#dratchet buddy

[in1-nutshell]

I'M SORRY!! But can i request Buddy who's Dratchet's kid ending up in Fearless universe??

At the first moment that they see one another, they are besties.

But what would be the other reactions to them?? At first they don’t say anything about their dimension, dying to know the new one. But after a while they end up opening up and telling them from the adoption to the court problem and what their bio parents did.

What would be the other reaction to this? How is dratchet going to react??

The two human's of the Lost Light finally meet!

Hope you enjoy!

Dratchet's kid meeting Fearless

SFW, Platonic, Familial, Human reader

MTMTE

Fearless was seriously considering asking Brainstorm for a radar to detect where these random interdimensional portals would pop up.

For their sake and for the sake of their now crushed spine.

At least this time they were human.

The new human quickly got off Fearless’s back looking slightly panicked.

Fearless sits up, slightly groaning from the pain in their back. Fearless: “Hey kid, calm down, you’re safe here.” The kid looks around slightly frantic: “Am I on the Lost Light?” Fearless raises their eyebrow: “Yeah? You must be from a universe that also has a Lost Light.” The human looks at them confused: “What do you mean ‘universe’?” Fearless: “Before that, what’s your name? I’m Fearless.” The other human’s eyes widen a bit: “Fearless?” Fearless: “Yeah, not my Earth name. Haven’t used that name in a while. Its more—” The human smiles: “—a nickname that just stuck?” Fearless: “Yeah, I’m assuming that you got one too?” The human nods: “Whirl gave me the nickname Dratchet.” Fearless smiles widely: “Whirl gave you a name too!” Dratchet smiles back. Maybe this wasn’t going to be too bad…

Things were much smoother in explaining the interdimensional portals.

Mainly because Dratchet had been studying portals with Brainstorm a few days ago.

Fearless immediately wanted to show Dratchet around the ship.

Dratchet was bouncing around happily at the proposal wanting to know everything about this universe and how it was different from their own.

Strange enough, it took a while for anyone to notice that there was another human on board.

Mainly because Whirl found out about the new human and insisted carrying the pair in his cockpit.

He also wanted to see how long it would take for someone to notice the human.

It lasted for a good two hours before whirl got bored and decided to give the new human a proper dramatic entrance.

At Swerve’s…

Whirl marches up to the booth where Megatron is. He looks up. Megatron: “Whirl, do you need something?” Whirl: “Yes, the child support.” Megatron: “What?” Whirl pops open his cockpit revealing Fearless and Dratchet, both who smile and wave happily. Whirl: “Say hello to your new kid!” Dratchet looking up at him. Dratchet: “Megs isn’t my dad Whirl. Wrong mechs.” Megatron finally processes that there is a new human. Megatron sighs defeatedly: “A portal?” Fearless: “A portal.”

Surely after that the entire bar moved in to get a look at the new human.

Dratchet was having the time of their life meeting these alternate versions of their family.

Spouting stories from their universe while also listening in on the stories from this universe.

Whirl: “Hey tiny.” Dratchet looks up at Whirl. Dratchet: “Yeah? What’s up?” Whirl: “You mentioned earlier that Megatron here wasn’t your dad. So… how is it?” Dratchet smirks. Dratchet: “Why don’t you guess?” They glance over at Drift and Ratchet before looking back at the crowd. Dratchet: “Any guess? Anyone?” Riptide: “Brainstorm and Perceptor.” Dratchet gives him a look. Dratchet: “No.” Pipes: “Thunderclash and Rodimus.” *Faint sounds of Rodimus puking in the background* Dratchet looks slightly appalled: “What? No! You know what, don’t try and guess--”  Nightbeat: “Ratchet and Drift.” Dratchet: “…” They look over at the pair and shyly wave. Drift was the first to make a move and walks over followed by Ratchet. Drift: “So, you’re our…” Dratchet: “I’m your kid, yeah—” Drift lifts them up and pulls them into a hug turning to Ratchet. Drift: “We have a kid!” Ratchet lets out a soft smile and nods. Tailgate nudges at the detective: “How did you—” Nightbeat: “Their name is a mix of their own. It was obvious.”

After the reveal, Dratchet tells the crew about how they became Drift and Ratchet’s kid and the emotional rollercoaster of what happened when they returned to Earth.

On a day that was supposed to be full of fun, turn to one to decide the future custody of the child.

Drift and Ratchet did tense a bit hearing the tale of the court room.

Of course, Dratchet wasn’t their kid, but they also couldn’t imagine what was going through their counter parts helms when they were in that court room.

The pair had their fair share of parenting with Fearless, but they couldn’t imagine having a kid of their own.

Maybe in the future?

Who knows when you’re traveling on the Lost Light.

Dratchet does make it clear that if their presence does bother the pair to let them know.

It backfires and now Dratchet is spending most of their time with their parents’ alternatives.

