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

[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.

[raceme]

I did not. The War ended many stellar cycles ago in my world, for how long have you been fighting?

It does? Ididnotknowthat...scrap.

[redshirtrobot]

Well I haven't really fought in a long time, I've been fixing. But... it's been going on for ages now.

Yeah, the one Shockwave has tends to send people to random temples. We've been trying to fix it.

[raceme]

That's really sad. Sometimes it feels like the War only ended in my universe. Sure there must be some other world where things didn’t end badly, right?

At least they arrive in one piece?

[redshirtrobot]

Well, at least another one where it ends. But I couldn't say. I'm just a mechanic.

Well, yes. But that doesn't really help if they step out of the portal and fall off of a cliff or into a crevasse or something...

[raceme]

Yeah, you are right.

.....


[This is why doing anything with a Shockwave is always a bad idea.]

[redshirtrobot]

Shockwave and I are trying to figure out how to get it actually working so that doesn't happen.

It sometimes connects to another one that someone else has, I think? I don't remember who though.

[raceme]

And who's being the guinea pig while you try that?

[redshirtrobot]

Random parts from the Junk Pile. They go through as easily as we do, without the worry of dismemberment.

[raceme]

A small relief then.

[redshirtrobot]

... Shockwave wouldn't throw me through a ground bridge to see if it works.

[That's what you were thinking isn't it?]

[raceme]

I am not familiar with the sort of methods he employs in his studies to accomplish a result.

[Yes, he was thinking that. On the bright side, it means Blurr cares for you fracas.]

[redshirtrobot]

Well, not that. It wouldn't make logical sense to do that.

[He's asked repeatedly about this sort of thing.]

[raceme]

At some point one living creature will need to go through that thing, Fracas. Then what?

[It's because people cares.]