Ratchet (TFP)

Body color: white, orange, gray Optics color: blue Height: 7.6 meters

• Alt-form: a modified Ford E-350 ambulance (however, Ratchet transforms quite rarely, preferring to remain in robot form).

• Weapons: Wide, straight blades protruding from his "sleeves." Ratchet has no other weapons. He dislikes war and engages in combat only when absolutely necessary; however, his durable, massive frame is highly resistant to damage, and if it does come to armed conflict, the doctor becomes a formidable opponent, especially given his in-depth knowledge of the "anatomy" of Transformers. He knows how to find his opponent's pressure points and can deliver deadly blows (perhaps this is the reason Ratchet avoids battles).

• Special features:

• Ratchet has soldering irons built into his hands; • a tracking device is installed in the doctor’s right hand, with the help of which he determines the location and vital signs of other Autobots.

Ratchet's combat skills are rated as follows: Combat Skill - 10 points, Intelligence - 9, Endurance - 8, Courage - 7, Speed ​​and Strength - 6, Firepower - 5 points[9].

Ratchet is the oldest member of the team, very serious, calm, and level-headed. The only person who can irritate him is the bungler Bulkhead; an indignant cry of "Bulkhead! I needed that!!!" is often heard from Ratchet's workshop. Thanks to his common sense and extensive experience, Ratchet commands universal respect; he fills in for Optimus during his absence. He values ​​his duty as a doctor above all else, and if necessary, will even treat Decepticons (he has repaired Starscream several times).

Ratchet is a talented inventor and scientist; he designed the Earth Bridge, a device for traveling anywhere on the planet. However, deep down, he considers his knowledge and skills insufficient and his contribution to the Autobot cause insignificant, and this torments him. In an effort to help his comrades, the doctor, despite his common sense, sometimes commits reckless acts that lead to his own suffering (for example, testing synthetic energon on himself[5]).

Ratchet is less comfortable on Earth than the other Autobots; he hasn't acquired an Earth partner, and he's generally reluctant to interact with people. The doctor was unenthusiastic about Optimus Prime's idea of ​​incorporating children into the team (mainly because he was afraid his comrades would accidentally crush them), and at first he didn't want to let them into the base at all, but over time he grew accustomed to them and even became attached to them in his own way. The children, in turn, respect the doctor greatly, and even the mischievous and flighty Miko, although she considers him a bore, still admits that Ratchet has a "golden head."[8]

After the war ended and Cybertron was reborn, Ratchet remained on the planet, voluntarily taking on the responsibility of protecting the people of Earth if the Decepticons ever returned.

However, thanks to Windblade, who distracted the Decepticons, the Autobots managed to escape. The fembot herself was captured. Ratchet, Underton, and Drift went to the Alchemora detention block to free her, but Overload stood in their way, overpowering the Autobots and throwing them all into stasis pods. However, thanks to Jetstorm and Slipstream, who freed their allies, the Decepticon was defeated. Together with the freed Windblade, the entire group went to the entrance of the ship, where the Autobots had designated a meeting point. When all the team members returned, they immediately left the area of ​​the stasis bomb. After all the criminals were frozen, Ratchet, Windblade, and Optimus departed for Cybertron.

Following Optimus Prime's sacrifice, Ratchet joined those working to restore Cybertron. However, the medic soon realized that, under the guise of good intentions, his new allies were trying to forget the fact that Prime's team had defeated the Decepticons and rid the galaxy of Megatron's tyranny. Ratchet tried to convince them otherwise, but instead of listening, they sent him hunting war criminals. Fate brought Ratchet and his Minicon, Anderton, to Earth, where they began pursuing Clampdown. They soon encountered Bumblebee, Windblade, and Optimus. After a warm welcome, the Autobots, taking the captive Clampdown with them, arrived at the base, where they placed him in a stasis pod. However, he was soon released to learn the truth about Decepticon Island. The interrogation was ineffective: Clampdown fainted from fear of death. However, this didn't stop the Autobots, as Toolbox, one of the Alchemor Minicons, arrived at their base. It turned out that the Decepticons had converted this very prison ship into an outpost and enslaved all the guards stationed there. Toolbox gave the Autobots all the information he knew about it. They began preparing for an assault. Together with Prime and Windblade, Ratchet constructed stasis bombs that could freeze all the Decepticons on the island. Having devised a plan for placing the devices, the Autobots arrived there in full force. However, despite the operation's successful start, the criminals, led by Steeljaw, managed to surround them.[40]

