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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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"... 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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