At least Drift's spark still burns, and while Rodimus' face is set in a frown he does as he's told. But he doesn't need Ratchet yelling at him, not for this. Focusing on that gives him a chance to work that lump in his throat down, shove the the panic and the fear for Drift's life into a part of him that will deal with it.

"Look at him," he says, his voice cracking somewhere partway through the sentence. It's a pointless thing to say when Ratchet's got his face close to Drift's spark chamber (and Rodimus sees that part of the casing is missing - he knew it would be but it's different to see it). "And it's not just Drift, it's you and Trailbreaker and--"

Too many. One is too many, but this is enough. This is too much.