This is a constructive criticism post for Autobot Medical Officer, Ratchet ( Read more... )

THE TMI MEME

( Cut for TMI and unfinished-ness. :O )

( Late post is late. )

[Ratchet looks slightly... damp, though not entirely unhappy with it. Apparently, someone got sprayed in the faceplates for neglecting his communicator.]

Hmmm. That is... unusual.

Perhaps the water harmed it more than I had realized...

[Yes, Ratchet. Dropping your communicator in the bathtub is generally a bad idea. :|]

BZZZZZZZZZZ-

Hmm. I suppose there is some cryptic purpose behind these? They are rather... obnoxious, to say the least.

Regardless - Xanth, I was wondering if you might have a moment?

[The recently scarce Autobot medic is currently holed up in his room, surrounded by tottering stacks of various oddities and collections.  At the moment, he's perusing a dusty old tome about gardening, the smaller of his two lobsters, Napalm, resting on the neon plating of his leg.  He has his sizable accumulation of soil samples arranged in front ( Read more... )

[Ratchet could feel his internal heat rising.  Was Ironhide out of his processor?  Planning to take on the female alone, after she had already offlined him once?

Ironhide was only fortunate that Ratchet didn't have a wrench, or it would already be firmly embedded into the back of his head.]

And where are you going?

[Ratchet's processor felt as though it were full of sand, obscuring the details of the past few megacycles, clogging mechanisms...

Which very well could have been true, considering he'd awoken sprawled on his face on the beach.

His system warnings had become an incessant whine in the background, his joints aching and stiff.  There were severed ( Read more... )

Ironhide, I am well aware that you are... less than pleased with our current arrangement.

But is there any particular reason you felt the need to re-arrange my books?  I was not aware that my order was so offensive to your senses.

This is most unusual.

Is there any particular reason that there has been such a large influx of passengers, or is this another of the Captain's whims?

Nonetheless, welcome aboard this vessel, however long your stay may be - I am afraid that with such a large rise in guests, it may soon reach maximum capacity... Should this ship have one.