[ This is not what he expected from today. Of course, it can't be said that he expected anything. He's been mostly just coasting through after All Of That but this... hearing from Megatron certainly wasn't in the cards. ]
How are you--? You're not--!
[ Megatron shouldn't be able to contact the ship if he had followed the reports right. Not that he isn't glad to hear from Megatron--a vast part of him feels relief for the familiarity even if he knows, he knows, that he shouldn't be relieved at all--but he's just surprised. ]
Why did you do it, Megs?
[ Why did Megatron do any of it? The experiments, the lies, the psychological torture; the list could go on and on but Rodimus forced himself to stop. To not think that far past the surface. Things were already bad enough, he could feel it itching under his plating; there was no need to poke the sleeping bear as the humans would say. ]
no subject
Megatron!
[ This is not what he expected from today. Of course, it can't be said that he expected anything. He's been mostly just coasting through after All Of That but this... hearing from Megatron certainly wasn't in the cards. ]
How are you--? You're not--!
[ Megatron shouldn't be able to contact the ship if he had followed the reports right. Not that he isn't glad to hear from Megatron--a vast part of him feels relief for the familiarity even if he knows, he knows, that he shouldn't be relieved at all--but he's just surprised. ]
Why did you do it, Megs?
[ Why did Megatron do any of it? The experiments, the lies, the psychological torture; the list could go on and on but Rodimus forced himself to stop. To not think that far past the surface. Things were already bad enough, he could feel it itching under his plating; there was no need to poke the sleeping bear as the humans would say. ]