CHAPTER EIGHT

Medical Emergency

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Emma: Where is Meg, anyway?

Elita1: I heard she went out looking for Sentinel…and hasn't come back yet.

Bianca: Ooh, you know what that means!

Arcee: …What does it mean?

Zikya: It means that they're…

Andy: Playing Parcheesi.

Zikya: …She's good. Hey, how did she know that? She's like some creepy witch, or something.

Andy: Uh, I'm standing right here. I can hear you, you know.

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We ended up going back to the base first – completely forgetting to warn everybody that we had someone with us. I was sitting inside of Bee, holding my daughter in my arms like I was never going to let her go. Twice, she had to ask me to loosen my grip on her.

And Bee? Well, let's just say that he was moving faster then a greased pig wearing jet-powered rocket skates, which just goes to show how worried he was about Honey Bee.

I know. I was worried too.

The dragon, Sky Dragon that is, was following along in the sky behind us. I couldn't wait to find out more about her, but…I would wait.

First things first.

We arrived at the base, and I got out with Honey Bee, allowing Bee to transform.

Sky Dragon landed beside us, and quietly transformed.

Bee had already alerted Ratchet as to what was happening, and the medic was on his way back now.

I looked around. Where was Shooting Star?

I didn't sense her energy in or around the base.

Oh no! Had I lost my other child!?

Just when I was wondering what Bee, Honey Bee and Sky Dragon would do if I started screaming my lungs out, I happened to look up into the sky.

I wished I hadn't.

Jetfire and Jetstorm made their appearance – flying, of course.

And they had Shooting Star with them!

She was holding onto Jetstorm and, as I watched, she leapt gracefully into the air and switched to Jetfire, smiling the entire time.

My mouth fell open.

Bee's mouth fell open.

Honey Bee said: "No fair – I want to fly too!"

Sky Dragon didn't say anything.

And, finally, I found my voice again. "JETFIRE!!!! JETSTORM!!!! BRING SHOOTING STAR BACK DOWN HER IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Bee cringed, and so I can only imagine how Jetfire and Jetstorm felt, because I was also linked into their communications. I was screaming right in their ears.

I gave them credit – they didn't drop Shooting Star, as they landed on the ground, holding their heads where their audio receptors where.

I marched over to them and held Honey Bee on one of my hips. I held out the other arm impatiently and pointedly for my daughter.

Jetfire handed her to me wordlessly. I think he and his brother were still in shock.

Good.

"Mamma?" Honey Bee tapped my face. "My hand hurts…"

Where the slag are you, Ratchet? I wondered angrily, as I turned around…and then saw the one alte mode I wanted to see.

"Ratchet!" I called. I would have waved, but obviously I couldn't. I settled for the call.

He transformed and hurried up to me. Honey Bee glanced up at me, and I nodded. She reached out her arms for Ratchet, and he took her.

"Yikes." He said, openly shocked at the sparks that were now emitting from her wrist. They'd gotten worse in the time it had taken to return to the base.

Then, Ratchet made the mistake of looking at me. "You can fix it, can't you?" I said tightly.

He didn't answer.

My eyes opened wide, and I was getting ready to yell at him. Amazing how Megatron's revival made me this tense.

Then, the white Autobot Sky Dragon came up to us. "Uh, perhaps I can be of some assistance?"

Ratchet looked at her…and then he looked at her. "Uh…who're you?"

"Her name is Sky Dragon," I said quietly. "And she saved Honey Bee's life." I felt like I was Abel speaking up for the princess of the Valley of the Wind.

Ratchet looked into Sky Dragon's serious optics. "What can you do?"

*

"OW OW OW OW OW OWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!"

"She's got your lungs." Bee said to me.

We were watching from the corner of the room, as Ratchet and Sky Dragon operated on Honey Bee. Sky Dragon had changed into her holoform, a seventeen year old with long white hair streaked with purple and blue (she reminded me of Zikya). She appeared to be the one in charge – she wasn't actually giving Ratchet orders, but she was saying stuff and he was listening to her.

Huh. I guess she'd worked on organics before.

Or something.

Anyway, so Bee had me on his shoulder, and I was about to answer him, when suddenly I coughed – my throat still hurt, and all that yelling hadn't really helped.

Honey Bee looked up at me, then back at Sky Dragon, who was currently doing something to her arm that helped but hurt, and I watched as my little red-eyed one clamped her mouth shut and didn't make a single peep during the rest of the procedure, by which time the others had returned.

Sentinel took one look at Sky Dragon who had just changed back into her robot form, pointed and yelled: "SKY DRAGON!!!!"

And Sky Dragon's face took on a look of absolute disbelief, and she spluttered: "S-Sentinel! What the..!? Why are you here!?"

Bee and I exchanged a glance.

"Hey, have we forgotten anything?" Bee suddenly asked me.

My eyes opened wide, to the size of dinner plates, and I whispered: "The wedding…it's in less then ten hours…"

Leave it to the Autobots to make me forget my own wedding.

***

Meg: I just found another OCC to add to the lot, aside from Autobot Alythia's Sky Dragon.

Bee: I found one too. *Dragging OCC in by the arm*

Meg: Okay, here's mine – get a move on, you OCC who belongs to FirstWizardAllanon!!

Bee: This one belongs to… *Checks tag* dragongirlnr4…

Voice Over: Very good. You may leave now.

Meg: Wait, we still haven't found Sentinel yet!

Sky Dragon: (Not here!) That's a good thing…

Meg: *Not happy* But…I have to apologize to the big jerk…I mean, umm…okay, hang on. *Stands on edge of meteor* I'M SORRY SENTINEL!!!!

Sentinel: (Also not here!) I DON'T NEED YOUR APOLOGY, YA ORGANIC!!!!

Meg: OBNOXIOUS TECHNO!!!!

Bee: *Yells something in Cybetronian*

Sentinel: O.O;;;;;;;

Meg: Bee, what the slag did you say to him?

Bee: *Smirking* Something that sparked from my obnoxious personality.