[audio]

[cliffjumper]

Does anybody have a fraggin' flamethrower or somethin'? It's getting harder to-- Gah!

[Does Cliffjumper sound frustrated? Yes, he does. Harried and slightly... on-edge, to be honest. Accompanying that are pinging, crunching noices and a lot of high-pitch babble or laughter.

Anyone actually listening to what those multitude of high-pitch voices are saying, will find it's all rather... disturbing in nature. This is the third time Cliffjumper's personal little horde of stick-figure SG!Primes have respawned, and he's having trouble luring them through lava to get rid of them.

And contrary to popular thought, he's not made of weapons. Especially not a flame-thrower, as he noticed they didn't take well to the lava when he accidentally managed to lob some of them in there during the first time they appeared.]

Pit-spawned, sludge-spewing little monsters!

[Something like the noise of glass breaking briefly takes over the feed, but Cliffjumper really can't figure out why some of them sort of breaks sometimes, like shooting or punching metal affected by glass gas does.]

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[Voice | Locked]

[notyourblueangel]

[He recognizes the Minibot's voice, though he's not about to assume that means he knows "this" one. Which also means the Autobot MIGHT not just as soon shoot him as accept help. For what all of that is worth. But he could use a good fight, what the Pit.]

Not a flamethrower, but I have afterburners...?

[Voice | Locked]

[cliffjumper]

[You don't know him, but he's both very similar... and a bit more tolerant. But that is neither here nor there at the moment.]

Dunno if you'd want to be that close to these things!

[And, depending on who you are, it's possible CLiffjumper wouldn't trust you. Even if he was getting help. he's not going to automatically say no, however. He growls as he speaks and there's a noise that could possibly be something bouncing off metal as Cliffjumper yells in pure frustration.]

They ain't big, or even very---rrr-- dangerous, but slag they're Primus-damned annoying!

[Voice | Locked]

[notyourblueangel]

[Eh, again, he could use a good fight. Especially with someone or something that's NOT possibly going to get him in trouble with any of the Firstforged. There's the tone of a shrug in his voice.]

Give me coordinates? I'll meet you there and see what you've got on your hands.

[Voice | Locked]

[cliffjumper]

I'm gettin' help, but gonna need some way of disposing of these things---

[And apparently one of them got right up next to whereever outside audio's picked up from, because the next thing heard is a high-pitched voice that somehow manages to sound disturbing as it threatens to 'hanging him from a hook by his feet, maybe he'll realise he's wrong then'.]

Ugh!

[Okay, he's giving in. Have some coordinates.]

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Enjoy your favorite caped copter. Who is also, by default, likely your least favorite caped copter.]

Citizen. It sounds like you are in need of HEROIC ASSISTANCE.

...like by punching things.

[Whirl is all about punching things. For justice.]

[Video]

[cliffjumper]

[... Citizen? Whatever, he'll take it. Even if you look like a helicopter-shaped Shockwave.]

At least that'd get 'em off me for a bit, but they don't disappear from it!

[Frustrated? Frustrated. Come be a hero, Whirl, but you're going to need fire. And also, since you decided to do video, you get to see Cliffjumper being harried by tiny kind of stick-figure like SG!Primes hanging off his arms and attempting to bite and bang on the metal.

They may look reasonably cute, but the glow from their optics is all-malvolent.]

[Video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Of course it's video: Whirl does not want you to miss the full spectacle of his awesome.

[You, however, just look ridiculous. Then again, that makes sense. You are not Whirl, of course you are less awesome.]

So.

[Chortle.]

Fire, you say.

[Oh, Cliffjumper, are you even aware what you're unleashing here?]

That can be arranged, goodly mech.

[Video]

[cliffjumper]

[It's a spectacle all right, and Cliffjumper would like to beg to differ that he's the only one looking ridiculous.]

Yeah, fire. Anythin' else an' they keep being fragging impossible to get rid of!

[He flails, dislogding the critters on one arm harshly enough to send them flying and smashing into a wall, but they don't seem any worse for wear.

They also keep laughing really creepily.]

's long as it's something easily controlled.

[No he doesn't, but at this point, he doesn't really care. But if you set him on fire, he's shooting your rotors off.]

