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Seth had no idea how long he was unconscious for when he started to regain consciousness. His vision swam in and out of focus before everything became clear once more. At first he was very disoriented until everything came rushing back to him. He groaned softly as he relized that everything that just happened to him had been very real and not a realistic dream like he first thought it had been. He actually was at the autobot base, Cybertronians were real, trapped in a another world or dimension all because of his laptop, and to top everything else off he knew future events of this dimension or world. Needless to say he was royally screwed no matter how he looked at his situation.
"I didn't ask for any of this. Primus, why me?" He grumbled under his breath as he dully noticed that all his wounds had been cleaned and bandaged as he rested on the human size hospital bed or something similar to one. He could feel the bandages wrapped around his chest to help keep his ribs in line so the could heal naturally. He also noticed that his clothes had been changed, he was now wearing a dark red shirt that had black long sleeves with a black hoodie to it, black jeans and white socks. His shoes were near by along with his energon stained backpack. He could not see where his energon stained clothes were currently located and figured they most likely were destroyed because of the energon on them.
Seth than moved to sit up. "Son of a bitch!" He cursed loudly from the sharp pain that coursed through his body, just as he tried to sit up. His body was protesting as he forced his body to move.
"Don't even think about leaving that bed! Gremlin, you shouldn't even be moving around!" Ratchet snapped when he heard Seth's cursing when he entered medbay to check on his paitent. Seth turned his head to see Ratchet approaching him with a scowl on his face. Ratchet glared at his paitent who nearly gave them all spark attacks earlier.
"Hey Doc, least you don't look like your gonna kick the bucket anymore. How are ya doing?" Seth said with a hiss of pain as he ignored Ratchet's scolding as he managed to fully sit up right.
"Don't call me, Doc! My wounds were well taken care of after you were stabilized, gremlin. I'm currently doing a lot better than you are apearently." Ratchet said as he looked him. "Even though removing that ducktape you used to fix my injuries was a nightmare to remove. I still have a few places were that annoying tape is refusing to come off." Ratchet grumbled in irritation. Seth only blinked at him for a few moments as he tried to process what Ratchet just told him.
"Stabalize? How bad were my injuries exactly? I thought it was just a snapped rib." Seth asked in confusion as he stared at Ratchet. Ratchet sighed at that.
"You weren't entirely wrong about your injuries, gremlin. However the truth is you had three broken ribs and some internal bleeding from how you fell. To make the long story short and to the point, you're lucky to be even alive right now. You also had evidence that the energon, you were covered in was poisoning your body." Ratchet said calmly. "Also I still have no idea if you will suffer from any lasting side effects or any permeant damage from being covered in that much energon for so long especialy since some of it ended up inside your blood stream from your cuts. The internal bleeding was taken care of so your in no longer in danger of bleeding to death, just to put your mind at ease."
"So... let me get this straight...I now have traces of alien blood or I should say energon inside my body, with no idea if their will be any lasting side affects, or permeant damage to my body because of it being there?" Seth asked slowly.
"Yes." Ratchet said as the other autobots arrived.
"And there was no way to fully remove it from my body?!" Seth demanded as his anger started to seep into his voice.
"Not without killing you, I couldn't and still can't for that matter. How you like it or not, the small traces of energon that is still inside your body can't be removed." Ratchet said frowning.
"Swell...Any other bad news you want to spring onto me, Doc?" Seth asked him with a dark exspression.
"Don't call me, Doc!" Ratchet snapped at him.
"Than don't call me a, Gremlin!" Seth snapped right back at him.
"At the moment you're stable and currently in the process of recovering from your injuries. The energon that remains inside your blood stream, does not appear to be harming you in anyway for the moment. However you will need to stay here for a while, just so I can keep an optic on you." Ratchet said in a serious tone.
"For what purpose exactly?" Seth growled at him as his exspression almost mirrored one of Megatron's exspressions whenever things didn't go his way.
"Incase your condition suddenly changes for the worst. You're not out of the woods yet, gremlin. Nor will you be for some time, now lay down and get some rest." Ratchet told him firmly as he tried to ignore how his charge's exspression reminded him of one of Megatron's exspressions. Seth sat there as he regained control on his temper as well as his emotions.
"I take it that your the one who took care of my wounds, like I tried with yours?" He asked Ratchet as he made himself as comfortable as possible as he sat there ignoring the glare Ratchet was giving him.
