Feelings on pages event/possible other game

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 Mio caro, this is not what I would call 'amusing'.

Especially since Shockwave is now aware of the fact that I am six inches tall.

[Oh chin up, Mirage, it could be worse. You could be a GIRL.

wait...that's happened before, hasn't it.]

...

And what is this about another application? You have enough on your schedule.

[Shut up.]

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[stabbywheelfeet]

Other application what now?

[perfavore]

[Dismissive hand wave.]

Apparently one game is not enough for her. She finds she must send me elsewhere.

Wake, I believe it is called.

[stabbywheelfeet]

[PERK]

Nautilus? You're coming to Nautilus?

Really?

[Oh god it's like someone just told him it was Christmas.]

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If all goes well.

[Eyebrow perk. He seems awfully-]

Wait...

[stabbywheelfeet]

All Spark!

You're -- If you're kidding, I'm going to stab you. Not somewhere fatal, but still. Stabbing's going to happen.

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...Charming.

[But he sounds at least a little hopeful.]

You are...there?

[stabbywheelfeet]

... I've been there almost three years.

Alone.

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Three years...

[He's not only surprised, but impressed.]

That is...quite the absence.

[stabbywheelfeet]

It's felt a lot longer. So much longer.

All Spark... I can't believe you're... You're going to be a sight for sore optics.

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[Those wings twitch, slightly more content about this now.]

The feeling is mutual.

[He's so glad you're not DEAD like everything else. Or weird and crazy.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

[this is probably a bad time to mention he's died twice and gone absolutely insane several times by now, isn't it.]

Just... make sure you get there. I'll take care of the rest.

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[Probably. He's too high on 'oh god you're alive' right now.]

I can hope it won't be an issue. I am expecting a welcome wagon?

[stabbywheelfeet]

I'm insulted you'd call me a wagon.

...

But, yes.

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[A soft chuckle, wings twitching. Someone's amused.]

Give yourself slightly more credit.

[He wouldn't bang a wagon.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

[He's still way too excited by this prospect to pay too much attention.]

I am. I'm just making sure you are.

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[He can tell. He hasn't seen you this happy since--

Yeah.]

...So it's just us? No one from our world?

[stabbywheelfeet]

[... yeah, that wasn't a pleasant canon update.]

No. No one else. A few other Autobots, and one Decepticon, but no one from our world.

It's... been a long three years.

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Mio amico...

[His expression is rather sympathetic.]

I can only imagine.

[stabbywheelfeet]

I'd be surprised if anyone could.

... Just. Fair warning. I might not believe it's you... at first.

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...Why wouldn't it be me?

[Not that he doesn't see how Sideswipe would be in disbelief after three years, but...he was pretty sure he was one of a kind.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

... The city's fooled me before.

Many times. It gets in your processor. Confuses you.

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...

You're stronger than I thought.

[And those standards were already pretty high.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

How do you figure?

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[There's a slight shrug.]

I've seen bots end their lives to save themselves from insanity.

The fact that you're here...

[stabbywheelfeet]

... Even if I went that route, it wouldn't help.

You just come back to life again, later.