Meeting (Chapter 1)

Healing

Half Moon

I wake up, still dizzy. I groan in pain.

I try and move but all my muscles are sore.

I am on a much more comfortable gurney, with metal people and three humans surrounding me.

I jump, not expecting the humans or several massive metal people.

"Easy. You don't want to reopen those wounds." A voice says. It sounds deep and commanding, but somehow comforting.

My vision gets better, but I feel like my body is pumped full of lead.

I try sitting up, and both my wings shoot pain up and down my whole body.

I yelp, not expecting the sudden pain.

I breath through my teeth and lay back down.

I touch my hand to my stomach, and when I put my hand up to my face, it is covered in my own silver blood.

A metal person with white and red all over them is standing over me, checking me. Most likely a medic.

I see the black and yellow figure I saw picking me up, and they tilt thier head towards me, confused.

"You took a nasty beating. What happened?" A female metal person said, her body mostly blue but with pink accents.

I told them all what happened, sometimes stopping to breath through my teeth from a sudden shock of pain.

The medic looks down at me with a suspicious look. He turns to the others. The medic pulls the red and blue one to the side and start talking.

The three humans at my side were all children. Two of them I recognized from earlier. But I had no idea who the girl was.

They stare at me, baffled. The smallest looks at me with pity. The teenager looks at me with curiosity. The girl looks at my wings in awe.

I smile at them and try and scooch up more, but pain ignites throughout my body. I whimper, but I bite down on my lip to stifle it.

The medic walks back over to me and helps me sit up.

"I need you to sit up so I can scan your bone structure." He says as I grit my teeth.

I know it will take only a little bit. Just a few seconds.

He scans my wing, and I realize I am already sitting up anyway, so I might as well stand.

I rub my head, my brain pulsing.

"Where am I? And who are you?" I ask, ignoring the painful numbness in my body.

"You are in our base. And we are Autobots." The leader says, introducing me to them all.

Optimus, Arcee, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Ratchet, and the three humans, Raph, Jack, and Miko. I can rattle off thier names in no time.

"My name is Half Moon. You can call me Moon. Or Gracie. Whatever's easiest." I say, my spine aching from lying down for too long.

"Why Gracie?" Miko asks, curiosity filling in her eyes.

"It's my human name." I say, trying to stand.

My legs were still numb from hanging from those chains for so long. I stumbled a little, but Optimus held out his hand for balance.