Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity. From a wannabe hero to a crotchety old 'Bot looking forward to retirement, Ratchet has come a long way.
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Why are we here, on this planet? We're here to save lives. Now okay, maybe we're talking mass numbers, a global scale of species saved, but me, I take it one life at a time. Ratchet earns his permanent place on Prowl's crap list, Infiltration #3. IDW Generation 1 comics. This section covers fiction that is ongoing.
It will be added to as the story progresses. If it isn't current, you can help by updating it. Joining the Autobots. Long before the war, Ratchet and Orion Pax (the future Optimus Prime) met at the Iaconian.
Academy of Science and Technology and they stayed friends afterwards. When Ratchet became Chief Medical Officer, he found he was unsatisfied and Orion encouraged him to open a free clinic in Rodion's Dead End for the derelicts (though he kept this secret in case the Senate disapproved). Ratchet once repaired a destitute junkie named Drift who was crashing on circuit boosters, an encounter both would recall millions of years later. His hands possessed a naturally unique skill and dexterity which made them almost hypnotic while in motion. When Nominus Prime fell victim to a terrorist attack, Ratchet was the one who performed life- saving surgery.
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Orion, now a "supercop" in Rodion, trusted the medic enough to reveal that he had a friend in the Senate who knew members of the Senate itself had done the deed; Ratchet was not a full believer until Nominus died from a "long- standing rust infection" that he knew for a fact the Prime didn't have. Post Hoc Investigating this, Orion uncovered a Senate plot to plant a bomb in Nominus's body and blame it on the new Decepticon movement, and so Ratchet joined him in putting a stop to it. Patternism He came with Orion and some outliers to the Primal Basilica, where his precise fingers were required to pick the locks holding the bomb in place.
An Intimate Beheading. Following that, Pax and Roller had to flee and Ratchet stayed behind to look after his patients. He was unable to properly say goodbye to Roller: a recurring problem the medic would have.
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Roller vanished without a trace shortly afterwards, and Ratchet's inability to say goodbye would haunt him for many years. Our Steps Will Always Rhyme.
As the Decepticon movement evolved from a political philosophy into a full- blown insurgency, Ratchet served with the Security Forces stationed in Kaon. He was present at the funeral of Bumper and Fastback. Megatron Origin #3 His skills as a doctor were such that he worked for both Sentinel Prime and Zeta Prime. How to Say Goodbye and Mean It Ratchet would distinguish himself over the millennia as the only Autobot who personally saved the life of every Prime since Nominus. Post Hoc. Under Zeta's rule, Ratchet became his Chief Medical Officer and took a staff position in Ultirex's technoversity. There, he befriended Jetfire: a brilliant graduate student whose airborne alternate mode made it difficult for him to find scientific work.
To Walk Among the Chosen. Shortly after Zeta Prime ascended to Primehood, Ratchet was kidnapped by the Decepticons and held at the Rust Spot as a ploy to capture Alpha Trion during a hostage exchange. Fortunately the hostage exchanger was Orion Pax, who managed to save both Ratchet and Trion. Omega's Conundrum. Following the death of a Decepticon sympathizer in police custody, Orion took Hefter's body to Ultirex for Ratchet to examine.
Ratchet quickly determined that Hefter's injuries do not match he official report of his death. The medic confided some of his doubts regarding Zeta's reign to Pax, citing Jetfire as an example of leftover functionist philosophy holding 'bots back.
When Jetfire, a believer in the Decepticon way, realized that Orion was a cop - an Autobot cop - he attacked him, much to Ratchet's horror. To Walk Among the Chosen. Ratchet participated in Orion Pax's uprising against an increasingly corrupt Zeta Prime, and would have repaired Orion after the battle if not for a sudden betrayal by their Decepticon allies.
Overthrown He was still working in Ultirex when Orion Pax, now Optimus Prime, broadcast a rallying call for support against Megatron's dictatorship. Broadcast. Ratchet was later transferred to the Deltaran Medical Facility and became friends with fellow Autobot medic Pharma. House of Ambus The two of them accompanied the team who apprehended Roadbuster for brutalizing the cadets under his command to the point of death. Of those cadets, he and Pharma were only able to save Hubcap. Sins of the Wreckers issue 4. In the earliest days of his leadership, Optimus Prime sent a team of scientists including Ratchet to the remains of the Toraxxis mega- refinery to search for traces of energon.
Fallout Indeed, they did find some in the form of a pool in the caverns beneath the crater, but when an earthquake sent Ratchet falling into the liquid, he went berserk and started attacking his comrades. He quickly regained his composure, but before they could study why the energon had turned him into a mindless beast, the scientists were attacked by monsters living in the caves. As they fled, Ratchet used his alternate mode to bust into another cavern, where the team found a gigantic sleeping dragon. Underworld They reported their findings to Optimus Prime, who told them to find a way to neutralize the creature so the Autobots could make use of the energon, Prey Ratchet then fought against Trypticon's minions during the monster's rampage across Cybertron. Annihilation. Ratchet played a role in curing the Dynobots of the effects of the same corrupted energon, Primacy #1 and shortly afterwards patched Bumblebee up during a Decepticon assault on Iacon. Primacy #4. As the war went on, the young 'bot Drift that he'd helped would go on to become one of the Decepticon's worst killers. This long rankled the medic.
Ratchet repaired Optimus Prime after his first confrontation with Megatron at Sherma Bridge, a duel which left Prime in so many pieces it took Ratchet over two months to find them all and put them back together. Chaos Theory #1. In the early 2. Prowl ordered Ratchet to join his covert team on Earth. Rather than properly say goodbye to Pharma, Ratchet just left when his back was turned. Our Steps Will Always Rhyme. Infiltration on Earth.
In 2. 00. 6, Ratchet's team were several years into fighting the Decepticon insurgency on Earth. Although a loyal warrior, Ratchet's conscience got the better of him when he intercepted a Decepticon pulsewave ordering the elimination of a human being. Watch Whisper Of Sin Online. While he was too late to save that human, he encountered two more—Verity Carlo and Hunter O'Nion—who had stumbled upon the Decepticon plot. Infiltration #0 Ratchet broke cover to save their lives, subjecting himself to the wrath of Prowl, who threatened disciplinary action. Infiltration #1. Infiltration #2. Infiltration #3 Years later, Ratchet's breaking of cover and place among the original Earth- bound Autobots would be reflected on by Joe Colton.
Secret Raiders. Ratchet was seemingly alone in his convictions, until Bumblebee agreed to help him and the humans investigate an abandoned Decepticon bunker in Nebraska. Blitzwing and Skywarp arrived while the humans were reconnoitering and began an aerial bombardment of the bunker, intending to destroy it. Bumblebee and Ratchet engaged the Decepticons in order to buy the humans time to escape the collapsing bunker. Infiltration #4. The Autobots and humans were leaving the Decepticons to finish their work when an enraged Megatron burst from the buried ruins of the bunker. Thankfully for them, Megatron was more concerned with the treachery of Blitzwing and Skywarp, allowing Ratchet and the others to escape with their lives. Infiltration #5 Unwilling to risk their safety further, Ratchet subsequently returned the humans to Ark- 1.
Optimus Prime. Infiltration #6. Ratchet went with the Autobots to investigate Decepticon activity in the country of Latveria.