[unsigned]

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

[a crude Autobot insignia has been drawn on a fresh piece of paper]

Comments

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

More of you? Great.

[tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com]

Something you recognize?

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

I recognize the symbol. It's a symbol of people my team doesn't like much.

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

Explain.

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

There's more of us than you. Don't get cocky.

[A crude Decepticon symbol is drawn below.]

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

Not often I hear a Decepticon boast about numbers. Nervous, are you?

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

In a place like this? I'd be insane not to be.

And I'm not insane.

[tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com]

You aren't helping yourself any, you know.

[Signed with the same Arachnos symbol that's in his icon]

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

... I THOUGHT YOU DESERTED, COWARD.

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

I left a note! Did you not read the note?!

[Lugnut: JDHKJHSDKJA ]

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

WHAT WHEN

... WHY WOULD YOU THINK I WOULD SEE THAT? YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME IN PERSON! I DON'T SPEND EVERY CYCLE OF THE DAY LOOKING AT THIS!

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

I was going to tell you when I saw you!

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE HAD HALF A SOLAR CYCLE TO SEE ME!

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

And I haven't seen you! And I posted a note! There wasn't much else I could do.

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

[a very, very obvious afterthought]

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

WE'RE IN AN ALLIANCE WITH THE MAXIMAL NOW. DON'T FORGET IT, COWARD.

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

...why?

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

[ruthless-hunter.livejournal.com]

What kinda car you drive?

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

It's very pretty with twinkly lights on. What's it to you?

[ruthless-hunter.livejournal.com]

Just a car nut. Seen that symbol on a few models.

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

May I ask where you've seen them?

[ruthless-hunter.livejournal.com]

Mostly around Detroit.

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

[a response has been scratched out very thoroughly]

[scalyfishman.livejournal.com]

Different symbol, same faction. We're playing for the same team. You got a name?

- DC

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

[arrow pointing at the Maximal insignia] I haven't seen that variation, and I've been around long enough to see many. If we are comrades I'll need more information than that, though I understand if you're reluctant to do so in public.

You've introduced yourself as 'DC.' Is that the start of your serial number, or you name's initials?

-R

[scalyfishman.livejournal.com]

You probably wouldn't have seen it around. From what I can tell, I'm from some kind of future of yours. I'm Maximal- which is just another way of saying Autobot, only 300 stellar cycles in the future.

- Depth Charge

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

[a few false starts are scratched out]


Right.

[scalyfishman.livejournal.com]

Not that I can feel your skepticism from across the room, but...

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

A supposed ally who belongs to a sub-faction I've never heard of and who claims to be from the future is a big story to swallow sight unseen.

[scalyfishman.livejournal.com]

Not a sub-faction. The faction. Why don't you give me your name? I'll tell you what the history databooks told me about you.

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

Fine. I could use a laugh, and I've already written it elsewhere.

Ratchet. I'm a medical officer.

[scalyfishman.livejournal.com]

Ratchet, huh?

[scribbles]

Yeah. Think I've heard of you. Autobot medic, right? From what I heard, you normally acted like you had a wrench jammed up your tailpipe.

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

A wrench where? Think you're clever, do you? Listen, whelp, I didn't spend the better part of my function cycle bringing bots back from the brink of deactivation with parts ripped from my own fragging chassis just to take slag off some jumped-up lunatic who thinks he's a slagging time traveler! I will personally reformat you into a toaster oven!

And I already said I'm a medic. [arrow pointing up to previous note]

And the award for diplomacy goes to...

[scalyfishman.livejournal.com]

Doing wonders for your case, there, big bot. Take it out with the guy that wrote your spec, not me.

[hesitation marks]

Unless you're from a different timeline. Then it could Slag it, that scrap's for people with no lives. Look, why would I lie to you?

[unsigned]

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

:B

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

You don't have to write so big, you know. I can see just fine.

god, sorry about the 'conspam up there. Lugnut gets yelly sometimes.

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

...

WHO ARE YOU, AUTOBOT?

A Lugnut that isn't yelling is like coffee with no cream.

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

That's better. Keep practicing that penbotship--you'll get it right someday.


It's rude to ask someone's name without introducing yourself first.

Well, I can hardly argue that. <3

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

I AM LUGNUT, MOST DEVOTED OF DECEPTICONS AND FOLLOWER OF THE GLORIOUS LORD MEGATRON!

...I AM ALSO THE COMMANDING DECEPTICON OFFICER IN THIS PIT.

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

Ah, you. You wouldn't know me by name, but I'm the medic whose face you tried to blow off earlier this stellar cycle. Name's Ratchet.

You're the CO? Somehow that position doesn't seem to play to your...strengths.

What he doesn't mention is that the only other 'Con around is Scourge.

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

OH. YOU.

... OF THE DECEPTICONS HERE, I AM THE MOST LOYAL, THE STRONGEST, AND THE LONGEST-SERVING. IF ANYONE WISHES TO ARGUE THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, THEY ARE FREE TO DO IT TO MY FACE.

Well, Ratchet's not about to admit that he's a battalion of one, either. :s

[war-wounds.livejournal.com]

So you do remember. Bless your little spark. One act of senseless violence out of so many, I'd think you'd have trouble keeping track.

Please, command away. I have little interest in your faction's internal politics though I'd like to see a dissenter try to find your face to argue with it

[hailmegatron.livejournal.com]

IT WAS NOT THAT LONG AGO, AUTOBOT, AND MY MEMORY STORAGE PROTOCOLS HAVE NOT BEEN ENTIRELY RUINED BY THIS ORGANIC BODY.