Back on the Nemesis
''Uuuuuuh, primus my processor is killing me…..w-where am I?'' Sunstreaker had finally begun to wake up from their little battle with the trio and later added Jet twins.
"Bout time you woke up sleeping beauty!"
"What?" Sunstreaker looked over to see sideswipe bound to the prison wall by his wheels, hands, neck and torso. The physical restraint stop Sunstreaker from reaching out to Sideswipe. "WHAT IN THE PIT!"
"YEEEEEEA… they, kind of chained you up pretty good Sunshine."
"What in the pit is with all the IV lines and scrap!?" Sunstreaker was about to pull them out, but he quickly was scolded by sideswipe.
"FRAGGER YOU RIP THOSE OUT AND I SWEAR I'LL RIP YOU TO SHREDS WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER! I WENT THROUGH THE PIT AND BACK TO GET YO AFT HELP!"
"So you let a con mess around with my internals….ARE YOU FRAGGING MAD!"
"NO SCRAP FACE! IT WAS ONLY YO BIG HELM THAT WAS DAMAGE YOU BIG AFT GLITCH!"
"Yea because that makes it better, just let them mess around with my helm an processor!"
"Do you prefer that I had let you offlined?"
"No…"
"Then shut up and stop complaining!"
"Anyway what happen, last thing I remember is seeing two turbo jets jump in on the fight?"
"Yea, that happen and we lost pretty badly bro."
"What happen to Bumblebee?"
"I don't know. When slipstream came back she didn't have Bee with her. I hope Slip didn't, you know…"
"Drop her." The though burned at Sunnys' processor. (what if we get out of here and find her. Just laying their broken and … No way that little bugs has too much luck! She's been to the pit and back an recovered 110% every time! No way she has to be alright.)
Sideswipe stayed quiet for a moment as his processor tried to ignore the thought of what the femme could have done to the young scout. "Regardless! If slipstream hurt her or WORSE! I'll personally make sure she doesn't stay online long!"
"I'm not letting have that pleasure of killing her off! Not without me you're not!" Sunstreaker gritted his denta from anger until the sound of he and Sunstreaker cell door open.
Sideswipe paused their conversation the moment the decepticon medic Knockout walked in.
"Well, well, well looks like my favorite patients have finally come to. ~3" she winked at Sunstreaker while giving Sideswipe a very pleased smile.
"What do you want now knockout?" Sideswipe ignored the medics smile as though it never existed.
"I've come to check on my favorite patients of course."
"Patients? Only patient you have is Sunstreaker.
"Last I checked the twins had to carry you both on this ship. Not only that, but you brothers injuries mixed with yours made things a bit 'complicated'. Which ended up with me having to sedate you; thus making you my patient as well little red." Knockout gave sideswipe a cute playful kissy face as she walked over to the chained up mech.
Sideswipe shuttered at medic in disgust. "Ew!"
"Well Sideswipe it looks like you have a fanfemme of your own."
Knockout shot Sunstreaker a cold death glare; Sunstreaker happily return a glare. Sideswipe just shook his helm at the two. "He's going to get us killed one day, just watch." Sideswipe voice was too low for anyone to hear. As the glares seemed to intensify a bit. (For once I think I'm glad to be chain to the wall. Cause, if looks could kill bots would die left and right from these two.)
Knockout finally broke the tension between her and Sunstreaker. Clearing her throat she gave sideswipe a devilish smile and made her way towards him. Taking only one of her claws, she caressed sideswipes from his spike covering, all the way up to his chassis. Sunstreaker optics stayed locked onto the medic.
"What are you doing?"
The red mech said calmly, not knowing what she would do to him if he were to get her upset. Knockout completely ignored the red twins question and cut her attention to the gold lambo and smiled. Though the medic blocked the golden twins view; Sunstreaker optics traced the medics every movement. Though Sunstreaker could not see what exactly the red medic was doing he could feel the fear build in his brother spark. Soon knockout began to softly tap on sideswipes chassis, directly over his spark chamber to be precise. "I have 3 proposal for you dear Sunstreaker."
