《(Old) The Time of Night is Midnight》Chapter 37
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What's happening to me? Why does being in this realm hurt as if I was in the real world? Another huge wave erupted from my wing where the bullet of Red Beryl had pierced through and I couldn't contain the roar of agony leave my mouth while tears pour down my face. This is the worst pain in my entire existence ever to felt and it was almost too much for me to handle.
Wait, the pain was too much for me to handle because right as I make it the Med. Bay (Ratchet couldn't be seen), darkness filled my vision and took me here; back to the realm of the Cybertron gods who need to step off their high horse once in a while.
The orbs next to me caught my attention as they glowed brighter than ever before and gave off pulses of possessiveness. I finally realize their strings are wrapped around me in a failed attempt of a shield and squeezing me tightly to make sure they made their presences is known to me.
My wings unfurl from their position on my back and pushed away from the two weirdly acting orbs next to me. What in the hell is going on? Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are acting way out of order, especially now. More strings unravel from the orbs and cling to my wings pushing them away from me. Sighing through my nose with annoyance and pressing my lips together in a thin line, I shake my head with frustration running in my veins.
Out of the corner of my eye, I spot the familiar shapes of the two not really wanted to be seen by me. My eyes set in a hard glare towards the two of them. "What are do- ach!" I was rudely interrupted by one of twin's string touching the area where the wound is. I turn my eyes to Sideswipe, he was the one who touched it, to yell at him but gasped at the sight of the infected area on my left wing.
Retracting my right wing so my hands could touch it and assess the damage, my finger ghost over what seemed to be melting infected part of my wing. The hole was about the size of a peach and the edges around it are black as if was burned; that's nearly impossible as my scales can handle lava, only for a small amount of time though.
Another string of yellow this time gently touched the wound, being as careful as possible to it. When he graced over it with the string, it stung like a bee and I pulled the wing out of his reach. "Stop it. Touching it hurts," I command to the yellow string making another round to prod at it again. It stops in its tracks and retracted back to its master, all of them did go back to their respectful master and left me with the thick cable connected to them.
Except at the next second, Sideswipes orb dimmed out of nowhere, like as if he was knocked out suddenly. His brother followed soon after, doing the same thing Sides did and dimmed in his color and stilling completely. I didn't know whether to be worried or just leave them there to have a peaceful sleep.
Returning my gaze to the large Cybertronians in front of me, I raised an eyebrow to express some of my confusion on why they are here. "What I was going to say before I was rudely interrupt-," I begin again but once more, no one these days have manners.
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The twin's forms in the real world in case their orbs AKA souls and without chins to hold them back like the last time they appeared, went after the Cybertronians in front of me. I'm surrounded by idiots in this God forsaken world of ours. I facepalm myself before using the cables to pull them back, away from getting themselves chained up by Unicron and Primus.
A glare is set on the two idiots that I'm bonded with. "Would you guys stop it! I'm trying to have a nice conversation with your guy's gods and attacking them is not an idea in the first place. They are much stronger then you and can send you to Jupiter if they really want to," I hissed lowly but loud enough for them to hear.
Sideswipe rubbed the back of his helm with a hint of shame appearing underneath his smile. "Sorry Night but in the first place, where in the pit are we? And the last we had just seen you, you were dying from a wound on your wing! And now you're here, wherever that is, well and fine except the hole in your wing... There's a hole in your wing!" He finally realizes the ever-growing hole in my wing.
Rolling my eyes and flipping him the bird (it's kind of hard with the webbing between my claws), I change my gaze back to the gods in front of me. "Sorry about them, they don't have any manners," I apologized and received a 'hey' from the both of them, "What are you guys doing here and why did I get brought back here?"
Primus answered this one. "." I dip my head to acknowledge his words and silently tell him my thanks.
"Thank you, I appreciate it. The flashbacks of my past aren't the greatest for anyone, including me and I rather not have to live through them again and again, over and over, each time I close my eyes to rest. Anyway, just know I appreciate it," I thank them with words this time. I'd rather be in this realm, talking with bots who are kind ish, than going back into my past of evilness and darkness.
Both of the gods nod their helms before glancing around our surroundings as multiple flashes of bright white begun. "," Primus spoke with his voice firm.
Saluting with two of my fingers to them and glancing at the twins with a smile on my face, I allow the light to consume me and bring back to the real world. That was a mistake though as an agonizing scream released from my mouth and my body struggled against the bindings holding me down on a bed. The energy in my body was almost depleted from it trying to heal a wound it would never be able to heal.
