Soundwave gave Blitzwing a huge double thumbs-up. “Dude, the O-Pod… you’re jamming the Autobots with righteous tunes! Excellent!”

“How is that even possible?” Professor Arkeville paused. “An O-Pod shouldn’t even work with your systems.”

“Basic Cybertronian medical science,” Starscream replied as he continued Blitzwing’s examination. “Introduce non-living plastics or metals into the body, the surrounding systems break them down, rebuild them into Cybertronian technomatter, and integrate them into the larger mechanism. We break a rotator or slip a gear, we can replace it, and after a short while it becomes living circuitry like the rest of us.”

“Now that is seriously cool,” Sephie smiled.

Arkeville nodded. “Like human flesh converting sterile coral into living bone.”

“Now that is seriously creepy,” Cliffjumper shuddered.

Rick gave Will a look. “So the O-Pod is what? His spleen now?”

Starscream shook his head. “No, it’s just an O-Pod, but it’s plugged into his nervous system.”

“So it’s not essential. You can fix me. Take it out.”

“But if this is broadcasting on the Autobot comm channel…” Starscream smiled.



- Blitzwing Bop