re_alignment | [Audio] [Transmission Originating from: Solian Temple]

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[Audio] [Transmission Originating from: Solian Temple] - First Offense

[There’s a low, frustrated sigh and for a long moment, that’s all there is. Then, someone starts speaking.]

So. I’m dragged to some other Cybertron, go through hours of paperwork, and get dumped on the street. Then I drop off the face of that Cybertron onto a space station in the middle of nowhere and get dumped in a pile of junk that I have to crawl out of.

Now I drop off the face of the station and wind up here with someone in a hood telling me I’m on Cybertron. Again. Not even the same Cybertron, some other Cybertron.

I was in the middle of something! Very important things! [Bartending and best friend things!]

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[This is starting to feel weird. Like he's in an episode of Twilight Zone.]

Lots of forms signed in triplicate and jumping through metaphorical hoops. [Which makes him crazy.] I'd hope so or my stay is going t'be unpleasant. I'm sorry, but... you got a name, mech?

Oh. That sounds unpleasant. And boring.

I haven't run into any of that here. Though Liege Maximo is a bit of a neat freak.

[Seriously. Do not track rust on his floors. ]

I...uh. [This could be bad. If this new mech were a member of the DJD, very badly. But he could surely convince him, even so, that this was not a place for that sort of grudge.]

Drift.

It was agonizing, so I'm glad to hear that's not happening here.

Heh. I'll keep that in mind.

[Huh. So... not Deadlock. Well, obviously, anyway; blue optics and not red. And he's actually polite. Which is a brilliant change of pace. He twitches a slight smile. Maybe things will go more smoothly here...?]

Sorry. Just kinda look like someone I met once. Designation's Barricade. It's a pleasure.

Have you met him yet? Have you run into the First Forged in any of these other Cybertrons?

[Deadlock would say that manners are for those too weak to take what they want.]

[...maybe he is with the DJD.]

Oh? [Play it cool, Drift, play it cool.]

[The name means nothing. Could be a code name, though. Then again, maybe 'Barricade' just wants to get away from his past, too.] If you need any help, let me know.

Can't say as I have. Or that I'm familiar with that term. First Forged?

[Welcome to the difference between Tyrans and Everyone Else Ever.]

Yeah. Not the pleasant sort but we marginally tolerated one another. [Mostly, anyway. They had their share of bristling arguments.]

Thanks. I will; means a lot, when y'drop in somewhere new.

They're the descendants of Primus. They have powers.

[Like magical powers. It was cool, Barricade.]

I'm sorry to hear that. But it's a good thing you don't judge a mech for who he looks like. [Namely, him.]

Do you know what you did, those other times? How or why you moved? [That could be a key to getting back.]

So I'm on a Cybertron that has a Primus? Huh. Never thought that would actually happen...

[Well. How many Tyrans can say they've done that? Though the powers thing disconcerts him a little.]

These days I try t'confirm before I judge. Otherwise you end up making a lot of wrong assumptions about folks and that just torques said folks off mostly. [Like everyone that sounds like Peter Cullen. Ooph.]

The first time I'm told I was intentionally pulled through a portal. The second time was a rift in space-time that no one understands. Afraid I don't have more than that. [He even sounds almost apologetic!]

I don't think he's actually here.

[Though that would be cool. Then again, maybe the place would look a bit tidier. Primus and 'interdimensional junk' don't seem to go well together.]

But still, it's better to give them a chance.

[Right?]

Hrm. [He frowns.] Guess you had no luck figuring out how to get back home.

But he was or will be, right?

[Unlike any planet he's personally known. This is the sort of thing Convoy and that one Optimus Prime talked about with him.]

It is. And I try to as often as I can.

[In the hopes of reciprocation.]

Nope. Just that if you tampered with the Rift - the second one - it completely broke all laws of physics.

[He remembers Knock Out's hesitation. The medic had a point, after all.] That's what we've been told, at any rate.

[He wants to believe, he does believe, but he is going to leave the choice to believe to a mech's own mind.]

[He frowns.] So anyone trying to use it to go home... [He looks up at the Lambda. ] Did it look like this?

Huh. I. Might like to see that.

[He's not sure if he believes, necessarily... but he hasn't been given reason not to, yet. His own dimension aside.]

No one ever managed t'get that far. Just someone started analyzing it, and... well. Colors and gravity inverted and half of our energon supply turned to mercury. And it didn't look like that really. Not quite like that.

[Enthusiastic fanboy nod.]

So would I. So much we could learn.

[Well that sounds...distressing.]

Just from analyzing it? [Unless they considered throwing a nova bomb at something 'analyzing'? Maybe? Hey, Decepticon science is its own beast, even in Drift's world.]

...all we've had are robot shark things.

Well this shape-shifting dragon had been analyzing it and built something t'try to stabilize it. It sucked him and the machine in and went a bit nuts f'r a week.

[Barricade should. Really not be able to say it so blandly, probably.]

Robot sharks? Can't say as I've run across one of those before.

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[Audio] [Transmission Originating from: Solian Temple] - First Offense

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[video] is Barricade's 'con insignia visible?

[video] it is, but he scratched through it recently

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[video] tagging will be slow through the weekend, please bear with? ;-;

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