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[itcanwait]

Uhm, hello? [There’s a little girl on the feed and she looks as though her eyes are a little bloodshot around the edges with blotchy cheeks.]

Everything’s going so fast but I was just in- [An accident? A murder? He has to try and keep himself calm otherwise his eyes are going to leak again.]

Has anyone seen Cyclonus? Or anyone called that? He’s purple...has a giant sword and horns like this. [He scrambles to perch the phone somewhere and holds his hands up to make horns with his fingers.] Oh and he’s really skowly. [And possibly dead. Oh, he shouldn’t think like that.] Please, I need to find him and know if he’s okay.

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[knaval]

TAILGATE!! Tailgate, what's going on?! Why is-- what happened to Cyclonus? Are you with anyone??

[riptide decides just to use his robot form for this and cut to the chase.]

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[itcanwait]

Riptide! I-we... [He puts a hand on his head and shakes it.] No I'm alone.

I think...I think he's dead and it's my fault.

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[knaval]

Dea-- what? He was fine last time I saw him!

[SO! MANY! QUESTIONS!!!]

Oh jeez... Tailgate, what happened? It can't have been your fault. I'm sure of it.

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[itcanwait]

You've seen him? [He's pretty desperate and totally taking what you say to mean, in this place.]

I don't...Getaway he set me up I'm such an idiot, I believed him and Cyclonus, he got really hurt. Then it's a blur and I'm here?

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[knaval]

Last I saw him was before we left for Necroworld.

[he frowns slowly.]

Getaway, what? What happened with Getaway?

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[itcanwait]

Before? [He frowns himself. But it's short lived as his jaw then clenches.]

He convinced me that I could take away Megatrons bad thoughts. Y'know, stop him being a villain if he went back to it? I thought it was he cared about me. He said he did.

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[knaval]

[take away his... oh no. oh no. riptide pales.]

What?! He said what? Did he do anything to you?! Was Chromedome involved?

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[itcanwait]

[He shakes his head quickly.]

Come on, Chromedome isn't stupid enough to fall for something like that. [Just him.]

Getaway gave me a gift, part of the conjunx ritus? Mnemo needles, said he'd laced 'em with a virus so I didn't have to do anything but inject him. I didn't get close enough. Not that it would have mattered if I did.

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[knaval]

[riptide straight up yelps.]

MNEMO?! HE TRIED TO MAKE YOU DO MNEMO ON MEGATRON?!

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[itcanwait]

That should have been the first sign something was up but he seemed so... [He deflates] genuine? I thought he loved me.

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[knaval]

You thou-- oh.

Oh.

Tailgate... where are you?

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[itcanwait]

[Don't pity him he's a dumb child.]

Heropa uh, 006.

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[knaval]

Right.

[not soon after, tailgate will hear banging at the door.]

Tailgate, it's me! Riptide! Open up!

[itcanwait]

[He hurries over to the door and opens it. Still expecting the usual Riptide.]

Hey. [He opens the door more to let him in.] How did you do that?

[knaval]

S'that power thing, innit?

[he shrugs, running a hand through his hair.]

Isn't it what you can do?

[itcanwait]

I can...I just don't know how. I tried and my head hurt and I saw spots everywhere.

[He pokes him in the ribs.]

You look weird.

[knaval]

Oi!

[riptide pokes tailgate in the cheek.]

So do you, dummy. Let me in, my stupid human body is cold.

[itcanwait]

At least I'm not as small as I usually am with the avatars. I don't know what I'm so little...uh young?

[He steps back and walks into his home towards the kitchen area.]

Is this really Earth?

[knaval]

Hell if I know.

[he shrugs, looking around the house as he enters.]

I guess? I've never been, Tailgate. I wasn't cool enough.

[itcanwait]

That makes two of us. [Ignoring the fact that he was y'know underground for so long.]

Well if it is, we're here now. Timing could have been better though. And being asked. Was anyone else brought along as well?

[knaval]

Naw, I was alone when I came through.

[he shrugs, flopping down onto tailgate's(?) couch.]

I had a look through the network and talked to some people, looks like Ratchet and Drift were here before. Maybe more, I didn't look very hard. Also, Starscream at some point.

[itcanwait]

Whoa, Starscream? Really?

[He climbs up onto the table to sit on it.]

This place is weird. I didn't think it would be like this. Or that I'd be changed...

[knaval]

Yeah. But he's not here now, so that's the important thing.

[he puts a hand on tailgate's shoulder.]

At least we're in this crap together, right?

[itcanwait]

I'm glad we missed that.

[He smiles and nods to that.]

I'm glad. Y'know, that I'm not alone here and you aren't either.

You also have to tell me how you became human. Is there a codeword or something that let's us switch?

[knaval]

Uhh... I just thought about it and it happened?

[he makes a face.]

Don't make me think about it too much, I might change in here!