[Audio]

[gditsideswipe]

Okay, for the record?

Nothing happened a couple weeks ago. Nothing. No one saw anything. You got that? All of you?

[Sunstreaker, that was almost a month ago, no one even remembers you being turned into a cheerleader for Halloween. Except now they probably do. Good going, buddy.]

[He waits a moment or two, like he's expecting a response...]

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[sn1perseye]

[The last time that Perceptor had seen Sunstreaker had been just before he'd taken aim at the explosive charges that Kup had laid upon the bridge. And then there had been a sharp pain at his throat, then delerious darkness.]

[It had been later that they had explained that Sunstreaker had died doing Perceptor's job.]

Sunstreaker?

[gditsideswipe]

What?

[A beat.]

Oh. You're back. Too late, apartment's mine now, so... guess you're out of luck.

[sn1perseye]

What apartment?

[He has the feeling that he will quickly grow tired of the whole, "you're back" phenomena.]

[gditsideswipe]

... And there's the memory loss. Great.

Doesn't matter. It's mine, anyway.

[ops_meister]

[Keep a straight face Jazz. Keep a straight face.]

No one saw what?

[gditsideswipe]

Exactly.

[ops_meister]

[Oh but he did see something and he can't help but chuckle.]

How's the apartment? You seemed... pretty excited about it.

[gditsideswipe]

It's fine.

... I don't want to talk about that.

[phobiaphob]

Don't mention a couple of weeks ago!! None of it happened! None of it!

[Yeah... Warp is still not coming to terms with the fact that he ate random bots and tried to eat a Prime.]

[gditsideswipe]

... That's kind of the point.

[phobiaphob]

Y-you're the one who brought it up and I'm sure you're night was not nearly as bad as mine!

[gditsideswipe]

You'll never know, will you?

I'm not talking about it, and you don't want to. So. There you go.

[Video]

[rednotyellow]

Ya know, Sunstreaker, when you say that... [Cliffjumper trails off and smirks.]

So what did happen? Ate somethin' ya shouldn't? Or did you insult one of the little trick or treaters?

[Okay, his own brush with the Halloween goings-on hadn't exactly been fun, but nothing to get all anrgy about, either. From Sunstreaker's behaviour, though, something a lot more... damaging to his pride had probably happened.]

[Video]

[gditsideswipe]

[Oh if this were in person, Sunstreaker would just haul off and deck Cliffjumper right then and there.]

None of your business.

[Video]

[rednotyellow]

[Well, lucky this isn't in person, then! So irritable, Sunstreaker.]

Uh-huh. Ya know, when ypu go 'round proclaimin' that nothing happened, that's makin' it everyone else's business.

[Yeah, you don't scare him. Have another grin.]

[Video]

[gditsideswipe]

[Isn't he always?]

No, that's their cue to wipe it out of their memory banks. You included.

[roninknight]

[Drift thinks he remembers the voice. The last time he'd heard it, it was a little more tense, uncertain. But he's here and not, apparently, under the weight of whatever had made him seek redemption through sacrifice.]

I never got to thank you.

[gditsideswipe]

...

Come again?

Because, see, when you and Perceptor ran off -- and left me homeless, by the way -- I didn't get the impression you wanted to 'thank me' for anything.

[roninknight]

...homeless?

I'm sorry, Sunstreaker. I don't understand.

[gditsideswipe]

You left.

I was homeless. How hard is that to understand?