It pains the pair to say goodbye to the kid when they have to leave, but they can also imagine the near hysteria their counterparts must been trying to find their kid after a few days.

In Dratchet’s universe…

Dratchet lands on top of a sleeping Rodimus. Rodimus jolts up nearly knocking the human off his chassis. He quickly catches them before they hit the ground. Rodimus: “Dratchet?!” Dratchet smiles as they are pulled into the captains’ chassis. Rodimus: “Where have you been?! We’ve been search all over the ship for you!” Dratchet: “Well there was this—HEY!” Rodimus jumps out of his berth, transforms and starts speeding off while Dratchet was clutching onto their seatbelt for dear life. Dratchet: “RODDY! SLOW DOWN!” Rodimus making several quick turns. He stops in front a familiar habsuite door. He transforms, holding Dratchet in one servo and begins knocking on the door with much urgency. Drift is at the door with a sword in his servo. Drift: “Rodimus! What in Primus’s name are…” He looks at Dratchet in his friend’s servo waving. Dratchet: “Hey Drift.” A small noise creeps from Drift’s voicebox as he drops his sword. Ratchet comes from behind him. Ratchet: “Drift what—Dratchet? Dratchet!” Ratchet reaches over and gets the small human in his servos, holding them close to his chassis. Dratchet tries and gives him the biggest hug they could. Drift: “Where did you find them?” Rodimus shrugs: “They literally fell on my chassis.” Dratchet yawning: “I’ll explain everything after a nap, yeah?” All three mech nod. Rodimus returns to his room as Drift closes the door. Ratchet is look around for any injuries. Dratchet hugs his digit: “I’m fine Ratchet.” The medic huffs as he settles back in the berth. Drift follows closely and places a servo over them. Drift: “You have some explaining to do kiddo.” Dratchet yawns and rest on the pair’s servos. Dratchet: “Later… Sleep now…” And with that all three of them went into a peaceful sleep.

[sweet7simple]

More Than Meets the Eye: Volume 8, Issues #39 & 40 (Spoilers)

Food for the Dratchet fans because if I feed you, I am hopeful you will feed me.

So there was that whole debacle where the Lost Light split in two and the DJD massacred everyone on one of the ships, right?

Y'all, Drift and Ratchet fought together and died together on that ship. Drift tried to protect Ratchet from the goddamn DJD. He failed, but he tried.

(Issue #39)

(More under cut, prepare for some robo gore)

(Issue #32)

I don't know who that third robot is, to be honest.

Next up in Volume 8, we have:

How Ratchet reacts after Brainstorm's trial following the whole, "poisoning the crew and going back in time to kill Megatron and, also, an alternate version of me called the DJD to the ship where they promptly murdered everyone including Brainstorm" incidences (Brainstorm was allowed to stay on the ship and continue his experiments with supervision, essentially).

(Issue #40)

Below, Ratchet bonding with Ten:

He's talking about Drift.

HE MADE DRIFT. C'MON, LITTLE BUDDY, WE'RE GONNA GO GET OUR BOY BACK.

So we can assume, then, that the events of Empire of Stone take place during the issues following #40.

[mychlapci]

No smut, neither a super adventure. Just the side story of Ratchet and Drift being the sweetest couple.

Since they conjunxed (and Ratchet’s retirements) they’ve changed a lot:

Drift is more sure of himself, less burden by guilt. He’s not a doormat anymore, he will not go the extra mile to let others feel at ease with him, either you like him or don’t. A little part of Deadlock is now unleashed, he’s not hiding his claws and fangs, he will growl and threaten with posturing and glares… with that said, he’s also comfortable into showing his love for Ratchet in public spaces. The sit close, side touching, and if Ratchet happens to seat himself a little too far, Drift will grab him by the middle and pull him closer, one hand around Ratchet’s back, touching, soothing the both of them. Their hands are constantly intertwined, like they both can’t stand to be too far.

Ratchet is more relaxed, with no more stress from exhausting shifts and the constant suffer/death surrounding them. He would sigh and lean against Drift, giving the both of them the comfort they need. His field almost constantly mingling with Drift’s, both filled with love and devotion.

And when Ratchet starts to carry, Drift would be found constantly at his side, hands around his pregnant wife, touching his belly and proudly showing around what they made.

Aaaaa you're on thin ice with that last part, buddy, almost in violation of celibacy week, but I can excuse it. Not everyone considers it sexy. We'll let it slip. It's cute. Drift and Ratchet deserve to be happy about their sparklings...

hrggh I just love dratchet so much, I want to imagine them healing each other, bit by bit... Obviously they're still old pricks, but they're both comfortable now. Comfortable with themselves, and with each other..

[starscoffeecreamer]

Rodimus gaining weight after pushing out Minimegs and dratchets sparklings? They were twins with all fours cna but minimegs looked more like them and same for Dratchet.

