Astrosecond- 2.5 earth Seconds
Klik- 150 earth seconds/ 2.5 earth Minutes
Orn- 150 earth minutes/ 2.5 earth Hours
Joor- 60 earth hours/2.5 earth Days
Metacycle- 17.5 earth days/2.5 earth Weeks
Vorn- 10 earth weeks/2.5 earth months
Stellercycle-30 earth months/2.5 years
Breem- slang for a moment/minute.
Chapter 6
"Okay, I ran some test and everything is fine, you will of course feel a bit sore and all, but it will pass" Danni sat up on the bed and nodded with a tired smile. "Go get some rest now, we will make sure that there will be fuel for you in the morning "thank you Ratchet" she said and got up.
Bumblebee offered her a hand and she gratefully stepped onto it. She looked at Ratchet and only just dared to ask "I know it's late and all… but what is this allspark that Barricade was talking about" no matter what she did, that part kept creeping its way into her mind. She had a feeling that she was supposed to know this.
Ratchet glanced at her over his should before going back to his computer "I will tell you tomorrow, now go" Bumblebee excused them and let the drowsy human down the corridor to his quarters. When they entered, the first thing Danni did was crashing down on her bed. Silently she watched Bumblebee lay down on his own bed. "You know, if you want I would really love to be your friend" Bumblebee said quietly, smiling at her.
The blond couldn't' bring herself to say anything, instead she just smiled and nodded tiredly. They stared at each other from across the room, not saying anything, just watching and wondering.
"what a strange race" she thought as Bumblebee's eyes became dim. She guessed that he had fallen asleep and it weren't long till she followed.
Long before Bumblebee even as much as thought about onlining his optics, Danni was up and running. The bed had been really uncomfortable and with all the thoughts racing around in her head, she just couldn't sleep any longer. And the fact that her stomach growled like an animal also helped.
So as any other reasonable human being, she looked around what would be her room as long as she stayed here. It was a simple room, made for two occupants, for a moment she wondered why a bot like Bumblebee was sleeping alone, but saved the question for later.
There were a cupboard on each side of the room and a table in between the two beds, and that was it. Bumblebee's side looking inhabited, stuff was thrown carelessly around but still in some strange order.
Her bed was placed on top of the other bed and she slowly made her way to the edge. There weren't too far down, but the pain in her legs made her reconsider the idea of jumping down. In the end there weren't any other way down and she took the jump. Her legs protested heavily when she landed, pain stung up through her body. Her stomach growled again and she scowled angrily at it. "Shut it you" she snarled trying not to wake Bumblebee; it would be so awkward if her saw her talking to herself.
She glanced up at the sleeping form and sighed in relief. She carefully made her way around, checking the room for hiding spots and things. "Wonder what time i-AH!" she shrieked when the door opened with a "whooose".
She jumped back behind the cupboard. In anxiousness she waited, but the only thing that happened was the door closed again. Realization dawned at her and she chuckled lightly, "oh I get it" again she glanced up at the robot, who had shifted slightly but was still sleeping.
She looked unsure from the sleeping form to the door, the third time her stomach growled in those 10 minutes, her mind was made up. She silently slipped out of the door and down the empty corridor.
"FuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckF UCK!" Bumblebee was running as fast as his legs would allow him, he had woken up to see his room empty and his door unlocked. "Blue! Have you seen the human?" he practically yelled at the snipe. Bluestreaker jumped at the sudden outburst and held up his hands in defense "I-I don't know, haven't seen her" he said.
Bumblebee didn't wait around for the blue bot to say anything else. He had been through almost the entire base and questioned almost every bot when he decided to tell his superior.
With a heavy spark he slowly made his way to Ratchet's bay, it was the CMO who placed the human under his care that would make the medic the one to report to. As he entered he didn't dare look up, afraid of the medic's disappointed gaze.
"Ratchet, I have a pr-"he cut himself off at the sound of laughter, and looked hopefully up. There on the bed sat Danni, with a plate in her lap and a fork in hand. "There you are Bumblebee, we have been waiting for you" Ratchet said with an unusual gentle smile. The yellow bot looked confused "waited for me?"
"Yeah, Danni showed up here two hours ago and we figured that you would come looking for her" the doctor said, a bit irritated. Danni looked down "sorry to make you worry" she apologized. Bumblebee sighed in relief and stepped into the room.
"So, as I was saying; the well of sparks is like the afterlife for humans, it is both the source and destination of all Transformer sparks."
"What's a spark?" she asked stabbing her broccoli.