"Oh? And what would those 3 proposals be?" Sunny did as told for the sake of his brother sanity and safety.
"Option 1: I'll give you your brother back, but you have to stay with the cons."
"What's my other option."
"Option 2: Bring in sweet little Bumblebee in trade for your brother. Trust an believe she will make a really good decepticon scout"
(I don't even know where she is or if she's even alive! Regardless I'm not too fond of it, but my brother come first.) "Do I have any other options?"
Knockout stayed quiet for a minute, her helm turned away from Sunstreakers face. "There is one more options, my own personal option." (Theirs no way they are going to agree to this, especially not him. However Breakdowns gone and, I….I can do better, just like I promised him I would do.) The medic looked back at the gold mech, her face expression having a look of hope on it as she walked away from the unharmed red twin. "Here's my final proposal to you Sunstreaker, Personally I think it's a good one for everyone"
"Then are you going to say it or not?"
"…I'll lead you both out of here unharmed, but In return, in return you must take me away from the Decepticons"
"Take you away? What do you mean by that?" Sunstreaker looked at the femme confused for a moment.
"Don't speak to loudly, remember stupid Soundwave is the eyes and ears of this ship so you must play along and whisper around here."
"I think I know what she means Sunny?"
"What because I'm a hella confused." His optics locked on his brother waiting for a response.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you mean you want to join the Autobots? To take you away from here, that's what you mean right." His optics remained on the red medic. He was either right on the mark or a thousand miles off.
"Your right…." Her optics refused to look at either twin. Afraid that they would turn her down or even laugh at her.
Sunny and Sides looked at each other for a moment as they started to talk over their bond. "Maybe this isn't a bad thing Sunny I mean look at her since her bulky friend Breakdown died she hasn't been seen on the field, not even for medical cause."
"So what you think she had a change of spark or something cause of her little friend!?"
"I mean, come on she gave us the option of getting us out of here at the exchange that we bring her to the Autobot. Seriously what con would really want to be prisoner of a bunch of an Autobots? Unless they actually wanted to get away from the cons. She's doing this of her own free will Sunny. Plus if things do go well she'll be an actually Autobot which means an extra medic for the Autobots and one lest for the cons. I say we give her a chance."
"Your serious about this aren't you. *sigh* alright fine for once I'll take your word on this, but if this backfires it's all on you."
"DEAL!"
The twins broke their little bond conversation and replied to the medic. Sunstreaker optics cut to his brother who had a small smile on his face. "Alright Knockout, if you get us out of here decently okay we'll get you into the Autobot, but know that you will be treated like an outcast an a prisoner until you can prove you are trust worthy and actually reliable to the team."
"But if it makes you feel any better Prime is the big shot who says yes or no. An since he think that any bot can has a change of spark, that puts you on the proving yourself to be an Autobot." Sideswipe softly smiled at the red medic showing that he was to an extent okay with her joining the bots.
The medic looked at the twins shocked at their reply. "You….you are actually a-agreeing to that?"
"Yea we are now all you have to do is pull your end of the deal an get us the pit out of here."
"Right unfortunately it will have to be a-" Knockout was cut off by the booming voice of her leader over the intercom.
"KNOCKOUT! BARRICADE! COME TO MEDBAY EMEDIATLY!"
"Me and Barricade…this can't be good"
"Oh come on it can't be that bad. Come on, on a scale from 1-10 how bad is him calling the both of you hu." Sideswipe smiled at Knockout knowing that it couldn't be as bad as the femme was making it.
"If you truly want to know it's on the scale of 'oh scrap I'm in for it'."
Sunstreaker optics narrowed at the femme with a bit of curiosity. "Well what in the pit did you do?"
"I don't know, but I'll be back later on just try to hang on till then." Knockout walked out of the cell door and made her way towards the medbay.
"Hey Sideswipe."
"Yea"
"What did she mean by 'hang on till then'."
Sideswipe looked at Sunstreaker who just shrugged at him.
In the main corridor Knockout met up with Barricade, walking side by side to medbay.