He feels insecure because now he has plush hips thighs and a tummy pouch he tries to hide but can’t. He hates it but they love it!

The ways they each comfort him sfw/nsfw

Ohhh that's adorable I'm imagining the babies rn

Sfw:

Ratchet and Minimus are always massaging his plush thighs, telling him how beautiful he is.

Drift and Megs use him as a cuddle buddy a bunch, and Drift tells him the baby weight makes him more cuddleable.

Megatron whispers the sweetest poetry into Roddy's audials praising him for doing such a good job with the Sparklings and that he looks adorable with the baby weight

They get him cute dresses that fit perfectly on his frame (I love giving transformers clothes)

Nsfw:

All four of them squeeze and gently massage his thighs and belly, and praise him all the while

Most of their interface is them reassuring him that he's lovely and praising him

They get him pretty lingerie too

[heliopauseentertainments]

I wish you would right a fic where...

someone's repeated refusal to approve a key bit of paperwork is either a running gag or a key plot point...

jariktig asked:

"write, apologies, not right"

Don't worry, buddy; it's cool.

As for the premise, I'm pretty sure I've written something already that contains that sort of administrative blockage as a plot point, but I think the approval flow didn't really feature as more than thin pretext for, uh, a more adult piece.

Actually, I do a lot administrative paperwork in my actual career, so I use it frequently as a device (Rodimus making Megatron approve conjunxual licenses in the one Dratchet fic I did because he doesn't want to do it, Rodimus making changes to the approval flow to spite previous aesthetic choices Megatron has made, lack of follow through on repairs post-approval leads to the resolution in The Hollow Man, etc.) but never as the focus. Hm.

How would it look as the focus (and not a pretext for shenanigans)? I wonder.

No warnings apply unless you count dubiously ethical requisitions on discretionary funds.

--

The commlink beeped happily as it finished booting up on Starscream's desk, ready to make any long distance call that the emperor so desired.

Starscream had known, of course, that after taking power, he would need to install some sort of administrative system to keep society... or rather the government running effectively. Millions of years of playing a leading role in the development of the Decepticon command and legal structures wouldn't go to waste.

Even if he had never been a particularly popular figure, outside of the elections, no one could dare to call him "unqualified" for the position of emperor. He had the necessary credentials in spades; even Megatron had agreed back when during the war.

Starscream clenched his jaw as he started entering the frequency to a ship that he really wished he didn't have memorized.

While copying over a lot of the Decepticon legal structures (and swapping out some labels as necessary) had been a useful stopgap measure, merging some of it with the ad hoc policies of Bumblebee's provisional government, rather than trying to build an entirely new system from the ground up, there was... a fatal flaw.

Both the provisional government's codes and the Decepticons' had themselves been built from the ground up, developed as needed and patchworked together. Some components were useless when taken out of their original systems. Specifically the approval bottlenecks formed by both incredibly centralized systems with limited backup approvers.

The commlink hummed as it dialed... connecting... waiting....

The viewscreen mounted in the wall behind the commlink flicked on, showing a stoic Ultra Magnus, the regrettably familiar Lost Light's command office in the background.

"Ah, Your Imperial Majesty, to what do I owe the pleasure?"

And some fool who had worked on importing the approval routing logic had forgotten to replace a certain name in this one side process: reimbursement, requisition, and procurement of any goods using Starscream's personal discretionary funds. Things that would be a rubber stamp approval. "Yes," Starscream replied, sighing in resignation, "Where is Megatron? I need him to approve my requisition for... certain goods." Polish, nominally for guests at his palace. But they were purchased on discretionary funds, after all, so it was no matter. "Again."

[tinkertoysdamn]

A random thing I found in Notes: a Transformers Prime era Dratchet fic I will never finish!

“I’m on monitor duty,” Ratchet said, “Don’t expect—“

A loud ping cut off his rant. “An Autobot signal.” Ratchet’s fingers flew to the touchscreen. His optics flashed in surprise. “It’s Drift.”

Bulkhead and Wheeljack shared a knowing look, that was a name they hadn’t heard in a while.

Ratchet moved fast. “I’m bringing him in.”

“Who’s Drift?” Miko asked.

Miko was Bulkhead’s charge, Wheeljack would leave the talking to him.

“Well, uh,” Bulkhead looked to Wheeljack for help. None was coming. “He’s a former Wrecker, great shot, good with a sword—“

Miko smiled. “Like Wheeljack.”

“He’s nothing like me!” Wheeljack snapped.

Another human would have shrink away from the outburst, but not Miko. She had stood up to far worse than a pissy Autobot.

“Uh huh.” Miko swiveled on her butt. “Hey Arcee,” she called out, “why are the guys so upset about this Drift?”

Arcee made a “keep quiet” gesture. “He was a Decepticon once.”

