#gearbox;

[robotarmedweenie]

Brim actually died first. See, he was jumping between shattered glass universes looking for raj, but one of his jumps landed him in the wrong place in the wrong time. Spark chamber was shot right out of his chest plates. His frame is still on the battle field I think, or already melted down from spare parts by now.

Darkfire and Copperstorm died next. They went out lookin' for you glitch. Exploring the multiverse-- they completely dropped their titles as primes for you. When brim died, Copperstorm swerved from his place in the road and hit an Darkfire, then an oncoming truck in the opposite lane and crushed his chest plates. Darkfire's spark gave out just after. I think red's death was the worst out of all of their deaths. She died alone, spark broken, and locked away in her own home.

The triplet brothers remained frozen in horror. All were quiet, and Gearbox’s digits were left hovering over the screen. Ace’s expression grew only more pained; Glitch had a look of disbelief; and Gearbox was eerily emotionless throughout all of this.

Ace could just tell what kind of thoughts were going through Glitch’s mind–– they were spark siblings. Even if they couldn’t detect exact words, he could feel his brother’s turmoil.

It’s my fault. Darkfire and Copperstorm are dead because of me.

The red mech wanted to somehow smack his brother out of his spiral of self-depreciating hatred, but he was stuck in a spiral of mourning himself.

RedRaven died all alone. Why didn’t I go look for her? Why didn’t I try and help?

Glitch suddenly slammed his fist against the ship’s walls and wailed loudly. His own fist was more damaged than the wall was, but that didn’t stop him from pummeling the wall as his screams turned onto broken sobs of, “Why, why, why, why, WHY?!”

Behind them, Gearbox dropped down and pressed his knees against his chassis. The mech was always silent, but even from here, the two could hear the soft sniffles and mumbling from the other.

“...if this is your sick idea of a joke...” Ace warned, voice suddenly dark and dangerous, but the crack belied his own heart-break.

[robotarmedweenie]

Why would I lie?? They died a while ago, I even have where they all died and who died first! Would you like to know? Mirage is my next stop to let know after you all, kid deserves to know his mate died looking for him.

Glitch’s processor reeled.

Mirage--- Mirage--- that’s right. The--- shattered glass spy, from that fucked up universe.

The one that Brimstone took as his precious sparkmate.

There was already a terrible regret crushing his own sparkchamber, but for now, he tried to focus on somebody other than himself.

“You better tell him in a better way than you did.”

Ace’s expression only grew more distraught--- when he didn’t respond, Glitch nervously nudged his brother’s shoulder. That barely shook him out of his horrified daze.

“...how did they die?” Ace asked quietly.

“You actually believe this gray shit-stain?” Glitch shrieked.

“What if it’s right?!” Ace snapped back, optics flashing. “Besides, the way you were talking just a few kliks before makes it seem like you believed it too!”

Gearbox was silent--- he kept tapping away at the monitor, trying to contact any of the Primes, as his brothers argued behind him.

[robotarmedweenie]

(If you'll still take the 'rip out my muses heart' thing) Hey, hey glitches guess what! =D Those primes of yours are gone! Kaput! Dead! faded to dust and lost to the sands of time.

All three of them froze.

“What?” They asked, simultaneously.

“You’re--- you’re lying,” Glitch said.

“Th-that can’t be true.” Ace’s expression was pained. “H-how--- w...w-we would’ve known i-if...”

Gearbox didn’t say anything. He fled the room and rushed over to the communication bay at their ship’s commanding center.

[robotarmedweenie]

((XD alrighty~ also, I apologize a head of time for the afthead.)) CaveIn: "What's your connection to the primes?"

All three brother’s helm snapped up to meet CaveIn’s gaze, two pairs of bright green optics and one eerily blank pair of golden visors.

“They’re my friends,” Gearbox said automatically.

Glitch blushed and grumbled under his breath, and Ace seemed to stumble over his words for a few moments.

“Th-they’re-- um-- um--”

“Also our friends?”

[robotarmedweenie]

So triplets, if something is going to happen to you at some point, and it's going to hurt and maybe offline you, shouldn't you be spending all the time you can with the bots you love and care for? Cause if you up and leave and they find out years and years later that you died and they could have helped their just going to tare themselves up with guilt at not being able to help or see the signs sooner and so on and so forth Shouldn't you I don't know, tell them and spend as much time as you can?

Ace: “No, ‘nonnie, you don’t understand--”

Gearbox: “We aren’t planning to just-- possibly leave without explanation for our loved ones.”

Glitch: “We’ve been prepared for this for-- awhile, now. Our blackouts are becoming more frequent, so we know something fucked up is going to happen to our systems.”

Ace: “...nobody should take responsibility for whatever may happen to us. We are experiments. Really bad prototypes, really. Whatever happens to us... well, it’s because we were faulty to begin with.”

Gearbox: “...we’re also afraid.”

Glitch: *hisses* “Gearbox--!”

Gearbox: “Admit it! We’re scared, okay? We don’t know how to face our friends and loved ones. What can we say? ‘Oh, we might day or get a full-core wipeout one day so yeah, just wanted to let you know?’ We don’t even know when to say goodbye!”

Glitch: “...”

Ace: “...we... have recorded videos, in case we do go offline, and somebody goes out to find us...”

[robotarmedweenie]

(to glitches) falling in love

Ace: “...six. There’s always have that risk when falling in love– what if your spark breaks? What if they’re not the right one? What if we, I don’t know, die one day? We’re fighting a war here. But... six, nothing higher, because falling in love is, in my opinion, a great thing.”

Glitch: “Eight out of ten, when I’m putting termination on ten. Giving your spark away to someone is scary, you know?”

“...and giving your spark away to someone when you know it’ll only break theirs is... is scarier.”

Gearbox: *stiffens* “Ten out of ten.”

He is downright terrified of the aspect of being in an intimate relationship with someone. So many things to take in consideration–– emotions, risks, frag, how do you read emotions in a relationship? Gearbox’s never good at reacting to emotions. He’s never been in a relationship before.

“My brothers have been through some spark-ache. I’d rather avoid it myself.”