"A shame. Such a beautiful sight... wasted." Electricity gently hummed, the cool, yet harsh voice echoing beside the dreadful humming. "So wonderful... So beautifully relaxed... Trailcutter, you really are a hard little mech to find." The voice continued to whisper before a pair of servos sickeningly caressed Teebs' neck. "Describe it to me. Go on. Tell me what you see, little mech." Kaon was behind him, whispering and grinning. His shield would do nothing to protect him. not with Kaon so close.
Trailcutter goes ramrod-straight, plating rattling in shock as the first tones of the voice. That voice.
The voice that haunts his nightmares. The one that tortures him relentlessly, making him beg even in sleep and not giving any mercy every damn time. Until he can finally wake up and see that he is alone inside his hab, doors locked and windows darkened.
His first instinct is to create a bubble and he would have done it, if his processor wasn’t screaming at him, sending him memory files from the last time this happenen and how it ended.
His legs twitch, arms going to his hips to find that his handheld weapon is not even close by. Its back on the shuttle. Trailcutter is cursing his own stupidity and name right now.
He wants to move, to run as fast as he can, to turn around or to try and rip the mech apart.
But he is frozen.
Unable to move.
And just as the first signs of his bubble appear, crackling energy racing down his arms to the generators in his palms, digits stroke over his neck. And everything stops.
Trailcutters vents hitch, optics behind his visor going even wider and birghter, all the while his biolights dim down, his reflection in the glass dimming as well.
And he can see...
“Ni... Night outside..” he whispers, the only thing he can really do, his vocal cords feel as if someone was squeezing his throat and not letting go.
“Lights of the .... attractions and buildings dancing in the glass of every window... masses of aliens, bots, things I.. things I dont know...” his plating is clamped tight to his form now and he doesn’t dare to even shiver. His processor is racing though, trying to come up with a solution to this problem.
And then his optics stray upwards and on the mirror image of himself and -
“Kaon...”










