heavyweaponsbot | 3rd Transmission / Audio

[He bites back the remark he wants to make - about Ironhide's attitude and stubbornness and apparent viciousness. It wouldn't do any good.]

Things should be back to relative normality in a few days. You can get back to barely restraining yourself from punching me with your own fists then.

[Well, he may be right. But he'll never admit it.]

Why should I restrain myself then?

[Shockwave's confident that he would be, but he figures that continuing that argument now would be extremely detrimental.]

Aside from the Captain, you mean? Mikaela. You may not like it, but we are friends and I doubt she would take it well if you insisted on harming me.

[And he's confident that if they did... he knows where his motion centers are--Ratchet's had to shut them off enough times.]

Not afraid of some "captain". Hmpf!

She is young, naive. Sooner or later, she will learn just what your kind are like.

[He would be entirely unappreciative of that. The stasis cuffs he arrived in were bad enough.]

Afraid? I wouldn't think you capable. But he can and will mete out punishment of the most embarrassing variety to those that break his rules.

She may be young, but she is willing to listen when someone says they would prefer peace under their current circumstances. And I have informed her of the things I have done already and she has yet to reject me.

[Except he's wearing corks. That would hamper the process.]

And embarrassment is supposed to ward me off? Had worse as a recruit.

She also does not fully understand what lies the likes of you are capable of.

[Boy, he's just finding all sorts of reasons to be glad he jammed those corks on his claws.]

Then perhaps the futility? After all, I would still be here once you returned from the brig, no matter what you do to me.

What use would there be in me lying? There is no key information to be had save why we are here, the goods are free for the taking, and there is certainly no point in getting into a position to stab anyone in the back. Point in fact, the Autobots seem perfectly fine with coexisting with me - barring you, of course.

[Yeah, seriously.]

Futility? What futility? I would have still gotten in at least three good hits on you. [Smug!]

[... but then he just growls.] Then perhaps they have less reason to hate you as much as I do.

[He raises one optic ridge.] And by the time you returned, I would be repaired - or resurrected, depending on how 'good' those hits were. Surely you cannot spend the entire trip injuring or murdering me over and over.

Or perhaps they realize that I am not the Decepticon they know, just as they are not the 'bots I am familar with.

[Shrugs] And I would still have gotten you once. And that will depend upon how you conduct yourself.

Your kind are all the same to me. Murdering cowards.

What would 'getting me' prove? That you are able to harm an unarmed Decepticon who has no interest in fighting?

You should be careful making that kind of assumption.

"Yet". No interest "yet".

I see no reason to be.

No interest at all. It would serve no purpose, save to irritate the crew and the captain. Which is something I prefer to avoid.

Considering that there are five of us here that hail from three different versions of Cybertron, it is not a stretch to think that there are more. Maybe even a few where our positions are well and truly reversed, hm?

At least we would have their attention. Interrogation then.

And in all three, your kind is the same. A Cybertron where Decepticons remember their place is impossible.

Others have tried to question them; they are a tight-lipped bunch. "We are going to the Golden Shore and the Captain is a great man," are the most anyone has ever gotten from them.

How backhanded of you. Nothing is impossible. Not even the Autobots being the 'monsters'.

Hard to be tight-lipped when I am doing the questioning.

... Yes it is.

I think you underestimate them, Ironhide.

To offer a comparison, before meeting your bunch, I had thought that the destruction of Cybertron was impossible. I was proven woefully wrong.

I do not.

... [looks away, pointedly] Drop that subject, Decepticon.

Or you do. But I do not want this to turn into an argument that more befits Sparklings than grown mechs.

I am. I was simply making a point.

I do not. [Growl grumble mutter]

... That is a point that needs to never be made. I already know.

Do too. [Childish behaviors, go!]

I realize you do, though you seem... unwilling to extend it as far as it could go.

... Do not.

I am a stubborn old fool. [keeps his "eye" on the floor--not afraid to look at Shockwave, just thinking about something. Too much.]

Do too.

[He hushes his tone a little] It does not have to be so.

Do not.

[Glares at him, briefly] That is who I am.

Do too.

Was it always? [He isn't trying to goad Ironhide this time, just make him think. Eventually, anyway.]

3rd Transmission / Audio

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"Reversed"? Oh Shattered Glass, you glorious brainbreak...

It's so magnificent but you go 'omgwtfbbq?!' all at the same time...

The only universe in which Starscream is a decent creature...

And Optimus is entertainingly (creepily?) psychotic...

sdfhsfds We have one at Axiomnexus oh dear LORD the creepy.

I have noticed and it looks hilariously freaky.

IT'S TERRIFYING.

I'd think so!

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