Log Title: Better Care Through Sedation
Characters: Arachnae , Starscream , Swindle
Location: Repair Bay - DHQ - Tarn
Date: October 4, 2020
TP: Non-TP
Summary: Arachnae repairs Starscream after his Manganese Mountain experience.
As logged by Arachnae
TFU2 - Sunday, October 04, 2020
Repair Bay - DHQ - Tarn[]
The repair bay in Tarn is a cold, uncomfortable place where one is encouraged to recover and leave as quickly as possible. However, its medical technology is among the most advanced on the planet, and the gleaming new facility provides the best chance for soldiers returning from battle to regain their life and strength. Unfortunately the fact that they'll be sent right back out to be damaged again almost immediately seems to make most medics callous to their patients' overall comfort and well-being outside of simple battle-readiness.
Starscream has arrived.
Shockwave has arrived.
Arachnae walks out of her lab, a kaff-mug in hand complete with a straw that feeds through her slightly tilted mask. She's headed towards the cabinet with the -good- polish.
Starscream
Starscream comes stomping into the medical bay, dented, burned, scorched, trailing energon, he is /not/ in a good mood, not at all, growling obscenities under his breath.
Arachnae looks up and over her mug, blinks once then sets it down. Rotors give a flex and she speaks, all business, "Have a table, Commander." Making a motion to an empty one as she cycles internal medscanners online, taking a look at Starscream all the while picking up a more 'common' scanner to do the same.
Starscream takes a seat, crossing his arms in a rather prideful position, not wishing to appear weak or demoralized by it all, instead, he chooses to look annoyed.
Arachnae makes much of looking at the hand-scanner's readout before she frowns behind her mask. "Have a lie down, Commander. This is going to take a bit." She paces over to a tool cart and starts to load on welders and mesh and plating and a few other things.
Starscream huffs out. "Fine." He states, doing so as commanded, though.. part of him squints, feeling unnecessarily vulnerable, as he recalls the faint memory of a certain medic having the ball-bearings to sedate him through his energon drip.
Arachnae raises a brow at Starscream and sets the scanner down. She flexes talons, picks up a welder and asks rather conversationally, "Local anesthetic or complete knock down, sir?"
Starscream hmphs in annoyance as he has to get out his datapad, damn she-kaiju. "Simpler to just dampen all pain sensors at this point." he'd grunts in annoyance.
Arachnae smiles behind her mask, setting the welder down. "Of course Commander. It does make repair work of this magnitude much easier if the patient isn't flailing about." She picks up an injector, sets a dosage, studies Starscream a moment and then.. carefully injects some numbing agent in and around a damaged section.
Meanwhile, talons on her other hand schnick, tiny needles poking out. And she goes for a full dampening of 'all' pain sensors via anesthetic injection.
Starscream yelps! Yep, /not/ what he was expecting exactly, he gives her a /glare/.
Arachnae smiles to herself, "Sleep well, Prince of Vos. You'll look and feel much better when you wake up." Nighty Night. And the Doctor goes about her work.
>> You begin repairs on Starscream. <<
>> Arachnae finishes the repairs on Starscream. <<
(Radio) Shockwave sends you a radio transmission, 'Nice touch, Hand.. unexpected but smart move.'
Arachnae's rotors give a flick and behind her mask, she smiles as she goes about welding and repairing the blissfully silent seeker on her medtable.
Not the first time a medics knocked Starscream out to have peace and quite in the medbay, now real question is, if she's gonna leave graffiti under his platting.
(Radio) You transmit, "Thank you sir. It is far more efficient to have a patient with this level of damage fully under. They tend to move about less." to Shockwave.
Arachnae is a Doctor! not a medic.. And thusly the Doctor goes about repairing the commander properly. Besides, he's been known in the past to deliver nasty payback and that's just not worth her time. Weld, weld.
(Radio) Shockwave sends you a radio transmission, 'Truth. Just be prepared for when he wakes.. his mind set makes that a unclear prediction on how he will react.'
(Radio) You transmit, "Well in medical the rules of engagement favor the medical team." to Shockwave.
