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[For all you night owls out there, Vanguard decides that now (just five minutes past midnight in an abandoned house at the edge of HospiTown) is the perfect time to voice his displeasure.:]

As you are all my witness, there is nothing here, there's no such things as ghosts, and if this rickety old house comes crashing down on our heads, it's Bumblebee's fault.

[Bumblebee shines his flashlight back at Vanguard and the D-terminal with an amused smile, Vanguard gives an indignant scoff.]

I'm not scared. I'm annoyed

[Bumblebee laughs silently, patting Vanguard as he moves past. Vanguard murmurs irately and paws his impeccably groomed mane back into place. Ghosts may not exist, but Digimon ghost types certainly exist. Even the small ones are a pain to deal with, dispatched with a good fireball. But the higher level ones? Best to stay away from those altogether.]

Can we just go now?

[Bee sighs. Fine, they can head home, if that's what he wants. Of course, that's when the camera catches a glimpse of something: moonlight pouring in from a window flickers on the wall behind him, like a shadow dashing across the light. Floorboards in the distance give off a terrible groan, wood creaking under something's weight. The orb of light from Bumblebee's flashlight creeps down the long, dark corridor. The beam hardly penetrates the stifling darkness to reveal a room at the end of the hallway, its door half fallen off its hinges.]

[The D-terminal's camera starts to shake from unsteady hands. And as camera focuses, two slivers of light stare back at them. Soft mumbling carries down the hallway as the D-terminal's shaking intensifies.]

[Bumblebee, stricken more with curiosity and wariness than fear, takes a tentative step forward. Bewildered, Vanguard snatches Bumblebee's sleeve]

What're you doing-!?

[As if in response to the noise, the two slivers of eyes disappear into the dark. A voice that is neither Bumblebee's nor Vanguard's hisses vehemently right next to the D-terminal:]

-can't take it from me!

[The inhuman noise that comes from Vanguard is so panicked and high pitched, it's practically comical. His flailing knocks the flashlight from Bee's hand, and the D-Terminal goes sailing with it. Both hit the ground with a clatter.]

[The last thing the feed picks up is the sound of rapid footsteps in the dark. The feed cuts.]

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Were you forged being this good at driving bots crazy, or do you practice?

Over four million years of practice, little guy.

[That and Whirl was... maybe less of an asshole before certain things happened to him.

Maybe.]

Come back to my timeline so you can put that practice to good use. We'll plant you as a sleeper agent in the Decepticons. See how long it takes for the army to self destruct.

[There is just.

dead silence on Whirl's end now.]

[Whirl's replies are usually lightning-fast, each more provocative than the last. A long silence is... new. Maybe a little discomforting.]

You know I'm not serious, right?

[A snort.]

Even if you weren't, I'd probably just scrap them all in an hour.

[All the same... he may just avoid that kind of humor in the future.]

If only dealing with Cons were that easy.

It probably helps that I'm a flier.

[A beat.]

Normally, you know.

You're an aerialbot?

Whirl, when you're not busy busting my circuits, you're busy surprising me.

Oh yeah... Wheeljack said flying Autobots are frikking rare for you guys.

[He makes a sucking sound with his teeth before continuing.]

So I can see how that's surprising to a runt like you.

Rare. Try nonexistent. Save for some flight upgrades on Optimus, we're all grounded. Most of our Aerialbots and fliers were scattered even before we got to Earth.

Where I come from, if it's in the sky, it's probably a Con.

[Silence because, really. Did all of you guys go to Earth?

How fucked up is that.]

That sounds like it frikking sucked for all of you, especially if Earth for you guys was how it was for the 'bots who ended up there that I know went.

[YEAH GUESS WHO... never went to earth.]

Well, I can't say it was much fun, but we made due.

How it was for the other bots? What do you mean?

Horrible, judging by the frikking whining one guy in particular has done.

Aside from going toe to toe with Cons all the time, Earth wasn't actually too bad.

I liked it there. Humans are really interesting.

Ever played their video games?

[hahahahaha at the humans are interesting line.]

Nah, never ended up on Earth before I ended up here.

[He is classing this place as "Earth" ok.]

If you ever end up there, that's one of the first things you should do.

Also, you need to see their movies. Especially the terrible ones.

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Yeaaaaaaaaaaah. Probably not, we kinda slagged things up there.

[HAHAHAAHAHA he's only heard about how bad shit was on earth, so yeah.]

[Oh snap. This doesn't sound good. Whirl what did your bots do to your Earth.

[Slightly alarmed, here.]

Slagged things up...?

Yeah, slagged it up.

Dunno what happened exactly just know that it's probably another planet that hates us cause of our war.

[Now Whirl is laughing, because really... A LOT OF PLANETS HATE CYBERTRONIANS, they're blacklisted from the big space council because of their war. IT'S AWESOME.]

[Yeah uh. Cybertronians really don't have good luck with other planets. Let's not even talk about the one time the Autobots visited this one place where they assumed the Autobots were going to save them from civil war and they had to leave right in the middle of that and whoops-]

That's... a lot of collateral.

The war was chaotic enough with just 5 humans involved, let alone the whole planet.

Well I'm pretty sure we didn't slag the whole place up!

That and it's not like Earth will be the first planet to frikking blacklist Cybertronians, probably won't be the frikking last either.

[Whirl sounds like he doesn't give much of a care, even though the subject is pretty serious.]

I figured. But a lot of people must've been involved if the population, knows about and hates Cybertronians. We spent so much of our time and energy in our world trying to stay hidden.

The sooner this war is over the better.

[The war on Bee's side, at least. Since Whirl's is already over.]

[Silence on his end, although when he reads the part about getting the war over sooner being better?

Whirl is going to laugh, again.]

Should I even ask?

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