[Video] [Transmission Originating From: The Junkpile]

[herodecoded]

[Dinobot felt in a philosophic mood. So much had transpired from the moment of his death. He was certain this was not the Pit or any afterlife. What afterlife would allow fleshlings? The Maximal had so much to question. If he had already saved history...why do the task of bringing him back again? Why at this point in time?

He decided the best method would be to reach out to the others, to see just what exactly these so-called Primes had brought to this world. Maybe then he could understand their vision...]

Is history a tale told by a fool, or something more? If fate does not write our history, does it matter who does the writing? Must free will be the absence of fate or must it be its tool?

That which I decide be mine or merely the shade of another's work? Does this story's beginning simply involve our resolution?

Oh that this too too solid metal would melt...

Comments

[audio]

[herodecoded]

I could perform all of Hamlet whilst blind!

[audio]

[megamind]

Pfft, anybody who has the parts memorized can do it blind, don't be foolish!

[audio]

[herodecoded]

Clearly you have no true idea of acting for Shakespeare if you amount it to nothing more than memorization.

[audio]

[megamind]

But blindness would never interfere with projection, emoting! You're ableist, you big robotic jerk!

[audio]

[herodecoded]

But even a blind mech knows acting concerns the heart and soul of the work! You attribute it to nothing but memorization.

[audio]

[megamind]

You're misconstruing my words! Of course you can't even get a famous quote from Hamlet right, I don't know why I expect better of you!

[audio]

[herodecoded]

For the last time it is poetic license! I was not performing Shakespeare!

[audio]

[megamind]

Yes, I'm aware you weren't performing anything recognizable, yes. [Buuuuuuuuuurn.]

[audio]

[herodecoded]

Big words from one who does not recognize Shakespeare or any literary tropes!

Re: [audio]

[megamind]

I recognize plenty of tropes! It's my business! I mean, I'm a villain! That's my job! I can totally recognize that your 'license' was criminal. Not even a good twist! A poor play on words!

[audio]

[herodecoded]

It was fitting for the moment! You wouldn't understand!

I wouldn't expect anything less from a self-proclaimed 'villain'.

[Huge verbal emphasis on the quotes.]

[audio]

[megamind]

It was not! I mean, a suicide reference? Really? Come on.

[audio]

[herodecoded]

If you understood the context you would understand! These are dire circumstances that require dire readings.

[audio]

[megamind]

It's not THAT dire!

[audio]

[my_own_trope]

Wait. Are you telling me he's reciting human work?

[audio]

[megamind]

Mangling it, more like.

[my_own_trope]

How pathetic!

[cackles]

[megamind]

...Right. Whatever. I imagine you're another one of those robots aren't you?

[my_own_trope]

What gave me away?

[megamind]

Oh, just that this place is crawling with you.

[my_own_trope]

A welcome change from the last planet, believe me. Human vermin overran the place.

[megamind]

I may not be human, but I have a feeling you'd consider anything with a pulse vermin.

[my_own_trope]

Ah, now that is where you'd be wrong. You see, we all posses a pulse, albeit our [because what does he know about robots that aren't from his continuity?] veins pump a much more efficient fluid through our systems.

More powerful too~.

[Would you like to know more about his construction? Because herp derp he'll tell you. Hell, if you tell him he's pretty, maybe he'll even draw you up some blueprints.]

[megamind]

[Megamind knows how to stroke an ego to get what he likes.]

Do you now? Fantastic-- I've orked in robotics in my time, but you are far more advanced than I'm used to. My suits and brainbots aren't anything like the robots wandering around here talking about being independent beings.

What sets you apart?

Shut up, Starscr--- oops, too late.

[my_own_trope]

Sentience, obviously. We're a species millions of years older than yours, and we'd attained space-flight while your kind was still wriggling around in the primordial ooze that makes up your planet.

[Okay, so, he's wrong about A LOT of things here, but it isn't his fault he wasn't around for the big canon twist, or knows anything about alternate universes, or, you know, that Megamind isn't actually human.]

That isn't all, obviously. Anything man-made just can't compare to a real Cybertronian. Granted, you can construct some sad, shambling mimicry, but it just won't be the same without that last, magic ingredient~.