[The rest of the journey to the hold is at least uneventful. But the whole way Kaz keeps observing that there's nothing to indicate that they were even actually here. There's not the bite marks from the cute metal eating animals. No repairs to a blasted hole in a wall left by Cybertronians. No relics of old fights, nothing. And when he finds the stores where the gold had been kept? It's not just empty, but like nothing had been there in the first place.]

[He actually misses his over-sensitive eyes as he walks around in the dark (still in his sunglasses), wielding his flashlight to look in every corner for evidence of their previous occupation.]

[Nothing.]

This isn't right. [He breathes out loud, turning in place.]

There's nothing here. [He's sounding increasingly angry, a biting tone welling up in him he's not used in quite a while. Likely more familiar to Liquid from the days that Miller roamed the platforms listening, looking for problems, facing a world where he forced himself into paranoia and loneliness.] They're messing with our minds somehow and I can't figure it out. Goddammit.

[But maybe, just maybe, Liquid has Mantis, right? He'd notice something off, right?]