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"Sound The Bugle" Bryan Adams
The mine underfoot exploded, throwing Kup with such a force his optics saw nothing but static. Cursing, Kup shook his head hoping the rattling would jar his CPU back to full working order. When veteran mech was barely through his systems check the sudden arrival of arms fixing a solid hold around his chest forced him to try and grapple with the captor.
"Calm down Old Mech! I'm trying to help!"
The voice of this unit sounded young. Worse yet, it sounded very inexperienced. "Who's there?! What the slag you think you're doing out here?"
"I saw you go down. Saw that you were still online too! So don't complain!" The young mech heaved and began a backward pace, dragging Kup as he went.
The lad had spirit and Kup had to admit he liked that.
"Your name!"
"Hot Rod!"
A/N: The first meeting of Kup and Hot Rod?? I wanted much more, but the song ended far too soon. I was lucky to reach this far!