21 - Video // Action for Goldenrod

[show_my_cannons]

[The video features Ironhide and his Onix -- Napalm -- exiting the doors of the Goldenrod Gym. Judging from the angle of the video, the 'gear is being held by the newly dubbed "Green", since it's so close to the ground. From inside the Gym, one can clearly hear the sound of sobbing...]

[Ironhide shoots a glance at Napalm, who, despite not having any shoulders, does a fairly good impression of a shrug. He shakes his head, then steps forward and takes the 'Gear, revealing that it is, in fact, Green filming.]

Never thought a Leader would start to cry when they were defeated...

[He pauses, chewing his lip for a moment.]

... Never thought I would be here this long. A year should not feel so...

[He looks to Napalm, who snorts, and lowers her head. Ironhide heaves himself up, as Green scrambles behind him.]

Cliffjumper. Get your things. Time to roll out.

Comments

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Obviously that means he oughta create a ruckus to stir things up around there, then!

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

...

Are you serious?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

How long've you known me now, old man?

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Hmn.

Year now, I guess. Huh?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

S'gotta be.

Or almost a year, at the very least.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

I was not keeping track.

... was I supposed to?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[A chuckle.]}

Heh, nah.

Hell, a year's probably nothin' to you, right?

_{[She figures after a few millennia, a year must seem like the blink of an eye after awhile.]}

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Hn. At first, it was.

... longer I spend with your kind, the longer it seems. Must be glitch or something.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

... Nah. S'just being human.

... Y'know, the FUNNY thing is we sorta work the same way.

The years never seem longer than when you're a kid.

The older you get... the quicker they seem to go.

... We just have so much fewer than you guys.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Then by your logic, your years should still pass in a moment's notice for me. And for Cliffjumper.

[Her last statement though, makes him pause. And turn serious.]

... Maybe before the war, you did. After... the young ones were lucky to make it that long.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Well-- being human probably makes 'em seem longer. Like I said.

... We don't live for millions of years, so even an old man'd probably feel one pass more slowly than one of you. Y'know?

_{[She trails off at that point, though.]}

... A lot die, huh?

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Hn. Yeah. Guess that makes sense. Weird... sort of sense.

[Ironhide never dealt well with change. That the years seem so much longer now... it's unsettling.]

... they did. War is not kind to the young and untrained. Neither is the enemy.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

... Yeah.

Haven't yet met an enemy that is.

_{[Even if she's never been at war... it's always the young that seem to suffer at the hands of corruption.]}

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

That is because there are none.