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] oh definitely, the most scholarly

[cpt_timeruiner]

Took you a while, I guess?

Huh. [That's an odd statement. The "good" ones.] So there are good alien robots and bad alien robots? And it's that easy?

[video] he may even be flexing as he speaks right now!

[wreckandrotors]

Hey, I was offworld fighting 'cons. Good thing, because, yeah, Optimus is--was--better at that diplomacy and leadership stuff.

[Blink, of the 'how could you not know this?' variety.] Sure. There's us, and the Decepticons. They want to conquer and we just want, you know, to live in peace. [So, yeah, don't ask about those outposts the Autobots set up all over Earth. They're military bases FOR PEACE.]

[video] oh-ho. So manly good sir!

[cpt_timeruiner]

I'm new to the whole alien robot thing, remember? My only reference is humans, and it's usually not just 'the good guys' and 'the bad guys'. This is. Definitely different. [And as someone conquering the world to enforce peace, he really can't say anything about military bases for peace.]

So, Optimus. [Sounds Roman.] Your leader? You said was... something happen to him?

[video] for the record though springer digs chicks.

[wreckandrotors]

Oh trust me. This is pretty easy. [He points to his Autobot insignia.] Good guys. Anyone with a purple sort of triangular bug face? Bad guy.

[Because robots are organized like that.]

Optimus died and passed the Matrix to Hot Rod, you know, Rodimus Prime. [Natch]. And then came back, kind of evil, but that was the Quintessons. But now he's good again. It's a little complicated. [Lol season 3]

[video] oh yeah no no. we're just bros here.

[cpt_timeruiner]

Well that's easy. But does that still work out here? It sounds like there are a lot of people that come from a lot of different places around here.

[So organized, man. It's crazy.]

Complicated is not a problem for me, believe me. Things got crazy for a while for me, too. But Quintessons?

[What?]

[video] just, you know, clearing that up. Springer is all mech.

[wreckandrotors]

Of course it is. Universal rule. [He clearly hasn't met the Shattered Glass mechs yet. Just remember: Blue optics good, red optics bad.

[Handy little cheat sheet for you. Because you are a bro.]

Quintessons. Tentacles and five faces. They created us, but, you know, they were evil.

[Such a morally simple world he lives in. You don't want to mess that up for him, do you?]

[video] No, Renko totally gets it. Besides, the whole human-robot thing seems awkward anyway.

[cpt_timeruiner]

Easy enough to remember. Really, really easy. Thanks for that.

[Though he is going to reserve judgement on that. He's gotten too many messages before about trust and distrust for individuals and groups.]

[Renko blinks in disbelief... and lets out a short laugh.]

Wow. Things are really cut-and-dry where you come from, aren't they?

[video] *manly brofist then*

[wreckandrotors]

Hey, no problem.

OH and if you see anything with tentacles? Run.

And call me. [Because he has a lightsaber. It's awesome. ]

[That's call me for back up, not call me in a, you know, that way.]

Why complicate stuff? [Springer's mantra.]

[video] *the most manly brofists*

[cpt_timeruiner]

I try to avoid things with tentacles as often as possible, believe me. They are not fun. at all.

[The melty mutants are kind of worse, though. No lie.]

... You have a thing for tentacles? [This is the only thing he can think about that suggestion to call about tentacles.]

Good point. But people tend to be complicated whether they like it or not, in my experience.

[video]

[wreckandrotors]

Oh, so they hate you, too. [This is not much of a surprise. Quintessons really had...issues.]

[?!] Uh. If by 'thing' you mean, kill them before they kill us, yeah.

Yeah, well, complicated's complicated. [He shrugs. He's good at ignoring things like nuance. And consequences.] So how you settling in?

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

More that the monsters attached to them hate me. Though most of them were more... insect-like. [Especially the big one.]

Oh! No, no, I'd thought... Nevermind. Not important.

That's a refreshing view on it. [Settling in? Uhh.] Woke up not too long ago, actually. And this temple is a maze. Almost keep getting lost in here.

[He needs to figure out how to get chronoping on the TMD to pull his footprints from the past rather than the... future-past, or he's never getting out of here.]

[video]

[wreckandrotors]

Huh. Well, yeah it wouldn't surprise me. Quints like to make pretty awful alliances.

[Though Insecticons? That was....new.]

Huh. You lost or something? Because if you can get outside I can probably help you out.

[video]

[cpt_timeruiner]

Pretty sure these were just things mutated by radiation on Earth. No mysterious alien creators.

[More like the creator was him but he tends to ignore that fact.]

Lost inside, actually. I hope all the temples aren't like this. And that it's easier to find my way around outside.