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accidental video | location: Trion's sector

[An elbow or some errant piece of lab equipment must have activated the Link. Either that or Perceptor meant to say something, but was called away by whatever it was he's tinkering with. In this case, it's something under that big work-lamp of his, and vaguely resembles a small box. With a button on top.]

... I've utterly no memory of this. Why on Cybertron would there be...?

[Link feed forgotten, he peers lower, examining whatever this device may be.]

What could the button possibly --

[And, as if in retribution for the last time this happened being locked away from prying optics, something small, glowing, and flying on rotors buzzes right up into the tank's face. He jerks backwards, upwards, and...]

[CRACK goes the back of his head against the lamp.]

[The video goes dark, save for the lights on Perceptor's frame, and that of the glowing insectoid itself, buzzing happily about while the Autobot curses.]

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Having issues there, eh?

I wouldn't go that far. Technical difficulties, more like.

Suuure. Technical difficulties resulting from having issues.

A flying insect hardly counts as an issue.

You haven't met the insecticons, have you?

The what?

Stupid creatures who eat everything and create multiples of themselves.

One of them talks like this-this.

How charming.

Only a few syllabic repetitions off of resembling this creature.

Considering Jetfire stated that he based them off of internal repair nanites, if they ever turned on us we'd have a swarm of metal-eating glowy bugs.

...

All the more reason to summon an overzealous exterminator.

[COUGH-WHEELJACK-COUGH.]

Why on Cybertron was this experiment going on?

How the slag should I know what's going on in that over-grown calculator's cranium?

I had assumed the creation of potentially hazardous life forms was something worthy of note, as a general rule.

He claims that they are harmless.

[BUT THEY KEEP LANDING ON HIM AND THAT'S BAD.]

That hardly explains why he was experimenting on them in the first place.

Why don't you ask him?

My, aren't we surly.

You're the one asking me questions like I should know.

In my defense, you are the one who informed me Jetfire was the one experimenting on the creatures.

I only know that he did it. I don't have the psychic abilities to tell you the why.

Mm, I see. You're unobservant, then.

I wasn't there when he created them. He didn't tell me until after the fact.

[Huff. He's hardly unobservant. He's the most observant person ever.]

And you didn't think to ask for further details?

I didn't really have time in the middle of being swarmed.

You neglected to mention that part.

Are you always like this?

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