Homeless and Full of Disappoint

[needsmoarbombs]

I must admit, small one, this decision was unexpected of you, particularly knowing what you know... of my fate.

I had hoped for a better outcome, with the decision I had made. In all sense of the phrasing.

[Committing treason had been a difficult thing for him, and look how that turned out. Starscream lived and the Autobots still failed; it was like his sacrifice was completely in vain.]

Still, I suppose that the choice is yours... but the end result will be of my will, and mine alone. I will not be dragged about by you as leashed pet. Though I will expect you to keep me informed of events regardless.

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[needsmoarbombs]

You did not make him desecrate your body, brother!

[Yep, still upset about that.]

[mothquake]

No. That much he should suffer for.

But only as much as Lord Megatron allows.

[needsmoarbombs]

Lord Megatron pardoned his actions completely.

I could not abide by his choice.

[mothquake]

Our duty is to Lord Megatron, and Lord Megatron only. It is not our place to choose which of Lord Megatron's orders we will or will not follow. We must believe in his vision and his judgement.

My death is inconsequential.

[needsmoarbombs]

Lord Megatron's cause has been mired in dishonor and corruption. I can no longer follow that path as I had. As we had.

Your death was not inconsequential to me, brother.

[mothquake]

[Skyquake's temper flares at this blatant insubordination.]

If you had been anyone else I would have torn out your spark right here, brother. If you had stayed on the correct path and followed Megatron as our duty commands...

[Then you would still be alive.]

[needsmoarbombs]

If I had simply followed Lord Megatron's orders he would have fallen at the hands of the Autobots when Airachnid attempted to destroy him, long before he welcomed a desecrator back into the ranks.

[Dreadwing's learned that occasionally, you have to be insubordinate.]

[mothquake]

You abandoned the Decepticon cause! That alone is enough to shame the both of us!

[needsmoarbombs]

They abandoned you first! The shame is theirs.

[mothquake]

You are placing your emotions over your duty, Dreadwing!

[needsmoarbombs]

[Well he can't deny that.]

And you place your duty over the ties that bind, Skyquake!

[mothquake]

[Skyquake can't deny that either.]

You are the most important person in my life Dreadwing. You are my brother and my fellow Decepticon. It pains me that we have ended up fighting like this.

But I believe that Lord Megatron could have lead us into glory like he promised. When I died, I left that belief to you.

And you failed.

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[needsmoarbombs]

[needsmoarbombs]

And that is why I am sorry.

I no longer had your faith that Lord Megatron could lead us into glory. With his decision... it could not be.

I do not wish to fight with you over things past. There is nothing to be done for it now.

[mothquake]

I wanted to share that glory with you, brother. After all we have done for Megatron, all our injuries and sorrows, it pains me that you would turn your back to that.

I do not approve of your decision, but I do not hate you. I can never hate you, no matter what you do.

[needsmoarbombs]

Would that it were possible to have shared that glory. But the cause has been too stained by actions committed against you. By their attempts to conceal what occurred from me.

I could not abandon you, Skyquake. Even if it meant disobedience, you are more important.

[mothquake]

Dreadwing...

[This hurts him Dreadwing. That everything that has happened to them has now dissolved down into this bitter argument. He means what he says and won't back down to it, and he can tell that Dreadwing won't either.]

[needsmoarbombs]

... My sentimentality gets the better of me, brother.

[But being absent of Skyquake for so long, only to feel his reawakening and his loss soon after, had ached. His failures ached.
This aches.

Dreadwing couldn't say what he'd expected of a reunion with his twin, but bitter, stubborn arguing hadn't been it.]

[mothquake]

Perhaps more often than it should.

[needsmoarbombs]

Perhaps. There is nothing that can alter it.

[mothquake]

I am conflicted on whether or not I want you to alter it.

You are who you are, brother.

[needsmoarbombs]

As are you, brother. I would not see you any other way.