Day three. Meet and Greet!

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Vector Prime tries to scowl and defend his side from Optimus' fingers as he sends out the com message on all frequencies.

//All hands report to the mess hall in (ten minutes) to meet your teammates. Thank you.//

Then he groans and grabs his younger sister's wrist. "Optimus...."

"Hey, you said you needed some help waking up." She grins at him.

"Waking up can be accomplished with proper usage of energy. My being tormented is unnecessary."

"Maybe." She chuckles as he lets go of her, then turns to the door to greet the first arrivals.



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"Don't give me that slag," he says gently but firmly. "You may not be my Aunt Desi, but you look and sound too much like her for me to just stand here and watch you suffer. Hound would come back from the Well and kick my ancient aft for it. And so would Aunt Show and the Twins."

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Desinex flinches, optics towards the floor, "I don't deserve...I'm...I'm the reason our Showtime is dead..."

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"And let me guess. That's the reason you're dead?" Lumen puts a hand on her shoulder.

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Desinex flinches a bit, fighting the urge to smack Lumen's hand away. "..." after a few moments, the former Decepticon nods, "I ended it..."

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He shakes his head. "Showtime's probably cussing her head off right now."

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"Not likely. She's probably laughing her aft off at me even as we speak." Desinex scowls, trying to hide the pain she still feels.

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"I doubt it. Laughing at people was your job," he counters.

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"...You're trying to pull my servo...if laughing at people was 'my' job, then what was Showtime's?"

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"Helping Streaker and Swiper prank the higher ups." His mouth twitches slightly at the memory.

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"...I don't believe you...I've seen Showtime fritz when she's been close enough to touch Sunstreaker..." Desinex's body language contradicts her dismissive tone.

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"She touched him all the time. They were bonded." He looks at how she's standing. "The Desi I knew was always giving her a hard time when we woke up on a mission out in the feild and couldn't find Show till she shoved a twin out of the way."

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"..." Desinex frowns, thinking about how she took that opportunity away from not only the Showtime of her reality, but also Sunstreaker and Sideswipe. It's a sobering thought, and the former Decepticon moves to leave the room.

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"The only time I ever saw Show try to kick Desi's aft was the time she though Hound wasn't going to make it and nearly gave up," adds Lumen softly. "If you give up now you can be sure that your Show will come back somehow and kick your skid so hard you'll never forget it."

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That stops Desinex in her tracks, earning Lumen a low, dangerous-sounding, albeit familiar, growl.

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"You know I'm right," he says, totally unfazed by the growl.

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"...frag you." Desinex's lips curl into a sneer, trying to hide the fact that she does indeed know Lumen is right, but doesn't want to admit to it.

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"In your dreams," he says gently, his blue optics knowing.

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Desinex scowls a bit, before leaning against a chair, and regarding Lumen from behind her visor. She's not exactly sure what to make of the mech, but hey, she's curious.

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The blue mech pauses as a thought hits him, his face going slightly troubled. "Slag, I hope they don't think I'm deserting by being here."

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Desinex frowns a bit, "Did you at least go down fighting?"

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"Spark failure in the middle of a charge. 'Halo and I knew it was coming. But I meant the team. Desi 'n Show 'n Hound 'n Streaker 'n Swiper." He moves a little restlessly, worried now.

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"You went down fighting. At least you weren't cowering and trying to delay the inevitable...or worse, taking the coward's way out..." Desinex's tone and expression are serious and earnest.

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He shakes his head and taps the badge that he still wears. "I was a soldier for a few million years. It's all I know."

Though he looks like he'd cower a bit if he actually ran into his teammates and had to try and explain to them why he was here instead of in the Well with them.

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Desinex nods, "I can understand that..." A sad look crosses the femme's face for a moment, "For the longest that I can remember, I've been fighting...mostly against Autobots...sometimes against other Decepticons..." The unsaid "and myself" remains as thus, unsaid.

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"Hey, I'm older than you." He snags her in a one-armed hug.