[Video] From the Brave Police Hoosegow

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Those from Earth might be familiar with the old movie cliche of the prisoner rattling his cup back and forth over the bars of his cell.  Whirl somehow also knows this cliche.  And is doing it.]

[Except he's doing it with his face. ]

Nnnnnnngh. So fraggin' bored!!

Someone come kill me or something.

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[megaton]

You.

[Oh. Oh this is rich.]

So somebody has you all locked away on this world, too?

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Me.

[Well, hello there, bitter irony. ]

What can I say? World's not one for, you know, common sense.

[megaton]

Common sense?

Have you ever done any good on the other side of those bars?

[whirlybird_of_prey]

You don't get to judge me.

[megaton]

I don't need to.

Someone already has.

Amusing to me that you end up there in your world and this one.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah? 'Amusing' to me that I get thrown in jail for being the only mech with diodes to do the dirty work.

[megaton]

...

[His curiosity has got the better of him.]

What dirty work?

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Taking care of what their stupid 'law' couldn't.

[megaton]

I see you're still taking the law into your own hands, then.

I could come visit you.

Show you the same compassion that you showed me.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Bring it.

You might have half these idiots fooled, but come on. Show us the brutal thug you really fraggin' are.

[The brutal thug Whirl really fraggin' is is pretty well known around Haven, so, no surprises to be had there.]

[megaton]

Brutal thug?

If so, it's only because I had a particularly good tutor.

I'd much rather watch you rust.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Why not come on down here and prove it, Megafrond?

You know, the old 'and the student has become the master'. You know you've always hankered for a rematch.

[megaton]

Are you so eager to die, Whirl?

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Kind of a personal question, don't you think?

[megaton]

You forwarded the invitation.

[He's referring to the initial post. And to the whole...'come and get me' part.]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

If I gotta explain my reasons for doing every little thing, so do you.
[Not that Whirl's a big fan of fairness. He just likes needling people. Especially Megatron.]

Why you wanna kill me?

[megaton]

I don't.

I merely take pleasure in seeing you suffer.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Heh well if that's what you want, you can just come on down and watch me die of boredom. Hurt way worse than anything you could do to me, Gunbutt.

[megaton]

You still haven't answered my question.

It is only fair.

[When Whirl is free, Megatron will be certain to make him pay for all those little names...]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

What? Why I seem to want it?

Frag. Read my fraggin' memoirs.

[Whirl hopes so; he's rather fond of Megafrond, himself.]

[megaton]

When did you have the opportunity to write memoirs?

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah, well, you know, after we totally wiped out Squadron X, we had a lot of free time on our hands.

[Liberal embroidery of truth: go.]

And maybe I was in jail a lot. ...maybe.

[megaton]

'We?'

So you survived past the beginning of the war.

[You're more resourceful than he thought.]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Not for lack of your little rusted diodes trying.

Thanks, though. Because it made my first incarceration really, you know, lively.

[megaton]

I believe that I can sympathize.

So who broke you out?