[ THE "DRIFT GOT HECKED UP BY TARN" CATCH-ALL POST ]

[auramatic]

Who: Drift, Rodimus, Ratchet, Megatron and whoever else wants to chime in
What: the inevitable fallout of the fucked up shit Tarn just did to Drift
Where: Red Alert's clinic
When: starting a few days after Tarn beat the shit out of Drift
Warnings: a lot of sad. a lot of gay

jk i'm lazy, thread starters below

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FOR MINIMAGNUS are you sick of these yet madi

[rodders]

He does, eventually, make it back to the clinic. Clean, so Rodimus supposes that's progress - and while he desperately wants to stick his head in and check up on Drift he can feel the accusatory glare from Ratchet through the door and settles for almost collapsing against the wall. Removing Drift's sword and propping it up on the wall next to him, he's about to maybe get some sleep - sprawled out, Magnus'd have something to say about that...

Oh.

He dials Magnus' comm, not even waiting for the other bot to say anything before he starts in; sounding as tired and exhausted as he feels. "Tarn attacked Drift and Ratchet." Which is enough, Rodimus thinks, to grab his attention. "Just thought you should know."

[amicuscuriae]

Minimus had answered the call immediately, but he hadn't even opened his mouth before Rodimus dropped that bombshell. It didn't take him long to change track.

"What?! Are they alive? What happened? When did it happen?" His voice over the comm was concerned and flustered. He hadn't discounted the possibility of Tarn making another move but he hadn't expected it to be so soon.

"Rodimus what is going on?"

[rodders]

The back of his helm thunks gently when he lets it fall against the wall, optics shuttering closed. "They're fine. I mean, Ratchet says Drift'll recover but he's-- I didn't think he was alive when I found him." Which says a lot about what was left of Drift.

Oh right, he asked other questions. "A few days ago? I don't know, Ratchet's busy hopping around on one leg and Drift's still out." So they're working on nothing and he hates it just as much as anything else. He's silent for a long moment, exhaustion threatening to overtake him completely.

But when he speeks again it's with his usual amount of resolve. 'What is going on?' - he doesn't know. But there's one thing he does know: "I'm not letting Tarn get away with this," even as Megatron is already planning on 'dealing with it'.

[amicuscuriae]

Minimus is quiet for a few moments before responding. "Rodimus, if Ratchet says Drift will recover I would trust him. He knows what he's doing, there's a reason he's the CMO. "

The edge in Rodimus' voice was impossible to ignore, the one that usually meant he was about to something incredibly impulsive and probably ill advised. That did not bode well.

"Where are you, currently?"

[rodders]

That gets a noise of agreement from Rodimus, although he doesn't say anything else about the matter. He knows Ratchet will do his best, but until he sees Drift he can't help but think of what ifs. He's lost too many people in the past few years to not be worried.

"At the clinic." Not for much longer is implicit in his tone.