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

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[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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That does indeed seem to be the case... I believe the Firstforged have intimated having the ability to draw our sparks at the time of death to be able to restore them to our frames... remade or new.

[It's what makes the most sense to him, either way, though that does probably mean anyone who has died here is... in a new frame entirely.]

Ah... no. [Crossing his arms, Jetfire shakes his helm. Despite this arguable success, he's hardly an intelligence matrix engineer, and something larger would require something more involved, more precise... He wouldn't want to risk it, really.]

I wasn't planning to, given that something this tiny have to, by size restrictions, remain simple. Anything larger would require more intricacy, complexity and thus a greater risk for errors, harmless or dangerous.

And the downside, is...? What if I want to stay dead? Or they mess up with the spark somehow? What gives them the right to decide?

[It makes sense, but Knock Out doesn't quite like it.]

That idea sometimes encourage scientists rather than stop them. [Decepticon scientists, specially.]

[Jetfire just shakes his helm at that, grimacing slightly.]

Ahh, yes. I am... familiar with the attitude. [Personally familiar, since it was an opinion he'd held himself once... when he'd been younger. He could say "when he'd been a Decepticon" and that would be true as well, but it wasn't until he'd been fully faced with what such an attitude would and could lead to that ethics and morals had woken up and he'd re-evaluated.]

I've seen what that can lead to, and prefer to be a bit more discerning about how far I go.

[Shaking his helm again, Jetfire shrugs as he considers the first point again.]

And given that we don't belong in this reality, I doubt us dying here would be a positive influence as it would mean foreign sparks dispersing to wherever they go here... becoming a permanent fixture in a way we presently aren't even if we're still affecting Cybertron by merely being here.

It's a worrisome attitude sometimes. [Sometimes it's fun too. Sometimes. Knock Out did experiments from time to time too.]

More discerning or at least more discrete about it. Pick your choice.

Who knows what our existence here is already doing to our original universes. Not event eh first Forged seem to know.

[Fun until somebody gets mind-controlled and you find your ethical threshold... after you already crossed it.]

Given that such an attitude usually informs a wider view of things, definitely. [It's not easy to admit, but at least his was always fairly contained... And he grew away from it.] And yes... though getting away with performing ethically questionable science doesn't mean you still haven't done it.

[A frown on his faceplates, Jetfire leans back against the workbench he's resting against, ignoring the small amount of glowing bugs settling on his rounded shoulders and on top of his helm.]

Indeed. Guesswork, but there's a few main possibilities; either time does not match up, and it could go by both very fast, or very slow. Slowly enough we might in the end return with not much time passed for us. The worst case scenario would be one where time in our own realities pass extremely quickly compared to this one.

[A brief wave around them to exemplify, before he folds his arms instead of leaning them against the surface of the workbench behind him.]

Another would be time passing as it does here, which is more or less as bad as the fast-time scenario. The most desirable variations would be time either not moving at all, a relative "freeze" if not all individuals belonging there aren't where they should be... Or, er... splinter timelines being created.

[The frown deepends and Jetfire's optics darkens.]

Which means that there'd be one reality where we would be gone, but we would doubtfully ever realise that, returning instead to one that would match up with what we remember, and how things should be; us returning to the moment we left.

[If it's of any consolation Knock Out doesn't like the idea of being controlled either, specially after what happened to Breakdown.]

I believe It's more about asking yourself if will be able to live with what you did rather than if it's ethical or not doing certain things. When we are at War we often find our ethics compromised.

[Knock out is free from bugs, mostly because he locked himself in his room and crushed all the little pest that dared to get in and bother him.]

That would be really really bad, indeed. If that's the case then perhaps I won't even have a planet go to back anymore.

[Well, the issue here was more that Jetfire had inflicted that on someone else in the beginning of the war.]

Ah, yes... [Then he frowns.] Though the difference between those positions was exactly partly why I... er, changed my attitude and where I was at the time the change happened. I didn't need to do the former any more.

