re_alignment | [Video] - Bugs bugs bugs, but they glow, so it's like Christmas spirit?

[The video comes on to Jetfire frowning thoughtfully at one of his hands, held up and... apparently crawling with pinpoints of moving lights. He shakes it, and there's a veritable cloud of winking lights exploding in all directions.

Some of them fly past the screen close enough to reveal they're tiny, dragonfly-like metal bugs. That glow.]

There was an accident, and the thirty of these that I had contained in my lab and were developing were let out. It seems their replication matrix is working, because they're certainly not thirty any longer.

I apologise if they are a... er, nuisance.

I am rather sure I can hazard a guess from a few cycles of observing that the replication matrix is working correctly though, since while they've become more as a response to the greater space available outside of the lab, I believe they're not replicating completely out of hand.

[He shakes his helm slowly, dislodging a crowd tiny bugs that has landed on his helm and nasal ridge.]

Hopefully they'll... spread outside of Haven soon.

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I thought it'd make a... well, something of an addition.

[Jetfire shrugs slightly, holding up a hand to watch the bugs land on it.]

Cybertron was always full of light, so it seemed... fitting.

[Besides the fact that he'd tied it to their fuel-systems and use. That was the practical how/why, not the... actual reason for adding it.]

I like them a lot. I don't think it hurts to have a little more light around at all.

So...how did the Cybertron you know look like?

Thank you. [The smile, however brief, is genuine.]

And it was... bright. Day or night. The cities extended both up in the air and a few levels under the surface, at least before the war. Not all of it was covered by buildings or roads, we did have a few natural areas, but a great part of it was.

[Jetfire's bright blue optics dim and unfocus slightly as he speaks, and even isolated pictures wouldn't make justice to the whole, even less merely describing it like this, but... right now, that's what they have.]

I should perhaps have some images saved, or could extract them from my memories...

That really sounds like something to see...

[Cities so huge? His experience with cities of any sort have been few, and it certainly wasn't as high nor deep as what Jetfire's descriptions sounded like.

The boy tilts his head, noting the subtle shifts that he's learned to associate as part of their way of expressions.]

...what do you mean?

I'm unsure, precisely, how human brains work, but with how ours work, I can extract still images from memories I've got saved and show them when that's done. So while you couldn't get the full immersive experience, some simple images pulled from my own memories wouldn't be impossible to recreate.

[Jetfire spreads his hands as he explains, frowning slightly. It's a pity he couldn't give Ventus the actual full memory, as that would show more, a lot more complete.]

[That he could even do something like that at all seems pretty amazing to the boy.]

I'd like to see it though..! -uh, if it's okay with you, of course!

[Chuckling, Jetfire nods.]

Given that I'm offering, it's hardly an intrusion, and either way, I'd be pulling them out for you to watch... and given that what we have in evidence here, it seems quite right to show what Cybertron would look like for most of us.

[Which, really isn't this, at all.]

[His face brightens with a smile then.]