...I really want my body back.

Is anyone having any luck with the analysis of the body switch mechanism?  As far I have been able to conclude with my currently limited physical skills, some massive surge of energy the night of the switch was involved in this mess.  The readings on my lab equipment from that night are off the charts.  I can't even recognize some of the wavelengths measured.

Starscream, we really need to stop putting off our tests to confirm whether or not it our sparks were affected by the switch.  I have no intention of actually doing ANY more then the test requires while in this body, so you can stop making those faces at me already.

[[Note: This happens before Starscream's recent post. Kthnx. <3]]


Now this just isn't... Prime. What the on Cybertron am I doin-

HOLY SLAGGING PRIMUS WHAT THE FRAG IS WRONG WITH MY BODYYYY??!?

( [[In-flight transmission: edited to be open to medics as well]] )

By this point, almost everyone should have been fully treated for the Rust, and should now be undergoing repairs/replacement with a medic if they have not done so already.

Anyone who has not yet been treated for the rust, please contact me so we can begin treatment as soon as possible.

Alright then. I know those of you suffering from the Rust have been waiting for news about a cure. While we don't yet have a solid preventative to keep the rust away, we have come up with a treatment to remove the rust and stop the degradation.

The treatment is a bit time-consuming, and rather messy, but it works.

Be warned, though, that at this time infection, and reinfection, is still possible.  Do not let your guard down just yet!

The treatment center will be operational for those with the worst, most advanced cases of the Rust by tomorrow, and we will to continue working on expanding the facility to make sure we can treat more then a few mechs at a time, and get you all in here soon.

...Thank you, Megatron, for giving me the prompting to finish the modifications to my and Starscream's quarters. They will be wonderful once I'm completely done. I do so love how you had to cause destruction of the ship to get what you wanted, too.  Nice work.

Starscream. It will be ready tomorrow. Hopefully you can avoid trying to get past the locks again to wait that long? <3

By the way, I'm going on a short...ah, supply run.  Need anything, love?  Milk?  Bread?  Raw metallic alloy asteroid?  Acidic gaseous cloud vapor from Venus for the lab?

...And please don't try anything while I'm gone, Starscream.  Please?  I want that door in once piece, and for my surprise to still be a surprise when I get back...

Well, I've finally got around to changing the locks on all of my doors. Even the lab. ...Especially the lab

Changed, as in removed the entire locking and opening mechanisms in the door frames, and installed new, closed-circuit systems on them all to prevent hacking and overrides. No more of this silly, 'lets barge on in to Skyfire's private quarters/lab' nonsense.

Starscream, I still need to give you the codes for those, by the way.


...Also, love, when you get back in tonight I need to talk to you about one of my projects. I need help with something, and you're the perfect person to go to for this.


And as a general note to everyone, I've claimed the smaller hanger bay storage room next to the room Starscream and I share, and annexed it into our quarters. It was empty and unused, and I have a use for it, so there you go.

I've also replaced the locks for it as well, though you don't get the codes for that one just yet, Starscream. It's a bit of a surprise. <3

....oh thank you Primus yesyesYES!

He's back! He's back and whole and safe and he's alive and he's mine again! My Starscream! <3!

Primus, I'm so relived...! Words can't even properly say how relieved I am right now...



...Slag, though, what a night. You ever do that to me again, Starscream, and I'll... I don't know what I'll do...

Well, I picked up that signal from Windcharger, who managed to land all the way in Russia, somehow, so I'm going to go pick him up. ...Since no one else seems to care or want to bother with it.

Just figured I should let someone know, since that mad abhorent spark-shard is roaming about.  Among other reasons.

...Though if I'm not back in an earth day, I've probably just gone and fallen into the ice. AGAIN. If that is the case, a rescue would be nice, thanks.

....

 

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nononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononooooooooooooooooooooo......

I have continued to work on my many projects over the past month, though several of them have been held back due to numerous interruptions, and just normal, expected lab setbacks. Between assisting Starscream in setting up his lab for the reconversion of our mechs back into their proper shape, the general chaos going on around the base, and taking time off for that rather oddly enjoyable Disney Land trip its a wonder I've gotten anything done at all...

Hopefully I'll have more time to work on all this in the future. I still have so much to do...

Notes to self:

• Refresh and rework to-do list. It is dire need of updating.

• Add "continue working on the holoform sensor grid mapping project" to the to-do list... (accursed human female sensor mapping! ><; )

Oh well. At least Starscream 'loaned me' (*snicker*) his Disneyland worker drone to help me clean up the mess I've made of my lab... I had to be very specific with it, but the simple programming in the thing is very useful - and very insistent - when it comes to clean up work.

*currently, the little human-sized drone is puttering about Skyfire's lab, cleaning and organizing and sweeping all about the place. Its taken it several days to even get this far, as the lab is rather huge for a human. Eventually, the thing climbs up on a shelf, and begins to clean up there. Skyfire gave the little thing instructions not to mess with any of the items larger then it can handle, but... but these vials are so dirty (and not really that big - they're a few inches shorter then it is!) So it must be cleeeeeeaaaned! The drone tugs and wiggles and works around them, shining and polishing until they are made of SHINEY-GOODNESS; dumping those pretty, brightly colored chemicals inside the other vials, making the fluid levels nice and balanced and even (and very much contaminated with each other)...of course, two of the samples don't exactly mix well together...and the chemical reaction builds so fast that the vial just goes SHATTER all over the place, spraying chemical foam and glass shards.  Whoops* o0;

...!!!