The medic leaned back in his chair "well, a spark is much like something you humans would call 'a soul' or 'a heart', for us it's just more physical." He said, Bumblebee sat down at the edge of the bed. Every Transformer knew this. Danni perked up at it though, she had never been the very religious type, but it was still something that caught her interest.
"So, what does this 'spark' look like?" she then asked, the doctor stirred nervously, like she had asked him if he was gay. "Did I say something wrong?" Bumblebee chuckled and continued "no, but not many wants to show their spark to a complete stranger, would you want someone to see your soul?"
Danni lowered her head "no, I guess not… I'm sorry" the silence suddenly fell over them. Danni dared not speak; afraid she might pick up on another touchy subject. "You said that Barricade was talking about an allspark fragment, am I right?" the question was directed at the human and she carefully nodded her head.
"The allspark is not only our definition of an afterlife, it is also an object. It is one of the fabled sacred implements, an object capable of creating new Transformer life. Some might even say it can create worlds. Many have been fighting over it for millenniums and at last it was shattered. An Allspark fragment is said to possess all of the incredible power that the original object did." The medic explained, making sure Danni understood.
He sighed heavily "sadly, the AllSpark's power has long been coveted by the Decepticons, which forced us, the Autobots, to launch it into the depths of space, putting it beyond the reach of any Cybertronian."
The unsure, almost nervously moves that Danni made, didn't' pass Ratchet's trained optics. The way she held her plate tighter, how she looked down trying to avoid his piercing look. "What do you want to say?" he asked taking the empty plate from the human.
Danni didn't look up, her hands clenched nervously as she swallowed hard. "Ratchet…um, how does…What does a fragment look like" she asked looking at the door, hoping someone would come in.
Narrowing his eyes, Ratchet went over to a consol. "Not much was recorded after the beginning of the war, but it should look like…this" a picture of a marquise shaped stone appered.
It didn't look like much, besides being almost white. It could easily be mistaken for a common earthen stone.
"I believe you might wanna call Optimus now" the human said just above a whisper; "now I know why Barricade was after me." The medic's optics went wide before her nodded grimly at her.
The yellow bot shifted nervously before getting up, he looked from one person to the other "comm. me if there's anything you need, my shift starts in a few kliks" he apologized shortly and then left. Danni stared awkwardly down at her feet; at least she wasn't hungry anymore.
Optimus Prime entered the medbay with a very serious expression. At the moment Rathet was performing a reading on the young human. The machine behind them kept beeping loudly, detecting the radiation, as clearly as day.
Rathet looked over at his Prime, looking a little pleased and a little annoyed "I got a good piece of news and a bad, I don't care which you want first so we start with the good one" Optimus nodded his head and sat down in a chair.
"We know why the Decepticons are after Danni, they aren't literally after her, but something she possess." The medic showed the picture of the fragment, turning to face Optimus "It would seem that Danni have had an All-spark fragment in her possessing for quite some time now-" "5 years" the human interrupted, looking from one mech to the other.
"I found it in the junkyard and thought that it was pretty" she defended, raising her hands up in defense.
Optimus smiled and looked back at the medic "what's the bad news?" Ratchet looked down at the human "she told me that the fragment is at her home, the Decepticons might already know this" he looked grim and Optimus nodded.
"Then we wil-" Danni covered her ears and the two bots whirled around when the alarm went off.
"What the… Danni you stay here" Ratchet ordered. The siren blared louder, making Optimus and Ratchet race out of the bay. Danni starred after them before jumping down from the bed and out after them.
"This is a bad idea Sides"
"Oh come on, you need to lighten up bro, have some fun"
"Sorry for not categorizing, time in the brig as 'fun'"
"Oh hush sunshine, I'm almost done"
"Prowl's gonna have our heads for this, and DON'T call me that…"
The crimson red twin hushed dramatically at his brother and went back to the panel. They were currently in the security office; Sideswipe was messing with the panel and monitors, while uploading his latest prank. Sunstreaker was at the door keeping watch for any bots, mostly everyone's beloved Red Alert which had duty in a breem.
"Hurry up, someone is coming" Sunny said, moving into the deposit closet, where they planned to stay, to watch the reaction. Sides took the disk and moved after his brother, shutting the programs down before that.
The Red and white Lamborghini entered the office, finishing off his energon and throwing the cube into the trashcan on the wall. The young mech sat down in his chair and looked up at the different monitors. The security director sighed happily and leaned back, it took him exactly 0.3 seconds to register that something was wrong.
