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[legalcy]

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[legalcy]

Maccadam - the gentleman running the bar - said that the experiment was successful.

...Right, he only told Megatron so far.

[knaval]

...Oh. Yeah, I'm-- we just returned to Cybertron. Thought it had failed. It's been centuries.

[legalcy]

[There's a small noise while Minimus check the timeline in his mind.]

I thought you hadn't gone through the jump.

[knaval]

We tried it and it failed, then we just went back to Cybertron. All of us.

[and minimus knows what happened to megatron after that.]

It's been a long time. Do you want to know what I saw you get up to or would you rather keep it a surprise?

[legalcy]

[The temptation is strong. He knows a few details, that he defended Megatron, that they did not part in a sufficiently satisfying manner, and that he never saw Megatron again. The future is otherwise a mystery.]

I don't wish to know the details. It wouldn't be right to know so much of my future. [And it's not like Riptide remembers the details of the trial. The one other person who could help him improve his arguments refuses to escape his sentence. It's incredibly selfless and unfortunately alluring.] But if I can be idealistic for a moment, could you tell me if I am happy in whatever work I find after...things settle?

[knaval]

[there's a long pause as riptide clearly deliberates how to summarise that without giving too much away.]

Yeah. I think you are. You're living as Minimus, finally, not as Magnus. You're making a lot of mechs lives better.

[legalcy]

[Two statements he is happy to hear, as contradictory as they initially appear.]

So I find a new occupation. [His small stature would not help him as an enforcer.]

[knaval]

You do. But I'm not telling you any more, because you said you didn't want to know! You'll just have to go and live it!

[legalcy]

Ah- I did.

[Might as well spend the rest of this time here pondering over the various possibilities.]

Thank you, Riptide. And I trust that you will be happy in the future as well.

[knaval]

...Yeah. I'm good.

[he doesn't sound convincing.]

I just thought-- you'd like to know. And also... say sorry for biting you. Again!

[legalcy]

Apology accepted.

[The hint of his future was a good enough peace offering.]

Be care, Riptide.