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[ HUFF ]

Fine. Where is it?

Not anywhere you'll be able to get easily, unfortunately, so it works better as a temporary solution. But I can stow the excess there and bring you what you need for now.

That'll work. How quickly will it take you to make more?

[ Because if everyone has any better luck than him figuring out how to transform then they're going to need it. Because he is not sharing. ]

I can make about two cubes per week. [ a severe underestimation, but Thundercrack doesn't need to know that ] Good thing most of us were trapped in human form. In the meantime, how many do you want now?

Three.

[ Enough to keep him going and restock without using up all of the energon they have in case something happened. ]

Alright. I'll have those out to you later today.

Good. I'll keep an eye out for you.

[ It's about two hours later that Knock Out starts for Thundercracker's place. The car he pulls up in is in much better shape than the last time he arrived here — he's gotten it an upgrade to look almost exactly like his dearly-missed alt mode, actually. Now it's finally something he can be proud of, and oh, he is proud of it, which shows in the way he pays more attention to his car than to Thundercracker or the warehouse, as he steps out of it. ]

Delivery for a fighter jet!

[ Thundercracker notices the update on the car and fights the urge to ask if Knock Out is compensating. He's more interested in what the other has for him rather than his vanity project. ]

I don't see them.

[ Straight and to the point, as always. ]

Well, I couldn't exactly drive with them in my lap, now could I?

[ He swings around to the back of the car, pops open the trunk — and there they are, 3 carefully nestled energon cubes. They're pretty large on a human, so he has to lift them up to offer them out one at a time, and he goes for the first to do just that. ]

[ Thundercracker doesn't waste any time, grabbing one and inspecting it. Because hold up, there's something off about this. ]

They're blue.

[ Knock Out blinks, looking genuinely caught off guard. Of all the complaints he'd anticipated (he has no idea how the taste is, after all), this was definitely not one. ]

Of course they are. They're blue, like energon. What were you expecting?

Energon isn't blue. It's magenta.

[ Seriously. What the fuck is this shit, Knock Out. ]

What? [ He blinks again, then frowns. ] No it isn't. It's blue -- it looks exactly like this.

[ Dammit, appreciate his hard work. ]

I know what energon looks like and it doesn't look like this.

[ A gesture to said hard work. Which he'd appreciate a lot more if it was the right color. He thought you said you could do this, Knock Out, is he going to have to take it back? ]

[ He scowls. ]

Fine, then energon looks different in your world, for some reason. Try it, you'll find it functions in exactly the same way.

[ Hopefully. God that will be embarrassing if he's wrong. What if their systems are different for some reason? ]

[ He scowls, and there's the implicit implication in his look that if something goes wrong someone is going to pay and it won't be the one with wings and jet engines. ]

Fine. [ Snapped back, but at least he attempts to give it a try. Which means his face contorts at the taste - unfamiliar as it is. ] This tastes horrible. Is that your doing or just a byproduct of it not being energon?

[ But it hasn't killed him, and his internal readouts indicate that his system accepts it as if it was the real thing. So that's something. ]

It's energon! [ did you think this scowl was as dark as it was going to get? because it darkens. ] It's synthetic energon, but energon all the same. And it did perfectly well in my test engine, I'll have you know. Taste might be a little off, but can you really complain if it does the job?

If you wanted me to call it energon you should have bothered to make it look like energon. [ Okay, now he's just enjoying watching Knock Out's reaction. ] Hn.

Looks like it's a passible substitute.

[ Look at all that high praise. ]

[ He grits his teeth, annoyed, but isn't willing to pursue what's shaping up to be a circular argument. He'll be the bigger bot here. ]

You'll find it perfectly serviceable, I feel certain. Now, as long as I'm out here, is there anything else you'd need from me?

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oops sorry i renamed him 'thundercrack'

you're not sorry at all

if ko ever gets into making designer drugs he'll name one of them that

well now he kind of has to

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shhhhhhhhh it's a long month until i can reapp

good thing we did this in ic contact

we planned ahead for my failure

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