Hidden Spark on Earth (TFP)

Chapter 59

Saphira nodded and kept walking into the hallway to get to her room. She was glad that Bee was in very good hands. She had every confidence that Ratchet could cure whatever is ailing Bee. She stayed in her room a little longer than intended. She had decided to take a shower to freshen up and cook an omelette with some of the radishes and parsley she had harvested the day before. She smiled as she thought about Ratchet's reaction to seeing the radishes.

Ratchet was indeed thrilled to see the harvest. She had a close look at each radish in pure delight, before grumbling about how he missed out watching the harvest. Saphira promised Ratchet that she would let him know when the next harvest would come around. Optimus took interest in it as well, and he congratulated Saphira on her first harvest. She knew these will be many more to come soon as more plants continue to grow.

Saphira was happy that she could involve the autobots in with her food growing. Saphira finished eating her omelette and made her way back to the med bay. She didn't see anyone in the lobby, so she assumed everyone was in the med bay. And she was right. She saw Bulkhead standing behind Optimus, Arcee and Ratchet, Raf was standing at the foot of the cylinder, looking up at Bee with worry. Bee was looking back at him, he seemed happier to see the boy, which was nice to see.

Saphira made her way up to the first-floor platform and walked over to a railing to lean on. She overheard questions being asked to Ratchet and Bumblebee falling into recharge in the medical cylinder. "Bumblebee's complaining of intermittent visions, waking nightmares if you will," Ratchet said, answering questions that were being asked of him.

Raf turned away from Bee, looking up at Ratchet with a worried expression. "But you said Bee was fine when you checked him over."

"Physically," Ratchet responded with a shrug of uncertainty. "But the experience he endured seems to be having a temporary effect on his psyche. This induced power down should force Bumblebee's mind to rest and recover."

"It still doesn't explain his unusual behaviour," Saphira said softly, Optimus turned to look at her as he had not realized she was in the room again. "But...hopefully the power down sorts that out too."

"I too hope that will happen," Ratchet responded with a smile, looking at Bee with a concerned expression. "For the time being, we can only hope that it is indeed temporary. I am unsure what more I can do if this does not go away."

Saphira shuddered a little at the very thought, she knew Bee didn't deserve this and she hoped he could indeed recover. She opened her mouth to speak some more when they all heard a com alert. She looked back in surprise and Optimus turned to head to the lobby to see who was trying hail them. She followed quickly with the others as they were curious who was reaching out to them. She hoped it wasn't something serious, but she has learned quickly, that it could go either way.

When they reach the lobby, Optimus opened the com link to see it was William Fowler calling them. Saphira rolled her eyes, hoping this wasn't another operation requiring autobots to help and they get ambushed by Mech. "Prime! You spot any decepticons wearing hula skirts lately?"

Optimus seemed a little surprised by the question, and not aware of what a hula skirt was. Saphira couldn't help but smirk a little at the visual description that Fowler just gave. "No, Special Agent Fowler, why?"

"Because I was hoping you had a lead on the cons that busted into the Kauai naval observatory," Fowler explained. "Place looked like it was hit by an army of wrecking balls!"

Arcee frowned curiously as she listened to Fowler. "Why would cons break in an observatory?"

"Does the Hoyt Negozian ring any bells?" Fowler questioned curiously.