[audio, airborne]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

 [You know what Whirl doesn't like?  Okay, everything. You got him there, smarty bolts. But more topically, Whirl is not fond of waking up in strange places and being fed ridiculous stories about blah blah the First Forged blah. And the fraggin' Acolyte would not shut up. 

[At least, until Whirl had punched him in the face.  Just a little friendly feedback to stop being so damn boring.  So he's doing some information gathering, the old fashioned way--flying around looking for trouble. ]

So. Stupid mech was telling me something about a fresh start. 

I dunno. Maybe it wasn't 'fresh start.'. Maybe he meant like, fresh tar or  freeze tarts or something. Kinda hard to enunciate after some editorial knuckles. 

[Which are Whirl's favorite flavor of knuckles.]

Thing is ['scuse him while he shoots something.  Because...uh...reasons. It needed shooting. Damn piece of scrap metal ]   I've heard that before. And let me tell you:  there's always a price. 

Anyone figure out what it is yet?  

And don't give me any boo hoo slag about never going home again.

Comments

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Nah, those memos are set to explode on delivery.

[Seriously. What the frag. For the first time, Whirl is perfectly okay with not having one.]

Don't you know it. Worthless as your chin is long, ugly.

[Yup, yup.] Yeah? And how far does that get you here? Surprised you're not in some brig.

[sparkless]

Oh, yes- chin jokes! So original!

Let me guess, you're made of a bunch of blocks all stacked up like someone was building a bot out of cargo crates. You'll be in good company here, rest assured.

[Grin] Hardly. The First Forged are in charge here and they don't seem to care about faction symbols or past crimes.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

You know what they say about mechs with big chins?

[Because obviously you love chin jokes.]

Nope. [Whirl will land and switch to video. Are you ready for this much digitigrade? ARE YOU? ]

And you're dumb enough to believe that. [He snorts.] I've fallen for that before. [Idiot.]

[sparkless]

Something irritating I've already heard twenty thousand times?

[Oh wow, that is a lot of....uniqueness.]

Ah. You're closer to the Starscream built from sticks. My condolences.

[Huff] Until I see evidence to the contrary, yes.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah, but who knows? It may be time 20,001 that makes you snap.

[Hey a mech can hope!]

Yeah, I'd really accept aesthetic judgment from a mech with feet like that.

Eh, okay, tried to warn you. Go get shafted. I'm not gonna get in your way.

[sparkless]

You really like playing 'poke the sharkticon' don't you?

What? What's wrong with my feet?! [He's actually rather proud of his feet! He lifts one up to inspect it for dirt with a worried grimace.]

Good. Mechs that get in my way tend to end up exploded.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Hey, hey. Let's not talk about my little special private time. We just met.

[You will never get to poke his sharkticon.]

Your feet are stupid looking. Guess you can't see with all that chin in the way.

[He thinks he's hilarious.]

Yeah? Me too. We should have a contest.

[sparkless]

[Have the mother of all grimaces because he just pictured what you were implying.]

Let's never speak of it again.

[He stomps his foot back down on the ground with a grunt.] At least I have a chin.

Sure. First one to kill Megatron wins.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[JUST AS PLANNED.]

Yeah, but I know you'll be thinking about it a lot.

[Because. Whirl.]

Oh, yeah. I see how it is. Another of those 'face superiority' types [Racist.]

I slapped him sideways once, does that count?

[sparkless]

I'll have to schedule myself a processor wipe. [Shudder]

Did I mention I think helicopters are inferior alt modes as well?

[That gets a chuckle from him.] Sorry, but I think blowing him up and reducing him to a helpless head for 50 years beats that.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Might want to go all out and get a full personality-wipe while you're at it. Maybe they're on special.

[Snort.] Yeah? No jet's ever lead the Wreckers. Rotaries have.

Yeah? Only once?

[sparkless]

It's much easier just to kill off my clones. [It's strangely cathartic.]

Wreckers? The fact that I've never heard of them lends credence to my opinion.

[Frown] I was kind of busy.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah, but easy ain't always the way to go. No, seriously. I think you should off yourself.

Busy doing what? Polishing your chin?

[sparkless]

You and every other autobot. Sorry, but I think I'll be sticking around.

[Optic roll.]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Eh. Worth a shot. Probably afraid you'd miss.