> That's the only thing that got through after sending pin after pin of distress. Now there was nothing but static on Rapidshock's end of the comm. line.
«Rapid?» [Houston’s helm jerks up instantly, creaking from the sudden movement. Finally, a response from Rapid! He pings Rapid back half a dozen times, but as soon as he sends the last one, he knows that it won’t do.] «Rapid!»
[No response. The medic paces around for only a few seconds, rubbing his mouthplates with one servo in distress as his door wings lift away from their protective configuration… His spark screams at him to do something that he knows will be the stupidest thing he has done in five centuries:
He breaks out of Beatbox’s mountain base and races to the comm's last location, kicking sand and gravel against his sides.]