"Hey Red! What's shakin'?" Air Raid called, leaning his chair back and grinning.
Red Alert stopped, turning to look at Air Raid wordlessly.
"How'd your weekend go? Have fun at the beach?" Air Raid continued when he didn't respond. "Heard you had a bit of a problem in with the washrack."
Red Alert stared at him in silence for a long moment. "I already knew it was you that put the paint in the dispensers, Air Raid. I know everything you do."
Air Raid's grin slipped slightly. "Uh..."
Stepping closer, Red Alert lowered his voice. "They told me it was you. They told me where you got it from, too."
"Who did? The little invisible men?" Air Raid kept up the bravado, but he leaned away instinctively.
The Security Director leaned towards him, a odd half-smile spreading across his face. "The voices tell me a lot of things, Air Raid. Like how you snuck it out of the medbay supply room while Ratchet was busy threatening Sideswipe."
Air Raid stared.
"They told me about what you did last night, too," Red Alert whispered hoarsely.
"I didn't do anything!"
"Yes you did. They saw you in the control room with Slingshot, and they told me..."
Air Raid's optics were wide. "But... you weren't... I..."
"I told you, the voices tell me everything." The odd smile vanished, and Red Alert stared hard at Air Raid. "Everything."
His mouth worked, but no sound came out. "I've got to go," Air Raid managed to squeak finally, scrambling to his feet. He almost bowled over an indignant Slingshot as he fled out the door.
Someone snickered as Red Alert straightened, taking a drink of his energon and calmly walking to his table.
"Enjoying yourself?" Prowl asked wryly as Red Alert settled into the seat across from him.
"Maybe a little," Red Alert admitted, eying the chessboard between them. "But I bet he behaves himself on monitor duty from now on. There's only one question now."
"What's that?" Prowl looked up curiously, fingertips on a chess piece.
"How long it'll take him to realize that I really just record all the security footage, and that if he doesn't want me to know something, he shouldn't do it directly in front of a camera."