Transformers The Hatchling

Aftermath

No POV
Once the scraplets were left to remain frozen in the artic plain and Optimus and Arcee were safely back at base. Ratchet looked over the team and saw that Stormchaser wasn't moving and ran to the still dragon stretched out on the floor. Energon spilled onto the floor. "Stormchaser! You've still got more chaos to cause here, don't be leaving us now." Ratchet said while he struggled to move the predacon to better see the damage. The sudden movement of her limb caused Stormchaser to growl while still unconscious. Optimus was still frozen in places but with the combined effort of Optimus and Ratchet they managed to roll the large predacon onto her side and move her wing back to lay stretched up and out, out of Ratchet way. She had a lot of surface damage some scales were chipped or broken where scraplets had worked through the worst being at her chest. Some of the chest plates were completely missing and energon leaked close to the predacon's spark chamber. "I need some clamps, my welding tools and see if there are any of those old scales she shed are intact they should be in the med bay. 

The more he poked and prodded the wound the more  Stormchaser woke in a pain filled haze. Pulling her wing down knocking the old mech down. She let out a pain filled roar as the sudden movement caused wounds to open more. "Stay still, the more you move the more damage you cause yourself." She didn't listen trying to get up and away from Ratchet. Optimus had to put his weight on her shoulder while pulling the wing at the joint to pull it back out of Ratchets way. The predacon tried to roll. "Damn it Stormchaser stay still. By Primus she's strong Bulkhead get over here." It took the whole team to help pin Stormchaser down while Ratchet fixed wires and weld her old scales in place to act as a temporary patch to cover her chest before starting on the minor wounds to her neck and body. After a few hours of welding and an IV of energon, Stormchaser was finally able to be moved to her room escorted by Optimus. Once Stormchaser was out of the way. Ratchet had rounded up the team and the humans at the med bay laying Arcee on the examination table while running an intense defrost system instructing Raf to monitor her core temperature. Moving to Bee who was in need of some welding working which Jack was more than capable to do while he moved onto Bulkhead.

Stormchaser limped to her room to find that there was nothing more than a few blanket scraps and the odd metal chips left of her nest. Letting out a whimper at the sight Storm laid down on the concrete floor her metal under plating scraping against the cold floor Stormchaser let out a small pain filled growl flinching when she shuffled around to get comfortable. "We'll get fowler to get more materials for you to make a new nest tomorrow. You need to sleep and recover. You are safe now no more scraplets." Optimus knelt down to gently stroke her snout to offer some comfort and reassurance that she was safe.

Once the predacon eventually fell asleep Optimus left to meet back up with Ratchet in the med bay. The team were already gone taking their charges home for the night. Ratchet was making a list of repairs to do after already finishing a list in what equipment to replace. It would take some time before the base was back to a state of normality. "We have a lot of work to do. We lost a lot of energon before the kids could repair the breach so we need to find more a job after the communication system is back up and working. All wiring needs to be checked, over half needs replacing, how the ground bridge managed to operate to bring you and Arcee back in and the scraplets out we'll never know." Ratchet sighed tired from the eventful day. "You should get some rest, you saved quite a few lives today." Optimus said to his long time friend. Today had shown how important the bot was without him today they would have all died by scraplet or from artic exposure.

"It wasn't all my doing. We were just fortunate in the having the children with us, and that this infestation happened on a Saturday. How is Stormchaser? Does she need me to look at her again, I wasn't happy with that chest damage but she only let me do so much." Ratchet asked. "She is less mobile for the moment and seemed to be in some pain but she was more upset over the state of her nest or lack of. Her surface armour isn't sounding good against the concrete and is causing her discomfort but she will fully heal in time." Ratchet nodded then added the appropriate nesting materials to go on the urgent replacement list for Fowler to get them before Stormchaser got scale wear again like when she was little.

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I know it's been a while since the last update but the website I usually use to stream the episodes to help me with these chapters was taken down. So I've had to buy all three seasons to keep the story as close to the episodes until later on. Now I'm back up and writing.