Transformers Rescue Bots - The Past

18: Lost Time - S

Ratchet finds out much more than he ever could.
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"Explain this." Ratchet places the file down at the table as he takes a seat, questioning what joke this is.

A while back, he received a package, one which held a datapad and a note with a location and time on it. It made no sense at first but as Ratchet read the datapad, he was slightly shocked, and knew it was time to demand some answers because all of what he saw seemed like a stupid myth.

"Hello, brother."

"You are talking nonsense!" Ratchet did not want to believe the Femme in front of him was related by CNA, it couldn't be possible. He was an only child, always had been. "My creators didn't have another sparkling."

"They had twins, one with the medical parts and one without. They couldn't ruin their reputation." Ratchet knew that, which explains why he was kicked to the crib when Blades came along, he hasn't actually heard from his creators in a good while. "We look so similar and yet you want to say we aren't related."

"Let's say you are related to me." Ratchet formed the scenario. "Why are you trying to come back, you could've done it a while ago."

"Because back then I had no need to find you, what would be the point if I was never wanted to begin with?" She had a point. "Now I need to find someone to help me, to care for something I can't."

She grabbed something, some sort of young toy that sparklings play with, a toy for those just after entering the world. Ratchet has the one he had, having given it to Blades when that little one was younger, but the one she had was pretty much identical.

"That proves nothing, even if what you are saying is true, why can't you take care of your situation?"

"Because I am dying!" She seemed hesitant to say those words, but it was very true. "Our creators abandoned me because I couldn't be a medic like they wanted, I was saved but I found out that I had caught a virus and would slowly die from it. I don't know how much longer I have but you are the only one who I can turn to."

"We've barely met and I have a life outside of this." Ratchet mentions. "You want me to care for something because you're dying? That seems unlikely, you could be lying to me right now so I can take care of things as you go have fun."

"I wish I was lying but I am dying." She responds. "I just want you to. . . . I want-"

She fell out of her seat and onto the floor, passing out before fully hitting the ground. There was much panic around them as they were in a public space and Ratchet truly found himself both in worry but also full of confusion.

She was sent to a medical bay, where Ratchet was confirmed of her virus and her slowly dying from it. He found out about the time she had left and then realized she had been telling the truth, but he couldn't agree that he was related to her at all, there wasn't any proof.

"Still want to know what I want?" She questions as Ratchet enters the room to confront her. She looks unwell but a soft smile seems present on her face.

"Listen, I understand you are dying but I simply do not think I can care for something that you want me to care for." Ratchet explains. "I have a sparkling of my own I need to care for, I don't think I can do well with whatever you want to lend me with."

"You want your sparkling to have a good life, well I wish the same with a young bot too. He isn't mine, I would adopt him if I wasn't going to die." She says. "His name is Heatwave, a young bot at the medical bay I worked at. I have done everything so my little fragile Perdonial remembers me and can be safe, but I need him to be with a bot I can trust."

Ratchet only remained quiet, not knowing if he could take on such a thing. He doesn't even know how his 'sister' could just trust him like this.

"All I ask is for you to find him and take him as if he was your own, don't let him go until you know it is right to do so." She says. "I do not care if you believe in our sibling relationship, I just want you to find Heatwave."

When he left the medical bay, he couldn't help but have many questions, ones which only his creators could answer.