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[heelys]

"Hey! I'm not here right now because I'm probably doing something awesome but leave a message and I'll get back to you when I get bored enough!"

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[knaval]

It's fine. It happens.

[riptide is annoyed with himself for being affected. he feels so... emotional, recently.]

[heelys]

[Bumblebee lets the awkward silence settle over them, fiddling with his fingers. After a few minutes, he gives a small vent.]

Sometimes I just don't know how to speak to any of you. I have a list of things I shouldn't say and it just keeps getting longer.

[knaval]

Keep it in mind. Four million years of war does a lot to people.

[sorry, bee. he's not just gonna say HAHA DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT BRO]

How old are you, anyway?

[heelys]

I know! It's just. Yeah.

[HE NEEDS TO LEARN.]

Huh? Oh, uh. 852 stellar cycles? [he looks a little sheepish.]

[knaval]

...No, really.

[heelys]

[he's crossing his arms over his chassis and scowling into the horizon.]

It's not that young.

[knaval]

Are you kidding me? I don't even remember what I was doing when I was that age.

[that's true, he does. but it's not suitable for bee to be told about.]

I don't even know how... there's no hotspots! No sparks, how?

[heelys]

[Omg does this mean he gets the PG version of everything now. Outrageous.]

I know bots who are only a few Earth months old because of the AllSpark fragments. Don't you have that?

[knaval]

No. Ask Ratchet when we get back, maybe he'll tell you about how we're all a bunch of morons who doomed ourselves to extinction.

[you know, unless more sparks happen. which they did, to be fair.]

[heelys]

He already asked why I was this old and asked me about it already. It's not that big a deal.

[knaval]

...No, I guess it's not.

[riptide falls silent again, clomping back towards the ship.]

[heelys]

If I'm old enough to apply to join the Elite Guard, then I'm old enough to look after myself. [HARUMPH.]

[knaval]

I literally have no idea what that is.

[sounds pretentious tho.]

[heelys]

--Are you serious?! It's only the best thing a bot can ever hope to be! You get to go on cool missions in space and work your way up to becoming a Prime!

[He pauses, scratching the back of his helm] I didn't get in. Sorta gave it all up to help out a friend instead. But I'm kinda glad since I don't have to deal with Sentinel anymore than I need to.

[knaval]

Don't you need the Matrix to be Prime? [riptide understand Different Timelines and all that, but... seriously.

also:] --Sentinel? Isn't that guy dead? Like... ages ago? I was pretty garbage at history but I'm sure Megatron killed him or something.

[heelys]

--What's a Matrix? [he's blinking a little curiously.] And don't you mean a Prime? There's like... four I can think of off the top of my processor. Well. Three, since Longarm Prime turned out to be a Decepticon double agent.

[at his next question Bumblebee has to laugh.]

What? No. He's super alive and super awful. He was my drill sergeant at the Academy. He's now one of the leaders of the Elite Guard. And a Prime.

[knaval]

I guess for you? Oh! When we time travelled to when he was still Prime he had an Elite Guard. He kept trying to murder Optimus and wiped out a bunch of--

[pg version, riptide. don't tell the baby.]

--Never mind. Megatron ended up punching a hole through him, anyway. You're gonna have to tell me more about your timeline later.

[heelys]

[Bumblebee grimaces, leaning back against Riptide's arm heavily.]

Man, it's gonna take a while to get used to all this scrap. It's making my processor hurt.

[knaval]

Eh. I don't think you need to know everything. Just the important stuff. No-one cares about Sentinel anymore because he's been dead forever! So forget about that because it's not relevant.

[he slows walking slightly.]

Like, uh. Whirl.

[heelys]

He's relevant to me. Just like OP, Bulkhead and Prowl are. But I seriously hope Setiniel doesn't show up. I'm so not in the mood for his scrap.

[He pauses, grinning.] It'd be pretty funny to see him flip out over all the other bots here, though. Especially, Megatron, he'd blow a gasket!

[LIKE YOU DIDN'T.]

[knaval]

...Given what he was known for in our timeline, Megatron might well immediately murder him.

[riptide doesn't know much about history, he just knows sentinel was... not popular.]

[heelys]

[Bumblebee looks up at Riptide...] Jeez, he's bad but not that bad. What he do, kick some sparklings or something?

[knaval]

Uhhh... when we went back in time apparently Optimus was defending a field of sparks Sentinel wanted to take for experiments on. So... yes?

[be thankful, bee.]

[heelys]

Oh.

[Bumblebee is going to stare into the camera like he's on the office.]

[knaval]

[riptide just shrugs, continuing back towards the ship. awkward silence.]