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WHO: Invisible!Skyfire and YOU
WHERE: The junk pile
WHEN: After the Pillar expedition
WHAT: Skyfire came back in one piece, but invisible. And now he's trying to fix that.

It was a long shot, Skyfire was quite aware of that. But it was the only more or less decent idea he had. Nobody could see him, nobody could hear him, and that made getting help from someone else quite difficult. He had considered making a text post to the network, of course. And then he realized that even if someone offered to help, there wasn't much they could do at all, in his situation.

So here he was now, digging through the junk pile and trying to find something remotely useful. Or at least something that sparked a better idea.

It didn't even occur to him that he was making it look like all kind of things were moving on their own and floating around.

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Starscream actually was out randomly flying and not purposely stalking Jetfire when he spotted him around the junkpile. He circled high overhead and briefly wondered what the idiot was doing. It was probably something stupid either way.

Jetfire appeared to be talking to himself, and while Starscream usually expected the larger jet to be socially weird, it never had gotten quite that far before.

So he circled around again and transformed, fully prepared to land in an overly dramatic fashion. Unfortunately, he came down right in the spot where the invisible Skyfire stood. Starscream didn't even have a chance to open his mouth -- rather the sound heard could be described as a completely awkward crashing sound and some muffled noises.

"You might be---" The sudden roar of jet engines descended fast had Jetfire cut himself off and look up.

That, unfortunately, didn't give him enough time to disengage from Skyfire in time to step away from Starscream.

Or push Skyfire away.

Or anything of the things that could've led to avoiding what happened, since even if Starscream was only about half Skyfire's height, he was still heavy and coming at speed.

So when Starscream came down on Skyfire, he dragged him down, of course, and since Skyfire and Jetfire were still holding hands...

Jetfire lost his balance, stumbling forward and down but managing to catch himself on his hands before he'd completely collapsed on top of the pile they'd suddenly created.

"Starscream!"

He'll ask how Skyfire was in a moment, this was just a bit disorienting.

And awkward.

"... ow."

It wasn't very eloquent, but no one could hear Skyfire complain, anyway. Small blessings. Now, the problem - the rest of the problem - was the fact that Starscream clearly had no idea that he had landed on someone else. Which meant that trying to stand up, or even getting into a slightly more comfortable position, wasn't going to be easy.

Unless he didn't care about simply dropping Starscream as he stood, but... that just wasn't Skyfire's style.

So the only good option, for the moment, was texting Jetfire again. Given the situation he kept it short and to the point.

Please tell him.

It was probably a good thing that neither Starscream could not see how exactly he landed on Skyfire. Because that would have been even more awkward.

And Starscream probably would have commented and made it worse.

Instead he made several grumbling noises before moving to push himself back to his feet ... Well he almost got to that point, but after his vision stabilized and he found that he was floating off the ground on what appeared to be very hard and uncomfortable air ...

"What is going on?! What did you do?!"

He tried to scrambled up but he was caught between a rock and a hard place. Or rather right between Skyfire and Jetfire.

Tugged between looking at the screen, which was made more difficult than otherwise because Starscream was partly in the way, and dealing with said squirming Seeker and his complaints, Jetfire basically ended pushing Starscream back down himself.

If just to have a moment to try and figure things out because Starscream trying to get up while he was still on top of him (and Skyfire) just wasn't helping anything.

"Can you just--- I didn't do anything!" A static sigh ecaping him, Jetfire slowly shifted off the two of them - and then flickered, sort of twitched a few times, and ended up on the other side of the two of them, sitting awkwardly on the ground.

Well.

"Pillar effect, Starscream. It's Skyfire," Jetfire said as he got to his feet and turned around.

As awkward as the situation was - which to be honest didn't seem likely to change any time soon - at least now Skyfire could move. He didn't think it'd be a good idea to change his general location until they got things more or less sorted out, but he did sit up in a more comfortable position. That was already an improvement.

The next step was changing the settings so that his texts were directed at both Jetfire and Starscream. That should make the conversation, if it could be called that, a little easier.

I can't be seen or heard. We were trying to find a way to fix that.

Starscream was still partially on top of the invisible Skyfire -- at least on some piece of him. Who knows what. Probably a leg. He received the text and shifted his gaze between Jetfire and empty air.

