Transformers Prime: Predacon's Rise

Family doesn't have to be the same

Once Optimus put Redeye on the medberth Ratchet chased everyone away. Smokescreen didn't want to leave her, but he obliged. After Ratchet scanned her, he found that Redeye had many internal injuries that he wouldn't be able to fix, only time could. The whip wounds on her back he could weld back together, but her wing would be another injury time would heal.
Once Ratchet finished welding the wounds on Redeye's back, he walked over to the Autobots to reveal the news.
Smokescreen, who had been sitting on a crate, stood once seeing Ratchet. Blackscale who stayed in his predacon form looked up almost exactly when Smokescreen stood.
"What's the matter with her Doc?" Wheeljack asked.
"Redeye has suffered many internal injuries which -with the equipment we have- I will not be able to heal, same with her wing," Ratchet answered.
"Will she make it?" Smokescreen asked optics down.
Ratchet nodded, "I've put her in stasis so her body can heal itself."
"Can I stay with her?" Smokescreen asked, "just for a while?"
Ratchet nodded in response. Everyone watched as Smokescreen entered the medbay and sat next to Redeye. Once Smokescreen started patting Redeye on the shoulder, everyone stared at the predacon -who was as tall as Bulkhead- who protected Redeye and then followed them through the Ground Bridge.
Blackscale lowered his head, tail and wings in submission. He felt like the enemy.
"So, care to explain why there is a new predacon?" Arcee asked.
Optimus looked down at the new predacon, "what is your name predacon?"
"Bl-Blackscale," Blackscale answered in mind talk.
"How did you get to know Redeye?" Wheeljack asked, distrusting this predacon.
"We were in the same cell," Blackscale answered, keeping his answers short.
"Why?" Wheeljack said, "why were you a prisoner of the Cons."
"I was out on my own, looking for somewhere to rest for the night when I heard voices," Blackscale explained, "I went to investigate and it turned out to be your friend over there and your other friend here," Blackscale said looking at Bumblebee, "I overheard you were looking for a runaway predacon. I was going to walk out and help you, but then the Cons' grabbed around my mouth so I couldn't shout out. They took me through a Ground Bridge onto the Con warship. I received a beating before I was put in the same cell block as her."
*beep beep beep* "That explains the muffled cry we heard," Bumblebee said.
"How did you guys get out?" Arcee asked.
"A mix between my electricity and both our speed and quick thinking," he answered.
"You can control electricity?" Rafael asked.
Blackscale nodded, "I am one of the few who can control it."
"Why was she hurt when we arrived?" Ultra Magnus finally asked.
"Everything was blur at that moment, one minute we were both dodging Predaking's fire attacks, the next Redeye was crashing into the trees," Blackscale answered.
"Predaking must have clipped her wing with his fire," Jack suggested.
"Why did you protect her?" Ultra Magnus asked.
"Like you would do for your family," Blackscale answered, "I may have known her for just over a week, but every time we talked I saw more than just another predacon, I saw her as a friend."
Everyone couldn't come up with a question. They knew that Blackscale would be loyal, maybe not to them, but to Redeye.