Finally Returned} OPEN

[Danielle Erickson]

It felt like it had been forever since she saw this Med Bay, but really it had only been few to a couple months. Though, it didn't matter she was sure she had only been missed by the pup. "Hopefully someone's been taking care of Ambosine, hope he's alright.." With the light celhps of her shoes echoing lightly off the hard, cold fooing her hand brushed one of the Medical Bay's doors behin pushing it open with both and walking in quickly enough to avoid being hit by them if they swung back. Surveying the Med Bay she noticed it wasn't to messy and chuckled, having her Dad back was nice. Though a few wrenchs laid about which caught her attention, have bots already been on the escape from those wrenches of doom? That or he just got bored. With a mental shrug she looked around and noticed like some paper work here and there had been attacked. "What the?.." It didn't take long to find the answer. Under one of the tabls was a sleeping huky puppy, though, he had a few features of some other breed too it seemed. He had grown a bit which kind of downed her a bit. She was never gone this long and now she wanted to do nothing more than take a wrench to that crazy Decepticon, Bltizwing. not even Karr was as much a psycho path as they nut case. She couldn't even think up a good insulting nickname for that one, maybe just.. Three face. She only saw his personality split three, but that nickname can change if it turns uot there's four. Walking towards one of the chairs she used to study bomb tech and things in the medical field in, she turned and took her seat in it. Ironically it was outside Ratchet's office, maybe the trouble makers were supposed to be here? She honestly didn't care though, wondering now how Ratchet's doing as a random change of subject for her min to ponder, Kitt and Corina as well. She couldn't help chuckle when she heard the sound of a snoring puppy. he was a little chunky, so obviously someone had taken care of him in her absence thankfully..

[Ratchet]

Ratchet peeked around the corner of his office when he heard a VERY familiar voice and walked out promptly. Finally! I wonder where she's been...he thought with relief. Ratchet worried quite a lot and one of the things he worried about most was his daughter. He slowed just as promptly when he entered his med bay.

"Hey Danny! Welcome back. Where've you been all this time?"he greeted with a smile followed by a slight frown. He approached the teen and hugged her gently, not wanting to scare her.

[Danielle Erickson]

Her attention had been caught when she saw someone poked their head out of the office next to her, causing her to turn her head in that diretion rather quickly and stand just in case. No Blitzwing, but her Dad. Oh yeah he might have worried a bit, she had forgotten and felt a bit ashamed it took her so long to escape and get back here. Before she could answer, she felt the warmth of her Dad's HoloForm arms wrap around her. "Hey big guy." She chuckled, returning the hug and making it a bit tight sicne she was so relieved so see him. she had missed her Dad and hoped the entire time he wouldn't disappear while she was gone that was her main fuel to get back. she had to get back before he left.

And what was she supposed to tell him? It might really worry or even panic him if he knew about getting captured, but she couldn't lie to him... Lucky for Ratchet that's one of the things Danny seemed to never do, and if she did you could tell it was pain staking to do it. Patting HoloRatchet on the back lightly before letting go she gave eye contact but wanted to look down before scratching the back of her head and looking back over at Ambosine and then back over instead. "I um, well I went to the park like I said I would but I ran into this crazy Decepticon, heh but I'm alright." Crazy was to subtle to describe that psycho maniac honestly.

She couldn't help but feel bad, she really didn't want to worry her Dad anymore then she probably had in the first place. She hoped she hadn't caused any trouble to his job in doing so as well, hoping he got some recharge as well, eh he probably did otherwise he would have crashed. Three and a half months IS awhile, eh great tons of home work.. "How have you and Ambo been doing?"

Despite the talking, Ambosine was still asleep though kicked one of his back legs a few times and made some light growl noise before sneezing and going silent again which almost made Danielle laugh hadn't it been for the situation.

[Ratchet]

Holo-ratchet smiled briefly and stepped back. "Which crazy Decepticom? I'm sure it was either Blitzwing or KARR.There were others he could mention, but those were the highlight of the crazies that he could think of these days."Well I'm glad you were able to get away, I was getting worried and had KITT start searching for you...By the way, I convinced Midnight Ironhide and Midnight to take turns watching Ambosine. I knew KITT wouldn't want to take on the job. It seems he has a slight phobia of dogs..."he said after he heard ambosine growl under her chair. He rembered the countless times Ambosine tried to lubricate on him or just snatch a ride in his nice interior. That made KITT avoid the dog at every cost.

