[audio]

[thxforthememories]

[Behold! A new voice on the network. And... it sounds decidedly uncertain. Maybe a little shaky.]

[Hey, when you get electrocuted by thousands of volts out of nowhere before waking up somewhere you've never seen, you're bound to sound a little off. Not to mention completely overwhelmed.]

[And quite honestly, he doesn't know what to say right now. Asking the empty air for help? In a place he's never even heard of? Surrounded by sights and sounds and robots utterly foreign? That seems... odd. But what choice does he have?]

Someone... please. [He hesitates.] I don't understand what's happened.

I --

[And here is where the first bit of real panic seems to show through. Sure, he got the explanation, but--] I don't remember coming here. Or ever hearing of such a place.

Please answer me.

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AUDIO;

[engrishdetective]

Not much more to say if you've already been told the "welcome to an alien planet, you can't go home" spiel. Which is still a load of crap, if you ask me.

Such bad news! But personally, I wouldn't take it as concrete fact.

AUDIO;

[thxforthememories]

[... at least most of the language is familiar. Except part of that last bit.]

I... was told this.

Why --- How did we get here? [Why doesn't he remember it? He's pretty sure he'd remember space.]

AUDIO;

[engrishdetective]

Through the Lambda, supposedly. I'm kind of taking it with a grain of salt, personally.

I don't remember falling through it, but they seem to be under the impression that this is what happened.

[Video]

[patokichi]

... Shadowmaru? Is that you?

[That voice sounds familiar but...]

[Video]

[thxforthememories]

[That's certainly a question he wasn't expecting in the slightest.]

[Nor was he entirely expecting a sudden video feed. And looks understandably startled.]

-- No. I'm not.

[HANG ON. You look very familiar -- crap.]

Brave Police?

[Video]

[patokichi]

Yes that's ri-

[Oh that turns on his video feed too?]

Kagerou? But how...

[Perma-Audio]

[my_own_trope]

You must be new here.

[thxforthememories]

[... well, it's an answer, sort of.]

Yes?

[my_own_trope]

You wanted an answer? Well here I am.

You're welcome.

[video ]

[sword_redemption]

None of us understand it. Not yet.

[First order of business:safety]

Are you someplace safe?

[And now wild ass guess time. Because the other looks a bit like the others. ]. Are you with the Brave Police?

[video]

[thxforthememories]

[Oh, one of the funny-looking robots.]

I don't know where I am.

[He really hasn't left the building since he woke up. Though, at the question, he seems to bristle, wings mantling behind him.]

No. I'm not.

[video]

[sword_redemption]

You're on Cybertron. Sort of. A version of it.

[The reaction startles Drift: the Brave Police he's met have been good fighters, with honor. He'd be happy to claim them as friends.]

Er. Well, the reason I asked was we don't have a lot of gasoline here, which is their fuel. I thought you might need it, if you were like them. That's all.

[wakizashi_straight]

All we know is likely what you have been told already. We are on another planet with no way back to our homes.

I do not remember coming here either, so you are not alone. But I am sorry for the situation regardless.

[thxforthememories]

I don't understand. How can this happen?

... We should remember something as significant as coming to an unknown world. I would remember.

[This is a Big Issue okay.]

[wakizashi_straight]

I wish I knew. I have been told that the light in the sky is some kind of rift between dimensions and that is how we arrived. I know little else about it.

But I do not remember falling through it either. You are concerned because you do not?

[littlecrowgirl]

[Kay can clearly see that Kagerou is confused and will immediately jump to his rescue and clear things up!]

Well...I got here by jumping out a window. I expected to land on a fire escape...but I landed in a building. On another planet.

How does that work?

[Or maybe not.]

[thxforthememories]

[Oh wow, there's humans here.]

I... don't know. I was flying, one minute. And... now. I'm here.

[Human you're only making this more confusing.]

[ video ]

[raceme]

You sound really distressed sir it's normal upon arriving here MY name's Blurr and I will answer any possible questions you might have as well as I can.

[Very fast too, probably.]

[ video ]

[thxforthememories]

[... wait what were those words.]

Where am I?

[Sorry, Blurr. He's not the most chatty 'bot ever brought online.]

[Video]

[heavymetalgenkigirl]

Hello.

I really don't know if anyone remembers getting here. Something funky about the way it happens.

I suppose if you don't know about the Autobots or Decepticons before that Cybertron is pretty weird to you, huh? It's okay, most the people here are super nice and friendly.

[Video]

[thxforthememories]

[Oh, great. Another human being.]

None of these words are familiar to me. Nothing about this is familiar. And I should remember.

"Most"?

audio

[percept]

[ Oh, someone sure sounds lost. ]

Do you require assistance?

audio

[thxforthememories]

... If you can explain what's going on, yes. I do.

[Because no one else has been very specific thus far. They keep using these words that make no sense.]

[winged_knight]

[This reaction sure sounded familiar. The way the Lambda inducted people into this world was downright rude. Wing finds it easier to be comforting face-to-face, so he opens the video link. His voice is calm, his face open and gentle.]

Do you need some help friend? I'm Wing. What's happened to you has happened to others, myself included. You're not alone. It's a lot to take in all at once though. I can help answer your questions if you like.

[thxforthememories]

[There are so many robots here, what does he do. He's never seen so many before -- and most of them want to help... And now he's being called... friend?]

[Oh. That -- that's new.]

"Friend"?

[Yes, he sort of fixated on that part, don't mind him.]

How many of you are there, here?