All Measures Which Are

Smokescreen onlined to a battery of data: error messages and threat assessments painting his HUD red, diagnostics returning weapons offline and energon reserves low, and nociceptors simply screaming OW until they abruptly, blessedly, disengaged. He shuttered his optics, sending the command to clear his visual field, but when he opened them again he still saw red — red optics in a smirking white face, and a dark hand reaching down to tap him on the forehelm. "Wakey-wakey!" caroled Knockout.