The mech, with a deep red base, and orange stripes walked along a hall with his arm around the waist of a pure purple femme, with a darker purple streak between her optics to a desk at the end of it. The femme looked at the young couple, smiling.
"May I help you?" Asked the receptionist in a sweet, pleasant voice.
The two nodded in reply before the femme opened her chassis to reveal a container with a small spark inside.
"We would like to obtain a protoform for out little spark, preverbally mech, if it's not too much trouble." She said as the other femme carefully grabbed the container.
"It's no problem at all, mechs have been popular now a solar cycles." The femme put down the container on the desk and took out a writing pad and stylist. "Name? Both yours and your little spark."
"I'm HeavyShock, and this is my sparkmate, Rollerhead." Heavyshock pointed at the spark holding container. "And this little fellow is Ratchet."
The femme quickly jolted down the names of the three of them on her writing pad before putting it away, stood up, and picked up the container.
"I'll be back in a moment with your mechling, it shouldn't take too long, just wait in here." The femme said as she went to the back room, and the couple sat down in a few chairs to the left of the desk.
The femme walked into a dim room, which was occupied by a fairly large, run down mech hunched over a small, half finished protoform trying to finish it.
"I have another one for you, Rugon, the creators say his name's Ratchet." She said as the mech looked up at her, and nodded before taking the container as the femme walked away.
He placed the container on the table and took the unfinished protoform base off, replacing it with a slightly smaller, finished one. Rugon opened the hatch on the protoforms chassis, before gently picking up the spark and put it in a small compartment in a small area in its chassis before closing it. Rugon then took out a torch and began wielding the chassis shut, finishing it in about five minutes.
The mech then placed the blow torch underneath his work bench before picking up a small, electrictricity emitting device. He placed it to the protoforms chassis and turned it on, sending electricity through it's whole body, causing it to shake violently for a good minute before he stopped.
"Oh no...come on…" He said as he tried to again, this time for two minutes, getting the same devastating results. The bot sighed sadly before getting up from his seat. "They ain't going to be happy to hear this…"
He walked out to the front desk area, a depressed look on his faceplate. The couple quickly sat up and quickly walked over to him, noticing the absence of their protoform/
"...Where's he at….?" Asked the worried mech.
Rugon stood there silent before shaking his head and whispered softly, "His spark refused to bond with the prototype.."
"Oh Primus, no!" The femme said as she began crying blue streams of energon.
Her sparkmate grabbed her, obviously upset, more angry than sad though. He gave Rugon a angry scowl before leaving with his sparkmate. Rugon gloomily walked back to his work space, getting a sad look from his femme coworker. Rugon took a seat at his workbench before looking around, noticing the prototype that was on his work space was gone. He quickly got up and looked around before noticing a slightly ajar box of parts and tools.
Rugon made his way over to the box and opened it, revealing a small mechling protoform looking up at him, and chewing/sucking on a wrench half his size.
"What the-" The mech was quickly cut off when the mechling threw the wrench at his face, hitting him dead between the optics.
Rugon gently rubbed the area the wrench was thrown, while picking up the mechling with his other hand. The mehling wiggled and squirmed in his grasp, happily cooing and making clicking noises at the unfamiliar bot. Rugon looked up at the small clock on the wall, seeing as his shift would be over in a minute or two, then looked back at the mechling.
"Well, I guess they can't miss something they don't know they have.." He said in a somewhat happy voice. Besides, i've always wanted a sparkling of my own, and I know for a fact they won't come back to getcha." He said as he gently rocked him. "Hmmm..what was your name again? Oh, yes, Ratchet, I think it suits you, so I might as well keep it."
The mech opened up his rusted chassis and placed the mechling inside, close to his spark to comfort it before closing it and headed out as another bot came to take on their shift for the night. He walked home to his one bedroom apartment as quickly as his large frame could go. He unlocked his door and headed inside, locking it afterwards, and just in time too as the mechling started wailing from inside his chassis.
"Shh..it's okay little fella." Rugon said as he opened his chassis and gently rubbed it's forehead with his digit. "It's alright, Rugons here to take care of you."
Rugon held Ratchet, whose wails had turned into whimpers and clicks in the crook of his arm, looking through his energon holder for anything suitable enough for Ratchet to drink, sadly finding he only had high, and low grade, both unsuitable for a early staged protoform like him. Rugon sighed as he closed the energon holder.
"Looks like we'll have to go to the energon department building and get you some mid grade." Said Rugon as he repositioned Ratchet to make the mechling more comfortable in his arm before heading out of his apartment, and into the hallway.
The mechling's cries began to get louder, but was quickly quieted by a few rubs of the back side of his head as he rushed down the stairs of the apartment building, and out into the city. He walked a long way until he reached a busy street, and walked along the area beside it towards his desired location. After what seemed like hours with Ratchet's screaming growing louder and louder with every half mile.
"Shhhh...it's okay, we're about to get you refueled.." Rugon said, gently stroking Rachet's helm as he walked into the building.
After half an hour, Ratchet was refueled and soundly recharging in his curled up position in Rugon's arm as he carried him, and a bag full of mid grade back to Rugon's apartment.
(I would like to explain a few things, first off the reason why Rugon keeps Rachet after finding him because after a protoform is not able to bond with the spark, the creators, or parents lose the spark bond they would of had, and would have no feeling towards it afterwards if it did bond later on. Second off, Rugon does not have an alt mode, as most protoform builders don't as it is deemed unnecessary for a job that does not need one. Anyway thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed, and reviews are appreciated :) )
(I do not own transformers)