voice;

[sciencetank]

[Contrary to his previous postings, this time, Perceptor sounds rather harried.]

Yes, it would seem I've been tasked with a rather unpleasant notification...

Regardless, Commander Ultra Magnus wished me to inform the lot of you that he has, somehow, managed to subdue the Decepticon known as "Overlord", and, exceptionally pretentious title aside, wished the denizens of the Haven to be notified.

[There are some tapping noises, as he's apparently working on something while he makes this announcement.]

He is currently in the process of returning the casualties and wounded to the local medical bay. Any medical staff currently in residence are asked to prepare both themselves and their equipment as speedily as possible.

... which, I suppose includes myself. So if someone would be so kind as to ah, point me in the general direction...



((ooc: with permission from Magnus and Overlord's muns :|b))

Comments

[sciencetank]

Quite possibly throw myself off the top of a mountain -- Pit if I know.

It flies in the face of all scientific and biological fact.

[sword_redemption]

[A laugh.]

This place does. Ask your friends about Alpha Trion and his pages.

[Not gonna volunteer the whole 'turned into a Harajuku girl' thing. Nope.]

[sciencetank]

I prefer not to think on that. Any of that.

[sword_redemption]

Not thinking about it doesn't make it less real, though. That's denial.

[sciencetank]

Indeed it is. And truly a pleasant state to live in while the world appears to be in crisis.

[sword_redemption]

That just makes the crisis worse. Because you're not seeing clearly what you're doing.

[sciencetank]

I'm afraid I don't see how the 'pages' of an 'Alpha Trion' currently have an effect on those mutilated by a Decepticon war machine.

Or whatever it is he's classified as.

[sword_redemption]

It's about the fact that the rules here are different.

Before that, Prism was trapped in a human body by one of the First Forged. That was the First Forged, too.

Overlord is a phase sixer. Or was.

[sciencetank]

Prism? Who on Cybertron is that?

And, as I said, the matter of patching together the inevitable piles of spare parts I'm to be receiving takes precedence over matters metaphysical. I'll take it all into consideration once this matter has been resolved.

... Brilliant. Now. What is it that means? Such a term apparently does not exist in my world, or, if it did, I was never privy to hearing it.

[sword_redemption]

He's not on my Cybertron, or yours. He's from another different world. He has also nearly killed a few mechs.

Myself included.

[Sarcasm? Drift can't tell. ] They were the sixth stage of Decepticon siege protocols. Phase Six was the complete annihilation of life, to prepare a planet for cyberforming. One mech, who could do all that.

[sciencetank]

... Charming.

[Now that was sarcasm.]

Siege protocols...? No, I've never heard a word of any of that. What utterly delightful creatures, those Decepticons.

[sword_redemption]

At least everyone knows who he is, now.

[He sees your Sarcasm and counters with Bright Side.]

It was methodical. Decepticons believe that their existence takes precedence over any weaker species. [He knows because he was one. He believed that.]

[sciencetank]

Ah, finally, something that sounds familiar. Wretchedly familiar.

[sword_redemption]

Yes. [More than a little twinge of shame/embarrassment. He'd believed in it so much, as a future better than what he knew.] There were only three Phase Sixers but they were more than enough.

I can't imagine why he was brought here.

[sciencetank]

Likely to torment us all until we either expire, or, worse, tear our own wretched processors out from the unmitigated stress of it all.

[sword_redemption]

[...uh wow. That's a bit cynical. Drift blinks.]

I can't believe we'd be brought here just for that.

[sciencetank]

[And then it's his turn to blink.]

Ah... no.

I meant his purpose for being here. As to ours, I've utterly no idea.

[sword_redemption]

Oh. Right. Overlord.

I'm not sure. This sort of thing wasn't his mission with the Decepticons.

They say we're here for a reason and it's important. [They say. He wants to believe it.]

[sciencetank]

Well, that's just vague enough to be dreadfully unhelpful, isn't it.

[sword_redemption]

It is, but we're here and we have a responsibility to try to not mess up their world.

[sciencetank]

Never mind what it is we have responsibilities for in our worlds, Primus no. We must be exceptionally conscientious of theirs.

I'll have you know, Whoever You Are -- [Perceptor you're talking to Drift, the First Forged aren't listening.] -- the fate of the Autobots was solely in my blasted hands, thank you oh so terribly much for that.

[And back to the Link.]

I'd prefer it if they sent us all home, honestly. None of this "responsibility to our world" rubbish.

[sword_redemption]

But we're still apparently in our worlds, too. We're not missing.

[Drift is probably not the best to try to explain this.]

I think we'd...most of us want to go home. [But that would mean he'd lose Wing. Drift isn't sure how he feels about that.] But until we find a way....

[sciencetank]

... Are you utterly certain of that? The ramifications of such a thing being true... Primus, that's staggering.

Of course we would! Better there than here, shuffled into some vague sort of responsibility we've no business having.

[sword_redemption]

There are other mechs from the Lost Light--the ship I was on--here. And they remember things that I don't remember. And they say I was there.

[Drift is no quantum theorist but those are facts.....facts that he is embroidering as wildly as possible.]

But if it's a responsibility, we have a, uh, responsibility to take it seriously.

[That sounded better in his head. ]

[sciencetank]

Then, possibly, each arrival causes its own splinter timeline... one in which we have vanished, because otherwise we certainly couldn't be present here, and one in which we haven't. Time likely continues flowing as outlined by comrades and the like in one, whereas something entirely different occurs in the splinter stream...

... and this would be true of any individual being pulled into this version of Cybertron. Primus... theorizing then there were already billions of potential splinter timelines, in which different decisions were made... this is all making an utter wreck...

[He's mostly talking to himself by the end of that monologue.]

Mm, yes, of course.

[And is... distracted.]