Under Fire

Survivor's Guilt

Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet rushed to the hospital to see if their friends were going to be ok. And Megatron insisted on coming as well so he was with them.

Upon arrival they met First Aid who explained that Starscream and Knock Out were the two survivors, Metalhawk had died at the scene and Sky Fire had died on the table. And two of the other medics had been working on Starscream and Knock Out trying to keep the two of them stable.

"Are they going to be ok?" Asked Bumblebee.

"Knock Out is going to be fine he regained consciousness just a few minutes before you got here." Said Red Alert who had just come out of the room where he'd been treating Knock Out. "He had a close call but he's going to make a full recovery."

"What about Starscream?" Asked Megatron.

"We don't know yet one of our medics has been trying to get him to regain consciousness but everytime he starts to get better he suddenly takes a turn for the worst again." First Aid explained.

"Odd that shouldn't be happening." Said Ratchet.

"Yeah Pharma told me Starscream keeps going into shock and hysterics everything he tries to bring him back online and he keeps yelling nonsense that someones killing him." First Aid explained.

"Pharma says he thinks Starscream may have been traumatized by the bot who attacked them." First Aid added.

"Noo!" "Stop someone please help me!" They heard Starscream's voice cry out from down the hallway. "Noo!" "Please don't let him kill me!"

"Starscream!" Megatron cried running down the hall to where the seeker's cries were coming from. The others had gone back to see Knock Out.

Megatron found the room Starscream was in and saw that he was strapped down on a berth. And Pharma had just injected something into Starscream's servo as the seeker continued to thrash around screaming bloody murder.

"Noo..oo!" Starscream half moaned half whimpered at the top of his voice box. "Get..awway..from..me.."

"Just relax you need to rest if your going to recover." Pharma told Starscream as he pulled the needle out of his servo.

The seeker kept pulling at the restraints that were holding him down and Megatron could tell he was struggling to get his words out. Starscream continue to jerk and blink his optics before they finally rolled shut as he went under the effects of whatever Pharma had given him.

"He'll have to be kept under heavy sedation and restrained for his own safety until we can figure out what's making him dilutional." Pharma told Megatron.

"Why is he acting that way?" Megatron asked worried about his former second in command.

"Sound like you know him so maybe you can help me figure it out by answering some questions." Pharma suggested.

"Sure I'll help anyway I can." Megatron agreed just wanting Starscream to be ok and still wanting to make up for how he treated the seeker in the past.

"Ok so did he ever suffer any trauma or abuse before he was attacked?" Asked Pharma.

"Yes." Megatron replied sadly remembering all the times he had beaten and attacked Starscream during the war.

"Did he ever have a chronical psychic patch used on him?" Pharma asked.

"Yes he did." Megatron said as he recalled when he entered Starscream mind.

"That could be the reason for this." Pharma told him. "Sometimes if a bot who has been through a great deal of physical and psychological trauma has a patch used on them it can damage their processor."