When The Doctor Goes Blind

The Prisoner

Drift stood with Optimus' "strike" team who had surrounded the small ship that belonged to his "father in law" as the humans said once. The door to the ship slowly opened and what looked like a seeker fell to the ground with a loud thud. Drift cautiously approached him and nudged the unconscious mech with the handle of his sword. The seeker didn't move and First Aid was allowed to approach him to field dress his injuries. Hot Rod looked at Optimus "what could have happened to him? Isn't he supposed to be a crazed killer? What or who could have attacked him?"

Optimus sighed "I do not know Hot Rod but I do know that whoever attacked Pharma is most likely on their way to earth. First Aid, is Pharma stable enough to be transferred to base?" First Aid looked up from the wound he was welding "yes Optimus, I'll be able to finish up in the medical bay so he can be put in a cell." Optimus nodded and helped the medic carry Pharma through the ground bridge.

Everyone knew that Ratchet won't take the news that Pharma is in the medical bay very well so drift and wheeljack opted to tell the carrying medic the news. Drift opened his door to reveal a pacing ratchet, who had turned to face them when he heard the door opened. "What happened? Did he attack you? Is he in stasis cuffs in a cell?" Ratchet pressed for answers and was surprised to hear his brother answer instead of his Conjunx. "Calm down hatchet, nobody was hurt in fact he was the one injured and fell flat on his face unconscious. First Aid is fixing him up now, doc"

Drift quickly and gracefully made his way to ratchet's side knowing that the expecting mech was about to burst in intense furry. "WHAT!? You let him into my medical bay!?" Wheeljack quickly interjected "actually it's 'Aid's medical bay now" Ratchet practically roared in furry "he's a threat to everyone especially me! If he finds out that I'm carrying he'll kill me on the spot just like he did to Ambulon!"

Drift quickly pulled his conjunx into a hug and stroked his back telling him sweet things through their spark bond while Wheeljack stood still, jaw dropped trying to process what his younger brother told him. The wrecker then had to re-light the fire which is probably a universal sibling thing "you're expecting!? Why the hell didn't you tell me!? I'm your brother and you didn't think to tell me that I'm going to uncle!? Do you not want me to be involved?"

Ratchet started to feel around for a wrench "I was going to tell you but then all this nonsense about Pharma started! I do want you to be involved and try to be a decent uncle that hopefully won't teach them how to build bombs from a early age. I really was going to tell you in a better way after Pharma is put behind bars to rust away." Wheeljack sighed feeling terrible because he sounded so selfish "doc, I'm sorry. It must be harder for you to know that murderer is alive let alone in base. I'll try to be the best brother I can to help you with whatever you need, after all you're the only family I got left."

Ratchet felt himself relax a little, comforted by his brother's support. "Thank you Wheeljack." The wrecker smiled and left deciding to leave the couple alone and go check up on First Aid. First Aid wasn't great in combat especially if you compared him to ratchet which is fine because the medic was a pacifist. Wheeljack walked in the medical bay and instinctively put his servo on one of his swords while glaring at the unconscious seeker. "Find any info on who attacked him?"

First Aid shook his helm no "unfortunately not, wounds don't exactly talk when the one injured is out cold and probably in a coma." Wheeljack grinned a bit "so he's not waking up any time soon? Good riddance." First Aid glared at Wheeljack "we need him awake, whoever did this could be as bad as Megatron or even possibly a member of the DJD and last I checked, we have two ex cons here and they'll kill all of us to get to drift and Cyclonus."  Wheeljack sighed realizing he was right "I guess, just keep him far away from anyone he's dangerous and for all I care, we should have left him for dead. Damn prime and his morals"

Later that day drift and ratchet were in the hallway chatting then drift just had to bring up sparkling names and if it's possible that their sparkling would end up being a seeker. "If they're a seeker I was thinking about naming them AirRazor or if it's a mech, WindRider" drift continued hoping ratchet would agree with him. Ratchet didn't want his sparkling to be a seeker, if they were a seeker it'll stir up even more painful memories of his sire. "They're going to be a grounder like us, I was thinking more on the lines like Ambulon in honour of my carrier if our sparkling is a mech" ratchet objected.

It wasn't long before they got into a heated argument about weather they're going to have a seeker or grounder. Miko and hot Rod ended up walking in on them and decided to watch them argue. "If it skipped one generation it will skip another since none of us are seekers!" Ratchet snapped with the furry of a wrench. Drift clenched his fist "that's all the reason why it will show up! Your sire is a seeker and you're going to pass it on!" The rest of the argument was back and forth so it all sort of merged together. Miko turned to Hot Rod "they argue like a old married couple" Hot Rod chuckled "they're not even that old." Miko smiled and the two walked away from the arguing couple "what were they even arguing about?"