Irreplaceable you || TFP Ratchet x Femme reader

4. Nightmare

"What are you doing?" He asked with his dermas parted, looking to her with pure love.

"Taking the time to remember everything about you, you know, so one day when we're that bitter old couple I'll have a reason to stop and remember every time I fell in love with you, countless times over and over."

His spark fluttered around in his chamber, squeezing her a little tighter showing his appreciation.

"We're not going to be bitter" He huffed.

"Don't tempt me and we'll see."

He looked as astonished as could be, rolling his optics as he scoffed, his dermas distinctively making the sound loud enough to hear.

Ratchet quickly started to try and think of some type of whitty comeback to use against her, all up until the bright yellow and red warnings popped up all over the monitors and control panel screens.

He gasped, grabbing the fem's attention right away as she lifted her resting helm off his chassis, her optics growing as she noticed the warnings planted everywhere.

"...Ratch?-" She questioned, before being hauled into him as the pod started to shake and rock back and forth on it's journey across the cosmos.

"Something's wrong." Ratchet muttered the sentence far too late as something exploded from the outside. She gasped and held onto him tighter as he tried to code the panel to see what was wrong, narrowing his line of sight when he figured it out.

"We're moving too fast, hyperspeed, hold on." He jumbled together. "We're going to crash land."

"WHAT?" Y/D yelled. "We can't survive that in a cramped pod! The force of impact is going to send us flying."

"Don't panic, that will make it worse. It'll be okay, It'll be okay." Ratchet repeated, but his calm, soothing voice worried the femme even more. She knew he knew this wasn't going to end well.

So she kept quiet as they enjoyed the comfort before the moment came. The mech felt the silent tears come splashing down on his metal, his own starting as he found himself staring out the window, his fist silencing the warnings as he held her tight.

"I love you, Ratchet." She said low, the pod increasing speed as Earth shadowed the window frame.

"I love you too, but it's not time to say goodbye. We're strong, Y/D, we got this."

She quietly hummed back in acknowledgement, shielding her sight from the oncoming collision waiting to happen.

Ratchet too looked away and held onto his Sparkmate, kissing her softly on the dermas as the crash occurred, the force ripping them apart and the pod into a million pieces. The pod crashed window first, Y/D getting most of the damage before it tumbled over, each time worse than the other. Parts of machinery and metal spewed everywhere.

Ratchet flew out and hit his helm sharp on the incoming tree as the remains of the pod was left to rust and decay, finally losing speed as it too crashed into a tree a good length away.

It took a hot minute, but the smoke in the air finally woke the orange bot back up into consciousness, the brilliant glow of the fire alerting him right up, no matter how much pain he was in.

"Y/D? Y/D??" He called out on instinct, the fire spreading to the indigenousness wildlife of the planet.

He ran up the trail of the crash, dodging the fire but overturning the pieces of the metal he found on his way.

But finally, he found her a long distance away, tucked under a piece of burning metal, her servo laying flat against the soil.

The atmosphere grew as silent as ever, not wanting to believe what he saw. The ringing in his audio receptors started up as his world turned bleak in an instant. He grew shaky as he approached his fem, turning the metal over to see her completely still, his world stopping in its path.