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(OOC: Let me know if I'm doing this wrong--like, if this is the incorrect format for this re-aligned comm or something, I know there's more than one, and I'm sorta a little confused on which is for which? Anyway, here goes....)

Is this thing on?

[Korra lightly bangs at something, frowning--the screen shakes. She gives a big exaggerated sigh, then continues.]

Okay, I heard there were some other humans like me out here, so given that, I wanted to ask if any of you guys have found water? Like, any water at all, a pool, a river, even a freakin' flask of it? And y'know, same question to anyone, Cybertronians or spirits or whatever--have you seen water?

[Korra blinked, then added in a rush.]

And in case there's anyone who doesn't realize, water's a big deal for humans like me, we need it to survive.

[Korra moves to turn off the screen.]

Okay, that's it, hopefully someone gets in touch with me about this--

[Korra stretched too far or too fast, because she flinches, irritating the wound on her back. No way is she going to ask aloud for medical help. If she can find water, she can heal herself, thank you very much. But then the thought occurred to her--if there were other humans like her, were there like any other healers among them? What if there...weren't? A panicked expression suddenly flashes across Korra's face.]

Um, actually, quick head count--are there any human healers out there that can, y'know, heal...humans?

[Korra's expression distinctly reads without words, 'That sounded lame.']

Well, I'll, uh, raise my head first--or is it hand--?

[Korra shakes her head, raises a hand.]

Whatever, I can heal as long as I have water--it's a bending thing--uh, and that's a thing where I manipulate the water to like do whatever I want including heal the human body. So if there's a human out there who's hurt and has water or can find water, you can come to me for help.

[Korra paused, trying to think of anything else to add. She slowly shrugged.]

Okay, that's definitely it now...so, um, bye, hope to see someone with info on water soon.

[End transmission.]

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Have you seen Wing already?

[Korra's turn to be confused.]

What's a Prime--is that a leader.

I...well, Aang was a leader, but...but I don't know if that's the only thing the Avatar's supposed to do. [Korra snorted.] Hope not--I can't lead anyone anywhere good.

[Korra jerks, eyes dart around nervously.] My track record as the Avatar's just...it's not so great. Whoever or whatever chooses the next Avatar must be regretting picking me. Or maybe it is all random.

[Korra frowns. That's not a comforting thought either.]

Yeah, I just met Ratchet--what symptoms--your eyes--!

[Korra looks horrified.]

You're bleeding! [She blinks.] You're bleeding red, I thought you guys bled blue--

[Korra shakes herself.]

Look, Wing, Ratchet and I are supposed to meet outside Megatronus Prime's temple, do you know where that is? Can you make it there and see us? Or I can ask Ratchet to come to you when I see him? Can you staunch the bleeding at all? Where are you? I can come over and probably stop the bleeding, blood is--blood is essentially water, I can bend that too--

[Don't think of Tarrlok, don't think of Tarrlok]

[OOC: plz meme? What's that? I think next app cycle is in July. And Korra's a teen to boot--should be pretty malleable still, when treated right.)

[Korra flinched, thinking of Amon and the Equalists and all their supporters.]

[Then she blinked, and tilted her head.]

'Decepticons?' Factions--Knock Out mentioned factions before. [Korra smiled a little at the reminder of the first person she met in this strange place--then she frowned, curious.] Do you know Knock Out? He's covered in red armor. He was the first guy I met in this place--he looks like one of your kind, but without wings.

((ooc: It looks like

app_this_plz will be up next in a few days on the 30th.))

Knock Out. Can't say we've met. [Of course non-flyer and red sounds like an Autobot to her.] Did he say which faction? Decepticons and Autobots have some- ideological differences.

Yes. We...ran into each other.

[He has that very definitive tone that he doesn't want to talk about it any further. Wing had gone off with Annie, possibly contaminated with the same disease that was plaguing Drift. Not a great reunion when you transmit a fatal disease. He's more than a little relieved to have a change of topic.]

Prime... it depends. It's supposed to be the sort of chosen leader, the one who carried the Matrix. But before the war, it was more like...just a political title. The Primes before the war were power hungry and corrupt.

And...now there won't be any more Primes. [Mixed feelings about that. Loss of a grand tradition, but a tradition that had led to countless deaths and suffering.]

I think. [Who is he kidding: no one cares what he thinks?] I think that the fact you have those doubts means you'll be a good one, in time. If you felt perfectly comfortable with all that power, well...I've seen where that leads.

[He shakes his head.] I need to find Pharma. I promised I'd find him, protect him. [Plus he's...not all that eager to run into Wing again.]

...maybe later. Another time. I appreciate the offer.

(OOC: I thought non-flyer and red would sound Autobot to her. :D Another reason Knock Out amuses me so much, visual description doesn't sound very 'Con, does it?)

Never said which faction. Just that they were fighting over their home.

[OOC: I just realized I called you 'Wing.' Sorry!]