When Arcee and Bumblebee left on another mission with Bulkhead and returned alone, Ratchet immediately tried to contact the missing Autobot. He managed to hear a few words, indicating that he had fallen into the sea and was sinking, but Bulkhead's signal grew weaker and weaker. The doctor saw Miko's anxiety but could do nothing to console her—he had been unable to locate Bulkhead. According to him, Bulkhead was many kilometers from shore, and it would take him months to swim to dry land. However, after some time, Ratchet found a solution: he asked Agent Fowler for help, and he managed to locate the Autobot.[37]

Bulkhead traveled to an abandoned warehouse where Energon had been detected, and Ratchet tracked his movements on a monitor. But before the giant reached the source of the radiation, Ratchet received an urgent message about a Vehicon attack on a human military base. Summoning Bulkhead, he ordered him to immediately assist the military and opened a ground bridge for him. In doing so, the doctor unknowingly protected his friend from grave danger, as the Energon was merely bait in a trap set by the Decepticon Dreadwing. Then Smokescreen contacted the doctor and announced his intention to verify the Energon signal Bulkhead had received. Ratchet warned the young Autobot to exercise extreme caution, but knowing his overconfidence, he could only hope Smokescreen's journey would be uneventful. He soon reported that he had discovered a cube of energon and asked if he could take it. The medic replied in the negative, as he believed the energon could be mined or contaminated [38].

Ratchet was at the base when Agent Fowler called. The doctor wasn't exactly thrilled, claiming it wasn't the best time to talk, but upon learning that the agent and the subway workers were being pursued by a vicious Insecticon, he opened a ground bridge and sent Bulkhead to help.[39]

Ratchet studied Dark Energon, trying to find a way to combat it, but all his experiments ended in failure. Eventually, the medic used up all the Dark Energon crystals he had and needed fresh samples to continue his work. To find them, Ratchet traveled via the Groundbridge to the ravine where the Autobots once battled the Terrorcons. But as he began collecting the Dark Energon crystals, he was attacked by a vicious Terrorcon. Ratchet had barely managed to cut the attacker down with his blades when a horde of metal zombies gathered around him. Fleeing them, the medic jumped onto the Groundbridge, deciding to go to a safer location next time—for example, the Nemesis—for Dark Energon. He was in such a hurry that he didn't notice one of the Terrorcons sneaking into the base behind him. While the doctor was sorting the recovered samples into containers, Bumblebee and Raf returned to the base. The doctor was about to say something to them, but suddenly saw a Terrorcon approaching Raf and cried out, afraid for his friends. Bumblebee reacted instantly: grabbing the boy in his arms, he shielded him from the blow. Ratchet, too, was not flustered: opening the bridge, he removed a shard of Dark Energon from the container and tossed it into the portal. The Terrorcon darted after the bait... and vanished. Meanwhile, Ratchet, repairing the wounded Bumblebee, admitted to Raf that some mysteries might be best left unsolved.[36]

Ratchet learned from Bulkhead about an unusual device he and Miko had seen on television. When he entered the device's data into the computer and an image appeared on the monitor, Optimus Prime immediately identified it as a Dark Energon amplifier. Some time later, Bulkhead came to the doctor and asked if he had seen Miko. The doctor denied it, but added that the instruments had detected a strong surge of Dark Energon radiation in the museum. It turned out that Miko, Jack, and Raf had secretly gone to the Flugelheim Museum to take a closer look at the device and encountered M.E.X. agents there. Ratchet immediately opened a ground bridge, allowing Bulkhead and Arcee to travel to the museum to rescue the boys.[34]

When the MECHANoids stole Bumblebee's T-gear, thus depriving the young Autobot of the ability to transform, Ratchet found himself in a quandary, as it was virtually impossible to manufacture a new one on Earth. So the medic decided to transplant his own (reasoning that he spent far more time in robot form than in machine form). Fortunately, this wasn't necessary—he only had to repair Bumblebee's own T-gear, which had been damaged by Starscream.[35]

