[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]

No. If I was online during the day it was for training, so I stayed in the gym.

[raceme]

No offense but it sounds to me like you was a bit of a slave. [And he doesn't like that idea AT ALL.]

[wakizashi_straight]

A slave? [He's familiar with the concept, in theory, but he's never heard it used to describe him.] I was built to perform a specific function. It is slavery to do what one was created to do?

[raceme]

But you are not just a mindless machine you are a sentient being and all of them should have free will EITHER they have a purpose or not. It's just as much about freedom of mind as it is about freedom of action WAS you ever stopped to do something you wanted because the humans you belonged to didn't want you to do it? I would say that not being able to walk out during daylight counts as that.

[wakizashi_straight]

But I did not want to. With my fights occurring at night my battery needed to recharge sometime, and repairs and training are important. All I have ever wanted was to fight, and everything else is the path to my bouts.

You compare my profession to war and my position to slavery, without understanding them.

[raceme]

I just never met any individual like you before.

[Also his first human contact was less than stellar, he was forced to do things against his will because Master Disaster was controlling him. Blurr looks rather uncomfortable right now.] And once you won the fight then what? Morefights?

[wakizashi_straight]

I am not that unusual, where I am from. [Not anymore really; the Brazilian league had fully embraced his voice recognition software and uploaded it into most of their bots.]

Repairs, and then training, and the next fight at a new venue. Sometimes my handlers would be interviewed by the press while I posed for pictures, or I would meet some of my fans.

[raceme]

"I am going to accept that this is one of those Earth thing is can not fully comprehend Did you say the press? You must be really important then."

[wakizashi_straight]

The press, yes. And I am, or was. I was the first bot made by designer Tak Mashido to make it to a championship fight, and one of the best-known Japanese bots in the world.

[raceme]

"Congrats then I had no idea" Credit where credit is due.

[wakizashi_straight]

Thank you. Though it has not happened often lately. [Falling out of the public eye happens to all of them eventually.]