[Video] [Originating from Vectorian Temple]

[youdiedagain]

[Sissel wasn’t an easy one to surprise, but he had to admit, this was one of the last things he expected.  He’d already woken up unconscious once, but that was after his death.  And now he was...doing it again?  How does a ghost die again? You’d think once would be enough.  It wasn’t made easier being surrounded by giant...things that called themselves Acolytes (whatever that meant) and told him he was on a planet called Cybertron. 

Now...either he really messed up traveling through some phone lines...or there’s something bigger going on. He basically took everything the Acolytes said at face value, and when they left, something finally sunk in. Something that confused him far more than being stuck on some ‘planet’ that wasn’t Earth.

He could move. 

His hands fiddle with the device he was given, a little too jittery than what should be considered normal, and when the feed clicks on, you’re greeted to a rather confused man in sunglass-sir what is your hair even.]

 

I’m alive.

 

[Yes, thank you Sissel.]

 

I’m alive and I shouldn’t be.

 

Is there anyone on the other side of this? I really need to get back home. I don’t have a lot of time.

 

[He’s got less than 8 hours left of his ‘afterlife’, he’s got to make them count.]

Comments

[Video]

[kingofthetvworld]

Don't try looking for a train. There isn't one.

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[What are you.]

Well, guess that rules out one possibility.

[Video]

[kingofthetvworld]

[One day he'll start charging people who ask that. He'd be rich.]

All the other pawsibilities are bust, too, just to let you know.

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[Except for the fact that there's no money )8 sorry Ted.]

All of them? There has to be some way. I got here after all...!

[He's a little frantic, but you would be too if you only thought you had 8 hours to exist.]

[Video]

[kingofthetvworld]

Do you really think I'd still be hanging around this joint if there was a way home? ...The answer is no.

[Video]

[invisiblepinkboat]

... If you shouldn't be alive, isn't the fact that you are a good thing?

[Something doesn't add up here.]

Unfortunately, there's no way - yet - away or out of here... Since I doubt you're even in your own dimension anymore, besides being on another planet.

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[That's what he's trying to figure out. His hand goes to his chest, checking vitals.]

No heartbeat...I really should be dead. I'm still dead. Just not alive either.

[Well, remembers being dead. He doesn't remember HOW.]

No...that's not good.

[A pause. What ARE you.]

Uhm...do you live here?

[Video]

[invisiblepinkboat]

... And you're human? Maybe the body was... ah, changed, somehow?

[Since, as she understands it, and would then understand his claim of "shouldn't be alive", humans... can't really come back to life. She's not sure changing would work or could happen, however.]

As in, am I from here? [She shakes her helm.] No. But this Cybertron is an alternate version of the one I call my home and where I come from, so my species is the native one of Cybertron.

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

So if I get this right, your kind is this planet's sentient life.

[Okay. So, at least he's starting to understand.]

It seems like a lot of work to bring me here...

Especially if I'm not going to last long.

[bandagebound]

Alive is a good thing. Can't really help you with the rest, unfortunately.

[youdiedagain]

[This boy had a point. Being alive was USUALLY a good thing.]

Well of course but--

I remember it. And...

[A hand goes to his chest.]

This BODY should be dead. It's not alive.

[bandagebound]

Huh. That's new on me. [He'd seen people change, in more and worse ways than one, but living in a dead body?] Or, it would be, but I get mistaken for a mummy all the time and I know I'm not. You don't look like you should be dead at all.

[youdiedagain]

...I hate to ask but...

What's a mummy?

[Video]

[dirge]

Did someone stick and all-spark fragment in you too? [Because if you have one you're going to get several tons of very interested jet all up ons.]


...I like your hair.

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[You'd...be surprised how close to the mark you are, Dirge.]

Thanks.

What's an All-Spark Fragment?

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

I want hair like that.

It's a piece of the all-spark. It gives things life. I have one!

[Video]

[youdiedagain]

[A smirk.]

Maybe step one should be getting hair in the first place.

...Where would it be located?

[audio]

[namesnotprowl]

Well, then can I say that you're pretty spry f'r a corpse?

Afraid you're kinda stuck here with the rest of us, though. Until someone figures out a stable dimensional portal, anyway. Sorry.

[audio]

[youdiedagain]

[Okay, that gets a smile out of him, even if you can't see it. And he thought HE was the only one making dead jokes half the time.]

I'll take that as a compliment.

[That last part, however, isn't very reassuring.]

You're kidding.

[audio]

[namesnotprowl]

[Barricade can't help it. With his dimension, he's practically obligated to have a dark sense of humor.]

Wish I was, but I'm not. The Acolytes don't tend to explain that part, or you being completely outside of any time and any space you might recognize.

But at least here it's not 'the technology to go home is there, but you don't get to use it'.

[audio]

[youdiedagain]

Outside of any time and space...

[That could be either really good or...really bad.]

So at the very least, we're not prisoners.

[video]

[sword_redemption]

Who says you shouldn't be?

[video]

[youdiedagain]

[He can't help but smile. As weird of a situation this was.]

Well, it's going to sound crazy, but I'm already dead back where I came from.

[video]

[sword_redemption]

[Well, that's a good start? Drift hopes.]

Not that crazy. There's a mech here that I saw die back where we came from.

[video]

[youdiedagain]

Is death the same for you as it is for us?

Do you become ghosts?