"Midnight! Stop fighting and calm down. Frag! Optimus, Ironhide help me hold her down. I can't give her any anesthesia because I don't know how much to give to her and I don't have any of it in the gas form," Ratchet shouts at Optimus and Ironhide to explain his reasoning.
Two sets of strong, human arms hold me down, one dealing with my upper body while the other deals with my lower half. I continued to struggle against the humans attempting to keep me still against Ratchets order for me to stop fighting. While doing the opposite of Ratchets command, another pained scream escaped my mouth while Doc Bot (he's using his holoform) cuts out a part of the membrane of my wing.
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It wasn't long until he finished with the surgery and I was left on the bed with tears down my face from the pain coming from it. I refused for any pain relievers (I hate drugs, even if it would take away my pain. I would rather suffer then use drugs) and laid there on the bed looking at the hole in my wing. It wasn't as big as my mind thought, only the size of a basketball and won't take too much time to heal. Always with my wings and tail, they for some reason heal faster than the rest of my body.
While lying there, I was thinking over a wonderful plan to destroy the ones who shattered my life and took everything away from me, including my innocent brother. Rising up into a sitting position to scan my surroundings to make sure Ratchet isn't here, I jump off and take off into the air with a slight drag to my right wing.
Ignoring the weirdness in my right wing of it dragging, I head in the direction of Optimus's office. It didn't take more than a minute to reach the place I wanted to be at and I entered through the open hangar door where I was met by Ratchet and Optimus speaking to each other.
Ratchet spots me out of the corner of his optic and his metal brows furrow in my direction. "Why are you flying? Your wing isn't even close to being healed. And in the first place, what are you doing out of bed? You're on bed rest until your wing heals. Go back to the Med. Bay, now," Ratchet orders and turns his frame towards me.
"I can't, I need to talk to Optimus, alone. There are important matters to take care of and if my calculations are correct, we don't have time to mess around and argue. Jasper is very close to leaving their base and know exactly where this base is, they will destroy us," I hiss to the best of my abilities as my throat is a bit dry from the lack of water. Optimus gladly listens to me and forces his friend to leave us alone.
"Now since we are alone, I can begin. Jasper is very close to finishing a weapon to hurt us, badly. And we don't have enough men to be even close to one to one with them, we are outnumbered, terribly. But I do have a plan you might not agree with: bring my father's team here to aid us in this hopefully final battle to end both wars against each other," I offered. My request is very farfetched, even if it has a chance to have a thumbs up by Optimus.
Boss Bot thought about for a few moments before nodding his helm. "Fine, as it seems to be our only chance of survival. Bring your sire's team here and we'll discuss it than about how this is going to work," Optimus gave me the thumbs up in words and with that; I leave to bring my father to the Autobots base. He'll do everything in his power and beyond that to keep me safe.
Flying back down to Hines, Oregon was going to take more time than it did last with the condition of my right wing. It continued to drag me down to the right from the lack of the entire flap of a normal wing should do. This was going to be a long flight, especially with night making its appearance.
The flight to Zayden's compound was longer like predicted and was losing my precious time to get them back to the Autobots base. My clawed feet landed on the dusty ground of the hidden compound and glanced at the many humans looking like this is normal while the small population is freaking the hell out with their high powered guns pointed at me.
Not missing a beat, I step forward to the closest human to me. "I don't have time for any bullshit, take me to Zayden, now," I ordered and my eyes nearly glowing red to show my dominance. The poor human was scared shitless at my sudden appearance and almost fainted before leading me inside the house and up the right side stairs, taking me towards the underground base.
Soldiers moved around the top story of the compound as the human hopefully leads to where Zayden is. An overwhelming odor of many humans took over my nose and created a headache to grow. Other soldiers gave us weird looks and the eight of the fifty humans that passed us, I know them from before.
He took me to a place I recognized as his office and knocked on it to make sure he isn't being disrespectful by barging in. He receives a word of acknowledgment and is allowed to enter his office, which he gladly does. I'm face to face with my father this time and his expression from slightly annoyed changed to shock with a hint of happiness.
Zayden rushes over to me like a child getting what he always wanted and wraps his arms tightly around me. I returned the gesture quickly before pushing him gently away from me with a serious expression on my face. "There's no time for a happy welcome home party Father, lives are at stake and we need to get going before Jasper strikes. The Autobots, my friends, are in trouble and are in need of your help. I can't face Jasper on my own and will need your help," I begged with my eyes giving him the infamous dragon eyes.
He nodded his without saying anything to me and turned his gaze to look at the soldier who brought me down here. "Sound the alarm, we are leaving," Zayden ordered before grabbing my wrist and leading me to where the vehicles are. There's enough here to have everyone be able to sit in one, there's also planes and helicopters which they didn't use.
