video; backdated to a day or so after Prom

[redshitlord]

So uh... say... you were at a thing. Having a good time, and everything is just great.

But then... your memory gets kind of fuzzy. Like, wow I shouldn't have run into that electric generator in the back of the scrapyard kind of fuzzy.

[A beat.]

Not that that's ever happened! I'm just saying!

[Okay, Sideswipe, what are you trying to get at.]

And then... you think maybe you did something kind of really weird. But you're not like... sure?

Is that just me? It's not just me, right?

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[wreckers]

He's not dead!

[ Goddammit not again. Not again. Why should a kid outlive a species with a life expectancy in the millions.

She buries her face in her hands, screams and words muffled together. ]

Bee isn't dead.

[redshitlord]

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

[ADHJSKDFSD WHAT DOES HE EVEN DO HERE. WHY IS SHE MAKING THAT SOUND.]

M-Maybe he's not! Where you're from! Maybe -- maybe it's like the Bee I know!

[wreckers]

[ Verity screams until the spittle and sweat builds up in her palm enough to stifle ber. ]

Idiot. I'm a Wrecker. Maybes don't engender much confidence.

[redshitlord]

I don't -- I don't know what that is. But... I mean.

It could be different! Right? I got really upset too -- [Sideswipe the poor thing is having a breakdown not getting upset stop talking.] -- when Rodimus said that.

But I was wrong! And everything's cool!

[taselikeabee]

Thanks for that. It wasn't as if I was trying to spare her some pain or anything.

[redshitlord]

Hey!

How was I supposed to know!

[taselikeabee]

I didn't even tell you! When I see Rodimus next I am going to kick his aft into the next century.

[redshitlord]

Yeah! You didn't! So why are you yelling at me, Bumblebutt? I didn't do anything!

Blame Rodimus and his stupid jerk face!

[taselikeabee]

First of all, I have a proper name and you better damn well use it. Secondly, do you not have any common sense? Of course it wouldn't be all right to run your mouth off about that even if you did know!

[redshitlord]

She asked why Rodimus was a huge jerk and I told her! I thought he meant the Bee back home!

The cool one! Who doesn't get his wires in a knot at guys who didn't know any better! It's not like she's wearing a sign that says "by the way I know a crankier, dumber version of Bee!"

[taselikeabee]

He is a huge jerk.

[ just throwing that out there. he also rolls his optics because wow. he doesn't care about comparisons. ]

Name calling. Forget being called five. For some it's more like two.

[ siiiiiighs. ]

Look, kid. That mouth of yours is going to get you into trouble. You might want to start to learn how to keep it shut. Or at least read the mood.

[redshitlord]

Okay, whatever, but you know what?

You might want to talk to jerkface about keeping your secrets. Because, surprisingly? I didn't know. I didn't even know she knew you.

Other universes.

Remember?

[taselikeabee]

Oh I plan on it.

[ and maybe a smack because wow. excuse him. ]

This whole 'other universes' thing and the fact that yes, you legitimately didn't know is the only reason I'm not driving to where you are and teaching you manners. Think before you speak.

[redshitlord]

Yeah, I'll think really hard about how I'm supposed to magically know who's keeping scrap secret from who.

Sure, I'll get right on that.

[wreckers]

Were there any other casualties reported?

[ Voice flat, Verity goes into a deadened autopilot state where only the facts matters. ]

[redshitlord]

Uhhhh...



I don't know. He kinda just got all on my case about... Bee...

[He shuffles a bit, before:]

... I'm sorry. I really am. I didn't know you... knew him. Or anything.

[wreckers]

Useless.

[ She casts him off; easily and decidedly Prowl-like in its execution. ]

Did he give specifics?

[redshitlord]

Hey!

I said I didn't know! You don't have to be such a stick up the tailpipe at me!

[wreckers]

Then shut up and think.

[ She spoke with the authority of someone who saw hell on earth, and the some. ]

Before you blacked was their any other information given
Names of Autobots? Decepticons? Planeta?

[redshitlord]

[Ouch.]

He just said Bee. Because that's who I was looking for. I know Bee, Strongarm, Jazz, Grimlock, Fixit, and some weird old guy named Drift with his two minicons.

That's it.

[THAT'S ALL I CARE ABOUT. in other words.]

[taselikeabee]

Technically, I'm not. No.

[ not here, not right now. ]

Verity, please..

[ don't do this on account of him. 8( ]

[wreckers]

Not again.

[ She whines feeling bile press on the back of her throat. The burning sensation with the urge to regurgitate a litany of name; Ironfist, Topspin, Pyro, Rotorstorm, Springer-

Hunter

God she really wanted to puke but it was an impossible on an empty stomach. ]

You're not dead.

[taselikeabee]

[ yeah... yeah this is why he wanted only certain people to be aware of the fact he's dead. because of stuff like this. it's clear that some people can handle it all right, but others?

Bee doesn't want to see them hurt. ]

Are you still all holed up, Verity?

[ because he can't answer that question truthfully. but he can see her. ]

[wreckers]

Ratchet's.

[ The name and location of the clinic she was currently being sequestered in would have given Bumblebee a more concrete idea kf where she was, but in all fairness her mind was in freefall. ]

[taselikeabee]

Need a little company?

[ at least she can verify that he's around now. ]