Video [Transmission Originating From: Megatronus's Quadrant]

[redshirtrobot]

[The video comes on rather unexpectedly, and there's... really not that much to see besides a blur of mottled brown and green, and purple and silver. The sound is really more interesting for a while, all clattering and banging and someone shrieking. After a while of this there's a sound like 'whumph whumph whumph', each noise accompanied by a flash on the screen. Eventually the movement stops, until the purple blur shoves around and extracts itself...

And reveals it's a certain Vehicon, armor dented and paint scratched. One of his arms is converted into a rifle.]

I... I think I killed it.






...






I killed it!

[At least he sounds happy until the horrible centipede starts twitching in its death throes... at which point Fracas yelps sharply and starts shooting it again until it stops moving.

And then he kicks it. Just to be sure.]

Okay now it's dead.

Comments

[redshirtrobot]

Dents and scratches, mostly.

Uhm. And some acid burns on my leg.

[raceme]

My pet got hit by the acid too, I know it can lead to complications. You should go to the medbay.

[redshirtrobot]

I was planning on it anyway. I kind have something to drop off there.

[Such as this stupid centipede corpse.]

[raceme]

Good, that's good. You need to take care of yourself, some bots always refuse to see a doctor when they're injured. [OH IRONY.] Something to drop?

[redshirtrobot]

Like mechs that collapse on-network because they work too hard? [WHY YES, HE DOES REMEMBER THAT.] Yes. I know one of the medics and he asked for a few things.

[raceme]

...

[Oy when did you get sassy? Blurr has the decency to look embarrassed.] Ambulon?

[redshirtrobot]

[Shockwave has been encouraging him, what can he say. Fracas just tilts his head.] No, no. Knock Out. He's from my world.

[raceme]

[Shockwave is a bad influence.] Knock Out? I haven't met him yet.

It must be nice to have more people from your universe here.

[redshirtrobot]

[But Shockwave is so nice to him.] He's not too bad.

It is. It's really strange, though. All of a sudden they all notice me...

[raceme]

[All the Shockwaves are bad >B| At least if you ask Blurr.]

They never did before in your world?

[redshirtrobot]

[Blurr it sounds like you have an irrational hatred of people with the name Shockwave. That isn't a good thing :|]

Well, when there are thousands of mechs that look exactly like you... Not really.

[raceme]

[It's a very justified hate, actually.]

You are a clone?

[redshirtrobot]

[Towards one of them.]

Clone... what? No. We all just look the same. That doesn't mean we're clones.

[As far as he cares, anyway.]

[raceme]

[Right, because all the others are so cheerful and friendly.]

But then why you all...looks the same?

[redshirtrobot]

[The big spikey one is. To Fracas at least.]

Well, because it's intimidating, having a hundred of us shooting at you at one time.

[The effect is lost here, as it were.]

[raceme]

[Blurr hasn't talked to that one much. They don't hate each other yet? It's something!]

That is a good point. You were part of Megatron's army, I take it?

[Pretty much.]

[redshirtrobot]

[That's a good start, definitely!]

I am. Though I'm the only one here that could be considered... I guess a foot soldier? The rest are all officers.

[raceme]

[Awesome!:3]

I see. Now that you are here you could be something else, you know.

[redshirtrobot]

Being noticed was always kind of dangerous for Vehicons, though. Not all of the officers were too nice to us...

Besides, all I'm really good at is repairing things on ships...

[raceme]

I was on spying missions often. Being notices was a NO NO for em as well. All is different in this planet, though.

Well, we do have a half finished bridge that needs some working...

[redshirtrobot]

A bridge? What kind of bridge?

[Hey, if he can be helpful, he'll find a way to.]

[raceme]

Megatron, the one that was Glyhpless, was trying to build one. I think it was a space bridge but It never worked, _{he didn't had time to finish. Maybe we can turn} it into a ground bridge, we need one of those here.

Have you any experience with those?

[redshirtrobot]

Not much experience; the ground bridge on the ship didn't need all that much maintenance since the Autobots never really bothered trying to break it.

Though if... if we're trying to get home, wouldn't a space bridge be more useful? There might be some way to set it to go to other dimensions...

[raceme]

Too bad then. I mean...too bad that you don't know much about that technology not too bad that my side never tried to break....Iwillshutupnow.

Yes it would but I think that _{so far} the lamba interferes with it.

[redshirtrobot]

... Well I hope you didn't mean it the way. Not like it would make a difference if they did, we have plenty of fliers to make them miserable anyway.

The Lambda interferes with the ground bridge portals we already have, too. They are. Really weird.