"We never stopped being friends, as far as I'm concerned," Ratchet says, sounding tired, and he doesn't reach out for her again, not quite yet.

"If you want to kick Prowl's face in, you're going to have to get to the back of the queue," he says softly, watching her expression with an odd look on his face.

"He was responsible for attaching Overlord to the ship I was on. He got free halfway through the trip and murdered a couple of crewmembers before we managed to stuff him back into his cell and jettison it. The medibay was his first stop right after he initially escaped."