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Ravage drives them out of the Plaza and up to the gate, which is being guarded by Clobber and Garboil--a deep green warmech with a single optic, and a cobalt blue condorlight, the same frametype as Laserbeak and Buzzsaw. She transforms, grabbing one boombox with each hand, and sets them down on the ground.
"At ease, you two," Ravage says. "Blaster's come up for a visit. He's not the Blaster from our universe."
Clobber relaxes visibly.
Ravage turns to Blaster. "Welcome," she says. "You're now in sovereign Destron territory, but you're welcome to spend the afternoon with us here."
They might be calling it an Embassy, but it qualifies as a good-sized base. However, there are some public buildings just outside the gate--it looks like they're building an inn or an oilhouse or something like that, and there's also a public office and a small library. Inside the gate, there are several residences surrounding the central building. There are also civilians inside the gate, including some juveniles, and a juvenile humanoid organic with purple skin. There's a scratching noise inside Soundwave's chest and he laughs. "Viridian, eject," he says, and she does, leaping down to go and join some of the other younger residents.
Soundwave turns to Blaster. "Well," he says, "if we're trying to make friends then I'd hope you wouldn't harm my cassettes, but most of them have other alt-modes now. To be quite honest, I was thinking of retiring the deck, but Viridian likes to rest in there. And Rosanna's a pop star, a singer; you'll like her. But we'll talk inside."
There is a throne room in the main hall of the main building, but beyond it, their private residence is modest, although they don't have to fetch their own energon--a bot who looks like a sanitation model brings the cubes, and a plate full of elaborate gelled energon treats.
"Thanks, Suckerpunch." Ravage grins and dismisses the other bot. "You have to try these gel pastilles, Soundwave makes them himself. He's been spoiling me for the past four million years."
Ravage drives them out of the Plaza and up to the gate, which is being guarded by Clobber and Garboil--a deep green warmech with a single optic, and a cobalt blue condorlight, the same frametype as Laserbeak and Buzzsaw. She transforms, grabbing one boombox with each hand, and sets them down on the ground.
"At ease, you two," Ravage says. "Blaster's come up for a visit. He's not the Blaster from our universe."
Clobber relaxes visibly.
Ravage turns to Blaster. "Welcome," she says. "You're now in sovereign Destron territory, but you're welcome to spend the afternoon with us here."
They might be calling it an Embassy, but it qualifies as a good-sized base. However, there are some public buildings just outside the gate--it looks like they're building an inn or an oilhouse or something like that, and there's also a public office and a small library. Inside the gate, there are several residences surrounding the central building. There are also civilians inside the gate, including some juveniles, and a juvenile humanoid organic with purple skin. There's a scratching noise inside Soundwave's chest and he laughs. "Viridian, eject," he says, and she does, leaping down to go and join some of the other younger residents.
Soundwave turns to Blaster. "Well," he says, "if we're trying to make friends then I'd hope you wouldn't harm my cassettes, but most of them have other alt-modes now. To be quite honest, I was thinking of retiring the deck, but Viridian likes to rest in there. And Rosanna's a pop star, a singer; you'll like her. But we'll talk inside."
There is a throne room in the main hall of the main building, but beyond it, their private residence is modest, although they don't have to fetch their own energon--a bot who looks like a sanitation model brings the cubes, and a plate full of elaborate gelled energon treats.
"Thanks, Suckerpunch." Ravage grins and dismisses the other bot. "You have to try these gel pastilles, Soundwave makes them himself. He's been spoiling me for the past four million years."
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Date: 2021-08-17 23:02 (UTC)"I'm still not sure what to think of that, since mine is really a moron. Though I really wonder how much of that he plays up to try to weasel to Megatron's side."
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Date: 2021-08-18 11:20 (UTC)Ravage chuckled. "That would be a good revenge," she said, shaking her head. "Megatron's a better mech than he's ever been before but he certainly put us all through some misery and he owes us for having to clean up his mess!" She shrugged. "Starscream...in our universe...well, he used to be an aft and frankly he still is. But after Megatron abdicated and Soundwave and I became conjunx endurae, and he became ruler of Cybertron...a lot of things changed between me and him, because none of the things he and I had been rivals for mattered to either of us any more, and he started supporting me. Against Prime, and Fort Max, in particular. He helped me out in a few tough situations when I wasn't at all expecting him to. It was absolutely beneficial to him to do so, mind you, but that's still a huge improvement--he used to be willing to cut off his own nose to spite his face when it came to old grudges. I'd say more about that over a glass of high-grade sometime, but...not right now. It's not late enough and I'm not tipsy enough to discuss all that."
She looked sidewise at her daughter and Silverwing. There was a lot they didn't need to know about the previous relationships between herself, and Megatron, and Starscream. She wasn't trying to hide it and she'd answer any questions honestly if they heard something about it, but...it wasn't a thing she was going to bring up. Not after the difficult conversation they'd already had to have about Optimus Prime.
Viridian snorted.
Ravage leaned over to stroke her daughter's ears.
"You're right of course," Silverwing finally said. "But I do trust you. I do because Soundwave does. And he'd know. It's true that Ravage enjoys beating aft more than Soundwave does, but Soundwave knows just about everything, especially about people."
A faint energon flush bloomed over the derma of Soundwave's cheeks, and since they'd been eating snacks, Blaster and everyone else there could see it. "I do work very hard at that," Soundwave said, "but I don't violate people's privacy if I can avoid it, Silverwing. And...neither should you, Viridian." He knew his daughter had been eavesdropping on her mother's thoughts.
Viridian laughed softly.
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Date: 2021-08-25 09:36 (UTC)"Noted, I'll be sure to ask you when the time is better, and when there are not young ones around, so we would not have to keep things clean word wise."
Blaster laughed a little at Silverwing's words. It wasn't a cruel laugh, just a small outburst. His Soundwave only knew as much as he did because of his cassettes, he had a feeling that this one was the same way to some extent, but wasn't going to say it. "He is a better judge of character than the one on my world at least."