re_alignment | [audio]

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brave police: j-decker | kagerou

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[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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[ Oh, someone sure sounds lost. ]

Do you require assistance?

... 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.]

You have fallen through a tear in time and space known as the 'Lambda' and arrived on a version of the planet Cybertron. The planet appears to be in the control of entities known as the First Forged. At this time there is no known way to return.

[That's slightly more helpful.]

So it wasn't an abduction? This is some kind of accident.

[Pause.]

Are you one of them? The robots from this world?

[Since it's either that or a human being, at this point. He's hoping for 'robot'.]

Yes. More accurately, I am from another version of this world.

No wonder you have answers.

... What do they call you?

Not nearly enough, I'm afraid.

My name is Perceptor.

It's better than nothing. Better than the others.

... I am Kagerou.

It's a pleasure, Kagerou. If you require further assistance, I would be happy to help.

Is it true... there isn't any gasoline here?

Gasoline is not a fuel source used on Cybertron, although if I understand the nature of the Lambda correctly it is possible that some is present on the planet within the junk pile.

You run on gasoline?

No one has mentioned a junk pile yet. Where is it?

Yes. All BP models do.

In the center of the Haven territory.

That may be a problem. Can you run on any sort of secondary fuel source?

Haven... territory?

No. There was no need to incorporate something like that into my design.

The area which you currently occupy.

Does your design allow room for alterations? There seems to be a sufficient population of medics and scientists that alterations to your fuel systems may be possible.

... I'll look there, then.

I don't know. [He hesitates.] I... am a prototype design. There were improvements made to the one based on me. But I don't know if it's something possible for myself.

I could take a look at your systems, if you'd like, and see if it might be a feasible course of action.

Are you an engineer?

I'm a scientist.

[ROBOTS CAN BE SCIENTISTS? WHAT.]

Does that mean you have experience in engineering...?

I have some, yes.

I didn't know it was possible for a robot to be something like that.

I've been many things over the course of my life. I take it you were created for a singular purpose?

I'm a prototype.

[He says this like it should explain everything.]

That... was my purpose.

[ Oh :c Oh honey. ]

Have you never aspired to be anything else?