[Video -> Text] [Transmission Originating From: Vectorian Sector]

[wakizashi_straight]

[The video is only on for a few moments - long enough to show a purple bot with wide shoulders, a samurai helmet, and glowing yellow optics - before shutting off. After that is a burst of text.]

Many of you exceed WRB height restrictions. You also violate a number of other WRB regulations, including illegal use of weapons and possession non-standard upgrades.

I am not where I should be.

[He would just like to let you all know YOU ARE SO ILLEGAL. SO. ILLEGAL now down to a few extra messages-]

If anyone happens to see Charlie Kenton I would like to be informed. He is a human with short, dark hair and brown eyes. He also has a son, Max. I do not wish them to be alone with unfamiliar bots if they come here.

Gunmax. Thank you for the ride, when we arrived. It was kind of you.

To the bot with the fins on his head: My name is Noisy Boy. 'Soundwave' is a terrible name.

And there was a red and white bot. I apologize if I fightened you somehow.

Comments

[wakizashi_straight]

If they are questions, rather than more rambling insults.

I defer my actions to no one, without my current handler.

[my_own_trope]

[He'd seen Silas's plans and schematics during his ... temporary consulting position. He knew there was an angle here. He just had to find it.]

Don't you have some manner of control switch or remote with you somewhere?

That would make you almost completely autonomous, then?

[wakizashi_straight]

[Control switch? Remote? No one in particular has asked after how he's controlled before now. And even if the plans became public when Tak Mashido sold him, he remembers how tightly guarded his voice commands were.]

Why do you ask?

I never replied to this....?

[my_own_trope]

I've spent some time working with those human-made.

[He was helping them make abominations!]

/tackles this

[wakizashi_straight]

I had not known that your kind worked on bots like me.

[Since, y'know, you're all illegal.]

[my_own_trope]

We don't. But I, ah, like to broaden my horizons.

[wakizashi_straight]

Why would you? You do not seem to think of us highly.