Summary: He sees both sides of the coin...
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"Flip"
By J.T. Magnus, "Turbo"
I sat on the shore almost midway between Autobot City and Deceptibase...
Midway, like myself...
Flipping between the two me's like a human would flip a coin.
Flip.
Blue robot.
Flip.
Yellow robot.
Flip.
Decepticon.
Flip.
Autobot.
Flip.
'Evil'.
Flip.
'Good'.
Among all the Transformers, I perhaps have the most unique view of this war. I'm not a Decepticon with honor like Bludgeon, or a merciless Autobot like Grimlock often is. I'm not a Decepticon with doubts like Thundercracker or an Autobot with doubts like Mirage...
I'm the Doublespy.
Flip.
Counter-punch.
Flip.
Punch.
Flip.
Conqueror.
Flip.
Protector.
I'm the only "Triple changer" with two robot modes and one vehicle mode.
I'm my own worst enemy, in more ways than one...
As an Autobot I'm sworn to defend the freedom of all life...
As a Decepticon, my goal is to oppress that life.
Flip.
Megatron's trooper.
Flip.
Prime's trooper.
It's a double life of the worst kind, if any Decepticons made me for an Autobot I'd buy it...
And the same if some of the Autobots made me for a Decepticon.
No matter which me I am, I'm always being shot at by bots circumstances force me to consider friends in one form and enemies in the other.
I know what you're about to say, "You said you're point of view is unique. What about Doubledealer."
What about him? He's a mercenary, not a spy. Both sides know he will work for the other if they pay him more.
Flip.
Peace through tyranny.
Flip.
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.
I have to undo my efforts in one form in the other...
And make it look like I didn't do it in the first place.
I'm leading two lives, one of them's going to have to give...
And I wonder which it will be...
Flip.
Flip.
It's not easy.
It's not fun.
And I don't like it.
Somebodies has to do it.
I both agree that it might as well be me.
Flip.
Flip.
I have to be careful making friends in the Decepticons, one wrong word or transmission that Soundwave and his cassettes might pick up on and we'd both be dead. The closest I have to a friend in the Decepticons would most likely be Thundercracker, simply because he tries to see both sides, he doesn't think utter peace is the way, but can't agree completely with overtaking planets...
I don't know about the Autobots... They see things one way, even Mirage really... He just wants to go back to his old life...
I'm not sure I can...
I'm not even sure who I am anymore...
Flip.
Am I Counter-punch, a Decepticon pretending to be an Autobot?
Flip.
Or Punch, an Autobot who's gone undercover as a Decepticon?
'Am I a man who dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who dreams he is a man?'
Who's the real me and who's the disguise?
Or am I two Cybertronians who share the same body?
What separates Autobot and Decepticon?
Idealogy?
What separates Punch and Counter-punch?
I came out here to think it over, the war's ended, so who do I want to be?
I stand up and take out a small disc with the Autobrand on one side and the Deceptibrand on the other and flip it in the air to let fate decide who I am...
It lands and I know who I am...
I'm the Doublespy.