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[thxforthememories]

[Surprise. A video feed from the local recluse. Bird-ninja. Robot. Anyway.]

[After a certain conversation with someone who will remain nameless, certain concerns have arisen.]

[... Never mind he's sitting in a medbay, hooked up to a generator, no. There are far more important things to consider than that.]

When you refuel... where do you put it? [After a beat, he clarifies.] Those of you who weren't made by humans.

Do you drink it? Or... do something else?

[THIS IS IMPORTANT OKAY. For friendship purposes.]

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[video]

[thxforthememories]

That's useful. Your kind is lucky to have that kind of ability.

[He nods.] I believe you.

It... Yes. I'm fine.

[Not entirely true. Physically, though, he's all right.]

[video]

[sword_redemption]

You can too, though. I thought Ratchet installed the ability to digest energon in your fr--in the Brave Police.

[Drift shook his head.] I'm not sure I am. I fight. I'm used to getting injured. But not like that. Not torture.

[video]

[thxforthememories]

In them. Not in me. Not... yet. He wanted to wait. So now there's... this.

[He absently fingers the wiring.]

I've never... experienced... anything like that, either.

[video]

[sword_redemption]

[Drift thinks he can figure out why Ratchet would say that. And it tells him a lot about the condition Kagerou must have been in after Prism. ]

Trust Ratchet. He knows what's best. And he knows by now how your systems work.

...I don't know...why anything like that would be brought here. I thought we were chosen, with a purpose. But I can't see a purpose in that.

[video]

[thxforthememories]

He's very smart. I've never met another robot like him.

[Although to be fair, Kagerou hasn't met a lot of other robots period...]

We were chosen to be brought here? [He pauses.] No, I don't... understand why it would be here, either, if that's true.

[video]

[sword_redemption]

I have. The Ratchet from my world.

[Same cheerful personality, too.]

It can't just be random, can it? Suddenly being here? These marks? [He makes a gesture toward the mark of Vector on his upper arm.]

[video]

[thxforthememories]

There's no one like that in my world. Only human beings.

[He shrugs a little, helplessly, glancing at his own. Why is... it different?]

I don't know. I assumed I'd been captured... since... Things went as they did.

[video]

[sword_redemption]

Is that bad, then, to be here? We're not your kind, but we respect you have a right to exist, as much as any of us do.

[He frowns.]

I'm not sure. The First Forged I ran into didn't recognize me, and I was his. I don't think they did it. [But that doesn't mean someone else didn't....]

[video]

[thxforthememories]

It isn't what I wanted. I didn't choose this. But... I don't have another choice.

[Not with what he just found out.]

You've seen them?