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Cover Me
By Black Dragon Queen
Author's Note:
Unfortunately I may be back to weekly to every other day updates until I get myself reorganized. I apologize profusely! This chapter is a bit slow but it's a build up! I promise! This was needed!
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Chapter One Hundred Forty Four: Small Revelations
“‘Teletraan Two point oh’?” Wheeljack repeated in surprise. “What the slag? Teletraan went when Cybertron did.”
“Apparently this is his second cousin or something,” Ratchet muttered.
“Megatron must have uploaded an updated version or something before he left Cybertron,” Prowl said with a thoughtful look.
“If that doesn’t beat all,” Ironhide frowned. “He even swiped Cybertron’s master system.”
The humans all glanced at one another before Will looked up at Ironhide completely baffled. “Okay, what the slag is a ‘Teletraan’?” he finally asked and the mechs all looked at the humans in surprise.
“Teletraan was our planets master computer,” Jazz chuckled. “Think your World Wide Web with an attitude.”
“It was a limited AI system,” Prowl continued, adopting a lecture mode. “Intersystems and most planetary programs ran through Teletraan.”
“Like traffic lights and things like that,” Ironhide chuckled. “Basically it took care of daily essentials and whatnot. Also had our historical documents and text books archived and a whole slew of other things.”
“So Teletraan basically ran your whole planet?” Sam asked with a frown.
“In a sense,” Jazz nodded. “Though I have no idea what this ‘two point oh’ version is like.”
“Great,” Optimus muttered as he looked around at the other mechs. “So what do I ask it?”
“Let’s just get these things out of here for now and then we’ll figure out what to do about this ship later,” Prowl sighed, sounding rather tired as he waved at where Wheeljack, Perceptor were waiting by the secured equipment. Jazz leaned over and placed a hand on the other mechs shoulder in support and Prowl looked over at his small husband gratefully.
“Ask if there’s a med bay!” Everyone turned to Ratchet surprised and he frowned at them. “What? Some of us were injured in that fight.” He looked pointedly at Optimus and then at Barricade. “If this place has a fully stocked med bay, why not use it?”
“I may as well find the bridge too. See what this place is like,” Optimus shrugged before he turned to Perceptor and Wheeljack. “It won’t take that long to get the Energon once you have these, right?”
“Less than a day,” Perceptor nodded before he gave Optimus a pointed stare. “That is assuming you will be getting the equipment out of the locking hold.”
“Oh… right,” Optimus nodded as he looked around the hold. “Please unlock cargo locks in cargo bay six.”
“-Request reasoning,-” the static voice replied automatically.
There was a groan from Megatron again and ‘Bee and Sam both looked down at him puzzled. Optimus himself just sounded surprised. “Reasoning?” he muttered as he glanced at the others.
Jazz just shrugged while Prowl frowned, his doorwings twitching as he thought. “Why would it request a reason to open the cargo hold?” the commander muttered.
The other ‘Cons just looked at one another briefly. “Starscream,” the nodded in unison.
“World domination isn’t probably going to be listed a ‘proper reasoning’,” Rumble chuckled.
“Make sense,” Optimus nodded before he addressed the ship as a whole again. “Excavation of Energon Crystals.”
There was a long pause again. “-Limited access granted. Secure bays three nine five to three nine eight open.-”
Three of the cages opened and Perceptor and Wheeljack glanced at one another and shrugged. “I guess we only need these three,” Wheeljack muttered as they began to take out the equipment. They soon enlisted Sideswipe in the endeavor and Sunny began organizing, meaning he was telling them what to do and they were ignoring him.
“But why is it limited access?” Prowl frowned as he looked at the few secure cabinets that were not opened.
Jazz shook his head. “Could they be weapons or something?”
“Possibly,” Optimus mused as he tried to peer into one of the lockers.
“Well ask,” Jazz huffed as he turned back to Optimus.
Optimus nodded. “Request reasoning behind limited access.”
The computer answered instantly. “-Unit Orion Pax security level two. Limited access to all systems pending Lord Megatron’s approval.-”
“Well that’ll be a long time coming,” Ironhide muttered under his breath as Jazz nudged him and frowned with a small tilt of the head in Optimus’ direction. Even Will was frowning now at his larger… boyfriend? Sam decided he could figure out the logistics of that relationship later as he couldn’t help but glance down at Megatron only to see it was now Frenzy in charge once again, as the optics were a bright red, and the mech himself was chuckling madly. He looked up at ‘Bee who looked just as puzzled.
