Transformers Rescue Bots - The Past

42: What Femme? - S

Ratchet should've seen this coming.

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It was nice when the academy had its first round of time off, it meant heading back home to see families and be able to rest a bit while not having to worry about anything that is related to the work of the academy.

Ratchet was very happy that he would be able to see his two children again, despite the fact it hasn't really been that long since he had seen them. Family time was something that surely wasn't often for them, but Ratchet made sure to take the time off so they could do so.

"Blades, you look like you have something on your processor." Ratchet seemed to notice it quite fast, Heatwave knew but decided not to fully speak about it.

"uh, yeah." Blades honestly was not sure how he was going to do this, after all, this was his carrier, and normally, that is that last one anybot would want this discussion with. "Um, so, I've been thinking about doing something."

"You better not be thinking about getting an engraving on your plates, now that is stupid and I would certainly kill you." an engraving was basically a tattoo for life, and Ratchet was definitely going to make sure his children are not that stupid.

"it is definitely not that!" Blades surely knew that was a death wish, besides, now he was more terrified about what he actually needed to say.

'Carrier, we are not idiots, why in all of Prius would we randomly get an engraving on our plates?!" Heatwave questions, then pulling up a good point: "even if we did want to get one, it wouldn't be something stupid, you said we could get one if the meaning for it was valid and you came along."

"I did say that." Ratchet reminds himself aloud. "but that's not what you have on your mind, is it?"

"no, it is definitely something else." Blades was so nervous, but he just had to say it, he was going to spit it out at some point anyway. "I've been thinking about asking a bot out-"

"WHAT?!" Heatwave was floored, totally not expecting to hear those exact words coming from Blades. throughout his choking from venting in a bit too much, he did manage to speak. "Are you on High Grade or something?!"

"what? no, definitely not!" Blades says.

"ok, woah." Heatwave was now processing this new information that he received, meanwhile, Ratchet hasn't said a word. "Blades, I imagined you being the one asked not the other way around here. I thought I was going to find you all up in a random dorm making out with another and even grabbing-"

"Heatwave, shut up." Ratchet says, and the red bot is quick to shut his mouth. ""honestly, as much as I want to know where you learned all that from, I am not even bothering to ask."

"so, are you mad?" Blades asks, still wondering if it is just Heatwave who he is mad at or not.

"I wish you would've waited a little bit before thinking of a move like that but I'm not mad, Blades." Ratchet says. "I will tell you, I was just a little bit older than you when a bot asked me out."

"Wait, but I thought you said you were baited-"

"Heatwave." his voice was stern, making Heatwave not continue with what he was saying. "Anyway, listen, if you want to go ahead and do it you totally can, I am not stopping you. you like them, right?"

"yeah, I am worried though they won't feel the same back." Blade says, but feeling relieved that Ratchet was not mad at him.

"show her she's a lucky Femme and she will."

"What Femme?" Heatwave spit out the energon he was drinking so fast after Blades said those words, almost knowing for a fact there had been no femme to begin with.

Ratchet just stood there, questioning himself as he just stared off into the distance as if it were absolutely nothing. Ratchet knows he had been asked out by a couple of mechs and no part of that made him register the idea that Blades might ask out a mech, so with everything he is feeling, he just feels a little stupid.

"Yeah, I'm done here." Heatwave was not about to remain in the room for this, leaving before anything else happened.