#((making references to his forays as i intend for him to poke around a little before this re: movie nights

[chronosmith-blog]

Fieldwork

The first few tentative forays into burying all of his problems down into a dark hole where they’d never again see the light of day were at least a partial success. Whirl had at least left the shuttle a handful of times and had actually spoken to other people, which was good. It wasn’t, however, until an emergency broadcast from new Iacon crossed his communication array that Whirl genuinely perked up for the first time in a long time. That transmission contained a pair of magic words that had Whirl peering at the rest of the world through the fugue that had descended between him and everything else:

Apocalyptic event.

Hmm. That was... not really alarming, but that had more to do with dealing with multiple apocalyptic events all the time than anything else. It was interesting, though. He listened to the broadcast again, and it yielded further treasures. Whirl craned his helm towards one of the datascreens, his antenna swiveling forward, reading the words he’d already heard aloud.

Unicron sighted. Combat assistance needed.

Whirl debated whether or not he should move Killer and the tire-creature, but if there was fighting to be done, it wouldn’t likely be all the way out here. They were probably safer. Silently, he fed Killer metal scraps until the barnacle refused to eat any more, overfilled the curved bit of sheet metal that had been serving as the tire-creature’s makeshift bowl, and put the ship on emergency power, to keep it secure longer.

The tire-creature watched him worriedly when he left, but obeyed his command to stay put.

Whirl was flying towards Iacon (he wasn’t about to bridge just yet) when he commed up the first person he could think to turn to in times like this. “Unless I’m finally going crazy, I think I just heard you put out an all points bulletin on Unicron,” he said to Prowl through the comm-line, “what the hell is going on? And where do I sign up? Please tell me this is not some kind of emergency broadcast test.”