"Are you sure it's him?"

He narrowed his gaze and reached forward to poke the invisible hard surface several times. Which probably made Skyfire feel even more awkward considering who know where Starscream's finger was jabbing.

"... Yes, Starscream, I'm quite sure it's Skyfire." For a brief moment, Jetfire just stares at Starscream and his poking of what seems to be empty air, before he walks over (carefully, but this time no glitch displaces him, thankfully), one hand out to get a grip on where Skyfire is so he doesn't walk right into him.

"And stop that." With that, Jetfire grabbed Starscream and pulled him back. Did Starscream even consider that he had no idea where he might be poking? Jetfire didn't even bother to point out or think that it was rude because it wasn't as if Starscream would care about that.

For a moment it seemed like things were going better, and then suddenly Starscream was poking everywhere. Great. He was this close to getting into his vents, too.

"Hey--!"

... and of course, that wasn't going to work. He was glad that Jetfire took care of moving Starscream away before he had to do it himself.

Of course it's me. Why would I lie about that?

Unfortunately for both of them, around the time Jetfire decided to pull him back was about the same time that Starscream got his hand lodged in Skyfire's chest vents.

"AHHH! LET ME GO!"

Wincing at the yell, Jetfire didn't let go - but he stopped pulling Starscream backwards, since it was hard to tell what was going on and if Starscream was being serious or just complaining about being carted away.

"Calm down. What happened?" Jetfire glanced from Starscream to the empty space where Skyfire so clearly was, and didn't say 'what did you do', but that was basically what he meant anyway.

Skyfire would have loved to explain, but texting an answer wasn't exactly his priority at the moment. He'd tell them his version of the story later.

Right now, he grabbed Starscream's hand and tried to dislodge it from his vent. It'd be easier if he would just stay still.

Oh, Skyfire grabbing a hold of Starscream's hand just made his flailing worse. Because oh god something invisible had him and he can't see to shoot it.

Maybe he could try.

"What does it look like?! It's trying to take my hand off! I told you this wasn't that blasted overgrown version of you! Whatever you did, Jetfire, undo it this instant!"

Because it was, once again, Jetfire's fault.

... He couldn't seriously believe it wasn't... With a groan, Jetfire just renewed his grip on Starscream with a shake of his helm.

"It's Skyfire, Starscream, no matter what you seem to... er, believe. Just let go and let him get you out of whatever you got stuck in!" He wasn't going to bother to argue about this being his fault or not, not really worth it at the moment.

What was important was getting Starscream... ah, unstuck from Skyfire and perhaps then they could have a proper discussion without Starscream flailing like a startled protoform.

This was getting more and more awkward by the second. Jetfire's stronger grip helped, however, and Skyfire took the chance to renew his own efforts. It only took a few more seconds to finally get Starscream's hand out of the way.

And then Skyfire took a couple of steps back, just in case. It was only after getting to a safe distance that he took the time to text them again.

Of course it's me. And I had Starscream's hand stuck on a chest vent. So stop poking.

Even with Starscream unstuck he was going to flail around because this whole situation was ridiculous and Jetfire was ~~having an affair~~ talking with an invisible Skyfire.

"I demand someone tell me exactly what is going on here! Why is he invisible?!"

Of course he ignored the fact that they already had stated that they were attempting to find out why.

Sighing, Jetfire went to pull Starscream a step or two back with him, if for nothing else to minimise the chance Skyfire would get caught by those... ah, expansive gestures.

"It's because of the---" And then the Pillar's parting gift struck again, and while Starscream remained where he was, Jetfire flickered out in a burst of noise-less static and reappeared a few feet behind him.

And while it was where he'd intended to go, he'd also intended to take Starscream with him.

"---The Pillar, Starscream. It's destruction did leave some effects lingering on several of us, and Skyfire is, ah... apparently among those."

Skyfire nodded out of reflex, and immediately felt silly about it. It wasn't quite that he didn't remember he couldn't be seen, but those little habits were pretty much impossible to break, too.

I touched it by accident when we tried to destroy it. This was the result.

Honestly, he couldn't understand how it was harder to believe than all of the other annoying effects people displayed lately. Unless Starscream was just being stubborn. That might be the simplest explanation.

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