It was a miracle his and Ironhide's offices stayed in tact. The dog loved hanging out in there when they were obviously trying to get some filing done or do some kind of inventory. Poor dog just needed some attention. Luckily once they bonded, Ironhide and Midnight managed to keep the dog busy enough (and plump, apparently). "Seems they've given him enough love, he looks rather plump."he said, peeking at the dog with a light chuckle.

[Danielle Erickson]

Wow very lucky guess, maybe he was just that well known for his crazyness after all. She shook her head to get the bangs that had fallen back into her view out of her eyes again, though failnig had to do so by hand and tuck them at the side of her face. She did this often as a habit, like someone with glasses my gain the habit of continuously pushing them up even if it were subconciously. "Yeah, it was Blitzwing, I've already met Teddy Bear too though." She couldn't help but grumble afetr saying that last part, rubbing the left lower side of her ribs in memory for a moment. She took a bit of surprise when she heard Ironhide helped with Ambosine, she remembered what he said Sam's dog did to his foot and she didn't think he'd ever interact in a friendly way with dogs again. "Ironhide? Reall- Whose Midnight?.." Of course, in her absence she wouldn't have known what had happened to a couple/few of the humans.

she also didn't know why Kitt of all bots would have a phobia of dogs, oh boy was he going to have fun when she took Ambosine out on amission or two when he could help. Looknig over when Ratchet had chuckled and mentioned the pup's chunky belly she couldn't help but smile too. "Yeah, looks like he needs some training in fitness, I'm sure he'll have a lovely time while he's trying to keep up with me. He'll be in shape in no time, and yes I know he's just a puppy I'll take it easy on him, thanks for making sure he was taken care of while I was gone Da-.. Where'd he go?"

Looking around again, she had discovered that the little sleeping pup was no longer there. Thoguh when she did spot him, she was trying hard not to laugh and one could tell.

His large for his puppy size paws silently set on the ground, one after another as he tried his best to sneak up on ratchet's large metallic form. He continued some sort of strange crouch after Danielle's father with his rump in the air and a low yet playful growl before darting forward right under Ratchet and attempting to try and bounce on his left foot from the side.

"Looks like you two know each other well already." She laughed lightly, glad to see Ambosine didn't seem to mind Ratchet's size and took him on anyways. she just had to make sure to keep him away from harmful Decepticons, oh what fun.

[Ratchet]

He was startled only briefly when he realized Ambosine hadn't left the room completely."Easy pup, I might hurl a buzz saw at you if you scare me."he knelt down to get a closer look at the dog as his holo-form turned around as well. "It's entirely possible Ironhide's attitude about dogs would change. Plus Ambosine is much bigger than that dog of Sam's. I could send that poor chihuahua flying across the room with a flick of the finger. I don't think Ironhide saw much potential in that tiny...critter."Ratchet explained, scratching the faint mustache on his upper lip. "Ah yes, some of the humans decided to turn cybertronian. It's a pretty easy process actually. Cira Knight and KITT's girlfriend did the transformation. They've both got decent bot forms with paint jobs of their choice now...And weapons. Silly females. Both of them pestered Ironhide constantly about purchasing good weapons. Especially Cira. That girl is nearly as bad as Jade when it comes to weapons...personally that kind of thing never mattered to me, but whatever."he said.

His real form glancing down at the husky pup, he growled lightly, optics squinting slightly. Ratchet had visited with Ambosine now and then, and after a couple weeks in Danny's absence, eventually (somehow) became less irritated by his presence. Well, to an extent. He often was forced to give the dog attention because apparently when Midnight and Ironhide were busy doing their usual activities, Ambosine often retreated to his med bay, and if he didn't lock the door, his office. His holoform added with a smirk: "You know he kept trying to go incognito on my med bay and office when I was busy. I've quickly learned to lock the other room when I'm not in it, or both, should i be elsewhere. I was hoping I wouldn't have to but of course, I did."

[Danielle Erickson]

The pup yipped happily, not minding Ratchet kneeling slightly down a bit closer to him before running over to see his holo-form before noticing Danielle which stopped him in place. Now standing with a curious yet alert stare.

