[Audio/Video] Totally not compensating for anything, nope.

[cliffjumper]

Absolute glitchin' slag.

[There's more insults than those being muttered over the audio, but they're kept at a lower pitch, and the noises of metal or other items being thrown around obscures some of it.]

One of these days I'm actually gonna get to stay put an' where the slag--- [Either the speaker just stumbled over something, or yanked something out of a pile.] Finally! Ugh. Okay.

[And then have video and a red cybertronian with sensor horns leaning against... a very large cannon (or is he just that small?).]

Any of you find a large sniper rifle calibrated for someone my height before I do, I'd appreciate if you ask me if it's mine.

[Because that thing was made for him, so. And while sniper rifles aren't his favourite weapon, he's picked up the talent and he came here with it... as his found cannon can testify. Cliffjumper grunts and drags a hand down his faceplates.]

Got the basics, blah blah, besides that what is the situation? An' for the information, apparently even TransTech, who proclaimed themselves quite above the rest of us, can't make proper stellar span.... er, space bridges.

[He's not going to assume anyone he knows... from either two dimensions or Axiom Nexus is here. And the real kicker? He has the vaguest impression he sort of bounced briefly into the negative polarity universe before coming here, but he's not sure and that, along with his missing weapons, is just torqueing him off.]

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[cliffjumper]

Uh-huh.

[Muted or not, he doesn't think you're completely humour-less, Optimus, since he's seen that that's not true. Though, at least he's grinning a bit?]

Maybe, but unless it's different, they probably don't? If they're even similar at all, the Nexus Prime I met had to use the stellar spanner we still had at base to leave the negative polarity universe.

[Cliffjumper shrugs, frowning slightly. He doesn't know that Nexus didn't need to use any "help" later, so maybe it was merely that he needed a boost out of negative polarity space.]

... Yeah, thought so. Frag. Hopefully someone 'round here'll know somethin'... Or some of the Firstforged would be willing to help.

[Cliffjumper's torn between cynical suspicion and cautious hopefulness at that prospect. The Nexus Prime he'd met, after all, had been a right upstanding mech.]

Unless an' until we get some sorta proof, I suppose we'll at least have to act like we believe it.

[Unfortunately, this being Cliffjumper saying this... he might end up having trouble following his own advice.]

[ichooseboth]

'Stellar spanner'?

[That sounds new.]

But it is entirely possible they might be willing to do so. They haven't yet made any unreasonable demands of us, or suggested that we are required to stay here.

I imagine some of them might prefer to be rid of us in that manner, honestly.

[cliffjumper]

... Errr. [Cliffjumper's faceplates draw into an embarrassed and annoyed grimace. It's not a bad thing that he's gotten used to using those terms, and it does seem a bit more strengthened again even after a few months in Axiom, but that doesn't make it any less annoying when he uses the wrong phrase to the wrong mech.]

Ugh, a space bridge. Called a stellar spanner in the negative polarity universe.

Dunno if that's believable or will hold up, but if so... as long as they don't just settle for tossin' us out into any other reality than their own, I don't care if they actually like we're here or would want to kick us out helm first.

[ichooseboth]

Ah. That sounds a bit more useful.

[He chuckles. Too bad they don't really have those in his universe.]

Though I would prefer not to get kicked out by any of them, and not just solely because of how large their feet are.

[cliffjumper]

[They are exceedingly useful!

... when not made from the dying/dead body of the inventor himself.]

Yeah, they are. Let ya bridge distances like Earth-Cybertron in mere moments.

[He shrugs, and then sort of chokes and Optimus continues to speak, and then bursts out laughing.]

Uh--- yeah, I--- Agree.

[ichooseboth]

[...That would be a bit morbid, yes.]

That would certainly be beyond helpful. I imagine it could change the entire face of a war easily.

[He tries to sound dry, but he can't help but chuckle a bit at Cliffjumper's reaction to his little joke.]

[cliffjumper]

[Yet that's how it started as, where Cliffjumper's from.]

