When The Doctor Goes Blind

The Chase

A/N  Welcome to y second AU story! Unlike my past stories (Starscream's suicide and Following in His Footsteps) this will be a chapter thing. Chapters will be posted whenever I feel like it so expect a bunch of chapters each week as I write. This idea came to me while I was looking through fanart and I really liked the idea of a blind Ratchet. If you have any suggestions let me know in the comments. I am open to any ideas and I might even ask for some help writing this. 

It was an ordinary day in base, no decepticon activity and the human children were competitively playing video games on the old Tv. Bulkhead and bumblebee were playing lob in the back room while Arcee soared against Optimus. Like usual, Ratchet was working on the main monitor logging some of the activity and some of his more recent files into the Autobot database. The doc had taken some time away from the synthetic energon and wanted to dedicate some more time to the other work he had. Ratchet may not be on Cybertron but, he still had a lot of work to do even though there were only four others on earth with him.

It wasn't long before Optimus came out of the training room and approached the working medic. Optimus' frame was dripping water giving Ratchet an hint that the mech recently visited the wash racks after his sparing session. Optimus smiled kindly at his older friend and spoke softly "Why don't you go out for a drive old friend? It's a lovely day outside and I hate to see you cooped up inside"

Ratchet sighed and looked at the mech after he saved his work. He knew that if he didn't go like Optimus asked, the slightly younger mech would just pester him until he did. "Alright, I'll go for a drive, Optimus. If anyone gets hurt, sick or breaks anything comm me and I'll be back here in a sparkbeat" Optimus smiled, it was rare for him to smile and Ratchet's dry humour always tricked him into smiling "of course old friend"

About a half hour later, Ratchet was leaving the small town of Jasper when he noticed a familiar red car and a few purple cars following him too close to comfort. Ratchet mentality cursed and sped up, he was looking for a place far enough away from the town where he could fight off the con's without being seen by any humans nearby.

It wasn't very long before Ratchet was far enough from any human population and he transformed in a desert clearing. The four mechs behind him transformed immediately after them and they had a stand off. Ratchet decided to be bold and called for back up. «Optimus, I need some backup at my location» he waited a few moments but Optimus did not answer so he left a message. "Looks like I'm on my own" Ratchet muttered grimly as he stared down Knockout and three vehicons.