16th Transmission - Video

[heavyweaponsbot]

[The video feed opens on Ironhide, looming large... and standing fully upright, in the keep's courtyard.]

[There appears to be a small tree, ripped from the woods themselves, and planted in the ground -- or propped up, it's hard to tell which. Either way, the old Autobot is watching it with an even stare.]

[And without warning, he kicks the tree, savagely, the motion accompanied by a rev of a massive engine. The tree shatters in an explosion of splinters and wood chips.]

[He draws himself up, and snorts.]

Yeah. Hip works all right. This will do.

Comments

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

[... the last fish hadn't fared so well in the bathtub. He'd thought a bucket would be better.]

Minnow?

[Audio]

[snowtop]

O-Oh, it, um, it-- i-it's like a r-really tiny, l-little fish. L-Like-- s-smaller than m-my finger.

[Then again, compared to Ironhide, everything is tiny!]

Uh-- i-instead of, like, a-as big as-- m-my arm.

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

Maybe you would be a small fish, boy. You are not that large to begin with.

[Audio]

[snowtop]

[A slightly self-conscious laugh, and then:]

Y-Yeah, I'm-- I-I'm not a-a-- a sea monster, b-by a long sh-- shot...

[He'd say whale, only, he just knows those as sea monsters. Spooky...]

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

Yeah. Sea monsters are more threatening.

[Audio]

[snowtop]

[A snort.] O-Ouch. B-But, I-- I guess s-so.

[Yeah, Xanth is about as threatening as a puppy, if that puppy were floppy-eared and rolled over for strangers.]

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

Just teasing you, boy.

[No 'ouch' allowed.]

[Audio]

[snowtop]

I-- I-I know.

[He can take a little well-intentioned joking, at least from Ironhide.]

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

Good. Hate having to explain things like that.