Chapter 8 continuation of Ratchet's reports
hey folks how is the story going? I posted chapter seven on November 15, 2024. So I see that a lot of people are reading the story so that's great. Again there are several people wanting me to get together with them because they want to draw my characters which is great. If that's you then, my email address is posted on my profile page, I await for you to email me. Alright, we get started here with Ratchet headed back to bay six to check back on both his boys. If you have an idea or suggestion please feel free to leave me a review 0r PM me.
It is 11AM and Ratchet just got done with setting bay three and bay two up and ready for the next two bots. Proceptor in bay three and Bluestreaker in bay two. Ratchet did make his way back over to bay six and when he came in he saw that Beamer was still sleeping and Bounce was watching TV. Ratchet asked Bounce, "has your brother woke up?" Bounce mutes the TV and tells his father, "no, and he snores like a freight train!" Ratchet chuckles a bit as he is looking at the monitor that Bounce is connected to.
"Well, how are you feeling Bounce?" Ratchet asked him and Bounce answered back saying,"still feel loopy from gravity sickness but I feel better." Ratchet is taking the stickers off from just under Bounce's chest plate. Ratchet told him he could leave now and go find Prowl and find out where your assigned quarters are and stay there and rest. "There's is data packets, about a thousand if I know Prowl. I need you to read through them and you should have a TV in your quarters to." Ratchet told him, like he told the others. As Bounce stood up, Ratchet reminded him that he is not to get on any social platforms and no interaction with any one on the web. Then, before Bounce left he hug his father and told him, "We three are so glad we found you, love you dad." Ratchet hug him back and said, "It was a miracle that you all were still alive. I thank God for him guiding the Ark in the direction towards this galaxy." Bounce had a puzzling look on his face then he was reading some scriptures about five minutes ago and quickly realize who his father was talking about and he told his father, "Yes we on board the ship are thankful Primus lead us here too." Ratchet nodded then Bounce left and went to the Ark to get his belongings; then he went to find Prowl. Ratchet left out of Bay six, stopped by his office to add file to his computer then he went to bay seven to see Arcee.
He walked in to see her watching TV. "hello there Arcee, how are you doing?" Ratchet asked as he set his tool box down and grapes his portable scanner. "You remember how this works? Please hold still." Ratchet said to her as he started to run the scanner over her. Ratchet then noticed that she was missing two fingers on her left hand. "What happened to your left hand," Ratchet asked after he placed the scanner on the table next to the bunk. Arcee answered, "we went through a horrible asteroid field about 40 years ago earth time. My two fingers were literally cut off after a huge metal shelf that slid across the hallway. As the ship was going hard left then hard right the metal cabinets in section C snapped off from the wall mounts of course, they were packed above weight limit. I pushed against it with my right knee trying to stop it like a dumb ass and that's when I felt my knee pop I didn't get away from it fast enough and found myself against the wall of the ship and it slammed hard against the wall and caught my hand. I have feeling in my hand and I really do count myself lucky, it could have been worse." The scan showed some serious battle scars. Her right knee plate is cracked in two places but, she has a brace on her knee for now. Ratchet then took a metal plate and placed it under her right knee and took an x-ray of it. While Ratchet was waiting on that image to come up on the monitor he reached into the draw and got a syringe out, lead wires with stickers and alcohol wipes to clean the fluid valve on her right wrist. Acree spoke up and asked if she could make contact with Bee and Ratchet told her, "for now no but, in two days Optimus is expecting a call from Bee and you can talk to Optimus in a little while about being there when Bee calls." Ratchet then told her that we are not allow to make any contact with anyone on the web or any communication with anyone off this base. Arcee understood without question because she read the packets that informed them, the new arrivals, about the war that has been going on here on Earth for the past few years and the grim reality she has witness through reading the data and the videos from though out the world. The x-ray showed that the right knee is cracked in three places. Ratchet took a fluid sample then started her on IV drip of half a gallon energon. While he was typing on the laptop on the table Arcee asked Ratchet "does Bee know that I'm here?" He told her no but he will know when he speaks to Optimus later this week. Ratchet looked and saw the sadness in her optics that she wasn't going to be allowed to make connect with Bee. Then Ratchet stopped reading the results and told her, "Look I know it's all a lot to take in, in one day. We have so much in common with the humans and although we are more technology smarter I believe both species could greatly help the other."
