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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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[ 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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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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?

Edited 2016-08-06 00:38 (UTC)

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!

[ Whirl had a point. And then it got utterly murdered by this thought train.]

'Get sideswiped.'

Did you think of that yourself?

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.

Well, duh. You see anyone else here talking?

... except Rodi-ass.

[Whirl's optic narrows into a line. Because he is not allowing himself to be entertained by that nickname. No. He's not. Not allowed.]

I dunno, you're apparently pretty chummy with Tugboat and he's known for saying things that stupid.

[Whirl. Helpful. Yep.]

Look, whatever 'handling' you think you're doing, trust me when I say standing between Big M and someone he wants to yell at is the worst place to be. And that's not counting the rest of us. See I don't take too well to being shoved off to die.

...At least without someone asking my permission you know?

Sideswipe.

[His voice is soft and very sad.]

He did something terrible. He deserves worse than he got.

Are you all like this?

You are young, therefore I presume you do not have a comprehension of what was done was needed.
Ultra Magnus clearly was performing his duty. You do not have to like it or approve of it, but he was doing as necessary.

Perhaps not perfectly, but Riptide had to be apprehended. Your fondness for Riptide should not come in the way of what must be done.

I think I'm going to have to have this Riptide thing explained to me.

[Because Cybertronian politics never stops confusing him.]

He's -- he's important to me! So what?

[HUFF.]

I don't care how bad of a place it is. Someone's gotta do it!

Just leave him alone. Okay?

He's had worse already! Hasn't he!

You guys -- you -- you told me over and over again how bad this Tarn is! And he got to Riptide.

Isn't that bad enough? Just -- leave him alone, Tailgate!

no no no no no no its theres a lot of really stupid bad scrap with a lot of these old guys its awful im really worried about my friend and all the humans here so im gettin a little mad pls dont freak out

dude. are you from his ship? NO??? do u know whats happened to him around here?? ALSO NO???? so shut up go suck magnets exhaust port if you like him so much

Oh my god dude.

... everyone's getting their wires crossed because of some scrap they say he did in the future? But he ... [He falters, trying to figure out how to say this.] He doesn't need to get punished anymore.

Not after what they already did.

Y'know?

I've known his dumb aft longer than you have.

[ Whirl probably wasn't actually going to bother Riptide...until he was told not to. And now, he's actually really considering it. Way to go. ]

If I want to have a conversation with him, I'm going to so it, even if I have to space you to have it.

So?

[Mature argument right there.]

Yeah go ahead, talk to him. But I'm gonna be there. Watching.

It was a misunderstanding, Sideswipe. It'll get taken care of.

A misunderstanding?

A misunderstanding isn't supposed to almost kill people! Or whatever happened to him! Don't any of you weird old scrap-heaps talk to each other?

Because I'm pretty sure getting murdered is enough "punishment" for anything!

[He's yelling, but. Honestly? It's the angry tears kind of yelling.]

[Tailgate winces at the mention of Tarn. Tarn, his friend. Tarn, the person Tailgate knows beyond a shadow of a doubt would kill him and his shipmates if he felt like it.]

Look... I can forgive him for what he did. It's what I do. Magnus doesn't lie, and he says that Riptide left us, me included, to die at the hands of the DJD. He worked alongside Getaway of all people too.

And I think that is what's going to be harder to forgive.

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