"With some help from some trained medics that I brought in to help Ratchet patch you up, kid. You gave the bots and the medics I brought in one hell of a scare and you almost flatlined twice on us when your body tried to shut down due to the energon poisoning." Agent fowler said before Ratchet could say anything as he approached Seth. That was when Seth noticed the other autobots besides agent fowler. A very tiny part of him was a bit disappointed that Miko, Raf and Jack weren't there to see the new kid.
"Flatlined?! You didn't say anything about flatlining before, Doc! What else aren't you fragging telling me!?" Seth yelled as he glared at Ratchet with a very dark exspression to the point he looked murderous. His hand twitched as he was wishing there was something to grab so he could throw it at Ratchet.
"I told you what I believed was the best for you to know at the moment." Ratchet said in irritation while sending a glare towards Agent fowler.
"The best? The best would be telling me the full fragging truth as bluntly as possible, not fragging sugar coat it! It's my fragging body and life here!" Seth snarled at him.
"Kid, calm down." Fowler said firmly.
"Don't tell me to calm the frag down! Just don't." Seth snarled as he snapped his head to agent fowler as he narrowed his eyes at him in a cold icy glare.
"Okay kid, it seems we got on the bad foot here. I'm sure Ratchet would have told you everything in time and it seems I might have went on a limb and thought you were already informed of what happened to you. For that I'm sorry for getting you all riled up. Anyways I believe introductions are needed, I'm-"
"You're Special Agent William Fowler. Former army ranger and is currently working for the united states government. I'm well aware who you are and for the record don't call me a kid. Just call me, Seth." Seth said calmly as Fowler seemed a bit taken back by that. "My name is Seth Grimsley. Look to keep my story short and straight to the point I'm not from this dimension but from another one where this dimension or world is common knowelge. Meaning I know things that I shouldn't possibly know or have any knowelege of."
"Don't get smart with me, kid." Fowler warned him.
"Seth. My name is Seth, Agent Fowler. Also for the record, I wasn't trying to be smart with you. I was just stating the truth and a fact, sir." Seth said coldly as he narrowed his eyes at him.
"Oh really prove it, smart guy. Just how much do you know." Fowler said as he crossed his arms.
"You want to know how much I know? Than fine...let's begin." Seth said coldly as he than began retelling events that there was no way he could have known about. Including word for word that Agent fowler said to starscream's face when he was captured by the cons when Miko, Raf, Jack and the bots went to recuse him. Fowler's face only paled as Seth retold the whole beginning of Transformers Prime including how Cliffjumper died which Arcee, Bumblebee, Optimus, Bulkhead and Ratchet were taken back by. He stopped after finishing how Fowler alouded Miko, Jack and Raf to stay with the bots.
Seth didn't dare saything about the scraplets, or other events that had or will happen after the 5 beginning episodes of Transformers Prime that started the whole series. Besides retelling a few events of how the war of cybertron started how Megatron was once called Megatronous and how Optimus was a clerk by the name of Orion Pax before he was chosen to become a Prime. Only thing he did reveal was the fact Megatron was still alive but was in a coma of some sorts since a con sort of blurted out when he corrected Starscream, when he claimed to be the leader of the Decepticons. However the part that had bots all on edge as well as Agent Fowler was when Seth revealed the location of their base to them. Besides the fact Seth telling them how he ended up in their dimension as well. Though he kept a few things to himself and didn't tell them everything or the full story. Seth fell silent as he stared at them all coldly.
No one moved or said anything as the whole base fell into a very thick uneasy silence. "How the hell, am I suppose to exsplain to my supiors about a dimensional kid, who knows more about you cybertronians than we do!?" Fowler yelled breaking the thick uneasy silence.
"Simply tell them a teenager escaped from the decepticon clutches and is currently staying in our care since the teen picked up information that the cons want from him and how we will be protecting him." Optimus suggested after a few minutes.
"You want me to lie to them?!" Fowler yelled.
"Think of it as not telling them the entire story, but just stretching the truth a bit." Seth said calmly with a flat exspression.
"You're not helping." Fowler said as he stared at him.
"And you need to lighten up a bit." Seth mumbled under his breath which only the autobots heard.
