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[His attacker was gone. There had been words said but they'd fallen on deaf audios, Rung too consumed with pain from the entire little 'session' and that final blow to his chest. He'd been slumped on his desk when the other left, barely functioning--barely hanging on as his vents cycled weakly. For a long moment he just stayed as he was, the pain just too much to handle, to bear, and Rung knew that he was done.

This was it.

Several thoughts ran through his mind even as things started to just shut down and he forced himself to move one of his arms, reaching weakly around the desk for his comm unit that was always sitting there.

Fingers brushed it and he gripped it weakly, sliding it slowly but surely across the desk until he could activate it--not caring that it was set to automatically view as video.

Weakly he focused on it, unable to even lift his head from the desk as his remaining optic flickered just barely.]

...help..please...

[The words are barely above a whisper, barely words at all considering how mangled his throat is, the light in his optic slowly starting to fade despite his attempts to hang on.]

.....so..rry...I'm sorry...

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We all were to late, it's not your fault. We will find out who did this.

[They will analyze all that later, now this was more important.]

Good. We need to find who did this to him, we need to make sure they don't hurt anybody else.Rung would like that and I'm sure you don't want to disappoint him. _Please, put him down. That way we can figure out what happened to him.

I wanted to... I wanted to protect everyone important. Why can't I do that...?

[He suddenly sounds distant. Like he still isn't speaking to Blurr at all.]

[It doesn't seem as if he's going to listen. As if he's going to just keep sitting there in stunned silence.]

[But, very slowly, he releases his grip. He lays the body of his friend on the ground in front of him. Every motion is mechanical, jerky. And when he finishes, he's shaking all over.]

... No. I'm. Tired of disappointing people.

[They probably heard Prowl before they saw him, he had left on his sirens to let others know not to disturb their convoy. Yes, convoy, because he had brought Chromedome along with him. Both lights and sirens are flicked off as they arrive at the outside of the office.]

[When he transforms, he makes a beeline for Blurr, expression as solemn as ever. There's a quirk of the optic ridge as he spots Kagerou covered in energon, but one look at the body could already discount that this wasn't his doing.]

What happened here?

[Chromedome transforms behind him and enters the room. Immediately, he notes Kagerou's energon-covered state and Rung's body lying next to him, the sight of it causing his spark to fall slightly. He pauses a moment to observe the mech's mutilated face, and wonders what manner of creature would do such a thing. It's hardly the worst thing he's ever seen, but it's definitely among the most interesting, he'll have to talk with Prowl about it after.

He lets Prowl talk to Blurr, and starts setting up a perimeter outside the office. He'll take a closer look when Kagerou is gone.]

[Blurr was close to put a hand on Kagerou's shoulder to try to get him back to reality when the others arrived. He gave Kagerou a squeeze before looking back at Prowl.]

We don't know yet. Rung's cry for help came when he was already too injured for us to help him.

[The racer looks down at what's left of his friend. He's not strange to death and while he doesn't show it the same way as Kagerou does he's deeply upset with the view.]

[His sensors pick up the new arrivals before he can hear or see them. At first, he tenses. And it only gets worse when he fails to recognize either one of them. His shoulders hunch up, the panes of his wings flaring, before it occurs to him that Blurr is not reacting. He's not afraid.]

[All right then.]

[The near-aggressive posture fades as quickly as it came on, and he resumes sitting blankly. Though...]

[Though the question earns the barest sound -- a soft scoffing noise -- and hollow words.]

He died. That's... what happened here.

[With Chromedome taking care of the outer perimeter, Prowl could focus on the scene at hand. Rung needed to be taken to Perceptor as soon as they finished securing the office. And Kagerou looked completely shellshocked. Blurr should probably help him back to HQ.]

[Whether or not Prowl felt disturbed by the sight was a mystery, his expression remained as distant as when he had arrived. He took care with his next question.]

I understand this must be difficult to process all at once, but I'm going to need to ask one more question: Can you point out where you found Rung when you arrived?

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