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[auto_enthusiast]

[Someone has been very careful in setting up and activating his PORTAL, so that the feed he's broadcasting right now is limited. Visible on the screen is part of a workbench, a sheet of gleaming metal-- and a pair of equally gleaming metal hands working with the sheet. One has the raw metal braced and the other moves in short methodical jerks

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voice;

[savior_n_black]

Heh, well at least you fixed it pretty easy?

...But, um. Yeah. People vanish a lot.

voice;

[auto_enthusiast]

Oh, it's not fixed yet. [Don't mind that fleeting touch of annoyance in his voice. He's got it under control, really.] But I'm getting there~.

...Hm. Why?

voice;

[savior_n_black]

Yeah, but you're looking better already, right?

[ Smug voice of smugness. Ichigo only has some bruising left around his shoulders, which his t-shirt cover handily. ]

We don't know why people disappear, but they do. They get sent home, you see.
My friends Heine, and Blaine-san, Ezio, and Kanji all went home.

....Why, did you lose someone?

voice;

[auto_enthusiast]

Oh, I'll be assembly-line cherry soon enough, don't you worry. [And thank Primus for that. He was getting tired of driving around with scuffs in his plating.]

Lose someone? Heh. No, the only person I have here to lose is Starscream, and I-- Well, far be it from me to say unkind things about a superior officer~.

No, I'm just...curious. I'd been under the impression that this little incarceration was meant to be permanent.

[no transmission]

[notglitching]

[He doesn't respond. Yet. But he is watching this.

That's not yours.]

[no transmission]

[auto_enthusiast]

[Knock Out would beg to differ were the objection made known, but since it's not he's going to keep playing with it obliviously, oh yes.]

Video || Text

[lovesskeeball]

[Yep, he gets a combination of having a video of the young woman he shares a house with and lives next door and a text. She seems to be in a field somewhere and not at all surprised by his appearance.]

It really is satisfying to make something with your own hands. What are you working on?

Video

[auto_enthusiast]

[There is a chance that he recognizes her as a housemate! ...But admittedly not a very good one. He doesn't pay much attention to the organic-shaped beings around him unless they give him a compelling reason. He's kind of a jerk like that; it's a Decepticon thing.]

Oh, this little thing? This is just a replacement for something of mine that was broken~.

Video || Text

[lovesskeeball]

[Well they haven't exactly spoken and it's not like either of them need to hang around the kitchen and have a chat over coffee or tea so she really isn't surprised that he may not recognize her. He's not all that hard to miss though.]

Is the workshop yours from back home?

Video

[auto_enthusiast]

[Especially not after the tantrum he was very likely to have thrown in his room after Ichigo banged him up so badly. That was probably pretty noticeable.]

Mm, if only. I'd kill a mech to have a clinic this nice back where it matters.

[....He means that, too.]

video

[elegant_claws]

[Starscream's face appears on the screen. Good thing its day, otherwise he wouldn't have answered. Now that he knows about it he's staying as far away as he can from this TENEKA nonsense.]

I always knew you were just a chop shop jockey.

[He sneers, eyeing KO's new surroundings. Looks like someone found their 'place of solace'.]

What makes you think I'm not already functioning at optimum levels?

video

[auto_enthusiast]

You wouldn't be so quick to dismiss me if you saw the rest of this place, Starscream~.

[This may be a chop shop here in the back, but the medbay is beautiful, really.

He picks up the PORTAL, specifically to make sure Starscream can see his oh-so-sardonically arched orbital ridge.]

I can hear your ailerons squealing every time you happen to pass overhead.

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[elegant_claws]

I'm sure you'd manage to prove yourself incompetent in another way.

[He growls at the comment about his ailerons.] Like I would be going slow enough for you to even hear them. But I suppose I could deign to come inspect your new workspace.

[Translation: 'I'm bored out of my processor.']

video

[auto_enthusiast]

Oh commander, you honor lowly little me. [The sarcasm is as strong with this one as it always is.] I'll be sure to tidy everything up just for you, I promise. I'll even mop the floors so your dainty feet don't have to come into contact with any terrestrial filth~.

[If it'll get him down here, then good. Under all the mockery, he's got something he wants to talk about and he doesn't want to do it over the network.]

video

[auto_enthusiast]

Hm, is that so? News to me. [But he files it away anyway, because any info about this bizarre place is good info, at this point.

His hands pause and out of the frame of the video, he frowns.] Who said anything about damages?

video

[auto_enthusiast]

[This may be video, but Knock Out's not actually watching his screen-- in fact, he's picked up his sawblade and is fiddling with it, his attention focused on the newly shaped metal.]

Given that my conversations thus far have been almost entirely audio, I have to say I'm impressed. Are you listening in on me, stranger? Transcribing my conversations, maybe~?

[Though he makes his tone light and teasing, there's a hard edge to it-- surveillance may have been part and parcel of serving on the Nemesis with Soundwave hanging around, but this is not the Nemesis and he's fond of his privacy.]