Ratchet was at the base when Raph called, reporting that Bumblebee was under attack by Vehicons and Knockout, asking for help immediately. The doctor was surprised to hear about Knockout, as there was no image of the Decepticon on the monitor. But when Raphael assured him he had seen Knockout with his own eyes, Ratchet realized the Decepticon scientist had constructed a cloaking device that worked by altering light refraction, making him invisible to other Transformers but not to humans. Taking the reflector, the doctor and Bulkhead crossed the ground bridge to Raph and Bumblebee. There, he gave the boy the reflector and asked him to point it at Knockout. As a result, the Decepticon became visible to the Autobots, and at the same time, he himself began to experience vision problems, forcing him to quickly transform and flee at full speed, driving blindly into a cliff along the way. This sight even amused Ratchet, something that rarely happened to him.[32]

When Arcee and Bulkhead set out to search for Wheeljack, who had disappeared several weeks earlier, Ratchet tracked their movements on a monitor. Optimus Prime asked him if there were any messages from them, and the doctor reported that they were headed to California, where they had detected increased Decepticon activity. A short time later, the Autobots returned with Wheeljack, who, it turned out, had been in the impound lot the entire time, locked in vehicle mode by Knockout. The medic was glad to have the destroyer back, but he couldn't help but ask why he hadn't brought the device Knockout had used—then Ratchet could have figured out how to neutralize it. However, he received no answer.[33]

When the Autobot base received a distress signal from a crashed spaceship, Ratchet and Optimus Prime rushed to the scene. Optimus attempted to investigate the ship and was attacked by a strange creature that emerged from a hole and latched onto his head. Ratchet rushed to bring his commander back to the base and placed him in the repair bay. There, he immediately set to work, attempting to remove the parasite. Meanwhile, Prime, lying on the operating table, delivered an inspirational speech to the Autobots, congratulating them on their great victory. Miko, watching in amazement, asked what was going on, and the medic explained that Optimus was imagining himself on Cybertron. The parasite, having infiltrated his brain, was allowing him to see his deepest desires come true while simultaneously draining his life force. Realizing the commander was in mortal danger, Ratchet administered a shock, hoping the powerful electrical charge would force the parasite to detach itself. And so it did: the parasite detached itself from Prime... but immediately leaped onto the doctor's head. While Optimus and Miko stood there, confused, unsure what to do, the "happiness parasite" attempted to take over Ratchet's consciousness. It showed him a peaceful time on Cybertron, but the medic was bored without work. Then the parasite gave him a luxurious medical center equipped with the latest Cybertronian technology and a whole bunch of wounded Autobots in need of help, but Ratchet grumbled that he was tired of constantly fixing the injured. This repeated itself several times in a row... Eventually, the parasite simply burst. The freed Ratchet half-jokingly suggested that the parasite, no matter how hard it tried, was unable to create a world that it would like, and therefore destroyed itself[31].

Ratchet was repairing the computer controlling the ground bridge at the Autobot base and asked Arcee to help him. The fembot crawled under the terminal, grumbling that the doctor should have delegated the job to Raf, but Ratchet protested that it was too risky a task for a child. Suddenly, a short circuit occurred, electrocuting Arcee and knocking her unconscious. Ratchet rushed to her aid, but the girl, awakening, attacked him as if he were an enemy, mistaking him for Megatron. Ratchet found himself in a very dangerous position: he didn't want to fight Arcee with full force for fear of injuring her, but the fembot had knocked him to the floor and was about to deliver the killing blow. Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Jack, and Miko came running at the noise. Ratchet, taking advantage of Arcee's distraction with the new "enemies," warned his comrades that the girl mistook them all for Decepticons and advised them to try to disarm her. While the battle between Arcee and the Autobots raged, Jack asked the doctor what had happened, and Ratchet explained that a power surge had caused the bot girl's sensory impairment; as a result, when the Autobots approached her, she saw Decepticons instead. Miko then suggested not approaching Arcee, a suggestion the doctor considered quite successful. He gave the Autobots the command to retreat, while he approached the frenzied Amazon from behind and electrocuted her. The "shock therapy" worked: Arcee came to. Ratchet assured her that everything was fine and was overjoyed that she was back on their side.[30]

