Reclamation

Chapter 7

The next morning there was no change with Lockdown and Joy took over sitting with him while Sunfire worked on some of the repairs to ship.

Joy had walked over to Lockdown and gently ran her hand over the side of his face, "It's amazing how quickly you're healing now, that cute little nose of yours looks almost the same as it does on your holoform. Actually, in general you look cute and peaceful when you're asleep. Although I have to admit you're kind of hot too, you may not be human, but I do like the bare chested look where you're armor is missing. Can you change your holoform so it's missing the chest armor? Maybe lose the pointed missiles on your shoulders too, it would make you a lot more cuddly and more comfortable to get close to without all those car parts on your chest digging into me when I try to kiss you. Plus if you've got that same almost muscled look to your upper arms like Sunfire has, losing the shoulder armor would make you look even hotter. Well just in case you can't do that, I think I'll get my camera and take some pictures so I can always remember how cute and hot you are when you're asleep," she told him, hoping if he could hear her he'd react.

When she got no reaction out of him she sat down, leaning against his arm, "You can't just hide in there forever. What about the others like you? Are you just going to leave them to live out their lives as slaves? Someone has to save them and you probably have a better chance than anyone at being able to pull it off. And what about the aliens who did this to you? Are you going to let them get away with it, because it's easier to just hide in there and never wake up?"

A while later Sunfire came in, "You said your dad works for KSI didn't you?" he asked.

"Yeah," Joy replied disgustedly.

"What are the chances you could get in there and find out if they have any of the bodies left from the bots that Lockdown helped them catch?"

"I already know they do, I was there the day the Autobots broke in. I saw them bringing in a new body and decapitate it so they could start melting it down piece by piece," Joy told him shuddering, "I know the body is still there and I don't think they would have had time to fully melt down the head before the Autobots showed up. Last time I talked to dad, he said it would probably be weeks until they got things up and running again, so the body and head should still be there. Why do you want to know?"

Sunfire grinned, "You want to play Frankenstein with me?"

"What are you planning and how do you know who Frankenstein is?" Joy asked.

"Lots of free time while Lockdown was helping the humans hunt down bots, I kind of developed an addiction to human horror movies. I was going to let Ratchet out, but it would take me weeks to build him a body from spare parts and it wouldn't be very good. If we could get a hold of normal body even if it's badly damaged Ratchet said it would still be a hundred times better than anything that could be built, we could repair it to the point of being stable and then put Ratchet's spark in it. Kind of creepy if you think about it, ethically a little questionable, Ratchet say's it use to be forbidden to even try anything like that, but after their numbers started dwindling he started doing it on the battle field when he had dead bodies and bots who were so badly damaged they couldn't survive but their sparks were still undamaged. He said if we can find a body, he can tell me how to put his spark in it," Sunfire explained, "Or even if you can just get some of the transformium it would make building a properly functioning body faster."

"So you want me to sneak into KSI and steal the bodies they've been collecting?"

"Pretty much," Sunfire replied.

"If I get caught and sent to jail do you promise to come break me out and take me with you when you leave or at least get me to another country where I won't be arrested?" Joy asked.