re_alignment | [AUDIO TRANSMISSION: ALPHA TRION'S TEMPLE]

Yeah... I got that. Didn't see much in it myself...

[But when you have to pick sides, you have to pick sides.]

Kind of feels like just before it started though. Here. With maybe a little more fighting here and there.

Mm, yes, I can see that. It was the same where I'm from. The tensions aren't as high though, which is nice. Very nice actually.

I guess it's pretty nice... Think I prefer the war though, much as I didn't like it. Things made more sense then.

[And food was easier to get.]

A lot of individuals share that thought process. War..is a rather large part of our culture anymore it seems, no matter what universe you may be from.

Things fit in more with it going on. They made some kind of sense.

[He sighs.]

[It isn't the first time he'd heard that sort of thing. It's sort of a usual mindset for those fighting types.]

I wish there was something I could do to help all of this make sense for you.

It's fine, things have been confusing for a long time now. It's not your fault.

[Unless Rung somehow commanded the universes.]

Here it's just worse. It's the same hate but you don't know if or when someone's going to try and kill you. And there so many meals around but you can't really do anything.

...Sorry. Now probably isn't the time for this.

I don't mind, Dead End.

[And he means it. Because he hadn't really considered how difficult it might be for the other being surrounded by bots all the time.

If anything, it earns the other a sympathetic sort of look.]

I take it you didn't spend much time in the company of others back in your home 'verse unless you had to?

...Okay.

[Looking at bots like they weren't food was more difficult than he made it out to be. Thankfully his brooding was enough to cover most of the "he looks so tasty" with "I'd probably die".]

No, I spent plenty of time with others... I used to be a bartender. Even joined the Decepticns as part of a team... My diet is a bit more recent. Some unwanted side effect of a solo mission I did. Guess personality change should be includedwith the diet as well. Sort of.

A bartender?

[He tilts his head a bit.]

You should consider helping out at the bar here. Despite what you may think, I think you'd be able to do so fairly easily.

[And, if he had to, he'd talk to certain individuals as well.]

So a mission gone wrong is why you rely on power cores?

Wheeljack said I should too.

[And he said no in more ways than needed.]

I liked my job, but here no one would take drinks from a Decepticon, especially not one like me. I'd be bad for the bar's business.

... It didn't go wrong. It went perfectly, it's just... Have you heard of Dark Energon?

I think you're assuming things, Dead End. The bar, especially, is a neutral ground from what I understand. I don't think you'd be bad for business at all.

[At least he really hopes that wouldn't be the case. Then again, with the way he's seen some individuals here act..]

Dark Energon?

[He frowns thoughtfully before shaking his head.]

I can't say that I have.

I'm not assuming. The second anyone finds out what my diet is, and the bar might as well not bother opening. I'd made it empty by just existing.

... They say its Unicron's blood. It's why Megatron's as powerful as he is now... He's here by the way. You should stay away from him. Or just looking in his direction. But, uh. Yeah... Turns out the stuff's a bit radioactive. I didn't know, and traveling with it for as long as I did... It affects everyone differently. This is just what it did to me.

[Basically he's been cursed by Unicron's blood. Fun times.]

Dead Enc, don't say that.

[He hates the idea of anyone treating another in that fashion, especially when Dead End seems genuinely nice to him.

Going quiet as the other explains what dark energon is, Rung can't help but feel completely put off and a bit on the scared side by the idea of it. It doesn't sound pleasant, in the least, and if it can do things like it had done to Dead End..]

...I'm sorry that happened to you...I hope that substance never shows itself here.

But it's true.

[He knows how other bots get around him. And that's exactly what usually happens.]

If it does, stay away from it... Or, give it to me. Should be able to keep it out of everyone's way if any does show up.

Not where I'm concerned.

[He's going to be stubborn about that at least.]

...I'll keep that in mind.

[Even if he's not a fan of the idea of subjecting Dead End to more of it.]

...I don't think I'd be good for the bar.

[He shakes his head. It just wouldn't work. Not with him. Despite his qualifications.]

You never know until you try..and maybe it would help chance opinions of you.

Bartenders can't be depressing... I am.

I don't think you're all that depressing, not when you actually allow yourself to talk.

I don't... Actually talk that much anymore, Rung. Used to talk a lot, but now it's more of... Just with certain people.

[Well. Saying more than a few sentences at least. If he wasn't asking questions.]

Why don't you? Talk more, I mean.

[Mini-sessions go!]

Well...

[The Dark Energon mostly.]

There doesn't seem to be much point in it.

Because you don't want to talk or because you don't think others will listen?

...Others won't listen, they never do.

And in the end it won't matter who said what.

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