[voice only]

[automobile_enthusiast]

[There's a looong moment of silence between the transmission's start and Knock Out actually beginning to speak. And when he finally does, his voice is very even.]

Has... anyone seen Breakdown lately? Or heard from him, perhaps? Big blue and silver mech, grounder like me, prominent chassis... He has a striking red-orange face and a patch over one optic.

[And he's missing. KO doesn't like that. He also doesn't like that he woke up in the middle of nowhere outside of the Haven, alone, and missing time, but he's not exactly about to go sharing that publicly. In fact, he doesn't sound nearly as agitated as he actually is right now, because that's something else he's trying not to be public about.]

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[not_halfbaked]

It's just how we are.

Was it really weird for you to find people so small?

[automobile_enthusiast]

Mm, not really. Cybertronians encountered alien races long before I was sparked. It's common knowledge that many of them are smaller than us.

[not_halfbaked]

Oh, gotcha. [Beat.] Wonder if there are a lotta aliens beyond my world in its dimension....

[And the 'WHERE DO YOU GUYS COME FROM?' question is on her lips. But she feels awkward about it. The baby talk with her parents had been sorta weird, but at the time she mostly just liked being with them, even when they talked about odd stuff.]

[automobile_enthusiast]

[Knock Out shrugs-- not that it's visible.]

If the, ah, universe you come from is anything like the one I'm from, I'm sure there's a multitude of other species out there.