“Well, we’ll work with what we’ve got,” Optimus sighed. “Request location of medical bay.”
“-Medical Bay located on level five. Limited access granted to unit Orion Pax pending Chief Medical Officer Cureol’s approval.-”
“That’s not going to help at all!” Ratchet yelped aghast.
The other mechs glanced at him curiously but Sam was frowning as he tried to translate what he could with his limited knowledge of Cybertron. There was one point he understood however. “Who’s ‘Cure All’?”
“Cureol,” Ratchet corrected with a sigh. “One of if not the best medics on all of Cybertron. A medical prodigy if you will, who completed all his training when still just a youngling. He was instantly transferred to the main city of Tyger Pax and from what I heard, became Megatron’s personal medic.”
There was a snort from Optimus. “Oh yeah, him. Fun guy, if a little bored with being a medic.”
“Bored?” Ratchet yelp amazed.
“Er, never mind. What now with the medical bay? If you can’t get the equipment you need?”
Ratchet shrugged. “No idea. Perhaps I can override it with some master medical codes.”
“Hey Optimus, ask it who’s got medical access,” Ironhide spoke up as he pointed over at the ‘Cons. “It recognized Soundwave. Maybe he can override it.”
“Possible,” Optimus nodded. “Request list of all mechs with access to medical bay.”
“-One moment please.-” They waited. “-Eight mechs with full clearance. High Lord Protector Megatron, Chief Medical Officer Cureol, Medical Officer Hook, Medical officer and Lieutenant Groundhog, Medical officer Remedy, Medical Officer Ratchet, Medical Officer Hoist and Medical Officer and Commander Fixit. Limited clearance access to Orion Pax, Medic in training Glit, Medic in training First Aid, Medic in training Quickfire, Medic in training Signal Flare- -”
“We got the picture,” Ironhide huffed before he looked over at his teammate who was just standing there, his jaw hanging open in disbelief as he stared out at nothing in particular.
“I have full clearance?” Ratchet shouted in disbelief.
“Well why not?” Barricade drawled with a small smirk. “You’re a medic.”
“But…” Poor Ratchet just seemed at a complete loss. “It had Hoist and First Aid too.”
“As well as Fixit, Quickfire and Signal Flare,” Optimus nodded.
“But why add the Autobot medics to the list?” Sideswipe asked at a loss as he looked up from handing Wheeljack one of the larger pieces. “Wouldn’t that, you know, defeat the purpose?”
“Of what? Medical aid?” Ratchet instantly growled.
“He does have a point though,” Epps said with a small frown. “Why allow your enemy access to your ship.”
“We weren’t enemies when he started building this!” Optimus snapped and everyone froze as they just stared at Optimus. It took the large mech a moment to realize what he had done and he slumped his shoulders forward as he brought up a hand to rub his head with. “Sorry Epps. I didn’t mean to snap. It’s just that…”
“Completely understandable,” Epps nodded with a small sad smile.
“Right. So let’s get to work, shall we?” Ratchet spoke quietly to Optimus before he shot Prowl a small look.
It took a second for the second-in-command to realize that Ratchet was wanting him to take control and allow Optimus a few moments reprieve. “Right. Wheeljack, Perceptor, what do you need us to do so we can start getting things done around here?”
Things moved quickly after that. Most of the mechs began helping the two mechs lug all the equipment they needed outside and soon enough, Wheeljack was able to reconstruct them while Perceptor began organizing the mining efforts. Sunny and Jazz had been banished to the sidelines, as was the humans, when they finally broke through enough ice to reach the Energon Crystals. Luckily, the equipment they had access too had a force field generator so the waves were fairly contained since they went slow and only excavated a small area at a time. Perceptor was very grateful for the heavy-duty containers as it gave him time to convert the raw Energon to stable cubes but running some odd electric current through the using something that looked like a giant microwave.
Sam shook his head as he looked back up at ‘Bee who was pretty much regulated to keeping an optic on the humans in case the seekers returned. It didn’t seem likely however and Soundwave turned to tell Optimus as much. Optimus nodded. “I believe you are correct but it is still better to be safe than sorry.”
“Speaking of which,” Ratchet suddenly appeared at his side. “We’d best get you looked over.”
“What?” Optimus looked back at Ratchet surprised but the medic frowned before he looked over at the working group.
“BARRICADE! Grab Jazz and Sunny! I may as well make use of the medical bay and check them over as well.”
