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Ratchet of Vaporex ([personal profile] asafepairofhands) wrote in [community profile] synflux2025-03-11 10:23 am

open | first medibay shift

WHO: Ratchet and you!
WHAT: First shift in the medibay
WHERE: The medibay
WHEN: early in March
WARNINGS: Medical stuff? None otherwise


If you have a reason to come into the medical bay, there's a new face around. Ratchet is acquainting himself with the place, learning where things are, triage protocols, and building a workspace for his ten-foot self over in the corner so he doesn't have to hunch over the tables they already have.

He will also be in his human form, with his ambulance body tucked into a corner, helping to tidy the smaller, regular-sized instruments and supplies that are used regularly.

If he isn't doing that, he'll be sitting and reading up on organic medicine, just in case anybody squishy comes in with an injury of some sort. He knows the real test will be the next kaiju fight, but for now he's just making himself comfortable. Please feel free to disturb him.
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The First Patient

[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-11 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Johnny is no stranger to nausea, especially given that he spent the most of his time drinking his life away between gigs. It's a miracle Johnny is still alive after consuming so much booze, cigarettes, narcotics, and low-quality food. However, this was not the case during the last forty years. Johnny, who has been magically resurrected after spending what feels like a lifetime trapped inside someone else's head, is beginning to realize that being resurrected like this comes at a price. After nearly collapsing during some rudimentary exercise drills, he decided to pay the medical bay a visit. 

It's a damn shame Milt isn't around. His old ripperdoc was more like a doctor than just a second-rate cyberware technician. The guy used to nag Johnny halfway to death about his drinking and shit, enough to make Johnny want to give him the finger sometimes. However, Milt always knew how to take care of him. It's also a shame that Milt passed long before they could meet again, but maybe that was for the best. After all, he's the reason why Milt's son died during the war.

"Yo, doc?" Johnny gives a half-assed knock on the door before waltzing in. He doesn't even wait for a response. Johnny is dressed like a wannabe frat boy with a plain black hoodie, sweatpants, a red tank top, and his signature black heeled boots. However, he covers the majority of it beneath his dark black shades. His hair is a bit messy-looking, especially since he just came here after training. Thankfully, it's not greasy. As for that messy patchwork of a beard, that's a whole other story.

"Got a minute? I'm having one hell of a day."
Edited 2025-03-11 16:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-11 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, hang on. Is that a ten-foot-tall robot standing before him? It is, isn’t it? Holy shit—

"What the hell are you supposed to be?!" That’s the first question Johnny asks when he sees this enormous robot. Now, he has seen his fair share of bullshit throughout the years but this takes the cake.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa.” He’s already halfway out the door. “Who the fuck are you and where’s the real doc?”
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-11 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Five million years?" He repeats in utter dismay. There are no chances that this chunk of metal is more than five million years old. That would easily place him among the oldest things in the world, second only to the earth itself. It's an absurd remark that Johnny just can't get his head around. It's simply too ludicrous to fathom, but so is everything about Soulkiller and the Relic project.

"Fuck, and I thought the kaijus were weird enough." He mutters under his breath before letting out a distressed sigh. "Alright, alright! If you're the only doctor around, then fine–" Before he could utter another word, Johnny gets hit with another wave of nausea.

He falls silent for a while, his face scrunched up in misery. Everything is fuzzy and wobbly now, as if he is glitching out. Faint green lines of code emerge everywhere, with streams of numbers and error messages flashing before his eyes. This has happened before, when the Relic began to malfunction in V's body, but he now has no idea what is causing it.

"S-Shit." He clutches his head between his hands.
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-11 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Johnny could hardly move. His entire body feels sluggish and numb, as if he has lost control of his limbs. It's a strange feeling. Scary, even. He can't tell when Ratchet brings him closer to the medical table. It's like he's swimming through molasses. His body feels so heavy, almost like some invisible force is trying to crush him.

"I can't figure out if I'm alive or dead." He murmurs as he struggles to regain control of his body. He can still see traces of green and red slipping in and out of his eyesight. "One minute I feel fine, the next I feel like I've just been shot."

Maybe this is phantom pain? That's what Johnny thinks when he closes his eyes. He sits there in total silence for a bit while the pounding in the skull worsens. This must be the worst migraine he's ever experienced, or the Relic has caused irreversible harm to his brain. In any case, Johnny will not leave until he has answers.

"It feels like my head is trying to twist right off my shoulders." He grumbles as his vision gradually clears. Ratchet's voice remains distant and sluggish, but he can still hear him.

