supportive look. So she gave him an unconvincing smile, and turned towards the medic.
"Okay, Ratch," she gulped. "I'm ready."
He nodded. "Alright. Let's begin."