001 [Audio then Video] [Originating from Solian Temple]

[kungfugeek]

 Oi! What's going on here!? 

[Well, someone's not entirely happy today, are they?  Then again, if you were just running with your buddies and suddenly found yourself waking up in front of a shrine, you'd be a little intrigued about it. Enough to half-heartedly listen to the robed beings explain the situation to you.  He wasn't sure if he believed them, either.  It's not like he'd met them before, and no one was able to vouch for them.  Really, what did he care about them?]

Deckerd! Duke! Are you there?

[They're the ones he was with last, after all.]

Anyone?? I'm by some weird shrine and these creeps came up to me and gave me this--

[Suddenly, it switches to video, showing a very confused Power Joe.]

THIS THING.  

[Glad to see you're adjusting well, PJ.]

Comments

[kungfugeek]

[Did you really just tell him to stay indoors, Blurr.]

I'm part of the Brave Police, shrimpy. I can take giant bugs. I've done it before.


You don't know the half of it with Gunmax.

[raceme]

[Yup, he did.]

My name is not shrimpy I WILL let you know that the names B-l-u-r-r. No, not like this bugs.


MaybeIdo. We had our ups and downs.

[kungfugeek]

I don't care what your name is, you don't know me. So don't say what I have or haven't experienced!

[Sorry Blurr, he's easy to rile up.]

[raceme]

Fine then...

[>video. Get a footage of robotic centipedes, Power Joe. They're mad and they're hungry, big, long and multi-limbed with either concentric circles of teeth for rasping holes into their victims or some sort of crushing ant-like jaws.

All of them have a proboscis to puncture armor and draw out energon with, and hohhh can you see how they are capable of lobbing a sticky ball of acid? Not to mention that some of them are 40 feet long.]

You had bugs like those where you coem from?

[kungfugeek]

It's big, and it's a bug. What else is there to get? It doesn't matter if they got five legs or fifty, they gotta go down.

And they're giant bugs. I've fought giant bugs.

[If his eyes had pupils, he'd roll them. It's better not to be pedantic with this one, Blurr ): He's not in this ballgame for the minute details.]

But that's not even the point.

[raceme]

Their armors aren't exactly easy to pierce AND they're powered by Unicron's will.

[Blurr got no time for brainless pride-driven people either.]

You can and want to fight, I got it, you aren't he first one to arrive and look for a brawl, con-gra-tu-la-tion for being the stereotypical mech that would rather go do _{his own thing rather than} stop for a second and listen.

Funny how you think Gunmax is problematic.

[kungfugeek]

[Power Joe puts a hand to his helm to try and calm his frustration. Blurr, you're making Gunmax look like a joyful conversation right now.]

I don't know what Unicron is or how that affects anything, but if you're trying to deter me from helping, and if you know I'm a Brave Police member then you should already know the answer!

[He points a finger at the screen.]

What I don't like is how you are talking like you've got me all figured out. How you assume I'm safer in a temple hiding when my team is out there fighting.

I don't fight alone! I want to be out helping THEM.

[raceme]

[You started it calling him names, pal. That got you on Blurr's blacklist.]

That's ^exactly the problem, you DON'T know anything. [My, my, they let everyone in the Brave Police those days. Or at least that's what he's thinking.]

It is safer to stay in the temples AND I never said I had you figured out, we talked for like, 5 minutes. You, however, thought that using a disrespectful term to address me was a perfectly alright thing to do.

McCrane, Drill Boy and the others got their engines changed so they could process energon, you haven't and if you run out of fuel or gets hurt NO ONE would be able to fix you because there's no fuel available in this planet.

[Blurr got his reason for not wanting people to fight, you see. He calms down a little after that, just looking rather tired. He can't remember when was the last time he recharged, give him a break.] There will be more occasions to fight.

[kungfugeek]

[You started it, pretty much telling him to stay inside while his friends went out and fought.]

Because no one--that includes you--told me any of this! Just 'Oh Power Joe, go hide!' I don't know what Energon is! Ever think to tell me that? Or how about how you know McCrane, or Drill Boy. Or Gunmax? Or telling me how TO fight these things instead of why I CAN'T fight these things!