Leaning forward, he looked closely to a particular screen. It was at this time the people went on with their patrols, but oddly enough the halls were empty. The smaller Lamborghini narrowed his optics when he noticed that the screens was frozen, "Damn Wheeljack, he must be screwing with the connection again" he muttered nervously, panic creeping up on him. He wasn't even sure he believed that himself.
Red Alert tried to restart the monitors, as he was told to do if a connection problem occurred. The poor mech fell backwards in his chair when a dark face appeared on the largest screen.
"This is a warning, in exactly 8 earthen minutes a bomb will be fired towards your headquarters, autobot. Surrender now or face the consequences" it announced, chuckling darkly so it rung in Red Alert's ears, he screamed in terror when a clock appeared, starting a count down.
In less than a nanoklik the alarm was set off, Red Alert ran out of the door, screaming that they were under attack. Back in the room Sideswipe literally fell out of the closet laughing, Sunstreaker admitted that, that was funny and chuckled a bit himself but still held his cool.
When Optimus and Ratchet arrived at the commando room, Inferno was holding a very shaken Red Alert. Prowl and Ironhide had the twins by their throats, Sides smirked apologizing but clearly didn't mean it, Sunny on the other hand was shouting furiously for them to 'mind the paintjob' which the police car and van ignored.
All in all, a normal day on the Ark.
Realization immediately settled in with the Commander and medic and both dead panned in irritation. "Prowl, what happened here?" Prime sounded just as irritated as he felt, the medic beside him huffed and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Just the twins exposing Red Alert for yet another processor breakdown sir, Sideswipe thought it was funny to see what reaction he would get if he installed a false threat in the system. Wheeljack is currently trying to wipe it out."
"Ahh come on Prowler, it was hilarious! Lighten up dude!" Sideswipe defended, very poorly.
"Sideswipe, I'm very disappointed in you. I take it that Sunstreaker was in on it too?" the prime asked, Sideswipe lowered his head but the glare never left his optics. Sunstreaker seemed to have calmed down and was now refusing to look at Optimus.
"What's going on?" all eyes suddenly were on the tiny human on the floor. Danny starred wide-eyed up at the eight robots.
"I told you to stay in the medbay" Ratchet yelled, making Danny jump. "Sorry, but I got worried" she apologized putting her hands up in defense, trying to shield herself from the glowering medic.
"IT'S YOU!" Danny whirled around, coming to a stop when she faced the red and black mech. "Excuse me?" she said unsure, raising an eyebrow.
Sideswipe was sudden out of the cop car's grasp and kneeling before the human.
"Come on, you know me" he insisted scooping the human up in his hands before she could flee behind Optimus. Prowl protest loudly and advanced on the red twin, but Sideswipe was already on his feet and out of range.
Danni hang on tightly to his fingers as he moved. The floor far below her.
"Sideswipe put the human down" Optimus ordered, his patience wearing thin. "But Optimus!" the mech plead.
"Put. Her. Down" Ratchet raised his hand, ready to throw the wrench, but before he could do that a human male appeared in Sideswipe's hand, making everyone in the room come to a halt.
Danni could do nothing more than stare up at the familiar man, his jet black hair and those bright blue eyes. "Sides!" she yelled in surprise as she finally found her voice. Her eyes darted from the smirking robot to the smirking human and it didn't take her long to do the math.
"The one and only" he said grinning like a wolf.
Shaking, she pointed from one to the other. "Don't tell me…you have got to be fucking kidding me".
Just as quickly the human man had appeared, just as quickly did he disappear. The real Sideswipe was laughing loudly at Danni's expression, and the little human had to cling tightly to him for not to fall down.
The other mechs just starred at the two with a worried expression, none of them really knowing what was going on.
"Told you, you knew me! How could you just forget your savior like that" the mech teased her, making the human bark out a laugh. "You, saved me? Since when!?" the red giant finally let her down, and Danni thankfully stepped onto the floor.
"Since forever!" Danni huffed and walked back to the others, who still looked at bit confused.
"You two know each other?" Optimus asked, directing the question to Danni.
"Kinda... It's hard to explain" she admitted but Sideswipe piped up.
"Danni jumped on Sunstreaker while outrunning some bullies, and I save her" Sunstreaker had his killer gaze on Danni, now knowing who she was.
"You did not save me! Unless of course, showing up 10 minutes late is considered saving someone" she mocked with a playful smile. For some reason she trusted Sides enough to let her guard down.
Prowl huffed and grabbed Sideswipe while he was still distracted. "That still doesn't change the current situation, you two will be spending the next half Joor in the brim," Both twins protested but it was no use, Sides waved quickly at her while Sunstreaker ignored her completely.