Amorphous
By Any Unborn Child
To even consider the concept of "dreams" seemed like a waste of time to Ratchet. If anything, he did not know where to start.
In all honesty, the things that the human children talked about often confused the older Autobot as he overheard their spirited exchanges. It was sometimes the case when he found himself asking them what in the All Spark they were talking about, usually receiving confused glances and simply-put explanations in return. One afternoon, however, left him without anything to say.
While he was working, Ratchet's audio receptors had picked up Jack, Miko, and Raf conversing. They had been taking turns playing video games, and things had been relatively quiet, until Miko decided to tell the others about a weird dream she had the previous night. As he typed in the coordinates used for the ground bridge from the team's last mission, he could not help but overhear the girl going into absurdly fantastical detail. Her not-so-indoor voice rose with pitch and excitement as she continued her story, no doubt Jack and Raf as her captive audience, and unknowingly, Ratchet as well.
His optics thinned as he watched the spectacle a few feet away. While she was describing her dream, her eyes lit up with recognition, sparkling with Humanly concepts, while they did not overwhelm him, made little sense in his mind. Ratchet knew that humans had the ability to imagine things beyond their wildest comprehensions, things that go beyond his expertise in both Cybertronian and Earth technology. Yet all of this was new to him, with dreams being so real made little to no sense to him. Dreams weren't possible to beings like him; robotic organisms that may have had seemingly unreal images drift and lay dormant in their processors, yet still no dreams would be possible to them, not even in recharge cycles.