The Doctor's Assistant (Ratchet X Reader)

Chapter Twenty-four: Return

I was playing with a baby bear that was brought in. He got separated from his mother and has an injured paw. But he's doing quite well now. It's been a few days and we get along well. The bear's name is Koda. A talkative little bear too. He likes to talk, tell stories and act fiercer than he is. Keep dreaming, little one. You're not big enough yet. Today I have to take him back into the wild. So I took him there while he talked about his most recent adventure with his mother. It was just hunters being hunters and they got separated. I promised to stay with him until we found her.

"Ya know, you're a really cool human," Koda said smiling.

"Thanks. I was just born different," I said smiling.

"Yeah! You can hear me! It's so cool!"

I chuckled, "because I'm part fox, Koda. I can understand all animals even if others can't. Like I can understand my roommate's ferrets. They always sing the same little song they heard somewhere when stealing things."

"How many other animals do you know?"

"A lot of them. In fact, they're all trying to help me find someone special to me. But no sign yet."

"Wait! You're the one who's looking for... Rocket... rat..."

"Ratchet?" I asked with an amused smile.

"Yeah! Everyone is talking about it! Someone said they found him!"

"What? Who? Where?"

"Follow me!"

I followed him as he ran off. I had to run after him since he was a very fast cub. But I don't like being this far into the forest. People don't really go here because of rumors I don't believe but it doesn't calm my nerves. Well, I could feel something might go wrong today so I have my shock collar lasso in a little fox bag. We got to the spot but Ratchet wasn't there. He's probably moved somewhere. But I did recognize his footsteps. Along with another pair of big and small ones. Is he chasing someone? I tracked the prints and Koda followed me.

I followed them until I heard a twig snap. Looking up I saw no one. Until I saw a Decepticon! I told Koda to hide and I took out the collar. It tried to swing at me but I dodged it. While distracted, I climbed up its back. It was too tall for me to swing my collar high enough to get its neck, a place I've learned is sensitive to Energon shocks. I wrapped it around its neck and shocked him so he fell to the ground. I was safe. It just looked like I tamed a horse or something.

I was then tackled by a smaller, white Cybertronion. It pinned me down and said nothing. I yelled at them to let me go when I heard a familiar voice telling them the same thing. They let me go and I stood up. I didn't look at my savor or recognize his voice at the time because I was annoyed.

"I catch your Decepticon and instead of a thanks, you tackle me," I say brushing the leaves and dirt off me.

"(Y/N)?" The voice asked.

That's when I recognized the voice. I looked over to see the one bot I've been searching for for years. Ratchet!

"Ratchet! You... you came back!" I said shocked.

Ratchet activated his holoform, "of course, I came back. I told you I would."

"Ratchet, you've been gone for five years! I thought you'd never-"

I was cut off by him kissing me. I guess I was overreacting a bit. I just accepted the kiss and enjoyed being back with Ratchet. But that was interrupted by the white bot. Ratchet introduced me to him. His name is Undertow. He's gone strong, silent type. But Undertow had pointed to a Crab-looking Decepticon. Well, let's go catch him. He looked very spooked. I guess he saw what I did to the other Decepticon who Undertow put in a pod. Ratchet deactivated his holoform, picked up the pod, and went after the Crab.

Only to have him stumble upon Bee's team. And Optimus! I honestly thought Bee was joking. You don't come back from the dead. But he explained that the Primes rescued him before he died. I swear, that bot just can't die. Not that I'm complaining. He's a good leader. Maybe he can teach Bee a few things! Yeah, I'm still mad about that! Bee knows full well what I'm capable of but he treats me like every other human. I'm not! So, we went back to the scrapyard with the crab and Ratchet's prisoner.

Ratchet then explained what happened to him. Turns out that a new High council was elected and they blamed Optimus for the destruction of their home and wanted to pretend he never existed. But we helped save the galaxy from Megatron! That's what Ratchet tried to tell them but they wouldn't listen. So he took up a job hunting down war criminals instead of being imprisoned which he feared would be his fate if he protested. So, essentially, he was banished. Ratchet then explained to me why he didn't return to earth straight away.

He was afraid that, if he came back, some of the new Autobots would follow him and think he lied to them just to get back to me. That's what he wanted to do but he knew he had to gain the new council's trust first. I understand that. Not too long after explaining to Ratchet about Decepticon Island, a Minicon, similar to Fix-It came asking for help. He had escaped the Island and came to us to tell us about Decepticon Island. That helped a lot. Now we know where it is and how we can defeat them all.

A very long story short, The Decepticons were defeated and all the other Minicons were freed THANKS TO ME AND FIX-IT! NOT WEAK NOW, ARE WE, BUMBLEBEE?! He did apologize for saying that to me and it took me a few weeks to forgive him. I've been told things like that by others before so I was just annoyed to be told that by an old friend. Ratchet finally agreed to stay this time and he moved in with me and Sarah.

Sarah was skeptical of Ratchet for a while but now she's okay with him around. I told her that he'll be here a while until the two of us get a place of our own. Ratchet got a job at the hospital where he now saves lives and helps bring new life into the world. But mostly surgeries. I don't care what he does, honestly. As long as we're together at last and it stays that way.