((Sorry, not-sorry for the length of this post. This is why I chose to be a medic. I have fun coming up with relatively-reasonable ways of fixing peculiar/challenging problems.
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((For future reference, I will not simply auto-heal everyone if I can help it. I enjoy RPing healing to get reactions and additional complications mid-heal to mix it up a bit, which is why I wait until someone is online to heal them. But if necessary/requested, I will auto-heal and you will get something like this.))
Chiro knew that technically she should be performing the eye surgery in the surgical ward, but there was no point in moving the young mech now. Besides, this was a relatively minor surgery as compared to some of the other occupants currently in that ward.
She came back and instructed Helix to lay down. As he did so, she prepped just enough anesthetic to keep Helix asleep for the duration of the surgery and a little while afterwards. With a small, quick prick, she administered the anesthetic to him and within minutes he was fast asleep. She quickly got to work.
Chiro carefully clamped the fluid lines that lead to his damaged optic before transforming her right servo into the smallest scalpel she had, which was perfect for small surgeries like this. Finding the joint just behind the optic, she detached the damaged eye from the joint, fluid lines, and wires and pulled it out with a pair of large tweezers, setting it in a tray on the cart of tools beside her. She then took a small damp cloth and cleaned up the partially dried fluids that clung to the surrounding area in the optic socket. Once she was satisfied the wounded area was clean, she then gently picked up the new optic from it's container and set it in place, carefully placing each line and wire to it's proper place on the new optic. She then heated up the scalpel edge to a low welding temp and used the tip of the blade to gently solder everything back into place. Before she un-clamped the fluid lines, she double checked that everything was securely sealed and attached. She then released the clamps and watched as energon and other vital liquids flowed into the new optic, making sure that everything was working and flowing properly without any leaks. She smiled with satisfaction as the optic began to activate and glow with Helix's normal eye color.
Chiro then continued by patching up and repairing the damaged area around his eye, particularly where the claw mark spanned across his eye. She then moved on to taking care of the other minor cuts he had. She knew that it would still take time for his systems to heal and readjust, especially with the new optic. So she would move him to the Recovery Ward after taking care of Feenix.
She washed her scalpel before cleaning up her workstation - the cart of tools and supplies - of the dirty cloths and properly stored the damaged optic for later repair or disposal. There was a possibility it could be cleaned and repaired, to be saved as a backup for Helix if something like this happened again, but more likely than not it was not salvageable. She would check later, but for now she turned her attention to Feenixfire.
Chiro smiled as she addressed the second-in-command.
"Alright, Helix is taken care of and he'll be fine. He just needs a little more rest and to not strain himself too much for the next day or two. If he lets you know of any problems with his eye, bring him back immediately. Now, we need to take care of you." She instructed Feenixfire to lay down and relax. Again, it crossed Chiro's mind about moving her patient to the surgical ward, but it was a bit late now and Chiro doubted that the mother hen wanted to leave her pup any time soon.
As the doctor prepped anesthetic for the phoenix, Chiro knew that she needed to apply a little more anesthetic as it would be burned up faster from the femme's firey energy. The last thing Chiro needed was for Feenix to wake up mid surgery. After administering the anesthetic, Feenix was asleep moments later. Chiro needed to work fast.
With her visor still flipped down, Chiro proceeded to scan Feenix to locate where the internal damage was. She could see where a few minor energon lines and internals were hit with a handful of large bullets that were lodged in a couple different places, but were grouped mostly in the stomach area. She then proceeded to carefully clean the dirt, energon, and... vommit? Chiro had to guess that it was vommit in reaction to the bullets or something. Nonetheless, Chiro cleaned up Feenix's feathers carefully but quickly.
Now was the tricky part. Chiro took a moment to analyze the best point of incision for easy access to the bullets without disrupting nearby internals that were still perfectly intact. Plotting her path, Chiro gently separated the fluff of feathers where she was to make her incision. Again, she transformed her right servo into a scalpel, a bit larger than the previous, and carefully cut along the line that was displayed on her visor. Her blade was supercooled this time to freeze the energon and fluids nearby, preventing unnecessary bleeding. This was a difficult state to keep as the heat generated by the phoenix constantly threatened to melt the frozen energon. Chiro was forced to constantly maintain the supercool blade and occasionally press the flat side against the edges of the incision, as well as the damaged energon lines and internals that lay underneath. She then took a pair of forceps and, one by one, pulled the bullets out and placed them in a bowl on the nearby cart. She then proceeded to gently clean the excess energon and fluids that were partially clotted around the wounds before beginning the next stage of the operation.
Chiro made sure that the frozen state of the wound edges would hold long enough for her to use both servos to string a special kind of wire-thread into a small needle. Predacons were different in the fact that they had transorganic organs mixed with normal circuitry, so injuries to these special organs had to be sewn shut and heal on their own, not just replaced and welded back together. However, once properly cleaned and sewn shut, the wounds tended to heal very quickly, as far as Chiro knew anyway. Chiro quickly sewn shut the holes created by the bullets, all the while keeping the energon and fluids from flowing with the supercooled tool until she was done. She put the needle and remaining thread back on the cart and waited a moment to let the energon and fluids thaw, making sure everything was properly sealed and that she didn't somehow miss a spot. Seeing that everything was in order, Chiro sealed up the incision. Chiro quickly took care of the cuts on the femme and then proceeded to quickly clean up her tools and the area.
Both patients needed to just rest and recover. Chiro went and got two stretchers and gently but quickly transferred Helix onto one and Feenixfire onto the other. She then carted both of them to the Recovery Ward.