Experiment X

Chapter 16: Help

Chapter 16: Help

After Knock Out woke up from the CPP, his chest was leaking out small amounts of his fuel. Techna rushed over to weld up his wounds.

"This is just impossible! Its one thing to physically touch an individual during the CPP, but inflicting injuries on to them?" Ratchet stated out loud as he helped Techna fix up Knock Out's wounds.

"More importantly, we need to figure out how to find old Screamy" said Wheeljack while leaning up against the wall.

Ratchet's optics widened as he looked back at Wheeljack and replied, "What?! Oh no, we are not dragging Starscream here to meet the demands of that revenge seeking..."

"Fiend?" finished Knock Out before wincing in pain from the welding that Techna was doing.

"Sorry" she replied as she continued fixing his wounds.

"What else can we do, Doc? She won't tell us what she was infected with unless we bring her Starscream and Megatron" retorted Wheeljack.

"I can still find a cure for her illness, but I need time" replied the medic stubbornly.

"Time is something that she does not have, Ratchet" Wheeljack retorted while glaring at the medic.

"I will not have Starscream, Megatron, or anyone else getting hurt during the cortical physic patch!" Ratchet shouted out loud. He paused for a moment before saying, "I just don't want any casualties happening to them while they're inside her mind."

Wheeljack back off a bit in realization that Ratchet was afraid that Saphira would kill Starscream or Megatron while they are inside her head. "Doc, if you're afraid of having them possibly getting hurt in the physic patch, then say so."

Ratchet calmed down for a brief moment before replying, "Yes, I'm afraid that both of them would get hurt in the same way that Knock Out was or worse."

"Hey, I deserved this punishment from her. If I only listened to her advice five years ago, she wouldn't have been in this condition" Knock Out said to Ratchet while looking down in shame.

"Hey, even if you did deserve a thrashing from Saphira from what you've done to her five years ago, you didn't deserve anything like this when you were begging for forgiveness in the beginning" said Arcee as she came by Knock Out and put a reinsuring hand on his shoulders. He looked at her and smiled a bit before he winced again in pain.

Ratchet sighed as he said, "I still think that we shouldn't drag them into this. Also, if we were going to bring them here, how are we going to even find them?"

"Leave that one up to me, Ratchet" said Bee with a smile.

Smokescreen's optic widened as he realized what Bumblebee had in mind. "Oh no, we are not going to the Preds for help again!" he said to the young warrior.

"What? You bots asked the Predacons for help before?" asked the Agent.

"Yup, when we had to ask Predaking if he knew anything about the two Predacons that Ultra Magnus and Smokescreen saw when looking for Shockwave's laboratory four months ago" replied Arcee.

Fowler nodded in reply as he asked Bumblebee, "So you're thinking of tracking down Moe, Larry, and Curly to see if they will help you guys track down Starscream and Megatron?"

"That's about sums it up" replied Bee as he went into the cabinet to get some supplies for the trip.

Smokescreen sighed as he mumbled, "Guess where going to see his majesty, again"