Rise | Transformers Prime fanfic

Chapter 88

Amal looked unhappy as she had her arms crossed, glaring across the room at the doctor glaring back at her with his arms crossed as well.

"What're you going to do? Knock me unconscious?"

"If I am too." The doctor threatened and she huffed. "This is so unfair, Ratch. My switches are out, I feel fine, I've got my Energon intake up to normal and I'm bored as shit in here. Let me out!" She whined while uncrossing her arms dramatically.

Ratchet sighed heavily as he walked up next to her. "Amalgamous, I get that your body heals faster, I get that you're bored. But you died. I cannot just simply let you go back out there to help when I just did a procedure I never thought I'd have to do." The Autobot medic explained and Amal huffed as she crossed her arms, turning away angrily to face the wall.

Ratchet realized that this time, Amal wasn't just messing around to get on his nerves. He saw she was genuinely upset, and it made him feel guilty, but he knew what his patient needed. That didn't stop him from having a want to make her feel comfortable for the time she'd have to spend there.

"Amal? Is this about yo—"

"This isn't the first time I've died." She whispered faintly and Ratchet looked confused. "What do you mean?" He asked her and Amal sighed heavily while blinking aggressively.

"When all of—" she motioned to her body. "—happened, when they brought me back to the ship, I died for ten minutes." She said quietly while staring at the ceiling to push her emotions back.

"It was a miracle, honestly. And to think, Optimus accidentally killing me then, Megatron being pissed and now it was Megatron who accidentally killed me." Amal chuckled for a second. "Oh primus, my sense of humor is messed up."

Ratchet couldn't help to smile slightly. "Yea, I know." He said as he walked over to her and reached into his coat pockets and pulled out something before placing it in her hands.

"I had been waiting till we got back to base, but then the blast happened and well, it was a little postponed." Ratchet said and Amal looked down at it and smiled seeing two books in her hands, one called 'Cirque Du Freak' and the other called 'Warriors: Into The Wild'.

Amal looked up at Ratchet before hugging him. Ratchet, unlike other times, slowly hugged back with a small smile on his face. "Thank you Ratch." She whispered. "For what?" The Autobot medic asked.

"For everything."

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"So, once we got Amal up and running, what's the plan?" Breakdown asked as they all sat around the table in the other room. "Yea, I wanna be first in line to give Unicron the ole 'one two'." Miko said, punching the air and Jack rolled his eyes.

"Our plan, is locate him and study his actions so we can take action from there on how to approach the situation." Optimus explained and Miko dropped her arms. "Sounds boring."

"And then, Optimus will give him the ole 'one two'." Bulkhead said and Miko grinned at her guardian. "But, Optimus, I believe in you as much as anybody in this room, but there was thirteen that defeated Unicron in the first place, and even then, they just managed to cast him out of Cybertron...we're playing poker with all our bets in and with blind folds on at this point." Jack said and Optimus bowed his head.

"Which is why, in the event of the worst to come, I will use the Matrix to destroy Unicron himself." The Cybertronians in the room vented heavily. "Optimus...that'll kill you." Arcee said and Optimus shut his eyes for a moment.

"I know." He said faintly and Ratched sighed from anger and from sadness. "That'll destroy the matrix as well...which means it would be the end of the Prime's for good." He said and Optimus nodded.

"Cybertron's and Earth's protection is far more important than the proper leadership of the Autobots, because it is not needed anymore." Everyone looked confused. "What do you mean?"

"The Prime's were created to fight against evil, and when it was gone, Cybertron lived in peace for a long time before the Decepticons rose. But if I were to defeat Unicron using the Matrix—"

Optimus looked at the Decepticons sitting around the table with them and a faint smile appeared on his face.

"—we would have no more enemies."