“So… the Autobots would be put out just as much!” Cliffjumper replied before a guitar solo derailed his train of thought. “Grrrn… I hate this universe! I’m not even a Decepticon and my comm frequency just happens to be the same as yours! What are the odds of that?”

“Astromic-” the professor began.

“Rhetorical question!”

Starscream raised a hand and waited for the room’s attention to return to him. “Given the situation, we’re left with an unpleasant temporary solution to our problem… emergency stasis lo-”

“I don’t like it.” Cliffjumper started his sentence before Starscream had finished his own.

“Wait…” Sephie interjectied. ”What is that? Sounds bad.”

“It’s nothing serious in and of itself, Sephie.” Starscream replied. “It’s basically a forced systems shutdown, allowing self-repair systems to work unimpeded. We’d be cut off from the emergency band until Soundwave can find Blitzwing and hopefully shut off the sonic interference in stasis lock.”

“There’s a ‘but’ coming up.”

“Err... yes. But the risk is… we’d all be vulnerable to attack if the Autobots have soldiers unaffected like Soundwave is. If they were to sabotage our intruder alert and self-defense systems…”



- Blitzwing Bop