A jet black shuttle frame approaches, glaring. "Star, I know you're here. I want to talk, and I won't take no for an answer." his gaze and tones suddenly softens. "Please, my lucky Star, don't be mad. I know we had our troubles in the past, but why don't we move past them? Just let me talk. I promise I didn't mean all those cruel things I said in the past."
Starscream snarls. This mech is wearing the face of khyr dead creator.
Khyr plating ripples and flares out, long cooling feathers unfurl and bristle out like long sharp attenae.
“YOU AREN’T XEM!”
With a scream and a roar, kha rips off the faceplate’s from the imposter Skyfire.
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“Hey, Scwee Scwee! These are some fragging great chips!” Rumble waves to Screamer, as he shovels a bag of metallic looking plating into his maw.
“Yeah! Howlback loves this shit!” Howlback is digging into her own bowl of chips as Frenzy rolls on top of a pile of them.
Starscream just smiles, and light flashes off khyr sharp denta.
There’s a video of snickering Frumbles being chased out of Starscream’s lab. Starscream is covered in pasta and shaking angry fists at them. Kha tries to catch the laughing hell duo, only for them to cackle and teleport out of the way.
Would you guy prefer arthopods or flying reptiles?
On today’s Sparkling Livestream, Frenzy and Rumble are currently in a preypit. Their half-buried to their optics in rubbery balls, and the balls shift and roll around.
Soundwave and Skywarp are splooted on pillows outside of the preypit, as they watch the younger mecha play and eat. SW is displaying a spark emoji on zir face screen while Skywarp has a >:3.
Frenzy has his mandibles currently rolling a ball, as the pincers tear and rip off the rubber, and the energon leaks out and his glossa slurps it up with its built in nozzle.
Rumble’s maw just gouges into the balls like a human biting into an apple, and little rubbery bits fly everywhere and energon crystals are shredded.
Those aren’t the only bodies of theirs that are consuming. Both of them are hooked up to drone bodies, stomach units, synthetic flesh frames capable of digesting organic matter. Invented by Human Uploads to feel alive again, stomach units now come in all shapes and sizes.
Both of them are hardwired to a pair of large derpy fluffy owl frames, with far too many claws and eyes. The owl frames are piled on top of Soundwave as the Frumbles inhale and devour a bowl of flying snakes, gliding lizards, and bugs.
Their optics gleam with satisfaction and mirth, as the owl stomach units send feedback of taste, and smell, as they experience flavors that no Cybertronian has ever encountered before.
(cw: programming of children, soundwave being creepy/unsettling)
Soundwave as usual, is monitoring Will’s communications. NEST of course, tried to bypass zir hacking, but humans being humans, have failed.
Quaint adorable attempts, but Soundwave has no plans on loosing any of zir young, especially since Will is one of the few humans whose descended from zir long lost adopted humans from centuries ago....
It hurts thinking that the human will eventually die of old age, since he hasn’t elected to be an upload upon flesh death.
Ze has vowed to spend as much time as possible with the liasion and archive as much as possible of his communications and online presence. That way...after his eventual death, ze has something to hold on to. A digital ghost.
Perhaps a sapient online bot could be coded and then enframed an ensparked....the humans have done digital ghosts pre-purges, why not do it zirself?
Ze ex-vents and then runs through the status of the rest of zir brood via the roster stream. Ze is currently tucked in zir nest in zir aerie. Skywarp is curled around zir, de-fragging and plugged into zir, as sha sleepily monitors zir data-streams. None of the Aegis flock nor the brood trust zir not to natal lock the little ones again.
Soundwave huffs.
Sundor, Wingthing, Squawktalk and Howlback are docked on zir to recharge. Their data dreams are of the waking cycle’s sensory input, problem solving, and the enjoyment from the chaos that all four of them caused. Soundwave flags all their media files with happy approving glyphs, and the little ones happily croon in their recharge as their juni approves.
Hexbolt is at NEST, Buzzsaw is at Art Therapy, while Laserbeak is scouting out Weather Conditions back at Earth, Ravage is with Misfire, and Frenzy and Rumble are causing havoc in Starscream’s aerie.
Zir biolights brighten at that and Soundwave sends a mixture of earth emojis and glyphs. A happy smile, a disturbed nest, a thumbs up and a glyph of mandibles and grinders bared, and a bright neon bluespark.
The rough translation?
“Starscream: Wreck chaos. Soundwave: approves.”
The twins respond with a selfie of themselves with flared out fangs, slitted optics and them clasping their claws together in a human heart gesture.
What good little ones. Soundwave sent back zir own selfie with zirself making the same gesture back.
Ze makes an approving rumble at seeing the twins’ happiness levels spike up in the data stream.
Ze was extremely glad that Megatronus approved the programming for them to seek zir approval, along with the reward mechanics that activated every time ze gave it.
Positive reinforcement was so much better then the Overseer’s lash after all. So much better the punishing negative reinforcement.
The frumbles snicker as they send in a photo of Soundwave deep in recharge, splooted over a pile of body pillows with smokescreen’s face on it. Their creator isn’t aware of the new body pillows yet, since Skywarp had picked zir up to place the new ones underneath. There’s a complimentary set of two anime pillows. One of Smokescreen himself, and one of Soundwave with a note. “HEY, YOU SHOULD BRING IN THE SOUNDWAVE BODYPILLOW AROUND THE NOT-BOSS! (incirrata)” - Frenzy and Rumble
* the dragon returns a video of what seems to be her eating the visor with ice cream and chocolate syrup (it's actually a very cleverly-constructed cake and a weird angle to prevent that fact from becoming obvious) *
The Frumbles watch the video with gaping jaws and limp mandibles.
