Optimus Prime's unusual Charge

Apologies

Author's note: Just a short, little thing I want to address before we continue with the story.

The Dragon's name will be written like this: Zucky, but it's pronounced like this: /zʊˈkiː/.

But to make it easier, think about how you pronounce the word 'zuchini'.

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After easing his friend's spark, he sat there for hours on end. All throughout the night, getting up occasionally to stretch his peds to not stunt the flow of energon in his system. At the break of dawn, Prime succumbed to exhaustion and the datapad in his servo slipped and landed on the medical berth.

Though, not startling the patient as much as it should have, it did manage to rouse her back into consciousness.

I awoke slowly to stretch and honestly struggle to get my eyes to open, as they have managed to seal themselves shut. "*Yawn*" ["Where am I?"] All I do remember is being helped with my wound and my fever, but I simply didn't remember where I was.

The only thing I do remember was the voice; a lady's voice. She must have experience in medical care, because I felt how my shoulder was wrapped up in bandages.

My blurry vision offered me no clear explanation to where I was, but I did try looking towards where I thought the sound came from.[" Am I at her house? No, this room is way too big for that."] The more I blinked, the more I started making out clearer shapes. Then I discovered I was not alone. The huge metal Titan that I had mistaken for an ordinary semi-truck earlier, he was sitting right there!

{"*Gasp"} I saw them all before, but not that I ever had a chance to properly take in what or who I was looking at. Seeing him up close like this, caught me off guard. I was going to back away from him, when I noticed his optics were closed.

["Is he...sleeping? No...That can't be right, they're Robots! But then again, switching to a low-power state wouldn't be out of the question...Kinda like a laptop, maybe?"] I thought.

Not willing to ponder about it further, I turned my attention to the source of the racket that awoke me: It looked like some sort of tablet-like device. He might have been reading something on it, before he slipped into 'sleep mode'.

I carefully crawled closer to the device, whilst paying attention to its owner and his servo that lay dangerously close to it. Once I was right next to it, I tried leaning over to see the screen. Nothing... the screen was dark. I didn't see a button anywhere on it either. Except for the one on the side. ["That must be the power button."] But he probably didn't turn it off, so...

I didn't think it was gonna work, but I just touched the screen to see what would happen, and 'Bob's your uncle'; the screen turned back on! Unfortunately, it beeped a soft beep once in response.

{"Uh-oh..."} My heart sank into my gut when I heard it and I silently prayed to the higher powers that be, it wouldn't wake up 'the Iron Giant's Cousin'. My fears were confirmed when one of the digits on the servo that was lying right next to the tablet moved.

I froze and tried pretending like I didn't notice a thing, but in the corner of my eyes, I could see him looking at me through the somewhat blurry reflection of the Med-berth, thanks to his light-up optics.

My ears drooped, and I internally cursed at them for being such dead giveaways. Then I just took a deep silent breath and tried playing it smooth, as if I didn't just feel my soul melt away from fright. It's not that he's a bad bot, as far as I could tell by our last conversation, but that still didn't make seeing glowing eyes staring back at you from a reflective surface, any less creepy!