"Yeah, and I don't find many small dogs great anyways, most of them can be pretty annoying at times. Plus chihuahuas like to take really big dogs on and well... I don't want a doggy funeral." She stared back at Ambosine, looking him directly in the eyes aas if telling him that she was the boss of him though in a light way that one might not be able to tell. Wondering if he was spacey or just trying to see who could stare back longer, she noticed she didn't get a reaction.

Danny lifted her eyes off the dog for a moment to look back at Ratchet as he spoke. Honestly, she was one who enjoyed spending much of her time drawing out designs for epic weaponry. "Interesting, I didn't think a procedure like that would ever happen. And actually heh," she began nervously thanks to hearing her Dad's comment on that very subject, "I like designing weaponry and such, it's extremely fun. In fact I was working on a few warp missiles before you came back. I just need an extremely random place for their coordinates that we could use against the cons.. Can't be just any place it's gotta be the perfect place."

Ambosine looked up at the holo-form, trying to appear as innocent as possible. When he caught notice of the narrowed eyes and growl he just perked up his ears, began panting in an adorable fashion, and added in some tail wagging with his head slightly tilted to the side.

Danny couldn't help but chuckle at this. "Really?" Of course this was a rhetorical question since her father had just stated Ambo being incognito on the med bay. About to say something else, she was interrupted by surprise as Ambosine ran over to her at full speed, nearly knocking her over as the pup tried to jump on her, finally having remembered Danny was the one who took him out of that horrible pet shop display.

"Easy boy!" She was still caught in surprise, trying to catch him before he finally ran off again, this time into Ratchet's open office. "Yeah I can see why you lock the place up..." Before returning her gaze back to her robotic Dad. "He hasn't gotten into anything radio active has he? I had some stuff in the back... Unstabilized Hypro Coffee, it's not even safe for bots to ingest yet." Now as she believed she heard the sound of something knawing on wood and perhaps the sound of papers the only thing she could think of was puppy funeral.

[Ratchet]

"Yes, really."Ratchet really wished he didn't have to lock his office every single time he'd left-but once again, he'd darted out in a hurry and forgot. Most often, it was a simple habit, but there were times when the habit was broken, it was problem just about anyone might face.

His holo-form disappeared with a sigh to go fetch Ambosine while his real form stayed kneeling on the ground, not having felt like moving much. His real form smiled a bit when Ambosine nearly tackled the teen to the ground. "Warp missiles? That's pretty impressive for a girl your age you know, especially for one not set up to be Prime or anything."he chuckled, remembering just how many different things Chris was trying to get himself involved with so he could have as much experience as possible when he was ready to be Prime. It was a completely valid reason too. In Danny's case though, he was just glad she found something she had a passion for, even if it wasn't his field. "I won't stop you from doing it, but I beg of you to just be as careful as possible..."he stood up, keeping his gaze on Danny.

The mech paused a moment, hearing about the stabilized "hypro coffee". His real form stared at her rather blankly for a moment, but then he chuckled."You've got some strange projects going on all right. I bet you could design new weaponry for aircraft too. Don't worry, the three of us made sure Ambosine didn't get near any of my chemicals or anything that looked dangerous in your room...Uh, there were a few close calls once but to keep him from actually getting into anything dangerous Midnight and Ironhide had to take turns stalking him. Dont worry, they didn't do anything that would risk hurting him."Ratchet scratched his head glancing away.

Meanwhile, holo-ratchet appeared right in front of his office, running after Ambosine. Jumping down, he attempted to pounce on the pup to grab him so he didn't snatch any of the papers from Cira and Corina's transformations off his desk."Bad Ambo!"

[Danielle Erickson]

Ambosine hadn't chewed on any papers, but rather had pulled some into a pile earlier and now had jumped into them like a kid in a pike of crunchy fall leaves before rolling around in them. Though when Ratchet's holo-form ran in he had a bit of protest about he fun being over, but knew better than to make Ratchet or Ironhide mad, Midnight he could pull off the puppy dog eyes now and then. Trying to roll back over onto his feet to make a run for it, he was late by five seconds and was pounced on instead, yelping in surprise.

"Not that impressive Dad, I don't think so anyways. If I could help with repairing bots ten times faster now THAT would be impressive, gets hard for us short people." She chuckled at the last bit, knowing that that was pretty much the truth. "Don't get me wrong Dad, I like the medical stuff too. I've been studying for three different medical fields, Earth's animals, humans, and transformers. Mainly because I got a little extra time since I got fired from the pound in town." She was still rather bummed about it, she liked working at the pet store. Though she wouldn't take the job back if she could, not after what happened. She had always felt bad for the animals there and tried to get them all good homes fast which is why most of the time none needed the.. Let's call it the eternal sleep treatment.

