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[babbletechno]

[Heatwave's first post opens with him talking excitedly and very fast, as though worried that if he doesn't blurt this out immediately he'll forget it. He keeps alternating between clipped briefness like he's trying to give a mission report and...well...babbling.]

[So it's like he's trying to give a really bad mission report.]

I remember how I got

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[Cybertronian Encryption //Audio]

[pretendernoia]

[Well this was an interesting theory to hear while combing through the device for information. This really would take someone like Perceptor and Wheeljack to figure ou-

Wait a minute...did he really just say? Did that Blitz mean what he thinks it means?]

What do you mean it was the Autobots?

[That was a bit high pitch at the end there, but it's deserved because he was talking to a Decepticon.]

[Cybertronian Encryption //Audio]

[babbletechno]

[Oh, right. He never told you his allegiance, did he?]

[Heatwave doesn't sound very concerned about this as he nods an affirmation Red Alert can't see. Not near enough concerned, oh Heatwave.]

Yes. I am a Decepticon. The Autobots aren't good mechs in my world.

[Cybertronian Encryption //Audio]

[pretendernoia]

[No, no you did not. Which would have at least showed Heatwave to avoid this particular Cybertronian with everything he has.]

I..you...you didn't think that was important to know!?

I gave intel to someone that might want to kill me. I showed weakness to you. Oh Primu--

[The number you are attempting to dial is currently fumbling and barricading himself into his closet. Please hang up and try again when he's high on tranquilizers.]

[Cybertronian Encryption //Audio]

[babbletechno]

Why-

[And then Red's signal falls off the network. Heatwave pauses, hesitates, then tentatively tries to re-establish a connection whether Red's comm wants it or not. He understands being afraid of the enemy, but Heatwave's not and he can't leave Red Alert panicking somewhere.]

Hey. Come on. You have me outnumbered anyway, right? I'm not going to hurt anyone.

[Cybertronian Encryption //Audio]

[pretendernoia]

[There's shuffling and a few small thuds before a muffled voice finally answers back.]

That's what Starscream tried to make me believe as well, and at least he did it when I was damaged and glitching and...you allowed me to assume we were of the same faction!

An error on my part, don't ever trust anything being said. The fewer links the less there is for them to exploit--

[That tangent ends up being indecipherable as he both moves farther away from his communicator and starts to mumble. That breathing and talking thing is still trumping him at times like this.]

[Cybertronian Encryption //Audio]

[babbletechno]

It's all-

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[sigh]

All right.

[HE'S GETTING RATCHET. Maybe you'll listen to an Autobot.]

[Cybertronian Encryption //Audio]

[pretendernoia]

[Good luck with that. Sorry Communicator but you are a distraction and a temptation you're being temporarily being hidden so as not to be used to track him down.

Ratchet has to find him first.]