'Power hungry and corrupt...' [Korra grunted.] Yeah, those types suck. [Freakin' Tarrlok!]

What's the Matrix, though?

['If you felt perfectly comfortable with all that power, well...I've seen where that leads'--Korra flinches at that. She feels worse. Because it seems like a confirmation. Becausee she confesses.]

But I did feel super comfortable with all that power before. But now--spirits, things are a mess now and nothing's been going right, my power's done nothing good. [Korra sighed, then asked in a small voice.] Mind if I ask where that does lead to, from what you've seen? I guess I can use all the pointers I can get right now.

[Korra ponders. Considers Drift's reaction to Wing. She knew that was a 'drop-it-and-leave-it-alone' thing--she'd done it a lot too. But she remembered her words--]

Um, I think I screwed up my words again, sorry. I should be seeing Ratchet--and Ratchet alone. No Wing. My mouth tends to run away with me into places that make no sense. So, if you just want to see Ratchet...would Ratchet know this Pharma guy you're looking for?

Surely a noble cause.

[And she pauses, because that wasn't a very helpful answer, given both factions were fighting over Cybertron, so far as she knew.]

What about your people? Do you have differing factions? War or peace?

[Korra's stomach twists. What a loaded question.]

Well, there was a war going on 70 years ago, but now it's officially peacetime. Officially. In reality--look, in my world, not everyone can bend. There are people who can, and people who can't--nonbenders. Right now a group of nonbenders called the Equalists feel oppressed by benders, and they're rebelling, violently. And...and...

[Korra's voice lowered.]

And they might have a point about the oppression thing, because one of the bender councilman had innocent nonbenders arrested.

[Korra folds her arms.]

And that's the major factions thing in my world at the moment. I admit I haven't seen much of it, I've been holed up in one place for most of my life and only just got to leave months ago....

[And now I'm here. What the hell.]

Not at all. If there are any people with those powers, I've never heard of them.

Doesn't mean that they're powerless, of course.

[Korra thought about Gunmax's last words. Asami wasn't helpless. The Equalist chiblockers and Amon and Mustache Guy definitely were not helpless. Tahno didn't have to be helpless, she didn't have to be helpless if she ever lost her bending--but to be the Avatar was to bend, and she had been training to be the Avatar her whole life. It wouldn't--she couldn't handle losing her bending. Especially in a place like this with large robots that made her feel small and helpless. Bending was her only defense now.]

...No, of course not.

[Korra looks down, rubs the back of her neck.]

So, Gunmax, who've you met in this world so far?

((ooc: Eep! Hey we can play it off this way, too. No worries))

The one, the Prime, right before the war got started, had a superweapon. It bled off the energies of mechs' sparks, to create a blast that could destroy half a city.

[That's the standard he's holding as 'bad'. He's pretty sure you've not managed that. You know, double genocide, basically. ]

And they wondered why we started fighting. [But no, that had been the wrong path, the wrong way. ]

Then maybe 'power' isn't the resource you need to call on. I mean. All I did for four million years was fight. Because a weapon was all I had. Every question...the answer was always a gun. Or a sword. But...that doesn't work when there's peace. You have to--I have to--use something else. Not just power.

[Oh, well, oops. That was embarrassing. Someone had Wing on the brain module. The way they'd parted still rankled, apparently.]

I don't know. If he's my Ratchet, he would. But...not even sure he's the Pharma I know. [Frag this place was confusing.]

[That reminds Korra of the Avatar State. Which she has yet to enter or even try to controlling. An out of control Avatar State? Korra is not reassured.]

That's...horrible. Did it...did it work. You said 'could.' Did it really destroy half a city.

[Korra blinked. Smiles slowly.]

Now you're sounding like my teacher, Tenzin. He's all about adaptation and finding another way. Ways other than power.

'Your' Ratchet? Isn't there only one Ratch--oh, I guess you guys can share the same names too, huh? I remember my old neighbor was named after 'Sokka.'

Two of my comrades, a guy named Breakdown, and one of the really tall guys -- Megatronus.

Looking for someone particular, Korra?

[Zeta Prime was just a corrupt, power hungry aristocrat. No mysticism required. Which was scary in its own way--how it could have been almost anyone in his position, making the same awful decisions.]

The citizens blew their own city up rather than let Zeta use it to fuel his weapon.

[It was the stuff of history, and though the names were muddled and lost to him, he knew that much.]

Thousands, hundreds of thousands had died before that, so they knew it wasn't an idle threat.

[He flashes a rare, almost shy smile. Please don't notice the rust ooze.]

I've been called worse than a 'teacher'. But if power is not working, there are other things you can try.

[Drift shrugs.] I ran across a mech named Blurr. Who was not the Blurr I'd fought alongside, but he looked kind of like him. And I've been to Earth and seen humans, but nothing about any of this 'bending' or Water Tribes.

