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[He and his party have been returning for the last few days, a ragged, shaken group who are nevertheless still alive. They are survivors, and Megatron seems to take a sort of pride in that...walking tall and steady despite an obvious limp. A few blades are slung from his back like trophies, and one or two still have alien-looking hands attached at the hilt.]

I must admit concession to whoever told me it was folly to approach the badlands.

[Here he is. Returned. He wishes he could say it was a relief.]

You were right...

...but so was I.

[He tosses a blade down, letting it imbed in the safe soil at his feet.] Their numbers are greater than ours. If they should attack at full strength, I doubt we would last long.

So why do they not attack us yet?

[He smirks, but it's a bitter smirk.] I have a theory.

We may even be able to use it to our advantage.

Those who offered their support are welcome to this information. Those who did not? Well. We're all in this together, aren't we?

[It doesn't mean he's going to tell. Not right away.]

I'll be at the Hub if anyone wants to hear our stories. If there are any medics thinking about attending...you'll be needed.

[The ones who had come along had done amazingly given the lack of facilities and traveling circumstances, and more weren't going to hurt.]

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I can see that. Humans had their own gladiatorial battles, you know. Kind of a... messy way to alleviate boredom, don't you think?

[But then he folds his arms and sort of... leans back. An eyebrow raised.] Alright. You've got my attention. But it depends - what are your goals? Your proposals to fix and organize this place? Gimme reasons for why I should support you on your campaign. Lots of tyrants and dictators can talk smooth, y'see.

Think bein' cautious is a logical approach to politics. Especially since we let that massive asshole worm his way into the committee. Tarn, that is. [He voted 'no' on him, thank God.] And he claims to be your number one fanboy, so that puts me a little off, you see...

I was not a gladiator by choice, you know. However, one does get used to it...

[And it was enjoyable, once he'd gotten over that pesky fear of death.]

I'm glad to see you're as smart as I anticipated.

Very well. Lets talk.

My platform is based off survival. With no way home, we need to organize in order to keep ourselves alive and sane. I don't trust the Firstforged to achieve this for us, and I doubt half of the Autobots would trust me but at least I have proven that I accomplish tasks that I set out to.

If we can get organized...then I think we might even have a chance of getting what we really want.

Each of us.

As for Tarn...

[He laughs.]

If only we all had the luxury of choosing what others said about us.

To work as a community, yes. As a whole. Because I hope you don't want to apply Darwinism to your idea of survival. Assuming you probably have no idea who Darwin is given you're an alien robot - survival of the fittest. Sound familiar?

What laws do you propose to implement? I'd like to think we'd take this as a democracy. Overseer sounds a bit too tyrannical to me. Like a done-up dictator. President has a nice, softer ring to it. But we get to vote on who those rynning, so democracy is already in action.

I just don't want to wind up with another wolf managing to wiggle in with the sheep, if you get what I mean.

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