Chapter 4
-smirk- "see if you can guess! "
It hurt. Everything hurt. And worst of all, he didn't know why! It felt like he had fallen off a cliff. Wait a minute... He had! Focussing a bit more now the direwolf had got his thoughts in order, he felt warmth draped over him - it was heavy. If only he could shrug it off. Actually, there was also warmth to his right. Groggly opening his eyes, he moaned at the sudden increase in pain. Ugh, Primus it hurt!
Hearing his moan woke up the presence at his right- Sideswipe "Optimus? You woke up?!" he exclaimed, waking up the warmth draped over him. "Bee! Move your sorry ass!" Sides said. So the weight was Bumblebee? That explained alot- the excruciating pain for one. The fact he wasn't dead. Him and Sidewipe must have saved him somehow? But they were at the dens last time he saw them?
Optimus sighed, Bee had obviously lifted his head, the weight was gone, the pain slightly dulled. That was until Sideswipe shouted "Get up slackers! It's already morning! We need to move!" That hurt his head, a lot. "Ugh my head... " A yawn was heard behind him, followed by a muttered "It's too early for such shouts, brother." before his world exploded in pain. Someone- Bumblebee? Had jumped on him! "Bumblebee...please" Was all he could say before his vision went black.
Ratchet
He had a pursuer -who? No he didn't have enough time to think like that! Focus! Where was he going? To Optimus? Yes! But where was his pack leader? Most likely near the river, after being pushed off the cliff, after Iron -Ironhide got a-att.. aked by -No! He wasn't dead he couldn't be! Could he? After all, he still hadn't seen the corpse, no it was First-Aid's companion falcon Goldwing who had let him know.
First-Aid, poor wolf. He was the unfortunate target of Megatron, when they attacked. According to him, the gray wolf offered him mercy -by becoming their medic- but he refused, so he got killed. His actions saved Jazz and Sideswipe, who managed to escape because of his sacrifice.
Ratchet was patrolling the territory at the time of the attack when he heard Jazz' howl. It was pained, terrified and it could only have meant one thing, help! Ratchet rushed, ran as fast as he could, but direwolf territories are massive. ( A/N: In excess of 7000 square miles to be precise. That's about the size of Wales!) By the time he reached the scene all he could see was chaos.
Megatron's pack had obviously fled the scene, leaving the mangled, bloody body of his friend, and fellow medic, First-Aid behind. Perched on his shoulder, appearing to mourn the medic, was Goldwing. The golden and black falcon had her head bowed in silent grief, and her left wing hung limply to the side. She was as battred as her guardian.
She would have to have a new one now, he thought, sadly. Ratchet approached her, slowly and she told him what had happened. Her wounds had been caused by Soundwaves' raven, Laserbeak. According to her, they had an aerial battle while the same one was occurring on the ground.
He could see the paw prints of multiple wolves -Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, Bonecrusher, Jazz and Sideswipe, whose blood, along with the aforementioned wolves littered the floor. The absence of more bodies proved that Jazz and Sideswipe were still alive- he realized with a relieved sigh. But Blackout and Barricade's scents were still fresh. He remembered. That was the reason he was currently running away. He had followed their scents, who had eventually mingled with those of Starscream and Sentinel.
Ratchet came to a panting halt, sniffing the air behind him for any scents. He was so busy doing that, he didn't notice Megatron in front of him until it was too late.
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A/N while rereading Human Curse I realised I made a fundamental mistake- my Ratchet was uninjured, free to go and ambush Sentinel and Starscream- while in the comic, he was badly injured and in Megatron's captivity, about to be executed.- So I made it that he wasn't near the scene at the time of the battle- if only to make sure he could ambush Sentinel and Starscream. So I had to replace his role by that of another character - First-Aid - (If you are familiar with G1, you know who he is!)
All hail my first OC! Goldwing! As you have gathered by her description in chapter, she is a gold and black falcon. More accurately, her exterior feathers are black, while her down feathers are a striking gold -kinda the same colour as Sunny- (hint new guardian , hint). Her abdomen is a somewhat muted gold, but still beautiful. From above, she is totally black, oh and she has Autobot blue eyes.
P. S If you are wondering, First-Aid looks like Antubis0's portrayal of G1 Ratchet.
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