Chapter 5
The next morning at the hospital Arcee was visiting Starscream who was still in a coma.
"I'm sorry I wasn't there to stop Poison Fang from taking Knock Out." Arcee told the seeker worried about the red medic and blaming herself for not being there to help him against the spider.
"Don't be so hard on yourself it's just as much my fault because I convinced him to go home to get some rest and didn't think to ask anyone to go with him." Blackarachnia said to her feeling just as responsible.
"It's no one's fault well except Poison Fang's for putting us all through this whole mess but we've all been under stress and not really thinking things through." Steve the Vehicon told the two femmes wanting to comfort them.
"Thanks but I should have known Poison Fang was as dangerous as Airachnid was after I banished her she snuck back and killed my boyfriend Silverbolt but I never went after revenge because as he died Silverbolt made me promise not to try to avenge him but to live my life." Blackarachnia explained.
"Is that why you tried to talk me out of getting revenge when I thought Starscream killed Knock Out?" Asked Arcee.
"Yeah I just figured that he would feel the same way as Silverbolt." The spider femme replied.
"That's probably true, I wouldn't have been able to keep that promise though I tried to avenge both Tailgate and Cliffjumper and then Knock Out." Arcee got quiet after she said the red medic's name.
"I'm sure we'll be able to find and save him Knock Out is a lot stronger then he looks, he's Starscream's brother after all." Blackarachnia tried to reassure her.
"I'm starting to think I'm cursed it's like everyone I care about ends up being harmed." Arcee said hanging her head.
"Maybe we both are." Blackarachnia spoke looking at Starscream who was laying in the hospital bed.
"Wow this is depressing." Sideswipe said from the doorway as he happened to be walking by and overheard the conversation, Only for Strongarm who had also been walking by to slap him telling him to shut up.
And the two started arguing like an old married couple and only stopped when one of the Vehicons pointed it out and asked how long they'd been together embarrassing them both and they took off in opposite directions and would have been blushing if they were human.
Then Bumblebee who showed up just in time to see what happened just smiled and shook his head like, "Teenagers what are you gonna do?" Before walking off to talk to Optimus about something.
Seeing that gave both Arcee and Blackarachnia a much needed laugh.
Just then they heard shouts coming from down the hallway and ran to see what was going on and saw a tape had been webbed to the wall in the waiting room.
"Poison Fang!" They both shouted at once knowing who had put the tape there.
"How did he even get in to put it there?" Asked Ratchet who had rushed over to see what the commotion was about.
Then they all decided to watch the tape to see what it was so Ratchet lead them to a TV that was in his office and played the tape.
And they were all horrified to see the footage of Poison Fang torturing Knock Out and asking for Arcee to come while KO was begging her not too.
"NO!" Arcee cried out when she saw Poison Fang strike the red medic and render him unconscious before the tape ended.
"I have to go." She said.
"No Arcee your not going to Poison Fang." Ratchet told her.
"I have to save Knock Out!" She replied in a ferm tone. "I don't care if he doesn't want me to come for him, I'm not going to let monster end up killing him!"
"Arcee he'll kill Knock Out if you do go there." Bumblebee pointed out. "He knows you were the one who killed Airachnid and he's just doing this to get at you because he knows you care about Knock Out so he's using him to get at you because he knows killing him in front of you would be the best way to hurt you."
"So we just leave him there with that psycho?!" Arcee nearly sobbed.
"Arcee I understand that you are concerned about Knock Out's well-being and we will find a way to save him but we cannot allow you to put yourself at risk." Optimus Prime told her.
"We're all worried about Knock Out too but we have to approach this situation delicately because we don't want him harming Knock Out and we don't want him harming you either KO would never forgive us if we let you get yourself killed trying to save him." Smokescreen chimed in.
Just then they heard a beep.
"The antidote is ready." Ratchet announced thankful to be able to change the subject then they all followed him and watched as he gave the first dose of the antidote to Starscream and then another one to Megatron.
And everyone waited anxiously hoping it would work then they saw Megatron open his optics coming back online.
"What happened why can't I see?" Asked the former gladiator.
