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Prompt 1: Lugnut & Blitzwing (Amnesia)
Summary: Lugnut wakes up after a battle with the Autobots only he can no longer remember who he is
He felt numb, weightless and lifeless. Drifting in and out ofunconsciousness. His memory banks were blank and his internal chronometer wasfrozen, unable to tell him how he ended up in this situation and how much timehad passed.
"ug…nu…"
Everything around him was too dark. Or was everything too bright? He couldn't tell the difference anymore. Where was he exactly? He was becoming more aware of his surroundings and that he was lying on something hard but his joints felt too heavy to move at the moment.
"Lu…ut…"
He knew that voice. That fragmented voice with a noticeable accent to it. He tried to answer back but even his voice box required too much effort to operate.
"Lugnut…?"
Lugnut. What is a Lugnut? Was that his name? It sounded familiar to him. Wait, why couldn't he remember his own designation? Why couldn't he remember anything about himself?
"Mein Kamerad?"
He had to think. He had to stay calm sort out his processor. Ok, start from the beginning. His name was Lugnut, he was a demolitions specialist of some kind, and a gladiator before the…before what exactly?
"Oh, I know! Let's draw a silly stuff all over his faceplate!"
A war. That's right, they were at war with someone and he served as a lieutenant under a commander. No. No, that wasn't right. Not a commander, maybe a captain? A general? A lord-
"Would you just wake up already?!"
Lugnut's five optics flickered back online, his vision was covered with static, but he could just make out the angry red faceplate hovering over him. He shook his helm and the static cleared and he got a better look at the big chinned mech hovering over him. Running through his processor, trying to register the face, but his storage units were nearly all blank. He had no memory of this mech.
"Who?" he asked, surprised that he couldn't recognize the sound of his own voice.
To his utter astonishment the face spun inside its own helmet and in its place was a black jack-o-lantern like face that grinned down at him with a crooked smile.
"Wakey wakey, sleeping beauty!" it laughed hysterically.
"What in the name of the Allspark?!" He cried out and scrambled back, putting as much distance between him and the demonic face as possible. "Who-What are you?"
The mech paused in consideration and the head spun once more, this time a long blue face gazed quizzically down at him through a cold monocle eye.
"Finally back online, I see," he mused softly. "Although your circuits appear to be a bit scrambled after what happened."
"What did happen exactly?" he asked cautiously. This mech seemed to know him and was familiar enough to address him so leisurely, but Lugnut could not predict what the strange mech would do or say next.
The face spun and the hotheaded face returned with a vengeance and shouted "You and that primus forsaken punch!" he roared. "How many times do I have to tell? Warn me before you use the punch! You did more damaged to us than to those puny autobots!"
Punch?
Lugnut inspected his claws and was surprised to find that he indeed did have a wide range of weapons at his disposal. Were they in a fight? Was that why he couldn't remember anything? Who were the Autobots and why were they fighting them in the first place?
"Was I in some sort of accident?"
The Icy face was now staring at him wearily, slowly piecing everything together.
"We should report back to Megatron," he mused. Lugnut was clearly suffering from some sort of memory glitch, but until they scanned him over they couldn't determine how severe the damage was.
"What is a Megatron?"
The mech froze and Lugnut waited to see if another face would pop out, but instead the mech didn't seem to have a face to match his current emotion, so the blue face continued to gawk at him in disbelieve, until the head spun rapidly and the crazy one returned, laughing hysterically at the top of his lungs.
"Ahahahahahahahahaha. Now I know I'm crazy because not even with amnesia could you ever forgot, Lord Megatron! ,"
Lugnut had finally grown tired of this laughing moron. He stood up and stomped over the mech who was choking on his own vocal unit, doubled over as he continued that high pitched, processor-aching laugh.
"Enough!" He hurled the mech up by his wing joints so they were optic level.
The hothead face glared at him defiantly, spouting out curses and threats, but Lugnut chose to ignore them.
"I will not be made of fool of, especially for your own amusement, Blitzwing!"
The mech froze in his struggles and the icy face offered a genuine smile and said. "You remember my name."
Lugnut blinked his giant optic. Yes, he remembered now, Blitzwing was the mech's name and he was a triple-changer with multiple personality units.
"Yes," he lowered his partner gently. "I am still missing key memory units, but I am slowly remembering a few things. I still do not know of these Autobots who attacked us, nor this Megatron you speak of."
Blitzwing nodded in understanding and placed a comforting servo over the giant's claw.
"We will get through this, one memory at a time, my friend. Come, let us return to base. The allspark fragment is lost to us anyway."
Lugnut did not know what this allspark fragment was, but clearly it was not of importance at the moment.
"Yes, that is probably for the best."
Blitzwing notified Megatron on his comlink that they were returning to base and turned to face his simpleminded companion. Where he promptly switched back to Hothead and whacked Lugnut around the helm.
"And the next time you pull a stunt without warning me, again, I'll leave you for the Autobots to haul away in stasis cuffs!"
Lugnut lunged at the smaller mech, but the Random face dodged, transforming into his jet mode and took off into the sky, laughing as he said, "After, all, I'm supposed to be the one a few circuits short of a motherboard!"
Lugnut rolled his optic and transformed as well, taking off and flying after the swift jet. He was still unsure of his current predicament though. There were still too many memory banks he couldn't access, and even though he knew a few things about himself, there was no guarantee all his memories would ever return.
Blitzwing leisurely rolled around the heavy aircraft, silently reassuring Lugnut that he was still here and guiding him home safely, and that small gesture comforted him.
He remembered Blitzwing, and for the moment that was enough.
-End-
(Tomorrow - Prowl & Lockdown (Bounty Hunters)
