Ratchet has grown rather curious of Wheeljack's secret love interest. He teams up with an unlikly duo to find out who.
A Different Kind Of Healing part 2
Ratchet was heading for the break room to grab some Energon. He kept slapping his head everytime his logic circuits began to ponder about Wheeljack and his love interest. Wheeljack came to him the other day after Tracks teased him and said he was having problems with his crush. He was in love with someone, in the base and no one knew who it was. Then again the only ones who knew were Ratchet, Tracks and Wheeljack himself. The medic thought that Wheeljack was a bit of a pain when he blew himself up and he had to fix him nearly every single day. He had a filing case with his name on it, he was that regular. Ratchet tried to get the thoughts out of his head. Could it be Grimlock, Bumblebee or even Skyfire?
'Oh for the love of Primus stop thinking about it!' he wailed.
Ratchet almost screamed at himself as he entered the break room. Inside there wasn't a lot of Autobots in the room. Jazz was chatting with Prowl, Tracks was sitting on a large couch, Optimus Prime was discussing something with Perceptor and Wheeljack was in the corner looking around the room. Wheeljack noticed Ratchet and waved a little. Ratchet grinned a little but went over to the stock room in the back to get some Energon. As he scanned the shelf to find a good cube he suddenly heard a whisper.
'Hey Ratchet!'
Ratchet yelped and almost knocked the shelf over. Spinning round he found himself face to face with the Autobot Brothers, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, both of them grinning at the medic.
'Didn't your manufacturor tell you it's not polite to sneak up on your superiors?' snapped Ratchet.
Sunstreaker shrugged and Sideswiped snickered.
'Who cares about that. We wanna know if you're interested in our investigation!' whispered Sideswipe.
Ratchet blinked in confusion. An investigation? On what? Since when were the Lambo Twins interested in doing anything serious? They just enjoyed playing pranks on everyone much to everyone's misery.
'What the slag could you be possibly investigating?' sighed Ratchet as he grabbed an Energon cube.
Sunstreaker chuckled and pounced on Ratchet's back, making the medic yelp as he tried to shake him off. Sideswipe then showed a messed up looking chart with photo's on it. The title on the piece of paper was "Who Does Wheeljack Love?" with a crummy doodle of Wheeljack. Ratchet stopped shaking and stared at it a little shocked. He then shook Sunstreaker off him and grabbed the bots by the audio's.
'Why the slag should I help you two!' he cried, his face a little red.
'Because we know you're curious!' yelped Sunstreaker
'Plus we need your help! You're his best buddy!' whelped Sideswipe.
Ratchet let go and stared at them, confused. Since when was he best buddies with Wheeljack? Sure they spent a bit of time together right after Wheeljack blew himself up. Did everyone think like that about them? Ratchet sighed, he was curious but working with the twins spelt trouble. It wouldn't hurt of course to just tag along though, he had nothing better to do.
'Fine what do you need me for?'
Sideswipe grinned as he held up the board with photo's. Ratchet took a look and saw photo's of Jazz, Prowl, Optimus Prime, Tracks and Perceptor. All of them had possible love interest scribbled next to them. Ratchet noticed there was a photo missing but ignored it and glared back at the twins.
'I thought this was about Wheeljack, not half the Autobot base!'
'We know that! We found out that Wheeljack had a crush on someone waaay before Tracks!' cried Sunstreaker.
'How?'
'He talked in his sleep!' giggled Sideswipe.
'Anyway we narrowed it down and we believe that it's one of these guys! Reason 1, Wheeljack always takes a break the same time they do! Reason 2, Wheeljack always talks to them or about them all the time!'
Ratchet still couldn't believe it was one of these particular Autobots. Then again all of them were in the break room with Wheeljack and it did make a little sense. He chatted with Jazz, talked about Prowl, didn't mind discussing plans with Optimus Prime, enjoyed working with Perceptor and sometimes didn't mind having small talk with Tracks. With the rest of the Autobots he didn't socilize as much.
'I see you made a bit of progress but how are you gonna figure out who it is?'
