Optimus x Ratchet

New friend

Ratchet saw a minicon by the control panels and froze as he saw the minicon throw the sword towards him. He watched it whizz by his helm and land into the wall. Ratchet held up his servos and said, "woah- I'm not here to hurt you! Who are you?" The white minicon only squinted his optics before taking out his other sword and stalking up to the medic. Ratchet kept still as he watched the minicon carefully stalk towards him, silence loomed in the atmosphere as the minicon then stuck his sword out to ratchet's chassis. They stared at each other for a long while before the minicon's mask slid back, "my designation is undertone.. are you.. ratchet..?" The medic let out a small vent before nodding, "why are you here, undertone?" The minicon slowly put his sword down and went to retrieve his other sword as he replied, "to escape from this place.. i know there's something wrong with the high council." He then place his swords back in his scabbards as he turned to the doctor, "and you..?" Ratchet answered, "i am actually doing the same thing.." there was some silence before undertone asked, "where would you be going?" "To earth, that's the only place i feel like is the safest.. you?" The minicon shrugged, "anywhere other than here." "Would you like to accompany me to earth then?" The medic asked and the minicon looked to the side, thinking about it, he then looked back at ratchet and gave a nod. Ratchet gave a small nod before heading over to the control panels, he turned them on and typed in some things before saying, "computer.. to earth."

Ratchet and undertone didn't interact too much, the medic tried but the minicon was mostly quiet. The medic ventured the ship and found a brand new back-kit, he put it on and found to like it but preferred his old one of course, but he had to make-do in this situation. The medic walked back to the helm and saw the minicon silently watching the stars pass by, he walked over to the small ninja. "Enjoying the view?" The medic questioned, there was some silence before the smaller replied, "i guess.. sir.. i planned on not making any friends on this.. journey.."  ratchet hummed before saying, "it seems you could use one though."

Time skip since idk much abt undertone's backstory-

Ratchet had a small smile on as he patted the younger's back, "I understand and i think there is wrong with the 'high council'.. they just executed an elite guard with barely any hard proof evidence!" "Yes, I've heard.. his designation was ace, I believe." The medic nodded, "i know bumblebee could've been a big help.. i wonder how my little policebot is doing.." ratchet sighed and undertone hummed, "i hope he wasn't influenced under the high council as well. I have a feeling that we're going to need outside and inside help, if we can.." then suddenly the alarms rang out as the ship shook. "What's going on?!" The minicon asked and the medic replied, "that must mean we're under atta-!" The ship shook again as there were loud shooting noises outside. Ratchet went over to the main control panel and typed in some things and up on the screen showed a decepticon ship. "Decepticons!" "I'm going over to the weapons!" Undertone shouts as he sprinted off to the guns, ratchet watched him go and typed in a few things and muttered, "hopefully these turrets can do some damage." He looked up to see the ship firing lasers and ratchet did his best to maneuver the ship so that they wouldn't be anymore damaged. The ship shook as another shot was connected and continued to fly away as fast as he could. He then saw the decepticon ship getting fired at by undertone, ratchet let out a small vent as he continued to maneuver around and the decepticon ship was taken down. The medic smiled and let the ship go back to autopilot and vented out in relief, he was a nervous wreck but once the con ship was out of sight, he sagged in the captain chair and dragged a servo over his face. "How much i hate this.." he muttered to himself before looking over to see the door open reveal the minicon, the small bot went over to the medic. "Where'd you learn how to drive like that?" Undertone asked and ratchet let out an exaggerated sigh, "an explosive specialist i call a friend.."

Ratchet and undertone shared a cube as they talked a little more, undertone opened up a lot more and ratchet told him his war stories and his relationship with optimus and the two became closer together.

"Ratchet.. I'd be honored to be your partner, sir." Ratchet smiled a little as he patted the minicon's helm, "and I'd be happy to be your friend." The two continued talking about themselves and what they know along with little fun facts. They continued like this for solar-cycles, reaching a stellar-cycle.

What happens next as the journey continues- okay, okay, i get ratchet alone boi and there's no optimus at play but i swear optimus will make an appearance and there will be some drama- well, I'll try writing drama. I'm shit at this- anyways, thanks for the ppl that read this and like my stories. It means a lot to me since I'm terrible at these things, I'm gonna stop talking now and work/post the next chapter sooner or later. Cya