Second Offense [Accidental Audio, Open]

[namesnotprowl]

[Barricade's been absent from the network since the end of his last conversation with Skywarp. He's also been conspicuously absent physically, if anyone had cared to go looking for him. But now he's back... sort of

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[brbhatingumoar]

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

[seriously hunting for you has not been fun B|]

[namesnotprowl]

[His flail eventually grinds to a halt in time for him to hear that... and realize that he's been broadcasting.
Oops.

Worse, he's been absent. That's... not good.]

... Taking care of something. Why, you been lookin' for me?

[brbhatingumoar]

[Yes. Yes he has and now he's mad B|]

WHERE. ARE. YOU.

[And yes he's yelling at you. You are getting a very angry owlface.]

[namesnotprowl]

[He's going to take that as a yes. And he isn't sure he has an explanation that would suffice without making him look pathetic. Slag.]

... Sending coords.

[Have an otherwise abandoned building location in Zone 6. He's sowwy ::(]

[brbhatingumoar]

[Yeah he's coming, and he's going to punch your face in.]

EN ROUTE.

[namesnotprowl]

[After all of his fighting? Okaaay. Just let him get his sad out of the way first.]

I'll be here. [... climbing off the mech I just offlined.]

[action?]

[brbhatingumoar]

[Bonecrusher wont take long to get there. In fact, he's moving a lot quicker than normal, and get's there in record speed.

And he's also pulling himself us even before he's pulled to a complete stop and he's.]

WHAT WERE Y'THINKIN'?!

[action!]

[namesnotprowl]

[Barricade overestimated how long it would take Bonecrusher to get there - given that he calculated it from the mech's average speed in both modes, the physics dork. Which means that he's most likely to be found bent over a pile of parts that used to be a Tyran, one hand pressed to about half of his face. Scattered in the rest of the room is what's left of two or three other mechs. Barricade himself looks like a mess, for him - scorches and gouges and melted areas of armor.

Needless to say, he's startled, and it shows - he actually flinches, wings jolting forward slightly. Composure. Composure. Composure. No. Not today, apparently.]

I thought... I'd found him.

[action!]

[brbhatingumoar]

[Bonecrusher maxed his speed out on the journey this time - he didn't have terribly far to go but it was long enough for him to get increasingly angry for reasons he's not terribly sure about.

When he looms over a startled Barricade, his hands twist into fists and it takes everything in him to NOT leap and END HIM.]

FOUND. WHO.

[action!]

[namesnotprowl]

[Barricade can feel Bonecrusher looming over him and he hates it but he's just... waiting for the pummelling that's he's sure is coming.

Especially when he admits to who he'd been looking for. He knows it's stupid and pathetic and psychotic that he keeps trying but he can't help it.]

... Frenzy. Thought I'd found Frenzy.

[action!]

[brbhatingumoar]

SO...YOU LEFT. Y'THOUGHT Y'HEARD HIM, AND YOU JUST UP AND...LEFT?!

[Bonecrusher's more than angry. He's trying to contain a livid, boiling kind of rage that hasn't surfaced in a while, and it takes everything in him to keep that under the surface. Some of it manages to come out, and he slams a fist into a nearby building.]

[action!]

[namesnotprowl]

Yes. Yes, I did. I tracked signals on the network that I thought was him, for two days. They led me here to... to this.

[He waves a hand at the parts and the reverse-engineered comms.]

What would you've had me do? Abandon him?!

[action!]

[brbhatingumoar]

[Keep it in control. Keep it together.

He can't. He just...

Can't.]

SO Y'ABANDONED ME INSTEAD?! TWO DAYS. TWO DAYS, Y'DIDN'T ANSWER.

[Dentals grind, and his entire frame starts shaking.]

NEVER SHOULD'VE TRUSTED YOU--!

[action!]

[namesnotprowl]

[He can't handle this. He hadn't chased this for two days, he'd chased it for two years, and finding what he did, he'd just snapped. And now he's hurting in ways that he can't explain to the average mech, let alone Bonecrusher, and he's... being accused of being untrustworthy.

Some other time, he might not have cared. Instead he whirls on the larger mech, sadness and pain and anger open and obvious on his blackened facial plating, flaring his armor out like a cat fluffing up its fur, and gives him a shove.]

You don't get it. I knew y'could take care of yourself for a little while, while I was looking, but him... I left him, for one day, and look what happened!

And when have I not come back, huh? When?! What, d'you think I'd just... run off and leave?!

[action!]

[brbhatingumoar]

[Bonecrusher can't handle this either and the fact that Barricade actually turns and shoves him. Bonecrusher retaliates immediately and lets the fist he's made fly towards Barricade's chassis.]

NO, NO MAYBE I DON'T GET IT! WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED T'DO IF I NEEDED YOU, HUH? JUST SIT AROUND 'N WAIT TIL Y'GOT BACK? IF Y'GOT BACK?

[He snorts, optics flaring in rage.]

Y'DIDN'T LEAVE HIM, HE WENT AFTER THE ORGANICS LIKE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO, YER BEIN' STUPID!

AN' YEAH, Y'PROBABLY WOULD RUN OFF 'N LEAVE IF IT WAS FOR HIM! 'S A MATTER OF FACT, I THINK I'M GONNA JUST GO AHEAD 'D DO THE LEAVING!

[With that, he turns to stomp off.]

[action!]

[namesnotprowl]

[Barricade manages to shift enough that the punch connects with the side of his chassis that isn't hollowed out into a compartment, though the compartment side squeals indignantly. His firelizard has been hiding in there and Does Not Approve of this D:]

I was gonna come back, slag you!

[His own optics flare, more with hurt than anger.]

I should have gone back for him!

No, no I wouldn't have! I wouldn't've left!

[When Bonecrusher turns, though, Barricade is faced with the realization that he'll be alone again. Not the pragmatic realization that he'll be homeless, which wouldn't have bothered him. Truly alone. His voice raises to practically a bellow, cracking halfway through his next sentence.]

DON'T YOU DARE WALK AWAY!