John would come to greet him as he came in for the shift, although he held back a moment when it seemed like Ratchet was deep in his work. Just as well, since he was trying to wake up a bit more himself.

"You're running the analysis on the case from earlier?" John inquired, watching from a polite distance as the other man manipulated the technology he had supposedly brought from his own world. John was also aware that those other men Ratchet had related to - Heatwave, Red Alert - were gone now, at least in the sense that they seemed to have up and disappeared. John couldn't begin to imagine what it must be like for him. He knew that Ratchet had been the ranking officer over them, but he had never actually inquired too far into the Autobot's former life. It seemed like it might be a mercy.