Barricade frowned but nodded as he made his way over to where Jazz and Sunny were poised as lookouts for any activity in the sky as they could not help with the main excavation. Bumblebee frowned as he made his way over. “Perhaps the humans should go back into the ship as well?” he murmured. “Get out of the cold as it were.”
“Sounds like a plan to me!” Steve smiled as he wandered over. “Don’t suppose that ship of yours has a coffee machine?”
“Unfortunately I don’t think Megatron would have installed one considering we never had any coffee beans on Cybertron,” Jazz chuckled as he appeared with the others behind him.
That managed to elicit a small smile from Optimus and Ratchet and Jazz shared pleased looks as Ratchet turned to the Autobot leader. “So let’s get organized here, shall we?” he spoke as he looked at Optimus. “What else needs to be done around here?”
“Keller,” Sam began before he suddenly felt himself falling. He barely had time to gasp before his rapid decent suddenly stopped a second later. He looked up in surprise to find himself staring at Bumblebee’s back as the Autobot scout headed back towards the group working on the Energon mining and it didn’t take him long to realize what had happened as he looked up at the frowning Barricade now holding him. Bumblebee had quite literally taken the option from Barricade by dropping Sam and giving Barricade no choice but to catch him. Barricade did not look pleased and Sam ducked his head, a dark feeling of dread beginning to pool in his stomach.
He wasn’t given time to dwell however as Optimus spoke to him. “I suppose we should contact Keller,” Optimus nodded as he looked back at the ship. “Unfortunately we don’t have the time to begin excavating the ARC and we can’t really leave it here unprotected for others to dig up.”
“Indeed,” Will nodded. “The last thing we want is this falling into the wrong hands.”
“Like Starscream’s,” Jazz sighed as he looked at the ship.
“Right,” Optimus sighed. “Soundwave!” he called out and soon enough the Decepticon communications officer was beside him.
“Yes Optimus Prime?” the mech asked quietly.
“Just ‘Optimus’,” the mech sighed before he gestured to the ship. “We need to get in contact with Keller. May as well do it while Ratchet is looking us over and then you can head back and help with the excavation.”
“It would be my pleasure Optimus Pr-” Soundwave broke off as Optimus shot him a look. He remained silent until Optimus turned to indicate that Ratchet should lead the way when he finished. “Prime.”
Both Sunny and Jazz as well as most of the humans began snickering and if Optimus didn’t know better, he would have sworn that Megatron’s First Lieutenant was smirking. “Right… We’ll be back!” he called out to the others. Perceptor and Sideswipe waved cheerfully while Prowl, Wheeljack and ‘Bee just looked over at the other group momentarily before getting back to work. Ironhide didn’t look up at all as he was arguing with Rumble about where the containers should be stacked while Ravage looked on in amusement.
The six mechs picked up the random humans and began making their way into the ship and towards the lift. It was a short ride up to level five and after a few wrong turns, they finally arrived at the medical bay. Ron let out a low whistle as they looked over the facilities and Ratchet was grinning like mad. It wasn’t so much a small medical room as much as a fully functioning Cybertronion hospital. There were over a dozen berths and large cabinets and tool boxes lined the opposite side of the room amid monitors and small computers.
“Someone’s happy,” Jazz spoke to Sunny who snickered.
Ratchet’s didn’t pay any attention to the small jibe from the two. If anything, his grin got wider as he whirled around, causing poor agent Knight and Eddie to feel a bit dizzy as he looked at Optimus. “Well? Where do you want to go?”
“Er…” Optimus looked around. “Perhaps you should work on the others first,” he suggested as he set Ron and Steve down on one of the desks. “That way they can get out of here sooner and it will give me time to speak to Keller.”
Ratchet frowned but nodded. “Perhaps you’re right. Barricade, why don’t you let Sam down so he can speak with Keller and I’ll look you over first considering you were in the most peril.”
“I was buried under ice. It’s not that big a deal,” Barricade drawled as he allowed Sam down next to his father. Jazz allowed Miles down while Sunny allowed Will and Epps to walk around themselves as well.
With the humans situated, Ratchet quickly snagged Barricade before he made a break for it. “Oh no you don’t,” he drawled. “Medical Officer Ratchet requesting full use of the medical bay,” he spoke firmly.
“-Voice verification accepted. Chief Autobot Medical Officer Ratchet. Access granted,-” Teletraan two instantly responded.
Ratchet made a sharp nod as Barricade just groaned before he was hauled away by the medic to one of the further berths. Optimus shook his head as he turned to Soundwave. “He always hate medics?” he asked curiously.
