Megatron's twin

10:Playing with wires

I watched Raf build something, it had been a week since I was taken "prisoner", and everyone became used to my presence, even the three humans that came daily. I continued watching Raf and I couldn't help but wonder what he was making. "Hey Raf?" I bent down lower to see the small wiring. The small boy looked up nervously, "yes?"

"What is that?" I asked out of pure curiosity. He looked down at his creation.

"Oh this, just a remote car I'm trying to build." He said.

I looked at it, "it doesn't look like a car." I stated.

"This is just the internal wiring, I just need to get it all hooked up to the battery." He said matter-of-factly.

"Why's it taking so long?"

"I'm just making sure. If I join the wrong wire it could spark, blow a fuse and perhaps a small explosion." I was still processing all this but I nodded and went along with it.

I got up and left Raf to his device and glanced around the base, Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Smokescreen were scouting, leaving Ratchet, Optimus and Arcee. As well as the kids, Miko and Jack where playing some racing game and Ratchet was with Optimus at a monitor.

Wanting to test out my newfound knowledge I learnt with Raf, I went to find some wires. And while doing so I felt like one of those stupid kids the three humans sometimes talk about.

I walked the hallway and glanced up at the ceiling, exposed cables were hanging down. Along with small bite marks around the edges, which looked strangely like Scraplet bites, I pushed the thought away.

There was some energon underneath, it must of dripped down from the wires. I grabbed a wire and twisted it around, entwining it either another, what I did not know is that it was the same wire. It let out sparks and shocked me, I felt slightly nauseous.

But that wasn't all, the sparks landed on the exposed energon bellow it. Guess what happened...

BOOM!

An explosion as large as a diminutive bomb went off. Ringing in my audio receptors made me realize I was on my backstruts. I heard ped steps approach and was greeted Arcee staring at me as if I ate the last slice of cake. She opened her intake to say something.

I was expecting a, "are you okay" or "let me help" but instead I get a: "What the frag did you do, you scrap heap?" Well thank you so much for your concern.

Me, still feeling nauseous, held my venting in the hope I wouldn't purge. I heard more ped steps but didn't bother looking for who it was.

"What happened?" Asked Ratchet, how ironic he's a medic and doesn't ask for my health.

"Are you alright?" Asked Optimus, well thank you for asking.

I didn't say anything, just trying to process what happened and Arcee's ranting was not helping.

"Sabotage, I swear, we should put him back in his cell!" She demanded.

Ratchet seemed to be looking up at the cables. "Idiot." He muttered but I still heard him.

"Why does he even stay? He's a waste of resources, good for nothing and messes up all the time!" Arcee yelled.

My spark gave a painful throb and I began to panic. In my blind panic I tried to stand but this made it worse, I stumbled and my legs folded in. Optimus caught me before I hit the floor.

Ratchet came over, "I don't see any leakage." He stated as he looked me over. "And the voltage wasn't high enough to cause much damage."

"S-spark." I managed to croak out weakly, but Optimus heard and repeated to Ratchet, I heard Arcee scoff.

My spark gave a wave of pain and I have a shudder before I convulsed, this was a bad one. I felt energon rise in the back of my intake, I heard Ratchet shouting but couldn't make out what he said. My processor went numb to my surroundings, probably a good thing as it limited my thoughts.

I began to calm down, felting depleted of energy. I was calm...

Untill I realized I couldn't move anything.

Well I could move my optics and make grunts, but that's it.

Ratchet seemed confused at the sudden stillness but then, I think, he told Optimus to take me the the medbay.

I was mildly suprised that he could carry me, considering that I'm about his hight. Well, higher.

He set me down on the medical berth and I let out a grunt in thanks. He started scanning my chassis and frowned deeply. He muttered something to Optimus and he left (not without a complaint) leaving me with the doc. I could also hear the humans asking him something loudly.

"Can you move?" He asked.

No I can't, isn't that obvious? I don't want anymore of this scrap, I'm going to recharge and perhaps everything will be better after.

I began to dim my Optics and Ratchet let out a shriek of panic, perhaps thinking I was offlining. I smiled inwardly and drifted further into recharge.

Untill a large amount of energy came through me, my limbs immediately jumped into motion earning me a trip off the berth.

I looked up to see Ratchet holding a fragging defibrillator.

"What the frag? I was only recharging!" I felt full of energy like I could crackle like a evil warlord while running circles around a fire.

Ratchet's optics widened. "I thought you offlined." He gasped. I rolled my optics and lay back down on the berth, "what happened?" He questioned.

"I almost fell into recharge."

"No, not that. You collapsed and went numb." He said clearly not wanting to hear any of my shit.

"Wires." I lied.

"Bull shit." A new voice said.

I turned my helm to the medbays entrance, Arcee was there.

"Ahh, Arcee, didn't know you cared." I yawned.

"I don't." She hissed, "but lying won't help anyone."

My sudden spike of energy dropped making it hard to stay awake. "I'd rather not say." I said slumping deeper into the berth. "And I'm not offlining now Doc." I began to dim my optic and I faintly heard Ratchet mutter, "don't call me doc." Before I went into recharge.

Bonus:

Optimus faintly listened in to what they where saying, he couldn't help but feel worried. While he remained stoic when Quillux collapsed, his spark filled with worry and panic. He felt attached to him but didn't understand it, it would be best to ask Ratchet later, but for now he would wait.

He went into the medbay as Arcee left crossing her arms in a huff. Optimus walked over to Ratchet as he noted Quillux in recharge on the berth. He gave Optimus a nod of acknowledgement, before returning to reading his vital signs.

"What happened?" Optimus quizzed.

Ratchet turned to him. "I can't be to sure, I will continue asking him when he wakes, but I believe it is for him to share." He said.

The prime nodded, "but you have a idea as to what happened?"

Ratchet nodded.

Optimus frowned and turned to look at Quillux peacefully recharging. He couldn't help but fell worried, nervous and another emotion which was still developing.

A/N

I feel like this is going to fast with little purpose, please tell me what you think and what to improve on. If you have any suggestions for the story please bring them forward.🙂