The twins grinned at the medic.
'Thanks to that talk you gave him the other day we heard him say that he was gonna tell him today!'
Ratchet almost jumped with shock. Today? He was going to tell his love interest how he felt today? Who was it, Ratchet was almost dying to know and it almost disgusted him that he wanted to know. He had a feeling the twins personaitly was starting to rub off him. He sighed as the twins waited for an answer.
'Fine, I'll help.' muttered the medic.
The twins almost cried with glee and grabbed Ratchet, dragging him behind a table. Ratchet smacked them both on the head for doing that without their permission but kept quiet. Sideswipe pouted but pointed towards the unaware Wheeljack, standing in the corner.
'What are we doing?' whispered Ratchet, thankful that no one saw him.
'We're observing! Wheeljack likes one of the guys in this room, we just gotta watch to see who he looks at the most.' whispered Sideswipe.
that was a good plan but Optimus had already left and Perceptor was leaving. Now it was just Jazz, Prowl and Tracks. The trio watched Wheeljack, waiting for any sign that might indicate who he might like, that is if he did like anyone in the room. For a while they waited until finally Wheeljack made some movement. He glanced over at Prowl and Jazz, who were still chatting. Sideswipe grinned.
'It's gotta be one of those two!' he whispered.
Ratchet noticed that Wheeljack was indeed looking at the two at the table. Was it the energetic Jazz or the strict Prowl. They didn't seem to be the mechanic's type but Wheeljack was staring at them as if he was waiting for one of them to leave. Ratchet looked back at Jazz and Prowl to see the police car stand up.
'I gotta go Jazz, security is top priority you know!' informed Prowl.
'Yeah right, I know how much you dig your job man!' sniggered Jazz, waving farewell.
The trio watched Prowl leave and the moment he did Wheeljack suddenly walked over to Jazz.
'I knew it! He loves Jazz!' whispered Sunstreaker.
Wheeljack walked right up to Jazz and cleared his vocal proscessor so Jazz would notice him. The Porsche did indeed notice him and spun round on his chair to face the mecahnic with a grin.
'Hey Wheeljack ol'buddy what can I do for ya?' chuckled Jazz.
Wheeljack blushed and tried to remain calm as he spoke. Ratchet almost dropped his jaw in shock, was it Jazz? Did Wheeljack love him and was now trying to express his feelings to him? Jazz was a pretty bot as everyone called him, it seemed to be natural that he'd charm Wheeljack with his looks. Jazz was waiting for Wheeljack to talk as the mechanic stuttered in speech.
'J-Jazz. There is something I n-n-need to t-t-tell you b-b-but I'm n-not sure how t-t-to tell you.' muttered the mechanic.
Jazz tilted his head in confusion.
'What is it?' he asked.
Wheeljack glanced over at Track's who was playing around with his blaster before bending down and whispering something into Jazz's audio's. Jazz leaned in to hear what Wheeljack had to say. The trio tried to listen but what too far and since Wheeljack was wearing a mask they couldn't lip-read. It wasn't easy to detect what he was saying through his head light-fins either. Whatever Wheeljack was saying it made Jazz's optics widen. Did Wheeljack tell him that he loved him? Jazz suddenly stood up, grined at a blushing Wheeljack, grabbed his hand and ran off out the room with Wheeljack.
'W-where are we going?' yelped Wheeljack.
'Don't worry Wheeljack, I'll show ya how to have a good time!' snickered Jazz.
Ratchet's jaw dropped. There was no question about it, Jazz was a horney pervet and was now running off with Wheeljack to do dirty things and probaley steal his innocence! Typical, the moment someone expressed how they felt about the Porsche he'd run off to a hidden place to get down their pants, as the humans say. Ratchet suddenly bolted after them with the twins following, getting rather excited.
'Jazz is gonna...' began Sideswipe.
'Don't even say it!' snapped Ratchet, still following Jazz and Wheeljack.
