[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?

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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.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

My name is 4.

Voice

[herodecoded]

Four...

[Why did that name remind him of Weapon X?]

Are you a creation of some sort?

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

I am a creation, yes.

I told you my name, you tell me yours now!

Video

[herodecoded]

Dinobot.

Tell me, what purpose does a creation like yourself serve?

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

To survive and remember humanity.

What about you? What do you do?

Video

[herodecoded]

What would require one to preserve humanity's remembrance?

I thought I had fulfilled my purpose...but now, it is unclear what that purpose is. Is it truly fulfilled? Or must I preserve it once more?

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

For me and my twin brother 3, our purpose is to remember humanity's past. Their achievements and their downfalls, the good and the bad.

Why do you not find yourself a new purpose if your current one has been fulfilled?

[Video]

[herodecoded]

Your work sounds like the work of mourners.

This world...if it is the same world as mine, the same time, then my purpose remains unfulfilled once again. But there might be a chance I am wrong...

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[Four thinks about that for a moment. Mourners? He doesn't think so. He and his brother don't mourn the past, per say, but they remember it with the grim knowledge that they're the only ones who can. They he supposes he does mourn it slightly...]

What is your purpose?

[Video]

[herodecoded]

I thought I once knew it...

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

I'm sorry to hear that.

It would be terrible to be without a purpose I think.

[Since what will he be if he doesn't do what the Scientist created him for?]

[Text]

[herodecoded]

I always still have my honor to protect.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

What use is honour?

[Four has nothing for or against honour, and he does know what it is, but he's curious to hear about it from someone else's point of view.]