Here's chapter 10, People!

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Chapter 10 -

Coby shook his head and looked tiredly at his watch.

"I still can't believe that I was that harsh…well, Lori, it's almost midnight. You should get to bed." Lori nodded, and left, pausing only at the door to say a quick, "Goodnight."

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Bud stirred awake, shaking his head almost violently when he realized where he was. His watch illuminated to show him the time.

Bud groaned. It was around 5 am in the morning. He got up, and then grabbed his hat.

He opened the grate, turned off the flashlight, and left the room.

Somewhat minutes later, he reached his sound-proofed room and slipped inside. After locking the door, he changed into his clothes for the next day, or which was today, and then fell back onto his bed. The alarm would wake him up when it was time to get up…

At 6:45 am, the alarm turned on, jerking Bud from his covers and making him almost fall out of bed to turn it off. Once he hit the snooze button, now standing in a white tank top and black pants in front of it, he sighed.

He could feel the energy rush out of him. He shook his head. He didn't remember the alarm being this loud…

It hit him. He widened his eyes and sat down on the bed. Someone had been in his room. Normally, not even Coby could get in, since his door was kept locked, and the lock was a password. Only he knew the password. Also, Bud had locked the door…Bud blew a few strands of hair out of his face, and turned on the bed to view his lock. He froze.

The lock on his door was destroyed completely. The door around it was fine, but the lock itself had been twisted and pulled away from the door and was hanging slightly. Bud walked up to it, and reached out to touch it. The metal shocked him, and he hissed as he pulled his hand away, nursing it as he gazed at the lock.

He studied it, and made another discovery, which made him immediately look around his room in every corner. There was nothing. Bud looked back at the lock.

It's broken from the inside…He noted, and entered a password on the side to open the door so that he wouldn't have to risk touching the handle. To his surprise, it was denied, and Bud tried again. It was denied. A message popped up on the password screen.

Nice try human.
Don't think that you have gotten away with what you took.
I'll be attacking soon.
Just try to get out.

Bud grimaced, and tried the handle. He was shocked again, harder this time, and the password screen changed to show a laughing cartoon Megatron. Bud gritted his teeth, and then grabbed the communicator from his desk, which was turned off.

Bud was sure that he hadn't turned it off, but tried to turn it on anyways. However, instead of the usual blue screen, it sent out a static-y noise that was turned to a certain frequency that, unknown to Bud, could be fatal to humans by it possibly damaging the body's main functions. It was like the certain frequency used for disabling robots, except that it was possible for humans too.

Bud dropped the communicator and placed his hands over his ears, biting his tongue to keep from yelling out in pain. He soon felt a coppery taste in his mouth as a result.

He moved around, blinded with pain, until he found a wall to lean against. He slid down to the ground, and reached for the communicator slowly with one hand. He almost grabbed it, but the smaller proximity between him and the noise seemed to intensify the pain, and Bud couldn't keep from yelling out once before his world turned black.

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Lori jumped out of bed from her room next to Coby's after hearing a loud yell. She ran out of her room in her nightgown and ran to Coby's room. Without knocking, she opened the door, only to run into Coby.

"Was that you Lori?" Coby asked her, wide awake as well. She shook her head.

"I thought it was you." With that, the two turned to Bud's room. Coby ran up to it with Lori following him.

"Bud?" he asked at the door. There was no answer. Coby tried the handle, and jerked back, holding his hand.

"What is it?" Lori asked, shaking slightly. Coby shook his head.

"The door shocked me. Also, the door is locked. Bud doesn't always lock it at night, but…" He trailed off, and then narrowed his eyes. "Wait, I hear something." He placed his ear against the door, and Lori stood there, quieted. They waited a few moments until Coby could make out the noise. He yelped and jumped back into Lori, causing her to jump back as well.

"What was that about?" She asked, louder this time, as Coby shook his head and held his ear.