“Save for his own team’s medic and even then only in the direr of circumstances,” Soundwave nodded.
Optimus thought about this a moment before he nodded. “Well, we’d better apprise Keller of the latest situation out here.”
“And let Red Alert and the others know that we had an encounter with the other Decepticons,” Jazz added as Sunny found a swivel chair and plopped down into it.
Optimus looked at the yellow Lamborghini thoughtfully. “I think I have something for you two to do once Ratchet’s done with you,” he said surprising the two. “Since you’re limited due to your, er, conditions, you can check out the ship for any furniture we can take back to the base to tide us over until we get the ARC there.”
“Seriously?” Sunny asked excitedly as he sat upright, happy for something, anything, to do.
Jazz just looked at him. “And how are we getting it back?” he asked curiously. “Your trailer is going to be full enough as it is with Energon.”
Optimus waved a hand indifferently. “We can always leave most of the equipment here in the ARC,” he said. “It’s secure for the most part and the stuff we brought with us is only for mining the Energon anyway. No point in lugging it back to the base.”
“He’s got you there,” Sunny chuckled.
Jazz just shrugged. “Your call,” he said.
“Right, now Soundwave,” Optimus turned back to the ‘Con who had so far been waiting patiently, now used to the Autobots tendency to jump subjects as they occurred to them.
“I will contact Communications officer Blaster now,” Soundwave nodded. “However, it may be more efficient to try and use the ships own communications. The range will undoubtedly be larger.”
Optimus grinned widely. “Right! Ratchet!” he called out turning to the medic who was twisting Barricade this way and that as he ran a scan over him. “Soundwave and I are headed for the bridge for the radio. We should be done before you finish with Jazz and Sunny.”
Ratchet frowned at him but nodded nonetheless. “You’re not back by then and I’ll send Ravage out to hunt you down.”
No mistake about it, Soundwave was smirking. “Duly noted,” the Autobot chuckled.
“Wait for me!” Sam shouted as he headed for the edge of the table he was standing on and looked at Optimus pointedly.
“Right,” Optimus held out a hand for him and Miles as the boy also approached. “Anyone else?”
Epps and Will just stepped forwards and Soundwave didn’t hesitate to offer them a lift. The Autobot leader then looked at others and Knight stepped forward. “I believe it would be most exciting to see the bridge as well.”
Will and Epps shared a look as Eddie raised an eyebrow at the man. “Well I’m going to stay here,” the older man announced. “Had enough excitement for one day.”
“Same here!” Ron and Steve nodded as Steve began pulling items out of his bag. Ron, amazingly, was still taking pictures as Ratchet now had Barricade contorted to a rather… interesting position. Sam gave the mech a small, sad glance as Optimus had Miles step over so he could take Knight and they exited. Optimus frowned when he spotted the look and he glanced over at Will who shook his head.
It was a while to get up to the bridge and when they did they encountered a bit of a problem. Neither one of them could access the bridge. “Well…” Optimus frowned. “This is problematic.”
“Why wouldn’t you have access to the bridge?” Epps frowned as he stared at the tightly shut doors.
“No idea,” Optimus frowned as he tried to figure out his next step.
“Perhaps there is a radio room apart from the bridge?” Soundwave suggested.
Optimus tried not to show his disappointment as he nodded. “Teletraan, is there a communications office?”
“-Affirmative.-”
“That’s a relief,” Will sighed and soon enough they made their way down the hallways to the master compunctions office.
It was now Epps’ turn to stare into the room in wonder as he looked over all the different mikes and computers and more equipment lining the rooms than he could identify. “I think I’ll just live in here,” he said dreamily and Will and the boys snickered while Knight looked at him bemused.
Soundwave was granted limited access but that was all he needed for a planetary communication as opposed to a surface to space one. “If we had the access, I bet we could contact the others with no problem,” Optimus said as he looked about the room.
“Indeed,” Soundwave nodded. “No doubt Shockwave will have full access when he finally arrives planet side.”
“Shockwave?” Optimus looked over at Soundwave puzzled. “He was…?”
“Megatron’s first commander,” Soundwave explained. “As Prowl is yours. He was very rarely in battle however. Megatron entrusted him to run the Deception operations when he was out in the field.”
“I see,” Optimus nodded as he tried to remember the particular mech. He never really knew Megatron’s own inner circle so he was having a bit of trouble putting the name to a face.
“-Blaster here!-” A voice soon interrupted and Optimus quickly got himself back to subject at hand as Soundwave was speaking.