The fluid work came back okay. Ratchet told her he will schedule surgery to replace your knee after I custom fabricate a new knee joint and I'll reconstruct your left hand where you can use it again. Ratchet then gave her some pain medication then Ratchet told her he would come back in about an hour. Ratchet left out of bay seven and back down the hall to his office where he found Red Alert sitting in the chair in front of he's desk with his head on the desk a sleep. Ratchet walks in and Red Alert heard Ratchet's foot step and raised his head up off the desk. Ratchet then said, "Red Alert, I have no one in bay one so you can go in there and I'll see you in about an hour that way you can get some rest." Red Alert got up shook Ratchet's hand and left out heading for bay one. Ratchet knew that Staylie went to bay four to be with her mother and father. Ratchet got down to business writing reports on his computer in Arcee's file and schedule her surgery on August 1, 2009 at 7AM. And Ratchet went ahead and pencil in the dates for the bots that need surgery thus far. But, first he has to fabricated the joints with Wheeljack's help.
They are:
Elita one left ankle replacement August 1, 2009 at 8 AM
Moony replacement of three vertebrates in her lower back on August 3,2009 at 4PM
today at 2PM Ratchet is going to push Beamer into the operating room and remove those five rotten rusted teeth.
Bounce reconstruction on right arm replace elbow joint at
August 4, 2009 10AM
Arcee right knee replacement and reconstruction of her left hand(add two digits) August 2,2009 at 9AM
Ratchet left out of his office and finally making it to bay four and as he walked Ironhide got up, then he swooped up his daughter into his arms and gave her another hug. Then he let her down and then leaned over and kissed Chromia on the chick. Ratchet nodded his head with a slightly smile at both Staylie and Chromia then sets his instruments down on the table by the bunk. "Chromia I'm glad you too made it here, ole 'ironsides' ain't been nothing more than a grumpy mech since the war ended." Ratchet said and she chuckled a bit then she replied back to Ratchet, "mechs usually do when they can't handle it along." Ratchet just looked at her and said humm... and Chromia laughed as Ratchet started scanning over her body with his scanner. Ratchet then notices that she has three cracked ribs and two broken back struts and yet, he saw her walk from the Ark into this bay. "Chromia I see that you have three crack ribs and yet you laugh and then I see too, that you have two broken back struts, do you need some pain reliever?" He asked her. "Me pain meds, no way. They wear off and the pain is worse. Besides Red Alert did the best he could. Proceptor also helped with taking care of us who were injured before boarding the Ark and the for journey aboard it and that was damn near everyone" Chromia said to which earned her that look from Ratchet. Ratchet stood there with his head cocked sideways with that fatherly frown. "Oh, yes Ratchet thank you," Chromia then said. Ratchet proceeded to take an x-ray of her upper and lower back and her left side where the scan showed the cracked ribs. Then he opened the draw and got out a syringe alcohol wipes, lead wires and stickers. "Chromia, I'm going to now apply the spark monitor wires so that I can get a period of time readings of your spark." Ratchet knew she wasn't the touchy type of femme and yeah he is her medical doctor but still, he tries to remember things that make the patient feel comfortable. Chromia laid still on the bunk with her hands down to her side while Ratchet commence with attaching the wires just under her chest plate and then he tapped on a key on the keyboard that started the reading. Ratchet got up to go and get a small dose of hydrcon. A few minutes ago as he was moving her arm her whole body is rig-gent so he also going to give her a small dose of Celbroicon which helps relax the over stimulant of sensors(nerves in human terms) that are all of over her body. He came back and set the viles down along with one half gallon of energon on the table. Ratchet looked at the x-rays and saw that it wasn't as bad as he first thought. The back struts mended but, not mended correctly but her ribs have healed. This damage must of happened eons ago back when they were still there on Cybertron or just after we left. "Your injures are eons old and surgery to fix them would make it worse than better." Ratchet told Chromia who nodded her head and said, "I agree." Ratchet gave her about .15 hydrcon and .25 Celbroicon which also make her a little sleepy for a few hours. Staylie he noticed earlier was limping around but that probably is the gravity sickness. He saw most of them dealing with that as they exited the Ark earlier. Ratchet had left the bay and went to roll in another spare table for Staylie.
Wheeljack's Lab
Wheeljack had been going through the only copy of codes they have. Which is the one they use to shift from bipedal to Vehicle form. Bee, had recorded that femme Decepticon there at the college last year where Sam had attended. The recording of her going from a metal form to human shaped body and dressed in human clothing and walked among the University undetected at first. Her remains and that is only the integrated chips that hold the shift shape program and other resourceful ram boards. Bee had put all this stuff in a stainless steel box that is 4 inches thick by two feet square. That crate is secured and is here on the base located in the vault. Wheeljack needs to get Optimus approval to retrieve the crate from the vault and bring it to his lab for further testing. It will be the only way to get the original code. This would be absolutely no danger to the humans. The chips can't move around now or operate anything. Wheeljack can safely connect it to his machine and locate and retrieve billions of the codes but first, he will scan the chips for an infection of cyberbugs. If there is no threat then he will continue to connect to the CPU main set of chips and search for the shape shifting program. See they were called Decepticons because they can be deceptive using this program as the femme was able to. Optimus had left the med bay after visiting with Elita one and Rammer and traveled over to Wheeljack's lab to talk with Wheeljack about just modifying our codes instead of touching the crate.
