re_alignment | one ember | [multimedia post]

[This starts out as a video of someone in a leather jacket and a somewhat intimidating helmet. It looks like the helmet and jacket have seen better days, by which we mean somebody's pretty clearly been through an explosion. An observant person might be able to tell by the background that this is somewhere in Megatronus' temple]

-- wasn't making them that big before. Jesus christ. I have to-- OH HELL NO. NO VIDEO YOU BASTARD

[the device is hurled across the room and shorts out. The audio's still working though]

Where's the mic? Even Wily doesn't make his shit this complica--------

[and that's the audio broken. There's nothing for a while, then, oh look, text from the same source]

holy hell my head hurts
okay listen up wily if your here i dont believe your robots shit about this being some other planet
that is seriously the stupidest bullshit youv ever fed this city and you hv fed us some stupid bullshit
i mean aliens really wily
you tried that once and nobody thought it was cool

so tgeres a few opsions:

1. robot lied and im dead this seems unlikely because my head is fucking the worst
2. this is some part of wilys complex that id didnt wknow about and hes toying with me (this seems liegit) (wouldn't put it past you to have this tech) (but in that case wow i am more fucked than i thought)
3. this is the future womehow and veryones dead adn i failed and robots are everywhere and whatever
4. it was telling the truth and this si some alien planet where robots run everything

everything is terrible and everything hurts
why am i debating this in the opn where he can see it
i mean you can see it
o yea concussion
and i am pretty sure my blood is moslyt alcohol atm

if this is another planet have you invented a hangover cure yet also a cure for concossions because yeah

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...is this better?

[beat]

No, really. I don't know who he is. I doubt he's here, anyway - there's been nobody on the Link by that name, at least nobody who's made any sort of transmission.

no you aren't getting it he
no you're clearly a plant why am i even listening to you
he runs the whole city
he build this underround complex or something i dunno maybe it was to fulfil his weird fetish for clean lines
point being
youre just being like OH YEAH ITS ALIENS FOR REAL
what did he promise you extra rations or something
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa my head

how the hell did he get me away from the explosion though the last thin i remember is going off a 200 ft drop
hmm
which just brings me right back around to dead
and if im dead this is the shittiest afterlife ever
there isnt even any beer

[okay Raf just

Raf is just

Raf has no idea how to respond to any of this but he'll try anyway]

I actually got over the 'aliens for real' part a few months before I came here.

are you even TRYING

[Raf, you're PROBABLY going to have to ask someone to come get him

At this point, he accidentially turns the video function back on. He's got his helmet off finally and he looks... well, awful. Bloody nose, two black eyes, pretty bad burns around his neck. Also, his pupils are WAY dialated

Someone is not doing so hot.]

Oh FUCK I thought I disabled that thing you clever... you. Right.

[Now he's just going to sit on down and kind of drop the recorder. Yeah he. Meant to do that.

He fumbles with it again and manages to turn the thing away from him]

[oh geez oh geez that]

You're hurt!

[oh wait 200ft drop what

how do you even surprise you know what maybe he shouldn't ask]

I can call you a medic! Where are you?

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I dunno, small child probably working for Doctor Wily, where the hell am I?

...

[If he plays along, will Wily get him asprin NO THAT IS THE THOUGHTS OF THE ENEMY but asprin sounds so great]

I dunno it's big and cavernous and dark with volcano stuff.

... Which is weird, 'cause last time I checked there were no volcanoes in Tennessee.

[he flips the thing over and points it at a symbol on a wall. Yeah that's Megatronus all right.]

Dunno if that means anything to ya.

I told you, I don't even know-you know what. Nevermind. You're probably too drunk to believe me.

[excuse him while he just. pings Ratchet on to this frequency]

[Consider Ratchet pinged. He hasn't seen any of this post yet, though, so he's a bit confused, kiddo.]

Raf? What's wrong? Are you damaged?

I'm not.

I think he is, though. He says he fell two hundred feet...

I didn't hit the ground, I just got hit with a pretty big C-4 blaOHGOD WHY IS IT SO BIG!?
NOPE

I ... see. Thank you for informing me, Raf.

[In response to Joe's... less than sensical screaming, Ratchet's tone of voice changes to a "placate the patient" level.]

Ah, sir? Just to clarify, you were in an explosion? And ... what's so big? Are you in danger?

ROBOTS ARE BAD ENOUGH

[he's on his side actually looking at the screen now. He looks very angry. It also looks like he's moved. In the background, you can see one of Megatronus' acolytes]

GIANT ROBOTS ARE WORSE

WHY ARE ALL THE ROBOTS HUGE

[hand to his head, wincing. Yelling makes the pain worse. Ow.]

I was blown off the top of a twenty story building by a C4 explosion designed to take out the whole tower, yeah. I set it off too early. Why am I telling you this.

God damn it, nothing makes sense.

[and he probably should have put two and two together earlier re; not liking robots but there's no going back at this point]

Look, I know you don't like robots, but Ratchet's got enough experience that he can help you. And I know this doesn't make sense right now but if you calm down, I can try and explain it a bit better.

... if I'm gonna be totally honest, kiddo? There ain't much I could do about even a small robot right now.

[He still thinks you're all going to do horrible things to him, but he really ISN'T in any condition to resist]

[good thing there's no scraplets, then.

not that they'd bother either of them]

Then just hold on. I'll come with him. It'll just...take us a bit.

I ain't goin nowhere.

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