shitposting rave 5: discount rejects from every genre

Even assuming this is all true, the Matrix of Leadership is not a person. It may or may not be a perpetual energy source, but it only has one form and it is by no means conscious.

I'm not "shutting up" until you do, Ping. Or should I file a report with your... handler?

If you want the exact date, you can damn well look it up yourself.

And yes, Cybertronian buildings-- on the surface, at least-- have windows.

 

[Scanner goes very very quiet and very very still.]
He's dead. If he's not I'll kill him.

 

Is he? I haven't seen him. [Not that that means much. The Well is a big place. But Scanner doesn't know that, does he? 'Til all are one in the Allspark,' after all.]

 

Spoiler: Angry bot is angry

[Scanner's optics go brighter with his beginning panic and he lunges for Switchboard, Hands immediately going for the first undefended cluster of fuel lines he can get at.]
He. is. dead.

 

Spoiler: switch that's gross

[You're gonna try to grab a ghost, Scanner? Really? Switch blinks, bemused, as Scanner's hands go right through him.] I don't see any definitive proof of that. You don't happen to have his brain module on hand, do you?

 

Spoiler: more anger and murder attempts

[This... does not stop Scanner as he continues trying to kill the hell out of this ghost wth his bare hands.]
SHUT UP! HE HAS TO BE DEAD SOMEONE LIKE HIM DOESN'T SURVIVE HE CAN'T HAVE SURVIVED! HE CAN'T THE SLAG'D BE FAIR ABOUT THAT WHEN PEOPLE WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG FRAGGING DIED!
[For good measure he's making a serious attempt at killing Switchboard with HUD popups right now, forcing as many datapackets onto his comm-link as he can manage, all of it junkdata.

 

Spoiler

[The data influx does get to him a little, albeit not as much as it would to someone with a physical brain to overheat; Switch frowns, but is still able to keep himself incorporeal.]
Since when is anything fair? Plenty of perfectly lovely people were killed for no good reason, and if I hear you right Starscream of all people has managed to stay alive. Is Shockwave still functioning? Is Prowl? The War doesn't care about some protoform's dream of fairness. If it did I'd never have gone through with the Autobrand.

 

Spoiler: him yell and threaten bodily harm to half of cybertron

[He shrieks in outrage giving quite a bit of reason for people to question whether he doesn't actually have a bit of starscream-style-seeker-programming in him as he redoubles his efforts to kill a ghost with either his brain or his hands.]
WELL FINE, fancy writing me a list while you're at it because after I'm done double killing you and move on to double killing Shockwave - because he's dead, you loose screw - I'm open to suggestions.

 

Spoiler: switch that's still gross. Like super gross, why are you like this

How about yourself, you rusted-out scraplet? Or would you fail at that too and make Boltgun clean up your mess again?

 

Spoiler: Scanner no. Scanner don't be gross right back.

[His vocalizer spits static as he aborts his attempts to murder Switchboard to stick to fingers right through where his optics are as if trying to claw them out and holds the hand there.]
Oh no, needles. I'm not like you, I don't just give up like that. I'm happy to be everyone else's problem until someone finally ends me while looking me in the optic. Because unlike you I'm actually effective.

 

Spoiler: boys please

[Switch laughs, completely unbothered by a hand literally in his face. Eyesockets are a good place for mnemosurgical insertion, he's well used to this. He brings one of his own hands up to the back of Scanner's neck, tip-tapping with needles that can't actually inject unless he makes himself solid again.] I know I'm useless, scrapheap. That's old news. Was that actually supposed to hurt?

 

Scanner.

 

Spoiler: boys stahp

[The grin he gives is vicious and cruel even as he trembles a little.]
It sure hurt the people you care about. At least most of the people I like are still alive.

 

[He literally ducks his head, startled and immediately guilty looking.]

 

-she pads up to him and calmly and firmly reaches as high up as she can to grab his arms-

 

...
Switch?

 

"People I care about"? [He laughs, but is becoming a little more solid even with Scanner's hand still in him. How do multiple trains of thought?] Please. I'm the big bad 'Con, remember? Or does Bolt not care if you forget your lessons no--

--Shade? [His voice-- doesn't quite crack, but does go up a good bit. It can't be. It can't be.

Switch turns anyway, heedless of the way this puts his back to Scanner.]

 

[He looks conflicted on whether he should comply and let her grab him or continue having his hands halfway phased into Switchboard's head.]
...

 

[... Oh good at least that solves his conflict, even though now he has to decide on whether to go for the obvious weakspot or be the bigger mech. It's a difficult question.]

 

Scanner.
-her voice is soft, but there's a definite command there-