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[Six months ago, Ironhide received a uniform. Six months ago, he barely wanted to look at it.]

[And now, he's totally wearing it. Granted, he looks pretty solemn about the whole thing, but hey, at least he's wearing the thing. He's also out on the edge of the town, leaning casually back against his Onix, studying the sky.]

... Any town in this place stay warm most of the year?

[There's a reason he's asking -- one he probably won't say unless absolutely pressed. He looks like he's going to ask something else before his brow abruptly furrows, and he looks up at his Onix.]

Remind me. Have the sudden urge to hit Cliffjumper... Do not let me forget.

[The Onix tilts her head, but nods slightly before her trainer hangs up.]

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I wish more humans did. But too often we lack the maturity to realize it.

It would save your kind much violence.

In my opinion, less violence is never a bad thing.

But I can appreciate the beauty of a weapon while still disapproving of the use its maker intended it for.

Depends on the kind of violence. Brawling between comrades never hurt anything. Good way to let off energy.

What if its use was to protect the weak? To protect its owner's charges?

Sparring is different than violence. There's an element of intent involved.

Then I would disapprove of the people it was designed to be used against, and the necessity that provoked its creation in the first place.

Then you have not seen my sort of sparring.

[He says it lightly enough, though, like the thought amuses him.]

You would not like my world, in that case.

You could show me sometime.

[From what she already knows of Ironhide, she has no doubt that it'd be a fascinating spectacle — even if it's as violent as he's implying. Like gladiators sparring in a ring, perhaps.]

And if it has people like you in it, I'm sure I could find something to like about it.

Heh. Only one here who stands a chance is Cliffjumper. Even then, be better if we were our real selves.

[There's a pause. For all he's wearing the uniform and carrying on, events back home are still proving difficult to fully accept...]

There is Prime. He is... difficult to dislike.

If you were planning to hit him anyway, then maybe that's just a case of killing two birds with one stone.

[There's a thoughtful pause here.]

How tall are you, at your real height?

... right. Human expression.

[Shhh, he totally remembered that one.]

Twenty-five feet, five tons.

Birds play a role in quite a few of our expressions. There's another: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

So here you're only about a quarter of your usual size. That must've taken some getting used to.

Your race has a fascination with flying, and flying things.

... Yeah. That, and... other factors.

We have a fascination with progress. Flying was one of the greatest frontiers we conquered, but it was far from the only one. Once we were fascinated with becoming masters of the seas, and in more recent history we had a technological race to the moon.

Did you have that uniform made for yourself once you were here, then? It's sized for a human, but I've never seen anything similar to it in Johto.

I remember the moon race. One country was trying to find a piece of our technology. To get to it before anyone else on your planet did.

... It arrived during the night, six months ago.

And did they succeed at it?

[Now there's a story she'd like to hear. But there's something about that figure, six months — six months is how often those three-day ~~fourth-wall~~ blackouts come, according to her resources.]

After one of those periods where everyone lost three days?

... Yeah. They did.

[He grunts -- a negative.]

No. A holiday. The one with the trees indoors. The lights... gifts.

You don't sound very optimistic. It wasn't that object of power you mentioned before, was it? The one that brought your race to Earth in the first place?

[Oh, boy, more human holidays!]

Christmas. Someone brought you a gift.

No. It was not the All Spark. It was a piece of an old ship -- an engine piece, I think. They installed it in the reactor at Chernobyl.

... Yeah. That was Cliffjumper's guess, too.

Did they.

[And suddenly she wonders just how much of the history she knows was influenced by the Autobots, parallel universe or otherwise.]

You're lucky. Regardless of what comes in the packaging, the fact that someone was thinking of you is a gift in itself.

Yeah. They did. Never told us anything about it... and Prime was pissed.

[Oh, that had been satisfying, to see Optimus sound off on one of the human politicians -- and rightly so.]

Problem with that... is that no one here should know this uniform even exists.

If you had known, could you have prevented the disaster?

[She assumes some things will have stayed the same, at least.]

No one should be able to move us impossible distances against our will, either, and I've seen that happen firsthand. But now it seems whoever is behind our stay here is surprisingly well-informed along with surprisingly powerful.

No. We were not present on your planet when it happened. Not the point. More... the government said they knew nothing of us, or our technology. That those keeping the All Spark and Megatron were a fringe group. Operating outside their influence.

They lied.

[He grunts. She has a point, there.]

Should not be able to revive the dead, either.

I wish I could say that's uncommon, but the truth is that most humans in their position would have said the same thing to you. It's the nature of nations and their leaders to protect and prioritize themselves first, particularly when it comes to state secrets. It doesn't make them right, but it does make them predictable.

I've heard there's no such thing as death here. Not that I'm eager to test it myself.

You would think that in a war with Decepticons, telling us where our technology was used would be priority. In order to protect themselves.

Yeah. Heard that too. But... some here say they had died. Before coming here.

You were still aliens yourselves, and humans have a long history of being skeptical of the people we term "not like us". Even when they're our allies, or we have a common enemy.

Before coming here? You mean they've raised the dead to bring them here?

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