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[sixmillionyears]

[ He intended for this to be audio, but he's not in the best of ways at the moment. Tailgate's outside, but it's hard to say where with the way the feed keeps juddering about. What is clear is flashes of Tailgate, covered in energon. ]

I-I can't-- I didn't--

No no no no no no no I didn't mean to I didn't want to--

Please make it stop m-make it stop I hurt him I hurt him so bad and I can't stop it I c-can't--

[ He breaks off in a ragged sob, grabbing at his head with energon-soaked hands, curling in on himself. ]

Stop it stop it stop please I wanted to do it I did it and I want to do it again and it won't stop make it stop please please PLEASE!

[ There's another sob and Tailgate takes off, running in some direction. ]

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm so fragging sorry please I don't want to do it again I don't--

[ The feed cuts out. ]

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[thehardway]

[Okay. Why not.

Ultra Magnus had seen the network post by Tailgate as soon as he'd left to claim Hot Rod's body. But it seems a detour is now needed.

So he's on his way. Once Tailgate is in sight, Magnus transforms.

The enforcer is already damaged. Many parts of his plating have been torn off, melted, or gripped hard enough in various locations to have bent. There's utter exhaustion, but here he is anyway.]

Tailgate.

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[raceme]

Tailgate! Tailgate where are you now!?

WARNING FOR MILD GORE | POST-A BUNCH OF THINGS HAPPENING

[chatterbot]

[Swerve is nothing if not a mech who works with what he has. What he has now is materials to make straws. What he doesn't have is his lower jaw.

He spends the first few minutes after Tailgate runs off horrified with what has happened choking on his own energon. He passes out. He wakes up wondering what's happened to Tailgate, then chokes some more. He reaches for the dresser and passes out again. This goes on for a while, either him passing out from energon loss or pain. It takes him some time, willpower, and a sharp piece of glass from who knows what to slice into himself and rig up tubing so he doesn't end up flooding his systems and somehow managing to extinguish his spark with his own lifeblood.

He cuts. He twists in piping. He passes out. He wakes up and remembers what went on and what happened. He starts again. By the time Magnus finds him, whenever he finds him, Swerve has managed to pass out in the middle of starting to try and fix whatever passes for the electrical wiring of his lower jaw.

He is nothing if not a resourceful mech.]