A friendship one shot

(Jolt's POV)

Another day working with Ratchet; it was a very quiet one too, Jolt thought. Wheeljack hadn't blown anything up, Tai had not done something random and neither set of twins was fighting…yet. The blue Autobot looked up when he saw one of his best friends walk in, looking like she was going to purge her tanks. She was in her robot mode and looked like she had just read a bad fan fiction of one of her favorite shows.

Peaches had been Jolt's and Ratchet's first patient that was a Pretender; of course, she herself hadn't known what she really was until 11 months ago. Needless to say, she had been upset but Jolt had pointed out the benefits of being an Autobot, saying "One, Optimus is patient, 2, we're fighting to protect everyone else from the Decepticons and 3, in time you get used to Tai's craziness."

The Pretender had gotten used to craziness and had eventually befriended the blue medic in training, Tai, Sideswipe and Arcee. Peaches couldn't have been happier; then when her human caretakers had died, everyone had been there for her of course and later when she had had nightmares, Jolt would ask Peaches "Do you want me to get Optimus Prime?" He did know that she had always said "yes" but still asked to be polite. On nights when the Autobot leader was out, Jolt would listen to his friend as she described her dream and let her cry on his shoulder and hug him.

Then there was Sideways; no one quite knew how he had survived Sideswipe cutting him in half but he had encountered Peaches and it seemed that they had become "boyfriend and girlfriend" as the humans would put it. Almost everyone on both sides of the war had been shocked, outraged and facepalming but Jolt had been open-processored about his friend's love interest and told her not to worry about what everyone else though of the whole thing.

Today Peaches had more of a physical problem than a emotional problem but Jolt still wanted to help her. "What's the matter Peach?" he asked.

She tried to say it but wound up "puking" all over the floor.

"Guess I've got my answer." Jolt quickly grabbed a bucket and the orange and red Autobot took it, then settled down onto a recharge berth.

"Thanks." Peaches said. She purged her tanks again, this time into the bucket, as Jolt cleaned the floor and explained to Ratchet what had been going on.

"Don't worry Peaches, energon poisoning is easily treatable when one recognizes it right away." The green medic said, after he had scanned her. "You'll be out of here in about 2 or 3 days. Jolt, you know what to do, I've got to make sure that the humans have actually finished their exercise for the day."

"I didn't know that someone had put something in that." The Pretender muttered. "I'm going to need another bucket soon."

Jolt immediately went to dispose of the "puke" properly and returned with another bucket. "Friends don't let friends suffer anything alone." He said. "Need anything else?"

"No." Peaches managed to smile at the mech who had been like an older brother to her since she had first joined the NEST team. Things were going to get better…