Audio -> Video Transmission : Megatronus's Temple

[cpt_timeruiner]

Hello? Is this thing on? How do I... oh.

[Suddenly the video pops on, to a view of a man with short dark hair in a dark grey trench coat and white shirt. He adjusts his clothing slightly and straightens up.]

This is Captain Nathaniel Renko, Spartan platoon of the Titan Corps of North America. Though I'm guessing there's no one here that knows of either of those... [Or he wouldn't be using his real name. But who knows, maybe there's someone around here that remembers Spartan-21 or Titan-1 Actual, or heavens forbid, his name. Without understanding the former connotations of his name in his timeline, hopefully.]

So I've heard that I was dropped through some kind of rift and I'm on another planet. And apparently there are sentient giant robots. Which I guess makes my next question... what's it like where you're from originally?

[If he seems less bothered about the whole "temporal-spacial displacement" thing than others might be, it's because he is. For you, this might be life-changing and incredibly traumatizing, but for him it is Tuesday.]

Comments

[video] i am so sorry he's your first

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Where I'm from originally?

A lot fewer talky tiny organics cluttering up the place, for a start.

[video] he would ask for whirl to be gentle but it probably wouldn't help

[cpt_timeruiner]

Well you're all sunshine aren't you.

The talky tiny organic didn't ask to be here, he'll have you know.

[video] NOPE

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Sunshine and kitten fur, that's me.

[Well, 50% right.]

Hey. There are worse places. [You don't get to insult Cybertron, you Splartan or whatever you are. .]

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

You were the one complaining about me being here.

[Besides, he'd rather be stuck in the place that he knows, whether or not he'd accidentally turned it into a living Hell.]

[video] to make up for Whirl have a nice guy and a bro

[wreckandrotors]

[You sound military. Which is pretty cool, because Springer is all about that.]

So your Earth doesn't have robots?

[WEIRD!]

[video] you seem like a gentleman and a scholar, good sir!

[cpt_timeruiner]

[Renko is totally military! Or was, at least. Things changed.]

Not unless you count powered mech suits. I'm guessing yours has more though?

[Right back: WEIRD!]

[video] not so much scholar unless it is a scholar of manliness

[wreckandrotors]

Cybertron? Yeah, all of us. And the Earth I've been to, you guys all know about us, too.

[That 'Robots in Disguise' thing didn't last past season one, really.]

[video] manliness is totally a scholarly pursuit

[cpt_timeruiner]

And people didn't freak out about the whole... giant alien robot thing? That seems like something to panic over a little bit.

[Video]

[littlecrowgirl]

[Because you know what this calls for? Teenage girl.]

Well, there's definitely more trees back home.

[Video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

[Teenage girl? Teenage girl.]

You'd be surprised how few trees I've seen lately back home... Got a name, kid?

[Video]

[littlecrowgirl]

Well, gotta agree there. Los Angeles isn't known for it's trees. But there's big forests somewhere on Earth!

[A beat.]

The name's Kay, and yours?

[Video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

You're from LA? Wasn't even sure it still existed... Yeah, there's still forests around.

I'm Renko. It's a pleasure.

[Using his last name for his name, awh yeah.]

[Video]

[kingofthetvworld]

[Yeah, there was a whole lot he didn't understand in there. BUT HE KNOWS WHAT A CAPTAIN IS.]

You're a pirate!

[Sort of.]

Where's your eyepatch?!

[Video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

[Uhh... what?]

... Think I left the eyepatch in my other set of pants.

I'm. Not that kind of captain anyway. I'm an army captain.

[Video]

[kingofthetvworld]

Oh.

[Bummer.]

Yeah, I guess I should have noticed when you didn't say 'arrr matey'.

[Video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

Never even owned a parrot, either. And I've got both my hands.

[Which he raises into shot. See? Ignore the glowy thing sticking up above the coat cuff.]

Though not all pirates say "arr matey" I'm sure.

[raceme]

The correct term is Cybertronian not robots, sir. [Blurr tries not so sound petty, he's just explaining There's a few mechs here that could get offended at the idea of being called robots. He's also talking really fast, as always.]

My world is similar to this one just not so young and ^usually not so dangerous AND yours?

[cpt_timeruiner]

... Are you going to a fire or something? [Why do you talk so fast, it's really hard to keep up with.] I take it you... Cybertronians get offended about robots?

[... all he got was 'young' and 'dangerous' and he does not approve of either of these adjectives.] Mine? My world's gotten pretty awful lately. Not that things were very good to begin with, but... well, a lot of wars have broken out lately.

[He hadn't quite anticipated that. But he's working on it.]

[raceme]

A fire? [He's lost now.] Some more than others, just like humans get offended if they're called animals. Robots don't have a soul or a mind on their own and the term implies that someone made them WE are not like that. I don't really mind because humans usually call us that and I've been in Earth but not all the mechs here had met organics in the past.

...ah Wars. Seems like a common trait among all the worlds _{I'm sorry} to hear that about yours.

I am Agent Blurr member of the Elite Guard an intelligence gathering body that exists within the Autobot fraction

[Video]

[tearsofsteel]

Titan-corps? How come I never heard of you guys back home?

[Maybe it's the fact you came from Cold War Germany, Albert. And what to help, cyberjerk.]

[Video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

The Titan Corps didn't really exist until after Chancellor Demichev died and the fighting started. It's still a pretty new thing...

[And will require a huge long history lesson that this genius only halfway understands.]

[Video]

[tearsofsteel]

How new? What I mean to say is what year?

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

I've not met another claiming your status, so either you are indeed the only one or your comrades are shy. Not that I blame them.

Where we come from is all rather messy and one giant history lesson.

[audio]

[cpt_timeruiner]

My... comrades aren't typically the shy type. Sorry to hear I'm alone here, though.

[He could have used a couple minions.]

I like history lessons, believe it or not. And I get the feeling we've got plenty of time around here.

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

Though we may come from different timelines and universes, we all share one thing in common: we're at war or just coming out of it. It's spanned millennia. A civil war that branched out into hundreds of galaxies. Billions of lives lost - not only Cybertronian. Great planets, civilizations, lifeforms, all that - gone; blown to scrap. This is all very general, but you're going to hear a lot about it from the others, I know.