"This has to be the Relic's fault."
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spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077

[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-11 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Johnny groaned as another wave of nausea hit him like a tsunami. Thankfully, he is still able to respond. "The Relic is a fucking top secret biochip commissioned and supervised by old man Saburo Arasaka himself." He takes a quick breath to prevent himself from hurling right there. Johnny feels completely sick to his stomach, as he did whenever V felt like he was going to pass out.

"It enables you to download a person's essence into a digitally stored chip. All of their emotions, psychological traits, and even their entire soul. The ideal little gimmick for a soulless megacorporation to pursue." He grumbles furiously while searching for something inside his hoodie. Of course it's a cigarette. If he's going to be so miserable, he might as well smoke.

"The biochip contains a system that was meant to install and activate the engram within a new living host." He places the cig between his lips and searches for a lighter.

"So yeah, you could kinda say I was brought back from the dead."
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-11 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"See, this is what happens when you allow robots to take over the world."

A deep sigh escapes the rockstar once he's handed the basin instead. He gives Ratchet an annoyed glance, one laced with as many unspoken curse words as he could mentally muster. Thankfully, Johnny doesn't dare voice his disdain.

"Put up a 'no smoking' sign next time." He grumbles before placing the basin aside for now. His vision is getting blurry again but at least he doesn't feel like hurling again yet.

"I can't imagine many doctors would be willing to treat me, but you got one thing wrong here." He turns towards the ten-foot-tall robot with a lopsided smirk.

"I'm the engram." Or at least he was the engram lurking within the Relic. "Something must've gone wrong when LILITH transferred the biochip into a new living host."
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-12 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Expect Johnny to grumble more and maybe drop a few f-bombs here and there. Are all doctors such hard asses all the time? It is like dealing with Milt again. Nevertheless, Johnny respects Ratchet's professionalism. At the very least, this massive robot will not let Johnny railroad him in his medibay.

"Fine, you call the shots, doc." Johnny responds, cautiously lying down upright on the hospital table. This isn't comfy, you know? The table's coldness has already seeped through his clothes.

"Just make it quick though." The rocker complains.
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-12 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
"I heard that," Johnny says before calming down a bit. All joking aside, this is not a laughing matter. His head hurts badly, and he can feel blood and bile at the back of his throat. He's in awful shape, and Johnny has no idea why.

If he is supposed to be an engram, how did LILITH get him? According to his memory, he was last lodged deep within V's cyberbrain. Dex shot his host in the head, and the Relic triggered immediately. If it hadn't been for the Relic, V would have died immediately, but he didn't. Suddenly Johnny found himself trapped within the merc's mind, like a prisoner. No one could see or hear him. It was like Johnny was a ghost trapped within a shell.

"Well, you already know about the nausea." Johnny sighs, closing his eyes briefly. "The migraines began soon after, along with the tears in my vision. Everything becomes hazy and...weird." He knows that's not the most descriptive description but it's difficult to explain the fogginess that overtakes him from time to time.

"It's like my mind is trying to connect somewhere." He whispers quietly, his face scrunching up in pain again. "T-Trying to connect to the host but I can't. V isn't here."

That scan might produce some fascinating results. Johnny, despite being an engram, is primarily biological. However, he does have some strange nanomachines running through his bloodstream. That, plus the fact that the majority of his brain appears to be cybernetic at this stage. Whether or not this is cause for concern is unknown; however, LILITH did have to reassemble his body piece by piece.
Edited 2025-03-12 01:11 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-12 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
If Johnny's brain was bleeding, he would very likely never leave the intensive care unit. There was only so much his brain could handle at this point, especially after all of the stress and anguish. Having his body being reforged by some superpowered AI, only to place his engram within it says a lot. It wouldn't be surprising LILITH used the DNA code from the engram to clone his new body. That certainly wouldn't be the first time that happened.

"So everything green, huh?" Johnny asks as he cautiously attempts to sit up. He's still dizzy as hell, but he doesn't feel like vomiting up anymore. "I guess I have to get back here a bit later when I feel better." He grumbles before reaching for the painkillers. He chokes down the pills without hesitation and without using any water. It's clear he's used to downing pills like this on a fly.

"Um, I guess so." Johnny murmurs as he considers how to respond to that inquiry. "Maybe you could sync with my brain and take a look?" He advises, drawing a black USB cable from his metallic palm. Despite the enhanced technology, his arm continues to use dated cyberware from the early 2020s.

