re_alignment | video; locked from Prime!Starscream

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✘ tf: prime | vehicon/fracas (occ)

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[When the video comes on, Fracas is shifting on his feet, only pausing to rub the back of his neck and let out a reedy laugh. He coughs when he finally gets control of himself, then claps his hands together and mutters to himself before speaking up.]

S-so, uhm. I... I guess everyone's noticed the new Starscream. Well, he's the Starscream from my world. More the point, I.

I need help.

He can't know there's a Vehicon here. That I'm here. I will end up dead again and I-I don't... I don't want to die again. There. There has to be some way to keep me completely off his radar, right?

... ^Right?!

[Fracas's voice cracks for a moment without him even realizing it.]

S-something. Anything. I just. I can't. I r-really can't.

Please?

[He could not possibly look any more desperate and pathetic, even if he had a lip wibble.]

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yes, I am aware. [Knock Out was guilty of that. He didn't hurt Vehicons like Starscream but he knows he wasn't always nice to them either.]

The future is such mystery, uh?

I find that hard to believe. Thudnercracker is a decepticon, is he not? [Why would any of them each other without a good reason? Knock Out looks surprised but he shrugs it off quickly.]

If you are going to be a flier you need longer range weapon, less heavy but still effective. What sort of missiles you like? Or nulls rays are more of your taste? [Guess who makes weapons in his spare time?]

Thundercracker is a Decepticon, but so am I. The badge doesn't mean we have to plot against each other or stab people in the back... [He shrugs a little again.]

[Fracas pauses for a moment, tilting his head slightly.] You just like putting new weapons on me don't you?

Well, what do null rays do exactly? And is... is there any chance I could get a sword or something? Even if I'll be able to fight at longer range I need to be able to handle close range too.

Yes, I know. It's just so...unfamiliar. [In a good way. He's still not used to it.]

[KnocK Out gives Fracas a ~~totally fake~~ innocent face. He likes putting weapons ion everyone, pal.] Fracas, your suggestion hurt me. I'm merely trying to give you a hand. And perhaps a rocket launcher.

With a null ray you can fire blasts that stop any electrical device with one shot. That white Starscream has one, I offered it to the one in our world once but he refused.

[Wait, what?]

A sword. I guess I could find you a blade large enough. I don't have any swords at the moment, find the material and I will forge one. Those aren't my specialty, though.

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You realize I'm not exactly... heavily armored... enough to justify a rocket launcher. [Maybe if he wanted to launch himself thirty feet back when he fired. Which doesn't seem very good to him.]

Yeah, doesn't seem like ours' style, really. Something that won't. Directly kill or maim someone. How does it work on organics? Those... things from the Badlands aren't always just machines. [He's concerned with those almost as much as Starscream.]

[Fracas dips his head a little.]

Well. Just thinking, you know. A-and I might. Be getting sword training which would be easier with one of those. I'll see what I can find. I know you prefer things that... explode more.

You are such a spoilsport, Fracas. [But fine, no rocket launcher.]

That's a good point. I don't even know if it works with organics. [Knock Out finally found what he was looking for in one of the cupboards.]

Swords training. Not many mechs here use swords. Will Wheeljack teach you? [It sounds like a light, not loaded, question. It's not. Thankfully for Fracas, Knock Out is not looking at him, instead he's focused on mixing the paint colors properly.]

It's just logic. Really... [He is not a tank.]

Probably good to figure that out before adding anything extra. Even if the name is cool. [Which admittedly it is. 'Null Ray'.]

No no! It's uhm. There's this bot named Wing, he... he offered to teach me. Melee combat, since I'm not very good with that. [And swords seemed like the easiest way. Phrasing it this way keeps him from bringing up Wheeljack at all, too. Win-win.]

Spoilsport logic. [Maybe he could be if he tried really hard. A small one.]

[Knock Out smiles, perhaps he will be able to convince Fracas to change his mind in the future. He can wait.]

I know that one. He got a really nice finish and some questionable extra nice attitude. [Which Knock Out finds odd but oddly refreshing.] You are going to end cutting off your own arm by accident. And then you will come to me and say that it just fell off. Out of the blue! I'm not falling for that again. [Yes, again.]

[Well what good is a toy tank?]

He seemed really nice when we talked. Like... he understood. It was different. [Nice. But still weird, how he was trying to help him.] ... again? But I uhm. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't lie about something like that. You'd need to know what happened so you'd be able to properly fix it, right? Even if you'd endlessly tell me that you told me so...

[Fine, good point.]

Like he understood...what, exactly? [Knock Out has an idea of what's fracas talking about but he wants to hear it from the vehicon.] Starscream was involved, don't ask. Is what I do when things become too weird.

That's a good vehicon. Yes, lying to me never did any good to anybody.

The whole... being treated like drones and useless a-and being underclass cannon fodder thing. [Fracas isn't entirely sure why Knock Out would ask... and he's not entirely comfortable admitting that, but. He did ask.] Oooh. Wait, would that have anything to do with the one time he told one of the ground bridge techs that nothing happened?

I'll remember that.

AH, that. I wonder how's that he can really understand, by the looks of it he was upper class too. [Fliers.] If it's any consolation to you, higher officers dont' have it all that much better.

[Knock Out wants to know anything that might be useful for him in the future. He's a curious mech too.] It could be. Starscream has a natural talent for getting himself in trouble.

Dunno. But he could at least fake understanding which is... more than I could ask for, really. [He's surprised by all the support, more than anything.] Maybe not, but. They have us to take it out on, when things aren't good for them.

Guess so. None of us ever figured out what actually happened, I don't think. [He shrugs.] Maybe someday, though.

Hm. I see. [Knock Out says nothing for a few, thinking. He's sure that the reason why Wing seems to want everyone to get along is because he hasn't seen the things they did to each other during the war. Knock Out often wonders if the mech was ever in any wars.

He turns to smirk at Fracas, the paint-gun ready.]

Done with the chat stuff, it's time to get you fixed properly. Now lie down and think of your boyfriend while I work.

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