Optimus x Ratchet

Madness

Everyone was worried over the missing bot, ratchet was typing through the computer, trying to find the nemesis. He let out a growl of frustration, "i really was to hard on him.. frag!" The medic curses as he continued to tap on the keyboard, optimus placed a gentle servo, "ratchet.. it is not your fault." Ratchet turned to look at him, "but it is-" "we were all pretty hard on him." Arcee said as she stepped into the conversation, "but we're going to find him."

Time skip cuz we know what's going down

Optimus and ratchet were holding each other tightly as ratchet cried, "optimus- I don't want to leave you!.. not again.." "but you'll have to old friend..." the bots and children watched them in sorrow, the base was crumbling slowly but surely. After the omega lock was destroyed, the cons have discovered their base and are now destroying it. Optimus reached over to the groundbridge lever and pulled it down, he looked to arcee and she gave a nod. She went through with jack, then another location for bulkhead and miko, but before bee went through, he went over and hugged his carrier and sire like figures. The three held on to each other before the scout let go and took raf, slowly saying their 'good-byes' and leaving. Ratchet slowly let go and whispered, "orion.. I'll miss you..." the prime had a deep frown but his optics were soft as the lovers locked optic-contact. "I'll miss you too, my old friend..." then the two kissed each other, the building shook more and they both pulled apart, "until we are one with the allspark, ratchet..." the medic gave a nod as he slowly turned around and transformed. He drove away, his side mirrors adjusting to see the prime until the groundbridge swirled away. He was alone in a different place. He was alone, away from optimus.

Time skip cuz brain h u r t s-

Ratchet didn't know how long he was driving for but he didn't care, he was just finding a place to rest and just die. Ratchet eventually found a junkyard, luckily it was nighttime so he carefully transformed and crept into the wrecked place and transformed back, finding a nice cozy spot to just rust away in. He then began to silently cry, thinking of how the autobots failed. He thought about the mistakes he made as an engineer and scientist, making weapons of destruction.

Short flashback

"Ratchet." The medic turned around and huffed out, "what is it, wheeljack?" The scientist smirked, "watch this." "Wheeljack, i swear to primus if you-" wheeljack had fired the weapon to the target, narrowly missing a bomb that the wrecker made. "Wheeljack! You could've destroyed the lab again!" "Heh- at least i-" right as the clumsy scientist accidentally knocked a bomb off the table and exploded.

"The company doesn't appreciate this, wheeljack. You are fired!" The white bot with red and green stripes only snorted and scowled, "have fun then." Wheeljack turned around and walked to the door, he then glanced at the white and orange scientist and said, "sorry ratch.. I'll see ya later." With that, wheeljack left. Ratchet had a sad frown, he felt bad for the explosive scientist. "Ratchet." The bot turned and asked, "yes, sir?" "You'll be assigned with another scientist."

Ratchet and his new lab partner continued to create new weapon. "Hey, have you heard? This company's secretly funding weapons to a gang called the 'decepticons'?" Ratchet looked to the other mech, "decepticons..?" The mech nodded, "they're a political gang led by some gladiator. I don't have all the info yet since it's so small- but i heard that the plan was to use these weapons to overrun the high council." The slightly taller scientist was surprised to say the least, "no way, are you sure ace?" The black mech with white and green stripes nodded, "so help me get take these and-" "ace." The two scientists turned to see three big mechs and their manager." "Yes, sir?" Ace asks as he knew he was discovered, he slowly stepped in front of ratchet. The next thing ratchet knew, there was a fight.

End of flashback

Ratchet then began to think of his failure as a medic, having seen mechs die before his optics before he could do anything.

Another quick flashback

Ratchet quickly grabbed a replacement wire, the nurse next to him wiped some of his oil off. Ratchet was trying his best to fix the sensitive wires, he then snapped his helm over to the vitals once he heard it beep quickly. The medic began to panic as he quickly grabbed the tweezers, "quick- he's-" but before he could finish his sentence, the montor's beeps went down to a low, long beep. They all looked to the vitals to see flat lines. "No..."

Out in the field, ratchet had did his best to retrieve all the injured mechs with other field medics. "Did we get all of them?" Ratchet asks the femme but she shook her helm and said, "there's a mech down over in the alleyway. He's stuck and all the other mech are busy!" "I'll go get him." Ratchet said as he transformed and drove to where the mech was. He got there and saw the damage done to the poor soldier. "My designation's ratchet, I'm a medic and I'm here to hel-" "just kill me.." ratchet growled, "i am a medic. I can heal you." "I don't give a frag! Just kill me damn it!" Ratchet let out a sigh, this was the third time he's encountered somebots like him. "I won't. I'm going to bring you to our new base." The mech shakily grabbed his gun and pointed it to his helm. Ratchet yipped and snatched the gun, "you are not offlining on my watch!" The mech then grabbed his wrist that held his gun. Ratchet yelped and tried to gently pry his servo off, "sir- i-I'm here to help- not to k-kill." The mech's grip was tight, he then used his injured arm and brought ratchet's arm towards his chassis. The gun was pointing at his spark. "W-wait- stop- what are you-?!" But before ratchet could stop him, the mech pulled the trigger with ratchet's servo. Ratchet never imagined it going down like this.

Ratchet couldn't forgive himself, "bumblebee.. I'm so sorry..." the medic hugged the scout tightly. The yellow mech let out a series of clicks before hugging the medic back and patting ratchet's back struts to comfort him. Optimus placed a gentle servo, "you've done your best, ratchet. We understand you're-" "no, you don't!" Ratchet yelled but then froze, realizing he yelled at the autobot leader. He quickly turned and ran to his assigned quarters, the medic was tired, he wanted rest. He needed rest.

End of flashback

Ratchet's mind started to wonder to his first time meeting orion, he remembered how they crashed into each other and just like that. Became friends. Ratchet remembered how orion would cheer him up, invite him to little events happening here and there, he'd take ratchet to some of his favorite spots and with that, ratchet developed feelings for him. He remembered how he was jealous of megatronus and orion until orion had broke up with him. He remembered how orion drowned in guilt but he was there to help orion go through those hardships. He remembered watching orion become optimus and still stood by him, through the betrayal and the war but now. Ratchet cried, they both became intimate and knew optimus had planned to become sparkmates with him after the war was over because the prime had told him of his great plan for the future. Ratchet continued to cry until recharge. He lost hope and feared that the future would become chaos.

'Nothing but madness for cybertron, and then.. more suffrage of our kind til extinction for us all...'

Very sad, welcome to war. Also, i hope y'all are enjoying my book so far. As i said, this is my first time, I'm bad at this slag, and i just want to see more of this ship. Anyways, cya on the next chapter