2nd Transmission // Audio

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Anyone still of the proper age and memory will notice something is... different... with Ironhide's voice.  He sounds... not nearly as rough and ragged as usual.  His vocals sound almost... new.  Or closer to it.]

...

What is this?  Don't remember being here before...  What happened to the battalion?  The Commander...?  Any of you out there?


[ooc: Ahahah scaled back in age to pre-war times 8D Have fun.]

Comments

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

C'mon 'Hide. Are you just putting me on? The teachers were always talking about it. Ultra Magnus's great and honorable Autobots and Megatron's wily Decepticons.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Never heard of any Autobots... or Ultra Magnus.

You got your processor in order, kid?

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

Of course I do, you should know that. Is this one of your jokes, 'Hide?

[heavyweaponsbot]

Jokes? I don't make jokes.

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

Oh yes you do. You're always pulling pranks on poor Bumblebee...

[Confused Longarm is confused.]

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Bumblebee? Who's that?

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

... Our classmate? You practically hate him.

[CLEARLY SOMETHING IS HORRIBLY WRONG]
Where's your room, I'm coming over.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Class... mate?

[Room number goes here]

You sure you know me?

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[Walking and talking now]

Of course I do, they wouldn't give two mechs the same name it'd be awkward and weird.

[Knocks on his door when he gets there]

[heavyweaponsbot]

Hmn.

[He opens his door--and is considerably less battle-scarred and banged up than the last time they met.]

Your... construction is strange.

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[He's considerably stockier than the last time - he lost nearly a foot off his height - with a more Autobot-like face. Which has the most confused look he can muster on it.]

You're... less red than I remember.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Now he really can wear a monocle!]

... I have never been red.

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[Psh, he could totally do that as Shockwave. And wear a little bowler hat while sipping tea!]

... Clearly not. Well, I-I guess I have you confused for a different Ironhide, then. Strange... Uhm. I'm Longarm, by the way.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Is it wrong that I think that should happen?]

... Clearly. Longarm? Your rank?

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[Probably not.
...Since I've found art of him doing that exact thing.]

Uhm, cadet, right now. Still in training. But I'd like to be the Prime of Autobot Intel someday.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[This must needs happen]

Cadet Longarm... hm.

Prime? Of... there are no more Primes. They're extinct. Legends.

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[Absolutely yes. Maybe for the Fourth Wall... Iconing is go!]

Legends? Certainly not. They're one step down from Magnus. Takes a lot of work to get the rank of Prime, I've heard.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[GO go go!]

... What kind of Cybertron are you from?

Irrelevant icon FTW!

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[Surely the mun is headed to the Pit for making a pair of these icons.]

Not the same one, obviously. But that doesn't make sense...

/dead

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Oh no, they're wonderful.]

There's only one Cybertron...

/resurrects with the Matrix

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[D'aww, thanks! All credit to DevART, of course.]

Well that's why it doesn't make sense. But your Primes... aren't like my Primes... but we're both from Cybertron.

That only works for Prime!

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Bless it. Sometimes.]

We don't have any Primes... we have Megatron.

Aw, shucks..

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[Sometimes it can be... strange, yes.]

We have Megatron, and Primes. But Megatron's a Decepticon. He's one of the bad guys.

[That's so difficult for him to say.]

[heavyweaponsbot]

Megatron a... what? What is a Decepticon? How could he be evil?

[This is so weird to say.]

[shockedlogic.livejournal.com]

[Most backwards conversation EVAH.]

Decepticons. 'Deception's their entire name - and game,' my creator used to say. They're awful, and L- Megatron is the worst of them.

[Fun Fact: 'Longarm' used to have horrible slipping-up problems before he got extra-paranoid.]