Ratchet watched Bumblebee on a monitor as he searched for Energon in Japan's Jigokudani Park. He warned his comrade that the Energon deposits beneath the hot springs were highly unstable. However, his warning was too late—the unstable Energon had already begun to affect Bumblebee, causing him to lose his powers. Ratchet watched the events in the park with alarm; he was worried about his friend, whom M.E.X. agents had trapped in an energy net and immobilized. When he heard that the mechs were about to begin drilling into the soil around the hot springs, he became even more alarmed. The medic guessed that the unstable Energon was likely what was warming the water, and without it, the springs would freeze, and the apes living in the park would die of the cold. However, this did not happen—Bumblebee broke free from the net and destroyed the drilling rig, and the mechs escaped. Ratchet didn't understand how Bumblebee was able to free himself, and he couldn't believe that it was thanks to the help of the monkeys who disabled the grid generator.[29]

Bulkhead accidentally sat on one of the doctor's necessary devices in Ratchet's workshop and crushed it to a pulp. Thanks to Raf's spy camera, the incident was captured on film; Ratchet, seeing the footage, gave the clumsy giant another dressing-down. A few minutes later, Optimus Prime called a general meeting, and the medic hurried with everyone to the command center. From there, the Autobots traveled via a ground bridge to Kansas, where, as it soon turned out, Knockout had constructed a time-travel portal. Ratchet and the children remained at the base to keep watch. The moment Knockout activated his device, everyone nearby was transported to another dimension, and the image on the screen disappeared. Ratchet was close to despair, but it turned out that Raf had planted one of his spy cameras on Bumblebee, and the code entered by the Decepticon was clearly visible in the image. Having quickly completed the necessary calculations, Ratchet hurried to the time portal; it was almost closed, but the doctor managed to enter the code, and everyone returned safely[28].

Ratchet and Arcee, taking Jack with them, set off for California in search of Energon. The doctor was setting up a drilling rig when Arcee spotted approaching Vehicons. She immediately engaged the enemy, and Ratchet joined her. The Vehicons were soon dispatched. However, as Ratchet prepared to resume work, it turned out that while they were fighting, two M.E.X. agents had stolen one of the rig's components and escaped. While Arcee and Jack pursued the thieves, the doctor remained at the proposed drilling site for a while, then, taking Raf and Miko, who had arrived to help, went after Arcee. He knew the mechs had stolen the thermostat and, not knowing how to operate it, would likely be injured, so he gave Miko a medical kit. It happened as Ratchet had predicted: by the time he reached the Mechanoids' car, they were completely frozen. The children carried the would-be robbers on stretchers into the ambulance Ratchet had transformed into to take them to the hospital, and from there to the police.[27]

When Bulkhead returned to base after another skirmish with the Vehicons, Ratchet was stunned by his strange appearance: an enemy shot had rendered the poor fellow unable to transform, with Miko trapped in his cockpit. After quickly scanning the injured man, the doctor determined that the shot had damaged his T-gear. He then explained to Jack, who asked if it could be repaired, that the T-gear was a highly complex biomechanism, and the slightest mistake could be fatal. Another option was to cut Bulkhead open to free Miko, but Ratchet feared such an operation would be fatal and decided to attempt repairing the T-module. Things weren't going well, however, and the medic began to grow nervous. He reproached himself for letting his friend down and cursed his "useless tools." Finally, in desperation, Ratchet slammed his fist on the module... and suddenly, the mechanism worked! The doctor immediately rushed to the patient. Warning that "it might hurt a little," he inserted the device into Bulkhead's body. The result was immediate: the Autobot transformed successfully, and the girl emerged.[26]

When the battle between the Autobots and the Vehicons began broadcasting to all television stations on Earth via the COMSAT-I communications satellite, Ratchet, at the Autobot base, unsuccessfully attempted to jam the signal. Fortunately, Raf had a brilliant idea. After listening to the boy's proposal, the medic immediately activated the Groundbridge and teleported to the satellite, where the battle was still raging. Bulkhead asked if Ratchet was planning to "join the party," but he had other plans entirely: instead of joining the fight, the doctor connected to the satellite's system, and a moment later, instead of menacing alien robots, a pretty girl appeared on television screens worldwide, announcing that everything shown earlier was merely the world premiere of the cartoon "Spacebots." The incident, which could have thrown the entire planet into panic and facilitated the Decepticons' takeover, was thus resolved, and calm was restored.

