on his app to Changed!

[bodyguard]

So you went with me instead.

I'm sorta hedging (ha ha!) between grateful and lousy, I got people who'll be there and I won't remember even the guys nearest and spark dearest. I've heard about fae-ning amnesia but I'm sure you're bein' unreasonable.

And having me remember caste first, 'stead'a Knock Out? Are your sensors on the fritz? He's ... y'know. Kinda important. And so is Screamer - what, you couldn't let me remember either of them first?

I usually don't say this, but you should lemme do the thinking for us, squishy.

And stop pushing me at that Wrecker. I don't even know the guy.

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[automobile_enthusiast]

If it makes you feel any better, I don't get to remember you, either.

...Not yet, anyway, and I would so hate to have to get impatient about getting this particular aspect of my amnesia cleared up. [YOU GOT THAT, MUN?]

[break_the_sky]

It is not. Screamer.

[ ...with that out of the way though ] They do seem to be avoiding having us remember personal relationships first. Something about 'seeing how things develop organically'.

[jackhammered]

What is it with muns and trying to get cons and bots together? I swear to primus, if you're talking about me -

[ Beat. ]

It's me, isn't it.

[shatterbrained]

[ NO WORDS

HE'S JUST SPENDING LIKE A FULL MINUTE CLAPPING AND GIGGLING REALLY DELIGHTEDLY AT THE PUNS ]

[bodyguard]

That makes me feel wors--[ BABY HE'S FIXING IT. Let the doctor negotiate. ] Right, yeah. I mean neither of them are gonna. Keep us apart when we're right next to each other, forever. Not after everything we've been through to get here.

Y'know.

Death. Other universes. Weird organic bits on you. Headfur.

On you.

[bodyguard]

[ But it's still a fowl temper. ] Sorry.

Oh, you're not remembering us first, either? What've you--t-cog? Oh, come on!

So all three of us are gonna be walkin around completely oblivious? I'm so mad I'm not even gonna get to be mad!

[bodyguard]

...yeah.

I'd lie, but we both know the only alternative is Bulkhead.

Seems like they think we should just kiss and make up after a few hundred thousand fights.

For a bot, you know how to pick an alt, though.

[ damn them wheels are fine son ]

[break_the_sky]

[ Now don't YOU start trying to ruffle his feathers. ]

Arguably, the knowledge that I... should not be what I now am. [ He folds his hands behind his back, slightly discomfited and trying not to show it. ] But you're correct-- Useful memories will come more slowly to us all. Though I assume we will all be dissatisfied with our servitude swiftly enough.

[bodyguard]

[ OH HEY HE'S GOTTA FAN ] Thanks. I'll ...be here all week, I guess. Or all eternity.

You gotta be a Con, Bots got no sense of humor.

[automobile_enthusiast]

[Heaves an overdramatic sigh.] Mm, that's true enough, I suppose. They do seem rather attached to us being, well, attached. I'm sure we can--

Oh, just because you got off light when it came to the-- [Finger-wiggle.] Changes.

[He runs a hand over the contours of his helm, perhaps just a little bit anxiously.] She's promised me it's going to be lustrous, at least. Hopefully it won't be too unpleasant. [But he shudders anyway, because let's be real here, he's getting... organicified. To an extent. There's no way it's not going to be unpleasant, even if he won't be able to remember how he's supposed to be.]

[bodyguard]

There's no talkin to mine, she's still pretty sure "life finds a way", whatever that means.

I'm losing my hammers! ...and my alt. [ Well, so is Knock Out. ] You're right, yours is-...uh, little more disadvantaging.

[ Reads that tone effortlessly. ] Hey, but don't worry. I'll still be around for you, and you're gettin a real good leg up in the power department, so maybe you won't even need to worry about having soft parts.

And you'll always be my partner.

