video || perceptor's lab

[sciencetank]

[The camera bounces, like someone knocked into it by accident -- and given who this is, that's entirely possible. It's Perceptor, peering through a scope, into a beaker of pink fluid.]

[He looks ragged. Haggard. Someone hasn't slept in days. Maybe longer.]

[He keeps right on adjusting things, staring into the beaker for a long, long while. Finally, he pushes it away, still staring at it.]

... it's done.

[He blinks several times, and drags his hands over his face.]

I've finished. A... perfectly viable sample of... [He squints at it.] Synthetic energon. No thanks to constant interruptions...

Now then.

[One hand fumbles around, feeling awkwardly for the Link, while he props himself up on the other.]

Test subjects?

Comments

[skidaddle]

Someone has to tell you how it tastes...

And for that, you'll need someone with extensive energon experience.

[He smirks. He's definitely tried plenty of energon.]

Just promise me you can fix whatever it does.

[sciencetank]

I think taste is the least of our concerns, regarding this substance. We should be more concerned over altered mental states, periods of aggression, and... shall we say... a heightened sense of one's own desires.

[IF YOU KNOW WHAT HE MEANS...]

I can promise there will be a fully trained medic present during the trials. Does that work?

[skidaddle]

Desires.

...

Why did you make this again?

[He's not saying no, however.]

Works for me. It might make scouting fun, though.

[sciencetank]

To see if it was possible, for one. To try and eliminate said side effects, for another... and to potentially bring a useful formula to my own world, and, effectively, solve our energon troubles.

How so?

[skidaddle]

That would...actually, that would be great.

Once you've got it, all we have to work on then is getting back through the Lambda. Piece of tape.

[Well, it is a start.]

Lets just say I shouldn't drive while under the influence and leave it at that. For now.

[sciencetank]

Yes, I know. That's precisely why I have to attempt it.

Piece of... tape?

All right, suit yourself.

[skidaddle]

Just because it is there? If I had any doubts you were a scientist, they've just been laid to rest.

[Not that he had any, after meeting you in person. The scope tended to seal that.]

It's just an expression, you know? Something easy to fix. 'A piece of tape.'

[sciencetank]

Well, that and the whole 'future of Cybertron' business.

... I've never heard that before.

[skidaddle]

Even if energon is slightly less pressing at the moment.

[But he gets you--he does!]

Would you uh...would you believe me if I said I just made it up?

[sciencetank]

Here, at least.

[He bends to type a few things.]

Yes. Yes, I would.