[Video -> Text] [Transmission Originating From: Vectorian Sector]

[wakizashi_straight]

[The video is only on for a few moments - long enough to show a purple bot with wide shoulders, a samurai helmet, and glowing yellow optics - before shutting off. After that is a burst of text.]

Many of you exceed WRB height restrictions. You also violate a number of other WRB regulations, including illegal use of weapons and possession non-standard upgrades.

I am not where I should be.

[He would just like to let you all know YOU ARE SO ILLEGAL. SO. ILLEGAL now down to a few extra messages-]

If anyone happens to see Charlie Kenton I would like to be informed. He is a human with short, dark hair and brown eyes. He also has a son, Max. I do not wish them to be alone with unfamiliar bots if they come here.

Gunmax. Thank you for the ride, when we arrived. It was kind of you.

To the bot with the fins on his head: My name is Noisy Boy. 'Soundwave' is a terrible name.

And there was a red and white bot. I apologize if I fightened you somehow.

Comments

[wakizashi_straight]

[Oh, you're one of those people. He's met reporters like you.]

I am surprised that so many here are shocked that I am capable of thought.

Starscream, that was mean

[my_own_trope]

Even drones have rudimentary personality components I suppose...

It's k, Starscream. Noisy Boy is mostly unflappable.

[wakizashi_straight]

I have heard of drones. I am not one.

[my_own_trope]

Evidently. I think that would be giving you too much credit.

[wakizashi_straight]

If you have no better reason for contacting me than to mock me, you are wasting your energy and your time.

[my_own_trope]

Indulge me just a few more questions, won't you?

Without your human... handlers, to whom do you defer your actions to?

[wakizashi_straight]

If they are questions, rather than more rambling insults.

I defer my actions to no one, without my current handler.

[my_own_trope]

[He'd seen Silas's plans and schematics during his ... temporary consulting position. He knew there was an angle here. He just had to find it.]

Don't you have some manner of control switch or remote with you somewhere?

That would make you almost completely autonomous, then?

[wakizashi_straight]

[Control switch? Remote? No one in particular has asked after how he's controlled before now. And even if the plans became public when Tak Mashido sold him, he remembers how tightly guarded his voice commands were.]

Why do you ask?

I never replied to this....?

[my_own_trope]

I've spent some time working with those human-made.

[He was helping them make abominations!]

/tackles this

[wakizashi_straight]

I had not known that your kind worked on bots like me.

[Since, y'know, you're all illegal.]

[my_own_trope]

We don't. But I, ah, like to broaden my horizons.

[wakizashi_straight]

Why would you? You do not seem to think of us highly.

/threadjack, if that's all right

[deusexraf]

Hey, look...don't mind him, okay?

I'd like to hear more, if you don't mind.

it is with me :D

[wakizashi_straight]

I do not. I have met others like him before. [He's difficult to insult.]

... You do? [Oh, he likes you already.]

\o/

[deusexraf]

[give him a moment...and then it processes] Other bullies?

And I would, yeah! It sounds interesting.

[wakizashi_straight]

And others that think less of me because of my differences. [Mostly people in other countries that were rooting for hometown bots.]

I am glad you think so. Though there is not much I can tell you about how I am built; I am no mechanic.

[deusexraf]

...Tell me about it. I can't tell you how many times I've had that kind of thing happen to me.

Can you at least tell me who built you? You said something about humans, but...how many of there are you, or, well, like you?

[wakizashi_straight]

That happens to you too? [No way. Surely that doesn't happen to the small humans.]

I was built by Tak Mashido, one of the greatest boxing robot designers in the world. I could not say how many of us there are, even in one part of the world; for every League bot there are two or three Underworld bots. The league has divisions in most countries.

[deusexraf]

I skipped a lot of grades in school. Some of the other kids thought because I was younger, or smaller than them, they could pick on me one way or another. It was hard at first, and it still is, even though I guess I'm sort of used to them. [though it's gotten better over time...a little. but enough about him.]

So...League and Underworld. I'm guessing you're League, right...?

[wakizashi_straight]

I am sorry they mistreated you. They should not have. Certainly not over age or size. [That didn't matter so much, with his kind.]

I am a League bot by design. Though I have fought in Underworld matches before, and I have fought in both in several countries.

[deusexraf]

It's not your fault. That's...just the way things go, I guess. People pick on what's different.

[sigh. tolerance, not acceptance.]

Do you like it? I mean, did you?

[wakizashi_straight]

Even so, it is not right.

[But that's neither here nor there now, he supposes.]

I do. I enjoy the travelling and the fighting.

[deusexraf]

No...it isn't.

[but that's all there is to really say about it.]

How many places did you see? I've only been to Mexico before, and that was to visit some family.

[wakizashi_straight]

I have seen and fought in many countries. More when I was more in demand several years ago. In the last two years I have visited Switzerland, England, Brazil, and returned to my home, Japan.