"I don't know, but it hurt. Bad. My head…" He said, and walked backwards to the wall, and sat down against it. He bit his lip as the pain began to fade.

"I don't know what that was, but if Bud if hearing it too, then I know why he yelled." Coby's eyes then widened. "Bud! He's in there! If he's hearing that now, then he'll be in a lot of pain. We need to get one of the Autobots." Coby finished, and took out his communicator. He turned it on. He was faced with the usual screen.

"How about we try Bud before the Autobots. He could have fallen or something while trying to turn off whatever was making that noise." Lori suggested, and Coby nodded. He called Bud, and Bud's choice of ring tone that he used for it sounded on the other side of the room. It was distorted and broken. It continued to ring, and after 12 rings with no one picking up, Coby disconnected and called Jolt.

"Jolt?" A cheerful voice answered next.

"Why good morning Coby. You sound upset. What is it?" Coby looked at Lori.

"We need an Autobot or two by our rooms immediately. Something's wrong." He said, and disconnected the line. Lori raised an eyebrow, and Coby explained.

"That way he can't argue, and will hurry. I don't know what happened, but it was something. And it most likely wasn't an Autobot. Only Bud can enter his room." Lori shook her head.

"You're jumping to conclusions, Coby. It could have been an accident. Maybe it isn't, maybe it was. I am worried too, though, and anyways, Bud has to get out of there somehow." She looked warily at the door handle.

"And what conclusion are you jumping to?" A voice next to them asked. The two jumped.

"How did I not hear you come up?" Lori asked dryly, and looked up into the face of Red Alert.

"Jolt called me up for something. Jet Fire is also on his way here. Now, what seems to be the problem?" Coby rubbed his ear, while Lori pointed at the door.

"Bud's locked in his room." Lori said, straight to the point, and a voice behind her laughed lightly.

"Is that all?" Jet Fire said, walking up to the trio. Coby shook his head.

"I don't know. I called his communicator and he didn't even answer after around 10 rings. Also, he yelled earlier for some reason." He answered. Jet Fire frowned.

"Well, let's hope that he didn't bore himself to death." He said, and reached to touch the door.

"Wait!" Coby said, startling him. Jet Fire stood up straight.

"Now what?" Coby ran to his room, and grabbed his shoe. He walked back, and looked at Jet Fire.

"It's electrocuted or something." He said, and threw the shoe. It was shocked with visible electricity and fell to the ground. "Something inside of his room must've been broken. Maybe his lock." Jet Fire nodded, and took out his gun. He noted Coby's glare, and looked between him and the door.

"Don't worry. It's silent and I'm not going to let the door fall onto Bud. Anything else I should know?" Coby looked down for a moment, thinking, and then nodded.

"Possibly. I heard a static noise on the other side, but when I leaned in to hear it, it…hurt my ears really bad." Coby rubbed his ears, and Jet Fire nodded.

"Why don't you two wait in Lori's room?" The two knew better than to argue, and left. Only when they were in the safety of a room did the two Autobots nod.

Jet Fire pushed the gun near the door lock, and fired one shot, blowing out the section with the lock. It didn't destroy it, but it simply thrust that part of the door into the opposite wall. Jet Fire pushed the door open and accidentally stepped on the communicator, breaking it, and Red Alert called for Coby and Lori to come out.

Coby ran up to Jet Fire and looked into the room. Since he and Lori were the only one used to the dark, unlike the two Autobots who didn't have their night-vision thingamajig on, he saw Bud first.

"Bud!" He said, and ran to his brother, who was slumped against the wall, unconscious. Coby shook his shoulder, but he didn't respond except with a small, barely audible, groan of pain. Coby sighed, somewhat relieved that Bud was only unconscious, and looked around the room. He stood up and turned on the light.

The Autobots, (A/N: Yes, they can fit in there.) and Lori entered the room, and Lori set her sights on the communicator.

"Coby." She said, and picked it up, giving it to said person. He looked at it, and narrowed his eyes.

