Firestorm and Nightshade

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Twelve

-8 Megacycles Later-

"This is a bad idea" Redempt stated as she placed the Carliblast on her partners helm, it immediately changed how he looked.

His lean frame became slightly bulky, his wings and spiderlegs disappeared; his colors merged anmd the red faded to an orange color which covered most of his body while the faded white covered about 20% of it. He still had his completed medical symbol and his wheels were also larger to match his frame.

"Wow" Redempt breath in aww, her mate looked so different yet so sexy.

"How do I look?" Firestorm asked shyly.

"Like the sun" she breath.

Firestorm gave her a confused look before looking into a mirror, he was surprised by the differences; HIS PROTOFORM DIDN'T EVEN SHOW!

He turned and kept his optics on himself. He was amazed, Redempt was right!

Cybertrons sun was orange-red with white UV lights. And his new metal represented that.

Firestorm took a deep breath and began shifting and walking around, not even a delay or discomfort.

"Promise me one thing" Redempt spoke up, tearing him from his thoughts.

Firestorm looked at her.

"Promise me you'll go back to them" She demanded.

Firestorm nodded, "I promise with all my spark"

The femme smiled and kissed him, "good"

~*~

Ratchet looked around his surroundings; he was in Kaon, the Decepticon Capital. He quickly brought his attention to the mission at hand, he headed to the center of the city where he saw Optimus looking up at Megatron who was on a ledge.

"Optimus, your Autobot armies are defeated" Mind-Megatron mocked, "bow before your new master"

"Never Megatron, one shall stand"

"-and one shall fall!" Megatron charged forward and sliced the figment in half.

Ratchet quickly hid behind a rock, but the rock shifted and changed into another Optimus. Megatron killed him as well.

Ratchet stiffened when Megatron looked at him and smiled sharkishly.

"The Autobot Medic" the Tyrrant grinned, "come to die at last?"

Ratchet remained silent.

"The punishment for trespassing in my domain is death!" Megatron lunged forward, sword ready to kill but he and the sword just went through the medic; no damage was done, "How Is This Possible?!"

He tried attacking but all the attacks had the same result.

"You're not wearing phase-displacement armor. Your eyes track my movements, so you're not a hologram. And I do not believe in spirits. So, tell me, medic, what are you?!"

Before Megatron got his answer, Optimus's voice called out his name. Both the medic and Tyrant looked over to see Optimus, Arcee, Bumblebee and Bulkhead. Ratchet looked between them and his Sire nervously before Megatron killed them and turned back to the medic.

"You are real, they were not!" Megatron glared hatefully at him, Ratchet flinched.

"Tell me medic, what are you doing inside my head?!"

Ratchet looked his Sire in the optics and spoke as calm as he could.

"A teammate and I found an Autobot vessel; the Autobots in the vessel were killed by a plague and my teammate contracted the virus. The virus was created by you during the War" Ratchet was cut off by the Con.

"Someone besides myself is unwell?" his optics brightened, "Optimus! Such irony! But after ages of endless battle, the mighty Optimus Prime is felled by a si-"

"Darkshadow actually" Ratchet cut him off.

Megatron's expression was priceless and Ratchet would have laughed but now was not the time.

"He has the Cybonic Plague and has less than a day before it is irreversible"

Megatron's optics narrowed, "why should I help an Autobot"

Ratchet sized him up, "because he isn't just an Autobot, is he?"

Megatrons look became guarded and he glared, "I do not know what you mean medic"

"It was just a theory, but his reaction to me calling him by his actual name was indication enough, not to mention him demanding to know how I found out" Ratchet smiled slightly as he shook his head, "they should have gone with non-Prediconic names"

Megatron snarled.

"Don't worry, I didn't tell the others" the medic stated, "but it wouldn't matter if he dies"

Megatron snarled again before laying his hand flat and a formula appeared. Ratchet studied it, making sure he saw and memorized the entire thing, just in case.

Suddenly the medic felt his mind and body being pulled back together.

Ratchet onlined his optics and saw Starscream look at their hiding place, a Groundbridge opened behind them a moment later. Ratchet ran through and Arcee soon followed.

Ratchet finished curing Darkshadow and everyone rejoiced, the rest had returned slightly before Ratchet and Arcee had and they were informed what had transpired while they were away.

That night, Ratchet was adding the cure to their databanks when he saw Megatrons face.

"I'm out, or should I say in" Megatron laughed.

Ratchet shuttered.