re_alignment | [Video]

[So this entry is tagged 'party progress', but when the video comes on it's very obviously not.

Everyone know that strange "guy" with the modulated voice always wearing the suit? Well, say hello to Vandal. She's not wearing the suit today. No helmet, no ~~courier text~~. Turns out she's just your typical female human. But she's... not looking so good.]

Someone I-

Please. I don't feel right... I ca...

[Behind her, appears to be her little home, partially painted normally, but the paint job trails off into clusters of complex glyphs and symbols. The center looks like two pillars, spiraling up to two points, twisted like a helix.

Vandal is shaking, face coated in a fine layer of sweat.]

I'm turning into one of those things, I need to stop it I need to-

[Her hand is lifted. Sure does look like a normal hand, but she holds it out as though it were some grotesque limb.]

It's starting already! Please god- it won't go away this time! Someone please.

I need to cut it off before it spreads!

[Someone is obviously hallucinating.]

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[oh.

this one.

B|]

You've got five seconds to explain.

We're not all going to be able to watch her, how would you feel about volunteering for a guard shift? Assuming we can coordinate something to get her to the Medbay safely. I don't know about you, but I can see someone with a little strut-strength being ...useful.

[evenly] I'm also assuming you care about what happens to her.

[that's a growl, there. don't push him, 'Con.]

Who's 'we'. More of you 'Cons?

[a beat] Perceptor and Wing. [And Soundwave, but he'll be damned if he's going to drop another Decepticon into this with a warm response like that] But I'm flattered you think I'm such a team player, really.

You fraggers never go it alone.

[but he's thinking it over. finally, after long enough that one may think he just hung up;]

I'll do it.

Good mech.

Don't you even start. I ain't doing it for you.

Okay, okay.

Bring down your processor temperature, will you? Vandal needs help.

How about that? I didn't even notice.

[but he drops the sarcasm. ~~a little.~~]

Where is she, anyway?

She will be in the Medbay, like we discussed, big guy.

Don't make me regret asking for your help.

I'm asking about now. And don't make me regret giving it.

She has people coming to help her now. Enthusiasm's great, Max, it really is. But so is patience.

You'll have to excuse me if I'd rather see that for myself than take your word for it.

[he's not as heated as he was earlier, though. at this point it may as well being aggressive out of habit, rather than any true malice towards Starscream]

I got it, I know.

I'll contact you as soon as I know more. Cross my spark. [the only thing stopping him from blatantly hanging up on Max is the fact that Max might take that personally. The guy reads really...off to Screams and he's not eager to test that theory, yet.]

I'll be waiting.

[and with that curt response, Max solves the problem; he hangs up first.

~~LIKE A BOSS~~]