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Several days after Mirage recovered from the virus he had been infected with, Mirage noticed something strange – Optimus wasn't waking up like he was supposed to. Mirage was extremely worried, as Mirage had just recovered from a nasty virus. Optimus tried rousing Optimus, but all Optimus would do was moan. Mirage scanned to see if Optimus was going into the Matrix like he had previously. Nope, Optimus was out cold and Mirage had no idea why.
Quietly and without moving too much, Mirage commed for a medic. Ratchet answered, "Ratchet here" the medic responded upon getting pinged.
"Ratchet… it's Mirage. Something seems wrong with Optimus" Mirage informed the medic.
"Well he has been working pretty hard these last few days, maybe he is just tired" Ratchet suggested.
"No, that can't be it as he would have done more than just grunt at me when I tried to rouse him" Mirage answered.
Ratchet wasn't too concerned yet. "Maybe he is deep in the Matrix again,"
"I tried checking for that. He isn't doing that…" was as far as Mirage got before he was interrupted by the mosey medic.
As Ratchet listened, he then remembered something – Mirage had recently been very ill. "I'll be right there" Ratchet answered, hoping against hope that Optimus had not caught the deadly disease that Mirage had barely managed to fight off. What it really was would darn near give Ratchet a spark attack.
Ratchet soon arrived at the room. It was quiet as Mirage had sent their young ones to safe sitters. Mirage led the old medic back to the berth area. Ratchet scanned Optimus and found a few things – one, Optimus was more than sleeping 2, Optimus was not in the Matrix, and 3, Optimus was dangerously low on energon. Mirage just watched, hoping Ratchet could fix this and that Optimus would return to his normal self. Ratchet then performed a deeper scan. Optimus was in double trouble – he had caught the virus and was sparked. "Is he going to be ok?" Mirage asked, seeing that Ratchet had been silent.
"We need to get him to the med bay ASAP, as we could lose him if he isn't treated" Ratchet stated, trying to drag the heavy, "out of it" Prime to the med bay. Mirage just hoped that Optimus would come back to the illusionist. Mirage didn't want their sparklings to be orphans. All Mirage could do now was pray and wait.