[Compared to some other continuities, the Autobots from Jetfire's universe is a lot more... nice.]

And I think we're all hoping on either time moving so slowly as to not matter, or a "time freeze". A splinter-universe being created would mean we'd not be affected, but anyone from the reality that splintered and which we disappeared from would certainly be.

[Things like that happens. It was long time ago, Jetfire. Or so Knock Out would say.

Knock Out studies Jetfire's body language, thinking.]Change your attitude...are you trying to tell me that you changed factions at some point? And survived?

[Knock Out is realizing that.] Time freeze would be the better option. There are other mechs here from my universe and we got pulled from different time moments, I don't know what to think anymore.

[He's locking this now, if only because of the insinuations regarding Tarn and his... ahem, work, even if Jetfire doesn't even come from that universe. Better be safe than sorry, but otherwise he wouldn't care enough to lock it.]

... That's exactly what I'm saying, yes. [He just shakes his helm.] Survival wasn't exceedingly hard, truly.

[Even if Starscream had been... very angry, which in turn had frustrated Jetfire, but they hadn't been able to kill. Trust had been harder to gain, though.]

The different points from which some of us have been taken from out various universes does hopefully imply a time freeze. Otherwise each and every one of us would be pulled from various splinter time-lines, which seems... overly complicated.

[Jetfire frowns at that. It's always better to go with as simple an explation as possible, since that is usually the correct one.]

[Knock Out takes notices, but he's not going to unlock the post. It's useful to know others people's secrets.]

You are lucky you are not from my universe. But you area big guy, that might have helped. And you switched from Decepticon to Autobot, I take it?

[Human call that occam's razor, Jetfire. Knock Out knows that much.] Let's hope y0u are right.

[It wouldn't even be a secret if some people hadn't pointed out Tarn's... occupation. People will trust him or not after they know about that.]

Mm, I suppose, but my frame didn't look much like this at the time I switched sides. [In fact, it'd been decidedly more... graceful, if no less powerful in its flight capabilities.] That came a lot later, but chasing after traitors that don't know much... er, technically anyway, would've been a waste of resources.

[He might not have known much of military operations but he did know of a lot of scientific projects... as well as the weapons he'd been working on.

Jetfire huffed a static sigh and nodded.]

Hopefully so. Of course, if I'm not at least in the reality I'm from, Earth has been a burned wasteland for over a year by now.

[Jetfire doesn't know of occam's razor, though!]

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[Knock Out have yet to meet Tarn, so he's not sure what's all the fuzz about him.]

Upgrades are never a bad thing. How did you look like? You weren't a flier?

[Knock Out seems surprised when he hears about Earth.] Did the humans destroy it or it was our fault?

[Shame! It's a really useful and simple theory.]

Ah... no. I was a flier. I did all of this myself, but... er, here. [He'll just let the screen split in two to display an image similar to this, which reveals that if anything, besides a slightly drastic redesign, Jetfire added mass to his frame. Quite a bit of it.]

I've been upgrading and modifying my frame for my function and effectivity for a long while now.

[He shrugs, and then his optics narrow a little as he thinks back on that.]

Ours by association. A... super-powered clone finally had its systems overwhelmed by the solar fusion generator it was powered by, and was going to explode. I was on my way of stopping him when I... and Starscream, got pulled elsewhere.

[A simplified explanation, but it's the easier one than bringing up apparent powering-up by an apparent strange form of energon (perhaps), and all the little bits implying something a lot less straight-forward.]

Ah, I see. Nice tights. [Sorry Jetfire, Knock Out can appreciate certain aesthetics and he's not shy about voicing his opinion.]

Bigger is better, hm? I was never all that fond of that philosophy but it works for certain mechs.

You got transwarped.

I... er. [His optics brighten quite a bit in a brief flare and Jetfire looks to the side before shaking his helm.] Thank you?

[He's never been good at how to handle such things, as the debacle with Sideswipe at the Keep had shown.]

Since it was sort of necessary for the interstellar radiation armour, I had to make it work.

