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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

[vengeance_driven]

But he's not even done it yet.

Is kind of creepy to start doing shit to people that haven't done things they haven't yet. Remember we got alternate universes here. What if they don't do it?

[redshitlord]

Yeah. Exactly! I'm... I don't know what they're expecting!

He could go back and do things different! But noooooo let's dogpile on him now!

[vengeance_driven]

Yeah, there's always the chance that even if he doesn't remember any of this, he still might not do it. Shit doesn't always happen the same way.

But ah... as an aside from that, maybe it's not good to threaten people on his behalf. Offering protection to people who need it, maybe, but promising to kick the ass of people that were really obviously hurt by something? Even if he's not done it yet, it doesn't make how they feel less real.

Maybe just ah... ask for one of the mediators. We got those. They could help.

[redshitlord]

UGhhhh why is literally everyone else more chill than the bots? Why can't you be a 'bot, dude? You get this!

... Okay but like what else am I supposed to do? They already made him like explode! I dunno if I've got time to go find some medium person.

I just.

I had to do something.

[vengeance_driven]

To be fair I am mostly chill when it's not me. That's why it helps to have friends to work out these things with you. I'm sure I'd be very happy as a 'bot.

[The way he says "bot" with his accent is a little funny, it's somewhere between "bot" and "boat".]

You'll be okay, man. From what I hear, you guys were kind of born into a war and it's hard not to think with fists first when you grow up like that.

[redshitlord]

You probably would man, I'd be friends with you.

... Yeah, I wasn't. It was sort of over by the time I came around.