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NOTES: I'm starting to think this is more of a series of related introspection, and less of a story, story.
He was never really one to question and wonder about the odd habits of those around him. Even in the almost claustrophobic living conditions being endured on the Ark with the arrival of new mechs, and thus making living space a precious commodity. So it was a bit startling to his own cpu when he found himself wondering and observing the strangeness that seemed to center around a certain group.
It wasn't anything really universe shattering, and some of it could be logically blamed on several having spent so many human years working together on this planet. Yet it still niggled at the back of his processors like a stray data thread trying to fit into a program that was not being found. The odd thought compounding the first time he noticed an odd sort of avoidance that happened when that group and the seekers met on the battle field. Both sides seeming to do all they could to not be facing one another in combat if it can be helped, and doing so in ways to make it not seem like such. A very odd sort of thing, as it was not just a select group of seekers that attempted to avoid strafing an area that held that group, but all of them that did so. Causing for odd sorts of rivalries in battle partners to crop up.
The one time he had wondered about such out loud, one of the original Ark members had just paused and shrugged, saying it just had always been as such. After the first initial skirmish when it looked like Starscream and his trine had stalled for some reason when they had swept the battlefield. Though it had quickly passed and was just forgotten about mostly.
That answer had actually made him wonder even more, especially when the odd story of the one time the security director Red something or other, had suffered a processor error due to sever damage to his cpu, and the events involving the seeker Starscream not really taking advantage of the injured mech. At least not in a way that would have really been beneficial to the Air Commander, despite the normal brilliance displayed by that one outside of his antagonizing Megatron. The off colored jokes of a past relationship had been dismissed quickly in his musing, as that wouldn't explain why the reluctance was seen with many and not just those two. Especially, as the Second in Command was another one of the autobots who was avoided by the seekers and in turn attempted to avoid them unless absolutely necessary, and with out any undue force.
It was odd, but he did not have all the facts to even think of what that could truly mean. For now he would just attempt to compile a list of the mechs, and figure out which one would be willing to enlighten him with the right price offered.