[Voice] -> [Video]

[thxforthememories]

[Well, this is a new voice. Maybe not for some. But for the most part, this is the kind of voice you'd expect to be all suave and smooth. Like it should be accompanied by saxophone music, or sounding entirely too pleased with itself.]

[Instead? It just sounds downright frantic.]

What is this--! It wasn't like this a moment ago.

[As if in response to his demand, the feed abruptly switches to video. That sure is a new face, standing there on top of a temple roof. He's not a Cybertronian, that's obvious. He's also very obviously distraught.]

[Though... his design is oddly similar to someone else usually present in the Haven. In fact, they look a lot alike.]

Who did this! Which one of you! Answer me!

[The more he talks, the more agitated he seems to become. Like every word is putting him more and more on edge.]

Someone here has to know. Where is he!

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[thxforthememories]

Waiting with Shadowmaru.

[Yes. He's perfectly serious.]

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[littlecrowgirl]

You should ask him for it back.

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[thxforthememories]

I will. Once I find him.

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[littlecrowgirl]

Hmm..OH! I think I see a temple!

[She points ahead, with the peaks of one of the temples in the distance.]

I'm not sure which one, though...

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[thxforthememories]

Neither am I...

[BUT ONWARDS. TO THE TEMPLE.]

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[littlecrowgirl]

Hmm...Hey! I think that's Mr. Nexus's temple!

It's big...

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[thxforthememories]

Nexus...

I've never seen it. Are you sure that's which one this is?

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[littlecrowgirl]

I think so. I've seen it in a few videos...

[Full of craters? Seems like it.]

Just watch your step!

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[thxforthememories]

I should have been paying more attention, then.

[He huffs.]

I can manage... if not... there's the tank mode. I think.

[They'd been working on it, anyway. But he never got the chance to find out if they'd been successful.]

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[littlecrowgirl]

There's...a tank mode too?

{OH MY GOD.]

I'm going to take you home with me.

[That does it. She wants a car/bird/possible tank in her world and she will have it.]

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[thxforthememories]

He was trying to form one, yes. He wanted to be stronger... I tried to help him accomplish that. Taught him a new form to take on.

But I don't know if he ever managed to do it.

[And maybe he never will.]

My frame isn't capable of that many transformations. You'd have to take him, if you wanted sonthing like that.

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[littlecrowgirl]

Well...aren't you guys really alike? I bet if you tried...

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[thxforthememories]

... He was constructed with the capability for far more alternate modes than I was.

[A beat.]

I'm only his prototype, remember?

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[littlecrowgirl]

What, so you're automatically ruled out from improvements?

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[thxforthememories]

Yes.

[He... says that completely seriously.]

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[littlecrowgirl]

That's not the right attitude!

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[thxforthememories]

But it's true.

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[littlecrowgirl]

And you don't want to prove them wrong?

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[thxforthememories]

It's just not physically possible.

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[littlecrowgirl]

What does Mr. Shadowmaru have that you don't?

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[thxforthememories]

Better developed systems. In every respect. They corrected, advanced, everything they used in creating me, giving all the advancements to him.

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[littlecrowgirl]

So why can't you get upgraded? We have doctors...

[It seems so simple...]

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[thxforthememories]

I altered my engine.

That's enough changes.

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[littlecrowgirl]

[She thinks for a moment. Maybe she's going about this wrong.]

Well, sometimes it's not always about how much you have.

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[thxforthememories]

... What do you mean?