Ratchet ran with the scanner firmly grasped in his own hand as there was red signals flashing brightly on the radar. He knew he shouldn't be separating himself but it was better to handle the threat then to risk his friend's lives. He cursed to himself as he ended coming across a blocked door with his spark running high and his head pounding. He grabbed out a metallic shotgun made from alloys of iron as he pointed it to the door. There was no more light since he left the area, he felt light-headed and dizzy as he could hear a noise of a door banging near him but he turned seeing no door there and only a fallen picture which was broken had fallen to the floor as he picked it up. It was a drawing by a French artist called Ami Maria who was known for drawing expensive jewels as a full-time artist who works at a museum. There was a drawing of a purple jewel but at the edges, there was a yellow liquid that corroded the edges of the picture. That was the same yellow chemical that was seen corroding metallic bits and the smell of plant and soil could be felt from it. Ratchet sat up cocking his shotgun and pointed it at the broken camera as he shot it, the bullet breaking shards of the glass as they fell to the floor.
Ratchet looked upwards as he turned to see fallen leaves on the floor, getting upwards and going upwards through the curved corridor. He found a open window and jumped down, as he went inside of a small room where it was old and smelt musty and had this rust stench in the atmosphere. Ratchet looked downwards seeing a Cybertronain arm on the floor and picked it upwards, looking over it. There was a bunch of wires coming out of the arm and holding it gently, it felt hard and somehow soft at the same time and when he tipped it over, a bright yellow chemical fell on the floor leaving holes in the skin of the metallic arm as Ratchet dropped it down while his face was a grimace. He kicked it and it rolled over, making him look up to see multiple mangled Cybertronain bodies that were sprawled across the floor. Their optics rolled back, stab wounds with the bright glowing chemical wounds and one had their arm bent back to their back, making it uncomfortable to look at them. Ratchet went towards the odd computer on a desk which should not be in the vortex at all. He turned it on and it lit up as the computer went to the home screen as he pressed on the file folder which had a password lock to it. "Ugh, of course." He said and looked at the smaller desk around him and there was some things such as a flashlight, papers, magnifying glass, telescope and under the paper was a password which had 'JXIO-899-IOA' on it and he inserted it in the computer.
When he opened up the folder of files, each one had a different concept and name. Ratchet opened up one of the files, pressed on the document and was surprised by the information he had gotten:
By Starscream, September 13th 2017 - Document on Energon Generators access, 012.
I have finally have access to some of the energon generators. Although they are still a bit bloody with human parts in them. However, the more important part is someone finding these generators. They helped me a lot grinding the flowers and crystals up into powder of plant parts and crystal parts. But turns out making the 'sugar' didn't require crystals, I ended up reading the manual too quickly. No worries, I can use that for something else. But for now I got to move before someone finds the energon generator here, I got other plans to undermine the Autobots but some of them are smarter than I expected. I can't risk it like this, not after I decided to overthrow Megatron, he's probably still dead for sure. But with Soundwave and Shockwave being there, these two I hate especially Soundwave. If Soundwave knows what's going on, he would instantly try to find me at any cost. He doesn't fight much but he sure is dangerous behind the scenes.
Ratchet finished reading as his optics looked over the specific words such as 'Megatron' and 'energon generator'. Which made him realize that Starscream was doing more than he thought he did. He finally guessed that Starscream had something behind Megatron's whole disappearance and that whole corrupted energon generator mystery. He heard footsteps and quickly shut down the file before hiding under the table. He heard two familiar voices, Skywarp and Thundercracker as he clamped his hand around his mouth. "Huh, what's with those bodies having those yellow wounds. It reminds me of the incident on Cybertron where energon became too potent and ended up messing up the place." Skywarp stated with amused expression as Thundercracker replied with a displeased expression "That was on Cybertron. This smells something organic instead." Skywarp picked up a optic which was detached from its original owner and looked to be cut open revealing a dark grey squishy inside. Thundercracker looked over the computer in confusion as he asked "Shouldn't this technically not be working?" He wondered about the vortex as Skywarp said his guess "We did access from earth after all." Well that is true after all.
Soon Thundercracker noticed something and yelled "Skywarp, I think I see something!" Skywarp turned with a aggressive smirk, ready to fight for himself and his close one as he teleported to see what was outside. "Huh, Thunder, I think you should be coming to see this." And immediately the blue seeker began to follow him outside as Ratchet slowly got upwards sighing. Great so those two find their way inside? Who knows who else is going to come. Ratchet knew that if those two came inside then more Decepticons would come in. Maybe like Soundwave, Shockwave and even Megatron. He felt plasma sweat fall down his faceplate as he rubbed his faceplate and wiped it with his servo. He soon got out of the area and landed in the corridor, breathing heavily as he didn't remember being in a linear corridor before, it was curved wasn't it? The impossible geometry was making his own head ache as he heard noises of someone running towards him and pulled out his shotgun. Soon he heard something metallic far off and he saw something thrown at him as he felt a pain in the middle of his arm. He pulled it out seeing a dragger which had hit the soft parts of his armour. He dropped it on the floor as the dragger had bright green energon covering it.
He looked up hearing a loud uncomfortable noise of yell as he backed himself against the wall. He could feel his spark dropping, his hands shaking slightly as his fingers went towards his spark feeling it beat heart as the lights in this new corridor completely went out making it utter darkness as Ratchet turned seeing a light flicker for a moment before also going out. He heard something rushing again, this time much quicker and more frantic as Ratchet shot but it seemed to hit nothing and he said to himself "Damned Decepticon or whatever is trying to attack me." Before a convulsing figure appeared for a moment before Ratchet looked up and saw Starscream in front of him with a wide grin and slashed his sword at him, making everything go dark. Ratchet didn't know how to explain the feeling of when your spark starts to fall apart. It felt like it was getting blistered with punctured sharp points, the fuzzy feeling became stronger, more visceral with burning static going through his body with the feelings that his arms were skinned apart again and again. It really, really hurt. And he didn't want to imagine being killed.
"I never thought today was going to be the day when I feel fear of dying."