Miko’s eyebrows crawled all the way up to her hairline. “Really?” She practically squeaked she was so excited about the gossip. “But he switched to the good guys, right?”

“Yeah,” Bulkhead admitted, “he did.”

“Then what’s the problem?”

Wheeljack scowled, some wounds still felt fresh after all this time. “He offlined a lot of our friends before switching badges.”

“We probably offlined a lot of his buddies too,” Bulkhead pointed out.

This was all confusing to Miko. “Then why—“

This was a question Arcee could answer. “Technoism.”

A shiver went up Bulkhead’s spine at the mere mention of it.

Undeterred, Miko continued her line of inquiry.

“Technoism is belief that cybernetic organisms are superior to organics,” Arcee said, “and that the only pure universe is one without sentient organics in it.”

The implication struck Miko hard. “No.”

“Deadlock was a true believer in the Decepticon cause,” Arcee said.

“Enough to kill his own kind over it,” Wheeljack said, “but when Megatron started targeting other races—“

Miko was starting to understand. “He became an Autobot.”

“It took the threat of genocide to wake him up.”

“He still woke up,” Bulkhead said. “How many other ‘cons decided that it was okay?”

[sphnyspinspin]

hfsakkjsss I love your TF fan continuety already

I just want to know if maybe some TFRB characters will appear and if you will create a new blog for posting this so everything is more eassy to manage.

Bay!

To be honest, I don’t want to write any humans into the story. That includes people from Griffin Rock. Well, I might make the professors - yes I’m adding in the OG professors Heatwave, Blades, Boulder, Chase, Grimlock, and Bumblebee - mention their human partners. What I mean by this is, I want the Academy to take place on Cybertron instead of Earth. Because I want to pull the aspect of Cyberverse humans memeing the heck out of these guys instead of being freaked out, in since I loved it so much. The professors are still BFFs with their partners and Griffin Rock, it’s just that the Academy won’t be there. I know for a fact I want to add in the Burns, the Greenes, and definitely the Pinches, but that’s like waaaaaaaaay farther into the story. Right now I’m focusing on the recruits going to the Academy on Cybertron. Also Quickshadow, Hightide, Blurr, Salvage, Sideswipe, and Strongarm. I know not that many like RiD but I feel like I could do something with Sideswipe and Strongarm being like interns for Bee and Wedge meeting them. I also want to add in Drfit with his mini cons, but I’ll 100% change the minicons’ names and give them a better Drift. Dratchet 4 life my guy.

And now that you mention it, maybe a separate blog would be easier to manage. I’ll keep that in mind buddy.

THANKS FOR THE ASK!!!

[siberstudios]

I actually did something for Dratchet Week!

Day One: Contentment.

I tried a few things with my art with this piece. Was def fun to color in a more dramatic shaded piece (also more challenging). But have a Drift and Ratchet happily snuggling as they watch a nature vid before recharge.

Many thankx for my buddies for giving opinions and help with this piece!

[blitzy-blitzwing]

Your Dratchet comic makes me feel so happy wkfnwbw 😭😭 Ratchet has always deserved a good rest (and of course spend more time with his boyfriend 😌)

(Whirl's a mood)

Eeeey, glad you enjoyed it, buddy!! :D

Whirl is all of us.

[siberat]

Thoughts on transformers being lardy in both forms?

Its honesty not something I usually think of on a normal basis, but more thought had gone towards it thanks to yet another online buddy I have.

I usually don't write/draw much alt modes scenerios in general. I do have a little tidbit coming up in my dratchet fic, but since ratchet isnt too chubbed up at that point, there isn't much mention of his alt mode being fat looking.

I'm not against it, there are fun scenerios that come with it- like where would all the chub go? Well, seat cushions for starters. I can also imagine some of th epaneling on the inside budlging outwards. As far as outside of the vehicle, tired taking on an over inflated shape. And if you really want to chub up the outside of the vehicle then the paneling there would be inflated- puffed up hood, bulging trunk, and the classic swelled midsection between the tires.

And you can bank on some smelly exhaust pooting out the exhaust pipe.

:D

[baebeyza]

Heya! ~

First of all, thank you for everyone who voted! Didn’t expect 44 people and it sure helped me in places to decide on things and being able to think of more plot :D

Lemme just go through all the questions under the cut:

1. Big or small cast?  Big cast but only caring about few does suit me! If it were a small cast, I’d probably have gone with a plot structure similar to Beast Wars. Like this, I can make the premise more like TFA (the premise is like TFA in a lot of ways btw).

And it does suit me as well to not have to figure out an arc for too many characters, I don’t want this whole thing to be too long. 

