[Video, open to all, priority broadcast from Alpha Trion's Library]

[trionicpolarity]

[Please, have Alpha Trion sitting at a desk, looking very distinguished while he sorts through a stack of datapads and musty-looking books.]

Hm.

It seems that I may have...misplaced...something.

No need for alarm, it's nothing pivotal this time.

[He looks around the library, managing to appear only slightly less sheepish than he feels.]

However, given the recent events, I took the liberty of checking for the Tome of Possibilities, and...ah.

It wasn't there.

[Oops.]

Has anyone noticed any missing pages floating--perhaps literally--about?

Barring that, could anyone give me a list of what has changed?

[If he couldn't get the pages back, he might at least be able to set a few things to rights. Maybe. Hopefully before there was any major damage done.]

Comments

[noparachutes]

... How fond are you of your floors?

[trionicpolarity]

Quite fond, actually.

Have you been tunneling?

[noparachutes]

Unfortunate.

Not personally. but yes.

[trionicpolarity]

Perhaps it would be best to meet you at your tunnels, then, instead of at my home?

[And maybe you could help him make a few new tunnels, too, at some point.]

[noparachutes]

Very well.

[You Firstforged and liking your floors. Have a tunnel location.]

[trionicpolarity]

I will be there soon.

[He does have some other people to meet with, but...he'll still be heading toward you before the end of the day! Anything to get more information and determine more problems.]

[noparachutes]

Noted.

Would you like to do some action?

[trionicpolarity]

[And Alpha Trion will come see you, and note what large cavernous tunnels you have! Big enough for him to hang out in.]

oh yes please

[noparachutes]

[The Driller likes its space, and Shockwave likes to be able to get out underground if needed. Large spaces is a requirement.]

So tell me more about these pages.

[trionicpolarity]

They're part of my Tome, one of the sacred...ah...'books' in my library. [They weren't all actual books, but that didn't matter much.] They have a tendency to warp reality, which has been of great use to me in terms of working to build Cybertron.

In order to bring something to life, however, the pages require exquisitely careful wording...[He winces] Which I am afraid that most mechs aren't aware of.

Tell me, have you seen any of these pages about?

[noparachutes]

And they are capable of doing anything? With the correct wording.

[Shockwave doesn't bother answering the question, instead the tunnel shakes and in a matter of moments, a large metal worm is crashing through, rumbling in Alpha Trion's direction.]

[trionicpolarity]

They are, yes.

[He's going to turn and look at this large metal worm, though it's with considerably more interest than fear.]

A subterranean mechanoid? Don't tell me...those anterior grinders seem capable of processing dense metallic crystals...

Indigenous to your Cybertron, then? [He glances back to Shockwave.]

At least it explains the tunnels. I'll still be needing to know what pages you've found, though.

[noparachutes]

Correct, and certainly one of Cybertron's more interesting fauna.

[The Driller rumbles again, this time opening up its cockpit and carefully pulling out a page. With a tilt of its head, the tentacle extends towards Alpha Trion, the page covered in calculations and a small doodle.]