As the Autobots returned home after yet another skirmish with the Vehicons, Ratchet grumbled about entrusting a child with the task of operating the Ground Bridge. Indeed, due to an unexpected malfunction in the bridge, the medic ended up in Antarctica instead of the Autobot base. He was certain that the breakdown was Raf's fault, as he had lost control, but he remained steadfast and offered the boy some troubleshooting advice. Finally returning to base, the doctor discovered the real culprit—a pet rat Miko had brought, which had gotten into a computer terminal and damaged the circuitry. He apologized to Raf for assuming it was him and advised Miko to apologize to the boy as well—after all, it was essentially her oversight that had started the whole thing. With Raf's help, Ratchet completed the repairs to the Ground Bridge, and all members of Prime's team were able to return home.[24]

When Bumblebee and Bulkhead delivered the neural refractor from China, Ratchet was busy and asked Miko to meet them. However, upon returning to the portal, he found Agent Novo there, who had grabbed the girl and, threatening to kill her, demanded that the ground bridge be opened. An outraged Bulkhead was about to fight, but Ratchet stopped him and promised to fulfill Novo's demand if he didn't harm Miko. The medic kept his promise and activated the bridge, but the MECHANoid took the girl with it as it left, even throwing several grenades into the portal. After the portal was repaired, Ratchet tracked Miko's cell phone signal and relayed her location to the Autobots. When the Autobots returned with Miko, the medic, on Prime's orders, immediately conducted an infrared scan of the M.E.X.H. base. and reported that several people managed to leave the base before the explosion, but it was not possible to establish who exactly[21].

While Prime, Bulkhead, and Arcee exchanged fire with the Vehicons on the mountain road, Ratchet examined the wounded Bumblebee. After the medical examination, the doctor informed a terrified Raf that his friend's life was not in danger. However, he discovered several fragments in Bumblebee's hull that were difficult to remove in the field, so he sent the injured scout back to base, asking Raf to keep an eye on him. Finally, Ratchet once again assured the boy that Bumblebee would be fine as long as he was given peace and quiet. When the medic arrived at the base a few hours later with the other Autobots, he immediately reprimanded the patient and the nurse for violating protocol and throwing a "fireworks party."

Ratchet was at the Autobot headquarters when Agent Fowler transmitted an intercepted and decrypted message to the inhabitants of Earth, threatening to destroy the main symbol of their independence—the Statue of Liberty. After listening to it, the medic immediately declared it to be Megatron's voice.[23]

When Agent Fowler rushed to the Autobot base early one morning, shouting and cursing, Ratchet advised him to enroll in a politeness course. However, the matter turned out to be very serious: Starscream had kidnapped the US President, and the Autobots were forced to mount a rescue mission. Together with his friends, Ratchet descended into the Grand Canyon, where the presidential plane had landed. On Optimus's orders, he and Bulkhead ensured the safety of the plane and its passengers while the others fought the Vehicons.[19]

While Optimus Prime was searching for energon in the Zhejiang province of China, Ratchet maintained contact with him from his base. Suddenly, the signal disappeared. The Doctor concluded that something was blocking the scanners. He activated the ground bridge to send Bulkhead and Arcee to Optimus's aid, but warned that due to scanner problems, the drop-off point would be a kilometer away from the desired point.[20]

When Raf installed a new game on his computer, Ratchet pointed out that the aliens in it looked too much like Autobots, but the boy only laughed. As he left, the doctor muttered that intergalactic wars usually begin with harmless fun. After a while, the Earth Bridge activated, and Ratchet initially thought it was Bulkhead's doing, but Optimus Prime convinced him that Bulkhead had nothing to do with it. When the Vehicons entered the base via the bridge, Ratchet activated the protective shields to hold back the enemy onslaught. After the battle ended, the medic picked up the severed arm of a Vehicon and, turning to Raf, repeated that innocent fun could lead to great disasters.[18]

Ratchet interrupted preparations for Christmas celebrations at the Autobot base, first noticing Agent Fowler's arrival and guessing that, judging by his gloomy expression, he either had a stomach ache or brought bad news. The medic's hunch was soon confirmed: the agent reported that the Decepticons had captured the Russian icebreaker Yamal. Ratchet, along with Optimus and Bumblebee, set out on a rescue mission. Once aboard the icebreaker, the medic, at Prime's request, scanned the ship for survivors and discovered that the entire crew had lost consciousness. While he was pondering how this could have happened, Starscream attacked him. Ratchet was seriously wounded by the Decepticon's static spear and only regained consciousness several hours later, after the mission had already been completed. He told a concerned Prime that he would be fine, but he just needed to get away from the ice. However, when exiting the ground bridge, Ratchet did not notice that Arcee and Bulkhead had set up a skating rink on the base, slipped and fell to his full height[17].