Hey! Stop that, you! *rushes off into his lab with the crash*

....
*twitches feebly, vocalizer making a pained groan as he comes back online to the sound of someone calling his name in an odd, almost singsong tone; processor and internal stabilizers reeling from overindulgence*

...Nnnrgh...   *shifts slightly...glugh, this isn't their berth... where the slag did they 'face this tim-*  *jerks slightly as he suddenly feels and hears a slight "tink tink tink" sound of metal tapping against his cockpit*

...gwuh...?  *mumbles, blearily opening optics - at first all he can see is a painful, massive whiteout that makes him flinch back.  ...a oddly grating chuckle can be heard coming from....above him?  Wait, that wasn't starscre-...*

*rapid optic blinkblinkblink!   ...White blur dissolves into a into a sunny, midday sky and...a-and... an amused, red eyed, malevolent glare coming from Me-Mega-!!!*

*jaw twitches limply; optics go WIIIIIIDE* O_______O



*instant spazz*



GRAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!

*Lab is currently a disaster area.  Skyfire is cleaning out his subspace compartments - seems scientists never get around to cleaning things out but once a vorn or something...*

*rummage rummage rummage through old subspace compartments.  Floor is littered with old schematics, bits of space rock, a rather tattered Screamer plushie from the very first rave (wait, he still HAD that?  Huh…) old, crumpled experiments, thingshe’ssatonaccidentallyinthepast, old sample vials, empty energon cubes, FILLED energon cub- wait, what is this?*

*Frowns, pulls out a cube, kinda a funny purple-blue color.  Its supposed to be high grade but…oh.  OH.  How long has that been in there??? *

*Sniffsniff.  ...Slag.  That stuffs been in there since before he got frozen in the ice....  Four million year old energon.  Vintage energon.  Vintage  aged energon....  Ooooh…. *

*shifty look*  *no one around*  ...
...

*sip*  *optics go WIDE*

*GRIIIIN*   ....Not bad...  *looks at the cube in surprise*    REALLY not bad........     *drinkdrinkDRINK*


....

...*LATER - lab still a mess....but several projects sitting completed on desk, finished with haphazard, drunken inspiration*

*stands.  oooh lookit - several empty empty cubes go tumbling to the floor - tasty stuff, that!*  *Moves to leave room.  Stop.  Pause - eyeballs Screamer plush on floor.  Shifty look... siiiiiidles on over, scoops it up in giant paw, staaaaares for a moment....*    *sticks it up on the berth, patting it lightly on the head*  X3  *pleased*

...

*heads out of room to wander in a drunken, aimless fashion*

....

You all disgust me.

I saw the lot of you, just standing around while a so called leader of ours ripped into one of our own.  Gathered around like a flock of earth vultures, hovering around the carnage and enjoying the show the bigger, meaner creature put on for you with his needless brutality.

Even my fellow Autobots, watching this go on like its a normal affair; enjoying pain being inflicted in others, as though it doesn't go against everything we are supposed to stand for, be it happening to an ally or an enemy or former enemy or not.

...You may say it is merely 'troop discipline', but you've obviously served under Megatron for too long if that has become the normal response to a simple taunt.  Once more, he shows how far his abuse of command is willing to reach.  Going against a direct order - an act of defiance that cost the lives of dozens of innocent life forms, and put every Cybertronian on earth at risk (and I am sure you all know of which incident I speak of) - that is worth a sterner form of discipline; though I most certainly do not agree with torture in any form for any reason (and yes, I am aware of what Starscream himself has done along those line to other mechs, nor do I excuse it; and YES, I do consider what I saw today as torture at worst, abuse at best!)

But here, today, the punishment hardly fit the crime.

And I will say now, as always, I would hold that same opinion no matter WHO was at Megatron's feet today.  I may not be as... passionate about it, but I would be saying the same thing if I knew this was occurring to someone else.  I would have stepped in no matter who it was, to at the very least ascertain the situation.

But with Starscream, that was obviously unnecessary.

For it is always Starscream, isn’t it?

...I never see Megatron going after anyone else like that over a simple sparkling taunt or supposed breech in protocol.

The fact that I have to have a special interest in the situation to see it, though, is utterly disgusting.

Your double standards towards certain members of your own faction is appalling.

You all rally together quickly enough when any other member of your own is threatened, or at least try to stop it before it reaches the point it reached tonight.  And yet with this, you all watched on in amusement.

Your collective disregard for the personal safely of others is disturbing, even for a group composed mostly of Decepticons.

And your ‘glorious leader’ is an absolute tyrant.

Many of you have been claiming that this planet has been making a number of us go crazy.  Tonight has forced me to reconsider this.  It seems like a number of you have been utterly mad for a long, long time, before ever ending up on this planet...

And I, for one, am ashamed to be counted as one of you.

...

 

 

 

 

*wanders around outside his and Starscream's room, altering the locks and codes on the large, unused hanger next door to them - has claimed it for himself*

.......

 

.......


...........Oh. My.  PRIMUS.





.........i think i may need to reconsider this agnostic thing a little bit. .____.