TF Prime Drabbles 9

These Drabbles are unrelated to the previous ones and take place in a completely different plot. Please enjoy!


1. Reunion


Ratchet came through the ground bridge servo in servo with his long ago mate he thought he had once lost. Ironhide seemed a little nervous about seeing the Prime, after all it had been millennia since the two of them had last spoken to each other. Memories of that blasted day started to resurface in Ratchet's processer and he was quick to catch himself before he started bawling like a newly born sparkling. Speaking of sparklings; Ratchet couldn't help but look over to Ironhide's other side where the larger Mech's adopted son clung to his arm afraid if he let go his father would vanish again. Ratchet felt sorry for the little one, it had to be traumatizing to watch your father sacrifice himself so willingly just to save you and others. However now was not the time to relish in the past, the fact that both Ironhide and Chromia were here was a blessing from Primus and spark be dammed if he was going to , as the humans would say, " look a gift horse in the mouth." Ratchet rolled his eyes slightly and muttered to himself about Earth horses not having presents in their mouths. Ironhide, having heard him, gave Ratchet a confused look but shook his helm and just chuckled.
"You keep talking to yer' self darlin' and people gonna think yer' crazy or sumthin'" Ironhide purred into Ratchet's audio.
"Well maybe I am, life on this planet dose that to you." Ratchet snapped back but with more playfulness then his usual grumpy nature.
Ironhide chuckled again and planted a big kiss on Ratchet's derma's, Ratchet took no hesitation before he kissed back savoring every moment of this kiss as he did the first. An annoyed buzzing broke them apart and Ironhide chuckled as Bumblebee tugged at his arm wanting his attention.
"All right, all right, I will pay attention to you too Bee." Ironhide chuckled grabbing Bee up in his arms and holding him at his hip like a sparkling.
Much to Ratchet's surprise Bumblebee did not protest to such an action but embraced his father and nuzzled into his neck cables at Ironhide rubbed his back and whispered soothing words to him.  Ratchet looked away from them and looked instead over at Arcee and Chromia who were sitting together holding one another while their for helms were pressed together. They had once been a triplet team with their sister Elita-One, but Elita was taken by the Decepticons and to this day no one knew what happened to her. The two sitting there looked almost identical to each other if it hadn't been for Chromia's slightly more violet color they would have looked like identical twins. It was different seeing them like this instead of their normal more aggressive nature, but seeing as neither one of them thought they would ever see the other again the reunion was all the more sweeter.
Heavy footsteps filled Ratchet's audios as he looked forward and saw Optimus approaching them.  Ratchet squeezed Ironhide's servo to get his attention away from Bumblebee  and it worked as the Red Mech looked forward at Optimus and put Bumblebee down reluctantly.  Arcee and Chromia stood to great Optimus as well, but Arcee kept her arms wrapped around her sister protectively. Optimus looked at the both of them and smiled, he actually SMILED!? Ratchet was surprised at the Prime's reaction but at the same time it warmed his spark as the fearless leader spoke;
"Welcome home."


