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23. Gore – TFA

He had seen ugly things before, especially since the beginning of this Primus-forsaken war, but this… This was too much. Ratchet fought valiantly to try and keep his tank steady, but after a short and intense battle, he finally lost and fell to his knees, violently purging.

He glanced again at the scene of desolation, and purged some more. And he dared anyone to tease him or blame it about it!

Greyed corpses in pieces everywhere, stained with the vibrant colors of spilled energon and other fluids – coolants, lubricants, oils,… A hand was outstretched toward him, as if begging to be caught and dragged to safety… but the rest of the body wasn’t here.

A head without optics was resting atop a pile of debris, a pair of pedes, a weapon, a broken scope recognizable among them. A shattered leg, which must have been cut at the knee or rather, torn off by an explosion. A few mostly intact chests and torsos, the empty, broken Spark-chambers seen through the large cracks and gaps.

And in the air, the heavy smell of melted metal, the scent of burnt oil, spilled energon, purged tanks – Ratchet hadn’t been the only one to be sick, and he certainly wasn’t the last – was mixed with a persistent rust odor, which might have been a consequence of Cosmic Rust spread over the battlefield.

“Alright,” he finally croaked to the other medical and rescue personnel behind him, getting back on shaky legs. “We can do it, team. I want everyone to have Cosmic Rust antidote in handy, I don’t trust the looks on some of those corpses.” His voice was getting steadier as he spoke. “Those of you who didn’t get their preventive shot already, stay back and wait until we tell you you’re in the clear. Don’t touch anyone who has even the slightest trace of rust or discoloration on them! Start setting the medical camp. The rest of you, with me.”

He had to give them that; they looked uneasy, sick, desperate, horrified, but they obeyed. And so, one by one, the newly minted medics followed Ratchet through the gore to try and save lives.

Assuming there was still any live to be saved here.