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] 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.]

Re: [video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah, about the you part. Not about the here part.

[Frag. Pay attention. It's really hard to mock you when you're being dense.]

So you're from the land of no robots. INTERESTINGtellmemore.

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

It looks like you're stuck with both parts of that sentence. Sucks for you, buddy.

[He's totally not going sit here and be mocked, even if he has to pull acting dense to do it.]

There's not much to say. There's no robots. It's a lot quieter.
Besides, I'm not sure you're actually interested, or just trying to find a way to snipe at me.

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Think it's gonna suck more to be you. [He'd do an evil smile but, you know...face.]

So. Boring. [Figures.]

Do I have to choose? [Because he's kinda doing C) both of the above.]

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

Oh I doubt that. [Blasted landscapes and people he only barely tolerates are nothing new. Just this time the people are giant and made of metal.]

Mm. [He is definitely not rising to that.]

No. But I don't have to answer, either.

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Giant, made of metal, heavily armed and in Whirl's case? Psychotic. FUN TIMES AHEAD, Renko.]

Yeah, we could just sit here and stare at each other and see who breaks first.

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

[See, the heavily armed and psychotic is pretty normal for him. Demichev was completely power-mad and had the only decent revolver left in the timeline, after all.]

I'm sure you have better things to do. Being giant and one-eyed and all.

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[In that case, they should be BFFs.]

....and that's where you're wrong. [Sad, but true. And still staring.]

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

It's really that dull around here? Well that's depressing.

[You're going to make him miss all those civil wars back home.]

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Eh. I make my own fun.

...it normally explodes.

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

Awfully fleeting fun, that.

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[You trying to bring him down, Captain Buzzkill? ]

You got a better idea?

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

[If you're going to call him that, it's Commander Buzzkill.]

I haven't had to make my own fun in a while, now. Though you could always take up knitting.

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Like Whirl respects rank in the first place.]

Already got a side-hobby, thanks. [Pestering newbie?]

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

[Still, it's the principle of the thing.]

Is it called Harass The New Guys?

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

No, this is just a freebie.

[But he'll tell you why not.]

Kitten. And bombs.

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

I feel so special.

[Wait.]

... Kitten?

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Don't get used to it.

Kitten. My kitten.

[....OHALLRIGHT He'll show you. Whirl pops open his cockpit and voila, Splat.]

Fraggin' lethal.

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

I won't, don't worry. I'm used to not being special.

[Or a 'drone in the hive', as it were.
Also that is a kitten.]

Well, it might be when it grows up. Right now it mostly seems to be cute.

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Good.

[Yes, yes it is. A kitten that somehow appears to be in good health, considering it's being held by a robot with lethal claws.]

Shows how much you know. That's how he lures you in. And then....DEATH.

[You don't know any better, right?]

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

[He's impressed that the kitten seems to be doing so well, all things considered. He didn't exactly expect robots to know how to take care of wriggly baby felines.]

If that's true then kittens have changed a lot since the last time I saw them.

[Which wasn't too long ago, actually. Strays were everywhere.]

[video]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Especially in Whirl's case, it's a reasonable concern. However, Alpha Trion's acolyte had been pretty thorough.]

This is a special kitten. One of the First Forged's. [So there. You may commence with the awe and envy.]

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

First Forged, huh? And they're the head honchos around here?

[Not so much on the awe and envy front, unfortunately. Just on the 'digging for information' front. It's just how he works these days.]