[Broadcast--outside of a cave at bleak sunset][actionspam welcome]

[megaton]

[It has been a lunar cycle since he found himself mysteriously resurrected for the second? third? time, and Megatron has spent most of it feeling odd. He refused to take residence in any of the Firstforged's temples, and had returned to his cave in the mountain where the base of his trans-dimensional space bridge had been built...]

[...and then he hadn't known what to do. Every time he'd attempted to return to his universe he'd been shunted onto a different path. Should he try it again, to go home and resume his war? Or was it time for something new?]

Fear.

[He starts, looking off towards the setting sun.]

Fear is something I have heard much about. Fear of the Badlands. Fear of loosing one's friends, lovers, allies, and close connections. Fear of each other. Fear of the Firstforged.

I propose it is time to do something about that fear.

[He wasn't giving up on his space-bridge. Not yet. For now, however, he was going to focus his power on a different task.]

I have decided to embark upon a quest. From what I have been told, the Firstforged have been far from forthcoming on information about this world, about their adversaries, and about our place within it.

I cannot tolerate being left ignorant. Anyone who has information about the badlands, the Firstforged, or their own, personal fears...

[He laughs.]

You are welcome to join me. I'll be leaving to fight my way as close to the badlands as I can get in three days.

I'll share what I learn with those who do the same.

[Megatron closes with coordinates to his cave--an invitation to come speak with him in private before he goes.]

[LOCKED TO DECEPTICONS]

I don't care what your previous universe is. If you bore the mark or went through the ceremony, I want to hear from you. Now. Tell me who your Firstforged is.

[LOCKED TO TARN]

I have a proposal.

[LOCKED TO VEN]

Are you free tomorrow?

Comments

[Video]

[littlecrowgirl]

Whoa whoa, hold up the phone, mister.

Some people have gone in and come back out. Why not just ask them instead of going on some weirdo field trip to the robot Bermuda-Triangle?

[Video]

[megaton]

I am asking.

I am also inviting.

As one who has been within and returned, I believe we need to do this. There's something more going on.

[Video]

[littlecrowgirl]

Seems kinda like a conspiracy theory.

You should do what Mr. Edgeworth does, and chain together things with Logic.

[Video]

[megaton]

Logic may very well be what is needed...

One of my colleages suspects the badlands might be connected to a chaos-god, and what better to fight chaos with?

[Than Logic.]

Would you like to see for yourself?

[Video]

[littlecrowgirl]

A chaos-god...you guys have that kind of stuff?

[Wow, so even robots have--]

Oh...Mr. Trion says I shouldn't go into the Badlands...

[Video]

[megaton]

Gods?

In a manner of speaking. Most of our legends are based in fact...but the exact specifications have been lost in millions of years of history.

So has much of our culture...if there was any good in it to begin with.

[Given what he'd 'grown up' with, that was in debate.]

You'll be kept safe. I'm bringing a healer of humans along. [At least, that SEEMED to be what Flonne was.]

[Video]

[littlecrowgirl]

Hey, you sound like you're not proud of your culture! That's no way to talk, you know.

[Don't make her lecture you.]

...Well..m-maybe. I just...I promised someone I wouldn't go. He's more important than anything.

And I always keep my promises.

[Video]

[megaton]

It is difficult to be proud of a culture which turned our working class into slaves.

[Until he'd seen the smelting pits of the gladitorial circuit, he had not known true depravity.]

Do not break your promise. Sometimes one's word is all one has to go on.

[He considers this, and smirks.]

And sometimes, it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

[Video]

[thxforthememories]

She's not going out there!

[Pterodactyl screech]

[No, not really. He just saw that question... and panicked. If he'd listened a little further, this wouldn't have happened, but someone's on a hair-trigger over Kay these days.]

[Video]

[megaton]

Her promise, is it?

[That's some protection, he has to admit.]

[Video]

[thxforthememories]

Not just that.

She's not going out there where she'll be lost.