We both hopped in the back of a vehicle slightly like Breakdown with two others in the front that are going to drive us. "Take us to Colville, Washington and I will direct you to where the base is," I ordered firmly to the driver of the vehicle. He gave me an 'okay' before starting up it up and driving out of the underground compound. It was slightly impressing on how everyone reached the vehicles and got in them quickly.
The ride was quiet and quick, much to my liking and once we reached the small town of Colville, I took over. I hopped out of the back and soared into the, making to get out of sight of my father's eye so he didn't see the basketball sized hole in my right wing. Maybe it worked or maybe it didn't because he knows how serious this is at the tone of my voice and will probably speak about it once we get to the Autobot base if he did see it.
My wings took me above the speeding vehicles and kept me a little bit in front of them so they could see me and continue to follow me. We reached where the old road is and slowed down to stop in the air, I didn't know where or not Optimus alerted the guards about me bringing Aztec to the base.
Landing on the frozen over asphalt and strolling over to the leader of the long line of vehicles, I wait for him to open the door to which he gladly did. "Wait here, I need to tell the guards that you're with me," I commanded and didn't wait for an answer back as my wings took me back into the air. I soared as quickly and safely over to the first guard.
She listens to me and gives the second guard a heads up for me, giving me extra time not to waste. I flew back to where they were sitting and waved for them to follow me once.
With them following me into the base, it alerted others that were just beginning to wake up from their sleep. Optimus got word of our arrival and made his way from the back of the base to us and waited for my father to exit the vehicle.
Zayden leaves the back of it and strolls up to the leader of the Autobots like he owned the place; he does this when he wants to show off his dominance, that's where I learned it from. "I got word you are in need of our help," he started out.
"Yes, we do." Optimus nodded his helm to confirm and continued afterward, "Your rival has joined forces with ours and are building weapons to destroy us. We are way outnumbered, both by bot and human. With an alliance between us, we have an equal chance at defeating both or rivals at the same time. I believe it's called 'killing two birds with one stone'." Damn, he is good with his words.
"Great choice of words, sir. But know, I will only be doing this for my daughter. She seems to care for you guys and her friends are mine," Zayden returned, his voice holding an underlining threat that only my ears could hear, he is my father after all.
With that, Zayden leaves with Optimus to speak with him more in his office most likely with Mister Hissy Bossy human and Baldy Brownie. That leaves me with about a thousand soldiers to order around, great this is going to be fun. Note the sarcasm.
They listened to my orders and I lead them to a couple extra hangars that are empty. They parked their vehicles inside one of the extra hangars and used the other two their advantage. Everyone has their own blanket, not given by me; they took them out of nowhere to help themselves in the freezing cold weather.
Deciding to be nice to these humans that unable to provide heat for themselves, I head out into the forest to find trees small enough for me to lug back and set on fire. It would be difficult with the hole in my wing but a challenge is what I love to go against.
Snow covered a lot of the ground, making it hard for me to find any fallen smaller trees while the larger ones could be seen from my position in the air. But my searching didn't leave me empty-handed; my eyes spot a logging area with piles of trees ranging from small to huge.
There weren't as many humans as there would be in the warmer seasons, giving me a lesser chance to be seen by anyone. Diving down to the area where more of the smaller trees are and barely any humans, I lack my talons into the trunk of the tree and flapped my powerful wings to lift up the log. It works the log easily came with me, even with the hole in my wing, and allowed me to take it back to the base.
The Aztec humans were confused about what I was doing by bringing these logs (I went back a few more times to acquire more logs) to them. After bringing enough logs to them (actually, I was tired from carrying the heavy logs), I requested anyone with a lighter to bring it to me. Someone here must be a smoker and carry a lighter on them.
One stepped forward and gave me the lighter with a slight hesitation to his actions; I didn't care though and snatched it out of her hands. With one flick of the lighter, a bright flame came from it and I stole it away from the lighter. Lighting up a huge bomb fire was the fun part of this and watching ohh's and awe's coming from the humans around me.
The other bomb fire in the other hangar was lit and both hangars were producing enough heat for the humans not to freeze, even with the sun already raised. Max, Mia, and Jacob confronted me after I finished with making sure the humans are fine in where they are.
My friends and I hung out for a while until the pulling from the Twins (they are waiting for me to come to the brig, that's where they were put after they went crazy after seeing me hurt, and talk to them or let them out) got too much and I had to excuse myself from them.
Leaving to go see them in the brig, I arrive at where they want me to be and hang with them for a while so they would stop nagging at me.
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