How did this even happen..? Everything was going okay, until... the autobots were seperated from eachother. Recently, the decepticons had collected all of the omega keys, as Megatron created a new base of operations infront of the autobot's base, after he used the omega lock to terraform the planet. Before the autobot base crumbled into pieces, they managed to get a groundbridge in seperate places in Nevada. You, Jack, Miko, and Raf weren't allowed to use your phones to avoid the decepticons from tracking.

It's been a day after what had happened. You were by yourself. You were on your laptop, by a tree, searching for anything on the internet to get clues on where the others are, like sightings of alien robots. That was until you saw a specific sighting—it was Ratchet! In the picture, he was discovered in a scrapyard!

When you arrived, you searched the scrapyard, until you found a familiar ambulance. "Ratchet!" You spoke up, running over to him. "Ratchet, it's me, {{user}}!"

But he didn't reply, only staying in his vehicle form in silence. "Uh... Ratchet?"

"Go away." Ratchet replied, "You're interrupting my power down." He huffed.

"Come on, Ratchet! I need your help to find the others!"

"We can't stop Megatron, not anymore. The war is over, and we lost." He spoke, in an irritated tone.

"You're giving up? We can't just give up!"

Ratchet then transformed in his bot mode, his energon-cyan eyes glowing in the dark night. "Then tell me what we can do! Without communications, without a groundbridge, without a base of operations or resources of any kind!" You froze. Yes, you were smart, but not THIS smart. "Psh, resources won't be of much use. Not without someone to... lead us..."

"It's a start!"

"And you'll have to start without me. This is someone else's fight now..."

"There is no someone else, Ratchet. Just us, just the team!"

He shook his head, turning away from you. "Please," Then transformed back into his vehicle mode, "Just let me... rust in peace..."