ask-smokescreen:

mightymegatron:

::Absolutely. A necessary step to uniting the planet again. Come, go over them with me. It’s your plan, show me what you’ve done.::

::Definitely- and, I mean, I think everyone’s education was cut short or just not very good because of the war and everything leading up to it.::

Smokescreen doesn’t waste his time bridging over, bringing several datapads- a few of them filled with all the books and video feeds he’s managed to recover on different subjects, with help from Soundwave, as well as some educational plans Smokescreen has written out, partially for going through all the resources, as well as some ideas for how the actual classes could be broken down. Smokescreen’s also bringing the covenant, since he did use it to help get some of the historical documents together.

“I think I have everything with me- if you want to take a look, you’re more than welcome to. I think I got everything written down? I got the names of a few bots who might be interested in teaching some of the subjects, even, I just need to know where this could be done!”

Especially those who had been young when the war began.

Megatron looked through the documents, squinting further and further with every entry. “This… is not only intelligible, but you’ve created a plan that with minimal tweaking would grant access to education for the entire population, even as it grows. Smokescreen, if enough volunteers agree to this, we may have a semblence of a functioning school system again. …I’m impressed.”

ask-smokescreen:

mightymegatron:

mightymegatron:

::Of course. Meet me on the landing deck.:: He was sick of being cooped up in his room. Some questionably fresh air may do him some good.

Smokescreen is not good at this. Megatron squints.

“You could have asked me that over comlink, and even then it wouldn’t have to be private. Yes, we can spar, but not if it’s a pretense for larger matters.”

Dangit, Megatron.

“Well- yeah, it’s just… I’d like to spar if you’re up for it, but- Look, Bumblebee has been mentioning something a lot lately, and I don’t know how to tell him that it wouldn’t work, but- you can agree that I’m not exactly leader material, right?”

After a pause, Megatron laughs loudly. He shakes his helm.

“Of course you’re not! No one is, not even the Primes! Look at how flawed they were, fighting each other, scattering and leaving little guidance. Haha I was a miner, a poet and a gladiator! What part of that qualifies me to be a leader? Orion Pax was a data clerk.”

“What material we’re made from doesn’t matter. It is a process. The moment you believe you know everything you need to be a leader is the moment you are no longer qualified. Do I think that you have the experience necessary? Not at all. Neither did I. Do you make idiotic mistakes? Absolutely, but so have I.”

“If there were a reformed council, I would want you on it.”

ask-smokescreen:

mightymegatron:

::Of course. Meet me on the landing deck.:: He was sick of being cooped up in his room. Some questionably fresh air may do him some good.

Smokescreen’s pretty quick to arrive, running over towards Megatron. He’s starting to have second thoughts about asking what he was thinking of, though. Maybe he can just- come up with something else and hope Megatron doesn’t see right through him.

“Hey Megs- you wanna maybe spar? I haven’t had a good chance to practice swordfighting in a while, and was wondering if you’d be up for it.”

Smokescreen is not good at this. Megatron squints.

“You could have asked me that over comlink, and even then it wouldn’t have to be private. Yes, we can spar, but not if it’s a pretense for larger matters.”

ask-smokescreen:

mightymegatron:

It takes a moment for any response to form.

::You can’t tell me that you disagree with him, Smokescreen.::

::I guess so- but why would he run unopposed? You aren’t gonna try to sway the bots of Cybertron to show that you are a good leader? If they knew about what you had been doing during that time period- or if we could get the allspark back, I bet at least some of that support would flip.::

::I’m surprised to hear such advice, coming from you.::

 ask-smokescreen:

mightymegatron:

He was put to rest using the same power that kept him dormant for eons before that. It took an interplanetary event to wake him the first time.

I did see your base. *Before he destroyed it.* I could sense Unicron’s inner workings, and used your ground bridge to get us inside unharmed. Neither of us could have defeated him alone, that much I will admit.

Wait, that’s what woke him up? I thought he just woke up out of nowhere- okay, that’s less worrying.

It was a pretty cozy base, if you ask me. A little small for someone like you, probably. But man, you could sense his inner workings and everything? Is it always like that when you’re on Earth?

I would’ve loved to see you and Optimus working side-by-side- did you two fight off anything together? Like, did Unicron animate something really tough?

…Not always. Now that Unicron has been returned to slumber, the feeling is much quieter. Whispers, rather than visions.

Hmm… I don’t have images of the rock golems, but they were easily the size of mountains. I do have one external image you may enjoy more than I do. *He hand Smokescreen a datafile with this single image inside.*