Arachnae hmms, studying her scanner. Then makes much of hooking the erstwhile XO to an energon feed. with a sedative. Lots. Just tailored neatly.
(Radio) Shockwave sends you a radio transmission, 'If he causes trouble.. repay him in kind with a proper response.'
Dented frame, gashes, burns, scorching, a mace mark, energon loss, yep, typical seeker injuries... Least he's quite as he snoozes there soundly.. he's almost pleasant to be around.
(Radio) You transmit, "Of course, sir." to Shockwave.
Arachnae knows her way around a seeker frame. There's a high percentage chance she could handle these repairs blindfolded. But that would be unprofessional as well as probably fall into the category of 'an experiment' which is not allowed in medical. Still, she utilizes her talons as more than simple sleep-somnolent solution delivery devices, mostly she uses them as mini arc welders, channeling her own generated electricity and plasma outwards to perform exactingly fine weldwork.
Starscream is still out.. seems sedatives are pretty good at keeping the seeker down.. odd him being peaceful there, its almost alien. (then again he is one)
Arachnae is working on repairing one Starscream, whom she's sedated pretty heavily. Rotors rustling as she welds and replaces plating here and there.
Swindle may have been here the whole time, skulking around, checking up on inventory.
Starscream is just out cold, being repaired, he's quiet! Which is a boon, he's also rather rough looking from being in combat, dents, burns, scorching, missing armor, yep.. typical seeker damage, some of it having been repaired.
Well not as rough as he looked when he got in. But Arachnae is good at her work. Little zots of electricity from talons used as a tool along with a more traditional welder here and there. She hums to herself as she works, running scans through her visor.
Swindle hears the zots and looks in the direction of the sound. He spots Arachnae working on Starscream -- and just how beat to paint Starscream is and smirks. "...Does Vortex know you've got those?" he asks, moving closer to Arachnae and answering his own question. "Nahh, couldn't, otherwise you wouldn't be able to get rid of him."
Arachnae hmms, peering over, "Does he know I have.. what?" Tone curious as she pauses in her work. Another part plucked form a tray and she turns, carefully using her talons as neatly as any supplied surgical tool.
Swindle wiggles his fingers and makes zzt-zzt noises. "Y'know he's got a thing for pain, right?" he asks, looking at Starscream and smirking with an emotion whose name only exists in German. "Who swatted Screamer?"
Arachnae ohs, pausing to hold a hand up, flexing talons, letting electricity dance between them before going back to work, "Inflicting it as an interrogator, yes. We'd discussed pursuing a mutual project." She looks at Starscream, "There hasn't been a report. Some patrol in the Manganese mountains."
Starscream murmurs in his sedative induced rest, a datapad is on the floor with the beginnings of said report... Clearly he didn't expect to get knocked out.
Swindle whoas. "..uh, you're not giving those to 'Tex, are you?" he asks. "I mean...if you do, he's gonna be your devoted slave, more or less but...c'mon, ma'am, think of the rest of us!"
Arachnae blinks, puzzled tone as she focuses on some fine wirework, "Give Vortex my talons? I think not. No, we were going to work on pain limitations in modern autobots and concurrently adjust some of the interrogation methods. I did work on a great deal of the instrumentation used still today you see. I should insure that it is up to date. And he offered to help hunt down a lab subject or two to practice on." She shrugs, "These are medical tools, not toys." -zot-.
>> You begin repairs on Starscream. <<
>> Arachnae finishes the repairs on Starscream. <<
Swindle blinks, relaxing at the news that Vortex isn't going to get sparky-fingers. Then tenses when he hears that Vortex is looking for a test subject. "...you haven't seen me," he says. "I'm not here. I'm in Valvolux."
Arachnae peers at Swindle, but he can't see her smile, "We're going to go hunt down Autobots together. It should be entertaining." She dusts her hands off, stepping back. An adjustment of the energon feed.. Another dose of sedative, and she turns to pad back to her lap. "Do ask him to call me, I'd like to start that project."
Swindle shrugs, then nods. "Yes'm," he says. "I'll pass it on."