2. From which continuity would you like characters? This is a little hard to decipher, but suffice to say, most people want more G1 characters. Beast Wars and Japanese G1 have more votes as well! To Beast Wars: I love Beast Wars and its characters, however, I do not like to draw them. Their designs are cool and it’s not like I can’t draw them, I just prefer not to. So if I were to bring Beast Wars characters into this, I would change their designs for me to feel more comfortable drawing them. On another note, I also don’t like drawing animals (at all) so I’d probably give them a mechanic alt-mode with animal features in their robot mode (like the Breast Force in Victory)

As for Japanese G1, I do have quite a few planned! ~ As for G1 characters which never appear in another show...gotta say, most of those I don’t care for either. Some I do, but most not. Might bring them in somehow, but don’t expect them to have bigger roles. (exceptions exist, like Springer, love me the dude!)

3. Choose a dead Prime who ruled before Optimus! Sentinel won! Did like some of the extra choices as well though, like Prowl. Also noteworthy to me, no one voted for Arcee xD Guess no one wanted her dead.

4. Choose an Optimus Prime squad! So, for this I wanted to pick the two most voted guys and girls! And coincidentally, those happen to be the most of voted of them all! For guys, we have Jazz (not surprised by this) and Hot Rod, and for the girls, Elita and Arcee.

Guess that’ll be the squad.

Also, note here: A few people voted Ratchet as a custom answer and do not fret! He will be in this! This Optimus squad is simply a little group of Optimus and his close friends, and since I want to have a young Oppy, I want his friends to be in the same age range. On the same note, just because some characters aren’t in the friend group, doesn’t mean they won’t appear at all. Windblade and Jetfire for example are gonna be in this!

5. Choose a Megatron squad! This is about Megatron’s generals btw - characters who aren’t in this group can still appear! (examples are Cyclonus, Megaempress and Sixshot)

And again I want to choose equal part guys and girls, so for the guys, it’s Soundwave (boy getting loved I see), Starscream and Shockwave, and for the ladies, we have Nightbird, Blackarachnia and Strika.

A little note here: Because a friend commented on this I wanna make it clear: Drift/Deadlock will be based on the Aligned version, NOT on the IDW version. I had made it clear in the poll that I don’t like IDW1. (which I guess some people didn’t read, given that Tarn was given as a custom answer)

6. One love is story is planned, want any more?

I feel like I should have specified who the love story is about - It is about Megatron and Ultra Magnus. Big time. As for the answers, yes I can live them all! They don’t contradict each other anyway :D

7. Any ships you wanna see in this? Okay, the tricky stuff - as I said, the main love story is Megatron x Ultra Magnus, so any ship-wish that includes Megatron or Magnus here, sorry, not happening. I mean most don’t care, but for those who do:

- Dratchet: I know it’s an IDW thing, I can still think of something with the versions I have in mind if you still want that. - Windstream: Friends of mine wanted this, and I will try my best to make something nice out of it!

- JazzWave: Gotta see, so far I wouldn’t know how to include it

- Giving Arcee love: Got something nice and sapphic planned for her!

- Optimus/Elita: Again a friend wanted this, and I too would like to see them in a truly romantic light, so I’m going to include it!

- Happy ones, for the bad guys as well: Hell yeah! - Simpatico: I do not have Percy or Brainstorm planned in this

- Hot Rod/Arcee: I had another idea for Arcee, sorry! - Anything with Jazz: Good to know, if I can’t make it work with Soundwave, I’ll try with someone else (Hot Rod perhaps)

- Strika/Lugnut: Why not? Something in the background, as I have no plans for Lugnut - Windscream: Thing is, there are people who had this ship in the “Do not want” question that follows. Personally, I am indifferent to this ship, but since more people don’t want it (and because I have plans for Windstream), I’m going to pass on this. WaveWave: Gonna see how it goes with Jazz!

8. Anything you don’t want? Most people don’t care, which is nice, as for the things people listed: - Sparklings: Never planned them anyway, I want to go for something else to get parent/child dynamics. - Windscream, MegaStar, MegOP: See upwards, not going to happen here, same with DooP, since I wanna go with OpLita - “If functionalism exists, please don’t make the oppressed characters the villains for fighting back”: NO WORRIES, IS NOT PLANNED! Megatron’s backstory has no freedom fighter motive whatsoever. - Manipulative/abusive ships: Not planned - Bumblebee: Good luck, buddy, I didn’t have him planned either! xD - Slash: Tough luck, buddy, this will be one hell of a MagsMegs ride!

- Negativity directed at me: Thanks, pal! I do not wish for that either! :>

ALRIGHT, that would be it!

Again thanks for everyone who voted! I do hope to start with this in the near future and I hope it will be something enjoyable! <3 If there are questions about this, go ahead! <3 I’d be delighted :>

[in1-nutshell]

For the Ratchet and Drift adoption battle.  

The Lost light ends up on earth for some reason.  And trouble appears, Buddy’s birthparents.  Coming out of the woodwork demanding to see their child.  Now, depending on how long Buddy has been in the system, the state may have already relinquished their parental rights, but it does bring up another problem, by cybertron standards, Buddy is legally Drifts and Ratchets, Earth standards, less so.

