10th Transmission - Audio

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Xanth.

You around, boy? Need... something. Get up here if you hear this.

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[snowtop]

O-Oh, yeah, r-right.

[Sorry this is taking so long, Ironhide! Xanth's reading skills are still kind of terrible, and by kind of I mean very.

Eventually, he pipes up:]

Th-they like the-- the warm water, o-obviously, and the-- I-I guess they eat whatever bugs a-are, uh, a-around.

[He pauses, taps his finger on the page, then looks up.]

A--Are there a-any bugs a--around? I, I've been to th-- th-the pools, a-and they seem... um. N-Not-- not buggy.

[But there have to be bugs. Bugs are everywhere! And there are frogs, so logically, there would be bugs. But not everything follows logic in this place...]

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[heavyweaponsbot]

[It's all right, Xanth. He'll wait for you.]

[But at the question, he just shakes his head, and looks confused.]

I was not looking for any insects. Just the water.

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[snowtop]

O-Okay.

[Xanth turns back to the book. After another minute or so, he looks up again.]

I, I-I don't think th-they're, uh, s--smart enough to be... trained.

[Which is sad, but not surprising, as they are little amphibians and the one on Ironhide's head is probably still trying to crawl into his mouth somehow.

As if Ironhide has a real mouth.]

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[heavyweaponsbot]

[He lacks anything like a real human mouth. Which is probably why the frog has wedged itself into a dent, and refuses to be budged.]

Maybe C4 was... altered, somehow, then. It seemed intelligent.

[AND HE MISSES THE LITTLE GOLD THING :(]

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[snowtop]

M--Maybe...

[Curiously, he looks up at Ironhide.]

Wh--where did... where did you get s-s-- C4?

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[heavyweaponsbot]

[The old 'bot frowns, thinking on that. It probably says something that he can't remember a time without C4.]

... It just appeared. In the very beginning. Others got them too. And the crew... wanted them.

They would trade honest answers for one of the things.

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[snowtop]

O-Oh. That's, uh.

[No wonder Xanth doesn't remember them. The 'very beginning' must have been a long time before the Boat picked him up.]

I, I-I guess they are-- p-probably a-- a little d-different, then.

[A pause. Then...]

H-How come you didn't-- you-- y-you know?

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[heavyweaponsbot]

[That's an easy answer to come up with. But... not an easy answer to say.]

[Ironhide studies the wall.]

Ratchet... was fond of it.