[Audio] [Transmission Originating from: Solian Temple] - First Offense

[namesnotprowl]

[There’s a low, frustrated sigh and for a long moment, that’s all there is. Then, someone starts speaking.]

So. I’m dragged to some other Cybertron, go through hours of paperwork, and get dumped on the street. Then I drop off the face of that Cybertron onto a space station in the middle of nowhere and get dumped in a pile of junk that I have to crawl out of.

Now I drop off the face of the station and wind up here with someone in a hood telling me I’m on Cybertron. Again. Not even the same Cybertron, some other Cybertron.

I was in the middle of something! Very important things! [Bartending and best friend things!]

Comments

[noparachutes]

Barricade.

[namesnotprowl]

... Shockwave.

I wasn't expecting familiar company.

[noparachutes]

And I wasn't expecting to be back on a Cybertron.

[namesnotprowl]

Hardly the right one, but I'm sure that plan's gone t'pot... Pardon my saying, sir, I'd figured you for dead when I got dragged out by the Rift.

[noparachutes]

You think too highly of the Autobots, Barricade.

[namesnotprowl]

Not without reason, Shockwave. Surely you know their recent track record.

[noparachutes]

An unfortunate one, but they were having difficulties the last I saw.

[namesnotprowl]

I wouldn't call them taking Soundwave's head a 'difficulty'.

[He'd call it 'the happiest moment of his life', actually.]

[noparachutes]

They what?

[He doesn't recall Soundwave being taken down. Unfortunate if that was the case, he was one of the few tolerable ones.]

[namesnotprowl]

I didn't stutter. Bumblebee shoved his cannon up through Soundwave's chassis and blew his head off. I've got video if you don't believe me.

[Just don't ask him why he has it.]

[noparachutes]

You have video of it.

[Barricade why do you have video of that.]

[namesnotprowl]

I have video of it.

[Because of reasons.]

[noparachutes]

Why?

[namesnotprowl]

Would you believe me without it?

[HE CAN COVER FOR THIS, REALLY.]

[noparachutes]

With what I heard about the Fallen, yes.

[namesnotprowl]

That was Optimus Prime. That kinda thing is what he does.

[noparachutes]

I am aware. If he and his Autobots could take him on and survive it is possible. So why do you have video of that?

[namesnotprowl]

[Well. Frag.]

... my reasons are my own.

[noparachutes]

When you have video of one of your superiors being killed, refusing to give your reasoning is not wise.

[namesnotprowl]

I answer to Megatron. If he asked I would answer. But he isn't here.

[noparachutes]

So you will explain it to me instead.

[namesnotprowl]

... Unless he told you to ask me, no. And obviously he couldn't have.

[noparachutes]

You will inform me, Barricade.

[namesnotprowl]

Why're you so keen on the why, Shockwave?

[noparachutes]

Scientific reasons.