"Feel like taking a risk?"
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okay here we go!

[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-12 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
The second Ratchet jacks in; he's in for a treat. Not a good treat, either. He's in for a world of hurt as that strange blurriness instantly takes effect of the autobot. It happens so quickly, almost as if the big guy just loaded a virus into his system. That's the Relic in its full glory. It's hastily trying to take over the autobot's body in record time. Whatever firewalls or anti-virus software Ratchet has is quickly losing ground against whatever the fuck Johnny has floating around in his cyberbrain.

"Holy shit--" Wait a minute. Why does everything look so much smaller now? Johnny pauses for a moment as he glances around the medibay. His vision cuts out for a second but before he knows it, it's back to normal. It flickers in and out like this for a while before a strange sequence of green code suddenly flashes across his eyes. Then suddenly, everything looks all small again.

"Doc, did you bother to upgrade your software before coming here? Cause holy shit, this feels weird." Johnny suddenly pauses as he glances down at his hand or rather, what he assumes to be his hand. It looks all metallic and blocky all of a sudden. It looks absolutely nothing like his cybernetic arm.

"...Doc?" He glances around again in dismay. Why does it feel like he just grew ten-foot-tall all of a sudden?
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-12 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
What. The. Fuck.

Johnny almost does a doubletake as he sees himself peering up at him. It's similar to the times when V looked in the mirror and saw Johnny staring back at him. It's strange, extremely strange, and even stranger because he's currently trapped within a ten-foot-tall robot. Johnny is almost too startled to speak, fully immobilized inside Ratchet's body.

He doesn't know what to do. Like, what the heck is he supposed to do? Johnny has no idea what is going on, and he is currently experiencing a sudden bout of vertigo. Everything feels so far away and little. Being this tall is terrifying, and Johnny feels as if he's about to throw up.

"Oh my god, I need a fucking smoke." He curses before searching around for that 'loosie' that Ratchet placed down on the table.

"Gimmie a light, doc." He grumbles as he places the cigarette in between his, well, Ratchet's lips. "It's going to be a long night."
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-12 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
What is with the doc snatching his cigs like that?!

Johnny lets out an annoyed grumble once he is yet again denied a decent smoke. All he wants to do is will the nausea away and hopefully stop the chip in his brain from glitching out. That's all. However, Ratchet here, or rather...well, himself, is determined to make everything much harder for him. It's bad enough that they've magically switched bodies but now Ratchet is making him look like a complete idiot.

"Ugh." Johnny let out a disgusted sigh once Ratchet sneezed all over him. Technically, that's him doing all that with Ratchet's consciousness trapped within his body but it's still gross.

"I look fucking pathetic." He muses aloud as he leans down a little to get a better look at himself. "Runny nose, red eyes, probably a scratchy throat too. Maybe I'm sick?" It seems the tables have turned, Johnny is playing the role of the robot doctor and poor Ratchet is stuck in his handsome meat suit.

"Well, at least I'm still hot." Johnny couldn't help but grin a little as he looked for the USB port in Ratchet's arm.

"Alright, calm down! Let's just do the data swap shit again and see what happens."
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[personal profile] rebelsamurai 2025-03-12 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Small? Small!" Hear that growl? Johnny doesn't take kindly to being called small.

"Listen, I'm 6'1, lean and mean, with an impressive fucking cock! There's nothing small about me." While the size of said asset is rather debatable, Johnny is pretty tall. Not exactly the tallest, but he's considered tall.

"A what now? Communciable disease?" Johnny blinks his eyes slowly, or rather, in this case, Ratchet does. "You're making it sound like I have the plague." He complains while watching Ratchet, or rather HIS BODY, walk across the fucking room. This is bizarre, even for him. Johnny feels like he's having an out-of-body experience, and he technically is.

"This is so fucking weird." He mutters as he watches himself walk around the medibay without him. It's so odd that Johnny is getting queasy simply seeing Ratchet stroll around as him. However, he can't help but admire his own physical appearance. Once Ratchet finishes taking the pills, Johnny takes a moment to calm his nerves as Ratchet jacks into his body again.

"Okay, let's hope this works." Much like last time, his vision gets distorted with all sorts of errors and green-coded text. Whatever clunker Ratchet is using for an operating system is starting to reboot. It takes a while for everything to come back online, but once he does, Johnny finds himself staring up at the autobot instead of looking down at himself.

"Oh shit..."
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