AUDIO; location - Vector Prime's Temple

[thehardway]

I was debriefed on the situation at hand. I will say this: temporal displacement is specifically against all laws known to me. However, since this was ... an accident and not due in part to any present individuals that I know of, it seems that this is an issue I'll have to let go of.

That aside, I do have other pressing matters at hand.

I am Ultra Magnus, second in command of the Lost Light and agent of the Tyrest Accord. Rodimus, if you are present, respond.

Any other members of the Lost Light should report to me immediately.

If there's anyone else who feels they need to give me additional information, I will accept.

Ultra Magnus, out.

Comments

[Voice]

[warborn]

...hn. Whole ship'll be here before you know it.

[Voice]

[thehardway]

Maximus.

...I expect some details. If you are of mind to give them.

[Voice]

[warborn]

[. . .]

What d'you want to know?

[Voice]

[thehardway]

Who is present, Fortress Maximus?

[Voice] timing this before he gets ranty with crazycopter

[warborn]

Well, you've already found Whirl.

[Voice] sounds good

[thehardway]

Don't remind me.

[Voice]

[warborn]

Yeah, well. I've seen First Aid, Drift, Perceptor, and Ambulon around too.

[someone happened to miss a certain psychiatrists' post

blame the fact he was out of it for a bit and this is the first one he's pinged on]

[Voice]

[thehardway]

Noted. Thank you.

How long have you been here?

[Voice]

[warborn]

Must be almost two months by now.

[Voice]

[thehardway]

Hmm. Through space and time-- how to account for the difference. I'll have to speak to Perceptor.

What have you been doing with your time?

[The most. Awkward way of asking how you're managing, Max.]

[comment not here]

[warborn]

[because Max is 'saved' from having to answer by getting distracted

sorry, Ultra Magnus. smalltalk will have to happen later.]

[Voice/jack]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

You mean 'sober'

[Voice]

[warborn]

Nobody asked you, bitbrain.

Re: [Voice]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Awwww. You crashed my session, I crashed yours. Consider the favor returned, Lush Aftimus.

[Voice]

[warborn]

Yeah? Because I'm pretty much done with your scrap at this point.

Re: [Voice]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Oh wow, pansy aft hadn't hung up on him yet. He must be almost sober. Let's try to change that shall we with Whirl's inimitable charm.]

Yeah? What good are you going to be, huh?

You gonna tell him how you got Rung almost killed? How you fraggin' assaulted me? In case he doesn't remember that?

You know, they just finished building a jail~

[Voice]

[warborn]

[for a few moments he's silent. not a word.

they stretch.

and then, with a voice that's heated and hating;]

It should have been you.

[Voice]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah. How's that feel, Fort Max? You can't even do that right.

[Oh, was that supposed to hurt? Puh-leez.]

[Voice]

[warborn]

[no, this is]

You think you know me? You think the time we shared in the psychologist's office did something, that since we're both damaged you got the right to speak to me like that?

[Fortress Maximus has a limit. and Whirl's reached it.]

You're nothing, Whirl. You wouldn't have lasted a day in Garrus, front line or behind the bars. No, I take that back. You'd be one of the scum who threw away their loyalties, who decided to join the madness, be sport for those damn 'Cons instead of sticking with their mechs. You're a traitor waiting for an opportunity, and you know what?

I think Springer was more than a mercy kill.

I think you just wanted to watch him die.

[it's the sort of logic that just builds off itself, the sort you don't understand until you're saying the words, and they just keep coming, and you can't stop them and you don't want to stop them]

I know your kind, Whirl. I know you're not worthy of that badge, Optimus Prime's 'forgiveness' or not. You're a damn dirty Decepticon at spark, and nothing will ever change that.

Re: [Voice]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[He laughs.]

You want to act all high and mighty about your former job, huh? You wanna act all superior because you're so fraggin' civilized with the spark extraction. Or, you know, Arcee. Let her go, but let's put a little crushy crushy button on her.

That's totally way more 'civilized' than me and Springer. At least I respected Springer.

Yeah. I'm the 'Decepticon'. Because that's the worst name you can come up with.

[Pathetic.]

Or what about what you did to Impactor, huh? Totally better. Make 'im suffer. Because he showed that what we do ain't pretty. He showed the whole fraggin' lie to all of it. Can't have that, huh?

I wanna watch Springer die? Sure. But you? You wanted to watch Impactor suffer. Day after day. Year after year. Got off on the power, didn't you? No spark extraction for him. That's too nice for the mech who went 'too far'.

You're right; we're different.

You wanna know how?

[He'll lean into the camera.] Unlike you, I looked at what happened to me, what I did?

And I.

didn't break.

[Voice]

[thehardway]

That is enough, from both of you.

Whirl, you will report to me immediately.

Maximus, I will see to you when I am brought up to date.

Yes, those are orders.

[Voice]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Uh yeah.

Guess what? Might want to run you Galactic Council creds in front of the First Forged before you start slingin' power like that.

And I already reported. [Scroll down your thingie there.]

[Voice]

[warborn]

You think punishment is suffering? You're worried about me keeping those pieces of scrap metal holed up in there? You didn't see them loose! You didn't see the slaughter that followed, you weren't fed to them like some ene-

[it's about that time that Magnus's voice cuts through. Fort Max emits a single snarl before terminating the feed]

Re: [Voice]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Yeah because it would probably suck to have Whirl reply that the reason those prisoners were so brutal when they were freed was probably directly connected to how they were treated under....uh...wow...Fortress Maximus's tenure.]

[Voice - locked] as requested~

[ichooseboth]

[Well, Magnus certainly handled that before he could get involved, thankfully, but Optimus was still...concerned. Given what little information he'd gotten out of Fort Max before... He pinged him back.

Repeatedly.]