audio || trion's area: perceptor's lab

[sciencetank]

... Perhaps this is a bit hasty in coming, but I've lost contact with Grimlock.

[And the last time this happened, he apparently ran into Shockwave, so, the scientist is understandably concerned.]

[Since there's more than one Shockwave here.]

I rather doubt he's gotten himself into danger or anything of the sort, however, I would be grateful to hear anything, should someone happen to sight him. He's difficult to miss, really.

[First this business with Magnus and now...]

Primus.

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[noparachutes]

Is that so? Terribly unfortunate.

[sciencetank]

... Yes. It is.

[Well, that's not an ominous statement at all.]

I don't suppose you've information.

[noparachutes]

Not presently. I would recommend speaking with Megatronus, if he has the time.

[It's unfortunate really. He was looking forward to fighting the dinosaur.]

[sciencetank]

You must admit. Your phrasing is rather suspicious.

[noparachutes]

Is it? I had a task that involved him, it would be a shame if he were no longer present for it.

[sciencetank]

A task? What could you possibly want of Grimlock?

[noparachutes]

That is none of your concern.

[sciencetank]

I don't see how it isn't.

[noparachutes]

Do you own him?

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[prettyfly4adinobot]

You not seen him either?

[Swoop churrs lightly.]

Me was going to ask if you seen him... guess you not, either.

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[sciencetank]

... You aren't with him? I assumed...

[That's not good.]

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[prettyfly4adinobot]

No. Me, Swoop been looking everywhere. Not found him at all. Him not been back to quarters at Megatronus's temple, either.

[He's used to Grimlocks leaving in a snit on occasion, but not this one. And not for this long.
Swoop is actually worried for once.]

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[sciencetank]

... I see.

He hasn't been here, either. Perhaps... perhaps the bar. There is still one of those here, I think.

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[prettyfly4adinobot]

Should check there. And maybe... maybe for tracks, too. There maybe still some left we can follow, see where him gone. We catch up to him.

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[sciencetank]

If he's still present, I fully intend to catch up to him with all possible speed.

[And have a talk about abandoning posts.]

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[prettyfly4adinobot]

Good. But not 'if'. Him Grimlock have to be here. Somewhere. Just have to find him.

[He's too awesome for that 'Badlands' business.]

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[sciencetank]

I see.

[With the rash of disappearances all of the sudden... he's not so sure this is going to end successfully.]

I'll... initiate search protocol. If I hear of anything, I'll be sure to inform you.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

I was wondering... [She shakes her helm, frowning. Well, at least they might be more looking, then.] I started to look around yesterday, but I've not found anything.

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[sciencetank]

Elita, was it?

[He passes a hand down his face.]

Admittedly, Grimlock randomly disappearing isn't all that strange an event... but he's said nothing to an alternate version of one of his team. And I had assumed they were reasonably close...

[Not to mention, so many others just up and vanished lately.]

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[invisiblepinkboat]

Yes. [She dips her helm in a brief nod.] Exactly. It's a similarily I'm familiar with, and wouldn't expect anything less, but here, well...

People disappear.

[It's said grimly, with some level of acceptance. It doesn't mean Elita's not going to continue to look. Sometimes they came back, after all.]

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[sciencetank]

That they do.

All the more reason to be completely sure of what's going on before we come to any sort of conclusion.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

[Another nod, before Elita sort of... pauses.]

Indeed. And I know it's quite useless to wish, but if we had some way of telling if people could, or were, ending up home, or in the Badlands or elsewhere, when they disappeared...

[That would make these sort of things easier.]

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[sciencetank]

Wishing is, by its very nature, useless, yes. However...

[He cycles air slowly.]

However, I cannot dispute the idea that knowing they were returned to where they belonged would be beneficial. At least, it would put processors at ease.

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[invisiblepinkboat]

[She's practical-minded, but in a situation like this it's hard not to turn to gentle fancies like that.]

And could perhaps help up find out a way to get home under our own power, instead of random disappearances which we don't know how or where they go. I'm not a scientist, but if we knew which disappearances, if any, had people go away from here instead of lost in the Badlands..?

[She shakes her helm.]

Either way, I... well. I'll keep looking. He wasn't the Grimlock from my reality, but they were very similar.

[And so it hurts in a similar way, because it'd been nice to have someone who acted similar and was an alternate of one of her friends here.]

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[sciencetank]

Precisely. Their losses could serve a greater purpose, rather than leaving us all... in this current state of affairs.

[No, he's still not worried, all right? Not about Grimlock, or Magnus, he's just being careful.]

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[Right.]

As will I. The last time he vanished, he apparently ran afoul of Shockwave...