re_alignment | Track 1 [video][Point of Origin: Nexus Prime temple]

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Track 1 [video][Point of Origin: Nexus Prime temple]

[The video feed comes on to show Miko, a human girl with pink and black hair, sitting in a sprawled out manner. She has a lazy, self satisfied smirk in place and has a guitar case propped up next to her, while she leans back against an amp.]

So, I'm on Cybertron, and not just any Cybertron, a new one just being built. This rocks.

And not having to deal with some dorky space suit, total bonus.

Well I'm Miko, and I'm looking to see if there is anyone here that I know. Course I am totally up for meeting new people too!

[She pauses for a moment like she is going to shut off the communicator before she looks back up, an almost blank expression on her face, only a little bit of sadness showing through.]

Bulkhead, if you are here get a hold of me right away, okay?

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If I did, my handlers were the ones that chose it. I am afraid my attention was usually focused elsewhere.

You are from Japan too? There are several of us here from Japan, but it seems you and I are the only ones that visited America.

Handlers? You mean, like, people to take care of all the things you need outside of the boxing ring?

[Sorry Noisy Boy, she hasn't quite caught on that you aren't a human yet.]

Really! There are others here too?! Are they all cool guys like us? Or are they all sticks in the mud?

They do. They also operate us during the bout.

[He'll be happy to explain, really.]

Their team is called the Brave Police. They are nice; I like them a lot.

Operate? Like by remote control or something?

[She might catch on soon at this rate.]

Brave Police huh, I'll have to see if I can meet them then. Good to know everyone from the same area you are from, right?

Correct. Most of us have remote controls.

[Or a headset in his case but he's trying to mostly keep that off the Link. Just in case.]

They are not difficult to find and are very friendly. Gunmax speaks quite often on the Link. And it is not a bad idea to know those from your area, no.

So, wait, you aren't human then, are you?

[Cause really, if you are human then there is something seriously wrong with your world.]

Gottcha, I'll keep and eye, and an ear, out for the, girl can never have too many giant robot friends when there are creeper Decepticons around.

Human boxing was outlawed in 2014. I am a robot boxer, in the World Robot Boxing league.

[Because human boxing is uncouth. Better to let the robots go at each other.]

I have heard a little of these factions, but most bots here seem happy to help each other regardless of them.

Wait, so they made you and others just so you can beat each other up? That isn't fair!

That's good, it'd be nice not to have to worry about crazy stuff like that.

I have heard that many times since coming here. But it is my purpose and I enjoy boxing.

[A toaster's job is hardly fair, either, if you think about it.]

I hope you will not have to.

Oh, I'm sorry, I just... I don't mean you shouldn't do it, I just mean you should have been made to just do that.

[Yes, but a toaster can't tell you it's thoughts or feelings, at least none of the ones in her world can.]

I hope so too, but I think some mean people will always be mean.

It is all right. But are most human-built machines not built for specific purposes?

[The Brave Police seem like they were built for something specific too, after all. Especially given their names.]

Of course. But it is better to look at the good, sometimes.

Yeah, they are but... most of them don't show even having an idea of existing... I mean a fridge doesn't say 'hi' to me when I go grab the milk. I mean it's not quite fair if you know there are other things out there to do, if you can't at least try them, to see if it's something else you would like to do too.

[Miko is just so much the rebel that she has a bit of an obsession with having all the options open for herself and for others.]

Yeah, it's nice to hear most people are playing nice~!

Not being able to communicate does not mean they are not sentient. My kind cannot communicate with humans normally, either; I have only been able to do so since coming here.

[Boxing bots have feelings, but cars might have them too.]

And I do not have much experience with professions outside of boxing.

Oh... I hadn't thought of that before... but that just means more things that can should be given the option of what they want to do. I wonder if my guitar likes being played or if it would want to do something else...

[Don't mind her if she takes this fairly seriously there Noisy Boy.]

But would you want to try other things? Just to see what they are like.

It might. But it might not be complex enough to be sentient, either.

[He doesn't mind. Heck, for him the subject is as serious as rust and being retired.]

I am uncertain. I was only programmed for boxing and do not have skills beyond that.

So... when does being sentient happen, cause I mean cars are complex, but the Autobots don't act like they are sentient. Does it mean my computer at home is sentient?

[Now she just feels confused, and doesn't mean it if she says anything insulting, she just doesn't think about more than one thing at a time.]

Well... just because all you know is boxing doesn't mean those skills can't be effective for other things... like if you made your target a nail in a board rather then another bot I bet you could build houses and such.

Unfortunately I am not certain about that. I rarely communicated even with other boxers.

[They hadn't really needed to, after all. And he certainly hadn't needed to talk to any of the transport he'd been in.]

I had not considered it that way, but I suppose I could. Even though nails are not legal opponents.

Were you always able to think about things like this before?

[She is always full of questions.]

Yeah, but if you aren't in a ring, does it matter if it's a legal opponent or not?

I was. I just could not communicate my thoughts.

[Except with the whine of his hydraulics, that no one paid attention to.]

It matters to me.

Oh... I'm sorry, I bet that got really hard sometimes.

[She would give him a hug right now if she was where he was.]

Then it matters, cause what matters to you is important~!

Only once was it particularly frustrating.

[He would have liked to have a lengthy discussion with Charlie about that whole 'taking on the reigning champ on his first day' thing.]

I am glad you understand.

I'm sorry.

Well of course I understand. Mom and Dad were always trying to tell me they knew better and that what I thought was important to me wasn't as important as I thought.

[She looks a bit down at that.]

It got really frustrating when they did that.

Sometimes what matters to you is more important than they realize. Or at least, it is important to you and should not be dismissed out of turn.

[He never actually had the opportunity to be dismissed like that, of course, but still.]

Even parents can be wrong about some things, when it comes to what matters to their children.

[Which... might be the point that Drift had been driving at about Tak without entirely knowing that's what he was driving at.
Noisy Boy is going to have to think on that later.]

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