"Geez cade I'm not going to say you look bad but, uh, you look bad. Did you recharge last night?"
"Not really why, and what did you do to get me called out here for."
"Hey! I'm just as clueless as you are! Bedside what had you up all night, hu? Were you thinking of me and all my beauty?" Knocky grabbed a hold of Barricades arm an nuzzled it gently so she wouldn't mess up her finish
"BITCH NO! GET OFF ME!" Barricade pried her off his arm an pushed her.
"Well geez cades you don't have to be so mean!"
"Frag you!"
"Maybe later~3"
"Oh for primus sake" Barricade just shook his helm in disbelief.
She laughed softly and made her way right back beside cade. She got close to barricade, so close that only he could hear her. "Anyway I have a proposal for you cade."
"Oh an what would that be?"
"Are you still interested in joining the bots?"
"What?"
"Are you or are you not I need to know before we get to medbay."
Barricade stayed silent for a moment. (Joining the bots hu…If I joined them I could keep a closer optic on Bumblebee.) The image of her kissing sideswipe jumped in his processor, bringing back all those questions from last night. (Bumblebee….your lucky I promised your caretakers that I would take care and protect you no matter what!) "Yea knockout, but how exactly are we supposed to do that?"
"The twins need an escape don't they. So I made a deal with them; that I would get them off the nemesis if they got me out of here and in with the bots."
"This is going to cause a pit of an up roar you know that right, an old Megs isn't going to be too pleased about our little side swapping." Barricade tired optic cut over to Knockout.
"I know, that's why I don't want to leave you here alone. That and we need a little 'distraction' to get us out of here. Who other than you."
"Why do I keep getting volunteered for these crazy tasks!? Uh fine, I'll see what I can do to start an up roar. You better be lucky we both know this ships blind spots like the back of our servos!"
Knockout just smiled at the cop in amusement. "So its settle then!"
"Yea I guess regardless you'll know the distraction trust me. That, and I'll let you know ahead of time."
Knockout smiled genuinely at the cop as they arrived in front of the medbay. "Oh look were here! Still don't know why we were both ordered here."
"Looks like where about to find out." Barricade was the first to enter through the medbay doors and the first bot to see his sire Blackout. (This can't be good…)
Knockout walked in right behind cade and saw not only her step sire, but Soundwave, Starscream, hook and Shockwave. All the big shots/lieutenant looking straight at them the moment they walk in. The only bot missing was Megatron, or so they thought.
"I see you two have finally decided to show up, Barricade and Knockout." A sharp deep voice came from behind the line of mechs. The towering mechs covered the back mech so that they couldn't see him, but they both knew it was Megatron by his voice.
"Yea, yea whatever were here, what's the big idea for calling the BOTH of us!?" (What are these mechs hiding on the medberth behind them?) Barricades optics looked at the berth then at a shadowy Megatron figure that was hovering over whatever was lying on the medberth.
"EVERYONE LEAVE EXCEPT FOR BARRICADE AND KNOCKOUT! That includes you as wells Starscream and hook."
Starscream just shook her helm "Yes, why don't you go then Hoo- WAIT A MINUTE WHAT! WHY AM I LEAVING I AM THE SIC!"
"BEACSUE I DEMAND IT YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING PIECE OF SCRAP! NOW LEAVE!"
Starscream murmured something under her glossa as she left alongside Hook; who was laughing at Starscream being shut down by their leader like a sparkling. Soon everyone was gone, the medbay door hissed closed and Megatron locked them remotely. Now the only bots in the medbay was Megatron, Barricade, Knockout and the mysterious figure on the medberth.
"Do you two know what we do to Autobots we capture, right." Megatron stood tall his arms crossed behind his back.
"Of course we do its part of our jobs as cons Megs!"
Knockout hit Cades arm hard, trying to getting him to shut up. "BARRICADE!"
"WHAT!"
"Anyway, why do you ask that my liege?"
