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[On top of one of those suddenly-larger things was Barricade, curled up and dozing. As it turned out, he could still reach high places fairly easily... and he still liked being high up. At least, he was napping until he heard a voice.

Saying it was Bumblebee.

Barricade uncurls himself and stalks on his belly towards the edge of the object - a large desk, turned up on one end. It didn't look like Bumblebee anymore... but he remembers the voice and that's good enough for him. Time for a little payback.

He waits until Bumblebee is passing by his perch and, without bothering to attempt speech, yowls loudly and leaps at him, claws out.]

Bumblebee hears the yowl and turns up to the sound, hands coming up in a defensive action. He expects his blasters to appear and when they don't the once Allspark guardian starts to panic.

He is too late to move out of the way of the pouncing cat and feels the claws bite into the easily broken skin of his human body.

There is a moment of pause before he yells, his voice breaking a bit as he does so, and he brings his hands up to try and beat the animal off of him.

Barricade at least had the advantage of knowing what organic were capable of; he doesn't expect on-board weaponry. And while he had to re-learn climbing with differently-jointed limbs, he got the hang of it quickly.

Still, being swatted at does not help his mood and he scrabbles along Bumblebee, meowing angrily all the way. Eventually a hit connects and knocks him loose.

He jumps back and crouches down briefly, hissing, before making a dive for Bumblebee's ankles. Those are very biteable.

It was much more the reaction of being used to on-board weaponry rather than just what 'what you see is what you get.'

Bumblebee cries out some more at how painful those scratches are. How are humans so Allspark-blessed soft and sensitive to everything and still surviving?!

"OWWwww you glitched..." Finally the creature is off his face and he looks to where it when only to have enough time to see it go for his ankle and bite down.

"AHHhhhhooooowwwwww" tears sprang to his eyes at the immensity of the pain. How can humans even feel this much pain? This is ridiculous. Finally done worrying on any level about hurting the animal he starts to kick the foot where it has bitten him, more than happy to catch the think in it's underbelly and send it flying away.

Barricade is used to pain. Really, he had to be; he had to learn the exact limits of Cybertronians, and had to know just how much pain he could handle as a human in case a fight broke out. He knows how to push past it and keep moving.

Being a cat and getting kicked in the guts, though. That he hadn't trained for.

All of the air goes out of him and he hits the ground some ways away, stunned for a few moments. Eventually he gets to his feet... and then lays right back down. Yeah, he's going nowhere fast. Owwwwwww. Even so, he hisses warning in Bumblebee's direction.

Finally the attack on his body had stopped and he glared at the animal, vaguely recognizing it as a cat, that had attacked him.

"You fragging glitched creature... what was that all for?!" He snapped, his voice horse and ragged from his yelling before. He reached up to swipe away something that was annoying his skin only for it to sting. He pulled his hand away and looked at it, his pupils dilating at the sight of blood, blood from his own body. "You... you... you made me bleed!"

He still couldn't say he expected to hear a voice come out of Bumblebee's mouth, even with him as a human. Barricade surveys his work for a few moments while his opponent gawks at it. After a few more moments he finally pulls himself into a sitting position, tail lashing from side to side. If nothing else, he caught Bumblebee off-guard. The wounds would heal, he knows, but still.

Little victories.

Barricade looks up at Bumblebee, eyes narrowed. Then, he finally speaks, voice its normal, deep snarl even coming out of the body of a tiny cat. "Good. That was the idea."

Bumblebee grits his teeth and all but snarls at the cat. "Barricade... why am I not surprised." knowing who it was kept the now human from panicking over the fact that he was bleeding.

"A small pest as always." he added, doing his best to look disgusted rather than frightened. He had no idea how to fight with a human body, and he knew cats had not only claws but sharp teeth, and if his memory wasn't faulty in this form their bite could be very harmful to a human body.

"It didn't sound like I was a mere pest, the way you were howling." Barricade flattens his ears back and hisses again, baring his fangs. He would dearly love for Bumblebee to try to come at him. Especially since he's finally (mostly) coordinated himself.

"Still, if only this body was different." Much as he likes being naturally armed, he'd get much more satisfaction out of punching Bumblebee as a human. Or better, attacking him in robot form.

"Oh it hurt, but in the long run all you did was make some scratches." Bumblebee let out a primal sounding growl at the feline but didn't want to risk himself by instigating fighting.

