Sorry for all the update confusion, I'm new at this. After this chapter I'm going to try and post weekly on Sundays. And away we go! :-)

Bluestreak woke up in the medbay the next morning feeling even worse than he did the day before.

"Good morning Blue. Are you feeling any better?", asked Nova.

"Not really, I actually feel worse.", replied Bluestreak.

This worried Nova. "Why is Blue feeling worse? He should be getting better.", she thought to herself. "Oh, well it's probably nothing serious but I'll go tell Ratchet about it. You should rest." she told Bluestreak.

"Okay, see ya later." he said.


Nova walked down the halls to the rec room where she found Ratchet. He was seated at a table with a cube of energon and a he was looking at data pad. The room was usually filled with mechs and femmes but they were all on patrol or monitor duty. She was glad there was no other bots in the rec room. She had a bad feeling about Bluestreak's condition but she didn't want to alarm any bots until she was sure that they needed to know. She knew that even if only one bot knew the entire base would know by the end of the day and then everybot on the base would try to come and visit him and that would not be good. Ratchet would be angry because of all the bots in the medbay and then he would break out the wrenches and when Ratchet took out the wrenches, things never ended well.

"Hello Ratchet", said she said.

"Hello Nova, is everything alright?"asked Ratchet.

"Actually Ratchet, I'm not sure. Blue just woke up so I asked him how he felt and he told me that he felt worse than he did yesterday.", Nova said.

" I know.", Ratchet said sadly.

"Wait, what?", Nova asked.

"I've been doing some research and I found out which virus Blue has.", he stopped for a moment before continuing, "It's an old, rare Cybertronian virus. It slowly weakens the bot's systems to the point where they can't function so they deactivate. It's called Cybervexium and the chances of survival are very slim." informed Ratchet.

"How low are the survival rates?" asked Nova.

Ratchet hesitated to answer. "Only one in every ten bots survives", he finally told her.

Nova just stared at him in shock. She couldn't believe that Bluestreak would probably die. She refused to believe it. "Bluestreak is a strong mech. He'll pull through. He won't die. I won't let that happen to him and he won't let that happen to himself." she told Ratchet. She was scared and desperate to save her friend.

"I know you're upset, you care about Bluestreak and you don't want him to die. We're going to do our best to save him, I just don't want you to get your hopes up in case he doesn't make it. The only thing left to do is tell him." said Ratchet.

"I'll tell him. He'll take it better from a friend." Nova said.

"A friend, or something more?" Ratchet said quietly to himself as he watched her exit the rec room.