"Skywarp has caught a certain yellow Autobot and you will be patching her up and getting her ready to be trained as a decepticon. We are doing this by force, so if you are not up to this knockout step down and let hook do this. This bot is special to the cons and I can NOT afford for there to be any type of unnecessary damage. You will start by putting dark energon shards in her arms and we shall go from there."
"Yes my liege. I'll start right away"
You will not start till I am out of medbay knockout!"
"Uh o-of course my liege." (He usually stays for these kind of things. What's so special about this bot?)
"What's the matter old Megs? Old tank can't handle the sight of Fluids hahahahahaha."
"Shut up barricade!"
Barricades laugh died down a bit, but he was still laughing on the inside. "Anyway why am I here?"
"You are here to guard and train our 'new recruit' and medic. Do you understand that?"
"Whatever you say." Barricade waved his hands lazily to the decepticon warlord and made his way in front of knockout.
"Why do I put up with you?" Megatron gave Barricade a tired stare of annoyance.
"Because I of very few mechs ACTUALLY get my job done." Cade smirked at the warlord over his shoulder and turned back towards knockout.
"See to it that you complete this mission successfully Barricade." Megatron turned and exited from medbay leaving the cop and medic alone.
"Alright then lets see who my patient and your prodigy is, shall we?"
Barricade nodded his helm as his optics stayed on the thermal covering. Knockouts hand gripped the head of the sheet and pulled it off revealing her patient. "Oh my primus, its…"
"BUMBLEBEE!?" Barricade looked at the medic and then back at the unconscious femme. "What the HELL HAPPENED! SHE WASN'T LIKE THIS LAST NIGHT!" his vocals filled with rage and confusion. (THOSE TWO! I'M GOING TO KILL EM FOR THIS!)
"Last night!? What you me she wasn't like this last night. How do you know she was- Did you sneak off the ship to see Bee!?"
"No I was scouting and I ended up bumping into her. We literally bumped into one another. There was a bit of a 'problem' chasing after her and I helped out a bit. Nothing more" His optics stayed on bumblebee damage frame.
Knockout looked at the mech for a moment before starting to medically patch and clean her wounds. "If you don't want to tell me cade that's fine, but, I do want to know eventually. But for you to help someone out especially a bot from a different fraction! She must means a lot to you. So I guess what I am asking is, what is Bumblebee to you barricade?"
Barricade was silent to the medics' question for the moment. "She's a sister to me. Nothing more." His arm crisscrossed over his chassis as his claws turned into tight fists.
"Barricade…?" Her optics cut over to her friend, but only for a moment. His expression and body language had anger and guilt written all over. "…is she really just a sister to you Cade, or is it that you don't know how you feel about her." Her optics focused on putting the final cleaning touches on Bumblebees wounds. Barricade stayed completely silent as his fist started to ball up even tighter, Knockout took notice of it, but didn't say anything. "Well whatever she is to you I'm sure you'll figure it out. And I'm all audios if you need me."
"I'll keep that in mind..."
"Good! Now you think you can help me out barricade?"
"Yea, What is it?"
"Can you bring me the welder from my equipment closet, I need to weld her arm and side, especially her side."
Barricade did as asked and walked over to the closet. He open the right closet door first; he immediately regretted his decision. "WHAT IN THE-! KNOCKOUT!"
"What are yo- oooooooh. He,he,he whoops I forgot that's where I also keep my little play toys hahaha."
"NOT FRAGGING FUNNY! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT MOST OF THIS SCRAP IS! LET ALONE WHAT ITS SUPPOSED TO DO! WHY IS THIS EVEN IN MEDBAY!?
"What can I say, I sometime like to be naughty in secret~3"
"…..just tell me where your ACTUAL scrap is."
"The other door silly"
"What!?" Barricade quickly yanked the other door open, and just like she said the welder and the other med tools were all there. He quickly closed the 'naughty' door and snatched the wielder out. Slamming it in knockouts servo. For a minute cade stood beside knockout without saying a word, silence stretched between the two. "Knockout, I'm going to pretend I never saw anything."