VIDEO;

[inferiordude]

Probably less destruction, more containment at this point, Cliffdude.

Also, uh. Hi. Sorry I was... all weird. At you?

VIDEO;

[cliffjumper]

[Soundwave, that's the opposite of helpful right now. Compared to the other replies, though, Soundwave gets a bit more desperation than otherwise.]

I tried. Locked 'em up, wouldn't stay locked up!

[He groans and briefly casts a look into the feed, before one flailing hand briefly mashes a little SG!Prime up against the screen. Hope you don't mind, Soundwave.]

Hi. Yeah, sure, what the slag was that? Are you okay?

[Yeah, he can totally multitask while still being hounded by these little monsters.]

VIDEO;

[inferiordude]

Uhh. Dude, this is a toughie. They aren't stayin' down, huh? Even if we tied 'em all up?

[He ducks his head a little.]

I... I don't really know. I just felt out of it. I never felt like that before. But after singing and hearing some music, I feel better. It's totally weird.

VIDEO;

[cliffjumper]

... May work, but there's enough of 'em I can't do that myself. An' they keep comin' back too!

[He hadn't even thought of it, in fact, but since they somehow got out of where he'd locked them before he's uncertain they'd stay tied up as well.

The grimace, caught between sympathy and confusion, sort of gets off-track as he snarls at one of the little figures. But either way, it's all for you, Soundwave.]

Ya know, never thought I'd say it - not that there's anythin' wrong with him, but you know what I mean - but I kinda wish Bombshell was here. He'd - gah! - probably know somethin'... It's okay though, it was kinda obvious something was off.

[raceme]

Cliffjumper WHAT is going on?

[cliffjumper]

I'm being fragging mobbed by tiny caricatures of the creepiest knock-of of Optimus Prime I've ever met---

[Wait a moment.]

... You feelin' okay now, Blurr?

[Yeah, something weird's obviously going on.]

[raceme]

TINY Optimus Prime?

Yes I AM. [Uh' you are acting weird, Cliff.]

[cliffjumper]

They look like it, anyway!

[And they also look a lot like the stick-figure SG!Optimus Primes he drew being killed in various ways on that page he found - which he's not sure why he did, now - but he's not sure how they're connected... or rather, maybe how one led to the other.

He'll just snag one - more like hold out a hand and hold it still too long, and ending up with one trying to gnaw on his fingers and yanking on his wrist clearly trying to rip it out - and hold up to the screen to show Blurr.]

Tiny, slagging monsters.

Video

[has_guts]

Sounds like a job for my Fire Guts!

Video

[cliffjumper]

Anythin' that can--

Optimus?!

[No, wait maybe it isn't?? Or maybe it is, but probably not the one he knows. Something's off, and he's a lot better at noticing (and acknowleding) when things are being "off" about mechs he knows... And this isn't just taking different universal variants into account.]

Re: Video

[has_guts]

[A shake of the head.]

Ginrai.

What can I do to help?

Video

[cliffjumper]

... Okay.

[But you look exactly like Optimus, why.]

I don't... gah. I'm gettin' help, but containing 'em won't work, so if ya got something that can make fire, 'cause they seem to take really badly to that, that'd be... good.

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

This entire planet is either falling apart or we've all been doused with some extremely potent hallucinogen!

[translation]

[audio]

[cliffjumper]

Un-fragging-fortunately, all of it's way too real.

[He growls and something bounces off metal.]

Hoped scrap like this wouldn't happen again after Axiom but apparently not!

[So, unfortunately, Ambulon, it's neither of those things. Just another day in paradise in a place suffering under a multiversal nexus.]

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

[Taking a note out of CJ's page]

Un-fragging-believable.

[MIGHTY VIDEO] nigh obligatory threadjack

[whirlybird_of_prey]

If that's true you have some fraggin' heavy hallucinations.

[That car was not light. Never mind that he is ALL HERO and it was merely a warmup for his mighty thews. wow I can't believe spellcheck didn't redline me on 'thews'.]

[video of HUFF]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

I'd explain mass psychogenic disease and conversion disorders to you, but that's beside the point of me saying this place has suddenly gone to scrap. That, and you would probably fall into some fantasy world during my lecture on illnesses and "mind over matter".