"It's been broken now, probably due to the door, but it's also been tampered with. The wires…" He stopped. "…This is odd. I don't know what happened, but Bud didn't do this. Even I couldn't have." He shook his head, and ripped a few silver wires out. He then turned to look around again. His eyes fell on the password screen, and he walked towards it, reading it, and then stepped back, his eyes widening.

Haha haha.
That was easier than I thought.
That will teach him...

Lori read it as well, and she called on Jet Fire and Red Alert to read it as she sat on the bed. Coby picked Bud up and Lori stood up again to help place him on the bed.

The Autobots looked up. "Decepticons?" Red Alert asked, and Jet Fire looked over at Bud.

"I don't know. They couldn't have gotten into the ship…Hey Coby; can you get that part of door that I blasted off?" Coby nodded and brought it over to the bed. Oddly, it was no longer shocking anything.

Everyone looked at it and noted how one side was fine, and the other mangled. Lori spoke up.

"The blast destroyed one side…then what was wrong?" She asked, and Coby shook his head.

"No…that wasn't it." Everyone looked to him, and he was glaring at the door lock. "It was mangled from the inside. Meaning that, whoever or whatever set this thing up did it from the inside." Everyone looked at Bud again. Coby shook his head once more. "It couldn't have been Bud. He wasn't in his room by time I went to bed." Everyone looked at him blankly. Coby continued.

"Whenever he isn't in bed by time I go to bed, since it is always after his bedtime that means that he fell asleep somewhere else. It's normally the study in my house, but he has a habit of that. Which means that he fell asleep somewhere else on the ship, and probably got here anytime from after midnight to the time he's supposed to wake up. I fell asleep at one, and never heard him open his door. Don't forget, my room isn't soundproof. And if Bud did come a few hours ago, then he probably wouldn't have even noticed the door handle." He finished, now looking at the door. "So; what do we do?"

Red Alert shook his head. "I have a room in a lower level of the ship where I can use it for the purposes of a hospital for Autobots or humans. I can place him there. It'll help me find out what's wrong. Also, that reminds me of something I had finished making before coming up here. I have a small invention…I'll tell you guys later. For now, I'll take Bud to the 'infirmary'." Red Alert suggested, and Coby let him pick up Bud and begin to leave.

As he started down the hall, Jet Fire turned to Coby and Lori. "You guys need to get your rest. If you can't sleep, then maybe you guys can help Red Alert in Lori's case, or try to find out what happened in Coby's case." He started down the hall towards the main room, and Coby followed him, while Lori waved to him goodbye and followed Red Alert.

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Hot Shot entered the Main Control room to see most of the others there. However, he was surprised to see Jet Fire there, since he usually woke up before him.

"Jet Fire? What are you doing up?" He asked, and Jet Fire turned with a grim face. Optimus and Vector Prime walked over as well.

"Yes; I am curious as well. You told me that you'd announce it when everyone got here except for Red Alert, and now you can." Optimus said, and Jet Fire nodded.

"Someone attacked last night." There were several confused glances and murmurs from the now-listening crowd.

"What do you mean?" Optimus asked. Jet Fire sighed.

"What I mean is that something – Coby is trying to find out what – happened last night, and we were attacked." He said simply, and a few Autobots noted that Jet Fire was trying not to say who. Vector decided against letting Jet Fire have his way.

"Who?" Jet Fire looked down.

"Pardon me?"

"I said: Who?" Jet Fire looked up.

"Red Alert took Bud to the infirmary. I doubt he's woken up yet." Jet Fire said, and the atmosphere in the room seemed to get smaller and smaller. Jet Fire stood up.

"I'd better check up on them. And Coby. He's probably made a diagnostic on the communicator. Someone rewired it." With that, he left, and the Minicons, who were also in the room, decided to follow him.

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Bud was placed on a bed with white sheets, which looked a lot like a hospital bed. Off to the side, Lori could see what seemed to be a full hospital kit.

