voice, forward dated post rescue

[ex_dishonestly997]

[it is still not decepticon to admit weakness so this post sounds hella jovial]

Next time it looks like I want an all-expenses paid vacation to Cybertron-knows-where, I'm not going to risk it. I'll just book a few days off from whatever it is stressing my processor and do the mountain retreat thing. Or drink.

So. Giving due credit to the planet for an overdue and pretty decent assassination attempt - I think, still a little fuzzy on that, I'll get back to you - what else have I missed? Vandal, how's your flimsy excuse for a house, any stiff breezes take it down yet? Blurr, are you still overworking yourself? Miko, Knock Out, your friends ever turn up? Soundwave, I'm thinking Sinatra? It's human, but nobody's perfect, right?

Megatron--...

...Still here?

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[inferiordude]

Oh, yeah! Vandal figured out that it wasn't a bomb. Just a tracer chip. Which I can totally block, but... I still gotta have an operation sometime.

I know who I oughta to be careful with, promise.

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[ex_dishonestly997]

Oh well that's a completel--....wait Vandal figured that out?

I'm not trying to be humanist, but. ...how?

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[inferiordude]

For serious! She pried open Drift an' found the chip. No explosives, just a tracking chip.

...Guess... we would have found sooner if I wasn't flippin' out about being opened up.

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[ex_dishonestly997]

No point blaming yourself now. [being supportive is awkward and he's not good at it]

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[inferiordude]

...Yeah, guess not.

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[ex_dishonestly997]

Fine, if it really makes you feel better.

But you do a lot for people, it's not a huge thing to ask for them not to go popping open your spark chamber.

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[inferiordude]

Heh, ember chamber. And I guess I shouldn't feel lousy for bein' so paranoid about being, uh. Near medics. Just, I feel like it could'a been taken care of sooner if I were more willing.

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[ex_dishonestly997]

Yeah, that's it. Sorry. [a long pause.] Why are you so skittish?

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[inferiordude]

...Before I joined Megatron's army, I got caught by the Autobots. Ratchet's, uh. Not really much of a medic in my universe. He can repair, but it's not what he likes to do.

He did a lot of things. Biggest thing he did was remove my face. So I didn't have one for a real long time until about a year ago.

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[ex_dishonestly997]

[there's a quick and shocked silence, as he absorbs that. Atrocities never get easier to handle, though he can manipulate the hot ones and drop them, he still has trouble sometimes--the Autobots in his world made his people live in the barrel of a gun, he can only imagine what full tilt universal domination might involve in the detail work.]

...that's awful.

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[inferiordude]

I'm... kinda used to awful? Heh...

That even-- it's not even the best part. [Soundwave shudders a little.] In Axiom, I met another Ratchet. Think from your universe? We didn't get along at first, but we worked on it.

He offered to repair me. Give me a face again. I said I'd think about it. Then Megatron, your universe's-- he released a virus. Made people act opposite their usual behavior. I think maybe it was based from me, because. Because just look at me, dude, I'm the weird one, apparently.

I didn't know Ratchet was infected. He strapped me down, forced the repair on me, even though I said I wasn't ready.

A-anyway. That's, um. It's taking me awhile to deal with medics, yeah. Sorry. That got long.

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[ex_dishonestly997]

[there's nothing supportive that leaps immediately to mind, though it might if he hadn't spent the majority of that time out in the badlands]

....Wait a minute. My universe's Megatron?

[out of all the things he noted, that's the only thing that feels safe to comment on, and it sounds like it baffles the fuck out of him.]