Poisoned (BOOK TWO OF TRANSFORMED)

Chapter 9

Bumblebee's pov

June walks in the room and sees our injuries.

"Jesus Christ, what happened?!" She exclaims. Arcee and I just kind of look at each other. "We need to get you two to a hospital now. I don't care if you still bleed energon I can't do this here." She says and opens her car door. "In. Now." She orders and Arcee starts limping over to her while I get carried by Ratchet. Once we're both in the car, Optimus, Bulkhead and Smokescreen hop into their cars and follow June. I have to sit really far forward in my seat to not have the thing push through my leg anymore than it already is. Funniest part is, I haven't felt any pain since I got out of my car... that's probably a bad thing...

"Okay so, could one of you please tell me what exactly happened?" She asks and I look at Arcee. She starts talking. By the time she's done talking June looks pretty shocked.

"But I thought Airachnid was gone?" She asks. We both shake our heads.

'Nah, she's back.' I say and she looks a bit worried. Well, more than a bit but you know. A few minutes pass in silence.

"How are you feeling Arcee?" She asks.

"Well, my head, arm and foot hurt but other than that, not bad." She replies. June nods her head.

"Bumblebee? How about you?" She asks me.

'Well, I can't feel my leg and my head hurts...' I answer and she frowns.

"That's not a good sign..." she says and starts to drive just a bit faster. When we reach the hospital, she gets two beds with wheels. She has us both lay down on one each, my one leg hanging off the side to prevent any further injury. She has another nurse help her push us inside while explaining the "situation". The other nurse gets another one to inform a doctor while her and June push us both down the hall. We both get put into separate rooms and I'm not liking that idea too much. I doubt Arcee does either. The doctor comes in and June tells him that she found Arcee and I upside down in the car. She doesn't say a thing about us being from a different world or about actually being giant robots. I smile at her before she leaves the room to find a few other nurses to pull out whatever is sticking out of my leg. The doctor sits down next to me since he can't do anything without the nurses.

"What's your name?" He asks me and suddenly I realize I have no way of communicating with him. I can't just do what I'm doing with the others, he's probably freak out. I look around for a pen and paper but no luck. He looks at me and frowns.

"Do you understand English?" He asks, obviously thinking I'm not from around here. I quickly nod my head and put my hand to my throat, hoping he'll understand that I can't talk.

"You can't speak?" He asks, unsure of what he just said. I just nod my head. He frowns at that. "Oh, I'm sorry... I'll get you something to write wit once we've removed that piece of metal from your leg." He says as June returns with a few more nurses. She looks at me with a worried expression and I smile slightly, in an attempt to reassure her.

'This is going to hurt a lot, isn't it?' I ask her and she nods slightly. Another nurse grabs some sort of needle and comes toward me.

"I'm just going to give you this okay? It will help to dull the pain a bit." She says to me and I just nod a bit. Why am I okay with this? She sticks the needle in my arm and as soon as it's in, it's out again. A few minutes later, I'm feeling a bit drowsy. Obviously they can tell because they go to start removing the long piece of metal. The doctor removes any jagged edges that could make the injury worse and cuts off the bottom so that there's not as much to pull out.

"3, 2, 1..." I hear the doctor say and at that I start to go into that flashback state. I remember a bit of when I was in ratchet's care after losing my voice. No, no, no... not now, this is terrible timing, Primus I am so stupid. Next thing I know, I'm back on Cybertron and have completely forgotten where I really am. I look around and that's when I see him. Megatron...

June's pov

As we're seconds away from removing the piece of metal from Bumblebee's leg, his breathing quickens and the heart monitor starts speeding up. No, no, no not now Bee... I can hear the doctor yelling things and telling the other nurses to try and figure out what's wrong.

"Wait," I say, "I know what's wrong. He's a friend of my son and he's just having a slight panic attack. I'll calm him down while you guys pull out the object." I say and the doctor nods.

"Alright, let's do this." He says and they go back to the object. I go over to Bumblebee and he's struggling a lot. I can see his eyes starting to water. I carefully try to lay him back down and I can see that he's afraid. I try not to talk too loudly so the others don't hear his actual name.

"Bumblebee... Bee wake up, you're fine you're in a hospital... you're nowhere near Cybertron... you're okay." I say and I can see he's slowly coming back to. "You're okay..." I say again and he looks up at me and smile slightly.

'Thank you.' He says and I nod. Just as I do, the doctor and other nurse manage to remove the object. Bumblebee's optics widen in pain and I can tell by his expression that if he did still have his voice, he'd be crying out in pain. His eyes begin to water again and I can tell that he's unsure why. I immediately begin to help the others to block all the energon from spilling out of his leg. We put pressure on it and immediately begin to wrap his leg in gauze and tensor bandages. Once that's done, we all wash our hands and whatnot, in an attempt to be as clean as possible for our other patients. The other nurses begin to leave and the doctor pulls me aside.

"Nurse Darby, you said you knew this kid, right?" He asks me and I nod my head. He slowly nods his head now, obviously thinking about how to word what he wanted to say next although I think I already know what it is.

"His blood... its bright blue not the normal purple-ish red colour... do you have any idea as to why that is?" He asks. I just stand there, frozen. I'm not really sure how to answer this...

"Well, um... honestly, I'm not sure but so far his entire life, he's been fine so I don't think it's anything we need to worry about." I say and hope he buys it. He frowns but doesn't say anything else about it.

"I'm going to go talk to him for a few minutes. Do you mind finding me some paper?" He asks and I nod, assuming he already knows Bee can't talk. I find a note pad and take it to the room.

"Here." I say and hand Bumblebee the notepad. He smiles and nods before turning back towards the doctor. I silently leave the room and go to check on Arcee. Hopefully she's okay...