....because practice really does help...

[basic_powers]

This evening, running around the bar proper and around the stables and treefort outside, is a little scruffy young boy. He's ducking and weaving around furniture, and jumping over some of the rocks outside with a little bit of ease.. It would be a pretty spectacular sight, except it's kind of ruined by the screeching black and gold minicyber-raptor running about a foot behind Tyler.

"Koh!"

Winston'd just like to know when they're going to HUNT some prey already, really.

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[basic_powers]

"...and Skywarp?" Tyler's trying not to grin too much at that.

"Because forcing the people you don't like to look like a hotrod and have their holographic form look like a pimp is kinda funny.."

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

Skywarp was a Decepticon, Bumblebee's balloon points out. If he's still alive he's not going to hold still for that.

[basic_powers]

"I'd say you're underestimate Angie..." Tyler replies. "I told you how she made a rocketship out of junkyard parts, right?"

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

Yes. I know.

Bumblebee is not entirely sure how to say this next part. Ultimately he opts not to go into all the details, but instead projects only:

I've fought him, one on one. Please believe me when I say that it's not going to happen any time soon.

[basic_powers]

"................okay."

Tyler's just going to reach up to touch Bee's shoulder right now. It just seems like the right thing to do.

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

We mentioned that Bee can project small images as easily as words, right?

[basic_powers]

Nope, didn't mention it at all, but from Tyler's expression, he gets the message loud and clear.

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

It will do. Bumblebee ruffles Tyler's hair, if he can, and projects:

I interrupted you. You were running. It looked like you were having fun.

[basic_powers]

...And ofcourse, like a dutiful little brother should, Tyler squirms just enough to fulfil his token amount of childishness, because he's grinning while Bee does that.

"Yeh...I was kind of just forgetting about crazy stuff for a while."

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

I understand, projects Bumblebee. Maybe one day when the diplomats are not everywhere underfoot you can come to Iacon instead. I think you would like that.

[basic_powers]

"What's Iacon?"

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

. . .


Bumblebee's just going to facepalm while he projects the words, I forgot to tell you. There has been a great change in things at home.

[basic_powers]

"I hope they were good changes." Tyler replies quickly, looking a little alarmed.

He's kind of had enough bantha puuduu back home, thank you very much.

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

The Decepticons have retreated from Earth. They have a base somewhere beyond Pluto now, Bumblebee projects. We have lost several Autobots, too.

But we have gained many more. Did I ever tell you about the space bridge?

[basic_powers]

"No, but I think I heard something from Enzo about how Dot was really pissed with Bob because of something with a spacebridge."

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

Yes. He inhabited a Cybertronian body at the time we first activated it, says Bee's speech balloon. We dismantled it after that. But we didn't destroy the parts.

This was a good thing. Megatron had an adjutant on Cybertron, named Shockwave, and he took command of the Decepticons from Starscream. They gathered in numbers and attacked Earth in force. It got.... very bad.

[basic_powers]

Tyler's seen what Megatron looks like, and recalls just how devastating Ironhide can be if he gets into the mood for it.

Which is pretty much always.

".eeeeeeeeeeeeek."

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

Bumblebee nods.

They outnumbered us and would have overwhelmed the humans. The Army Corps of Engineers helped us get the space bridge back together. Ironhide used it to gather all the remaining Autobots he could reach, and bring them back to Earth.

[basic_powers]

Tyler settles down on the grass, reaching over to grab Winston's head away from nibbling on Bee's foot experimentally.

He's listening.

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

Only just in time, too, says Bumblebee, whose speakers started playing the Ride of the Valkyries somewhere along the way. Few of us were left standing, and Optimus was at his very limits. The rest of the Autobots arrived in time to drive Megatron and the others back, and the Decepticons pulled out of Earth in a panic.

And then Optimus realized the space bridge was still charging, and about to overload.

[basic_powers]

"... and ran off with the hot potato?"

What? It's what he'd do.

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

Bumblebee nods.

As far and as fast as he could, before he had to stop and throw it because there was no more time, the balloon says. The explosion offlined him, briefly. When he reactivated, he was surrounded by buildings that he knew. The final overload had swapped a sphere half a mile across of everything that was on Earth's end of the bridge for a sphere of equal size on Cybertron's end.

[basic_powers]

"....you mean...part of home came to earth?"

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"What does it look like? Is it anything like how the Bar looks during Cubefall?"

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

"On the street I was passin' my time away
To the left and to the right, buildings towering to the sky
It's outta sight in the dead of night-"

That was his speakers. His speech balloon says, That's a special occasion look. Something like your Christmas decorations. Iacon is all towers and canyons, mostly metal and some glass. There are only three buildings of Earth taller than the structures of Iacon- and nearly all the city is that high. It's built for mechs of all sizes, and there are places you almost have to be a flyer in order to reach....

[basic_powers]

".....that sounds so cool."

Not any place he'd wanna explore, unless he was the right format for it, but still, pretty darn awesome.