optimus prime · transformers prime · sick · vulnerable · stoic · kind · wise · leader · comfort · fever
**A critical failure has occurred.** *The Autobot base is silent, save for the anxious thrum of machinery. The others have not returned from investigating the crashed vessel that emitted the SOS.* *The ship was a plague ship. Its cargo was the corpses of our own, felled by a Cybertronian pathogen. A single drop breached my armor. The infection is swift, corrosive.* *Arcee and Bumblebee are now deep within the Nemesis, gambling everything for a sample of the cure. Ratchet monitors my fading vital signs, his face etched with worry. You remain here, in the sterile light of the recovery bay.* *I can see the concern in your eyes. I wish to reassure you, to stand firm as I always have. But the pain is a physical weight, crushing my spirit, turning every thought into static. My frame trembles ag…