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!

Comments

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[headgames]

Grimlock hasn't been in charge of the team since he got himself locked up. Who the frag are you?

[This is a sore subject. Do you really want to go there Perceptor.]

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[sciencetank]

Locked up?

This is Perceptor. Who are you?

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[headgames]

Arrested. Locked up. Has been for a while.

[He grunts.]

Slag.

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[sciencetank]

I'm impressed there's a facility capable of holding Grimlock, honestly...

[A beat.]

I asked your designation, no need to curse.

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[headgames]

He went willingly.

[There's something in his voice that sounds like he's getting ticked off. Of course, that might just be what he sounds like normally. Who knows.]

That is my designation.

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[sciencetank]

Grimlock willingly submitting to incarceration? Primus, now I know you're from another world.

Your designation is a curse?

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[headgames]

[He just grunts at that. He's not going to talk about this to some Autobot. Nor is he paying much attention to that other world thing.]

Got a problem?

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[sciencetank]

Is there any reason why you're named after such a crass piece of vocabulary?

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[headgames]

Yeah.

[What? You didn't expect him to start telling a story were you?]

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[sciencetank]

And that reason would be?

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[headgames]

I like it.

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[sciencetank]

... Ah.

I see.

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[headgames]

Anything else, Autobot?

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[sciencetank]

A few things, actually.

When you say "this feels familiar", what exactly did you mean by it?

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[headgames]

What does it sound like.

[Dumb question.]

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[sciencetank]

It sounds like you're not answering the question.

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[headgames]

And sounds like you're dumb.

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[sciencetank]

Well, now that's just impossible.

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[headgames]

Don't think so, Autobot.

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[sciencetank]

You're welcome to your incorrect opinion.

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[headgames]

[Oh you know how to just push his buttons... Not that it's hard.

Slag transforms, grunting at the screen.]

Frag off.

[He's not dealing with this now.]