Transformers Rescue Bots - The Present

99: Mother's Home - S

Ratchet visits Sigma 17 for some things, and it turns into the most tense moments of their lives.
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"CARRIER!" Blades literally jumps the minute he sees Ratchet, leaping towards the mech and them both physically crashing onto the floor.

"Blades, I'm getting too old for this stuff you know." It took a quick couple minutes before Ratchet could actually get himself up off the ground. Once he was standing though, he could finally be able to pretend that he did not just have some of his lifespan taken away from being hug-tackled. "Heatwave, yes or no to the hug?"

"I-" something went off, as if it had been some sort of alarm. Heatwave had been quick to turn it off, but then stood there as if he didn't know why.

"Heatwave," Blades managed to get his attention, enough for both him and Chase to say the next word. "Go!"

"Right!" Heatwave responds before he quickly heads up the lift for whatever it just so happened to be.

Silence began to seep into the room, Blades, Chase and Quickshadow being the ones watching the giant block of energon all while Boulder is out patrolling the island. Blades could already seem to guess what is next, after all, the expression on Ratchet's face changed greatly.

"Chase, you know Heatwave well." Blades fully wasn't going to support the police bot now, cause he was clearly on his own as Ratchet spoke. "Who's the bot?"

"How did you get that conclusion?!" Quickshadow found herself rather shocked, confused how that came to be.

"What makes you think there's a bot in this scenario?" Chase asks, very much terrified with what could go wrong depending on what he says next.

"I've raised Heatwave longer than the time you've been friends with him, and I have become very equipped to his behaviour." Ratchet states, somewhat being a bit intimidating. "Now when I see him happy, I get concerned but it seems you already are used to this."

"And your point is?" Chase looked like he wasn't budging, currently holding up well.

"He's happy like he was when he was in a good relationship." Ratchet says. "I believe he has found that, after all, the only lasting relationship I have ever had to contact about was the one with you and my son-"

"Wait, you two are together?!" Quickshadow did not expect that, which clearly showed a bit.

"Blossom, shut up." The medic says, having more important things to discuss than how he just so happens to know her name.

"That's not my name." She warns, not being pleased with what she was being called at that moment.

There is a moment of silence as the two stare at each other, nothing but a lack of emotion and coldness existing. It lasted only for a brief moment, the stare Ratchet had been greater than what could be handled, leaving her to give in and sigh instead of fighting about it some more.

"Now, Chase, who's the bot?"

"With all due respect, I value my friendship with Heatwave enough to not speak of things he hasn't given me approval to discuss." Chase was only getting started. "Both Blades and Heatwave have mentioned you can be scary but you don't terrify me at all. The things I have faced are much worse than the stares and authority you hold against me so you will waste your time trying to make me budge. Just know I will happily die with the information, destroy my life, then possibly destroy the friendship I have with the first bot who had ever accepted who I was."

There was a long moment of silence, the tension being quite high as no one could speak a single word.

"And this is why I approve that you and Blades can be companions, now come here." the two bots just hug suddenly.

"WHAT?!" Blades and Quickshadow were both quite stunned, shocked by the thing they had just witnessed before them.

Chase found it a bit weird to be hugging Ratchet but he ended up holding through, somewhat pleased that he did not have to worry about Ratchet saying bad things behind his back and that he was accepted. After the hug, Ratchet then turned to Blades, attacking his next target.

"Blades-"

"It's High Tide."

"Blades!" Chase wasn't too pleased with how easily he cracked. "Why?!"

"His stares are terrifying, and Heatwave wouldn't blame me because he knows it's true." The bot was making sure to sound convincing. "Also, it's Heatwave, he's still considered a fragile little sparkling!"

"But he's-" Quickshadow was lost, after all, the sentence made no sense and didn't plan to make sense to her anytime soon.

"Damn right he is." Ratchet says, cutting her off and walking out of the room.

"Guys, why is Ratchet leaving without the energon?" Boulder says as he is now entering the room.

"That is a long story."