Predacon Outcast

Chapter 19.

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"Springlock, it's time to get up."

I groan and opened my eyes to see mama Elita in front of me.

"Morning Mama..." I yawned.

I saw her smile as she lifted me out of bed, pulling me into a tight hug. I purred and hugged her back. I still can't believe I have a mama now, all I've ever had before was a papa. Now I have both. The nice gentle pats from Elita made me happy and purr louder.

"Ratchet said the results of your green liquid came back, he summoned Optimus and I to come and see them."

"Okay, and is Shuri okay..?" I ask.

"He is stable, but should be fine in a few weeks."

"Oh good..."

Elita carried me out of the room and into the hall, I was still hugging her as she walked away with me. Mama makes me feel safe in her arms. And I think everyone likes to pick me up since I get picked up a lot, both bots and connies. I just kept purring as I was carried to the medbay.

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When we walked in, I was happy to see that Shuriken was now a shiny silver again. He was still hurt since I could see some big injuries on him, but he looked a lot better than before. At least he's getting better. Elita went and sat me down on a table, then the door opened and Optimus came walking in. Ratchet was standing in front of another table with the same beaker with my healing component in it, he looked up to see Optimus, Elita and me.

"Oh good, you are all here. Optimus, Elita, I believe you all may want to see this." Ratchet said.

"What have you found, Ratchet?" Oppi asks.

Ratchet pulled out one of those datapads and pushed buttons on it. Optimus and Elita waited while he was doing whatever on his datapad, I was just looking around the medbay. There were beeping noises coming from the tablet. I turned back to see Ratchet hand the tablet to Elita who looked really confused, then showed it to Optimus. I could see the confusion in his optics too. Oh boy, I wonder what they're seeing.

"Ratchet, what exactly are we looking at?" Mama Elita asks.

"What you are seeing the scan results of her green liquid. It appears to be some sort of healing component, far more complex than anything I have ever seen or created. Whoever created it is an absolute genius and must certainly have a lot of patience." He says.

Nex IS a genius, I know that already. But he's a bad genius. He is while he's turned into that monster. He's also very patient too, I think.

"Do you know its ingredients?" Optimus asked.

"That's the problem, it only shows what it is and it's molecular structure. I've only detected hints of a type of Synthetic Energon, Red Energon, and...Dark Energon."

The room went silent.

"Dark Energon? Is that what the purple energon is?" I ask.

Ratchet nods.

"I heard the connies say they infected the core with Dark Energon...is that bad?"

"Yes. Very bad, sweetspark. And if you have it in your systems, Megatron might try to control you." Elita said.

"I'm actually not so sure about that, Elita. The synthetic energon seems to corrupt any dark energon link, in turn meaning that Megatron may ATTEMPT to control her but will fail in trying." Ratchet explained.

That made mama breathe a sigh of relief, and I think Optimus too. I have no idea what they're talking about so I'm just looking around again. I looked back at Shuriken, my ears drooping at the sight of him. I haven't seen Slingblade anywhere since his brother got hurt, and I'm kinda scared that he's gonna hurt me in secret. I know he's still really mad at me.

"If you two do not mind, I would like to conduct a physical examination on Springlock." Ratchet says.

I look toward him.

"You may, just be gentle. Elita and I have something to do." Optimus said.

"I wouldn't think of hurting her, you have my word."

Optimus and Elita both left the room, leaving me alone with Ratchet. I like Ratchet though, not as much as my new Mama and Papa, but I still like him. Way better than the purple con, he gave me the creeps. Ratchet took out a little stick thing and came toward me.

"Can you open your mouth for me?" He asks.

That's a weird question, but okay. I opened my mouth and showed off my teeth. I felt the stick be pressed down on my tongue and saw Ratchet turn on a light. What the heck is he doing?? Nex never did this as far as I know. The light was then turned off and the stick thing was taken off my tongue.

"Sharp teeth, intake is normal." He said.

I sneezed, a small puff of fire coming out of my mouth. Ratchet took a step back, his optics wide.

"Excuse me, heehee." I giggled.

"Interesting, Predacons are capable of breathing fire." He said.

Well duh. I thought everyone knew that. Guess not. The next thing Ratchet did was mess with my wings just like the purple con did back in Kaon, but he was much more gentle than the con was. I simply hummed as he messed with my wings and spread them out, it felt weird though as he did it.

"No joint issues, good good."

Before he could continue, 2 Autobots rushed into the room carrying a badly hurt Autobot. Ratchet and I looked towards them.

"What happened?" Ratchet asks and goes over to help them.

"We were returning from a scouting mission and ran into a scraplet nest, he's losing energon fast!" One of them said.

I flew from the table and hovered behind them, trying to get a good luck at what Ratchet was doing. But the others kept getting in the way of me trying to see. I was trying to find gaps in between them but nope, still in my way. Okay, I'm starting to think they're doing this on purpose now. I gave up on trying to look and flew back to my table, trying to ignore them.

"These bites are bad, doc. How are you gonna fix them?" One of the Autobots asks.

"I'm doing the best I can, now stand back!" Ratchet yelled.

I watched the other bots step back away from Ratchet and his table. Now I could see! I flew from my table again and went to look, and now...I wish I hadn't. The poor Autobot had a lot of big bite marks and missing pieces of armor, he was also bleeding a lot. Wait, I can help him!

"Ratchet, I can help him!" I exclaim.

"That's kind of you, Springlock. But I don't think-"

I landed on the table next to the hurt Autobot, quickly putting my hands over his injuries. I let my healing component spill onto them. The Autobot yelped, but then sighed of relief. I look toward the injuries I chose first to see them starting to seal, then went to work on the other bite marks.

Ratchet and the other Autobots looked like they'd seen a ghost or something when the bite marks disappeared. The once hurt Autobot sat up and looked himself over, his optics wide when he looked at me. My ears twitched and I tilted my head, waiting for him to say something.

"Th....Thanks kid."

He then pat my head, I purred loudly and gave him a hug.

"You're welcome!"