VIDEO ▌ OUTSIDE HAVEN

[headgames]

--ag's going on?

[The video crackles to life, a Cybertronian that looks new - although with how he feels he'd argue that. This all feels familiar, almost looks it, but he can't place any of it. Really all that does is dwindle his patience, and prod at his anger level.]

I don't remember this being-

[He rubs his head, optics dimming. Confused, disoriented and irritable, not a good combination. Slag finally turns his attention to the communicator. For some reason he remembers that. Somehow. And a few other fuzzy things, but there is something there, swarming around in his processor.]

...What the frag happened?! I don't- Pit! This feels familiar.

Swoop! Snarl! Sludge! ...Ironhide? Anyone on this frequency? I want some fraggin' answers now!

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[headgames]

[Not his first choice, but Ironhide is better than nothing.]

Slag. Your processor get fried or something.

[Because he will punch you for not recognizing him. He's pretty sure he was just with Ironhide, before whatever it was happened. He remembers it anyway,]

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[arnhaid]

Something like that...

[More like DEATH but whatever.]

Look, let's just say it did, and you gimme a rundown before we go any further. Save us both a lot of trouble here...

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[headgames]

[Again? Geeze Ironhide, get it together.]

Finally loose yourself in that vision of yours or did the noise just really start digging at you. Thought you were stronger than that.

[He just grunts. That's totally the rundown you were looking for right?]

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[arnhaid]

What vision? The scrap are you talking about?

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[headgames]

[Oh yeah, circuits definitely fried.]

If it wasn't that noise, then it's gotta be this place... The frag happened to you?

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[arnhaid]

I woke up on Cybertron, alone, took out a bunch of bugs, and punched Alpha Trion in the face, 'cause he was being vague and wasn't tellin' me scrap.

Kind of like you! So if you don't wanna get laid out on the floor, you better start telling me somethin' other than my processor's fried!

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[headgames]

Just try it. If you don't remember then you don't fraggin' remember, I've got more important things to do than figure out what happened to you.

[Like why everything's so familiar yet he can't seem to remember much of anything. Why it's all like some crazy dream.]

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[arnhaid]

I don't remember anything! You ain't special! Apparently, dying in the line of duty wipes your processor!

Don't take out your scrap on me, I don't have patience for it. So either stow it, or start talking!

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[headgames]

You dying is old news, Autobot. Unless you died a second time, forget it, probably the noise.

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[arnhaid]

What noise!

The only noise I'm hearin' is you babbling about scrap that don't make sense!

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[headgames]

The noise outside the city. You kept going on about it while we were looking for the Aerialbots.

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[arnhaid]

What noise? There hasn't been any weird noises since I woke up.

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[headgames]

I just told you.

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[arnhaid]

You just said "the noise"! Not what kinda noise!

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[headgames]

You called it a whine in the back of your head.

[HAPPY?]

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[arnhaid]

... then, nah, I'm not hearing anything like that here.

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[headgames]

Then what else has gone wrong with your processor.

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[arnhaid]

That's what I'd like to know.

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[headgames]

Load of help you are.

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[arnhaid]

Right back at you, y'piece of...

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[headgames]

What was that?

[Go on, say it.]

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[arnhaid]

I was going to, but your name's already Slag, so what's the point?

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[headgames]

[He'd punch him if they were in the same area.]

Thought you'd get creative.

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[arnhaid]

[He'd punch right back.]

You really don't know me very well, do you?

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[headgames]

[He'd expect it.]

Known you long enough.

[Long enough to be old comrades in fact, but hey. Who's keeping track.]