[Video -> TEXT] [TRANSMISSION ORIGINATING FROM: LIEGE'S FORTRESS]

[4_toteachus]

[Well... okay he's never seen anything like this before. Is it like a typewriter? Because he knows how to use a typewriter. Four doesn't really understand what a "network" is, but he's determined to find out. He's been told that this will help him communicate with others, and... as frightening as that is, he really, really, really wants to talk with people.

Even the robots, who he figures can't all be bad...

Right?

He plays around with it a little, and accidentally turns on the video function. Tiny optics blink out onto the network, and he continues fiddling around with it until he manages the texting function.]

areallofyoulostlikeiam?

[Wait, how do you do spaces? Give him a moment, he'll figure this out.]

My name is 4.

There are a lot of machines and living things here. I have never seen anything like you before.

can you answer some of my questions please?

Comments

[not_halfbaked]

I'll try.

My name's Korra.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[He stops and takes the time to examine her face. Living humans... he hopes he'll have the chance to get used to it.]

Cora?

I like your name.

Re: [Text]

[not_halfbaked]

[Korra snickers, but of course that's not conveyed. She types, slowly--she's not used to typewriters.]

It's spelled K-o-r-r-a.

Thanks.

Video

[winged_knight]

[This is a curious transmission. From a curious fellow, with a curious manner. Altogether curious! Which of course means irresistible. Plus he needs help, so its a package deal.]

Hello Four. My name is Wing. I'm learning a great deal as I go here too, but I can try and answer your questions if you like. [He smiles]

[Reaction] 1/2

[4_toteachus]

[!!!

Despite wanting to use the network to reach out to these machines, Four still feels alarmed now that he gets to actually talk to one. This is mildly frightening.]

[Text] 2/2

[4_toteachus]

[Four reminds himself that he's in Liege's fortress, and nothing can get him here.

He hopes.]

What are you?

I have seen machines before, and they do not have faces like you do.

[That's what gets him the most about the machines here... they have faces. Not only that, they talk and some of them even have nice voices. This place is so strange, yet wonderful in the sense that it's filled with so many mysteries.]

Video

[winged_knight]

[Wing has a great deal of patience, and a very gentle smile.]

I am part of a species of biomechanical beings.

We share some similarities with machines, in that we are primarily made of metal with mechanical moving parts, but we are alive.

We are all intelligent, free-willed individuals. Having faces...makes it easier to tell each other apart. [A warm amber optic flashes as he winks.]

[Video]

[raceme]

EylittleoneIrememberyou. [Blurr smiles, giving him a quick hand wave. And who needs spaces, anyway.]

I'm B-L-U-R-R it's nice good to finally know your name and yes yes I think we are all lost in a way but most of us aren't machines we are autonomous robotic organisms and NO ONE built us that's a common misunderstanding we were born. Feelfreetoask! I am all ears.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[He remembers you too Blurr!

Being told to ask questions is all he needs to get started!]

Why do you talk so fast? Who were those machines you showed me earlier? What does that symbol on your chest mean?

Do you know Liege?

[permavideo for my boy.]

[raceme]

[Good~

And no worries Blurr will give you all the answer.]

I'm positively and without possibility of any doubt the fastest land-based mech on any side I can even outrun some mech with jet modes too. I move talk and think fast because my processor was designed that way. The symbol in my chest means that I'm a member of the Elite Guard a intelligence gathering body that exists within the Autobot fraction AND those machines I showed you in my data pad the right term is mech or bot some might get insulted if you call us machines where Optimus Prime and his party I've meet them when I was in Earth monitoring Optimus Prime and his company as well as gathering information about the Decepticons activity and trying to find a double agent that has been infiltrated in our fraction for more than few cycles already.

I never had the pleasure to speak with him or her if that's the case BUT I am aware that he or she is one of the FirstForged.

[voice because he looks scary and you sound scared enough]

[sword_redemption]

Depends what you mean by 'lost'.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[Four hesitates for a moment. What does he mean by "lost"?]

I mean separated from your loved ones, and taken away from everything you know.

I'm lost without my family, have you seen them?

[Voice]

[sword_redemption]

Oh.

[A curious pause.]

I don't think I've ever had that. So...I guess I'm not.

But I can help you look for yours? And maybe you can make some friends here. While you wait.

Video

[herodecoded]

We are all lost, adrift in the sea of the cosmos.

[Dinobot now is not the time to get philosophical.]

Unless your questions have forbearance on our present situation, hold your silence.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[Four is immediately intimidated by the aggressive looking face, but he replies as bravely as he can.]

It is just a question.

I am in capable of speech, so I always hold my silence.

Who are you?

Video

[herodecoded]

I refuse to give my name unless you give me your name.

[clay_doll]

[The image of the small being coming onto her communication device certainly gets her attention. Curiosity roused, she decides to answer after some hesitation, choosing to use video so that it could see her in return. Her voice is quite soft when she speaks, feeling shy.]

I'm lost too.

I...I can try to answer some questions though. My name is Annie.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[Annie's soft voice is enough to make him like her. He definitely wants to know more about this human.]

Annie.

It is nice to meet you.

Where are you from?

[Video]

[clay_doll]

[Even if Annie were not feeling shy, she would still remain quiet. The only time she ever really gets loud is when she is screaming in terror.]

It's nice to meet you too, 4.

I'm from a city named Gotham. O-on Earth.

[It feels rather strange specifying her planet, but she'll get used to it eventually.]

[Video]

[angleofscience]

[Most of the view is of Jetfire from the side as he's temporarily looked away from the flipped-up screen on his arm to stare thoughtfully at one of the corridors that... is obviously in Liege's fortress.

The slightly narrowed, closed off expression might seem somewhat scary, but when he looks down into the screen, there's a smile - small, but enough to change his expression almost completely - on his faceplates.]

Certainly. This must be a very unfamiliar situation to you, isn't it?

[Because he'd seen that brief flash of video.]

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[Ahh... another robot. This time around Four is a little bolder, since the last few robots haven't meant him any harm, or been unpleasant at all.]

I have never been without my brother before.

Have you seen him? He looks exactly like me.

[my_own_trope]

What... are you?

[4_toteachus]

My name is 4.

What are you?

[Why are you talking to him in that tone? Because he doesn't like it.]

[Video]

[deusexraf]

[oh it's this guy again!]

You got yourself safe, huh, 4? I can try and help.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

Yes, thank you.

Are you well yourself? I am aware that human children are not always self-sufficient.