Audio [Transmission Originating From: Solus's Temple]

[redshirtrobot]

[Fracas has been absent for a quite a while. Really, less absent, more... asleep. If nothing else, it's kept him out of trouble. He slowly sits up with a groan, looking around. What. What did he just get back from, even? Or... remember?

Oh. Oh.

He turns on his communicator. Audio-only for now; he's not really feeling up to video.]

I need to see a medic, if one's available. Not. Not Knock Out.

[And briefly, Fracas sounds almost angry.]

But I do need to speak to him.

... Could someone tell me what I've missed, while I'm at it?

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[redshirtrobot]

[Fracas holds still when he notices the light, eying it uncertainly for a few moments.]

Well, I.

[He pauses, blanching a little.]

I know this may sound crazy, but. I might have been bitten by a zombie.

I'm not sure but I'd prefer to avoid the whole... trying to eat my friends thing.

[For Fracas's part, he seems completely and utterly serious about this whole thing. No one's going to jump out and proclaim that Red Alert is on Candid Camera here.]

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[whatbedsidemanners]

[Red Alert gives no indication that what Fracas said has alarmed her. She continues to scan him a few more times before she takes a step back to look up at him.]

You're fine. A little fatigued perhaps, but otherwise there's nothing wrong with you.

[Her delivery could have been a little bit warmer, but comforting patients isn't really one of her stronger skills.]

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[redshirtrobot]

[Really, he can't say he expects too much from medics. Just having the information is enough for him. He scrubs one hand over his face, almost laughing for a moment.]

Oh thank Primus. That's... that's really fantastic to hear. I'd hate to bring a plague back from home. This place is hard enough to deal with, without. That.

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[whatbedsidemanners]

A plague?

You'll have to explain that one a little further.

[She's absolutely certain that he doesn't have anything on him, but she is curious about a disease that can turn Cybertronians into mindless husks. How interesting.]

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[redshirtrobot]

That's what they are. A plague. The original ones, they were...

[He shakes his head.]

We call it dark energon. Put it into a corpse and the corpse wakes up to destroy anything in its path. But these were worse. Patient Zero... I heard he was still living and he was still infected.

He ate crew members. And the crew members started getting up and eating their friends.

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[whatbedsidemanners]

What purpose does this 'Dark energon' serve?

[The rest is important, but that little bit interests her.]

How did its properties change? Do you know?

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[redshirtrobot]

Animating the dead. Animating things that weren't living before then. Megatron became really powerful using it. He could control the Terrorcons but... I don't think he was able to control these.

[He shifts on the berth.]

From what I heard - if I heard right - they added synthetic energon to it.

[Well. If nothing else, he should be able to make a compelling argument to Skids about why Synthetic Energon is terrible, now.]