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[unflights]

Seems like someone hasn't updated this in a long time...

"Ghost here. Raja, please use the text if you're calling. Don't just screech at the communicator again unless it's an emergency."

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[unflights]

[ He sits down, slowly, and nods along to Knock Out's explanation. It is true. His wings crawl just being in here, and he holds them in a ready position... Just in case he has to make a quick exit he knows, rationally, he won't need.

He folds his hands in his lap, deliberately. Despite his nerves, he wants Knock Out to not have any reason to assume he's a threat; he remembers what Needlenose said about him holding grudges. ]

...I thought... [ But he frowns, shakes his head. Probably shouldn't add more to that thought. ]

[redcosmedic]

Hm?

[ Clear invitation for Pariah to finish the thought if he wants, as he calibrates the rifle's output controller with the tester. Then lifting up the business end to peer down the barrel with a frown, tapping a few numbers into his datapad. ]

[unflights]

I... Thought you might be afforded the Brigade labs. Sir.

[ He winces as soon as it's out of his mouth. Perhaps he shouldn't have accepted that invitation to speak. With all the activity going on these days in those labs, maybe Knock Out would find it too noisy, Pariah thinks- But all the same, it feels a little odd.

If he survived this interaction, maybe he would ask Starscream about it. ]

[redcosmedic]

[ Despite what Pariah probably thinks about him, Knock Out is typically amiable with people so long as they're respectful of his station and not threatening him, or complicating his life by being stupid. So all the large Seeker gets in response to the guess is a shrug, and no evidence of offense to the presumption. ]

He hasn't offered them, and I haven't invited myself on account of how possessive he clearly is of everything His, His, and His. He emblemed the door, for Solus' sake. If he'd wanted me there, I'm sure it would have come up.

[unflights]

[ He nods slowly, frowning slightly. Yes, definitely add that to the growing list of things Pariah needs to discuss with the Winglord at some point.

But maybe not something to bring up with the doctor until it was over. ]

...You said tweaks. [ He nods to the rifle. May as well change the subject. ] To the 'power ratio'?

[redcosmedic]

[ Knock Out catches the frown and laughs a little. ]

Don't worry about it. I expect if I'd had a different set of appendages on my shoulders, the outcome might have been different, but c'est la vie.

Right, the power ratio between energy consumed by the rifle's power core versus its output shot. I was revisiting my triple changer project notes and had some ideas for calculating that differential.

[unflights]

You worked on the triple changers?

[ Colour him immediately interested. Most of the initial Decepticon triple changers had been natural-borns, course, but he'd fought alongside the 'false' ones too. They'd all been good mechs. Good Decepticons. ]

...Shockwave's domain, here. And Holotype's. Mostly Holotype's.

[redcosmedic]

I'm a doctor, I've worked on pretty much every frame type. Triple-changers, minicons, combiners, you name it.

Shockwave believes everything's his domain, that doesn't make it true. I don't know a Holotype though. Different universes, and all that.

[ He finishes whatever calibrations he wanted to adjust and puts his tool away. ]

There you go.

[unflights]

Good. You don't want to know her.

[ And that is apparently all he'll say on that particular indvidiual. ]

Thank you. I owe you one. [ He's not afraid to say it, either. He owes Knock Out one regardless, in the Winglord's stead. ]