#ratchet and drift

[im-just-echo]

He should’ve been sleeping.

But his bag was nearly empty. And there were no medics in the forward camp but him.

So, he crept out through the perimeter and into the forest, breath fogging in the cold. The woods out here had the old feel untouched. Magic clung like dew to the trees. Good place for herbs, and for thinking.

That’s what Ratchet told himself as he slipped past the sentries and into the forest.

The moon hung low and full tonight, brushing silver against everything it touched. The old trees creaked with the wind, their branches bare and slick with dew. He moved quietly, hand brushing over undergrowth, following a memory of his lessons redcap root grew where the ground dipped, stargrass bloomed near the edge of quiet streams.

Redcap root. Wild nightshade for tincture bases. Stargrass, if he was lucky.

He crouched near a patch of dark soil, brushing aside moss when something shifted. A growl, ragged and low, came from the shadows. He tensed, fingers curling toward his dagger, but didn’t draw it.

A body lay half-curled beneath a thorn tree. Huge, trembling. Furred. Wolf-like.

Ratchet exhaled.

Not a beast. A man. Well mostly. Golden eyes stared up at him, luminous in the dark, wild and half-lidded with fever. Fangs glinted beneath cracked lips. Blood matted dark fur and torn armor. Poison made his breath wheeze.

“A werewolf,” Ratchet murmured, stepping closer, crouching low, “or something close. Hey it's ok kid. I'm gonna help you.”

The man bared his teeth. “Spirit,” he rasped, “I’m.. I'm ready.. now"

Ratchet blinked. Then he laughed. “Hardly.”

The man’s golden gaze flicked up to meet his, dazed and shining with delirium. ““You’re not… ” he croaked. “You’re not death?”

Ratchet took the satchel off his shoulder and opened it. “No, I’m a medic. Ratchet. Try not to die.”

He’d dressed the wounds the best he could. The fever would break soon, now that the wolfsbane was out of his system.

What surprised him was the way the werewolf Deadlock, he said, voice slurred with sleep didn’t attack. Didn’t run. Just watched him, like he’d never seen anything like him before.

Maybe he hadn’t.

Ratchet poured water between his lips, felt the heat finally ebbing from the man’s skin. “You’ll wake up sore. But alive.”

“if you’re not a spirit,” Deadlock murmured. “Maybe... you're a sign.”

Ratchet raised a brow. “Of what?”

Deadlock’s eyes fluttered shut. “That the world has need of me yet.”

Ratchet stood, shouldering his bag. He’d return before sunrise. No one needed to know he’d gone.

He looked back once. At the blood-streaked warrior curled beneath the moonlit tree, sleeping, looking like a long forgotten knight, half overgrown in the faint light.

“Get some rest, wolf,” Ratchet said quietly.

Part 1 here👇

[pinetreevillain]

Hahahah aaahhh HAHAHA AHHHHHHHHH

[sjincer]

last time he saw “Drift” he was called Deadlock and was twice as big

and a helicopter. he was a helicopter.

[random-cockroach]

I have 'high quality' transformers content

[pharmasrightarm]

oops, still feral over pre-war Dead End Dratchet

(drift: you're rusting at every joint gasket: but isn't that doctor chummy with the cops? we're literal thieves??)

started with the headcanon that drift hung around the clinic like a feral wet cat for a while, then halfway through shading these, I started thinking, what if deadlock was an especially reliable assassin because he knew what kind of damage would make sure that even the best of the best couldn't bring you back

[madamadamiu]

What 5000 years of retirement and tlc does to a mech

[pretentiousfork]

Gossip buddies for @medicalgradezine

[catpeap]

[awkwardgirlfriends]

Two freaky old men lock eyes from across the room...

They both reach a silent understanding...

It's go time~ 😏

[alfheimr]

i am like so obsessed with this little ratchet figure (iron factory ratchet) lookin like a little white mage/priest type situation. he is so cute. now live in this world with me... ok? you are living here now. atheist cleric ratchet and religious swordsman drift wandering the world together. isnt it wonderful? they could hunt foul beasts together. or something. like this one.

[conjunx]

AAANNDD more characters from our love letter series!!!

[fernacular]

Ratchet enters the multiverse!

I'm proud to present my piece for this years @tf-bigbang !!!

Thank you so much to my amazing partner for this Reverse Bang Saphire Dance! Please check out her companion fic Doctor Doctor, it's funny and adorable and so so good. "An accident in Brainstorm's lab brings Ratchet down to discover he's already there. Leave it to Brainstorm to mess with the multiverse. Two Ratchets quickly becomes three. How many Ratchets can the Lost Light handle?"

[pinetreevillain]

Me and @spectra-bear read a fic series called Drifting Together by @notwhelmedyet and got seriously mentally ill about it and made an entire book cover for it

If you need an incredibly well written, thoughtful, and character-analyzing fic series to sink your teeth into, this is that series.

[y0ureviltwin]

First 4 pages of my Dratchet fan comic! This is the longest comic I have ever made and the first one I actually finished.

The next 4 pages will be posted tomorrow, so watch out for that!

Part 2

[random-cockroach]

Have been reading Dratchrod fics, got disappointed, drew dratchrod

[wilkoakdraws]

Woe, smooching robots be upon ye. In honor of the outstanding emotions and relatioships between characters in TF: MTMTE