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[eyestothesky]

[Guess who's looking better?

If you guessed one Titanium robot, you guessed right. But he's been feeling rather antsy, and hunting the Junkpile as often as he could but still coming up dry. Time to put a call out.]

So... anyone in this place know where there's a guitar? Acoustic'd be preferable, but in this situation I can't really be picky can I? If it's broken, or if you only found parts of one that's okay too... it's more than I've got, and it's not like I can't fix it myself if I needed to.

Any point in the right direction's appreciated.

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[deadlydoctor]

Exactly. Odd is underrated. [Or what Commander seekers might think.] What's life without some fun?

Let em ask you something, did you also name yourself?

[eyestothesky]

Downright dull, that's what.

[A chuckle, and a shake of his head.] Oh no, The Grandmaster named me. The only ones that named themselves were The Jon and Hatchworth.

[For reasons.]

[deadlydoctor]

My feelings too.

The Grandmaster is your creator?

[Knock Out's not sure if someone who names themselves with 'THE Jon' is any better.]

[eyestothesky]

[The Jon is the best at naming out of all of them.]

Sure is. Colonel Peter Walter I.

[deadlydoctor]

[Cybertronians are awful at names too, Knock Out's not one to judge.]

Colonel...you were at war too?

[eyestothesky]

[Someone would peg onto the title wouldn't they?]

...A few times. Wasn't what we were built for, but the government basically told the Walters that either they volunteered us or they'd confiscate us and we'd be fighting anyways.

Volunteering at least we'd get sent home after.

[deadlydoctor]

[Yep.]

Count on the ones in charge to abuse their power. Can't say those are news to me.

If you survived. Which you did, that much is obvious, but...

[eyestothesky]

Better than the alternative. Human family members weren't quite as easy to repair after all, and if we didn't go, they'd be dragged into it.

[deadlydoctor]

That is true. Organics break way too easily.

[eyestothesky]

Exactly.

I'd rather it was me than my brothers, or nephews.

[deadlydoctor]

your brothers and nephews are also family, you cared for them less than you cared for you creator? Did they made you this way?

[He just want to understand rather than trying to be rude or intrusive. He wouldn't ask if he didn't care. Knock Out knows a lot about having to risk your life for others who doesn't even care for you, he got tired of it. Main reason why he changed sides.]

[eyestothesky]

...My creator was too old for them to draft when the government demanded we serve after the first time. One less person for them to unofficially hold over our heads for good behavior.

And the first time he was more useful to them as an inventor rather than a soldier.

[deadlydoctor]

I see. for how long did that war last? Or is still going on?

In my world it ended recently.

[eyestothesky]

Different wars each time, actually. The first... was the shortest. Seems they get longer each time though.

[deadlydoctor]

Wars seems to be a constant thing among all the sentient species. It's a miracle none started here yet.

[eyestothesky]

Well, kidnapping tends to make for weird friends, or at least so I've heard.

[deadlydoctor]

Touche.

Makes you wonder if the Lambda has a higher plan.

[eyestothesky]

You never can tell with these inter-dimensional rifts. Some of them wind up being alarmingly intelligent.

Completely inane, but still intelligent.

[deadlydoctor]

That's actually a terrifying thought. That thing being intelligent, I mean.

[eyestothesky]

There was one in the linen closet in the Manor for awhile that spat out stuff from Sweetopia. It was really good at chess too.

Endgame was really messy though.

[deadlydoctor]

Your house sounds like a really interesting place. I can't say i ever heard of any of those places and I traveled all around the galaxies.

Are you sure you aren't making things up?

[eyestothesky]

You'd think that. Heck, most people do think we're makin' stuff up. Whenever we get out of this mess you should swing by and see for yourself. Six got that rift shut once it started including the moon worms in the things it liked to let out, but I'll bet it's not long before something new and bizarre takes it's place.

[deadlydoctor]

You have to admit that this is not something people expects to hear. Luckily for you, I've hard and seen weirder things. Such a my ex boss powering himself with the blood of the Chaos Bringer and an army of dead predacons raising from their graves.

Moon worms?

[eyestothesky]

Well generally anything powered with blood tends to be bad news, especially when you get zombies and chaos bringers in the mix. What's a predacon though?

Moon worms. Apparently the queen took a pretty nasty bite out of the planet the moon orbits sometime in the past.

[deadlydoctor]

That's what i told them but you think they listened to me? No, not at all, not even after the ship turned Sentient and tried to enslave us all.

The predacons were a group of ancient Cybertronian beasts, our ancestors, more or less. They're around 3 times my size.

That sounds really nasty.