She snapped out of her thoughts as her Dad finally stood and spoke, nodding in response. "I will Dad." Eh, for now, she thought she'd keep the wiring bombs into cons idea to herself. She was very sure he'd protest about it. Technically, it's not lying if you don't say anything and if he doesn't ask. Besides, she would be careful about it, she'd stay away from Karr's chainsaws and stuff. Hmn What would happen if she blew up Goliath? that'd be fun, Stank Tank could use it maybe they'll finally hose him down afterward.

Oh gosh ideas just kept pouring into her mind now. Maybe she could tweak some spherical force fields to act as a counter against other force fields so she can get out of them in a mess! Or better yet, just put one around her like a big hamster ball and run er roll like ell when she's being fired at in case she got captured again. Pfft, she wasn't going to get captured again! Once is humiliating enough to begin with, plus she nearly got her Dad into a lot of trouble.. She just got lucky Blitzwing didn't know Ratchet was her Dad or bad things could have happened, and she's not going to be some con ransom kid. "Well the hypro coffee would help keep bots wake and act as a cheat for recharge if they desperately needed it but don't have time for it. After awhile though you'd have to recharge anwyays of coruse I'm working on the no crash part." She was glad Ambosine didn't get into anything that would alter his DNA or growth or well anything extremely harmful to him. It's hard to keep curious puppies out of harsh stuff when he's inside an Autobot base, but at least he's not in some Decepticon base. She was still afraid a Decepticon might jus stomp on him for the fun of it and it'd be all her fault she'd never forgive herself after that. "Hopefully he didn't cause you guys to much trouble heh, I feel bad for just dumpnig him on you guys but getting back here was a long walk." A VERY long walk, Bltizwing was gonna get it! "But what have you been up to Dad?" she couldn't help but cross her arms with this question, just seemed comfortable for now.

[Ratchet]

If she had still had her private communication device, it was possible she could have taken a space bridge back home, but with out one of those, no one would have known she'd even need one. So that was somewhat out of the question. Ratchet sighed mentally, just glad his daughter was back.

When Danny explained she was still studying many aspects of the medical field, he was happy to hear it. As long as she enjoyed her studies, that was all he cared about, at least for now. He didn't really care about how fast or slow she was with performing any medical duties. It was the efficiency and dedication that mattered. "Well other than the typical stress, just trying to keep my med bay intact, giving Ambosine some attention now and then, oh, I did order a new glass door for the med bay. It's an automatic sliding door. Two ends slide out to the edges of the entrance, generated by a coding sequence. It will open by a remote and the code. The remotes will be only distributed to me, you and Chris. Everyone else will need our clearance to go through. Of course they are bullet proof and will be able to withstand impressive amounts of pressure. The glass doors will automatically close behind you, as they are motion censored. The rate at which they close can be adjusted, so someone who tries to run in will likely be stopped short of the class.

Other than that...I've just had a bit of work, some repairs, training Chris, and performing Cira and Corina's transformations. Little room for vacations or anything."Ratchet shrugged. Business was his life, the only one he bothered socializing with now and then was Danny, and perhaps whoever he was assisting. He hardly ever needed to go out on missions these days unless they wanted a professional medic on board wherever they were. That was definitely rare these days (at least since Ratchet came back from India some several months ago prior to Danny's disappearance). If he did have to go anywhere in the near future, he prayed to Primus it wasn't India! That place was NOT fun--where he had been, anyway.

"I was able to get out and meander around base occasionally, but not much more than that. No new friendships either honestly. Interacting with the old medic is usually on business reasons only."Ratchet chuckled, the subject normally not bothering him. Sometimes he got somewhat down about it, but Ratchet prided his work far too much to put himself before it like that. What would he do if he suddenly became more social anyway? Work would lack, and quality would be the first to go. That was the LEAST he ever wanted. He loved being known for being the best Autobot medic there was-thus he was content enough with that. Yet, he knew there was still that void he might never fill.

Without realizing it, Ratchet's optics drifted off to the right, gaze sinking into the floor.

Snap out of it old bot, you've got a passion to live for. That's the only motivation you need.he thought a bit cynically.