Poisoned (BOOK TWO OF TRANSFORMED)

Chapter 5

Optimus' pov

I wake up, still feeling sick. June said that we have the "flu"... a human illness. I stand up and stumble slightly, as my legs are sore and almost numb. Once I regain my balance, I attempt to walk out of my room. I make it to the control room before stumbling again. Ratchet notices and comes over to me.

"Optimus... why are you out here? June said to stay in bed." He scolds and I look up at him wearily. I say something but I'm so tired I don't really comprehend what I've said. Ratchet looks at me confusedly.

"Optimus speak up, I don't understand what you're saying when you mumble like that." He says. I just stare at him blankly and walk away. I go up to the human zone and flop onto the couch. My head hurts, my eyes won't stay open, my arms and legs feel so weak and numb and my stomach feels like I could puke any moment now. I faintly hear someone else shuffle into the room and wearily look over in their direction. Gee I must be really sick because two people entered. Arcee and... Arcee? Why are there two Arcee's? I shake my head and suddenly there's just one. I sigh and roll back over to a more comfortable position. Arcee walks up the stairs and sits on the couch. In fact, I think she's on top of my legs but I can't quite tell because they're completely numb! I close my eyes for a moment and next thing I know, I've fallen asleep.

Arcee's pov

I sit down on the couch. It feels strange though. I look down and realize I'm sitting on Optimus. Oops... I get up and flop onto the floor. I just lay there and stare up at the ceiling. The others eventually all walk in and Ratchet is getting annoyed because apparently we were supposed to stay in our berthrooms? I don't know why though... the kids aren't allowed to come over here because they could potentially catch whatever it is that we have and that's a bad thing. I blink once and when I open my eyes, I'm surrounded by fire. I stand up. How did I get here? What's happening? I look over and see Tailgate laying on the ground, dead.

"No..." I whisper. "No, no, NO!!! Tailgate no!! Why?" I sit there and cry over his dead body. But not long after do I hear a noise. I snap up my head and look towards the sound. Airachnid...

"You..." I growl. She smirks wickedly. "You fragging glitch head!! You KILLED him!" I scream. I charge at her and pounce on top of her. I start punching her and scratching at her. Suddenly I feel something big and metallic grab me and pull me away from her. I blink again and the fire is gone. In place of Airachnid is Smokescreen. I'm sitting in Ratchet's servo. I puke again.

Ratchet's pov

I turn away from the human zone for just a second to grab something. Wrong move. Arcee is crying and screaming and practically trying to rip Smokescreen's head off. I quickly, but gently grab her before she can do any real damage to him and she immediately snaps out of it. She looks at Smokescreen and then at my servo. She then pukes on my pede. Great.... just, great. I put Arcee down and start cleaning up her mess. When I'm done, Smokescreen is whimpering like a baby and Bulkhead is staring wide eyed. What the hell did this mixture even do to them?! It's almost as if, the moment they see something or do something that reminds them of some sort of tragic accident that happened to them... wait a minute. Oh slag! Every time they see something that reminds them of something tragic and/or traumatizing that happened to them... they, relive the accident. Arcee is reliving when Tailgate died. Bumblebee is reliving when he lost his voice. Optimus when he lost Elita-1. Smokescreen is probably thinking about Alpha Trion and Bulkhead must be thinking about how his friend Sea Glider took a shit for him but didn't make it... and to add in to it all, the mixture gave them a human virus too?! Primus, why? Why are you doing this to us?! More like to me, I have to take care of them... I sigh. I snap both Smokescreen and Bulkhead out of it before checking on Bee. He hasn't come out yet, I should probably make sure he's okay...

I arrive at his berthroom and open the door. He's not here though... frag! Where did he go?! Did I step on him by accident?! I immediately start panicking as I search his room for him. When I realize he's not here, I check my pedes to make sure I didn't squish him. Nothing... Okay, think Ratchet, think... Oh, who has time to think when there's a chance a just stepped on one of the only people I will ever truly care about?! I already feel bad enough to think about the fact that I couldn't save his voice, I'd rather not have killed him too! I run around the control room and don't see him anywhere. Ugh that little bastard! Where the hell is he?!?! I notice that Arcee is missing too now. I hear the elevator up to the roof going. The roof! I didn't even think to look there! I climb inside the bot sized elevator and press the button to the roof. He had better be up here...

Bumblebee's pov

As I open my eyes and slowly regain consciousness, I can feel the warm sun on my face. I roll over and see I fell asleep outside. Suddenly, a cloud goes over the sun, casting a shadow and I can feel my headache coming back. I groan and sit up to find I'm in Tyger Pax. I look around, scared. I see someone approaching me. M-Megatron.... Well shit. Why am I here? What is happening to me? Where's my team? Oh... he... he killed them... all of them, one by one. I was the last one to attack... and instead of killing me he knocked me out. I look back up again and he's looming over top of me now. I stand up, very quickly.

'Wh-what do you want?' I ask as bravely as I can and he steps closer. I start backing away.

'No, no... get back!' He starts moving his hands toward me. 'Keep your hands away from my neck, no get away!' I start to panic. I feel myself slip and immediately come out of my daze to find my self falling. My eyes widen as I realize where I'm falling from. I just slipped off the edge of the roof. I flail my hands around in the air and manage to grab the edge of the cliff. But I don't have a very good grip and my hand slips. I start to fall again but find that I'm sitting in the palm of Ratchet's servo. I look up at him and then down to where I almost landed and died. I start to hyperventilate.

'Th-thanks Ratchet... OH shit I almost died... What the frag...?! OHMYGODIALMOSTFUCKINGDIEDHOLYSHITBHJMJHRZSGUIKEWUGFRHGRWH!' I scream in my head and Ratchet rolls his optics while looking slightly pissed at me. 'Sorry...' I nervously laugh in my head as he puts me back down on the ground. Arcee, who I'm assuming is the figure I thought was Megatron, runs up to me and hugs me until I'm positive my head will pop like a balloon.

"Bumblebee what the hell?! You like, woke up, looked at me, looked away, looked back and seemed pretty horrified and then you started saying things and then your nearly died?!?! What were you doing?" She asks/yells at me as she slaps me upside the head. I rub my head and look at her.

'I... don't know...' I say. Ratchet looks at us.

"I think I do. Come back inside, I'll tell you all what's happening." He says as we hop into the elevator.