"We just gave you the antidote for Poison Fang's cyber venom and it works but unfortunately you optics were badly damaged and we don't know if they will heal or not." Ratchet explained and could tell Megatron wasn't taking it well.
"What about Starscream I told you to use the antidote on him first not me?!" Megatron half asked half scolded.
"We did but he isn't responding to it." Ratchet answered sadly knowing the seeker should have woken up first.
"No NOO!!!" Megatron practically roared as he brought his fist down on a table that he didn't notice since he didn't have his sight and sent some medical tools flying and forcing some vehicons to dodge them.
"I needed that." Ratchet complained.
"Sorry." Megatron apologized and everyone felt bad for him seeing that he was taking the fact that Starscream wasn't responding to the antidote and might spend the rest of his life in a coma worse then the loss of his sight showing just how far Megatron had come since when he used to abuse the seeker in the past.
"There must be something we can do for him?" Megatron said in an almost pleading tone that no one was used to hearing from him.
"I'm afraid we've done everything we can." Ratchet told him wiping away his own coolant tears knowing Starscream was going to spend the rest of his life in a coma, hooked to machines on a medical berth.
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Later Arcee took a stasis nap after the other had convinced her to go home and rest knowing she was wearing herself out worrying about Knock Out.
And not wanting to make the same mistake of leaving her alone where she could be attacked they sent a couple of the vehicons with her.
While she was recharging Arcee had a nightmare about when Airachnid had killed Tailgate in front of her, Only Tailgate suddenly changed into Knock Out.
"Run!" The red medic screams to her with a terrified look in his optic as he looked her in the optics right before Airachnid delivered the killing blow and Arcee was forced to watch the light fade from his optics as his body went gun metal gray.
Then Airachnid suddenly turned into Poison Fang.
"You couldn't save him or any of your partners you really are cursed." Poison Fang hissed at her then started to strike right as she woke up.
Arcee looked around the room and saw the two vehicons had also gone into recharge so she decided to take the opportunity to sneak off to try to found out where Poison Fang was since the others had made a point to hide the cornets that had been sent with the tape from her knowing she might go after Poison Fang to save Knock Out.
So Arcee went out the door careful not to wake up the two vehicons as she took off into the night hoping she could figure out where Poison Fang was keeping Knock Out so she could find and rescue him, And that it wasn't already too late.
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Meanwhile at the hospital Megatron was really worried about Starscream and annoyed at the loss of his sight he kept chasing away anyone who tried to help him.
Optimus Prime saw this and felt bad for the former Decepticon leader he knew Megatron wasn't used to having to rely on others for help and the former gladiator was angry at his situation not wanting to appear weak or helpless.
"Megatron do not push away help when you need it." Optimus told him when he saw that he had fallen to the floor and kept yelling at anyone who tried to help him up.
"I can handle this myself." Megatron said turning his head to look at the prime.
"Why is he talking to a wheelchair?" He heard some random bot who passed by comment, Then growled and punched the floor in frustration.
"Ok maybe I could use some help." Megatron replied in defeat. "I should probably apologize to all the bots I yelled at who were just trying to help me."
Then Optimus helped Megatron walk to the waiting room where everyone was gathered.
"I need to apologize to all of you, You were all trying to help me and I yelled at you and kept pushing all of you away, I'm just not used to having to depend on others and have always viewed needing help as a sign of weakness I'll try to get better about accepting help and appreciating others and not letting my pride rule me." Megatron apologized to everyone. "I hope all of you can forgive me."
"It's ok we understand this is really hard for you." Bumblebee told him. "After all you've always been one of the most independent bots I know, And one of the most stubborn." But Bumblebee didn't say the last part out loud.
"Why did he just give a heartfelt apology to a wall?" Asked a random vehicon who noticed Megatron who couldn't see where anyone was had been looking at a wall thinking he was looking at the others.
Then Optimus help him to his room.
To Be Continued.
Hope this chapter turned out ok, I gave you two of them today, This one was a bit more shaky and hard to come up with but hope it turned out ok, I just really wanted to get Arcee's nightmare in there before I lost it, I'll try to get the next chapter up soon, feel free to send feedback.
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