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Fɪʀsᴛ Aɪᴅ [ IDW ] ([personal profile] lifepersists) wrote in [community profile] robothell2015-02-20 08:56 pm

insert one arm joke here

Who: First Aid and U
Where: Red Alert's clinic
When: Post-Pharma cutting off his arm
What: wow the medics are gimpier than the rest of you guys
Warnings: mild robot gore, a sad cinnamon bun



[ Closed to Ratchet ]

Leaving his arm behind was the last of First Aid's problems. His run in with Pharma left him a bit more damaged up mentally -- and physically -- than he'd care to admit to himself. At the very least, he hadn't lost a wheel, something he was grateful for as he speeds off. Parts of his altmode still dragged as he drove through the city, uneven from the loss of a limb, leaving a trail of sparks and energon puddles behind him.

He had nowhere to go except away from the clinic, no ability to comm someone else to locate him. Eventually, he stops, ducking into a half collapsed building, and weeps privately. Seeing Pharma again brought back the rush of emotions he felt after killing him, making him feel drained for more reasons than the loss of energon.

Well, he's a rightful pathetic scene.

First Aid vents raggedly as he reaches up and brushes his fingers over the shredded joint where his arm used to be. He hisses in pain, pinching at a few ragged lines and clamping them closed, before he starts the arduous task of welding broken parts together. It might make the reattachment harder in the long run, but he'd be bleeding less.

It's a few hours before First Aid returns to the clinic, faint and tired, dirty with grit and sticky with drying energon. Even longer he waits outside, making sure that Pharma had left the premises long enough for him to slip back inside. He's tired-- he really wants to sleep, but he knows well enough that it's pain and energon loss, so instead he drags himself into the main clinic, clutching his shoulder.

"Ratchet?" he asks, trying not to be too loud so he doesn't wake the other patients.

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[ OPEN ]

Having only one arm proved to be difficult in accomplishing anything useful. It was a significant blow to First Aid's self esteem, and sometimes he spent ages just staring down at his work, feeling helpless. He couldn't lift with ease, but he could clean as much as he's able with one hand and take care of basic maintenance tasks, such as changing fluids and updating charts. Nurse work. He felt so humiliated.

First Aid touches the stump where his arm used to be, rubbing it thoughtfully. Sometimes he thought he could feel it still. Not really uncommon-- it was a psychological phenomena. Sighing, he drops his hand and begins piling charts, looking over each carefully to make sure that he hadn't missed any details. They didn't have a sophisticated database here, so it was important to keep manual records at the very least.

He picks them up holding them delicately in his hand and attempting to balance them against his chest, but they just end up slipping out of his hand and clattering to the floor.

"Oh--" he makes a soft sound. "Slag."
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[personal profile] system_dp 2015-03-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
"This Unit is called Miria," she answers, briefly giving the hand on her shoulder a flat look as if somewhat confused by First Aid doing that.

"This Unit is made for combat, it sees no reason to state 'danger' as a valid reason for not retrieving the Cybertronian's limb." She's not lying, not that she'd be able to, even though she doesn't look like it Miria is a fighter.
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[personal profile] planate 2015-03-07 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe we can find the right shade of yellow and give it a crest!"

Naming it Ambulon, boy that would be funny if Ambulon actually showed up!!! The thought that it might be in memory of doesn't even cross Pipes' mind.
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[personal profile] asafepairofhands 2015-03-07 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ratchet reaches out to steady him with both hands, hot and cold all over all at once, feeling sick and almost numb.

"I'll see what I can do to find it," he says, struggling to focus on the problem at hand instead of the hard press of emotion welling in his chassis, uncomfortably akin to grief.
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[personal profile] phase6kindofbot 2015-03-08 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
The hand stroking along his jaw has Sixshot making a low noise of utter contentment. He could get used to this petting business. He really, really could.

The Sixer was borderline drowsing off when First Aid stops and it takes a few seconds more to register the words the smaller mech had spoken.