“Communications officer Blaster. I was under the impression that I was calling Secretary of Defense Keller,” Soundwave said with a frown.
There was actually laugh. “-Then you got the right place. He’s here right now.-”
Optimus sent Soundwave a surprised look but Soundwave only continued to work the controls, tuning into the frequency more clearly. “Right. What happened now?” Optimus groaned as he turned back to the mike.
“-Same old, same old. Just business as usual around here,-” Blaster replied cheekily.
“Don’t tell me Crikey ate someone?” Optimus asked fearfully. “Hikers or something?”
Blaster just laughed. “-Nope. Let me get him and Red Alert.-”
The transmission was silent for a long time before Red and Keller got on the line. “-What happened?-” Red Alert instantly asked. “-Anyone hurt?-”
“Nope, we’re all good,” Optimus told him. “In fact, better than good! We found the Energon!”
There was a rather large, boisterous cheer from the other end of the mike and Optimus frowned at the volume of it. Who knew that Hound, Inferno, Blaster, Bluestreak and Red could be so vocal? Soundwave was smirking again, damn him, and Optimus was tempted to ask why when Keller’s voice came on the line. “-What did you need me for then?-” the man asked.
“You’ll never guess what else we found with the Energon,” Optimus chuckled. “It seems that the reason Megatron got to Earth so quickly is he didn’t travel in a space chamber.”
“-He didn’t?-” Hound asked amazed. “-Then how?-”
“The ARC!” Optimus chuckled. “The ship I mentioned he was building! Apparently he completed it and now it’s buried under an ice glacier.”
There was stunned silence from the other end before there was a groan. “-You lot sure like to keep me busy, don’t you?-” Keller sighed. “-I can only assume that it needs to be dug out?-”
“Unfortunately, and we can’t do it with the base so vulnerable,” Optimus sighed. “We encountered the seekers here.”
“-WHAT?-” bellowed down the line and Soundwave very inconspicuously leaned back and adjusted the volume.
“-Right. I’ll see what I can do.-”
“Oh and John,” Optimus quickly said before the man got off the line. “Just so you know that not only is the old Sector Seven base still out here but we encountered one of the retired workers who originally helped get Megatron out. A Eddie-?” he looked at Will in askance.
“Edward Westfield,” Will announced. “Said he knew Simmon’s old man.”
“-Westfield?-” Simmons voice soon bellowed out of the radio sounding awestruck. “-The Ed Westfield? He’s there? And you met him?-”
Simmons soon petered off as Keller got back on. “-Got it Optimus. I’ll see about coming up with a plan here.-”
“Right. Thanks,” Optimus said as the group said their goodbyes and they clicked off.
“What do you suppose was with Simmons?” Epps asked curiously as he stepped back up into Soundwave’s palm.
“How should I know?” Will asked amused.
It didn’t take long to return to the med bay and they were surprised to find it lacking patients as Ratchet was working on the computer and the men had started up an impromptu poker game. “Well it’s about time,” Ratchet snickered as Soundwave allowed his passengers down and quickly bid his leave. Ratchet let him go with a wave. “I was beginning to think you got lost.”
“We kind of did,” Optimus admitted as he allowed Ratchet to move him over to the table he had set up. “Couldn’t get into the bridge and had to find the main communications office.”
Ratchet frowned. “If you can’t get into the bridge then we may have a problem getting this thing back to California.”
Optimus shrugged. “Soundwave said that when Megatron’s first commander arrives, he should have access.”
“Whenever that is,” Ratchet sighed as he began pounding out the few dents that Optimus had sustained.
“How is it?” Sam called out, clearly not that interested in the card game going on and more interested in what Ratchet was doing. Optimus frowned as he realized that Sam was looking for something to occupy his mind. Probably trying to forget the fact that Barricade was ignoring him.
“He’ll live,” Ratchet smiled. “Though you scared us plenty when you went flying,” he now directed at Optimus. “The explosion looked bigger than it was. Gave us all quite a fright.”
“Scared me too,” Optimus chuckled. He frowned then before he spoke again, this time in a quieter voice than before. “You want to know the strangest part about it though?”
“Hmm? What?” Ratchet asked distractedly as he went over some exposed wiring. Optimus looked over with a bit of a dazed look on his face
“I could have sworn that as I went down I could hear Megatron screaming my name.”
-To Be Continued
Author's Note: Well there you have it. I know this probably prompted a THOUSAND questions but please be patient and everything will be explained eventually.
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