Noire had locked herself away in the lab, just as she had told Megatron she would. She had grown tired of the company she kept. She couldn't handle the games, the constant reminder that she was lesser than the rest of the ship due to her previous status as a Neutral. She tired of believing she had friends or those she could trust when in truth she had none. Fighting to gain respect was proving to be a losing battle.
Her helm still ached from her encounter with Nightfall. Her anger still burned in lieu of Knockout's return. She decided that she would indeed sulk and sulk alone. Starscream claimed she had no spine, perhaps he was right. He knew how to stand against adversary with the odds stacked against him. There was a time when Noire did too. Not anymore; she didn't have the energy.
Noire felt the ache in her helm shift to her optics and frowned. Had Nightfall hurt her that bad? She didn't remember much aside from waking up in the medical bay being told she was fine and to leave. She heard a dripping sound and looked down, green residue was dropping on her workspace.
She looked up to see if there was a leak of some sort from the ceiling, then chcked her containers when she felt something spill down her cheek plate. She reached up and gently touched her cheek, pulling back her servo to reveal similar green residue. She tried to focus on it but found her vision blurring...what?
She touched her optic and gasped when she pulled back and the same green scrap was stringing from her optics to her servo. The pain increased and she fell back, landing hard against the floor. She looked over and saw her reflection, green -what she surmised was energon- spilling down her cheeks and the optic she touched was corroding away as she watched, that part of her vision soon faded to nothing but shapes.
She looked up and begged primus, unicron...anything, to not let this happen, to wake up in berth beside Requiem and end this Nightmare she had been subjected to. Her venting quickened as her sparkrate did. This was very much real. She grit her denta as her vision faded from color, to black and white, to vague shades of grey. She couldn't see her servo before her face anymore. Everything was black, she was blind.