Chapter: 3
What I didn't explain is the reason why Redalert getting to his controls is bad. Redalert controls all weapons system with-in the base and those weapons are meant to severely injure or kill a Decepticon.
Jazz ran along beside me until I slowed in order pick him up and put him back on my shoulder. He was breathing hard as he tried to catch his breath he said "Now… I know… why Ethan asks us… to walk slow…"
"Yup and there will be a whole lot more things that make a whole lot more sense. Now quiet we are getting close to our target." I felt him shift over and out of the corner of my optic I saw him staring at me strangely "What" I asked
"Are you sure you're not a Decepticon spy?" I huffed making him lose his balance slightly before stabilizing himself and glaring at me. I stopped at the corner and peaked around it where I found the paranoid Security Officer leaning against the door to his camera room panting and sweaty. I put Jazz on the floor and motioned for him to wait. I turned invisible, locked my wings and flew over to his other side. I looked over to where I had just come from and saw him peaking around the corner. I turned un-invisible and Redalert jumped up and started to illegibly yell at me with only few words I was actually able to understand. I started to slowly push his personal space back toward the corner where Jazz was waiting, preparing to jump and stick his paranoid friend. Once Red' was just about to the corner I said
"Now!" Jazz grabbed Redalert and tried to put the needle in his arm but was instead flipped hard onto his back. I then went after Redalert myself; I fell to my knees and cupped both hands over him quickly and carefully (kind of like a cat with a mouse only I had no intentions of hurting him). I got him into one hand then turned around to check on Jazz. He had lost his breath and was trying to get it back
"What's…? What's…? Why…? What's wrong…? Why…? Can't I…? Why am I…?" I could see in his eyes that he was terrified so with my free hand I made him stay lying down and reassured him
"Your ok just try to breath slow. All that happen is that the wind got knocked out of you. You will be fine in a couple minutes. Just don't talk, stay lying flat, and try to breath slow. Deep breath in deep breath out. Relax." He started breathing easier and eventually got to where he was able to catch his breath. After a few minutes he was able to sit up; he then shakenly said
"Wow… that was…"
"Painful? Terrifying? Extremely uncomfortable?" I had experienced several of those while I was still human and he knew I defiantly knew what I was talking about.
"Ya… That…" I then turned my attention back to Redalert who was trying his best to wiggle out of my hand.
"Hey Jazz you want to grab that syringe please?" He started looking around him
"Hey 'Bird you mind standing up for a moment?" Jazz asked. I did and found the syringe. When I had fallen to my knees I had landed on the syringe.
"Whelp I guess we'll just have to take 'im to Ratchet instead." I gently picked up jazz and put him on my shoulder. We were halfway to Ratchet when somehow Redalert slipped from my grip. I started moving too fast for Jazz to stay on my shoulder. I was trying to keep from dropping Redalert as he kept trying to get away at the same time as I was trying to keep Jazz from sliding off my back. I knew that Jazz wasn't going to last long by the way he was trying, and failing, to get a grip on my slick armor. I decided that I could recapture Redalert at a later time and that Jazz was, at current, in a possibly life threatening situation. I let Redalert down and turned my full attention to Jazz.
"I can't hold on!" He panicked as I felt his hands slipping.
"Trust me." I said
"What!" He yelled. I then purposely moved so I would knock him off. He yelped, not expecting the move, and did indeed fall. I turned quickly and caught him a few Cybertronic Inches (approximately one human yard stick) from the floor. I checked him over quickly for injuries whilst he got his nerves back
"You could have at least warned me first." He tried to yell at me but couldn't get above a stressed squawk (grounders are notorious for being terrified of heights; even steps make them nervous). I secured Jazz in my hand and went after Redalert once again. I chased him around the corner and started down the hall when I heard someone running the way I had come. I stopped and turned on a dime just in time see someone, indeed, running around the corner. When I turned the corner he was halfway down the hall. I stopped at the end and adjusted Jazz in my hand "What are you…!" He squawked, starting to get the basic idea.
"Just go" I said as I pulled my arm back and slid him across the hall right smack into Redalert. I warped down to where the two were and quickly scooped them both up. I secured the struggling Redalert then turned my attention to Jazz.
"Why did you do that for?!"
"What do you think I did that for, it was the quickest way."
"The quickest way! You could have…! I could've been…! How did you know that"
"How did I know that neither you nor Redalert would be hurt? I didn't but I did." Before he could comment we arrived to the medbay. The door opened, walked to the examination table and placed Jazz on it next to Ratchet. Jazz glared at Sunstreaker and was about to say something to him when I slammed my hand down enough to make him jump and to re-grab their attention. Redalert started screeching at the top of his lungs with only a few words being understandable. As Redalert kept yelling his head off, I asked Ratchet over a noise "Can you get out a sedative" and pointed to the satchel he had around him. Ratchet complied, got the syringe out of the labeled section, walked over to where I was restraining Redalert, and maneuvered him so that Ratchet could get to his arm.
"Hold still!" Ratchet snarled while trying to make Red' hold his arm still. Jazz came over, secured Redalert's arm and Ratchet was able to administer the much needed sedative. Once Redalert was out Ratchet asked me "Why did you come here? I thought you had one with you?" Jazz got an amused look on his face waiting for me to explain.
"The original plan didn't work so I had to go with plan B which ended in the syringe getting annihilated but in me being able to catch Red'" I said
"And plan B was?" Ratchet asked
"To catch him" I responded
"How?" He asked again
"Go on. Tell him." Jazz said happily, loving that he knew that Ratchet wasn't going to be happy with the method I used. I glared at Jazz then said to Ratchet
"I grabbed him with my hands" I said
"Somehow I don't think that that you just walked up to him and picked him up with-out any problems." Ratchet said
"It doesn't matter how I caught him, it only matters that I caught him without letting him hurt himself and that he's perfectly fine." Ratchet sighed and looked about to give up when Jazz spoke up
"She took a flying leap"
"You are so very helpful" I growled at Jazz. Ratchet looked like he was going to start yelling and, amazingly, he did
"Do you know what could have happened if you had missed! You could have at least waited for another opportunity!" He continued yelling even when Sunstreaker started trying to get our attention "What is Sunstreaker!" Ratchet yelled in his face. I gave Ratchet a low growl as my protection instincts kicked-in and my pretender mark started glowing. He and Jazz backed away from Sunstreaker then turned to the only reason Sunstreaker would be interrupting anything. We all turned our attention to Sideswipe; His heart monitor was showing erratic beats. Ratchet opened the satchel and administered a drug that was for heart issues. Sideswipe's heart beat went back to normal and we all breathed a sigh of relief
"That was close" Jazz stated. Sideswipe's heart monitor then flat-lined.
I have had some complaints that my OC, Nightbird, to perfect and I agree completely, at this point she has to be perfect and the next chapter will do something about that. The next chapter has already been outlined but it may take a while because of other stories and life preventing me from typing on anything; but never fear Nightbird is not perfect.