"Red Alert, did you steal this from a hospital?" She asked about the supplies and the white lab coat/hospital nurse coat she was wearing, and got a surprising answer.

"Maybe."

The room was a small one, and as soon as you entered it, to the left you saw a large desk, which was probably used to help Red Alert know what to do. Next to it was a bed, facing from the head of the bed at the left, to the foot of the bed, which was facing the right. It was horizontally placed in the room.

Next to the bed there were various instruments and things, such as an IV, a defibrillator, a tray full of things to use, an oxygen mask and such, and more. Behind that was a wall, which extended to about a few feet in between the two ends of the room.

Behind that room was a small portal looking thing, which ended up being one of Red Alert's newly finished designs. It allowed him to take a holographic appearance of a human doctor. As a doctor, he had a white lab coat and round glasses, along with a bald head,

"Call me Ray." Red Alert had joked when she saw him. On the right side of the room was a huge glass window that acted as a mirror. It was placed from Lori's waist up until a few feet from the ceiling, and had a few feet of margin on the vertical sides of the room. It was obviously placed for the room next to this one, but only Red Alert knew what was in there.

Bud was placed on the bed, and 'Ray' got to work on trying to find out what had happened to Bud. He would ask for Lori to get him something every few minutes, but other than that, she was only able to watch Red Alert run diagnostics.

Red Alert soon grabbed a machine that might have been the IV, which was supposed to watch the heartbeat and/or brainwaves and hooked it up to Bud. He monitored Bud's vitals before looking to Lori with a smirk.

"I think I have it. He was attacked with a sound wave that was on a certain velocity." He frowned.

"The password screen was right. He should have been dead by the attack…Maybe the communicator was low on batteries when the attack hit…Well, that would explain his survival." He concluded. Lori stared at him with a raised eyebrow.

"So he isn't critical, isn't comatose, but the only reason that he's alive is because of dying batteries?" She asked, and Red Alert nodded. He then looked around, as if forgetting something, and then snapped his fingers.

"Of course! My newest and untested invention!" At this, Lori's eye twitched. Before she could say anything, Red Alert had found a watch-looking thing somewhere and placed it on Bud's wrist.

"Just what are you doing?" Came Lori's annoyed voice, and Red Alert smiled to her.

"Don't worry. I found a way to make a holographic Minicon that is actually real!" Lori simply stared at him. "It's programmed into this watch, yes, but it is made to 'combine' with its host." At Lori's scared look, he sighed.

"Okay, okay. It is made to act as a 'nurse' to the person who I choose it to guard. The color, personality and appearance of the Minicon will depend, on this occasion, on Bud. It will mainly record and be able to tell us his vitals at any time; it can tell what he is thinking; it can also materialize as a human form or as its usual Minicon form. This Minicon is a girl. So, pretty much, it becomes a part of his sub-consciousness. The best part, though, is that it can appear in real life, yes, but it can also feel real. You would be able to touch it, yes, and if it takes a hit for Bud, which it can, it would de-pixelate. However, it won't die unless Bud does." He finished off proudly.

"Shouldn't we have his opinion? Can we take it off? Can we separate them, and what will happen when they combine?" Lori asked, and Red Alert sighed.

"I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, and I don't know. However, it would help us all, since it, or she, would tell us what exactly is wrong with him." Lori crossed her arms.

"Before you activate it, let's ask Coby first." Red Alert nodded and took the watch off. "Wait, what's the watch for?"

"That is where the Minicon is right now. I can transfer her, but not now." He said and placed the watch in his pocket. "Why don't you call Coby now?" Lori nodded, and took out her transmitter.

She turned it on and then looked at Bud again. However, she was surprised to see him slightly stirring. She froze, and turned to the screen, where Coby was looking at her, waiting for her to say something.

"Coby, get over here. He's waking up."

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Dang that was long! It took me a while to type that…

Owwie my shoulder…[

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