"Seth was clearly injured, and the cons did have him surrounded when we found him. Optimus' exsplaintion does sound a lot better than telling them that Seth's laptop simply ripped him from one dimension and forced him into this one. Which I still find hard to believe." Arcee said as she sent Seth a look.
"Arachnid killed Tailgate your first partner when she captured you and him for some coordinates. You blame yourself for what happened to him and you blame yourself for what happened to cliffjumper even though it was Starscream who killed him as Megatron brought him back with dark energon causing him to become a zombie. You are struggling at the task of being guardian because you fear of loosing Jack the same way as Tailgate and Cliffjumper. I know my story is hard to believe but how do you think I feel Arcee? I'm the one questioning my own sanity here, since the knowelege I know about you guys and these events are common knowledge found in a damn book." Seth said bluntly as he looked at her not wanting to reveal any more than what he already revealed.
"The fact remains that when we got there, it really did look like Seth had been tortured and it also looked like Ratchet was injured badly when he tried rescuing him. Even though Seth had tried to patch Ratchet's wounds up and even protect him by being a decoy or a distraction to the cons." Arcee continued as she tried to ignore Seth's words to her besides the bitter memories and personal fears that Seth brought up.
"The gremlin was lucky he didn't offline me." Ratchet grumbled.
"Keep it up, Doc and I swear i'll repaint you lime green." Seth warned him as the color scheme of Ratchet from the live action movie of Transformers came to mind. In fact he was tempted to do that as soon as his body was healed enough to do so.
"I like to see you try pipsqueak, because your in no condition to do so." Ratchet said as Seth bristled in rage at the comment.
Ratchet, is going to get a new paint job as soon as i'm able to move about without any pain coursing through my body. Seth swore in his mind.
"Seth, has no background information! It would never work if I do go with your plan, Prime."Fowler screamed in frustration.
"Blame it on Soundwave hacking the files, and say there were erased." Bumblebee said in his seires of beeps and clicks.
"What did he say?" Fowler asked in confusion as he getting all riled up about this situation. Seth rolled his eyes.
I'm the one who should be throwing the hissy fit, here Agent Fowler. Seeing how I'm trapped in a different dimension or world all because of my stupid laptop. Seth thought bitterly before he desided to step in.
"Bumblebee said blame it on the decepticon's third in command named Soundwave. Something about destroying the files and that their is no way to recover them." Seth said making all heads snap towards him as optics and eyes widen in alarm and surprise. "What? Why are you all starring at me like I suddenly ripped my face off or something?" Seth asked when he noticed their exspressions.
"You can understand Bumblebee?" Bulkhead asked him.
"All I hear is a series of beeps, clicks and wirls whenever Bumblebee talks, no offense." Seth said as he looked at Bumblebee who slumped a bit at that. "However I'm just taking a wild guess in the dark that is what Bumblebee suggested, since Soundwave is known for being good if not the best at computer hacking so it would make sense to blame the Decepticon's Third in command for erasing documents and hacking government computers. Though I don't see why Bumblebee doesn't just use some of the radio stations and take the words he needs from them as he uses them in order to form sentences with so we humans can understand him as he speaks through his radio or something." Seth said as Bumblebee was silent for a few moments before he smacked his face as though to ask himself why didn't he think of that before.
"Is it just me or is Seth just a tiny bit creepy?" Bulkhead asked.
"I haven't even started being creepy yet, Bulkhead. Do you want me to show just how creepy I really can be?" Seth asked as he revealed his evil Cheshire cat like grin that made him look purely evil and almost just as demonic as a scraplet right before they strike. Bulkhead quickly inch away from him in fear.
"Look my supiors would be looking for the paper work trail. The stuff on the computer might have been destroyed but they would still be able to look for Seth's birth certificate and-" Fowler started.
"Front pouch of my backpack, I keep a keep a personal copy of all my medical, school and birth certificates in there. Only because I can't really trust a certain person with them." Seth said coldly as he crossed his arms as he relaxed his expression as he turned to face Agent Fowler once more. "Won't be hard to create a fake paperwork trail or something while using them just to make the story Optimus came up with more believable."
Fowler walked over to Seth's backpack and opened the front slot of his bag and sure enough there was all the paper work that Seth said was there. Fowler was silent for a moment before he sighed. "I'm going to have recreate you a file for this dimension including giving a new social security number."
"Fine by me, long as I get my original paperwork back along with the copy of the fake paperwork." Seth said calmly while not looking all that interested in the plan.
