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[The video fizzles on to a pair of bright blue, glowing eyes framed in white. Sure does look like a giant robot. A very confused giant robot.]

Rodimus? Rodimus. Please come in. This isn't funny anymore. I mean it was funny at first in a sort of ironic way, but now it's... not? Anymore?

Anybody...?

Maybe this is a dream? But then usually Ultra Magnus is talking backwards and Wing shows up to tell me that I forgot my front plating and I have a test to take...

Uh. Is anyone here?

Helloooooooooo?

[Maybe he's finally somehow found the Knights of Cybertron?! ... No. His luck is rarely that good.]

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So wait. There's another giant robot dude in the city?

[Now the kid is staring with interest and without shame, trying to take in differences between the two. This one is a bit spikier, maybe?]

Who're you, then?

[Drift smiles nervously and nods.]

My name's Drift. Who are you?

[Puffing himself up a little, Todd answers with pride.]

I'm the Toad.

[Deflating a little with a grin, he adds,]

You can call me Tolansky, though. You know Wing, then, huh?

The Toad? You... look like a human to me.

Alright. I uh. I will.

[He brightens a bit out of the awkward haze.]

I sure do! He's- [The most important person I ever met? My moral compass? Someone I accidentally got killed?]

We're uh. Good friends.

[Oh there's that awkward again...]

[Good thing Todd's mostly oblivious to awkward, isn't it? He's not the best with social cues, sometimes.]

Ain't human, bro. I'm a mutant!

[Todd shows off by flicking his long tongue out, so the phone's camera can see.]

Wing's my buddy, too, yo. Nice guy. Was gonna teach him how to dance but couldn't find any music.

... Oh.

[Color him confused.]

Sorry. I uh. Didn't really have a lot of intimate contact with humans or anything like that.

[Ahh that wrings a chuckle from him.]

He is, isn't he? Dancing? What kind of... music would you need?

[It's all right, Drift. Todd is a little weird all around.]

Anythin' with a good beat, I guess!

[He eyes Drift speculatively.]

Why, you got some?

Ah... no. I'm not-

Uh. No.

[Wing is the cultured one, not him.]

But couldn't you always make some music? Of your own?

Trust me, bro, you don' wanna hear me sing.

[Todd snickers at himself. He might act like a bit of an egomaniac in some things, but that's more self-defense than anything else, and he at least knows he can't sing.]

Ah.

Well music doesn't have to be singing, does it?

[He's asking honestly. He's not exactly the artsy type.]

Uh.

[He has to think about that for a second.]

Guess not. Don't know how to play any instruments, though. Or, uh, don't even have any instruments. You seen any guitars or flutes or anything 'round here yet?

Well. I guess not.

What's a "guitar"?

[You've taken him aback again, Drift. Todd stares at him in confusion.]

It's-- uh. An instrument. To make music with. It's got strings, uh, and a hole in it, and... uh. I guess it doesn't matter, really.

[Who made music without a guitar, these days? Well, that Todd knows of. Most music he knows about it random rock music.]

Oh. Right...

Strings. And a uh. A hole.

[He's trying to picture this and he's probably way off. He kind of stares down like he's thinking way too hard about what this thing might look like.]

Wel anyways, if I run across something like that, I'll be sure to tell you.

[This is his mission now.]

[Now Todd's just amused, and he looks it. Whether or not Drift can recognize amusement on a human(ish) face is up to him, of course.]

Thanks, bro. Maybe I'll even learn how ta play, if you do!

[Which is probably a long shot. So he's probably safe from having to learn how to play.]

You're all good, right? Wing explained everything and whatever?

Hmm. Deal.

[Because why not.]

Uh, yeah. I think so. He did.

Good. Then I don't hafta. Gets kinda old, going over it a gazillion times, you know? Well, welcome to Verdana, or whatever the place is called, all right?

[Grin.]

I take it you've been here a while?

[Have a smile.]

Thank you.

A few weeks, yeah. This place is totally old hat to me, now.

[Practically an expert, he is. Really!]

Well, if I have any questions I know who to come to, then.

Totally, bro. You come to me.

[He looks even more proud at that. He's useful, oh yeah, he's important, oh yeah.]

Guess I'll letcha hang with Wing now, though. Unless you got questions now that he ain't got answered for ya yet.

[Nevermind that Wing has been here a whooooole lot longer than Todd has.]

Thanks.

And yeah, he and I have some catching up to do.

[And hugging. Lots of hugging.]

I'll leave ya to it, then. See ya 'round, big guy.

[And there will be jumping on, too. It'll be awesome.]

See you!

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