1. [Voice]

[warborn]

[for a long few moments, there's only the sound of ventilation. fans cycling a mech's air systems. he's clicked on his radio, yeah, but now?

now he has no idea what to say, except something slightly hysterical.]

This is a lot different than I thought the Pit'd look like.

[said in the tone of someone-please-tell-me-I'm-totally-incorrect]

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[Vid]

[must_do_science]

Fort Max?

[A slight pause.]

The Fortress Maximus I knew was in emergency stasis on Delphi, last I heard. Does that, ah, sound familiar?

[Vid]

[warborn]

...I woke up.

[Vid]

[must_do_science]

Alright, good! That means that yer the Fort Max from my (within reasonable estimation) universe!

Oh, also you, ah, woke up. That's good too!
[Pause.]
Uh, yeah, if no one's told you yet, this isn't any afterlife. We're on a cybertron in a different reality. Haven't quite nailed down which one yet.

[Vid]

[warborn]

That's...somewhere between the most confusing and the most sense anyone's made so far. Keep talking.

[Vid] More technobabble? GOT YOU COVERED.

[must_do_science]

Alright so ya might have noticed that there's mechs here that almost but aren't quite like the ones we know. Also there's multiples. Three or four Starscreams, and even I got a double around here who is really strangely interested in swords and I guess is a Wrecker? It's weird.

[Focus, 'Jack, focus.]

Anyway, that huge chrono-dimensional distortion hovering over the planet keeps grabbing random mass from different time-streams and depositing them all here. Follow?

[Vid] wheeljack you are talking to someone with about half your intelligence

[warborn]

[. . .

processing...

processing...

processing...]

Not really.

[Vid] Then this obviously calls for more words

[must_do_science]

[He's used to getting pauses like this as responses but Max's goes a bit longer than normal. 'Jack clears his aerators and resets his sights a little bit]

The, uh, big magical swirly thing in space above us is transporting people here from across the universe against their will.

Better?

[Vid] CLEARLY

[warborn]

...how the hell does it do that?

[Vid]

[must_do_science]

Right now I got about five competing theories, ranging from an inter-dimensional weapon to the "dark power of Unicron."
[He rolls his optics to show how ridiculous that idea is.]

To be perfectly honest, I have no idea.

[Vid]

[warborn]

...guess it could be worse.

[Vid]

[must_do_science]

Yeah. Yeah it could be. Least we got places to stay. Oh that reminds me, who did you end up getting assigned to?

[Vid]

[warborn]

'Assigned'? Does that have to do with this? [he turns his shoulder, the black glyph clearly visible]

[Vid]

[must_do_science]

['Jack's tone takes a turn for the sour as he indicates his own light blue sigil.]
Yeah. I guess that's one of the downsides of the free room and recharging. I was told I'd been 'aligned' with Nexus Prime. Not sure what that fully entails yet, although he does have a rather... intriguing place here.

Hunh. I haven't seen a black one before.

[Vid]

[warborn]

...What's going on with all these Primes, anyway? Isn't there just supposed to be one? Someone said I'm with - [he makes a face] - 'Megatronus Prime'.

[that just sounds WRONG. Bc]