This is just the start of an idea.  Maybe it's angst and the parents are a piece of shit who want the child who they abandoned back for some really selfish reason.  Maybe the parents truly do want some relationship with their child and poor buddy is just stuck in between the family that loves them and the family who they spent their life wishing loved them.

Maybe I just want the lost light to turn this custody battle into a fucking kangaro court.  They show up in their holoforms and Rodimus starts to boo whenever the birth parents try to say something.  He’s kicked out and the court goes into recess as they try and figure out how to hold him in contempt of court.  Luckily a good part of the remaining crew have assembled to always have someone audibly cough whenever birth parents try to speak.  Nevermind the fact that none of them even really need to breathe, holoform or no holoform.  And Ultra Magnus is acting as their attorney.  That's all I got.

The bio parents were done for the moment Magnus took on the case.

Hope you enjoy!

Human Buddy (Dratchet's kid) meeting their bio parents again

SFW, Platonic, Familial, Slight angst, Human reader

MTMTE

The ship had docked again on Earth for a mandatory, in-person, meeting that Buddy needed to go as liaison of the Lost Light.

It was something simple check in that honestly could have been done online but there wasn’t any harm in some sightseeing. Many of the bots on the ship hadn’t been on Earth or hadn’t been there in a while and wanted to look around.

Buddy stayed with Drift and Ratchet.

Before they headed back to the ship, Buddy wanted to show their bot parents one of their favorite parks they used to go to feed the pigeons.

Ratchet napped in the parking lot, while Drift activated his holoform to go after Buddy.

After a bit Drift started heading back to his alt mode with Buddy trailing behind after forgetting their water bottle at the bench.

Buddy walking back to Drift alt mode.

“Hey kiddo!”

“Buddy turns around and freezes as their face collides with someone’s chest.

A familiar chest.

They push themselves off the person as another person comes up too.

“Mom? Dad? What are you doing here?”--Buddy

“That’s what I’d like to know.”--Drift

Buddy looks behind them to see Drift’s holoform marching up to Buddy.

He gently places his hand on their shoulder and looks at the two humans.

“A who might you be?”--Drift

“I’m their father.”--Dad

“And I’m their mother.”--Mom

Drift raises his eyebrows.

“Buddy are they…”--Drift

“My biological parents? Yes, and I thought I’d never see you again after you put me in the system.”--Buddy

Neither of the parents get the little hint of venom in their voice.

“Well, we’re here now! And its time to take you home—”--Mom

“Take them home?”--Drift

“Take me home?”--Buddy

“That’s right Pal—”--Dad

“My name is Buddy.”--Buddy

“Whatever, we’re going home now, so if you’d just come here.”--Dad

The ‘Dad’ tries to grab Buddy’s wrist, but Drift pushes Buddy back.

The ‘Dad’ narrows his eyes at Drift.

“Are we going to have a problem here?”--Dad

Drift narrows his eyes as well.

“I think we are.”--Drift

Buddy’s eyes widen.

“Listen everyone, HE is legally my main guardian. Has been with my other guardian for a while now.”--Buddy

The ‘Mom’ huffs.

“Well until WE see the paperwork, if its not justified by the court here then its null and void for us. Now get over here and—”--Mom

“And what’s happening here?”--Ratchet

Buddy smiled at Ratchet’s holoform coming overlooking more annoyed than usual.

“These are Buddy’s biological parents.”--Drift

Ratchet’s eyes narrow and stands by Buddy’s side.

“The parents that put you in the system?”—Ratchet

“Yep.”--Buddy

The ‘Mom’ starts getting more annoyed.

“That’s in the past and we’ve already settled a court order to get Pal—”--Mom

“Buddy.”—Buddy, Drift and Ratchet

“—Back to us.”--Mom

Ratchet turns to Buddy.

“Wait in the ambulance.”--Ratchet

“But—”--Buddy

“Kid, trust me. We need to have a chat with your ‘parents’.”--Ratchet

Buddy looks at them all before walking to Ratchet’s alt mode.

Buddy wordlessly goes to the ambulance while the muffled yelling was heard outside.

They just strap themselves in the back and hug themselves tightly.

Everything went so fast…

They felt their seatbelt tighten.

It’s a heavy quiet on the drive back to the ship.

When they transformed Ratchet passed them to Drift who just holds them to his chassis.

A crew meeting was called.

“So, Buddy’s bio parents want them back because, and I quote ‘We want to embrace them once again!’. Am I missing something?”--Rodimus

“That’s about it.”--Drift

Half of the bots laugh.

“Good luck with that! Buddy’s legally Dratchet’s kid!”--Whirl

“Whirl we’ve talked about the name—”--Cyclonus

“Yeah! They’re Dratchet’s kid!”--Tailgate

“…Why do I even bother with you?”--Cyclonus

“But they did bring up a point, Earth courts and legal system don’t see Buddy as their kid. Meaning to them, Buddy’s still in the system. And if they play their cards right…”--Megatron

Drift and Ratchet stiffen at the thought.

