re_alignment | 1st Score

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✘ ben 10 | kevin ethan levin

1st Score - [VIDEO]

[Camera's on Kevin, scrawny and lanky eleven year old boy, and behind him is the backdrop of the Wastelands. He talks into the communicator as he walks toward the Haven, his face caught between anger and shell shock. He's having trouble hiding how unnerved he is right now.]

What happened? What day is it?

...Anyway, nobody better have touched my stuff.

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[Oh great, more fleshies.]

Sorry kid, we sold all of your stuff.

YOU DID WHAT?!

Look, maybe you're new here 'cause I've never seen you around before, but my stuff is my stuff and you don't touch it!

[Oh boy, Knock Out stop himself from snickering.]

Technically is NOT your stuff anymore.

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Give it back, scrap! Wait until I tell --

[He stops, looking surprised as no name comes to mind. There was someone who would have stepped in, right? But he can't place a name, or even a face, to the thought. He shakes his head and scowls again.]

I can come over there and take it back myself!

You need someone to fight your battles for you, kiddo?

[Knock Out looks rather entertained by this whole conversation.]Can you even remember where 'here' is? New people showed up in the planet lately with foggy memories. People none of use have seen before even if they claim otherwise.

I don't need anyone to fight for me! I can take care of myself!

This is Cybertron. I'm in the Wasteland, heading for the Haven. My home!

[That much he remembers.]

[That reply makes Knock Out stop smirking. Not cause he's not still amused but because he's more interested in the human now.] So you remember.

How odd for an organic to call this place 'home'.

[He glances away, trying to look nonchalant, but can't hide the disgust in his face as he remembers.]

Yeah, well. Better than where I came from. Way better.

Now, that is something I can relate to.

I have no idea where's your stuff, or if it's still here. I never really heard of you before, fleshie. Do you have a name?

[Kevin's still looking a little miffed. He doesn't like being toyed with -- he had his fill of that long before Cybertron. Still, he raises an eyebrow, curious about Knock Out's origins now.]

...Thanks, I guess. I'm Kevin.

Kinda surprised, though. I mean, I'm pretty sure Cybertron's supposed to be home to your kind, right? Is it that much different?

[Get used to it, kid, Is what being around Knock Out implies. He ain't telling more, though.]

The name's Knock Out, I'm one of Solus's.

It should be, yes. The Cybertron in my reality is dead and gone, being here is not so bad.

Oh.

[Kevin gazes at him a moment, glancing away, grasping for something to say.]

Sorry. That's rough.

Earth's still around where I come from, but I couldn't get to it. Even if I could, I got nothing there to go back to.

It's been dead for a very long time. We had the opportunity to restore it back to its former glory before I arrived here, but the Autobots from my world ruined that.

Nothing? How so? [Humans so young usually don't say those things.]

Well, that's dumb. My memories are still pretty fried, but aren't the Autobots usually the ones going off like they're the hammer of good or justice or some stupid crap like that?

Anyway, it's kind of an organic thing. You guys come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and powers and stuff, so I don't think you'd get it.

They still do that here, the hypocrites. Silly isn't it?

We do.[Yet Knock Out is not the biggest or strongest bout out there, quite the opposite.] But try me.

I know the type. They ain't so great and good when you're the one on the other side of that hammer.

[He pauses, still looking a little bitter as he considers his next words. Finally, he shrugs.]

Yeah, well. Humans aren't like that. They're all the same. They don't like it when people stand out. Once you're branded a freak, no one wants you, so they just deal with you instead.

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Exactly. Their ideas of 'freedom and justice' are only valid if you are on their side.

My kind is not any better. You should see the crap I had to heard for having a car alt mode, as if that made me inferior. [Fliers are just jackasses.] Who cares about what they think, though? The problem is them.

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Yeah, well. Gets hard to not care when they're the ones with food and houses and stuff. And they're stingy, when they decide to share at all. Which is practically never.

'Course, when I do what I gotta to survive, then I'm the criminal, not them.

[He shrugs, trying to look nonchalant, but there's still a hint of bitterness in his gaze.]

Anyway, not like that's an issue anymore. Even before I got dumped onto Cybertron, wasn't like I was ever gonna see Earth again.

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[Knock Out doesn't comment on it but he can tell a grudge when he hears it. He's vengeful too, so he can relate. And he's amused by the kid's temper.]

That sounds exactly like the old caste system from my world. There's a reason why the war started. Why they had to live so large and leave so little for the rest of us?

Criminal...Decepticon...they love to use labels, don't they?

[You can't fool a fool, Kevin. Knock Out made a living out of looking nonchalant about things that bother him. It takes one to know one.]

No? And how's that? Was it destroyed?

Yeah. It's always easier to be a jerk to someone in the right category, huh? Once you're scum, who cares what you want?

Naw. I'm just too far away. I got thrown in the Null Void. Highest security prison in the Unverse where I come from. Supposed to be for criminals so bad you gotta throw 'em into another dimension.

Cyberton's better.

Pretty much. You are really smart for a fleshie that seems so young. How old are you?

That's impressive. [Have a compliment, kid. Knock Out is not sure if the kid is lying to him but Kevin looks like he's being serious.] And what did you do to deserve that?

Sounds like it is, yes.

Lost track last time I came here, but last I checked I was almost twelve. Probably am by now.

As for how I got to the Null Void, well. I did what I had to. Not gonna get what you want if you don't go for it, right? Even if the law don't agree.

[Give him a moment to do the calculations.]You are practically a protoform.

The law rarely agree with anything. Laws were made to be broken, anyway. Be careful with a mech here named Prowl, he has a bad temper and the habit of trying up people and dragging them all across the haven.

Protoform. Right. I think I remember what those are... doesn't mean I can't still take care of myself just 'cause I'm a kid.

But hey, thanks for the tip, Knock Out. I'll be sure to steer clear.

I never said you couldn't. Some protoform were way smarter than many mechs I know.

Don't mention it. [No, really. Don't tell anybody. He got a reputation to maintain.]

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