[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.

[Video]

[patokichi]

... Shadowmaru? Is that you?

[That voice sounds familiar but...]

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.]

[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...

[Video]

[thxforthememories]

[Sure is awkward up in here all of the sudden.]

Are you responsible for this? For... abducting me? I promised nothing else would happen--

[About when he finishes getting those words out, he... belatedly realizes how ridiculous it sounds. So he just. Stops talking.]

[Video]

[patokichi]

What? No- oh no no no. Not at all. We're all in the same situation unfortunately.

[HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD?]

I... we'll explain later, but right now, lets get you somewhere safe, if that's alright with you. If I give you a location, can you meet me?

[Video]

[thxforthememories]

[MAGIC IS HOW.]

A location. In a place I've never seen. How is that meant to help?

[Sorry, Deckerd. Someone's on edge.]

[Perma-Audio]

[my_own_trope]

You must be new here.

[thxforthememories]

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

Yes?

[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?

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.

[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.

AUDIO;

[thxforthememories]

They must be wrong.

I didn't fall through anything. I would remember falling.

[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.

[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.]

[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.

[video]

[thxforthememories]

I've never heard of this place.

[Granted, he lived pretty much his entire life in isolation, but still.]

[He doesn't seem to relax, regardless of the explanation.]

I was constructed like them. But I'm not one of them. They... [He stops. There's more important things here.] If there isn't any gasoline... how do you run?

[Don't all robots need gas?]

[video]

[sword_redemption]

[A rueful shrug.]

To be honest the only way I'd ever heard of Earth is the Decepticons had tried to conquer it once.

[He furrows his brow at the start of the story, and its abrupt cut off. It's not his place to push. If anyone knows the value of one's privacy about one's past, it's Drift. ]

We? We run on energon. You'd have to ask one of the medics the details. [Drift does not do science.]

If you're made like them then Ratchet can do the same conversion on you he did on them. If you want

[video]

[thxforthememories]

Decept... icons?

[Sorry, the word comes out pretty mangled. He tilts his head. Being curious is a surefire way of calming down after... whatever just happened. A distraction, at the very least.]

Energon? [Obviously it's a fuel, so there's no need to ask for clarification on that point.] A medic? What would a human know about... any of this?

[HAHA because only humans are doctors, right?] I am made like them. The same basic engine... improved on. To an extent.

[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.]

[video]

[sword_redemption]

One of the factions in a war. [He shrugs. The name doesn't matter. Not really. If only he could get Starscream to understand that.]

You'll see them here, with purple insignias.

Our medics are like us, Cybertronian. [He'd let Vandal look at his ankle mechanisms, but he really wasn't sure she could repair much.] We're not like the Brave Police. Humans didn't make us.

[He nods.] Then you may need gasoline. I'll see what I can find.

AUDIO;

[engrishdetective]

Then I guess you have a memory loss. Good for you. So do the rest of us.

AUDIO;

[thxforthememories]

You say it like it's such a simple thing!

[video]

[thxforthememories]

War? You... are involved in a war?

[What. Robots fighting robots? What is this madness you speak.]

You have your own engineers? You... Who did make you?

[A pause. He's oddly taken aback by the offer. Someone... offering to help? What is this even.]

You will? Why?