[Spoilers for Autocracy 6]

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So, I got to blow up an entire city?

......cool.

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[always_alert]

[See this scowl, Roddy? This is Red Alert's default unamused face.]

Blowing up a city is not "cool." [Scowl scowl gripe lecture scowl.]

I believe dangerous is the word you're looking for.

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[Your helm looks like a bull is humping the back of your head. Your argument is thus invalid.]

Dangerous, cool. Same diff. [Just more syllables.]

...what? It's not like I did it for no good reason!

[always_alert]

[ASDFLKJ;SDK--! The horns are all the better to headbutt you with.]

Oh really. Enlighten me then.

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[good luck unseeing that. ever.]

It's called...[Frag, it's called something. Give him a klik. All right, Rodimus. Channel your Inner Ultra Magnus. What would that stiff diode call it?]

['Idiotic'? No...that's not it. AH, right.]

...denying assets to the enemy. [A flicker of a grin.] With a side order of style.

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[...This will make things really awkward when his horns spark in response to detected-threats.]

Style? [You're not Jazz, you can't have style. Red Alert DOES NOT APPROVE of this response.]

I don't know if you're aware of this, but there is a difference between style and gratuitous destruction.

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Style. [That's right, Red Bull. Does this popped collar not speak for itself?]

'Course there is. Gratuitous means nothing good comes out of it. [You think he's stupid? WRONG.]

I'm a good guy. I don't do gratuitous. I do heroic.

[always_alert]

[Popped collar nothing. All Red sees is a turbo-revving punk with delusions of grandeur. Though, to be fair, Red Alert's opinion of Rodimus is based mostly on his experiences with the Hot Rod of his universe.]

The last time I checked, blowing up an entire city wasn't considered "heroic."

[In fact, he's pretty sure that's the exact opposite of heroic.]

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[Ha! You fell for Rodimus's carefully constructed public image--no wait, no you didn't. That's actually Rodimus himself.]

You might want to check again, Siren Face. Last time I checked, using an entire city to fuel a superweapon was pretty high on the Bad Guy list of things to do.

[Ha!]

Besides. It was awesome.

It seems these two will be forever locked in a battle of snide-comments XD

[always_alert]

[Siren-face? That's a new one. Not the worst Red's ever heard, but at least it's more creative than "glitch-head."]

...How does one turn a city into fuel, exactly? Aside from burning it, of course, which as you've so clearly pointed out, is apparently not a bad thing to do.

Eternal!

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[Creative. Style. See? You're beginning to catch on.]

Some superweapon Zeta Prime [Dramatic pause. Did you hear that? PRIME] came up with. Sucks the life-force out of everything it comes near. [Some...science slag. Go ask one of those nerds at Kimia.]

And I didn't burn it. I blew it up. [Big difference. A difference called AWESOME.]

Their snark will blot out the sun!

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[...Has Red mentioned how much he hates super-weapons? Because he really, really does. Especially since the whole mishap with the Negavator.]

It doesn't really matter what word you use to describe what you did to it---either way, it was still incinerated.

[Technicalities: Red can use them too.]

it is its own superweapon

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[Rodimus is not fond of them himself. Kind of removes the hero-element.]

You think a better answer would have been to have an intact city, filled with drained husks?

[He thought you were paranoid, not crazy. Your name is not Whirl.]

We had no choice. At least we stopped their lives from being used to destroy another city. No one was doing anything. Even when I tried to show them.

[Which is pretty much his adieu to that idea. From then on: RODIMUS EXPLAINS NOTHING. It all adds to his mystique.]

The most powerful one

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[Red's just going to give you a skeptical look, Rodimus.]

No one did anything? A weapon that powerful was going to be employed, and not a single Autobot would listen to you about it?

[This is where Roddie might gain some of Red's favor, if what he's saying is true. If there's one thing this security director can't stand, it's when no one listens to you when you're trying to warn them about a serious threat.]