Day Three

[not_toothfairy]

[OOM: " WASSERMAN!!It's the third and final day of Cubefall. By now, most everybody who comes to the Bar regularly probably knows about it. Still, new people turn up all the time- and after the other day, well, Ironhide's sort of curious whether humans really find the holiday as disturbing and alien as all that. Thus he's taken it upon himself to

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[flail_victoria]

A small grey kitten climbed up onto the table and mewed at the Autobot.

[not_toothfairy]

Ironhide glances down at the fuzzball. Had he eyebrows, one might possibly go up.

He is not a mech particularly given to interest in small organic life. Ask the Witwickys.

[flail_victoria]

Well, she is a kitten after all. She rubbed her little head against his hand. Mew.

[not_toothfairy]

That doesn't really help. Ironhide's hand jerks back reflexively. Lissar's dogs are one thing, but they're Lissar's. He does not put up with other people's animals.

"Keep moving, you."

[director_global]

He's moving slowly about the room, examining the details of things with every sign of great interest.

Stark pauses by the booth and reads the sign, then focuses on Ironhide.

"Happy Cubefall to you too." A beat. "That is the proper greeting, I assume?"

[not_toothfairy]

"Yup," says Ironhide. "Least it was in my part of Cybertron. This your first one in the Bar?"

(Not that Bar's marked it more than once before this, but still.)

[director_global]

"My first one anywhere; especially here."

He doesn't have the features with which to smile, and the machine-generated voice isn't quite human, of course, but he manages to convey a sense of pleasure anyway.

"I'm glad, though. I wouldn't have missed this for anything."

[not_toothfairy]

"That makes two of us."

This, folks, is as close as Ironhide gets to sentimentality.

"Don't think I know you. Name's Ironhide."

[ostro_goth]

There is a golden eagle that lands nearby.

"Thank you!"

[not_toothfairy]

"You're welcome," says Ironhide. "Lemme guess. Human taking a break for the holiday?"

[ostro_goth]

"Yes!" it says. "And it is a very good thing to have, and a good change to make for a while. I may fly now, for three days, freer than ever before!"

Pause.

"And I would thank you for it!"

[not_toothfairy]

"I figured that the first time," says Ironhide dryly. "Lot of humans going for different organic modes, it looks like. You tried out all the functions yet? That one's a predator, if it's anything like the birds with that beak shape near Autobase."

[lissla_lissar]

"Oh, dear."

Lissar settles down next to him, "You, to answer questions? I hear the sound of Fate, and she is tempted."

[not_toothfairy]

"Optimus's busy. I got here before Bumblebee." Ironhide shrugs. "Means it's up to me. It's been all right so far, when I didn't have little gray blobs of fuzz bumping into me. How're you doing?"

[lissla_lissar]

"Glad for a bit of rest." she admits with a tiny, huffed laugh, "Things are very busy, of late. Gray blobs of fuzz?"

[not_toothfairy]

"Some kind of animal that wasn't a dog," says Ironhide with a shrug. "It squeaked."

That's about as specific as he's likely to be able to get. He's still not very good with distinguishing organics other than a handful of species.

[val_von_doom]

Val notes the sign with the apparent Cybertronian and is thrilled with the chance to meet another one. She stops by Bar to get a couple of Energon cubes (which she discovered last night) and makes her way over.

Offering one cube to the Autobot she says, "Hi, I'm Val. May I join you?"

[not_toothfairy]

"Sure thing," says Ironhide, nodding towards the nearest empty seat. "Name's Ironhide. First Cubefall in the Bar?"

[val_von_doom]

Val takes the seat and says, "Yes and I love it! I am so glad my uncle suggested I try it out. I hadn't met any of you Cybertronians before so I had no idea what to expect. This body Bar gave me as an option is incredible!"

[not_toothfairy]

Ironhide smiles, which is to say that a few plates of his face shift a little bit. He really wasn't built for that kind of facial expression. "Doesn't matter which universe you're in," he says, "the engineering on Cybertron's gonna come out impressive."