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[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.

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[ Whirl's optic just cycles.

Ugh.

Way to make him feel very old, kid. ]

Yeah.

[His chest guns rotate and move into place. Don't posture to a master of it, okay.]

Whatever you say, Sidedish. Either way, you're letting me in. I have literally no problem tossing you on your aft to do it.

And....I'm being nice. Ask anyone. Literally anyone. I'm not going to continue to be, because your knight in shining plating act is getting old really fast. Kay?

See ya soon.

[He stiffens -- because, damn it, there's a sudden, very strong memory of being shot at. By the invaders. And for a second, he just freezes.]

[... Riptide saved him then. He should do the same thing.]

Just. Talk.

I don't care if you just talk.

[ And here's literally the most obnoxious mess of a salute possible with his claws. ]

That's all I'm planning on doing.

[ A beat. ]

As far as I know.