"HAHAHAHA Doesn't bother me." Knockout began to weld her wounds shut leaving the big injury on her side for last.
"So change of subject! Is she going to be alright or what?"
"Little bit of recharge and energon an she'll be fine!" She smiled at the cop, reassuring him."
"Question."
" what is it my lovely Cades.~3"
"Oh for primus- look can you pull up her vitals from the last year or two?"
"If she kept them in her data then yea, but I can't promise it'll be there. Why?"
"She was sent on a 2 year mission and I want to know how she handled herself."
"So you have been keeping an eye on her since he gave her to the bots."
"Shut up and just do it."
"I'll do it once I'm done Barricade. If I do it now her vitals might fall, it's would just be too much stress on her frame then their already is."
"Hmp fine, do it after."
Knockout stayed silent for a moment before continuing their conversation with a question she had been meaning to ask the mech. "How long are you going to live on a promise Cade?"
"What are you talking about? What promise?"
"Don't play dumb! You know what I'm talking about! I was their when you said it.
"Don't be ridicu-"
"THE PROMISE YOU MADE TO THEM BEFORE THEY- BEFORE THEY-!" Knockout had stop working, her silver servos balled in fist on the berthside. Coolant hitting them in small plops. She felt cade hand gently grip her shoulder. "How long are you going to let it go on Cade, how can you go on like this?"
"…I know how important my promise was to him when he left. I don't plan on breaking it."
"Even if she breaks you?"
"….I'll still be there for her knockout." Barricades optics stayed on bumblebees' unconscious frame.
"Why did they go cade? We were supposed to be a little family. They even took us in before the war and taught us everything we know today! They were the nicest bots I ever met yet they were hurt the most. It's not fair cade"
"I don't have an answer to why they were taken. An I'll agree to the fact that they were nice and that they were our parents, but you got to learn that war takes away things that are weak and have a special place in others."
Knockout out turn to face barricade, raged at what he said about them. "HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT!? THAT THEY WERE WEAK! THEY WERE THE STRONGEST BOTS ON THE NEMESIS!"
"That's not what I mean knockout. They were fighting to protect the thing they BOTH cared for most, that's what made them strong in battle. However, what they were trying to protect was too weak to fight for its self and so were we. You know that, they did anything and everything they could to protect us and their treasure. Their plan just didn't work the way it was supposed to."
Knockout's red optics continued to stream coolant as she wrapped herself around barricade. Her helm buried in his neck cables. "Its still not fair cade."
Barricade stood firm against her embrace rubbing her backplate. Only two bots had ever seen this side of him, Bumblebee and Knockout, and he planned on keeping it that way. "I know it's not, that's why I live on that promise. The promise that I would all ways protect her no matter what. Hmp you should be proud of yourself for what you told them as well."
"You mean that I would do good no matter what? I didn't keep it barricade, I failed them and they would be highly disappointed in me."
"Oh really? What do you plan on doing in a few hours with a certain pair of twins? What's the purpose of actually doing it hu?" Knocked looked at the cop the coolant slowly coming to a stop. "you didn't do it right away, but you ARE doing it and your starting on it tonight. Correct?" She slowly nodded her helm at the cop. "Good now you keep working on bumblebee while I go have a little talk with the lambos. Keep your private com open to me an me only, the moment you pick up on someone else's feed hang it up an re open it. Do a million times if you have to. Do you understand?"
She nodded her helm and hugged him one more time. "Thank you cade."
The officer turned his helm away from the red femme an patted her helm "yea yea" ( Your welcome, you stupid youngling.) He pulled the femme away from him and wiped the coolant from her face. "I'll be back."
She nodded her helm and began to work on bumblebee's the last injury, her side. She watched the mech walk out the medbay doors from the corner of her optic. "You truly are something Cade"
Cade quickly made his way to the twins cell. (PRIMUS THOSE TWO BETTER HOPE I DON'T RIP THEM APART LIMB BY LIMB!) His optics narrowed as his unconsciously bared his denta and fang. He punched in the code for the cell an walked in.
