video; | location: the general area of Vector's temple

[stabbywheelfeet]

So let me get this straight.

[Says the unfamiliar -- well, maybe unfamiliar to most -- silver Autobot lounging in a temple doorway. You heard it right, lounging. Apparently no one told him about the giant bug monsters.]

New Cybertron. A bunch of different -- [AIR QUOTES, LITERAL AIR QUOTES] -- "realities" flying around. None of us asked to be here... aaaaand we get to play construction equipment to these 'bots I've never even heard of?

Right, you know what? I'll pass.

When's the next shuttle home? I don't feel like getting my paint dirty.

[He looks as if he's about to turn the Link off entirely, but pauses. Oh, right.]

I'm guessing it's too much to hope anyone I know showed up too? Regardless... this is Sideswipe, shoot me your location and all that.

Sideswipe: out.

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[stabbywheelfeet]

Surprise. I've never heard of anything you're talking about, so... But that's where I came from. You must not know as much as you think.

[At least that's what the old ones always said. When he bothered to listen.]

And now you know the best there is. You should feel proud.

[He knows he does. He's always proud of himself, anyway.]

Reverse... what now?

[winged_knight]

Well, I know a lot for my own universe. Yours sounds...quite different.

[Remarkably so. He's kind of...blown away by it. And a little unsettled.]

Well you're certainly...confident of your place.

[Wow Sideswipe, could you love yourself more?]

He's from a different dimension where everything is reversed. The Decepticons are more like Autobots.

[Actually they seem nicer than a lot of the Autobots he knows, but he doesn't want to break your brain.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

Well, I like it. So that's all that counts, right?

[Sideswipe stop talking.]

Of course I am. I was built to be the best thing in the Autobot army. Why wouldn't I be confident.

[Except when Wing starts talking about reverse Decepticons, some of that confidence dissipates.]

Decepticons can never be like us.