[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[Drift's still a bit stained and scratched up when he appears on the video feed. He'd intended to clean up first, but orders are orders, and a little spider gunk never killed anyone. It just smelled awful, but that doesn't--thankfully--travel over video.]

As Ultra Magnus has brought up, we have missing.

Some of us can search for the missing, and try and figure out what this Calling is. But we need ideas so we're all on the same page. [A wince. 'Page' isn't a great word for him after that whole...mess.]

Especially about this 'Unicron' and how to defeat him.

[He cocks his head.] The Link might not be the safest place to talk openly, so to be safe, I figure we could have a meeting. Out where the others are building the Rec Center, unless anyone else has a better idea?

((OOC: I'll get the log up later, DW willing?))

Comments

there there. it's okay ♥

[dinnerdate]

Killed him? You sure?

Looking at what his blood does, you're going to die... Along with the rest of us.

you are a creepy mech to get a ♥ from, Dead End.

[sword_redemption]

He seemed pretty sure Unicron was dead.

[o_O]

I don't think that's necessarily true. This is a Cybertron. We know there's history beyond this, right? [Right? He's new to time paradoxes, be gentle.]

all part of the plan

[dinnerdate]

Then he's an idiot.

[When you've been inadvertently infected by Unicron, it's hard to believe he can just be killed. Things that powerful always have all the luck and luck doesn't mean you get killed. No way he can die.]

Apparently. I'm not a scientist, not really my area of expertise. Doesn't mean the same will happen here. My bet's we all die.

man you're so cute dead end

[sword_redemption]

He's...he's a little hard to understand at first. [Drift: politically correct!]

But he says they used the Matrix on him and well, it's worth a shot, isn't it?

[If only we had one.]

...[Dude you need a hug.] If that's true, at least we can go down fighting. Make our deaths meaningful.

a bizarre side effect

[dinnerdate]

Oh. So only Autobots will survive, typical.

[Hugs aren't real. They're just attempts to kill him.]

Won't really be meaningful when everyone's dead.

dark energon needs a warning label for kawaii?

[sword_redemption]

Who sai--no. Well, I don't know. You'd have to ask Wreck-Gar. But in my world, both Autobots and Decepticons survived the war.

[Wow you are just like a black hole in which all cheer just gets sucked into a singularity, Dead End. This calls for...more optimism.]

You can't think like that. At least not here. We can work together and do something great.

it totally does

[dinnerdate]

Lucky you. Probably wouldn't save any of the lower ranking Decepticons. No one really likes us.

Working together sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

[sword_redemption]

[A bit of a wince. Deadlock hadn't treated his troops all that well. But it's given him a perspective.]

That's their fault then. But it's different here.

[He'll make sure it is.]

Doing nothing and letting this Unicron draw us one by one to death in the Badlands doesn't sound much better.

[dinnerdate]

It's not different here. It's the exact same just with less fighting.

We're all going to die eventually. Why fight it? Especially when Unicron is behind it.

[sword_redemption]

But that's different. Less fighting. There's no war here. We don't have to do that.

[Wow, one track brain module.]

If you don't think Unicron is defeatable why do you think the FirstForged disagree?

[dinnerdate]

Same judgements based on factions. There's no war, but only for now.

If he was they would have done it by now.

[sword_redemption]

[Point, and what Drift fears.]

If there was war, whose side would you fight on?

Unless they can't. Unless they're not as powerful as they want us to think.

[dinnerdate]

Does it matter? It'll end the same for both sides.

If they aren't strong enough then what luck would we have?

[sword_redemption]

It matters. Because if fighting for freedom, for a better future, doesn't matter, why do anything?

[He's just going to crank the Existential Optimism up to about 11.]

[dinnerdate]

You'll end up rust either way... I'm a Decepticon, and I'll fight for them because Megatron hired me.

[There. He answered the question.]

[sword_redemption]

Yes, we die in the end. But that's all the more reason to do something worthy in your life, don't you think?

...because he hired you?

[dinnerdate]

Worthy?

I'm a mercenary, so yes. Because he hired me.

[sword_redemption]

Worthy. So that you make your mark on the world, you make a difference.

And what if someone hired you from the Autobots?

[dinnerdate]

Good luck with that.

... It would have to be a really good deal.

[sword_redemption]

You don't think it's possible? Look at Megatron, or Optimus.

Well, what's your specialty?

[dinnerdate]

...Point. You probably won't need luck for that then.




Stunts, speed... sword fighting. Navigation, I guess.

[sword_redemption]

The rest of us do need luck. But that doesn't mean it's not worth it.

You just find something you believe in.

[Easy!]

Swords? [Did you say swords?]

[dinnerdate]

Easier said than done.

Yes... swords.

[sword_redemption]

What worth doing isn't, though? [Amirite?]

We could spar sometime?

[dinnerdate]

There isn't much worth doing.

... Not a fan of fighting.