Friends and enemies
Enemies? Pit yes, I’ve got enemies. It kind of comes with being an Autobot-as soon aa you have that insignia on you, you’re pretty much a target for any Decepticons that you run across. The entire Decepticon army is my enemy, because they’re trying to kill me and the rest of the Ark-not to mention the entire human population of Earth, half the time. You’d think they’d get sick of that eventually, but it’s always the same thing. Attempt to destroy the Autobots, attempt to destroy the humans, attempt to enslave the humans, attempt to blow up the whole slagging planet…it’s kind of nice that it’s gotten to the point where we can pretty much bet on what the plan of the week will be, just because Megatron keeps using the same basic ideas, but at the same time, it’s pretty annoying. After we’ve managed to beat him again, week after week for the twenty years we’ve been online here, you’d think he’d just give it up. I mean, twenty years isn’t really a long time at all for a Transformer, but you’d think it’d still be enough time for him to get a hint. And then the whole war thing could be called off, which would be a lot better for everybody, I think, mainly because nobody would be getting shot and killed and..well, peace is nice. Anyway…keeping friends close and enemies closer? Nah, I don’t believe that. I want to keep my friends closer-yeah, we get in trouble together and sometimes nearly blow each other up accidently (note to self: never, ever help Wheeljack test mousetraps again, because blown off door panels hurt, plus I don’t think ratchet really wanted to see me after I had to keep telling him that Prowl’s CPU had crashed again) and squabble and stuff, but they’re still my friends, and I trust them. Which is a lot more than I can say for any Decepticon; keeping them close would probably end up with me dead or in need of some major repairs. Probably dead, because they are Decepticons and saying that they don’t like Autobots is kind of a really, really big understatement. Keeping your enemies close is a really bad idea, in my book. Keep everybody you trust close to you-that way you have backup when you have to fight with your enemies, right? Plus they’re fun to have around-life’s pretty boring without friends, I think. As for my amount of friends compared to enemies…I guess it kind of depends. Are we talking about enemies just here on Earth, or enemies that are still enemies but I’ll probably never have to fight them if they don’t leave Cybertron? Because that’s kind of important when you’re doing the whole counting thing. On Earth, I think my friends might outnumber the Decepticons by just a little. Not by too much, because they’re an army so there’s a lot of them, but still, I think I know more people who’re my friends than people who’re my enemies. Which is kind of nice, because even though I’d really prefer it if I didn’t have any enemies in general, having more friends than enemies is the best thing next to that, and I’m grateful to have them. But if we’re talking about enemies on the whole, then my friends are really outnumbered, because there’s still all the Decepticons on Cybertron that’d probably gladly try to shoot me if they saw me. So I guess it’s a good thing that they’re still on Cybertron and haven’t decided to use the spacebridge to invade or anything, because I think I’ve got enough enemies here and I really don’t want even more to show up. And speaking of friends…I think I better move that fake bantha for Sideswipe again, because I think Red Alert’s getting suspicious and is about to run a paranoia patrol in my quarters. Speaking of people getting sick of things they constantly do with no results-you’d think Red would get sick of doing patrols that he doesn’t find anything on-well, usually, but I still don’t think fireworks are any big deal-but nope, he just keeps doing them. I guess I should give him points for being really, really determined. Hm.