Wheeljack told him, "It's not that easy, we transform back and forth between bipedal to vehicle then vehicle to bipedal with out really any thought to it most of the time. It requires strings and strings of commands to every sensors that control every movable part on our bodies. We can't figure it out with out knowing what part goes first." Optimus stood there listening to Wheeljack and he understood what Wheeljack was saying. There was not going to be any other choice really. Optimus wants this idea to come to fruition really bad because he saw this as the only way possible to leave this island, work along with the humans and be able to start a new life. Wheeljack did mention about whether they will remain in vehicle mode but take some part not seen from the outside of their vehicle mode and shift shape it into a human figure at the wheel of our vehicle modes then step out of our vehicle and interact with the humans if needed. Wheeljack also told Optimus that the chips will not be connected to his main computer only connected to the chip reader unit. "That, I'll be able to make notes on the chip reader tablet and rewrite it exactly step by step but, it will be different set of codes for each bot due their sizes." Optimus thought long and hard for a few minutes. He knew that the chips would give a big insight of how the tasks of doing the transformation from either bipedal or vehicle mode to human and which one would we execute the shift shape to human from. Optimus told Wheeljack that he would need to talk to Lennox first. Wheeljack looked at him and said, "Prime, that's just it, why should we be dictated to the humans with our technology." Wheeljack instantly regretted that comment. "Wheeljack, that is uncalled for and out of line. Need I remind you we are here on their planet. Look, we both don't really know for sure if the software is still on the Vetricanon chip. We have to be transparent with what we do and if this is possible I want to go about figuring it out with their knowledge of what we were doing." Wheeljack understood deep down he wanted their (the human) approval too, he wanted this to work ASAP. But the truth of the matter is that it could take a few days, a month or even longer to figure it out. Optimus made it clear that the software would have to start shift shape while in vehicle mode and legal tinted widows. Wheeljack said to Optimus, "yes that would be the only logical thing to do." Optimus reached out to Lennox on the radio and asked if he could come by Wheeljack's lab. Lennox about ten minutes later showed up and came walking in and said,"so, what's up guys?" Optimus said to Lennox, "last year at the college that Sam was attending there was a femme Decepticon that had the ability to shift shape into the appearance of a human and at first was undetectable. You are aware of the remains of said femme was computer chips in a locked case located in the vault, right?" Optimus asked Lennox.
Lennox said, "yes, I remember that so, what's up?" Optimus looked at Wheeljack briefly and said something in their native language then Optimus started to talk. "Wheeljack is wanting to retrieve the case to see if that program is still on the CPU drive that we were able to recover. If we learn this program it could be if and I say if the General approves, be a game changer for us." Lennox replied, "then you got it big guy if it's okay to break the seal on that case but, I have a curious thought though; it's different from the software y'all use to transform now right?" Wheeljack then spoke up and answered to Lennox about it. "The software we have is our original program unique to each of us. This software was written specify for certain cybertronians who did not have vehicle mode just a bipedal form. But, I can write the program for us to be able to use while only in vehicle mode. Letting a small part of our bodies unseen by humans to shift shape into a human then exit our vehicles. We need those codes of how she was able to transform looking very much like a human. Because we don't know how," Wheeljack trailed off there on those last few words. He had obliviously been thinking about this for awhile. Lennox walked up to Wheeljack and said to him, "Good luck and please keep me in touch with your progress." Wheeljack told Lennox that he indeed would keep him informed. The three of them went to the main hanger and turn due south about four miles and then the road drops down at a steep slight as they drive underground about 500 feet to the vault. Lennox step down out of the passenger side door of Optimus's vehicle form then Optimus transformed and proceeded to unlock the vault with his codes. Then Lennox enter a series of his codes and then about 15 seconds later the vault had released the door locks then Optimus opened the door and walked in and got that case. Optimus turned and handed it to Wheeljack who had placed it in a secure box he had from his lab and then transported it back to his lab. Once there, no one will be allowed inside of his lab until it is deemed safe.
Okay, I end it here and chapter nine starts back at Ratchet's med bay.