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"Shame on you"
The venomous hiss caught Skywarp's attention mostly because it promised drama.
That was the only reason why he onlined his optics and turned his helm toward the sound, looking for the speaker.
Only to be surprised by the disdain-filled glare Nova Storm had fixed on him and Thundercracker.
"Oh, you too." Skywarp answered reflexively, slowly sitting up from his sprawl.
Either his move off his trinemate's leg or his answer caught Thundercracker's attention in turn, and he looked up from his datapad.
"Has either of you even looked at Starscream's back anytime in the last week?" Nova Storm spat, optics narrowed in disdain. Skywarp startled, but he didn't have the time to look at Thundercracker before the Rainmaker continued. "If one of my trinemates went around with their wings like that for so long, let alone my fragging Trine Leader I'd throw myself out of the lower deck airlock in shame."
Total silence descended upon the Nemesis Air Barracks as Skywarp and Thundercracker digested the insult.
*have you?* Skywarp pulsed through the Trine bond.
*I... don't...* He got back.
Nova Storm scoffed in disgust and turned his back to them.
"I may not like Starscream much." Acid Storm said at a volume that Skywarp only heard because of how quiet the entire barracks were. "But if you're going to neglect him to that extent, you should at least have the decency of dissolving the Trine, rather than try to have it both way by neglecting your duty to him and enjoying the perks of being 'Command Trine' at the same time. At least then he might have a chance at getting a decent Trine with someone else."
Skywarp felt himself grow hot from the sheer gall. Thunder's hand landed gently on his wing to catch his attention and a *no* pulsed at him through the bond.
The heavy silence broke in whispers of agreement.
Wait.
What?
Thundercracker was still radiating *no* at him, and had also caught his forearms to keep him from reaching for his blasters. That only left...
VOP
It was only after he had teleported himself and Thundercracker away from the Barrack that he considered where he'd taken them.
For anyone else who had his outlier (which there weren't any), that would have been a perfect recipe for getting stuck inside a wall or a floor/ceiling. But Skywarp's warp drive and spatial mapping softwares took up most of his processing power and a good half of his RAM, even when he wasn't actively using his outlier ability.
He had gotten his arm or leg stuck in things and subsequently had to replace them as they fully fused with the obstacle during his first vorns online. But currently, the only way he'd have this kind of accident was if he was warping blind to a place he'd never seen, or if something had been changed in his target location without his knowledge.
So, in short, no fatal teleportation mishap happened (or would happen) just because he did it without thinking.
What could happen was...
He'd warped them to Starscream's quarters.