ANH 'verse. Tatooine. A Disturbing Discovery . . .

[astrotechmech]

Random isn't really sure about how he feels about all this close-to-land traveling. It seems too restrictive and almost dangerous in a way. But in another . . . Kia is down here, and he needs to stay by her, so he goes along with it as they make their way back to Hot Shot's place.

At least it didn't look like another sandstorm was coming. He hates all this sand though. It gets in everywhere. Ugh. He'd have to take an oil bath once they got back . . .

"Doing all right down there, Kia?" Random asks from where he's hovering above her in vehicle mode, searching out all sides of the horizon with his scanners for a sign of either the dwellings or anything dangerous.

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"Sand people killed Alpha Q...." Hot Shot hugs himself, and then abruptly jumps up with a cry and transforms to barrel toward the other smoke column.

"Random, go after him!" orders Scavenger, turning his head toward where Kia is hiding.

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"Ah!" Random gets startled out of his flashback to his last memories being on the ship. It takes him a moment for his processor to catch up, and when it does he glances in Kia's direction before transforming and blasting off after Hot Shot.

//"Hot Shot! Wait!"//

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The yellow mech makes no reply, only continues his headlong hurtle homeward. He cries out again as they come within sight of the homestead, which is now only a couple of smoking craters in the ground and a few scattered mech parts.

"No! NO! Primus, not Wheeljack. Not my brother!" Hot Shot transforms and nearly falls on his face, then drops to his knees next to a large chunk of something that might have once been a Transformer. "No...."

[astrotechmech]

Unfortunately, for all of Random's efforts, Hot Shot did get a head start.

. . . And why did Scavenger think that having him go after Hot Shot was such a good idea? He had no clue what to do here.

Random does not transform when he arrives, focusing too much on not focusing on what happened to what was his new home by helping his brakes slow down by overshooting and curving back around.