...just, slag.

[giri_guy]

So... not all of the visions Unicron showed me were just possibilities.

None of the Autobots have said anything about it... I guess I'm kinda waiting for it to occur to someone. That... that thing could have been me. How close did I come

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[apprentice_lurk]

HEADS. Talking heads! What is it with this lot and heads?! *voice is rather more shrill than usual*

[apprentice_lurk]

*is quiet for a long time, engine ticking over in worried little hiccups and clinging*

[giri_guy]

*holds her as long as she needs to be held, soft engine-rumbles*

[chaos_gunner]

*annoyed at being suddenly ignored, ducks through Rodimus's window and lets himself in* What's - oh. Dreadboots?!

*looks on in some surprise at the sight of his 3IC's apprentice clinging to the Prime*

[cynic_cassette]

*follows a moment later, having lost track of Dreadboots earlier, and looks momentarily surprised to see Galvatron there as well*

[giri_guy]

*still enginepurring* D'you mind? We're kinda dealing with a crisis here.

[chaos_gunner]

Credit me with at least SOME grasp of the situation, Rodimus! I might even be willing to help if you ask me nicely enough.

*comes closer* And beside's, she's a Unicronian - I have every right to intervene if I see fit! *looks at 'Boots, but doesn't actually move to take her away from Rodimus*

[giri_guy]

*flicker of a smile* I know... I'm open to suggestions.

Apparently the Void has some really freaky followers. *decides not to tell him about other-world Cyclonus*

[apprentice_lurk]

*at the sound of Galvatron's voice, 'Boots almost leaps out of her plating - twisting around, still hanging tightly onto Rodimus, she stares at the Decepticon leader as though she's seen a ghost. Wide optics flicker from his face to his neck and back again, as though for a moment she doesn't quite dare believe what she's seeing*

[chaos_gunner]

*swift step forward, fierce smile* What's the matter, Commodore? Don't you know your Lord when he stands before you? *not angry, more teasing*

[apprentice_lurk]

*gulps, still staring at him, bright and brilliant and fey and dangerous against the image in her head, and the comparison alone is enough to make her shake* You- Y-

*...oh, she'll probably get shot for this, but it'd be more than worth it.*

*arms tighten around Roddy briefly, gratefully, then shifts half out of his hold to very, very tentatively touch her fingertips to Galvatron's left side, laying the tip of her helm lightly against his shoulder* *muffled* Know you, know that wasn't you, know he'd never beat you in a million years...

[chaos_gunner]

*it's probably as close as you've ever been to him and his aura sluices over you, glittering fractured multicoloured dazzling heat and light that stings your sensors and makes your armour heat up perceptibly where your plating touches his*

*and it's definitely him, untouchable, unbreakable as ever, large as life and at least twice as unpredictable which is probably why he doesn't shoot or shove you away, but instead wraps a powerful arm around your back, under your wings, and hugs you hard enough that you feel your internal struts creak*

Of course it's me! Nobody's beaten me, what in the universe are you talking about?!

[apprentice_lurk]

*has never even considered getting this close, let alone actually coming into contact with him, and at first thinks it's the shock of not getting blasted into bits or yelled at that sets her sensors ablaze*

*intakes wheeze under the pressure, but she wouldn't swap it for the world; the arm at his side shifts and she's clinging onto him almost before she realises she's moved, face buried against his chest despite the heat and her sensors fritzing terrifying-comforting*

*can't answer for a moment* ...Void. He had- Your alternate, he- *pulls self together* Void had his head in his pocket. I don't know how he managed it...

[chaos_gunner]

*other hand - the right hand, the gun hand - comes up to cradle the back of your head as you cling, almost petting you* *this close, you're blinded and half-stunned by the sheer amount of random high-freq radiation that spills through his plating, but in your current form you're built to withstand it, so it won't do any permanent harm*

Clearly that version of me was inferior to the genuine article, then! *laughs* *looks across your head at Rodimus, with an evil sparkle in one optic* Or is Void just a lot better than you are, Prime?

[giri_guy]

*that surprises a laugh from him* In his wildest dreams. *sits back, watching with relief and a strange kind of pride the Unicronians' communion. This is the way things ought to be.*

[apprentice_lurk]

*arm tightens around Roddy as he sits back, 'Boots turning her head as though to look for him - though her sensors are more or less snow-blind with the sheer amount of light-heat-power Galvatron is giving off, there's still a flicker of panic on her face as Roddy moves away. Don't-!*