Mysteries of a Prime

Sick mind/Memories

Something about this virus felt scarily familiar. "Cybonic plague was engineered in the Deception's biological warfare program... by Megatron himself..." Ratchet continued, breaking me out of my thoughts. "You... Have a cure... Don't you?" Rafael asked, "No... Cure..." Optimus spoke for the first time coming back to base, "Optimus, please, save your strength." Ratchet pleaded.

"Would Megatron create a disease without having a cure? I mean if he caught it by accident." Jack debated, "It's not like we can ask Megatron, Jack, he's pushing up lug nuts." Bulkhead reminded Jack, "But we might be able to access the Decepticon database, for the moment, we have a fix on their warship's location." Ratchet inquired.

"Bumblebee, come with." Arcee ordered and walked to the groundbridge. "Arcee, quickly." Ratchet asked, looking to Optimus. After the two left I burst into a coughing fit as I was forced to a kneel, "Aerialace!" Ratchet panicked and sped to my side. He held me up. I was still in a coughing fit but once it died down he could hear the trouble I had breathing, he was slightly confused but bripushed it aside. "Were you also..." Ratchet trailed off, I knew what he was saying so I weakly nodded.

He immediately brought me to the berth next to Optimus, connecting me to some monitors before opening a link to Arcee and Bumblebee, "::I'm in the network.::" Arcee informed. "Ratchet... were... you..." Optimus trailed off, "Infected? No." Ratchet answered him. Optimus then set his sights on me, where I was weakly breathing. "Do not worry yourself about me, sir." I rasped out. He slightly nodded and fell asleep.

"::If it's here I don't see it.::" Arcee worried, "Are you certain, Arcee?" Ratchet asked, "::I searched every file, nothing.::" Arcee reported, "Well, search again. Clearly you missed something." Ratchet ordered, "::I scanned the entire database.::" Arcee informed, "Did you use a redundant quantum algorithm?" Ratched reminded, "::Don't tell me how to research. You think you're the only one worried about Optimus and Ace?::" Arcee warned.

At this point I fell into an uneasy recharge. When I woke up I was in the plain, I saw two giant figures fighting. One was the predacon, the other I didn't know what it was. I felt some sort of primal fear, but without my ADU activating. I did the only thing my instincts told me and ran. I continued running, the sound of the two figures battling getting fainter. After what seemed like an eternity running the scene started to change, the sound of cheers filling my audios.

(Flashback)

"The winner of this battle is the Champion of Temenos!" The commentator announced. I was in the middle of a gladiator ring and just won the battle, this one was much more difficult than usual. Just as I caught my breath I felt a dart enter my neck cables and I was knocked out, darkness consuming me.

(Back to reality)

I woke up the moment the darkness completely consumed me, it took me a moment but I recognised that I was at base, "We only have enough materials for one cure... Primus guide me..." Ratchet muttered, "O-Opt...imus...First." I rasped out, "Ace! Save your energy... the materials will be here soon." Ratchet begged, "Opti...mus" I ordered, "Ok..." Ratchet agreed. I checked my internal systems and saw that the plague was starting to overrun my matrix, which was trying desperately to keep it away from my fragile spark, and I was forced back into a painful recharge.

(Flashback again)

"Hey, you ok, Ace?" I heard one of the others ask. The claws around my pedde continuing to dig into the hyper sensitive mesh, "Urg... systems activating." I groaned before my system manager took control for a few seconds, "Thank the Allspark I thought you were gone, Aerialace." My friend said again.