"I think I can manage that. However this also means you will have to be enrolled in Jasper High school. Meaning you will be attending the same school as Jack, Miko and Raf." Agent fowler said calmly.
"Fine by-Wait...WHAT!?" Seth screamed with wide eyes of horror. "There is no bloody way in hell, I'm attending-"
"You will be attending school Sethiroth Grimsley. You might be from another dimension but you still need an education incase your permeantly trapped here in this dimension." Fowler said firmly. "I can put down that you been home schooled all this time. However the problem is that your still a minor and will need a permeant guardian as well as a place to live. Putting you in a foster home is too risky at this point and you can't live on your own so giving you your own apartment is out of the question." Fowler said.
"Ratchet will be Sethiroth's guardian and Sethiroth will remain here with us until we can figure out a way to safely send him home to his dimension." Optimus said calmly.
"WHAT!?" Ratchet and Seth both screamed at Optimus as they both looked murderous at him. Optimus almost took a step back from the sudden outburst from the two of them. The hard part was for him not to laugh since Ratchet and Seth had the same dark murderous exspressions on their faces.
"Optimus, you can not be serious! I only agreed to look after the boy as his physician, until the gremlin fully recovered from his injuries. The gremlin would only be the death of me, he's perfectly capable of looking after himself." Ratchet yelled in protest at being a guardian.
"I can look after myself like Ratchet said and I have been doing a fine job for years before I ever meet you! I don't need some old rust bucket playing baby sitter with me!" Seth yelled in annoyance.
"Who are you calling an old rust bucket, you little suicidal gremlin!?" Ratchet snapped at Seth.
"Appearent you, old man." Seth snarled as Ratchet glared down at him as Seth glared up at him.
"Enough! My decision is final. Sethiroth will be living here under our care but you Ratchet will be his guardian." Optimus said firmly as he put an end to the two arguing. Seth and Ratchet shared a heated look with one another as to blame them for this situation they been placed in. Neither one of them was happy about their situation. Ratchet than huffed as he stormed off further into the base.
"Than it's settled." Fowler said before he looked at Seth. "You will start school in six weeks, Seth. You should be healed enough by than to attend classes." He said before he left the base.
Seth turned his glare towards Optimus. "Learn to recharge with your optics open, Prime. I swear i'm going to repaint you for this." Seth hissed out his threat under his breath.
"Get some rest, Sethiroth." Optimus said softly as he ignored the boy's threat.
"It's Seth." Seth growled out.
"Your destination is Sethiroth, therefore I will call you by your destination." Optimus said calmly.
"Fine, than I'm calling you Orion since that is your real name than." Seth said in defiance. Optimus said nothing to that as he looked at the teen in silent concern as he briefly wondered just how long Seth had been on his own.
"You really don't like your name do you, Seth?" Bulkhead asked him.
"Not really and I have my own reasons. Just call me Seth." He said calmly as he tried to make himself comfortable. He noticed Optimus' exspression from the corner of his eye. "If you have a question just ask me."
"How long have you been alone?" Optimus asked him. Seth was a bit taken back by that sudden question as bitter memories came rushing to him.
"Too long." Seth said bitterly as he refused to go into any details about that. "I'm going to try and get some rest now. Just so I don't have the old man yelling at me." He grumbled as he went to lay back down while hissing in pain from moving about. Optimus frowned at this as he sensesed more to Seth's situation than what the boy was telling them. However he knew better than to push the boy to hard or else he would loose whatever trust the boy had with them. Optimus and the other autobots than left the room to allow Seth to get some rest.
"Optimus, do you think it's wise to have Ratchet paired up with Seth?" Bulkhead asked Optimus quietly once they were out of hearing distance.
"I believe it would do them both some good. Sethiroth was honestly more concerned about Ratchet's injuries than his own when we first meet him and when the boy lost consciousness Ratchet was more concerned about the boy's injuries than his." Optimus said softly.
"I don't know Optimus, they both looked ready to kill one another."Arcee said frowning.
"Give them time, Arcee. Sethiroth just needs time to adapt to his situation and a chance to recover. Ratchet just needs a chance to grow use to the idea at having a human charge of his own and it will give him a chance to warm up to humans. I'm sure it will be fine." Optimus said calmly eventhough he had a nagging feeling in the back of his processors that something was going to go wrong.
To Be Continued...