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?

Comments

[ex_dishonestly997]

I just asked who you could do a lot of good to, Wrecker.

Unless they've changed the definition in postwar history books, you don't know how to do anything but destroy things.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Anyone who fraggin' give me a chance. [Which is, basically...no one here.]

See? That's what I'm talking about. I've done more than destroy things. Just because you can't remember isn't my fault.

[ex_dishonestly997]

Can't remember? I don't know you. And I was trying to make good with you before I left. [Starscream is so unimpressed sounding.] I gave, and am giving, you a chance. Open your optic.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[IS THAT AN OPTIC JOKE?!?!]

Let me tell you something, wingnut. [Oooooo, he's pulling out the insults now.] I made stuff before the war. I was really fraggin' good at it, too. Until you guys decided to frag everything up.

[ex_dishonestly997]

[refusing to rise to that bait, calmly] My people refused to die starving in the gutters. If that inconvenienced you, I'm sorry. Couldn't be avoided.

But really. A Wrecker with a microchip on his shoulder about his morals is the second saddest sight there is. We've both killed plenty of mechs.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Your people. And just who were 'your people' exactly? [Remember, he was in Kaon Security during that arrest.]

Yeah? Then you can just go cry your sadness some place else to someone stupid enough to buy it.

[ex_dishonestly997]

Decepticons. [he gives no frags.]

I'm not. I'm saying you're no better than me, genius.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah? Some of us worked our afts off, you know? And you think we liked having it stolen from us? You had an issue with the Senate, fine. But you took down all of us.

Yeah I am better than you. Because you think you can buy into the law, when your own history [He'll give you an optic because he means YOU, not just generalized Decepticons] proves you don't respect the law.

[ex_dishonestly997]

You should have stood with us. You were fine with our suffering as long as you got yours, so that makes you as guilty as them. The Senate couldn't have ruled without the silent consent of tools like you.

I'm a big believer in civil disobedience, brother.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

MY silent consent? Yeah sure. Right. After your little stunt in Kaon, there you were playing niceynice delegate to Zeta Prime.

Don't you talk to me about silent consent or hypocrisy.That's not civil disobedience. That's fraggin' treason and terrorism.

[ex_dishonestly997]

I believed in my cause enough to risk my spark for it. And I didn't do it with a well-funded army at my back.

Yeah, I'm really comforted about being slagged by a polished soldier who got the OK by government officials instead of some desperate mech who dragged himself out of a slum barely functioning. Makes all the difference.

You're not this naive. You're just in denial.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

You? Risk anything? Seriously. Do you even know your own history? I'm sure Soundwave appreciated the way you sold him out in the Senate.

[Really, Starscream, denial? Do you even remember that whole meeting with Zeta Prime? Everyone in Kaon Security heard about it. It was hard to keep quiet, after all, with that APB after your frantically running cowardly aft.]

So that's what you want? You want someone dirty to take you out? Come on. I'm plenty dirty.

[ex_dishonestly997]

He was fine. You're really reaching for some justification for the evil that you supported. I thought you'd be more honest with yourself than this.

[he actually laughs at that second part]

Murder someone after the war over debating why it took place. Oh, yeah. You're a saint.

Just go.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Like I said.

But if you don't wanna talk about who was right and wrong, why'd you bring it up, huh? Oh right, so you could LORD IT OVER ME, that your side was right and you suffered oh so very, very much.

Please. You don't have a fraggin' monopoly on suffering before the war.

Though you win for fraggin' everything up since.

[ex_dishonestly997]

Nobody was right. [he's still calm, quiet. Sad, even if he won't admit it.] We had to do terrible things to be free. You did terrible things to stay on top. Let me say it slower for you. Nobody was right.

And all you can do in a conversation is threaten violence. That's telling.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

You know what? I got nothing more to say to you. But for someone who talks about wanting everyone to have a chance in this 'new free world' or whatever, you're doing a lousy job. Because your side, you know, those guys Bumblebee crammed in Kimia's gun? Yeah, they were all about nice manners. I'm sure no one threatened violence in there. Just a pile of Decepticons having tea parties and angsting over injustice.

[ex_dishonestly997]

"They were awful people so it's okay for me to be an awful person."

Yeah. Okay. If that's the calibre of your processing power, I hope you don't have anything more to say to me.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Oh, intelligence insults. You're really building bridges here.

[ex_dishonestly997]

I've patiently tried to explain to you why enslaving and murdering a lower class through starvation and caste is wrong. Since you don't get it, I'm giving you an out by assuming you're stupid and not evil.

Be grateful for it.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah, and the Insecticons and illegal experiments on your own kind? Totally not evil.

But, wait, wait. Don't tell me. War's over that slag doesn't matter.

[ex_dishonestly997]

See, "nobody was right." I'll just remind you of what I said a klik ago.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah, okay, sure. Whatever.

Just a question: Can you ever, just for a klik, shut the arrogance off? Or do you like implode under the weight of all the hypocrisy?

[ex_dishonestly997]

I'm the one trying to meet you in the middle. You're screaming about 'Con evil, and I'm telling you everybody in war does awful things.

You really need help, and I'm telling you that as a fellow Cybertronian.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

You know what? You're just like Zeta Prime. Seeing evil and badness everywhere but your own fraggin' self, and using that to justify anything.

Don't tell me what I need, cause I can sure tell you what you need.

[ex_dishonestly997]

Let's see if I can quote myself again a little. "We've both killed plenty of mechs." "We had to do terrible things to be free." "Nobody was right."

I know I've done evil things. Do you know you have? It's nowhere near as simple as you desperately wish it was.