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[4_toteachus]

The Badlands were fascinating until I got stepped on.

I'd rather not repeat that experience.

[Actually, it's surprising that it hasn't been done before, considering that Four is a tiny doll in a land full of giants. Dying a second time would just suck all around. Still, the Badlands was an interesting experience, and she got to be useful while she was there.]

I have a question!

[Big surprise.]

What sort of things make you smile? Why? Are there every any circumstances when those things wouldn't make you smile?

Do any of you have a favourite poem?

[That's more than one question Four.]

Comments

[4_toteachus]

Lord Megatron sure is a gentleman.

I wouldn't have guessed that from him considering what I've heard.

[She's really impressed actually. Four leans against his finger and cheerfully allows him to pet her. Physical contact is comforting and she takes whatever she can get. If someone had told her a year ago that she'd close to a robot three hundred times her size, she wouldn't have believed them.]

The bladed monsters were odd. I wonder what they're out there for.

[notyourblueangel]

[Had anyone told Thundercracker he'd be sharing room – and honest companionship – with a creature half the size of his fingers, he'd not have believed them either.  But he's glad.]

  [The first comment does…but doesn't surprise him.  The mech still made him nervous, but he wasn't so blinded by his own eons of experience that he failed to recognize more than half of it being just his own problems.  The mech was powerful and demanded respect and obedience, but he'd yet to be the abusive, quick-tempered, and often unreasonable tyrant that the Seeker had grown so used to.  He nods.]

  He is and yet . . . is not anything like the Megatron from my own timestream.  I understand this one is from still very, very early in our war.  He'd be from way back in my past if we were from the same world.  I've heard that my Megatron was once . . . much like this one, though obviously he didn't stay so.  [He sighed, air expelling from his circulation vents.]  Let's just hope this one takes to spark what he's learning of his other selves and what they become.

  [He considers the observation about the bladed monsters.]  That's a good question.  Did you get pictures of video of them?  [He himself kind of missed out on the "fun", since he and Ventus got grounded during their scouting mission.]

[4_toteachus]

He does not seem like an evil person. In fact, he seems very thoughtful at times, and a strong leader. He can also sometimes be a bit aggressive and distant, but those aren't necessarily bad traits.

Oh! I did! Look Thundercracker!

[She sets down her communicator and directs her gaze towards the wall. There's a loud click and whirr as a coloured projection starts up. Thanks to tinkering from Shockwave, Four's projection abilities have been greatly improved.

Thundercracker gets to see different bots from different angles, obviously Four had shot a few of those while riding on someone. The clips move on from travelling through the haven to the unfriendly badlands. Four jumps eagerly from clip to clip, not being too particular about the order, when she finally stops on an image of a large bladed monster.

That's the one that stepped on her. Interesting, isn't it Thundercracker?]