26th Transmission

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Ow! Rocks...?

[Silence - except for the familiar creaking and groaning of metal as Ironhide looks around. When he speaks, the gravely, aged voice is back. He does sound more... groggy... than usual. "Hungover", would be a better word.]

What... just happened...? Why... am I in... the bar?

[And as it all dawns on him. Crap, crap, crap.]

... I can explain everything. To all of you. Ratchet--I did... not mean to leave...

Comments

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

Hey, you totally hit on me. Not the other way around.

Frat guy. You know, big drinker, musclehead...or, in your case...metal head? How would that work...hmm.

[heavyweaponsbot]

... I am trying not to remember that.

I was young... and stupid. Prefer not to remember any of it.

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah...we probably should.

Well, isn't everyone young and stupid in their youth...?

[heavyweaponsbot]

[He grunts.] You are not stupid. Reckless, yeah. Not stupid.

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

I'm glad y'think that.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Why would I think otherwise?

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

Well, I dunno. Y'kept saying organic like it was a dirty word.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Back then? It... sort of was.

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

Why?

[heavyweaponsbot]

They were not like us. They sought the All-Spark as mere energy...

Not a well-liked race.

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

[She sounds confused.]

Humans?

[heavyweaponsbot]

Nah. Weird... green... things. Never knew what a human was until after we went looking for the All Spark.

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

...Green things? Really? So there's other aliens out there besides you guys?

[heavyweaponsbot]

Yeah. Big universe. Why should we be the only lifeforms in it?

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

I guess that makes sense. Lot of people on earth didn't believe anything else was out there. Not til you guys came, anyway.

I always thought that was kind of a dumb mentality.

[heavyweaponsbot]

That is foolish. Why would you think that?

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

I just said I didn't.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Er. No. Meant... why would... humans think that?

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Well...a lot of humans are more narrow minded than me and Sam.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Hmnf. And the Major.

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

Yep, and him, too.

[heavyweaponsbot]

... And Epps.

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

How about the whole N.E.S.T. team?

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Yeah. All of them.

[chopshopgoddess.livejournal.com]

And Sam's parents!