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Friendship
Summary – Ratchet and Ironhide realize just how close they truly came to losing their leader and Prime after he was killed and brought back.
One-shot
The power of three
Xxx
Ratchet and Ironhide sat away from the others, and just talked about what had happened with their leader and Prime, Optimus.
"Do you realize we had lost our leader and Prime in a matter of moments?" Ratchet asked as Ironhide huffed then.
Silence abruptly hit the Weapons Specialist then, especially when he thought about the idea of his leader dying at the servos of Megatron.
"It wasn't fair at all." Ironhide remarked as Ratchet glanced over at him.
"We almost lost our best friend." Ratchet replied.
Ironhide glanced over at the medic then as his own thoughts hit him more than the medic's.
"I was his bodyguard and I let him down, I should have been there when there when he fought Megatron." Ironhide growled.
Ratchet peered over at Ironhide then with a frown etched on his faceplates at his remark.
"How the slag was you to know Megatron would ambush him like he did, we were never alerted about it…. Until it was too late that is." Ratchet replied.
Ironhide sighed then as he spotted his leader and Prime approach them. He needed to talk to Optimus about what had happened he really did.
"Ironhide, what's wrong?" Optimus asked when he saw the expression on his faceplates.
Silence….
"Hide….?" Prime questioned.
"Sir, Ratchet and I were talking and so as a result I was thinking abut how I let you down by not protecting you during that forest battle with Megatron, Starscream and Grindor." Ironhide remarked.
"No Ironhide, it's not your fault, I should never have taken all of them on at the same time or taken my guard off Megatron. However, everything is fine Samuel brought me back and everything is fine now." Optimus replied.
"What if the boy hadn't gotten the Matrix?" Ironhide asked.
Silence…
"You would have carried on without me then, but it didn't turn out that way I did not perish forever." Optimus replied.
Silence….
"We care," Ratchet stated gruffly.
Optimus glanced over toward his medic and then his Weapons Specialist and smiled.
"I know you do." Optimus answered. "So, in other words?" Optimus started to say until Ratchet and Ironhide smacked him on the back struts.
"We're best friends…" they started to say as Optimus Prime suddenly finished their sentence for them.
"Forever." Optimus answered with a big grin as they all smacked each other on the back struts.
The End