The crew starts talking amongst themselves but all feel angry at this revelation.

“We can’t let that happen!”--Nautica

“That’s why we’re going to court to fight for Buddy’s case. Ultra Magnus has agreed to represent Buddy—”--Megatron

“Those Fleshy’s are so screwed!”--Whirl

Time to take this to court.

Buddy is put into a different home while the case gets settled.

Meaning no contact with anyone.

There had been attempts by the bots to go and see Buddy, but they complied hearing that any visit could jeopardize their position in custody.

Thank goodness Magnus was there to help with the court case and legal things.

Also to help mediate the humans and the bots ‘immature’ actions.

So many of the bots in their holoforms were making obnoxious noises (cough* Rodimus and Whirl*cough).

There were more breaks because of this.

No one of the bots are happy to see the parents when come to the stand, fuming when the pair put on an act.

Even going as far as stating that Drift and Ratchet were unfit parents, not being the same species.

Something strange happens the day when Buddy is supposed to take the stand.

Everyone is asked to come back the next day for the final verdict.

All the bots are confused and worried.

Ratchet and Drift are especially worried about what happened.

Today would have been the first time the pair or anyone would have seen Buddy, and all of a sudden, the day they are supposed to take the stand no one is allowed to see them?

Something is wrong and they can feel it.

The pair find solace in each other while riding high on anxiety.

What if the court decided they truly weren’t fit to raise their human kid?

Would Buddy have to leave the Lost Light for good?

There were too many questions going through their processors right now.

The next day Magnus is updated on what happened yesterday.

The next day the bots and bio parents come in.

Buddy is sitting behind a desk far from everyone else in the room with a guard by their side.

“Ultra Magnus and the crew of the Lost Light, in the case of the legality of the adoption document of Buddy, the jury recognizes that Drift and Ratchet are the legal guardians and will be formally recognized in the system here on Earth.”--Judge

All the bots are floored and cheer hearing the news.

Ratchet and Drift smile the happiest of the bunch.

“Excuse me? What makes these aliens even fit to raise a human child, our child Pal—”--Mom

“Their name is Buddy, Fleshy.”—Whirl and most of the bots

Magnus clears his throat getting everyone’s attention.

“To begin with, you two are charged with attempted kidnapping and aggravated assault of a minor.”—Magnus

The bots behind him eyes go wide.

The parents themselves go pale.

The police start cuffing the bio parents as they squawk in shock.

“What is the meaning of this!? Unhand us!”--Mom

“You have no right—”--Dad

“IF I may!”--Magnus

Magnus ‘clears his throat and intently stares at the parents with hatred in his holoforms eyes.

“You attempted and succeeded in breaking and entering the home where Buddy had been staying and attempted to take them to an unknown location against their will. They fought the both of you off sustaining injuries to both hands and you two fled the scene on foot back to your respected household to pretend that this ‘incident’ never happened the next day.”--Magnus

The bots behind him have a mixture of shock and anger on their faces.

Drift is glaring at the parents wanting nothing more than to punch them square in the jaw.

Ratchet is trying to look over at Buddy for any injury he could spot from where he was sitting.

Magnus looks at Buddy.

“Buddy, if you may show your hands.”--Magnus

Buddy reveals thick bandages on both arms and hands.

“I do believe that is enough evidence. The biological parents are set to a new court date to address these charges. The court once again recognizes Drift and Ratchet as Buddy’s legal guardians, court dismissed.”--Judge

With the swing of the gabble the parents are escorted out screaming and kicking, while Buddy is escorted to a different door.

Once the bots are outside, they can see Buddy running to them with arms wide open.

Drift and Ratchet open their arms as Buddy crashes right into them crying and wrapping their arms around them.

Drift is crying and ratchet is on the borderline of doing so too.

Ratchet carefully looks at Buddy’s wrapped hands.

“Those two good for nothings just wanted to get me back to get my income.”--Buddy

“We can add more charges to their case.”—Magnus

“We can jump them!”—Whirl

Buddy chuckles a bit.

“I think the grapefruit sized marks are enough for now.”--Buddy

Buddy pulls out a wrench from their pocket.

“Learned how to throw from the best.”—Buddy

Ratchet hugs them again as Drift joins in a second later.

The bots all head back to the Lost Light.

Ratchet and Drift never letting go of Buddy for an instant.

