[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[It's just a short video feed, from what was--briefly, one of the Perceptor's labs.  A half-built space bridge is in the background.]

Perceptor's gone.

And now Ratchet.

Either someone's kidnapping them, [Looking at you, First Forged. Or Prism.] or they're wandering someplace dangerous and getting killed. Because neither of them are good fighters.

Or....something else.

[He's not sure he's covered all the angles. He's a swordsmech, not Nightbeat or Prowl. But those are conclusions he can draw.]

I'm heading to the Badlands to at least settle that angle.  And I have...business out there, anyway. [And he's not quite dumb enough to go against Prism on his own. But the Badlands, he can handle.]

Anyone else missing? Anyone have another solution?

Comments

[justthedoctor]

Perceptor gone? [He doesn't recognize the other name, except maybe from memories of that old kid's show way back when. Yeah. The Doctor watches cartoons. Especially sciencey-spacey-scifi ones. And he's only spoken with Perceptor once, but that still makes his attention pique at this.]

What sort've evidence have we got at this point?

[sword_redemption]

Yes. He was here and now...[Drift looks around the empty lab.] I can't imagine where else he'd be. Except the badlands.

[He frowns.] Not much. This has happened before--and Vector says that some Unicron calls us out to the Badlands to die.

[Cute, right?]