video | Trion's temple

[sciencetank]

[Oh, hello there. A robot with an accent. And... a face that may just be vaguely familiar to some. Even if the rest of his frame... isn't. It's sort of huge.]

Cybertron. Or so I'm told. One might almost mistake it for another world entirely, when it lacks the gratuitous explosions and warships. That said, I'm not entirely convinced. Is this truly Cybertron? And, if so, how is it the planet appears... so much more intact than it conceivably should?

[Is he talking to himself, or to the Link? Hard to say.]

Which brings me to yet another issue with the current predicament, I suppose. Optimus? Ratchet? You were here a moment ago, don't tell me you've been left out of this nonsense.

[Because that's just not fair.]

Once more. Optimus? Ratchet? ... Jetfire? This is Perceptor, and I would appreciate a status update, if you've time in your terribly crowded schedules.

[The last comes out more than a little irritated. None of this makes sense, and that is a problem.]

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[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

Oh, we've got a couple of those. Primes, Ratchets, all that. Not sure if one of them belongs from your universe, but you never know. There's even a few of you as well, as you've no doubt found out by now.

[audio]

[sciencetank]

A couple of Ratchets?

[Primus, how does your world not implode from the snark factor.]

Indeed. I appear to be the ah... third version of myself present in this place, according to me. The... other me, I should say. That's going to become confusing rather quickly.

Your voice isn't immediately familiar. You are...?

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

Yes. Two, in fact. Both from different dimensions. And I suppose you'll get used to it soon enough - everyone eventually does. [Now he just pauses to think if there's duplicates of himself in all these different universes. So many legs!]

[pause]

Ambulon. I'm a medic, myself. Sorry for confusing you there a moment. I'm more [comfortable] reliant on the audio option.

[audio]

[sciencetank]

I've only managed to meet one. The other has yet to make himself known... I must admit, I'm interested in meeting both of them. It would be fascinating, wouldn't it? To learn from different versions of your own self...

[He trails off, the introduction breaking his line of rambling thought.]

Ah. Yes. No, it's quite all right. A pleasure to meet a medic, and all that.

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

Oh, I'm sure you'll be interested. Because meeting yourself from a different universe is pretty damn interesting enough to last a lifetime. And you have two, so, two lifetimes.

[audio]

[sciencetank]

Ah--! Yes, I hadn't even thought of that.

And, given the apparent temporal distortion theory... we'd have quite a lot of time indeed to go over such details.