"Different body or not, I will be happy to tell one of the police force that you attacked me." He may not be able to fight back against you that well in this human body, but he isn't going to just let it go either.

Barricade laughs - which probably just sounds completely unnatural coming from this body. "Oh, it's not about the extent of the injuries. Not really." He's always been more interested in the pain.

"I'm sure you'd have a marvelous time building up the evidence to convict a cat of merely scratching and biting you a few times." Especially with both parties still alive. He's not even sure the police have had to handle a case like that yet, let alone one involving them in completely different bodies.

Bumblebee narrows his gaze, and starts to try to move toward his destination without taking his eyes off the now feline Barricade.

"In a place like this I am certain they won't discount the whole thing." He answered. Though really, he didn't feel confident that they would listen at all he didn't want Barricade to know that.

Barricade stands rather gingerly, trotting to keep up with Bumblebee. If he can't hurt him, he can at least annoy him.

"Perhaps not, but do you really want t'go through that? All that red tape that's always in the way with government bodies..." he retorts, words half-purred. He'd learned from his time in Axiom Nexus that the only way to get things done was quietly and out of court. Jails and trials made it messy.

Bee tries to find a way to create a feedback sound in this body but ends up with a pathetic attempt at a growl.

"Leave me be Barricade, I was doing nothing to you and you attacked me, no matter what shape we are in I doubt anyone would sanctify that." He knows government red tape, heck he used to be a guardian of the Allspark, if he didn't know red tape just about no one did, but he also knew how to get through it... where there was a full and established government.

Barricade chirps rapid-fire at Bee in what's almost a feline chortle.

"Oh, come now, what's a few revenge scratches between timestream-mates? It's the least I could go after all that trouble you've put me through over the centuries. Especially when I've been waiting so long." Bumblebee was never in the same dimensional hub as him at the same time. Even more than the red tape that had been maddening. Particularly when he was dragged home to witness more atrocities between. Chicago still aches in his mind as a fresh wound.

Bumblebee frowns at the rather disconcerting sound.

"I'm sure everyone will love to hear how you don't care about the whole, no fighting and keeping our war out of this place to get a few pot-shots at me." It wasn't his fault he wasn't ever there, and if Barricade even cared to learn it Bumblebee barely knew of a few bots and Barricade being on earth, Chicago wasn't even a glimmer of a thought to the bot.

His whiskers quiver lightly at the warning. "Oh, you poor thing. This has nothing to do with the war. I could not care less about our war."

Not anymore. It was a simple matter of hatred now. And that, Barricade has a lot of. At least for Bumblebee he does. The rest of the Autobots here don't have to worry about it so much. Not from Barricade, at least.

"Then what? Why claw me up if you don't care anymore?" This was seriously pissing him off, more and more.

Bumblebee honestly, while he didn't have any care for Barricade, he had made an effort to just ignore the other.

"Think, darlin'. There's more to what we have than just the war. So much more."

Barricade isn't the sort to hand the answer off on a silver platter. Even if he hates Bumblebee, he likes to think the fellow is smart enough to figure it out on his own.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." He snarls. "Unless it's cause I kept you from getting Sam and Mikaela."

Bee is frustrated of feeling out of the loop with things that had happened in their world. "Anything else but that I have no idea. When I came here the freaking humans had me and were.... fuck..."

"Look I don't know, aside from shit we both did in the war, you have against me."

By now the camero turned human was actually in a state of near tears from a combination of frustration, anger and lingering hate from how the humans had been treating him.

Barricade's whiskers twitch, tail lashing in surprise. Out of the loop completely? Still? Oh, how he'd love to tell Bumblebee... just to see those tears be from something other than rage.

That would be worth all his own suffering.

But he made a promise, and there's little leeway to it. Only so far forward that he's not in the mood to reveal it.

Barricade looks up at him, one ear flicking. "So he still hasn't told you? How cruel of him, to leave you so far behind. Well. I've been disallowed t'tell you. But ask your Italian friend what he's been keeping from you.

"The story is riveting, I assure you."

That gave Bumblebee a cause to stop for a moment and just stare at Barricade in the mech's current body.

"There is stuff... Mirage hasn't told me?" He asked, sounding confused and worried.

It only lasted a moment though as his expression hardened back up, throwing a glare at the feline. "Oh I see what this is, trying to get me to distrust Mirage, well it's not going to work, Mirage is my friend and I trust him to tell me what he feels is relevant to know."

