When The Doctor Goes Blind

Hope

A few weeks after Drift proposed, ratchet was sitting in the main room listening to First aid work on the synthetic energon while Ratchet tried to sort the first aid equipment by using the brail labels First Aid and Drift put on all the tools, cabinets and drawers so ratchet could at least help out by doing small things. Ratchet stopped his sad excuse of a attempt to sort and looked in the direction where he heard the test machine start up.

"Yes...it appears to be stable but I will have to run some more tests" First aid mumbled to himself as he left the main room foolishly leaving a needle full of the substance on the table. Ratchet went over to where he felt around. He jolted a bit when he came across something sharp and pick the needle up, feeling for a label. Ratchet guessed there was Cybertronian on it because it also had brail reading "SYNTHETIC ENERGON SAMPLE #26 RATCHET, DO NOT TOUCH" disregarding the warning, he injected it into his arm. Ratchet stumbled backwards knocking some cleaning supplies on the floor, making a large noise and he collapsed, falling unconscious making the human boy who was working on homework rush over and call for help.

"RATCHET CAN YOU HEAR ME!?" The small human yelled at the unconscious mech while first aid shook his head disappointedly in the background. Ratchet woke and pushed the human off him then sat up rubbing his head "how can such tiny creatures be so loud?" Ratchet mumbled as he stood, raf backed up in fear when he saw that ratchet's dull white optics turned to a vibrant green. "How do you feel Ratchet?" First aid asked as he walked into the room.

Ratchet turned to First Aid and his expression immediately turned to one that looked like he saw a ghost. "Better than ok! I can SEE!" Ratchet quickly checked his arm monitor surprised to see that his energon efficiency levels has been increased. Before he could say anything else, First aid spoke before him "Don't get too excited it's very unstable and incomplete, sight might just be a side effect you shouldn't have done it Ratchet, it may kill you." First aid warned. Ratchet shrugged "I heard the others leave earlier, any word from them?" Ratchet asked and First aid immediately shook his head no.

Shortly after Ratchet asked, Optimus's voice came through on the comms telling First aid to get a emergency bridge for Arcee. Arcee was too stubborn to comply with both First aid's and Optimus' orders and Ratchet ran through the ground bridge when he saw that Arcee was hurt.

The ground bridge opened mid air above Arcee and ratchet dropped down with his surgical blades out ready to KILL. Ratchet threw a con at another first con then kicked the 2nd con who was still standing. One of the many troopers shot at him causing ratchet to cut off his arm and round house kick him in the face.

Another trooper became brave enough to try to hit ratchet however ratchet broke the drone's back causing him to instantly die from shock while the drone's friend shot at the feral acting medic. Ratchet kicked the troopers that were shooting at him in the head and used the momentum to grab ahold of another's head and crushed it with his servos.

Ratchet kept fighting off the cons then he noticed he was getting cover fire from above which was most likely coming from the others who scaled the massive pile of Boulders that was next to him but he was to engaged in the battle to actually look.

Ratchet killed the last drone and walked over to the others who were helping arcee and staring at him in shock. Ratchet stopped when he heard something move behind him so when it got close he did a reverse punch thingy "HooHaa"

The Autobots stared at him quietly before drift piped up "that was amazing ratchet! You fought like you could see!" He exclaimed as he worriedly checked his new conjunx for any wounds and was relieved when he found none. Ratchet just nodded deciding that here wasn't the place to tell and left with the others through the ground bridge.

"What happened?" Raf asked curiously from his place in the human area. Bulkhead smiled "I only saw the gory aftermath but I heard doc here was a one man wrecking machine!" Drift nodded in agreement "the aftermath looked like Ratty could see"

Ratchet chuckled and picked up Raf. Raf looked at the others confused "but Ratchet can see" a look of shock and dead silence swept over them before Hot Rod hesitantly asked "whats your secret?" Ratchet put Raf down and shook his head "no secret" First Aid then quickly cut in "he used the synthetic Energon and it restored some of his vision temporarily"

Arcee cocked her hip to the side and looked at First Aid "I thought you said the formula was incomplete." First aid shook his head "I don't know what to think, it looks stable but at the same time, it shouldn't have these...effects." Ratchet ignored First Aid and passed bumblebee a sample "so your saying that ratchet makes a better tough guy than me a smart guy?" Bulkhead question making drift shake his head no "that drug must have gave Ratchet a boost of strength, without it he's still the same medic, but then again I saw him lift mechs as big as three times his size before."

Bulkhead rolled his optics "thanks drift" bulkhead mumbled sarcastically as he passed Optimus the vial of synthetic Energon annoyed. Optimus sighed heavily in disappointment and disapproval "Ratchet, I question your decision to use yourself as a test subject-" Arcee quickly cut in "you didn't SEE him out there Optimus. He was in Overdrive, almost feral. We should use this stuff." Bulkhead laughed a bit "or give ratchet more so we can have a vacation!" Bulkhead half joked

Optimus had enough of what they were saying and objected "I agree that the initial results appear to be promising but in order for us to use it, this will have to go through more testing" Optimus stated sternly as he gave back the vial to ratchet. First Aid just nodded in the background agreeing with Optimus. Ratchet sighed giving into Optimus' orders.

A few hours passed and ratchet was with Bulkhead in the training room with Drift watching from the sidelines "-and he came right at me." Ratchet turned to face bulkhead wanting him to attack "well? Come at me" bulkhead quickly put his servos up innocently "I don't want to hurt you Ratch." He protested.

Ratchet slapped bulkhead's face making drift gasp at the rude jester. Bulkhead got his wrecking ball out and ran at ratchet. In one swift, smooth move he picked up bulkhead and threw him at the wall, immediately breaking it.

Ratchet walked out of the hole bulkhead made and grinned, ignoring Hot Rod, bumblebee and Arcee. "You have competition Bulk, I'm a bit stronger than I used to be-" ratchet fake punched Bumblebee stopping inches in front of the scout's face "-and a bit faster! Think you can take me muscle car?" Ratchet asked in a somewhat low voice. Bumblebee quickly put his hands up and beeped out a quick "Nope!" Then ratchet started to walk away will Drift following "whimp"

Ratchet paused when he saw Arcee and decided to make Drift a bit jealous and clicked at Arcee "how's it hummin'~" drift growled and grabbed Ratchet's arm "that's it. Our room. Now." He said sternly as he dragged ratchet away. Bulkhead stood and rubbed his head "Stronger,Faster, hornier" he shivered at the last word finding it deeply disturbing to describe ratchet like that.

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