[shatterbrained]

[ ok he calms down after a bit and face-swaps back to blue ]

Jour assessment is correct. On both fronts. [ seems like all autobots are severely lacking in humor. universal constant! ] Und at least jou vill haff zhose jou know - or do not know, as it turns out! Zhat is a small blessing, or so I am told. [ honestly if lugnut showed up he'd be solid but that's about it

he. he doesn't have many friends. ]

[bodyguard]

[ Are you gonna make him egret it? ]

...hmph. Guess that's more helpful than I thought, but. [ He looks Starscream up and down, trying to picture him as an avian. ] Dissatisfied? Knock Out says his organic form's gonna be cute, but I can't picture a full organic suit being...

[ Don't do it Breakdown. ]

...beakoming.

[automobile_enthusiast]

Sounds like drivel to me, but she is only human.

That's right. [Sorry, Breakdown, he's a little huffy about all of this.] We'll find you some hammers. It's just a shame alts aren't going to be as easy to come by as that.

[He manages a smile.] Mm. They can't take that away from us, no matter how much they might want to try.

We'll figure out a way to cope. Somehow. Don't we always~?

[jackhammered]

Even they wouldn't be able to shmooze you into knocking back some energon with Bulkhead. Some feuds just aren't going away that easy.

[ he's not really one for preening but ]

Hey, if you've gotta roll, might as well roll nice.

[break_the_sky]

[ Keep egging him on and you'll make him really soar. ]

Well, it-- [ Wait. Okay now he's half disbelieving and half affronted. ] Breakdown!

[bodyguard]

[ GOD he needs to learn how to peck his fights from heron out ]

Sorry! Lord. ..C..commander. What-... [ What is even the timeline ] --Sir.

Scrap.

[bodyguard]

If his was poisoned I'd think about it, you're right about that.

[ Bedroom face tho. ]

...think so? You, uh. Ever consider something with wings? [ Just to see if this convo can get more awk. For science. ]

[bodyguard]

You not big into the cons-across-universes-are-family thing?

We don't get many defectors. [ They are usually murdered. ]

But we're pretty close. At least as close as Optimus and his runts.

[break_the_sky]

[ Or else he'll wind up in even more hawkward situations, yes. ]

Commander, for the moment. [ mutters ] Though that will mean little soon enough.

[ He does un-ruffle somewhat, though, at the prompt apology and hearing Breakdown scramble for the correct title. Overshooting, even. ]

Just... See that you don't do it again.

[shatterbrained]

Vell, technically I am crazy und treated as such! At least in my own universe. [ watch him flip through faces for a lil bit ] Havink a split processor is not vezzy conductive to making friendships, jou see! But I don't mind, zhough I occasionally wish for better conversation. Zhere's only so much jou can discuss vith jourselves!

[ he swings from stoic to manic on, seemingly, a whim, though there's an emotional pattern to the change. It's not as unpredictable as it seems. ]

[bodyguard]

Right. We're all gettin' demoted.

[ But for the pheasant... ] 'til then you're still my boss.

Don't wanna take any reprisal risks or nothin'.

So yer pretty upset about this thing, huh.

[break_the_sky]

[ Preens just a little bit, at that. ] Yes. I am. Thank you for remembering, Breakdown.

[ That might come out sounding like "I'll thank you to remember" but, well, those words mean very different things.

These puns need to be put to a swift end, to sparrow everyone the pain. ]

That is an understatement. [ "Pretty upset" at having his memories hidden and his mind and body distorted, kept as a pet and plaything and prey? Far stronger words would be needed for that... But he held his wings at a slightler prouder (or more defensive) angle. ] But I do appreciate the... presence... of my two best lieutenants.

Don't tell Knock Out I said that, none of us will hear the end of it.

[bodyguard]

Not a problem, Commander. [ He even resisted the cawl of the potential pun, how nice. Starscream's made it obvious he has other talonts. But seriously, he does understand on an emotional level the difference between those words and the words Starscream could have said in the same tone - he's worked for Scream and for Megatron, after all. ] They'd have to do worse to you to take you out for good.

[ He straightens proud and eager at that comment, about being one of his best lieutenants, grinning. ]

Yeah, he'd know he could get away with teasing you all the time, and not just when you're in a good mood.

[jackhammered]

In case you hadn't noticed, Autobots and flight modes don't jive so well. [ Then again, he is talking to a con with a vehicle mode.

He shrugs.] If I need to fly I got the Jackhammer.