The Unity Of Two

11: A little Trap

Optimus frowned deeply as he walked in, I smiled nervously but that caused him to frown more.

"I stabbed myself." I said and pointed to my ped as he opened his intake to speak.

"Very subtle." Unicron commented.

"How?" He asked, concerned as he examined it.

"I accidentally dropped it." I told him, he sighed.

"I will get Ratchet." He said and walked off. Ratchet came in seconds later and glared at my ped.

He got to work, mumbling. "Scared of a scanner but if fine with a knife in his ped." He pulled it out, I quickly pulled my ped back to myself. He glared at me, "I need to weld it."

I peaked at my ped, some blue energon, with a purple tint, leaked out. "Nope." I told him.

He raised a ridge, "Oh? You're experienced in medical practices?" He asked sarcastically, Optimus watched nervously.

"No-"

"Well then-"

"But I know that you have to respect a patient's wishes." I crossed my arms.

"Not if it's life threatening." He argued and tried to grab my ped, I shuffled to the far side of the berth.

"And is this life threatening?" I asked.

He vented out in frustration and left. "You just got owned!" Unicron yelled at him.

Optimus decided to follow him, perhaps calm him down. So I was left here, all alone. So I left the medbay and sat back down in my corner.

Eventually, Bulkhead came over. "Got you a cube." He said and handed me some energon.

"Thanks." I said and took the cube.

"Best not to listen to Miko." He added as he turned to leave.

"Ok." I said and took a sip.

"Argh, more of that stuff." Unicron grumbled.

"It's not like I can just take the other stuff." I told him.

Bee was eves dropping, along with Arcee, and exchanging glances. I stared back at them and they seemed to get uncomfortable enough to leave.

"It's getting late." Unicron said.

"It's five in the afternoon." I told him, taking some more energon.

"Exactly, so I'm going to shut down for a bit and if you do, you might wake up in the middle of the night." He explained.

"Ok?" I felt like he was leading somewhere.

"So, if everyone is in recharge, you can leave or set death traps." He tried not to giggle but failed.

"Fine." I told him and transformed into my other form, it was more comfortable for recharging.

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Unicron was right in his predictions for my wake-up time, apparently, he was awake for much longer.

"About time." Unicron said, "I had to resort to other forms of amusement."

I transformed, Such as?" I asked as I looked around, no one was here, and the lights were dimmed.

"Listening to the Autobots."

"What they say?" I asked as I got up and walked to the console for the ground bridge.

"'Should we wake up the youngling?'" Unicron quoted.

"Good that they did not." I said and looked at the buttons. Which ones do I push? I got Unicorn's crystal out so he could see. "Which one?" I asked.

"Try and find the history, third to last, so we know our coordinates." He suggested.

"Why the third to last?" I asked.

"Well, they went off to a mine and back and then ours would be next on the list." He said.

I felt rather stupid for not noticing that.

"Hold on..." Unicron paused, "This is not the writing I taught you, what language if this?"

"Human?" I mean, all this equipment was provided by them.

"Then scrap this and move onto the death traps." Unicron yammered.

I looked at the writing and agreed, I can't learn a whole language in one night. "I don't know about the death traps though."

"Why not?"

"I don't want to end up in a cell." I told him as we walked around.

"Eh- Stop!" He shouted, I rolled my optics and stopped. "Look over there, a grenade!" He said as if he found an illegal stash of credits.

I kept walking.

"Hey! You can tamper with it to make explosions weaker!" Unicron cried out.

I stopped and noticed some paint, I looked back at the grenade and formed a plan.

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I had taken both the grenade and paint and placed then in front of Ratchet's berthroom. I placed Unicron's crystal to the side so he could see.

"Now how do you power it down?" I asked quietly.

"Just put it in the oversized paint bucket, that would dampen the explosion enough." He said, he was somewhat onboard with this. Annoyed that it wasn't life threatening but happy that I was going to piss of Ratchet

I tied some string onto the safety pin and across the other side of the berth doorway. So Ratchet would trip the wire, pull out the pin and the paint will explode everywhere!

I secured the paint bucket so it would not tip over and carefully put the grenade in.

"And the trap is set!" Unicron yelled out in celebration, enjoying the liberty of yelling while I had to be quiet.

I grabbed Unicron's crystal and put him in my chassis. I snuck back to the main room and sat down.

"You might want to sleep up on the ceiling." Unicron told me.

"Why?" I asked.

"Ratchet might catch you." I found that reason enough so I transformed and flew up. I clamped down hard, my claws were basically stuck so I would not fall.

Occasionally, Unicron giggled, most likely imagining Ratchet's new paint job. I found it rather hard to fall into recharge, what if the grenade damages him?

He can fix himself.

Eventually Unicron shut up so I could finally go into recharge.

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I woke up to a loud bang, it must have woken everyone up. A good alarm clock I guess.

However, Ratchet's furious yells made the explosion seem small.