Ratchet built the "Safe"—a completely safe training room—for the Autobots and demonstrated it to the team, after apologizing that he couldn't do anything better under Earthly conditions, due to the low quality of the materials and imperfect technology. When Bulkhead expressed doubt about the need for training, the doctor reminded him how often he had provided medical care to the giant. Ratchet then decided to show Prime and the children the "Safe" in action and activated the combat simulators. However, Bulkhead quickly destroyed them, destroying the room as well. A nuclear bomb was found, and the monitors detected the approach of a squad of Vehicons. Optimus, along with Bumblebee and Arcee, rode out to meet the enemy to prevent them from discovering the base's location, and tasked the medic with disarming the bomb. However, the medic was unable to figure out how to use Earth technology and asked Raf for help. After the bomb was defused and taken away, Ratchet accepted Bulkhead's apology and then suggested that the builder and Raf remodel the training room.[15]

Later, Ratchet, along with the other Autobots and humans, went to the Valley of Fire to relax. He thoroughly enjoyed listening to Raf explain the origins of the area's name; so when the medic learned that people who seek knowledge are teased as "nerds," he declared that he himself wouldn't mind "signing up as a nerd."[16]

When Arcee and Bumblebee brought the children to the base, the medic wasn't thrilled. He was even less pleased with Raph's suggestion that someone had "built" the Autobots.[13]

Later, the medic detected Cliffjumper's signal again. After the other Autobots left, he explained to the children how the Ground Bridge worked and tried to use it to send them to Tokyo, but the trick didn't work.

He watched in disbelief as Raf fixed the base's computers, and was utterly amazed by the results. After his comrades returned, he took a sample of Dark Energon from Arcee and began studying it, not noticing that a drop had spilled onto a piece of equipment Bulkhead had previously damaged.

When the Autobot base's instruments detected the movement of Energon, Optimus and Bumblebee went to investigate (and battled the powerful Decepticon Skyquake along the way), while Ratchet remained at the base with the children, helping them with their homework. Specifically, the medic improved on Raf's model of an active volcano. However, when the boy activated the model during class, the explosion nearly destroyed the entire school.[14]

After the war on Cybertron devastated the planet, Ratchet, along with Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and his longtime friend Optimus Prime, traveled to Earth (later joined by Arcee and Cliffjumper[12]), where they encountered the Decepticons again. However, they quickly disappeared from the Autobots' sights and were not heard from for three years. During this time, Ratchet and his teammates patrolled and searched for Earth's energon deposits. During one such mission, Cliffjumper was unexpectedly attacked by a large force of Vehicons sent by Starscream. At his request, Arcee sent a distress signal to her comrades, but the team was unable to arrive immediately, as many of them (including Ratchet himself) were located in different time zones. When they finally arrived, the Decepticons had already flown away, and only Cliffjumper's broken horn remained at the site of the battle. At Optimus's request, the medic checked his comrade's life signal using a wrist scanner and discovered it was gone, meaning he was dead. Prime gave a speech in which he stated that the death of an ally should not affect the actions of the Autobots, and that they themselves had a duty to stand against the enemy for the sake of humanity, Cybertron, Earth, and Cliffjumper himself, who had given his life. However, Ratchet expressed his belief that protecting people was what led to such tragedies, to which Prime promised to take his opinion into account. Afterwards, the team (except for Bumblebee and Arcee, who had gone on patrol) returned to base.[13]

Ratchet repaired Bumblebee, who had brought word of Zeta Prime's demise. Later, he, Optimus, and the messenger headed to the planetary weapons control room to activate them. The Autobots' next target was the Decagon communications center. The Autobots fought their way through crowds of enemies and the ruins blocking their path and restored communication. When they received a message from Zeta, Ratchet doubted it had actually been sent by their leader.[10]

When Optimus became the new Prime, Ratchet's goal was to repair Omega Supreme while the other Autobots protected the medic and his patient from the fire. Finally, the giant guardian was restored sufficiently to open a passage to the core, and Ratchet returned to base to finally restore Supreme in a more suitable environment.[11]