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This is Optimus Prime...





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Shut up! Shut your mouth! You don't know what you're talking about!

[Nova suddenly skids to a long halt, throwing up sparks from her boots as she goes crashing into a wall. Her fingers curve into useless claws that pull at nothing while she stares at nothing with wild, frantic optics]

I don't need your help, or his! Nobody gets to-

[She pulls in a another vent to shriek it out, but it only escapes as a tiny ghost of a sound]

Just because those monsters the primes told you whatever you wanted to hear doesn't mean you're right all the time. I want you to curl up and die. Thats what this is. That's all this is.

[emojibot]

You are not lacking in intelligence, Nova Storm. What I am saying to you is not subjective. Your behaviour has changed recently, and those close to you will notice, if they haven't already. Especially if even I can see it.

[he frowns, though she can't see it, rolling his head on his shoulders. sure, she'd always been hateful towards him, and he can understand why, but she'd never sent him messages like this before. it just seems desperate and projecting.]

I will not now or ever deny my part in your suffering. But I do not control your behaviour and I don't believe if my spark went out in the next five minutes, it would change anything about what you're doing.

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[Nova Storm makes a face and mouths along to what he's saying, even though she knows he's right]

How do you know? [She mutters just because, and kicks the wall just because, too] Maybe it would. Maybe everything would be fixed and I wouldn't be-

[Her throat closes up tight the way it does anytime she gets close to verbally telling anyone about what Antlers has done to her, and she wheezes pathetically for a few moments before she finally snarls and kicks the wall again, harder]

It isn't any of your business if I self destruct, anyway. It isn't his, either. He saw to that.

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Things are never that simple. [sometimes he wishes it was.] It is my business, and you know Megatron would not want you to self-destruct either. I know I haven't done... the best job of protecting Cybertronians on Earth, but it still matters here.

[he wouldn't lump megatron in with his own bad choices, as he hid so much from him. he says cybertronians, too, as he failed his autobots just as much the decepticons.]

Who?

[binary_runaway]

[Nova Storm immediately hisses through her teeth]

Your lackey doesn't get to have an opinion about me and what I do! Neither of you do! He chose you, and you chose autobots first, humans first. He doesn't get an opinion, and neither does-

[Another hiss, sharp and pained, that fades into silence]

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He's not my-- [optimus runs a hand down his face.] Neither does who? Who do you keep alluding to? Is it someone who has been giving you trouble?

[binary_runaway]

[Nova Storm hisses again, but this time it's less angry and much more fearful, although while Optimus likely can recognize that, Nova cannot]

Nobody! Okay?! Nobody's been giving me trouble and nobody needs to worry about a slagging thing and nothing! [A sudden BURST of noise as Nova darts into a run before she activates her jet boots and launches into a sonic boom with a crackSNAP and a dull roar]

Matters!

[emojibot]

[unfortunately this is the end of the call, as her sonic boom pretty much blows out his comm. optimus slumps forward to drop his head into his hand with a pained groan, glad that he had the foresight to leave megatron recharging in his room in the lab.]

Damn it...