[lush-specimen]

Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: The Transformers (IDW Generation One) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rodimus/Thunderclash, Drift | Deadlock & Rodimus | Rodimus Prime, Thunderclash & Riptide, Drift | Deadlock/Ratchet Characters: Rodimus | Rodimus Prime, Thunderclash (Transformers), Drift, Riptide - Character, Ratchet Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Slice of Life, Established Relationship, Fluff Summary:

Rodimus/Thunderclash fluff times!! I decided to give myself a theme for all the week's prompts: Slice of Life! Those classic filler episodes that don't advance the plot but focus on sweet character interactions. You know the ones: the beach trip, the snow day, the summer festival. We're doing it all!!

The daily prompts for each chapter:

1. Star -  Thunderclash draws comfort from his Rodimus Star after a nightmare2. Build - Riptide and Drift challenge Rodimus and Thunderclash to a sandcastle contest. Beach vacation guest starring Thunder’s mutiny buddy, Riptide, and featuring some bonus Dratchet! 3. Ropes - Rodimus rushes to the rescue when Thunderclash goes missing during a visit to a frozen alien world. Guest appearances by Nautica and Whirl! 4. Ember - When Rodimus doesn’t show up for movie night, Thunderclash sets out to find him, knowing bad memories about Nyon often drive Rodimus to seek solitude. 5. Fair - Rodimus and Drift spy on Thunderclash spending time at the fair by himself.Featuring bonus cute Dratchet!! 6. Royal -  After the Lost Light unintentionally passes through sovereign airspace, some alien royalty demands a conference to discuss the trespassing. There’s only one problem: the Lost Light doesn’t have any royalty… yet! Guest starring Brainstorm and Nautica! 7. Adore - Thunderclash organizes the crew to create a special surprise for Rodimus to show their love and appreciation for their captain!

Buckle up, buttercup! It’s about to get cute!!

Chapter 7 Update!! GRAND FINALE!!!

[mychlapci]

This is originally for humanformers au but since it's dratchet i can make it into normal Transformers

Hear me out,med student ratchet who's about to graduate but since there's a semester break and all that he kinda having fun being party ambulance and somehow ended up hooking up with this certain a little bit older gentleman and well

Lots of fun bedroom stuff happens and when it's time for graduation he's pretty much preggers with bump and he's still kinda dazed and of course some of his exes are crying inside because come on who wouldn't want to see ratchet pregnant with their child eh?

Anyways, deadlock come to pick him up and he's smug,too smug and ratchet is obviously still innocently oblivious but still snappy and all that because mood swings

And let's say that deadlock sent video of ratchet giving birth to the sparklings to his exes just to show off

Yes, sparklings

I made twins kiddies for dratchet first time

Oh yeah they're very much like Ratchet career wise,but Deadlock's influence when it comes to genes are why the exes are seething

It's obvious who's the father

Aaaa older Drift knocking up a younger Ratchet... that's so good. And all of Ratchet's exes and fuck buddies and previous hook-ups are so angry that this bastard is Ratchet's baby daddy.

Watching hum graduate university with a big baby bump and an older mech's arm around his waist just makes everyone fume. They sure hope the baby comes out looking nothing like Deadlock, that Ratchet went and got himself knocked up by one of the hundreds of other mechs he fucked, but no such luck... Deadlock gets a cute little wife and two wonderful sparklings out of their hot and steamy one night stand, and happily spreads the word to all of Ratchet's horny exes <3

[polyhexian]

Man sometimes i forget how deeply seeded dratchet was from the start. I've always leaned more into driftrod personally (despite what my ao3 history shows huehuehue) but also, Christ, sometimes I forget just how MUCH of a bastard rodimus can be lol.

Honestly i think about dratchet a lot and why I don't love it as much as I feel like I should, because when I like, make a List of all the good content, the bickering and the history and everything I'm like this is good. This is a perfect ship right here. This is a dynamic I should get into!

I think legitimately it's the "kid" thing. Which shouldn't be as much of a hang up as it is but I see ratchet call drift kid and despite the fact he calls EVERYONE kid, despite the fact they're virtually the same age, my brain just starts fucking SCREAMING. I mean definitely some personal hang up there (ayyy shout out to 17 yr old Nate for fleeing the country with a 24 yr old boyfriend lol you knew that was gonna fuck you up buddy).

Honestly I had the exact same reaction to cygate when Cyclonus referred to tailgate as little one for the first time, which I know a lot of people find really sweet and intimate but that was legitimately a pet name i was given because I was like. You know. A kid and BOY I fucking HATED cygate for the longest time. I think it really does come down to the kid/little one pet name and it really makes me Struggle for the Dynamic which isn't fair, that's not a flaw in the writing or anything

Definitely warming up on a reread tho so maybe I can overwhelm my personal hangup with good writing and find my love for dratchet once more

[blueraspberryrodimus]

I feel like me and Drift could be fuck buddies, but idk if I'd go further than that. Like, I hang with him, be his friend, have sex with him, but that's about it. idk if that would be awkward though since I'd fuck Ratchet and be committed to him. Would a Dratchet and human relationship like that even work?

don’t think about it too much just fuck the robots it’s okay