[Audio]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

[Someone had their beauty sleep.

And by beauty sleep, we mean he looks and sounds like he's been to the Pit and back.

It'd been almost two weeks since Wheeljack fell unconscious. Two weeks too long, if you asked him. He awoke, the feeling of his head buzzing and and his optics blurry. Oh, and pain. Lots and lots of pain.  But the question was...where was he?  This place seemed familiar...

His eyes almost immediately widened, remembering everything.  Parting ways with Ratchet after the Iacon relic hunt, finding Bulkhead on that medical berth with nothing but an Energon line running through him. The fight with Hardshell, Miko saving him...being cast out from Team Prime and going solo...

The attack on Prime's base.

Being tortured at the hands of Starscream and Shockwave.  All of it was as clear as crystal. And if it wasn't, he had a few friendly reminders in the large horizontal scar across his midsection, and a somewhat buzzy neural net.  But Wheeljack wasn't one to let that stop him. As soon as he awoke, he found no one around him, probably stepping out for some fresh air.

Why not follow suit?  The Wrecker stood up, his legs feeling practically like liquid as he took a few steps, hesitating every so often.  His communicator goes on audio, the sound of a door slamming open and the loud footsteps of someone lacking...eloquence in their walk.]

...So.

What'd I miss.

[Guess who's back.]

Locked to Prime!Scream and Prime!Shockwave (separately)

Where are you.

Comments

[video]

[prime_junior]

I...don't really understand so I'll just take your word for it. What happened while you were...gone?

Heh, well, she has stuff to do. She can't keep me entertained all the time.

[video]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

...Probably stuff ya don't wanna hear, kid.

[He's not even sure if Jack's okay.]

[video]

[prime_junior]

That bad, huh...?

Well, I'm glad you're okay. Everyone kinda freaked out when you collapsed.

[video]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Things've...been better. I'll say that.

But you know Team Prime, they're full of surprises.


...Yeah? Everyone miss me that much?

[video]

[prime_junior]

Yeah, that's definitely true.

Guess so. I saw the video and came by to make sure you were okay and there were quite a few people already there.

[video]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

...Much appreciated, kid.

Not everyday ya see a lot of guys worried about your tailpipe.

[video]

[prime_junior]

Maybe that's because you usually left before you could see it?

[He says it haltingly, with the tone of someone saying something they're not quite sure they should be saying but thinks needs to be said.]

[video]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

....Point.

[He couldn't say the kid was wrong.]

You uh...doin' okay?

[video]

[prime_junior]

[Jack sighs and smiles slightly, silently relieved he hadn't made Wheeljack mad by pointing that out.]

Yeah, I'm okay. Finally managed to wrap my head around all this alternate dimension stuff at least.

Re: [video]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

[Hey, it's not exactly untrue.]

It's quite the mindwarp, huh. I still don't get all the bugs and bits of it.

[video]

[prime_junior]

[He runs his hand through his hair, shrugging a bit.]

We should probably leave that to the people who are smarter than us. Like Raf. I'm fine knowing just enough so that my head doesn't hurt trying to understand it.

[video]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Works for me. I put full trust in that kid.

Heh, guess we're more alike than I thought.