re_alignment | [Audio]

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tf: g1 | thundercracker

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Skywarp is gone.

[Yep, that's all you get, Haven. Not even proper video. And don't ask him how he knows, he just . . . does.]

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You've confirmed this?

Yes, Lord Megatron. I have. He's gone.

[The way his tone drops at the last, voice wavering faintly, indicates he's not nearly as calm as he's fighting to sound.]

To the badlands.

[He doesn't ask, because if it were death or hiding then Thundercracker would have been the first to know. It must be the badlands.]

Do you think the pillar has anything to do with this?

. . . he knows better.

["HE FRAGGING KNOWS BETTER!" - but the grieving Seeker manages not to snarl that aloud - barely. He knows better too . . . but that didn't stop him from wandering off himself some months back. He'd been lucky, waking from that daze in time to keep himself from being killed by monsters. Maybe - apparently? - Skywarp hadn't been as lucky.]

I don't know. But the timing couldn't be worse.

[OF ALL TIMES, WHY FRAGGING /NOW/!?]

It's not that simple.

[It never is.]

Shall we do what Decepticons do best, in that case?

[No, it really isn't, is it?]

. . .

[Any other time these days, a question like that would have given him pause. Though it's been some months now since he'd last seriously considered daring to actually remove the brands from his wings. Right now, though, he's too angry, too hurt, the maelstrom spinning through his spark is too great. The words come out a low growl, devoid of hesitation.]

Yes, Lord Megatron!