"That'd be great. And probably nobody would bother the limo either, with me parked right next to it." Howlback grins, then smiles when he asks about the Rainmakers.

"The Rainmakers are our aerial guard," she says. "They're called that because their names are Acid Storm, Ion Storm and Nova Storm. Laserbeak and Buzzsaw are our aerial scouts, but the Rainmakers do the fighting. It's just the name of their team."

Soundwave is aware of several conversations going on around him, but he's been paying attention to all of them; he can do that, but it takes him a few microseconds to switch beetween parallel processing tracks. "Yes, that would be nice," he says. "It's very kind of you to give us a cultural artefact."