Too long peoples! It has been far too long since I have updated this story and I am sooooo sorry! Better late than never, I hope. Anyway, I would like to thank everyone who reviewed on the last chapter!
KayleeChiara
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Thank you guys so much! On to the chapter! :-)
Disclaimer: I do not own the Transformers. I wish I did though, that would be so awesome. They belong to Hasbro. I only own Nova.
"Nova, could you come here for a moment?" Ratchet asked her over the com link. He and Nova had been in the med bay all week working on Bluestreak's anti-virus. It was obvious that his condition was deteriorating quite rapidly. The sniper had been falling in and out of consciousness for the past week and they knew that the coma was coming soon. Nova had gone out on patrol and had just come back.
"Sure Ratchet, where are you?" Nova asked him.
"Rec-room" he replied.
"Alright, be there soon." She said. Nova was walking down the hall when she was suddenly pulled into a supply closet. I was dark and she couldn't see who grabbed her. She jumped to conclusions and kicked her "captor" in the "down under". She heard him cry out in pain and fall to the floor. Then she flicked on the lights to see the resident weapons specialist on the ground.
"Ironhide!" she exclaimed.
He got up off of the floor and looked at her in outrage. "Are you insane?! What was that for?!"
"You pulled me into the closet."
"So? Why would you kick me?!"
"I thought you might have been Sideswipe."
Ironhide thought about it for a bit. "Yeah, not my best plan. Good reaction though, if it was Sides."
"Thanks, anyway, back to more important matters. Why did you pull me into the closet?" she asked.
"Do you like Blue?"
"What?!"
"Do you like Bluestreak? Like really like him?"
Nova felt energon rushing to her face plates. "Why do you ask?"
"He's head over heels for ya! Do you feel the same?" Ironhide asked her.
She stared at him in shock. "Really? Why hasn't he said anything?"
Ironhide smacked his forehead with his servo. "I'll take that as a yes, and he hasn't said anything 'cause he's scared. Now if his time's almost out, it's your job to make things right."
"Alright, first of all, I don't know how I feel about Blue. I haven't really thought much about it, and second of all, I am going to kindly ask you to please stay out of my love life. Now I have to go see Ratchet." She said. "Oh, and sorry for kicking you." She exited the closet and made her way to rec-room, leaving Ironhide even more determined to get the two together.
She entered the rec-room, still thinking about her conversation with Ironhide. Then she started to wonder about what she felt about Blue. All of those thoughts were put on hold when she saw Ratchet at a table.
"Hello Ratchet. You wanted to speak to me?" she asked,
"Yes, please, sit down." He told her.
She took a seat. "What's wrong?" she asked him cautiously.
"I spoke to Galloway a few days ago." Ratchet said hesitantly.
"Oh? What did he want?" Nova wondered.
" He had noticed the amount of Energon we have manufactured from human materials as well as how much has been used to aid Bluestreak." He told her.
"And?" she wondered.
"He said that,… Bluestreak's ration,…. must be cut in half."
The energon inside of her body was boiling in her veins. She spoke calmly and slowly, a sign that she was extremely angry. "Please tell me that's not going to happen and that now he's a stain on the floor."
"I can't."
"Ratchet! You know that Bluestreak needs as much Energon as he can get, just to have a chance at survival! You can't cut his rations in half, have you spoken to Optimus?"
"Of course I have."
"What did he say?"
"The humans threatened to cut off all of our resources, he had to agree, but he was not happy about it."
"Bluestreak is not getting half a ration."
"Nova, it's been done."
"Then I'll give him half of mine!"
"You can't do that, we don't even know if he will survive."
"What are you saying?"
"I'm saying that you shouldn't kill yourself over him. His chances are already low, he probably won't"
"You're giving up on him?!"
"No! Maybe? ... I'm telling you to look at this from a logical perspective!"
"Now that's a load of slag! When I was a youngling, you were always the one who told me that logic has nothing to do with it! You do whatever you can until the end!" she took a deep breath to calm herself down. "But I guess you're not the mech you used to be."
"Nova, wait."
"No Ratchet, I'm done."
Nova left the table and made her way to the med bay to talk to Bluestreak and inform him on the current situation. She was mad. No she was beyond mad. She was furious. How could Ratchet tell her to give up on Bluestreak! As a youngling, she had heard stories about him and, as she got older, had even seen her surrogate father bent over, working for hours, non-stop, on the broken bodies of injured soldiers. She was young and unable to help with the repairs but after they had been saved by Ratchet, she was eager to help nurse them back to health. Nova looked at Ratchet as a role model. She wanted to be just like him, to do everything in her power to help those who needed it. She had even chosen her job because of him. He had inspired her, but it was all different now and Nova didn't know what had changed.
"It was bound to happen sometime."
"How can you give up so easily?" Nova shouted at Bluestreak. She outraged that he was giving up on himself.
"I'm not giving up, I'm just facing the facts. There's nothing we can do about it. The decision's been made." He told her.
Nova still looked angry, but now it was more of a determined kind of angry. "And so has mine."
"What?" Bluestreak asked.
She nodded her head. "You're taking half of my rations."
"No." He sighed. "Nova let's face it, I'm probably not getting out of this. There's no point in wasting the energon, I'm not taking it."
"I'll give you a feeding tube."
"I'll refuse"
"I'll set up an IV"
"I'll refuse"
"I'll sedated you! Whatever it takes, I'm not going to lose you!" Her voice was much louder than she had wanted it to be so she quieted down to almost a whisper. "You're a valuable asset to the Autobot army, one of the best snipers ever to be sparked. You're also one of the best mechs I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know. I'm not losing you." She bid Blustreak goodnight, deciding not to metion her conversation with Ironhide, and went to her quarters.
She sat on her berth for hours. She couldn't recharge, couldn't stop thinking about what Ironhide had said. Bluestreak had always been there while she was growing up. Together since they were younglings, but she was friends with him. Did she want more than that? Ironhide had also said something about Bluestreak liking her. Was that true? She couldn't decide if she was happy about that or if it just made everything more confusing. Through it all, there was one question that stood above all. How did she feel about the sharp shooter?
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