VIDEO ▌ OUTSIDE HAVEN

[headgames]

--ag's going on?

[The video crackles to life, a Cybertronian that looks new - although with how he feels he'd argue that. This all feels familiar, almost looks it, but he can't place any of it. Really all that does is dwindle his patience, and prod at his anger level.]

I don't remember this being-

[He rubs his head, optics dimming. Confused, disoriented and irritable, not a good combination. Slag finally turns his attention to the communicator. For some reason he remembers that. Somehow. And a few other fuzzy things, but there is something there, swarming around in his processor.]

...What the frag happened?! I don't- Pit! This feels familiar.

Swoop! Snarl! Sludge! ...Ironhide? Anyone on this frequency? I want some fraggin' answers now!

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[prettyfly4adinobot]

[Swoop doesn't quite recognize the face he sees on the Link, but... well, this person had asked after him.]

Swoop here. Where you?

[He's not sure how many answers he could give, but he can at least find this person.]

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[headgames]

Swoop?

[He must have hit his head really hard or something, because this guy? Looks and sounds like Swoop, but at the same time there's something not quite right there. Something off. Maybe it's this fragging place, or the connection, he isn't sure.]

Pit if I know.

[But oh does that just give him more reasons to rage.]

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[prettyfly4adinobot]

Uh-huh. That what me said.

[If only it was just the connection, but it's not. But if nothing else, he seems helpful and has some understanding of what he's doing.]

No worries. Can use network device, find you that way. Me fly out, bring you back to Haven. Okay? Then sort out how you get out there in first place.

[Luckily he's accustomed to a certain amount of rage from the people he knows. Swoop is a-okay in most departments.]

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[headgames]

--You feeling alright?

[Because the more Swoop talks the more off things seem. It's the connection, it's this place, it's his processor spinning as it tries to remember. Something. Anything.]

Haven... [Yeah, that sounds familiar. He knows that place.]

Yeah, sure.

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[prettyfly4adinobot]

Uh-huh. Me always talk like this. Is normal, me Swoop promise.

[He had this talk with Grimlock before Grimlock... disappeared. Swoop churrs through his beak quietly when he thinks about it, and then shakes his head.]

'Kay. It take me little bit to get there.

[But at least he thinks he knows where exactly the other bot is, and can lift off and head his direction.]

So you know me, but me not sure me know you. What your name?

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[headgames]

That's not normal.

[He is not agreeing with that at any point, Swoop. Talking like that is not at all normal.]

This place do something to you? It's Slag.

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[prettyfly4adinobot]

Is if you grow up in forest on island in middle of nowhere.

[If Slag has that much of an issue with it, he can try to teach Swoop better syntax and grammar. If he can get Swoop to sit still long enough.]

No know a 'Slag'. You not from same dimension as me, maybe. Is probably that.

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[arnhaid]

Uh. Yeah?

Ironhide here. Who's this?

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[headgames]

[Not his first choice, but Ironhide is better than nothing.]

Slag. Your processor get fried or something.

[Because he will punch you for not recognizing him. He's pretty sure he was just with Ironhide, before whatever it was happened. He remembers it anyway,]

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[arnhaid]

Something like that...

[More like DEATH but whatever.]

Look, let's just say it did, and you gimme a rundown before we go any further. Save us both a lot of trouble here...

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[headgames]

[Again? Geeze Ironhide, get it together.]

Finally loose yourself in that vision of yours or did the noise just really start digging at you. Thought you were stronger than that.

[He just grunts. That's totally the rundown you were looking for right?]

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[arnhaid]

What vision? The scrap are you talking about?

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[headgames]

[Oh yeah, circuits definitely fried.]

If it wasn't that noise, then it's gotta be this place... The frag happened to you?

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[sciencetank]

...

Who are you, and why on Cybertron are you looking for Grimlock's team?

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[headgames]

Grimlock hasn't been in charge of the team since he got himself locked up. Who the frag are you?

[This is a sore subject. Do you really want to go there Perceptor.]

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[sciencetank]

Locked up?

This is Perceptor. Who are you?

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[headgames]

Arrested. Locked up. Has been for a while.

[He grunts.]

Slag.

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[sciencetank]

I'm impressed there's a facility capable of holding Grimlock, honestly...

[A beat.]

I asked your designation, no need to curse.

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[headgames]

He went willingly.

[There's something in his voice that sounds like he's getting ticked off. Of course, that might just be what he sounds like normally. Who knows.]

That is my designation.

[video]

[sword_redemption]

You all right?

[He's peering at the video. This happened before and it went badly.]

Can I ask if you have, er, a mark on your arm?

[video]

[headgames]

I sound alright to you?

[He grunts, looking at his arm and thinking a moment. It takes him a moment but he does remember a group known as the Firstforged, but there's little else there. Like which mark exactly this is. And much of why he remembers something like that yet nothing else to go along with it.]

Yeah yeah, your little Firstforged buddies got me all stamped up.

[video]

[megatronicpolarity]

Slag? Too temperamental for even the creatures of the Badlands, then?

[He needles you out of affection, Slag, really.... well, partly.]

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[headgames]

[Alright who's the bot that's asking for a good punching? He'll- wait he knows this guy. He remembers something at least. Frag his head hurts.]

As if anything could handle my flames.

[He's not temperamental, he just melts everything. Difference.]

[video]

[megatronicpolarity]

There are things which can. I remember as much.

The question is: do you?

[video]

[headgames]

Vaguely. Things are... Coming back.

[Sort of.]

The frag happened?