"It's got a battery but that's dead until I can charge it, so we're going to have to hook it up to our own systems." Which means they're going to be balancing energon and welding for a while. There was no real shortage of energon at least, but he's not managed to get a surplus distilled yet. Not between distilling and scavenging.

"We're going to cordon off our sleeping area so less dust gets in there." Spinister grabs some thick steel sheets off of sled as he talks, boosting his volume over the sounds of the storm. "You hold these in place while I weld, alright?"