"Wouldn't Ratchet be angrier at me coming in?"

Ratchet hadn't seemed to happy when he'd asked about First Aid. He doesn't imagine the Autobot CMO taking Sixshot actually walking around in the clinic much better.
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[personal profile] gimmicky 2015-03-08 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
He's right, there. Trailcutter's face doesn't really soften in comfort at the touch, although it's certainly appreciated the way he leans in. Really, the fact that it was lost to Pharma...after everything that'd happened so far.

"So what you're saying is, the things Ratchet spouts are just nonsense and hot engex." Not...completely inaccurate sometimes...

But there's a pause when he hears that last part, standing up a little more from that hand.

"He's got your arm, then..."

He says it softly, plating hitching up like ruffled feathers. Trailcutter wasn't the proactive type, but needless to say he was certainly thinking what we're all thinking.
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[personal profile] rodders 2015-03-08 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"What-- I'm the captain, I make the clearances." Or whatever it's called. Had Megatron banned weapons? Probably not, he'll override it if he did. "And anyway, I'm here to give these to Drift."

Yeah, sorry, the missing arm is kind of important to Rodimus because it is just one more limb people keep ridding his crew of. And himself, but he seems to be in the minority that his actually could be reattached.

"Who did it? Tarn? The crazy Megatron with no nose?" Just lay it on him, First Aid.
Edited 2015-03-08 19:40 (UTC)
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[personal profile] phase6kindofbot 2015-03-09 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he hasn't hurt anyone here, but...

"I don't think anyone would want me beside their beds. Or anywhere near them for that matter." That would probably be extremely detrimental to the person's mental, and possibly physical health.

After a moment of quiet consideration however, Sixshot somewhat reluctantly moves to stand up. As he does so, he shifts his mass into subspace, shrinking down to a more door-friendly robot dog. He still stood shoulder to shoulder with First Aid, mind you.
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[personal profile] planate 2015-03-10 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, First Aid. When he figures it out he'll apologise.

"Sure..." He does so, carefully putting a hand on each side of the drone. "So, uh, how long have you been here? I don't remember seeing you in the crater."
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[personal profile] asafepairofhands 2015-03-10 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Ratchet watches as First Aid curls in, an awful sort of helpless swamping him almost entirely for a moment before he just reaches out, wrapping both arms around First Aid's shoulders and just letting him rattle against his own chest, heedless of whether or not First Aid is going to purge.

"I won't," he says, a hand running absent up and down First Aid's back. "I've got you. And I won't."
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[personal profile] rodders 2015-03-12 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
"You got it," he says, flashing a grin. And it's not like Drift's great sword isn't stashed somewhere in here either, but details. What he doesn't tell First Aid won't harm anyone.

But then Rodimus hears a name he didn't think he would ever hear again since Luna 1. His expression darkens, fingers curling around the hilts of the swords as he looks this way and that like Pharma was actually there.

"Alive? And here? With his head and everything?"
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[personal profile] rodders 2015-04-03 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, no, come back First Aid. He wasn't done talking to you! Rodimus reaches out to grab his shoulder, trying to turn the medic back around to face him.

"Wait, hey!" He says, trying to pull First Aid's attention on him again. "Does he still have your arm? Has anyone gone after him yet?"

He needs to know, First Aid, so he can deal with this problem.
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[personal profile] phase6kindofbot 2015-04-04 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Well." Sixshot pauses and turns First Aid's word over in his processors. He doesn't really have the social experience to really get it, but you didn't spend time around Black Shadow and not know when something odd was going on. "That is not- exactly how most people would, uh. See me?"

He slows to a stop as the medic picks something up, peering curiously around the room. Medical facilities were nothing new, but he's never really been in the supply area before.

"I can direct download," the six-former answers, attention back on First Aid. Turning slightly, he pops a panel open on his shoulder in offering.

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