I think we're from different worlds, all of us.

Can't say our worlds are entirely dissimilar. You might say the Decepticons are rebels and the Autobots led by an oppressive regime.

When a leader or regime is corrupt, there will eventually be revolution. Though, it's possible the means used to rebel seem as bad or worse than the oppression before. Such poor strategy and leadership only hinders our true cause.

Our world has seen fabricated or exaggerated charges used for political gain: so-called 'lieutenants' arrested, who were were in truth recent recruits and lowly ranked! All to make their captor look a competent threat to the rebellion.

It's fortunate for you that you were spared, but how you choose to act on what you learned is the important thing.

That's the freedom we all fight for.

I think I saw on another...window...thing on the phone link thing whatever, about some guys asking for gasoline? Are those your comrades?

First guy I met was Knock Out, then Wing, and I ran into Prima and Megatronus too. Prima told me I had Megatronus' glyph thing stamped on my arm. Now with this water message I've met a lot more--another human boy named Raf, Ratchet, Drift, this flyer jet lady, this blue motormouth, and now you, too.

Anyone from my home would be nic--no, they're better off back home than here. [Korra sighed.] Though at least Naga...we've never been apart like this before....

[Korra closes her eyes at that.]

I'm so sorry.

[Surely nothing like that could happen in Republic City. Things weren't close to getting that bad. Surely.]

Like what?

Blurr...is--is that name like really appropriate? Because I just met a guy talking about ice and he spoke really super fast.

Whole different worlds--I just had trouble wrapping my head around the mortal world and the spirit worlds. But more than on earth?

[Korra pinches her nose.] Gives me a migraine.

I don't feel very fortunate, I'm supposed to stop that sort of conflict....

[Korra tries to absorb the information. The older woman--she certainly sounds older, more experienced--sounds like a mix of Amon and Tarrlok, actually. Korra thought that would be less than reassuring, but it's not. She's just...just trying to comprehend everything.]

So, what's your name, anyway? I'm Korra.

Mmhmm. That's McCrane.

Right, this glyph thing -- still a little shady on how that's all supposed to work or its meaning. But sounds like you and I have the same glyph, kiddo.

... [This is the part where he's supposed to say something comforting. Why couldn't Deckerd or McCrane be here to do this? Gunmax rubs the back of his helm for a moment.] Look, I kind of get it -- being separated from your friends. You want them here, but they're better off back on your own world.

But that doesn't mean you're by yourself here, all right?

It was just a bigger example of what had been happening for years. Thousands of us starved in the gutters, and no one cared. We died, a few every day. But over the years...it added up.

[And now the smile flickers.]

Traitor, for one. But I'd earned it.

[A bit of release of tension around the shoulders.] That sounds like Blurr, the one I met.

[Drift nods.] Dozens, at least, planets we'd conquered, or tried to. Beings made entirely of silicates. And, where I'm from, we had another dimension, the Void, bleeding into ours.

This is just...more. [He tips his head up at the Lambda, visible in the sky.] And that's what brought us here.

You too? [Korra checks out the mark on her harm. Looks back to Gunmax.] That's cool, I haven't met anyone with this glyph too until now. Did you see Megatronus bend fire? [Korra spread out her arms, lighting up fire in each hand to demonstrate.] He lit up this huge flame in one hand, it was more like a bonfire--real crazy. [She wasn't about to say it was scary too at the time, how the bonfire could've engulfed her whole, it was so big.]

[Korra blinks, slowly. Then gives a small, slow smile.]

...Thanks, Gunmax.

[Korra's reminded of the street urchins and vagabonds sleeping in the park in Republic City. She'd thought everyone was living it up there. Weren't the streets supposed to be paved with jade?]

[Korra's eyes widen at another misunderstanding. She's really not good with words.]

Oh no, I didn't mean--I meant, 'like what,' like what other things are there that I can pull from besides power, what other things I can try....

[Korra trails off, looking very awkward and rather wishing she could sink into the floor and vanish.]

But not your Blurr, right? [Korra frowns, curious.] But he's similar to your Blurr, right?

[Korra looks up at the Lambda too.]

Reminds me of the southern lights back home...but, not, of course.

[Gunmax lifts up his arm where the black glyph has marked him.] Yep, I've got it, too.

He made fire--? [He's briefly distracted watching Korra bend fire like that. The way she creates it so easily is a bit mesmerizing.] No, I didn't see him do that. That's pretty interesting.

...Uh. [Gunmax folds his arms, looking a bit embarrassed.] Well, whatever. No big deal.

[Korra smirks at Gunmax being sorta bashful. Doesn't comment on that.]

I wonder if Megatronus can bend the other elements?

[Korra frowns.]

What did you think of Megatronus, anyway?

What are you, the chosen one or something? Why are you supposed to stop others from taking the paths they choose?

[She's not old, at all, but she inherited some data.]

You can call me Slipstream.

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