[Video - Transmission from Alpha Trion's Temple]

[symmetriphiliac]

[The feed flicks on to reveal a rather furious looking boy with three white stripes on the left side of his hair, his unnatural gold eyes glowering at the camera. His chest is heaving as he struggles to restrain himself; if looks could kill, then the device would be dead five times over.]

Is this someone's sick idea of a joke?! How could anyone possibly think of doing something so twisted?!

[Of course, he must be referring to his appearance on Cybertron. Not hours earlier, he had been in Death City, speaking to his fellow classmates... It would only make sense for him to be so incensed, having been whisked away to a foreign planet!]

This marking on my shoulder! Why is there only one?! It's completely asymmetrical!

[... Or not. Even without the glyph directly visible, the very idea that he could be marked in such an unbalanced, terrible way... His skin should have rejected the ink to begin with!]

I demand to speak to the ones responsible for this atrocity!

Comments

3/3

[skidaddle]

I'd tell you to draw one on, but you already said your skin can't take dyes. Maybe you can make a patch for your, uh...what's that stuff called again? Your clothing?

[It's either 'clothing' or 'dress' and so far he's only seen Vandal in a dress.]

I've heard rumors that it's Unicron. Got one of those in your universe? God of chaos and destruction?

Either way, the application is here.

[He sends along the file.]

Re: 3/3

[symmetriphiliac]

It wouldn't be the same. If it were to ever glow, it would be completely different...

Not to my knowledge - however, given that I had not heard of Cybertron prior to my arrival here, that's not surprising. If Cybertron is far from Earth, it's possible that both the planet and Unicron exist in my universe without our realizing.

[He pauses for a moment, thinking on the similarities between Unicron and the recently awakened demon god in his own universe. They were by no means identical, but the timing was difficult to ignore.]

Thank you. I'll definitely be looking into it.

[skidaddle]

So what would make you happy, then?

[Because it looks like you might be stuck.]

That theory is sound. We get a lot of humans and Earth-folk through here so there's probably some connection, but not everyone is on the same page as far as sentient robots go so who knows.

He's a threat here, and we're here, so looks like we'll be dealing with it either way.

[He sees that pause, but doesn't press it.]