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[If Duo was yet privy to the memes of this era, Riptide would be receiving a nice NO THIS IS PATRICK maymay right about now. Luckily for everyone involved, he's still got his hands full with things that are actually important.]

[Riptide is left hanging for a little bit. The reply Duo got is friendly enough, so he doesn't think he has to worry yet about enemies coming out of the woodwork to have his ass, which means he has some wiggleroom to figure out what the hell is going on, in every sense of the phrase.]

[By the time he can formulate a reply, he's gotten into his old cache of information, so he can immediately find out just how much new experience he's gotten with the new faces of his old friends.]

[......Poor Optimus, all he can think. What the hell happened?]

Starscream? Really???

[The most important takeaway, from all those notes.] Better than Evil Barney, I guess.

[what]

what

That asshole isn't here, right? Or any Decepticons, for that matter.

[It's still not context but don't worry, you didn't need it.]

[riptide raises his robo-brows at this.]

no some have come and gone but there's none here right now tailgate was ported out so its just me and getaway tho i guess getaway is like a decepticon

With a name like that, I bet

[Was that racist? He's not worried about that right now]

Anyway that's good enough for me so here's a followup question How long would you say I've been gone? [He can tell, he thinks, from looking at his network activity and the last edits made to his server, but it never hurts to have more information... Especially from the public side.]

Edited 2018-08-16 00:52 (UTC)

[if it is, riptide doesn't care to comment.]

idk i wasnt payin attention week or so? i dont eve kno how long i was dead for

[oh]

[ah]

[sounds about right]

Cool let's never talk about that again

Bad breakup huh

ok i thought you knew it was embarrassing anyway

guess u forgot everythin? u have no idea it was of the "he fed all my friends into a meatgrinder" variety

Embarrassing not the word I'd go with but what do I know, I've never had the honor Ouch Anyway, good we're on the same page now. Sorry I didn't say it upfront but you can never be too safe, right? Seems like this place is just as explosion-happy as the City anyway...

[And just like that the video flicks on; it is... certainly not the Shinigami Riptide is used to seeing; even if he's not great at telling human ages it's obvious he's a lot........ younger.]

[His shitty grin was always the same, though; maybe it's a little more genuinely peppy. He gives a cheerful wave!!]

Guess that's a nice to meet you again, then, Riptide ol' pal! Or... new-old pal.

.............Do you guys even have craniums? I guess they would be thick if you did.

Ugh, you. [hello here's the dude you're talking to, yellow optics and purple noseless face and all.] I remember you... you're younger. I think...

Well, I'm not a stupid baby again so I guess that's fine.

[not gonna touch on that death thing again.]

You talked a lot. Too much. Uh. I guess that doesn't bother me as much now. Uhm... do I need to tell you anything?

[There he is!! Duo beams a gleeful smile at the image of the Transformer in front of his screen, looking at him like he's more taking in the sight of him than listening exactly, but his glee is knocked off right quick with that reaction.]

I'm not a stupid baby... [Duo whines, in exactly the tone a stupid baby would use.] I'm eighteen!!

And I thought we were friends! Pals! Buddies!!! Where's the love.

[Oh, here he go]

Yeah gee I never heard that one before. --I mean, I got all this backlog of info to read up on, [He gestures wildly at his comm and the computer screen off the side of him, giving off a gentle glow in his hacker cave,] But if there's anything really important you think I should know right away.........

[cybertronian kit i will pull your face off]

Uh huh. Eighteen what? hundred? Thousand? Still a baby. [he snorts. actually, this might be fun.] You gotta re-earn that love, mate!

[anyway,]

Mmm... not that I know of? Other than like, don't talk to me about MTO stuff?

Also, who's Evil Barney? I feel like I've heard you say that before...

[there's something else, he feels. something really important.

what could it be...

riptide wracks his brains for a few moments and-- ah!]

--Oh, yeah. Some bitch called Atropos is gonna eat the world which sucks, I guess.

Pssht, laaaame. And I'm only human, you know?

...MTO...? MTO... [Duo hums to himself, eyes flicking to the side as he starts typing of to the side of his comm feed, checking his cache of notes. The flinch in his expression when he finds what he's looking for isn't something he can really hide.] Oh. No problemo, pal. [And just like that, it's dropped. See, easy.]

Oh, Barney? I think his name was Mega something? Decepticon, had the over-the-top villain act down-pat. Fancied himself some kinda glorious dictator, I guess, but I've known some of those in my time, and Barney? Was no glorious, charismatic dictator!

...'Atropos', huh? Sounds metal as hell. Thanks, I'll be sure to keep my ear to the ground on that. [H a h a little does he know]

Um, I don't know if we've talked about it before, but I guess Op is a pretty different guy, when-- or where you come from. [Another nervous sideglance at his notes.] Jeez, I couldn't even imagine the Optimus I knew doing this kind of stuff. He was... you know, [handwave] heroic, I guess, is the best word for it. Always seemed to care about people? Shit really went that sideways...?

[there's no further comment on it, no thanks, but riptide's expression is grateful.]

Megatron. Hey, you noted down I know him as an Autobot? [riptide laughs lightly; that'll probably shock him if he hasn't already read it.] Still a bastard, though.

[he'll change his tune when he's canon updated... his expression turns into something unreadable for a moment.]

Optimus is still a hero. He still cares. It's just... yeah. It went sideways. Everything went really, really wrong. Even if Autobots officially won the war...

...What was the Optimus you knew like?

Huh?? [Apparently not; maybe he didn't really believe it, or maybe he (meaning I his mun) just forgot about that part of the discussion!! Who knows.] Sounds like a load of crap to me... But...

[Duo's brow furrows, chin settling into his hand. Tapping his cheek, he thinks on how to describe it-- it wasn't like he hadn't seen Optimus just recently, from his perspective--] He leads the police force that's been put into place by us for the time being. Him, and a bunch of other Autobots, and some other folks. Um... I guess he just seems to always want the best for people? He helped me and my buddy out in a pinch, and even though he's taking on a pretty impossible task, he seems really dedicated to it. ...Not uh, 'forcibly invade the Earth' dedicated. That's... the part I'm kinda worried about, but I guess it's not like he could do too much here if he's not...

[From that tangent, something seems to occur to him, and he blinks and raises his head to gawk at the camera in surprise.]

Oh. Wait a minute-- how come you're not in a human body? Did you guys figure out how to get your real bodies back? Hah, and after all that crap Starscream pulled...

Long story. Probably not that surprising.

[riptide thinks for a moment.]

Wait... you said it was Arcee and Sentinel before, right? Jeez, I can't imagine anyone working with Sentinel... ah, well. He's dead now. Dunno about Arcee, she's pretty scary.

[he snorts.] It's a power. I can switch to and fro, though I don't like human bodies. Smelly. Soft.

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