[Voice]

[needlefingers]

I am an Autobot. I earned my badge.

[His voice shakes a little in anger.]

I'll prove it. I'll make things better. You'll see.

[Locked to Rewind]

Look I.

I don't know. I feel like we should talk. Or something.

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[Voice]

[toughtalk]

Do us all a favour and stop making things better.


Because you make them worse.

[Bitter? Slightly.]

[VOICE]

[forcowardice]

Pfffft. Sure. Like that will happen.

AUDIO;

[thehardway]

Chromedome.

...I know you can do better.

[audio]

[shadowsgambit]

[She almost missed this. Almost. But his name caught her eye, and she almost choked on her coffee. Death isn't something you can just come back from.]

What the hell? I thought your leader said you were dead?

[And then she remembers he's a robot. Someone repaired him?]

[audio]

[readytobe]

[Someone might be stalking the network a little, sorry.]

You are Chromedome?

voice; locked to Chromedome

[indisposable]

[Rewind is surprised to see a message from Chromedome directed at him. The initial message, directed to the public, has him worried enough as it is that Chromedome is going to do something really stupid again. Well, so long as Chromedome actually wanted to talk to him, he's more than happy to take the opportunity to hopefully talk him down from whatever stupid thing he's planning to do.]

No, I agree, we need to talk. I was actually planning to arrange a visit, I already talked to Magnus about it.

[voice] Private

[triggerhappycopter]

...

[He almost disconnects, all the paranoia and anxiety of the past month rising up in a tide. It's only pride that stops him. Pride and desperation.]

...... Know where we can get your needles?

[voice]

[stubbornandfrustrating]

It's not a prize you win that you get to stick on your plating and then ignore, Chromedome.

[Ratchet's voice is cold and steady, almost inflectionless.]

You need to keep earning it. You stopped.