Join the club.

[The ID says Sideswipe... but that's not his voice.]

Who is this? and how do you have Sideswipe's signal?

[Sorry buddy, but have an instantly suspicious Bumblebee.]

[And, like before, the feed shifts to video.]

Because I have my damned comm that's why.

And yes, I know this is ridiculous. But you don't look so good yourself.

S-sorry Sideswipe.

[His voice cracks and he winces slightly. He has a voice, which is better than before, but he wishes it didn't hurt so much to use.]

Do I look that bad?

[He will just refrain from commenting on the fact that Sideswipe ended up a human female, probably safer that way.]

What's wrong with you?

[Sideswipe are you seriously asking that question... Then again, he didn't think damage would carry over a changed form like this.]

You look human. That's bad enough, isn't it?

Seems like I'm still a little... malfunctioning.

[He winces at saying that about himself but what else is he supposed to say about it.]

Well... there are okay looking humans and then... less okay looking ones.

[Knock Out is clothes this time too, she's wearing a black suit. She raises an eyebrow at the video feed.]

Bumblebee? Oh, when did you arrive? [Yep, KO thinks you are the one from her world.]

A little while ago... Who is this?

Take a guess, rookie. I'm not telling.

Since you aren't speaking Italian probably not Mirage and Sideswipe has a bigger ego and at the moment, they are the only ones I care about guessing.

I could speak Italian if I wanted

Pomodoro. Lamborgini. Spaguetti.

See?

Edited 2013-05-15 21:36 (UTC)

Yeah... Not Mirage.

I am looking for my friends, so you know, if you don't mind, I'm going to go back to that.

[Bumblebee thinks you are beyond crazy, whoever you are.]

Aw, what gave me away, rookie?

I did not know that you were friends with Mirage or his absurd boyfriend. When did you ever met them? Before you arrived to Jasper?

[Can't blame Bee, really.]

I don't know who you are, and you have no place calling me a rookie.

I have been friends with Mirage and Sideswipe long before I ever arrived on Earth, much less this place.

[Snappy Bee is snappy.]

Oh, I do. You are a rookie, while I'm not.

You aren't the bumblebee from my work. [Not really a question, Knock Out's is thinking out loud. And she's so not telling Bumblebee her real name.]

I'm Tarn.

Come to where I am and I will introduce you to how little of a rookie I am.

[He rolls his eyes in response.] What gave you that idea?

Good to know, now I will know who to avoid.

[Knock Out raises an eyebrow and smirks.] I'm sure there's an interfacing joke here...

Call it she-human intuition.

Not really, you have no idea how I usually look like. You could always ask, of course.

It would be a sex joke, since humans don't interface and I have no intention of sex with you. Also, that would be women's intuition, and your's is a bit slow on the uptake.

Look, Miss all I want is to find Sideswipe and Mirage so that I don't have to go through this situation alone. They are my friend and I am from the same world as they are, so if you are mistaking me for the Bumblebee of your world, I'm sorry, I'm not him, and I would like to get on with what I was doing.

You aren't my type anyway. [Knock Out likes bigger mechs, he can't help it.] And I know how they're called, it's the same thing.

This means you are also from Barricade's world, I am right?

Oh? And what is your type? So I can know what to avoid becoming. If they are the same thing then why not call them the right word for what you are right now?

[Bumblebee makes a sound that would have been an angry buzz of static in his normal body, but as a human comes out sounding like an angry cat getting sick.]

Yes.

If I tell you that would ruin the surprise. Because I don't want to, simple as that.

[Knock Out blinks at the sounds, stares and then...burst out laughing.] Come again?

Fine, what ever revs your engine.

[If he could be glaring any more there would be a small scorch mark developing on his device.]

I said yes. He and I are from the same universe, but I wouldn't call it his, any more than I would call it mine or Mirage's, we are all from it, we all belong to it.

[Oh by the Allspark not you too...]

Mio Dio, naturalmente, questo sarebbe accaduto a tutti noi!! Non appena polizia e Shockwave a conoscenza di questo siamo tutti andando a essere facili bersagli. E Sideswipe ha ancora voglia di andare per la sua missione suicida. Ok Mirage mantenere la calma. Siamo in grado di superare tutto questo. Tutto andrà bene.

...

[Ahem. Sorry you had to sit through that, bro.]

Bumblebee...

Mirage,

Did that help?

[He doesn't seem to be phased by it too much.]

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