"If it isn't the Lamborghini twins, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker." He spat out their name with anger. "You remember me?"
The twins looked at each other in confusion, as to why he of all mechs were in their cell. "Yea I do. I probably have black and purple paint streaks in my back from you."
"Hu what are you talking about sunny? An of course we do, we see you of the field all the time, how could we forget you?" Sideswipe eyebrow rose from confusion of the cop question.
"That not what I meant stupid I meant from last night!"
"I can't forget your heavy aft, lose some weight!" Sunstreaker smirked at the decepticon cop
"Funny, you dull pile of rust."
"Why you-"
"Wait did I missing something?"
The cop looked at the red lambo. The image of Bumblebee kissing sideswipe just to break him from some fragged up mental state of mind pissed him off more than he already was.
"FRAGG YEA YOU'RE MISSING SOMETHING! YOU'RE MISSING A FRAGGING LOT OF SOMETHINGS IN THAT EMPTY HELM OF YOURS!" (I SWEAR I DON'T SEE WHAT BUMBLEBEE SEE'S IN THESE TWO!) "Don't tell me you don't remember your little make out section with bumblebee, the damage you cause her, PHYSICALLY!"
Sunstreaker got mad at the cop. Not only for talking to his brother like crap, but for lying that they had hurt her. "YOU LIAR! WE WOULDN'T DO THAT, ESPECIALLY NOT TO OUR OWN TEAM MEMBER!"
"What about the injury on her side Sunstreaker? It's a perfect fit to sideswipe wheel. Don't you think?"
Sunstreaker became quiet, his optics locked on to the cop. (Scrap, If anything he did remember that.)
"What are you talking about Barricade? I wouldn't do anything to her." Sideswipes optics narrowed at the cop.
"Whatever that's all I'm telling you, just know you can't get out of here without both me and Knockout. On our little 'adventure' both of us will be your exits. So if you don't like me know you defiantly better start adjusting to me."
Sideswipe kept his optics on the cop reading every word he said. Sunstreaker did the same, upset that his brother may or may not have picken up on the cops hint. Sunstreaker was confused as well as to what the cop was saying so he decided to clarify it. "What's that supposed to mean heavy weight."
"It means that I will also be going with knockout, all the way to the end."
"Great now we have to figure out how to explain this to Optimus and the others."
"Stop complaining Sideswipe, this option was and still is the best we could do. Unless you plan on offlining sometime soon"
"No…"
"Then shut up."
Barricade turned to leave the twins cell frustrated. Part of him wanted to rip apart moth of them, especially sideswipe, but the other half knew what it would do to Bee. (Those two idiots are like family to her or something; I can't kill them.) "Knockout will be by here later so when you see here you better be prepared to fight and run like sparkeaters are after your afts! I'll be rendezvousing with you along the way."
Sideswipe nodded his helm at the cop. "Trust and believe we can handle ourselves."
"Hmp whatever I just have one more thing left to say then."
Sunstreaker snarled at the cop lowly. "Oh and what would that be?"
Barricade turned his helm and peered over his shoulder. His right optic glare dead at the twins. "If you two fraggers ever hurt Bee again I'll hurt you." He turned and walked out of the cell, locking it behind his self as he made his way back to medbay. He activated his private comm to Knockout.
/ "Hey can you hear me."/
/ "Yea."/
/ "Good lets keep this short and sweet."/
/ "right." /
/ "I gave them the info they need and I'm on my way back."/
/ "Ok, it's not like I'm going anywhere"/
/ "how is she?"/
/ "she's fine I patched her up 100%. Although she won't be waking up any time soon. She NEEDS to rest."/
/"Meaning some ones has to carry her."/
/ "An I take it that it will be you doing so, am I correct cade?"/
/ "yea, anyway, I'm almost back at medbay we'll finish this in person"/
/ "Good, because I have a lot of information for you on her vitals from her little 'trip'."/
/ "alright I'm out."/
Knockout looked at the Bee amazed by the little femme. "How in primus are you still even online?" *sigh* "I wonder why she kept two years of information from her trip? It's from the day she was told she would be going all the way up to her return. When did you return Bumblebee?" Knockout continue to scroll hastily through the information till she saw the date of her last log. "OH MY PRIMUS!"