Yeah, you'd think it would. [He grimaces and shrugs.] I mean, it kinda did, but it turned into a question of everybody havin' it, makin' it better, and slag like that. KInda tied in the end, I suppose, though when I left my reality, I don't think the 'Cons had access to the space bridge or the trans-dimensional portals...

[Rubbing the back of his helm, Cliffjumper frowns.]

Ya know, now that I think about it, the trans-dimensional portals looked like the space bridge the Caretaker opened for me an' Skyfall and the others, and like the space bridges or portals that the TransTech had...

'Cause the space bridge I knew otherwise? Kinda looked like an actual bridge.

[Nonsensical as that is.]

[ichooseboth]

That sounds about right, bridge-shaped or not. It would change the 'game', and not for the better.

[As much as everyone had fought and bled for even temporary access to the trans-dimensional portals in Axiom Nexus, localized transportation portals like those would be worth far more, and be used far more frequently.

As much as they could use them for good, Optimus can't help but hope they never discovered such technology back home. Everything Cliffjumper says happened in his universe would happen in his own. If the Decepticons ever got their hands on it...

Well. All the horrors he's already heard pieces of would happen. Not that he knows that.]

[cliffjumper]

Well, technically I suppose it could be better, just gotta make sure the others never get to it?

[Cliffjumper just shrugged at that, frowning slightly. It hadn't turned out too badly for them, but well. It hadn't been good either, since the mech who originally invented the space bridge got to sacrifice his life for it.

By becoming the first bridge.]

Anyway... So where are you stayin', Prime?

[It'd be nice to know, after all.]

[ichooseboth]

You know as well as I do, that is something that would end up happened eventually.

[Both sides have their spies, after all. But this isn't the time or place to be worrying about such a moot point anyway.]

I have found myself welcomed into Prima's own temple. [And he certainly sounds pleased about it.

Your glyph at least automatically grants you housing in a Firstforged's domain.

[cliffjumper]

... yeah, I know. Unfortunately, that always happens. Or fortunately, dependin' on which side you're on.

[At that proclamation, Cliffjumper nods slowly and then shakes his helm.]

That still sounds odd to me, but whatever... Good to know, at least. I suppose that's better than tryin' to keep up with payments for an apartment in Axiom. [He huffs a bit and gives the Prime a glance.]

Should probably go find someplace... Don't go hidnin' on me, right?

[ichooseboth]

I don't plan on hiding.

[Even if he has no intentions of running around, advertising his presence. He has beyond-valuable intelligence he needs to get back home, to his own world and own time. He can't afford to lose it all.

Optimus looks Cliffjumper over briefly, searching for his mark.]

Do you have a glyph on you? A glowing mark? It will tell you which Firstforged you can seek shelter with.

[cliffjumper]

Uh, yeah.

[He turns enough to show it, which happens to be Vector Prime's glyph.] I got the impression from the... Acolyte? or whatever, that this is the place whichever this Firstforged the glyph belongs to is.

[He shrugs a bit, uncertain if he wants to stay here, but at least he'll have a guarantee of somewhere to do so.]

[ichooseboth]

[He 'hmms' briefly, nodding with an amused smile.]

Then you must be in Vector Prime's temple. ...How fitting.

[cliffjumper]

[That reaction makes Cliffjumper sort of mentally pause, optics narrowing... more in confusion than suspicion, but still.]

Fitting? Why?

[ichooseboth]

Because he is the Prime who's powers and skills revolve around time and space. Possibly even dimensional travel, if some works I have read are to be believed.

And you seem to have experienced a...great deal of that, my friend.

[cliffjumper]

... You gotta be fraggin'--- [He's not angry, and he chokes off his sentence with laughter - incredulous such, but still - than swearing.]

Yeah... okay, I agree. Fitting.

[Cliffjumper shakes his helm, a chuckle spilling out before he reins it in and then focuses back on Optimus.]

Should probably find a room an' stuff, and I promised to catch up with Megatron an' Soundwave [he shakes his helm again, somewhat surprised still they're actually here as well] but you ain't gettin' off the hook either.

Meet up later?

[ichooseboth]

[He chuckles, shooting Cliffjumper a small, two-fingered salute.]

Of course. I will see you then.