2. What happened?


" Start at the beginning I want to hear it all." Optimus stated as they all sat around the base each with a cube of energon.
Ironhide chugged down his cube quickly in a few short gulps and set the empty cube to the side with a sigh of content, " Well I guess it started fer' me when ya'll had to get away and ah' stayed b'hind. The Deceptions s'rounded me and ah' didn't have a way out. They took me prisoner to one of their work camps to mine energon; that's where ah' found Chromia and the others. We all grouped up and started  hatchin' a plan to get out of there and eventually we started a riot. In all the confusion we nabbed us a ship and got the pit out of there! We picked up Wheeljack's signal and followed it here tah' this mud ball. That's pretty much the jist of it."
"Others?" Optimus asked raising an optic ridge.
"Yes, there are more of us here on earth but we lost them when the ship broke in half." Chromia explained speaking for the first time since she arrived. Her optics were trained on her energon though and she refused to make optic contact with anyone.
"How many?"
Chromia said nothing in answer to Ironhide took up the question himself, " There are four more o' us."
"Who?"
"Mirage, the twins, and Perceptor."
Bulkhead chuckled and sipped down a bit of energon, "We're going to need a bigger base."
Optimus looked over at Bulkhead before returning his gaze to Ironhide, " We will need to work immediately to find the rest of them before they are discovered by the humans of this planet."
"Understood. "Ironhide nodded getting up, " Well fire up  yer' ground bridge thingy and we'll go look fer' em'. "
Ratchet stood up and grabbed Ironhide's arm, " Oh no you don't! You just got here and it's still my creation day you are going to stay. As your physician I am scheduling you and Chromia both a solid day of rest."
Ironhide smirked and leaned close making sure ratchet was the only one who heard him. " Darlin' if ah'm with you there won't be no restin' goin' on."
Ratchet's face plate lit up with a bright red blush as he looked at the floor.
"Ratchet is right, with the two of you just arriving it would be best if you stayed here and rested. Bumblebee , Bulkhead. You will both come with me and we will see if we can track down the other half of the ship and the others."
Bee let out a high pitched squeal whine and clung onto Ironhide's other arm as he begged to stay with Ironhide as well. Ironhide chuckled and patted his helm, "Come on Bee a warrior doesn't disobey an order, and yah' want to be like oll' 'hide right?"
Bee looked up at his father his big blue eyes sparkling with adoration as he beeped in agreement and nodded his helm franticly. Bee rushed over to Optimus side ready to go and prove to his father he could be a great warrior. Ironhide smiled proudly as Bumblebee showed so much enthusiasm and ratchet could feel his spark melting in its chamber. Ironhide was a great father and if the war had never started he and Ratchet could have had a big family with a big bunch of little sparklings always under foot. The thought made Ratchet a little sad that it could never happen now; that experiment he had done with synthetic energon had left him unable to carry a sparkling. He refused to tell Optimus what it had done and even kept the test stuff under lock and key away from Bumblebee and Arcee not wanting to doom them to his fate. Ironhide seemed to feel his sadness and hugged Ratchet close.
"Why don't you show me to your room that way we can 'recharge'." The wrecker suggested  with a wink.
Ratchet smiled and left his thoughts of a family behind as he and Ironhide went back to his room to really celebrate his creation day.


3. Brothers….


Aboard the Nemesis hovering miles above the earths surface covered by the clouds a lonely medic sat in his med bay bored and grounded after being caught in another street race. Breakdown was with the Drones in the mess hall chugging high grade while Knock Out watched him on one of the security cameras.  He knew Breakdown could drink almost the whole army under the table but he was an affectionate drunk and Knock Out really wasn't in the mood tonight. He turned off the camera and turns around in his chair to see Soundwave looming behind him in the shadows.
"Hello creepy how are you today?" Knock Out mused not expecting an answer out of the silent mech.
As expected Soundwave didn't make a sound but just continued to stare, Knock Out began to wonder if the TIC was actually in recharge behind the mask of his. The red medic got up and walked to the side of Soundwave into what would be considered his blind spot. The silent mech's face plate didn't follow him giving Knock Out the impression that he really was in recharge. Knock Out bit his glossa to suppress some laughter welling up inside him. He smirked a little at the perfect opportunity this presented as he reached out his servo to unclasp Soundwave's mask.
Suddenly there was a twinge in his spark. His eyes widened as he felt a connection that had been lost for eons; the spark connection of his brother. Meaning that he was here on earth.  A cold smirk crossed over his dermas and he tapped Soundwave's shoulder softy. The Silent mech jumped slightly in surprise and looked over at him.
"Soundwave I need you to track an uncloaked Autobot, use my CNA signature as a base in your search." Knock Out ordered.
Soundwave just stared at his for a moment before his face screen lit up with a scanning map of earth and began to scan for similar CNA scans to Knock Out's own.  Knock Out waited patiently and finally Soundwave showed a map and the exact coordinates of the signal they had been searching for.  Knock Out smirked more and chuckled under his breath.
"Brother, brother, no one to save you here. I will make sure you suffer for all you did to my paint job."