Just then Barricade walk through the medbay doors. "What?"
"I dated her logs from when she left till she returned. DO YOU KNOW THIS FEMME RETURNED A WEEK AGO THEN GOT SENT TO ON ANOTHER MISSION!? SHE JUST RETURNED YESTERDAY FROM THAT MISSON!"
"They sent on another mission right off the bat?"
"YES! An to make it worst the mission was a weeklong! Do you know what kind of strain that can put on a bots body!? To go in a 2 YEAR long mission slash training then as soon as you land be sent off on a WEEK long mission! THAT'S JUST FOOLISH!"
"Ratchet actually allowed that?"
"Eeeh I don't know about that, I just skip through it gathering the dates and tid bits of info that looked important."
"What I'm more interested in is her mental, and physical state handled all this?"
Knockout skim through the log until she came across some information on her vital. She also found something else that stuck out rather strongly. "Apparently she Ironhide and Chromia weren't agreeing to well. Through the whole two years, Chromia specifically."
"How exactly were they not agreeing?" Barricade walked beside Knockout and began to read the information his self. Looking at the vitals first. "I'm no medic, but I can tell she wasn't doing too well.
Knockout nodded her helm approving to what the cop was saying. "Lets see, what those old love birds and bee were budding helms about shall we?"
Barricade nodded to the medic as he began to read what the young Autobot scout had written down. Both cop and medic optics widen from shock to what was written. They were even more shock when they found out who was the one to say these words to her.
Knockout slowly began to say the words/ phrases out loud, as barricade followed pursuit.
"Worthless…"
"Weak" Barricade looked at the red femme. "I can't believe this. Those two were like family to them yet they completely disrespect their last wish. Hmp, I knew it was a bad idea."
"Look cade there's more keep reading, it gets worse listen"
"Liability, Pathetic, frag brat, fragger, home wrecker, lost cause…" Knockout went silent for a moment. "I don't want to say the rest cade. I might be a con, but I have my limits on what to call a bot and what not too. The rest of these are way out of line! Especially this one…" Knockout pointed at the monitor for which the data log was being displayed.
The cop had to read over the word twice. His helm slowly fell, his hand clenched in tight fist causing his claws to dig into his servos. He finally mumbled out the word that the red medic pointed at.
"Sparkling killer... hmp I can't believe those fraggers blame you for that incident." His helm turned towards the unconscious femme. "I don't believe them! They didn't want to believe what happen when explained! But then they turn around and have the actual nerves to blame you for that scrap!"
"Barricade…? Are you okay?" her claws slowly reaching out to the cop.
Though the cop hadn't heard a word the medic said as his frame started to slowly sway from side to side. Despite both his servos being covered in energon, he manage to intertwine one servos with Bees.
"I promised I would protect you…."
Knockout scan cade quickly. His systems read he hadn't had any of his rations all day and was low on recharge as well. He being low on recharge was normal but the skipping all his rations weren't. "Cade you need to rest Cade and I mean NOW!"
*snort* "I'm not leaving…" he stared at the medic and frowned.
"Fine, then don't sit in that chair at the least you wobbling mess. I already have one patient. Don't need another. Got it!" He genuinely did as told and pulled the chair beside Bumblebees berth. One arm crisscrossed to lay his helm on as his other servo remained intertwined with bumblebees.
"You better be lucky I keep rations in my medbay!" she pulled an energon cube out of storage and handed it to the cop. "Drink it right now, I mean it."
He guzzled down the cube silently till it was empty. "Since when did you become my caretaker?"
"Since about two years ago."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means I put the pieces together stupid." *Sigh* "Your lack of recharge started the same time bee when on her little trip."
"Oh? Hmp is it that obvious"
"Slag no! I just figured this out a few minutes ago while going through her logs!" Barricade just shook his helm at the medic.
"I thought it was obvious otherwise I wouldn't have tried to hide it."