You certainly sounded like it, with how you called me 'stereotypical'. You're preachin' how I called you a disrespectful term? You're talking to me like I'm below you.

[You're not the only one worn out, Blurr. He's had this thrust on him in, like you said, five minutes.]

[raceme]

[For your own safety >C]

You didn't even give me time to explain it! Energon is the power-source all Cybertronians use, our energy, you could call it food _{I know McCrane and Drill Boy because} they showed up here like you did and now we work together And there isn't really a good way to fight them, we been doing that for weeks now and more of those creatures keep showing up <sub>so we will go to the Badlands. YOU NEED a massive amount of power to stop them, and even more so to kill them.

I never said you were below me, don't put words in my mouth.</sub>

[kungfugeek]

[Okay, granted he didn't get a lot of that because you talk at the speed of sound. But he'll try.]

If there isn't a good way to stop them yet why did you deny my offer? Sounds to me like you need all the help you can get.

THAT is why I think you sound like I'm below you.

[raceme]

Yes we need help. [Blurr pinches the base of his helmet for a second, right were his nose would be if he had one. This whole conversation is hurting his processor.] But we also need to keep casualties to a minimum.

No, is not like that. Those monsters are too much, even for experienced Cybertronians used to War, even for the FirstForged to handle. Things need to be planned ahead ^{if we want to stop} them, rushing into battle is what we have been doing these weeks. We only ended exhausted or hurt, and got nowhere.

[kungfugeek]

Oi. Few things, B-L-U-R-R.

One, explain this to people first when introducing them.

Two, lighten up. Drill Boy takes nicknames better than you do; you're a little sensitive. People are going to be angry when they arrive here.

Three, I'm going to join McCrane because that's what teammates do. It's not stupid to want to make sure they're okay. 'Energon' or not. We're a team, and we fight as a team.


--Let me ask you something. If your teammates who were practically your...family were out there fighting, could you stick around inside? Would you?

[raceme]

Give me time to do it and I will. Most of the new arrivals are in denial, angry, or ignoring everyone. It's hard to have a proper conversation. Plus, had you bothered listening to the acolytes then most of the new things you need to know about this planed would have been explained. They're not good conversationalists but they do tell people about the basics things.

Yes, I am sensitive about my name _{everyone always gets it wrong}, sue me. You called me a nickname based on my size without knowing me at all and also called the acolytes creeps, you are hardly without fault.

I know it's not stupid. Never said it was...[Oi PJ asking that is cheating.]

I don't have a family. [It's hard to get one when you are a secret agent that works alone.] I wasn't really used to teaming up with other before I arrived here, I always did solo missions.

But here, protecting people is my job, I should at least try to stop them if they want to get themselves into a situation where they might end hurt or killed.

[kungfugeek]

[PJ's ear things almost flick as he SLIGHTLY calms down. He's still upset, mainly because he was just lectured on things no one told him about, or rather, he half-listened to.]

Can you blame me? I was just with my team, then transported here to some guys telling me that I'm now 'Part of Solus's alignment'. It's not as shocking for you because you probably recognize this place! Then you tell me I CAN'T fight, and you didn't tell me it was because of my fuel. Only that I couldn't.

If you're that sensitive, you should work on it, because if someone like ME gets to you that easy, what if someone 'evil' calls you a name. Are you going to let it get to you then?

[He rubs his head.]

It shows.

Look, I'm sorry if I offended you, but gasoline or not, I am a Brave Police member, and I'm helping out whether you advise me or not. Nothing against you, I just know MY job.

1/ idk

[raceme]

This place is not like my home either, I woke up in the middle of the junkpile with no acolytes on sight. It was confusing too.

I told you it was because of your fuel later. Icantexplaineverythingatonce..not even with my speed.

'Evil' people always try to offend others, don't really care about them nor I want their respect. It's different. [Shh, this makes sense to him, okay.]

... [Ouch.]


Fine. I'm...

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[Frag why is this so hard.]

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...sorryifIoffendedyoutoo.

[mccrane]

[Forgive him, he was directed to this confrontation by Blurr.]

Power Joe--how much gasoline do you have?

[kungfugeek]

[Oh thank god someone with a brain.]

A full tank. We were just about to do our run for the day when I came here.