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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]

[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.

[eyestothesky]

Well of course, listening to you would imply common sense, and well anyone messing with Chaos Bringers and blood tech tend to be kind of... lacking in that regard.

Giant zombies... now that's a nasty concept.

[deadlydoctor]

Oh you don't even know half of it, my friend. Megatron could even 'sense Unicron thoughts' in his head. [Knock Out made air quotes at that.]

More like giant zombie-vampire-winged-lizard-robots. That's a closer image to what they were.

[eyestothesky]

...Oh great, the acolyte-syndrome of nuts. That always ends well for everybody.

...Somethin' like that'd be right at home in the 8th Dimension.

[deadlydoctor]

Yes and no. He didn't take being controlled well, never did. Megatron actually punched Unicron once. For the record, Unicron is not only the god of destruction but around 30 times his size.

Should I bother asking about that dimension or....?

[eyestothesky]

Well gotta give him points for ball bearings then.

Well let's just say that your Unicron fellow wouldn't be the nastiest kid on the block there by far, and it's a real good thing Jumbo's got the gate chained niiice and tight. It's not called the 8th Dimension of Absolute and Infinite Terror for nothing.

[deadlydoctor]

He really feared nothing. He was also really bad at thinking things through.

I don't think I would like to see it. Let's hope none of those things ends here.