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[doc_ratchet]

Ratchet glances up curiously when the lights in the Medbay seem to dim suddenly. Hmm. Either Metroplex has an undiagnosed power fluxuation problem, or... Or they may have a bit of an unseen visitor popping in again

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[midnightspook]

Before Starscream can answer that, another channel, encrypted in a whole Other manner, pops open to the Decepticon Air Commander.

// Starscream, all done at that Castle Destro place. Got something for you, boss. Couple somethings, actually. //

Blackstar sounds very smug, and rather pleased with himself.

[attair_al_fada]

Starscream's head tilts slightly, in that 'listening' attitude of someone receiving a comm. He smirks.

//Excellent! I don't suppose any of those things were Spike, were they? Or any sign of him?//

The red and blue Seeker looked at Ratchet oddly for a moment. // Local idiom, I hope? If it means, 'Red is so far over enemy territory with an empty fuel tank that he's willing to call in me to consult and advise', yes, he is. Frostbite as well. Might want to hit her up for the details--too much of it is human-oriented intell. Not my area, unless you're talking about Cobra's senior hierarchy. //

[midnightspook]

// Unfortunately, no. Not there. No guarantee there's no mention of him on the computers and security logs I snagged, but no obvious sign of him there. That Dr. Mindbender, guy, however, is a different story. Not sure how long he'll be sticking around there, since I had to get just a bit flashy with the destroying of surveillance footage so that no one could go back and see stuff just vanishing into thin air... but I just left there and he was slagging near stasis locked, he was recharging so deep. //

[doc_ratchet]

x// Local idiom, // Ratchet agrees, noting the 'listening' pose with a flicker of curiosity. // And that's just about the gist of it, too. I'll talk to Frostbite. You talk to Jetstorm. //

And Ratchet is surprised. Starscream is no fool; he, of anyone, would be able to tell if he was being humored and led along. If Red Alert and Frostbite are actually working with Starscream...

Things are quite serious, indeed.

[attair_al_fada]

Starscream nods. // I'll do that. //

//Blackstar, well done! I'm going to be heavily involved with Jetstorm here for a while--it's a critical point in the rebuild and I can't just run off, not even to blow Castle Destro and Dr. Mindbender to dripping slag! Meet me in Skyfire's quarters in about eight hours for debriefing on the stuff you're not sharing with Frostbite? As for what you are sharing with Frostbite, I'll give her a head's up that you finished your recon and didn't find Spike there. Starscream opens another encrypted channel, this one to Frostbite. // Frostbite... Blackstar completed his reconnaissance of Castle Destro. Negative on Spike; he didn't find your missing Ambassador

[attair_al_fada]

(( Starscream wanders off to here ))

[midnightspook]

// Got it. Eight hours. I'll go report in. //

Now all he has to do is report in to Frostbite.

[doc_ratchet]

"She's been around," Ratchet observes as Starscream wanders off to talk to Jetstorm. "I'll track her down."

Of course, that depends entirely on if the priestess happens to be here, rather than in the Nexus, or back at her sanctuary. If she doesn't answer a comm call, Ratchet's going to have to send one of the twins out looking. Hopefully, with as close as the transfer has been looming, she isn't that far.

// Auspex, your presence would be appreciated in the Medbay. Looks like we're getting ready to start on the transfers Real Soon Now. //

[primus_seeress]

*Auspex's reply is immediate. Her voice conveys supressed excitement* //Ah, good! I'll be there right away. Thank you, Ratchet.//

*And, sure enough, she is there in only a few minutes, having extricated herself from a conversation with a random mech (actually, vice versa, and she knows it, but it comes with the job sometimes...). Her optics are very bright, and she is almost fidgety, compared to her usual quiet demeanor. She nods in greeting, somewhat less placidly than normal.*

[doc_ratchet]

"Good affternoon, Auspex. Starscream's off grilling Jetstorm," Ratchet greets her, nodding towards Jetstorm's room. It ceased being a "cell" in Ratchet's CPU some time ago, in favor of just being the chaos-jet's "room".

"Not sure if you want to go listen in on that. Probably make more sense to you than me, anyway."

[primus_seeress]

I... probably should. This situation with their sparks needs to be discussed first. *she wanders toward the isoward cells*

[attair_al_fada]

(( cf. here. ))

Starscream saunters back out of Jetstorm's cell. He considers it a hermit's cell, rather than a prison cell, for that matter. Jetstorm certainly is a hermit.

"Fireflight will be the first. Jetstorm should be bringing him out presently," Starscream tells Ratchet.

[blackwingdove]

After a few quiet moments of conversation with Auspex, Jetstorm steps out of his cell.

"We're ready."

[doc_ratchet]

((OOC: continued here))