That last comment almost made him start shooting, but he held himself back. He didn't need an admission; he had all the data he needed. Now he was just biding his time.
"It's not as if he speaks Japanese, and if I'd asked him likely that's the first thing he would have done. Come now, that's like trying to drive a nail in with a rocket launcher."
He examined his nails, trying his best to look utterly unconcerned. "Besides, he's a skilled communications officer who is rapidly allowing his human form to compromise him emotionally and whom I suspect of outright treachery. I'd wondered how long being human would take to cause him to slip his loyalty programming."
He smiled a viper's smile.
"Still... it was him that told me about you. Not everything, no - he thinks he's still safe. Like everyone else, he assumes I'm a complete fool, but really, his reticence has told me volumes. What did you bribe him with? Or is he using you as yet another poor replacement for his lost sons. I gather it's the latter. A shame you're much too wild to be tamed properly, and much too human to be reformatted into a cassette."
He sighed, shaking his head. "Ah, lieutenants. Such a troublesome lot."
And then he paused. "Oh. Oh dear, you got me monologuing. This won't do at all... perhaps Megatron was right, I always did talk too much..."
His movement was again deceptively casual - a simple shrug of the shoulders as he turned his wrists out, rolling his eyes. Which was accompanied by his fingers lighting and firing a blast straight at Trowa.
remus now would be a good time.
"It's not as if he speaks Japanese, and if I'd asked him likely that's the first thing he would have done. Come now, that's like trying to drive a nail in with a rocket launcher."
He examined his nails, trying his best to look utterly unconcerned. "Besides, he's a skilled communications officer who is rapidly allowing his human form to compromise him emotionally and whom I suspect of outright treachery. I'd wondered how long being human would take to cause him to slip his loyalty programming."
He smiled a viper's smile.
"Still... it was him that told me about you. Not everything, no - he thinks he's still safe. Like everyone else, he assumes I'm a complete fool, but really, his reticence has told me volumes. What did you bribe him with? Or is he using you as yet another poor replacement for his lost sons. I gather it's the latter. A shame you're much too wild to be tamed properly, and much too human to be reformatted into a cassette."
He sighed, shaking his head. "Ah, lieutenants. Such a troublesome lot."
And then he paused. "Oh. Oh dear, you got me monologuing. This won't do at all... perhaps Megatron was right, I always did talk too much..."
His movement was again deceptively casual - a simple shrug of the shoulders as he turned his wrists out, rolling his eyes. Which was accompanied by his fingers lighting and firing a blast straight at Trowa.