1st Bite [Video]

[dirge]

[The screen flicks on, but there seems to be something wrong with a it. A long crack runs down the right side, fragmenting the image. The color also seems off, though its hard to tell if you haven't seen the speaker's paintjob before.]

Oh, you do still work. Hm.

[A big seeker of a less boxy variety than most leans in and raps on the screen with a knuckle, sending the drone drifting backwards with a distressed beep.]


I'll have to go find a bigger rock.

Comments

[notyourblueangel]

["No...you /don't/" - but he's well aware that there are other realities and the equivalents may look /nothing/ like he's used to, so the thought is dismissed as quickly as it's had.]

Huh. Maybe we'll compare notes on our respective Starscreams sometime.

So why are you damaging your comm drone?

[dirge]

Unless yours is the one that removes his wing and uses it for a sword, I doubt there is much difference.

[Dirge has been through this before and he's found that variations on Starscreams are mostly in their looks. Except for a few rare exceptions.]

To get another one. My plan was to fix this one up later in secret so I could build up a little hoard of them. But the headlights mech said they had to be damaged beyond repair.

[Which is making him a very sad little clone. You can tell by the way his wings droop.]

Not only that, but I was told the spare parts aren't really worth anything either.

[notyourblueangel]

Unles-wait, what? Who the frag even does that?

[Congratulations, Dirge, you've completely thrown - and squicked - the old war veteran.]

. . . you've not been taking lessons from Swindle, have you?

[Only reason he can think of for wanting multiples of something, or things worth something - Dirge plans to try to sell them or whatever.]

[dirge]

He's the only one I know of. [Dirge is not pleased by the idea either.]

Swindle? A few, yes. He did not give me many. [Considering Dirge was pretty much created by Swindle, TC is a lot closer to the truth than he probably knows.]

[notyourblueangel]

[TC's just…gonna skip over the mental image of Starscream – ANY Starscream – pulling off his own…yeah, no. He snorts.]

Hmn, that explains a lot. So what do you intend to do with comm drones and parts?