Wanted

Chapter Five

12/14/18

Ava has been at the base for a couple weeks now, she has warmed up to some of the bots but some she still doesn't trust. She was finally discharged from the medical berth and was currently sitting in the human area watching the television while everyone else did their own thing, the kids were at school, Ori- er, Optimus and his team were out scouting for what they call Energon, and Ratchet was at the console working. Ava had learned not to talk to the medic while he worked, let's just say he really likes to throw wrenches, she got up from her seat at the couch and stood at the railing trying to see what the doctor was working on; she looked at the screen and saw it definitely wasn't English but somehow she could understand it, all of it, "uh, Ratchet? You missed something" she signed, the field medic looked at Ava, then at his work "oh, thank you" he replied, Ava shrugged then went back to watching her show. Ratchet stopped working for a moment and realized what she said, he looked over at the girl again then down at his keyboard, he started working on something else.

The team returns from their mission, Optimus instructed his teammates to put the supply they found into their storage vault as he speaks to the medic "how is her condition?" the Prime asked, Ratchet kept looking at his monitor as he answered "I won't know until Nurse Darby returns with the children", the Prime looked up at the platform and noticed the small human was in recharge on the couch "why don't you get some rest old friend" he instructed, Ratchet looked at his leader "not when there is work to be done" he sounded a bit offended at what Optimus suggested, the Prime looked down at him in sincere way, the bot realized and sighed "someone has to look after her while June is gone. I just feel like I should, and take care of her since she is a patient" the medic admitted, Optimus nodded and left to his quarters as Ratchet got back to work.

Ava looked around as it got quiet, everyone else had left to their quarters as she saw the Autobot medic hard at work, she quietly went to the elevator and took it to the roof before Ratchet noticed. Ava sat at the edge on top of the base, she hugged her knees as she saw the sun slowly set as she heard heavy footsteps behind her "I'm not ever leaving, aren't I" she signed to whoever was behind her, she heard the steps come closer to her and they stopped "you can't leave in your condition" the medic answered, Ava sighed "that's what I thought, this probably wouldn't have happened if my parents' weren't so stupid", she shakily wrote on a piece of paper that was in her pocket, the field medic's holoform sat down beside her with his legs over the edge "quite possibly, but you can't change the past, your stuck the way you are. For example before this war started, we were all different, and our planet was populated with millions of cybertronians, but after that battle waged on, most of us are gone and scattered across space, some may be living peacefully on other worlds and others;

well, they may not be with us, but regardless we all have changed since the war started and we can never truly change that" Ava looked up at him with a few tears streaming down her cheeks from before he came up, but she did her best to smile at the doctor at his effort for trying to help her. Then they heard a car engine on the highway, they both looked down and saw it was June and the kids, Ratchet placed a hand on Ava's shoulder "you coming back inside?" he asked, her smile quickly faded and she shook her head not wanting to leave her spot "alright, if you need anything or you get cold, you welcome back inside" he offered as he went back inside. Ava watched as the sun touched the horizon, she looked behind and saw a pile of rocks "now, how did I miss that?" she thought, Ava got up and walked toward it remembering something kids told her "right, this must be one of the Autobots, Cliffjumper I think" she thought, as she sat down in front of the pile and had a silent conversation with it.