"Well it wasn't that noticeable! How was I supposed to know you were exhausted due to being worried all the slagging time?" Barricade just shrugged his shoulder lazily. "You're a pain cade you know that?" The cop simply smiled. "Here drink another one and get some recharge, we have a few hours to kill before everything starts."
Catching the cube he drunk half and placed it down. (I hope this scrap works out because if it doesn't' then are lives our fragged.) He stared at the half finished cube of energon for a moment. A flash back popped in his mind from when they were younglings/sparklings. Back when he use to sneak on to the Autobot base and tend to a certain sparkling.
Barricade laid in the small sparkling berth, which at the time was Jazzes berth. Her little yellow frame fitting perfectly in his torso. Soon she began to softly cry her self-awake from her recharge.
"Cuddles….?" Coolant streaming down her small cheeks.
"What?"
"I scawed…"
"Scared of what"
"Hidey and Mia."
"You mean Ironhide and Chromia" The little sparkling nodded her soft yellow helm against his grey and black chest plate. The sparkling couldn't walk, nor could she say certain letter, sometimes she would even completely obliterate certain word, but barricade was still able to figure out what she was saying. "Bad dweam cuddles, cuddles leeb bee an Hidey hurt cuddles."
"Is that so? What happened?" His gold optics stared into the yellow sparkling soft baby blue optics. He wrapped his arm around the sparkling as coolant and hicks started to escape the sparkling
"Hidey hurt cuddles an Mia hurt cuddles. Mia hurt bee too, cuddles cowors cange."
"Color change? How bee?"
"No more purpwe gwo you all grway, hidey kept hurting cuddle."
Barricade paused for a moment realizing that her dream was about Ironhide and Chromia basically killing him in front her. "Trust me bee I'm not going to let Ironhide or anyone take me from you, okay?" he rubbed her soft helm seeing as it always relaxed her.
"Okway" Her tiny servo reached to barricades glowing purple wheels. Though her small arms where too short to reach them barricade rolled on his stomach so that she could play with them.
His arms rewrapped over her small sparkling tank as she laid comfortably on her back. She began to play with his glowing wheel; forgetting all about her bad dream. "Get some recharge you stupid sparkling."
"Cuddles cwarge first!" patting his wheels in sheer delight.
"Fine I'll recharge first, happy now stop hitting my wheels!" He pinched her small underdeveloped horns. Closing one optic to fool her into thinking he had recharged. Bumblebee on the other servo actually fell into recharge while playing with her glowing spinney toy. A few minutes pass before Bee shivered in his arms. She was still too young to regulate her own body temperature; so living up to his nick name he cuddled her in his torso in attempt to warm her up a bit. He reached for the thermal blanket and wrapped Bumblebee in it completely from helm to peds. (Recharge well, you stupid sparkling.) Soon he began to fall into recharge. Reaching yet again for Jazzes actual sheets he accidently fell into recharge with her.
Hours later he woke up back on the nemesis with blackout and Knockout. He looked around confused as he found a piece of paper taped to his chassis.
~ Thanks cade for keeping bee busy while I was gone. She get lonely real easily, and I always wondered who got her to stop crying when no one was around. Neva thought it was you! If you want ta keep seeing her that's fine, but you can only come to my room and late at night. You gotta hide when you hear foot steps approaching my door cuz I'm not always the one entering it. Regardless I notice your protective of her so don't worry I'll protect her an watch over her when your not able. Which is gonna be a lot, but you can still come play and mess with her. You and knockout. Just be careful and sneaky bout and follow those rules and you'll be fine. She's lucky to have you as a guardian Barricade.
Love Jazzy J
P.S I snuck you back onto the nemesis and into your quarters. :D night night!~
"…..How did she….? Ms. Jazz is weird; I like her." Barricade got off the floor and checked the time an noticed that it was only 2 in the morning. ( I have training at 7 so better head back in recharge. At least I know Bumblebees is in save servos) Barricade yarned and crawled in his sires berth with knockout and dozed back off in to recharge.