[Video]

[warp]

[Skywarp looks rather tired when the video comes on. He's hunched over, clearly still sitting on that slab they all wake up on. His yellow optics are on a steady, but low, glow and the grimace is there more because it's a well-worn and familiar expression rather than because he's got excess energy to emote it.]

Can someone explain what the frag is goin' on? [Pause, and then Skywarp sharply taps the screen, probably for no other reason than to satisfy some crude desire to be annoying, because that's got to make some unpleasant noise for anyone listening.] And I ain't talking 'bout the alternate reality slag, I got that part, but what am I doing here?

[He may be dumb, but alternate realities fits rather neatly in among the knowledge he has for warping, even if the thought of more than one version of people in general is sort of incomprehensible.]

Not that bein' away from that freak and Starscream being a glitch like usual ain't good, but, y'know.

[He'll kick back and relax the moment he knows he's good to go, and he's mostly shooting scrap at Starscream out of tired, annoyed habit; he hadn't done too badly this past year.]

... Is there any extra energon 'round here?

[Because frag it was unpleasant to be low on power again after not having had to be so for several years. Stupid Autobots, stupid Starscream, stupid blathering glowy freak. They'd all prioritised weapons before re-energising, but Skywarp had barely picked up his arm cannons before he woke up here.

There's a question, almost, on the edge of his vocaliser, about who's here or not, but then he just snaps his mouth closed. He's too fragging tired to think about asking anything else.]

Comments

[notyourblueangel]

[Thundercracker gives him a bit of a look at the first. So Warp knows this mech too. Meaning he and this Jetfire and Starscream are probably all from the same timestream. Well . . . it's something, anyway. The last gets a smirk.]

Try to imagine a mech who looks enough like Megatron, shares his name . . . but has a personality like Optimus Prime. Except not preachy. [He shrugs.] Apparently one of the realities out there is a mirror, a negative polarity. I've gathered that in that one, the version of me is loud, cocky, and obnoxiously colored. Better that than dead, though, I guess. Which I'm also supposed to be, according to some people here.

So . . . how are you feeling? [He nods at the cube in Warp's hand.]

[warp]

[Oh yes, that's what they are, and he's listened to Starscream rant about his icecube while the CR chamber did its job for a while now...]

Say what?! [Skywarp stares, optics narrowing while he waits for Thundercracker to say it's a joke, but when it doesn't happen... he just shakes his helm.]

I get the thing 'bout multiple realities and I suppose some sorta flipping of that makes sense too [in fact, negative coordinates make sense...] but people---

[A shrug and a grin, and Skywarp lays that aside as if it's nothing, gaze briefly dropping down to the cube and back up.]

Pretty good. Want to go flyin'? I gotta get the lay of the land so I can warp.

[And then he'll go kick that red Frenzy in some suitable hole or something.]

[notyourblueangel]

[Thundercracker chuckles at the gaping look he gets.]

Yeah, it takes a bit to get used to. We have a Ravage from the same reality. He's . . . different. ["Cute" is what he kind of wanted to say, but of course, he can't.]

[He stands with a nod, putting the cubes away.]

Figured that's what you want to do. I'll show you around. Come on.

[Only if TC gets to watch! Because he /knows/ that mech, the little fragger's from /his/ timestream, and BY THE PIT has he wanted to do a little kicking himself! For a long, long time. Of course, a certain telepathic communications officer had very handily prevented it before now…]

[warp]

Riiiiight.

[It's hard not to sound disbelieveing, but at the same time he doesn't actually think Thundercracker's lying.]

Uh-huh. Don't feel right just capable of warpin' line-of-sight. [Hopping off the altar with a helping burst from his thrusters just because he can, Skywarp grins and... again, because he can and he's newly fuelled, warps over to the entrance to the room, leaning against the doorway, arms folded over his cockpit.]

Gotta be faster than that, Thundercracker!

[notyourblueangel]

[Thundercracker doesn't mind the disbelieving tone in the slightest, knowing he'd be the same way. He watches Skywarp hop down and then just teleport straight over to the door. He chuckles, shaking his head.]

Some things don’t change, do they?

[He'll lead the way out of the temple and take off for the skies, transforming in mid-air.]