TFA Drabbles 9

TFA Drabbles

Pairing: Jena x Ratchet (Friendship)

Title: Old Memories



"Slag!" Jena cried out as she nearly slipped again

"Take it easy, kid. We're almost there." Ratchet encouraged

Jena had one arm slug over Ratchet's shoulders as he helped her walk to the medbay. They had been battling Lugnut and Blitzwing till Jena's leg got hit by one of Lugnut's missiles. Since she couldn't do much without her leg functioning, Optimus had ordered Ratchet to take her back to the base and try to fix her up. With some difficulty they managed to make it there. Ratchet picked Jena up and set her down onto the berth before turning around to get some of his tools.

"Alright, kid. Let's have a look at that leg."

Jena managed to painfully stretch her left leg out. With a quick glance, Jena's leg looked in really bad shape. There was a pretty good sized dent in side where the missile must have hit along with part of her armor had split open up by her knee joint, revealing a loose wire that was cackling with sparks of electricity. It seem that Jena must have moved out of the way enough that if she hadn't her leg from the knee down would have been completely blown off.

Ratchet sort of looked in shock at her injury something about it looked so…familiar. A flashback started occurring in his head.

"Something wrong doc…I can't move my leg" The pink and white femme said

A younger looking Ratchet brings his servo up to her leg, but quickly pulls back as it zaps him "Ow! Well for starters you're in shock."

The femme lies back looking very weak "Stay with me now." He starts to examine her optics "What's your name, soldier?"

"Ar…Arcee sir" She stammers

"Don't call me sir!" He somewhat snaps "I work for a living!" He changes his voice to a gentler tone "The names Ratchet got that?"

"Yes sir…yes Ratchet." Arcee smiles faintly at him

"Ratchet?" Jena's voice snaps Ratchet out of his thoughts "Ratchet are you okay?"

"Uh…I'm fine, kid. Just kind of dozed off there for a moment." Ratchet starts to repair her leg

Jena looked at the older mech carefully when he had that blank look on his face; he had that far way look in his optics. The look people get when they remember something that happened in the past. Jena couldn't help but wonder what he had been thinking about.

"Ratchet what were you thinking about just now?"

The medic paused in his work. The only one he ever told about his past was Optimus and he wasn't sure if he could ever tell anyone again. But he knew Jena was pretty smart maybe she could understand it was well as Prime did. Besides he didn't really feel like lying to her.

"Just thinking about something that happened a long time ago, kid."

"What was it?"

Ratchet took a big intake as he prepared to tell his story once more, but still continued to work on Jena's leg "Back during the Great Wars I had a mission to help find an intelligence officer named Arcee. She was carrying to the activation codes to Omega Supreme."

"Omega Supreme?" Jena took a moment to think "Wasn't he the reason the Autobots won the war?"

"That's right. Omega Supreme was designed to be the ultimate weapon against the Decepticons." Ratchet then continued on with his pervious story "Anyways I did manage to find her, but things didn't go quite like I planed."

"What happened?" Jena asked, getting into the story

"Well I took her down through the old tunnels and we ran into that bounty hunter, Lockdown. He captured us and took my E.M.P generator as one of his trophies." Ratchet explains "But Arcee managed to get it back to me that's when the real problem started.

As Lockdown adjusted the tables Ratchet and Arcee were strapped on, Arcee saw the generator and kicked it to Ratchet, who managed to catch it before it fell.

"Use it on me. Full blast, wipe my memory core." Arcee pleaded to Ratchet

"What!" Ratchet was in shock "Arcee, no-"

"Ratchet," Arcee interrupted "The access codes in my processer are crucial to the war effort. If Megatron gets them-"

Lockdown finally turns around, noticing something was wrong "Huh? What the-"

Ratchet struggles as he manages to get his arm free enough to lift it up, but Lockdown fights him back by grabbing his wrist. But then Ratchet pulled the trigger causing a huge pulse of energy to not only hit Lockdown, but shutdown his entire ship.

"You're overloading the E.M.P!" Ratchet yells

"After that we managed to escape Lockdown's ship. The only problem was that when we got out, Arcee's memory was completely wiped clean."

"So she forgot everything that happened to her?"

"She didn't even know who she was after that accident." Ratchet says sadly

"That's awful. What happened after that?"

"I took Arcee to the Elite Guard and tried see if I could recover the access codes from her processer, but somehow she manage to transfer all her information to me." Ratchet explains "So I had to be the one to help control Omega Supreme."

"Wait if you got the activation codes, then what happened to Arcee?" Jena asked

"My guess is that she's probably at the medical institution with everyone trying to get her memory back."

"Ratchet…do you think they'll be able to succeed?"

Ratchet sighs sadly "I don't know, kid. It may be possible, but for now it seems to be irreversible." Ratchet closes his optics "But I can't even begin to tell you how much I blame myself for what happened. So many times I wish I could take it all back."

There was a long pause of eerie between the two of them before Jena placed her servo of the old medic's shoulders "Ratchet, you shouldn't blame yourself for what happened. We all make mistakes sometime in our lives, but when we make mistakes…we have to learn from them so that we don't make them again." Ratchet looks up at the blue and brown femme "I know it seems like there's no way Arcee can get her memory back, but you just need to have a little faith. Who knows maybe someday she will remember again."

Ratchet surprisingly showed one of his rare kind smiles and places his servo over hers "Thank you, Jena. I really needed that."

"You're welcome Ratchet."

Ratchet finishes up a few minor touches on Jena's injury "There you go, kid. Just don't push yourself too hard and your leg will be fine."

"Okay" Jena gets off the berth when they here the sound of someone entering the base "Sounds like the others are back. Better go tell them we're okay" Jena turns to Ratchet "You coming?"

"In minute I just need to put a few things away. You go ahead without me."

"Kay" Jena starts to leave, but pauses "Hey, Ratchet?"

Ratchet turns to look at her "Yes, Jena?"

"Thanks for everything." She smiles warmly

Ratchet smiles back "You're welcome, kid."

As Jena leaves, Ratchet puts away the rest of his supplies. Thinking about what Jena had said to him did make him feel a little better. Maybe she was right, maybe he just needed to keep up a little faith. As he left the medbay, he thought 'Don't worry, Arcee. Someday… I'll bring you back.'