Bumblebee at Tyger-Pax

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The medics collectively carried Bee through the Groundbridge, one of them supporting Arcee, Ironhide walking briskly behind. They entered base to find almost all of the occupants of the Ark staring at them. Once everyone had heard about their lively youngling being injured they came as quickly as possible.

Ironhide looked around at all the bots in front of him. Bee had touched so many lives, he had gave everyone such hope, and Hide had the pleasure of being closest with him and taking care of him. Bee was always worrying about others and now everyone was worrying about him. If Bee didn't make it Ironhide didn't think he could stand to stay on the Ark anymore, everybot there would just remind him of Bumblebee, because they all contributed to his personality. He got his snooty side from the twins, his dedication from optimus, and his intelligence from Ratchet.

Ratchet made a path through all the worried bystanders to the Med bay. He set up a berth and immediately went to work. Everyone was forced out of the Med bay, even Ironhide and Optimus. Medics got complete control in these types of situations. Ironhide was not very happy about having to sit outside the doors of the Med bay, but when Rachet said that it would help Bee he readily agreed as well as ushered everyone else out.

Now Ironhide was sitting with his back against the wall next to the Med bay Door, He didn't care that he didn't have a chair, He would let all the other bots sit in chairs, he wanted to be as close to Bee as possible without being inside the medbay.

Ironhide looked up at everyone around him, Optimus was standing leaned up against one wall, Arcee was getting checked out by a medic, the twins were snoozing with their heads on each other's shoulders, and there were countless others standing, sitting, leaning, and napping, but no one was leaving.

Hide could feel Bee's pain through their link. Ironhide had known that they had a spark bond, but he didn't know that it was actually a bond that could transfer feelings. Normal spark bonds allowed the bonded to feel one another's emotions, their pain, their joy, but because Bee was an orphan he had never expected to have a bond with him. Ironhide had found Bee in the destroyed youth sectors. He was all alone under a huge piece of rubble, Ironhide and the others had split up, hoping to find survivors but no one really had expected to. Ratchet had said that his scans showed no signs of life, but Ironhide had a feeling and refused to leave until they had searched the premises. It was as though primus had meant Bee to be with Ironhide, and now he was ripping him away from him, from all of the bots that loved him.

Ratchet worked frantically inside the med bay. He had the two trainees he trusted most assisting him, he couldn't possibly repair all of what Megatron had done without assistance.

When he first got in with Bee he had trouble getting him on the berth and hooking him up to the machines because he was completely unconscious. Rachet had asked for Ironhide's help with that since he was much stronger. Ironhide easily lifted Bee up, it made Rachet think back to the days when Bee would fall asleep in random, inconvenient places an Ironhide had to come and take him to bed. Ratchet's spark ached to think about how innocent and young Bee was and how this had to happen to him.

When he had started the repairs he had been pretty confident that he could patch Bee up but as time passed he became less and less sure of himself. He started by cleaning Bee's wounds and welding all his split lines shut. He moved on to Bee's neck because if he didn't fix that fast then Bee would lose energon circulation in his processor. Rachet worked swiftly, forcing his hands to stay steady, although his spark was beating erratically.

After he had hooked Bee's processor up to it's own energon supply he tried to salvage Bee's voice box, but the longer he studied and cleaned it the less and less he thought that Bee would ever speak again. He decided he wouldn't tell anyone this, especially Ironhide, until he was absolutely certain. He knew it would devastate the youngling, who loved his voice almost as much as he loved Ironhide, and wanted to keep unnecessary panic from everyone's processors, these days everybot had enough on their processors.