audio; [Transmission originating from: Megatronus's Temple]

[redshirtrobot]

So, I. I don't know how many people knew him, but I figured I might as well say something.

Shockwave - the big one - and his Driller have been missing. Sometimes they'd just go off on their own but usually not for this long. And I've looked everywhere. So I'm gonna call it.

They're. Gone.

[He pauses for a long moment before speaking again.]

I'll still be at Megatronus's temple to look after their things, until Megatronus makes me leave.

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[video]

[primest]

[are you ready for the most deadpan badly faked concern ever? HERE IT IS]

That's a shame. I take it you knew him, then?

[video]

[redshirtrobot]

[Dude you're terrible at this how even]

Kinda lived with him. And was. Dating him.

So yes.

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[primest]

I wasn't aware someone like Shockwave had the capacity for... dating.

[let me tell you about his shitty people skills ESPECIALLY WHEN DECEPTICONS ARE INVOLVED]

Uh, at least you have more space now? Besides, he might come back. I've heard just as many stories of mechs coming back from the Badlands as I have ones who've disappeared.

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[wheeljackofalltrades]

Figures.

[Wheeljack didn't even like Shockwave all that much.

But at least it was something familiar.]

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[redshirtrobot]

Guess I'll be handling things myself from now on.

[Why did his giant boyfriend and his giant worm monster have to disappear, he liked them.]

You probably didn't get along with him, though...

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[wheeljackofalltrades]

Handlin' things? What, Shockwave had some kinda secret club? Can't say I'm surprised by that either.

...

Probably not. Still, another familiar face gone. 's much as I wanted to deck it.

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[sciencetank]

Bloody good riddance.

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[redshirtrobot]

Hey, some of us liked him.

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[sciencetank]

I don't see why.

[Audio]

[neverputincharge]

Ugh, really?

[Why is it people always disappear when something happens?]

I'm sorry, Fracas.

[Audio]

[redshirtrobot]

Yeah.

[And why do they all have to be friends, too?]

I just wish it'd stop happening, honestly. So many people have gone missing...

[Audio]

[neverputincharge]

[Or teammates, or family.]

Just another constant in this world that we have to deal with. I wish it would at least stop takin' good guys, and guys that deserve to be here, and take more people that don't, like Tarn and his cronies.

[Seriously, why the hell do they stay, while everybody else goes?]

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[adamndoctor]

Driller - that the giant underground mechanical worm?

[but seriously] Sorry for your loss, kid. It's... not easy. [He just lost someone, too. Only they came back to life, but. You know. He gets it. And now he's thinking about how Raf would ride Driller and how Raf is also gone and jesus now he needs a drink THANKS YOU DUMB VEHICON.]

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[redshirtrobot]

Yeah. The big metal worm. He uh. Liked belly scratches.

No. And if you've been here a while you've probably lost at least one or two people and that's... never fun. [HE DIDN'T MEAN TO D8 but really he kind of needs a drink too, his boyfriend who happened to have been training him in combat vanished into the Badlands.]

[aerospacecommander]

Hopefully shocky didn't have some sort of terrible accident.

[redshirtrobot]

[What.]

He uh. Seems more like the terrible accident that happens to everyone else. He probably headed into the Badlands like the rest...

[aerospacecommander]

We can only hope.

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[deadlydoctor]

He was that Shockwave, wasn't he? ['That' meaning 'your boyfriend'.]

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[redshirtrobot]

Yeah. The one I was... yeah. And his giant worm. [Both of whom he's been missing for a while now.]

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[staresat]

If he is gone, any projects still in progress will need to be properly contained.

[Completely deadpan request for looking at your boyfriend's man cave, Fracas.]

[Because if he knew himself well, he knows that science experiments shouldn't just be left behind without another scientist properly seeing their conclusion. And who better to do it than himself?]

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[redshirtrobot]

And you'd really be the one most qualified.

[Also you're like. One of the only scientists here Fracas vaguely gets along with and knows. He's not sure that Shockwave had any living experiments around, but there is still that defective space bridge...]

I can take you down to see what he was working on, sir.

[Video]

[skylynx]

[Hi Fracas, have a slight confused Predacon. How many Shockwaves are there?]

...there was another Shockwave on this planet?

[Or are you lying? Seriously, if the guy had somebody named Driller, Skylynx would like to think he'd know about it.]

[Video]

[redshirtrobot]

[You. You look like a Predacon. But how is that possible? Predacons don't transform, that would be... crazy. Heh. Heh... Please don't eat him. But just for Skylynx, he activates the video. Have a Vehicon face!]

There was. He was from a different world. I've lived with him since I got here. Until he left anyway...

[audio] Forever late if you don't mind...

[a_father_to_his_men]

You have my sympathy for losing them, Fracas. If I remember right you were quiet close to them, yes?

[He could say much directly about either Shockwave or Driller, as he never got a chance to know them, but he knew Fracas and wouldn't leave the mech without something being said for his sake.]

[audio] Not at all!

[redshirtrobot]

Yeah. Shockwave was... kind of my boyfriend. And Driller looked out for me when it could. Did you. Ever get to meet them?

[He's sure Shockwave would have had a few complaints about the whole 'alternate dimension' nature of things, but he couldn't see them not at least tolerating each other's presences.]