Lost Love - A Ratchet Love Story

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Survival

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Survival. It's one of the many things we live upon. Without our mate, we cannot survive and our husk becomes empty. The same with siblings. Take the Terror Twins for example. With them sharing a spark, if one dies off so does the other.

It's simple really. No need to have a PHD to know that. Waking up after getting knocked into stasis with your mate beside you as well as your sparkling is- wait. What?! I snap my helm over towards the sparkling in Ratchet's arms.

Slowly, I get up and peek over at the newborn. It's LightningStar. She's early. Too early. I gently took her from Ratchet and started noticing small defects due to not being able to fully generate everything. I held her close, her much smaller form leaning against me.

I took her to the back room where Ratchet and I built an incubator type thing should anyone's sparkling need it. We had built it long ago on Cybertron. I carefully set LightningStar inside and watch as she slowly begins to generate the missing limbs. By slowly I mean two hours.

She opens her optic and looks over at me, I smile and she giggles. I try not to frown as her giggle comes out as static. Sounds like her voicebox didn't get time to fully generate either.

"Don't worry, sweetspark. Carrier is here.", I say and send love towards her.

I frown and look over at the open door after remembering what happened. Quickly, I walk over and lock it. No one is stealing my baby from me. I spot a human sized bed as well as a Cybertronian berth.

I turn back to Lightning and smile softly. I frown when I notice a small spark. My optics widen and I quickly pull Lightning out, sheilding her as the incubator exploded. I growled. Accelerator. I walked over to the door and unlocked it.

I opened it, only it didn't. The door was jammed. I opened my chest plates and set Lightning in my sparkling hold. I close my side of the bond with Ratchet and take the grenade Wheeljack had given me for emergencies. I look down at Lightning before slowly closing my chassis.

I pulled the pin and threw the grenade. I quickly hid behind a shelf full of paint. Bad idea. As soon as the bomb exploded, the force exploded the paint and I was fully covered. I got up and walked toward where the door used to be.

"Wheeljack!", I heard a chorus of voices yell.

"It wasn't me!", he defended, ".....this time."

"Then who was it?", Ratchet asked.

"Who else likes grenades?", I heard Accelerator's voice.

I pulled out my small knives and twirled them around for a second before throwing them. I heard a squeak.

"Whoever it is.....", Arcee started.

"......they want to kill me.", Accelerator finished.

I heard guns power up and my optics narrowed as I took out more knives. Ratchet has his wrenches, I have my wrenches and knives. I walked out of the room and with a battle cry I started attacking Accelerator.

"Please, Jet! Stop!", she begged with fake fear.

"You tried to kill me and then you nearly killl my daughter?! I think not, Decepticon.", I growled.

Her eyes turned to a solid red and she smirked.

"Your smart for an Autobot.", she said, "But that doesn't mean I'm not going to stop from taking everything you have."

She lunged at me and attempted to slice through my neck. I dogged her attack and kicked her tank. Her optics widen and she flies back into a rack of tools, knocking it over.

"I NEEDED THAT!", Ratchet yelled, though he was looking at Accelerator. 

She growled and got up. I backed up and watched her.

"JetBlaze-", sire was cut off when Accelerator threw herself at me again, this time shooting at me.

I stood up and growled. I closed my optics and clenched my servos into fists. I opened my optics and started punching Accelerator.

'Carrier?'

I froze and my optics widened. I nearly forgot Lightning was in my sparkling hold. I felt a punch hit my faceplate and I was kicked in the tank. I stumbled back into a wall. Accelerator walked over to me and pushed me up against the wall.

"Who's the sire?", she asked, "Who?"

"Ratchet.", I stated, "We're mates."

"NO.", she yelled and loosened her grip, "What?!"

"Sorry.", I growled out.

"You slagging femme!", she yelled and slammed my helm against the wall, doing absolutely no damage, "How long? How long?!"

"11 months.", I answered, she smirked.

"Still time.", she stated and dragged me to the room she was staying in.

She closed the door and forced my chassis open.

"P-please. D-dont.", I cried as she grabbed hold of my spark and tore Ratchet's side off.

"Much better.", she said and looked at Lightning.

Without a thought, she took the sparkling and tore Ratchet's side of the parental bond from her. Lightning screamed and Accelerator dropped her. I dived down and caught her before she hit the ground.

"You are a monster.", I weakly stated.

She left after dropping the two halves. With one servo on my chassis due to the pain, I lifted Lightning off the ground and sent my love and comfort toward her in an attempt to calm her down. She curled up against my form and looked up at me with tears in her optics.

"It's okay, Lightning. You're okay.", I held her close to my spark.

"JetBlaze?!", I looked toward the door as I heard Ratchet's voice.

"We're in.....here.", I called out, he didn't hear due to how low my voice sounded, "Lightning, can you do carrier a favor and call your sire over? He can't hear me since I'm too weak."

I wasn't expecting her to do anything when she responded with a loud cry, I hugged her close to my form. The door burst open and Ratchet stood there with sire and Accelerator. Accelerator was cuffed and sire was behind her, making sure she didn't get loose.

"JetBlaze!", Ratchet ran into the room, "Primus, what happened?!"

I found my voice after a couple seconds and turned towards Accelerator.

"Get her out of here.", I growled, sire looked at me worriedly before taking Accelerator to the cells.

"Jet, you haven't answered my question.", Ratchet said, "Why did you close the bond?"

"I didn't. She forcefully removed the bond from me and LightningStar.", I answered, "She's hurt bad."

"Come on, I'll take care of you.", Ratchet said, "Both of you."

"You have to bond with me again. You also need to bond with Lightning. It will restore her spark.", I explained.

He nodded and did as I explained. Lightning's faceplate held pain until her spark was repaired. Her smile made Ratchet and I smile too. 

"So, LightningStar, huh?", Ratchet looked over at me, I nodded, "Okay."

"We survived together.", I smiled and kissed Ratchet, "Where's Ultra Magnus? I haven't seen him in a few days."

"Ultra Magnus is searching for survivors. He'll be back by Sunday.", Ratchet said.

I nodded and laid my helm on his shoulder plate. Lightning curled up against Ratchet and I and slowly fell into recharge. Ratchet and I soon followed.