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heavyweaponsbot) wrote2011-11-22 07:59 pm
heavyweaponsbot) wrote2011-11-22 07:59 pm
12th Transmission -- Audio
[Oh hey Keep. It's Ironhide again. And boy does he sound unhappy.]
Tell me, lord.
[There is so much derision in that word, it should be a curse, not a title.]
Where are those who go missing? Do you send them home, to their "vanished worlds"? Or are you keeping them locked up!
[Something big and heavy impacts a wall.]
Answer me!
[... Finding Lea missing isn't sitting well with the big old bot.]
Tell me, lord.
[There is so much derision in that word, it should be a curse, not a title.]
Where are those who go missing? Do you send them home, to their "vanished worlds"? Or are you keeping them locked up!
[Something big and heavy impacts a wall.]
Answer me!
[... Finding Lea missing isn't sitting well with the big old bot.]
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S-S-- S--- Sorry.
[His reply, short as it is, is delayed.]
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[His own response is also delayed, and subdued.]
... Not your fault, boy. Should not have... said that to you.
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[It was a shitty thing to say, when Ironhide just lost someone he cares about.]
S--Sorry.
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Stop apologizing.
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[He bites back another apology. Ironhide might not even consider it his fault, but he was still rubbing salt in the wound and that was just cruel.
That feeling when you've said something wrong, a verbal misstep, and everything that comes out of your mouth is just as wrong? Yeah, he's got it.]
M-Maybe-- m-maybe s-someone'll-- s-say something. I-- I-I don't know.
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... They have much to answer for.
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Were you on the ship for the mutiny?
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N-No, I... I-I was-- I was only there r-right when the-- J-Jennifer, the, th-the ghost girl, r-right when she... y-you know.
[Right when she got out and rampaged. He was even there when it happened, though he has no scars to prove it.]
Th-there-- there was a-- a m-mutiny?
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[Ironhide falls silent again -- that girl. He remembered her clearly. Her, and her destruction of the theater. She was the only one on the ship to ever have the dubious honor of claiming Ironhide's life.]
[... Taking his life, and leaving Ratchet behind.]
[Metal creaks.]
There was. Not sure how many answers we found. But it showed them we were tired of being strung along.
[At least, that's what Ironhide has to believe.]
Maybe we need to give these captors a wake-up call.
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Wh-- wh-where-- where are you?
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[But Ironhide just doesn't care anymore.]
Still looking for the boy.
Why?
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W-What if someone h... hears?
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[He sighs. He's in no mood to argue.]
B-- B-Be careful?
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If they kill me, I will just return.
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[You still die, Ironhide.]
A-And what if-- w-what if i-it's like on th-the... E-Elegante? It... it wasn't f-free passes for-- forever...
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I can live with that. Only got one good one anyway.
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F-For a while, a-at--- at least.
[But he hasn't met anyone who's died three times or more...]
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[But Xanth breaks off. Ironhide has a point; someone should figure this out eventually. Xanth just wishes Ironhide didn't sound so damn determined to find out at his own expense.]
... I-- I don't know. I-It just-- i-it sounds... r-really d--dangerous.
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What is one more risk?
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[But he's lost the argumentative tone, and it's not coming back.]
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[Yep, we're just avoiding the subject here.]
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A-Are you?
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Yeah. Everything is fine.
[Ironhide speak for "No, but I'm not going to say so out loud".]
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But he lets it go.]
Okay.
[He lets it go, because that's all he can do.]