[He shrugs, then.]

Or something similar to it, anyway. I assume the relative closeness to the Lambda and its effect on space-time, in addition to the conflict between navigation and position, served to relocate me.

[Knock Out's grin grows wider at the view of that flare.] You are very welcome. They certainly look strong. I wonder how much weight can you lift.

[Knock Out will have to get him used to it .]

It's a good thing that it didn't just relocate half of you.

Err... as is proportional to my, ah... mass. [Why are they discussing this? Not that he'd mind, really, but Knock Out's question doesn't seem as simple as it ought to be.] You've... talked to Starscream? [Since, presently, there's only one.]

I can... lift his weight-class easily enough.

[How about not?]

... Well, yes. Certainly. Though when being moved between realities to dimensional nexi like this one for instance, they seem to at least drag individuals through unharmed... or in the same state they were in from whence they came anyway.

That's certainly impressive then. [That grin. That grin on Kncok Out's face is not going away anytime soon.]I talked to him for years, yes.

Actually that's not all that ha...oh, wait. You mean the Starscream here? And you lift him often, you say?

[No one said you have an option.]

For now. Who knows it things will change one day and all will become more dangerous.

Er, yes. The one that's... here.

[KNOCK OUT NO, WHY ARE YOU SAYING WORDS!? Jetfire just sort of... shifts on his feet slightly, a frown crossing his faceplates, and unable to quite hold a stare. He can't decide between just feeling exasperated, or embarrassed.]

Quite a few times, yes. As... er, necessary.

[Why not!? He's part of this conversation as well!]

... [At least this part is just a perfectly normal conversation.] I would surmise that at least as long as we're marked by the glyphs, arrival will be as safe as it... ah, can be.

Him , yes I've met to him.

[BECAUSE HE'S GOOD WITH WORDS. And he's enjoying the view of you nervous.Embarrassed is a good option.]

Necessary, of course. [He look he's giving you, Jetfire.]I'm glad to hear that the Decepticon and Autobot relationships here are so close.

[Sorry, denied because Decepticon reasons.]

[It probably won't last.]

Let's hope you are right.

Well, I wouldn't go hauling him around for any little thing.

[Have a frown that probably looks very similar in complement to the look you just gave him, Knock Out, even if his optics are too bright to only be disapproving. Embarrassed, definitely.

Because what is that look for?!]

... er, well. It's hardly... ah, something spread between factions. While we're hardly at war [conflict was another matter, or even tension] with the scattered individuals present, I doubt there's much close association.

[This is sort of uncomfortable, really. But he's neither going to deny any relationship... or outright admit to it either. Then he just shakes his helm.]

Given what could happen each time someone is pulled through that tear in space-time, yes, I hope so as well.

Why not? You sure seem like you could and Starscream being mangled by a much bigger mech it's a normal thing. [At least in his universe.

Knock Out gives Jetfire an innocent look in response of that embarrassed glare.]

So it's only a private thing between you two? [Jetfire you are only making this worse.]

[And all that just has his engine stuttering slightly before Jetfire folds his arms over his chestplates and shakes his helm again. His optics are pretty bright, however.]

That's not... While I've slammed him into the ground a few times, I'd hardly mangle him, and er, it's... pretty... ah, personal, yes.

[Because that's what it is, and there's no way to deny that. Even if Starscream would still only be angry at him it'd be personal.]

[Knock Out is just plain loving all those reactions. He never got those from the autobots in his world.]

Into the ground? I can think of better places to use but each couple is different.

[Knock Out will mock the seeker mercilessly from now.]

While fighting, Knock Out.

[Said dryly and with an arch look though probably with a lot more patience than others would be able to summon by now. Jetfire might be flustered by flirting, but he can collect himself.]

Whatever else we might or might not do, that's simply a move I use during combat. And it's not exclusive to Starscream either.

[So he might have strange combat techniques, so what? Knock Out would probably be very amused to hear what Jetfire might say (to Starscream) during fights, however.]

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