As the two bots approached the door to Jazz's room Blaster appeared and Jazz stopped for a moment. Ratchet and the twins jumped behind a wall to hide as Jazz spoke to Blaster.
'Hey Blaster, I was wondering if you could give me a hand with, er...Wheeljack's little problem.' snickered Jazz as Wheeljack went red.
Blaster looked confused until Jazz whispered something in the Boom Box's audio. Blaster's optics widen and he grinned at Wheeljack which made the mechanic blush even futher.
'Sure Jazz, I wouldn't mind using my wonderous talent for our INEXPERIENCED friend here!'
Ratchet's jaw dropped even futher as Blaster and Jazz shoved Wheeljack into the room. Terrible images began playing through the medic's mind. Blaster and Jazz were gonna have a threesome with an inexperienced Wheeljack, without his consent, right after he proclaimed his love to the Porsche. That was low, even for Jazz! Ratchet suddenly ran over to the door and pressed an audio up against it. The twins followed and copied the medic, to hear strange noises coming through the door.
'Er Jazz...I'm not too sure about this!'
'Relax Wheeljack, Jazz knows what he's doing! He's a pro!
'Indeed I am! Now relax Wheeljack and I'll show you how to do it!'
'O-Okay. Let's j-j-just take it slow...okay?'
Ratchet was about to kick the door down in a fit of rage, furious that Jazz and Blaster would do such a thing, until Sideswipe stopped him. He glared at Sideswipe but titled his head in confusion when the red twin pointed at a hole in the wall with a dissapointed look on his face. Ratchet peered in and his optics widen in shock at what he saw within Jazz's room.
'See Wheeljack you just move your right arm like this while moving your hips like that!'
'L-like this?'
'Yeah! But you have to relax, man!
Jazz and Blaster was showing Wheeljack how to dance! Blaster was in Boom Box mode playing some rock music and Jazz pulled some dance-mats out, showing a nervous Wheeljack how to move to the music. Ratchet almost sighed with relief that nothing bad had happened to Wheeljack but why was he learning how to dance? He listened a little further.
'Thanks for showing me how to dance Jazz!'
'No biggie! Why do you want to know anyway? Is this something to do with your crush?' snickered the Porsche.
'No, no. I just was a little curious about Earth customs!' giggled the mechanic.
The twins looked at each other, shocked. Jazz knew about Wheeljack having a crush? Not only that, Jazz wasn't the one Wheeljack was interested in. Sunstreaker grumbled as he crossed Jazz's name off the list and ripped up the Porsche's photo. They all snuck away and hid behind a wall as they waited for Wheeljack to come out. Ratchet was still reliefed that it wasn't Jazz but the twins seemed dissapointed.
'I was kinda hoping it was pretty-bot!' muttered Sunstreaker.
'Well at least we know who it's not! One down, four to go!' chuckled Sideswipe.
Ratchet looked at the list again. The only ones left were Prowl, Perceptor, Optimus Prime and Tracks. The medic doubted it was Track's and couldn't possibly think it was Prowl. Ratchet groaned at himself, why did he HAVE to know who Wheeljack loved? Time passed and Wheeljack emerged from Jazz's room, thanking him again as he closed the door behind him. The twins grinned as they began to follow Wheeljack with Ratchet tagging along. Suddenley the twins ducked into a corner dragging Ratchet with when Prowl appreaed at the end of the hallway. He walked up to Wheeljack waving a letter around him. Wheeljack suddenley went red at the sight of the letter.
'Wheeljack I found this letter on my desk. I presumed it was from you because of the subject...I need to talk to you privitaly.'
Wheeljack nodded and followed the Police Car. The twins smirked from the hidden corner.
'I knew it! He wrote a love letter to Prowl!' snickered Sideswipe.
'I thought you said it was definitley going to be Jazz!' argued Sunstreaker.
The twins looked up to see that Ratchet was already following Prowl and Wheeljack. they quickly got up to follow Ratchet, who was planning on finding out who Wheeljack loved it was the last thing he did!
So it wasn't Jazz...but is it Prowl? Find out next time!