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[redshitlord]

[Ah, here we have the not-so-illusive Sideswipe. Fresh, red hot angry teenager for you, Moira. All those blue lights on his armor glowing hotly. Here is a robot child with a bone to pick.]

[He's standing outside his room -- if anyone knows for sure where that is, and... bristling. As much as a guy covered in armor can bristle.]

Okay! So, hey, are we done arresting each other for stupid stuff?

[Sideswipe 'mutiny' isn't stupid--]

Because, I gotta say, if anyone else has a problem with Riptide? You're gonna take it up with me! That's right. Me.

[A guy who looks more like a beanpole than a warrior.]

The great Earth-Cop Sideswipe! Team Bee's finest! And Riptide's mine to handle, so there. No one else gets any other ideas about dragging him anywhere, no matter your universe. Unless you want to get sideswiped.

Out the airlock.


...

Oh yeah also, if you're tiny and organic and some idiot the size of a building starts throwing down? Page me. I'll be your one-way-ticket out of smashville.

Comments

[heroicpose]

[ He likes you Sideswipe, but... ]

Ultra Magnus is... a bit zealous but fair. He'll audit door frames for not being perfect right angles or people parking 1 minute past the parking time zone but...

What Riptide did was... serious.

[redshitlord]

Gee, y'think? Dude's bigger than like ten of me! He's gotta watch his step around the humans or he's the one who should get arrested!

[He just puffs up harder.]

Did anyone think about maybe, oh man, I dunno, talking about it? Instead of hurting him?

Some "adults" you jerks are.

[heroicpose]

He didn't used to be that big. I mean-- he was huge! Like a little bigger than Megatron, but not-- like that.

Something changed.

[ You can't hurt him Sideswipe he's already hurting inside. ]

We're warframes. We're made of tougher stuff than peace time frames.

And leave me out of that! I didn't have anything to do with what happened. I mean-- maybe just because he was trying to bring him to me and Megs, but Ultra Magnus is a good guy and you know how the Ingress works. You come out and you're not exactly up to speed since all you know is what just happened to you.

[redshitlord]

So? He should still be more careful! It's not the humans' fault they're stuck here with us!

No way, dude. You could have stopped him if you're like. Mister Autobot Captain! And also can you slow your roll outs for a sec and listen to yourself?

If you come out 'not up to speed', maybe the same thing happened to Riptide!

[heroicpose]

Ultra Magnus loves humans. I don't think that they're going to be in any danger.

[ Rodimus crosses his arms and frowns. ]

That's not possible. The mutiny was apparently planned since second launch, and Riptide wasn't on the first one.

[redshitlord]

Yeah, but you can't tell me he was thinking about them, and not just about hauling Riptide off.

[He does the same, mirroring Rodimus, just to be an ass.]

And what if he changed his mind! Or something like that! Your Ultra Messnus didn't even ask! He didn't even try! Just... assumed!

'Cause everyone who screws up and does some bad scrap is evil forever. Right?

[heroicpose]

You got a point there. I can promise it won't happen again.

[ At this point he doesn't even notice. Rodimus is a little hot headed, so he's quick to get aggravated by this. ]

I didn't say that! What do you even know about situations like this? Have you ever been betrayed by your friends? Someone you trusted? If you did then you'd know how it feels to be kinda too pissed off to be rational!

[redshitlord]

Oh yeah? Can you? Can you really?

And yeah! Yeah, I have! But guess what-! We didn't tackle him to the ground and beat him up!

[Because it was Grimlock under mind control and literally none of them COULD.]

Besides! Maybe he's changed! He could have ditched me or let me down like... ten times by now! But nah! He's been there more than guys like you.

[heroicpose]

Yeah. I'm not worried about Ultra Magnus. He can't stand a spec of dirt, let alone any kind of damage being clumsy would be.

No one got beaten up. He was restrained.

[ He honestly didn't think Sideswipe was open to hearing the opposite side at this point. ]

Maybe. And to be fair, you never really looked to anyone but besides him for help since I've been here. You kind of made your choice whose support you want the most. You pile on more and it just becomes suffocating.

[redshitlord]

Maybe because everyone else treats me like a stupid kid! Talks down to me like I'm nothing, just because I didn't see your stupid war!

Ever think of that!