Although he'd repeated this little routine several times over the past week, Ratchet's fine-tuned attentiveness still caught him a little off guard.

The medic was right, of course. He felt better than he'd had in cycles. He didn't need to confirm or deny that, the tests confirmed that enough if his physical fleetness didn't. So, standing a few paces away, he mentally reviews how he had roughly planned to approach the question.

"You went out of your way to be this thorough. I'm not sure why, but I wanted to thank you regardless."