Day 78-Unbreakable Friendships
As I entered the Grey Area, I met up with Solaris.
"Morning, Moondancer," said Solaris. "Are you ready to do this?"
"Yeah, let's see if this will work," I said. I'm just hoping that the Queen will agree on this arrangement. We then approached Chrysalis and told her about our partnership.
"Together?" she simply asked.
"Is that a problem?" Solaris asked.
"Yes. I mean, why would you want to do something such as that? We're already low in numbers, yet you want me to agree?" We nearly wanted to give up convincing her, but Discord came in, giving us a small spark of hope.
"Come on, why don't you just do it? If you put one and one together, you get two. Besides, we all have Keyblades."
"And if you pair us up," I suggested. "We'll do difficult missions for you."
"Very well, then," Queen Chrysalis simply said. After accepting one of our missions, we took a Corridor of Darkness straight to the desert where the Autobot base is at.
"Our orders are to investigate the base and its tenants this time, right?" asked Solaris.
"Right," I confirmed. "Discord and I observed more of the Autobots the last time we were here. We even saw a robot who transformed into a jet who lost that ability who is also frightened of them."
"How did you guys discover that?"
"Mainly after that robot who formerly transformed zipped by us." I wanted her to know how my knowledge was even possible. "We were wondering what that robot was doing when it passed by, and Discord recommended we follow him."
"And that led to encountering the Autobots... Good thinking on Discord's doing. So you ready?"
"Yeah, I can just teleport us into the base." Of course, I used my magic to teleport us straight into the base, where we saw the green Autobot, who was lying motionless, being zapped with defibrillators by a white Autobot, Ratchet as Optimus called him through his commlink.
"Bulkhead, respond!" said Ratchet as he was trying to zap the green Autobot, Bulkhead as he called him, back to life, to no avail.
"Bulkhead?" asked the girl. "What happened?"
"Tox-En exposure, among others. Bulkhead's suffered a complete system failure."
"Wait a minute, Tox-En?" asked the blue Autobot. Based off of her question, they must know that this Tox-En must be some horrible substance. After Ratchet checked the green Autobot's, Bulkhead as the girl and Ratchet called him, life readings, I saw he must be really worried right now.
"Help me get him the medical bay, now!" said Ratchet. Of course, the blue and yellow Autobots dragged Bulkhead straight toward the medical bay.
"NO!" shouted the girl desperately. "If I hadn't gone to Manhattan..."
"There's nothing you could do," assured the man. "Hardshell suckerpunched him while he was down."
"Who?"
"An Insecticon, not that important. What's important is that it's not your fault, alright." The girl just nodded her head as she watched Bulkhead being hooked up. We just saw what was happening until we looked at each other and just nodded our heads in agreement to continue with our mission, having already seen more of the Autobots. We then walked down a long hallway filled with doors.
"Do you think we should see what's behind those doors?" I asked. "There are windows on them. You can fly up and I'll levitate myself to accomplish this task."
"That's a good idea, Moondancer," said Solaris. "How did you come up with that?"
"It just came to me." What she didn't know was that the only reason that I came up with this is that I just saw a memory of the lavender unicorn falling down some stairs and before she hit the ground, she used her magic to stop herself, and I figured I would do the same to float up the windows. We looked inside the windows and saw all types of machinery and weapons, but the one that really stood out was a pod that contained a robot, which was immobile inside. We didn't understand why that happened, but we saw enough that it was time to call it a day and meet up with Discord on the clock tower. However, as we were about to leave we heard a scraping sound coming from the main room, as we took a look around, we saw another white Autobot dragging himself to his comrades, having been through some ordeal, alongside him, the girl who was concerned about Bulkhead.
"Are you alright?" asked the blue Autobot.
"She's fine," assured the white Autobot. "The kid's a pro."
"I wasn't talking to you."
"How is he?" asked the girl. The yellow Autobot buzzed something as he looked to the ground with a sad expression on his face.
"Bulkhead will survive," assured Ratchet. "Though he may never be fully functional again..." The girl looked so devastated that she ran to be with Bulkhead's resting body.
"I... don't think I should see Bulk right now," said the white Autobot. "Not in this condition." He then transformed into his car mode and drove out of the base and we just continued to see the girl looking at Bulkhead.
"I'll never leave you again," she said.
"I don't know what's up between them, but based off of her concerns for Bulkhead, they must be close friends," I assumed.
"You think?" asked Solaris.
"Well, we're friends with Discord, who's a draconequus, so who are we to doubt?"
"I suppose you're right." I knew she would strike out after I gave out my save. We summoned a Corridor of Darkness and walked through it, ready to meet with Discord again.
***
Megatron just stared at the body of Hardshell the Insecticons just brought to him, and he was thoroughly infuriated, not because he failed to kill Wheeljack, but because he lost his life as well.
"The Autobot did this!?" snapped Megatron.
"No, my liege," said an Insecticon. "It was a human girl."
***
We met up with Discord as soon as we got to Twilight Town. Upon getting our ice cream, we went to the clock tower and watch the sun set.
"Did the mission go alright?" asked Discord.
"Yeah, I think it's working..." Solaris' voice trailed off as a smile lit up on her face. "Thanks, Discord. You and Moondancer are the greatest."
"Well, you know..." It was Discord who trailed off this time. "So where did you go for your mission?"
"That place we went to..." I don't know what's up with us trailing off, but now they got me doing it as I can't remember the name of the world we went to. "What was that place called again..."
"Jasper, Nevada," Solaris reminded.
"That desert where the Autobots?" asked Discord, wanting to confirm. She nodded her head yes in response.
"We also ran into some interesting characters today."
"Like Bulkhead and that girl, as well as that white Autobot?" I asked. I wanted to make sure those were the characters she was talking about.
"That girl and that white Autobot looked really worried about their friend. But you can't really jump in and do something-- even if you really want to."
"Well, some people, even robots, need some space," said Discord.
"I suppose you're right," I said. I knew there was no way out of this debate, so I just agreed with him. "You know, that reminds me, what's it like to have a friend?" I saw him stumble off again, apparently remembering something from his past. Luckily, he pulled himself together and just stared out into the distance.
"I don't know. I don't have one." I knew he must have had a friend sometime before he joined us, but I just don't know it yet, so we just nibbled away at our bars and see the sun descend until it was time for us to RTC.