[Video] feeling the Call

[sword_redemption]

[Drift has looked better. His armor's dented and stained, but nothing looks obviously fatal. More than that, he looks...tired. And twitchy. Which is not a good combination in anyone, least of all him.]

Going back out to the Badlands.

Don't follow.

((OOC: because of his canon (D-Void) and having been into the Badlands twice already, he's feeling the effects of the Calling sooner than anyone else. BUT feel free to comm him or stop him or whatever! ))

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[thehardway]

No.

I don't have to. He would volunteer himself easily. Return freely, or return in cuffs.

[sword_redemption]

You're going to arrest me.

Because I'm trying to save you.

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[thehardway]

What could you possibly be saving me from by being so reckless?

[sword_redemption]

My recklessness is my business.

If anyone is going to get hurt by it, it's me. Don't get others involved.

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[thehardway]

Your insubordination is my business.

I don't have to.

[sword_redemption]

Maybe I have a reason that is bigger than your 'insubordination'.

Then don't.

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[thehardway]

Your reasoning is foolish, unsound, and pointlessly reckless. I daresay I almost miss your irritable optimistic behavior.

I'm certain he'll volunteer himself with no indication from me.

[sword_redemption]

That is your opinion. You might represent Chief Justice Tyrest, but that doesn't make your opinion right or law.


Then there's no need for you to get involved.

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[thehardway]

My correct opinion. I know I am not the only one who is perceiving your actions as such.

But a need from Wing. Your disrespect for authority is duly noted.

[sword_redemption]

I don't care what anyone else thinks. I need to do what's right. Right is more important than obedience. I learned that the hard way.

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[thehardway]

And you're correct based on what fact?

[sword_redemption]

That I've felt this before. I know what it means.

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[thehardway]

So nothing.

[sword_redemption]

One day you'll listen when someone--even someone you don't like--tries to tell you something. Something important.

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[thehardway]

It would be more helpful if you were actually telling me anything.

[sword_redemption]

You don't remember? On Cybertron? At the end of the war?

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[thehardway]

Of course I do.

[sword_redemption]

Then you know what I'm talking about.

It. I can feel it. It's here.

[thehardway]

Verify with the Firstforged before you go running off based on a theory.

[Really, he'd rather Drift was wrong.]

[sword_redemption]

You trust them? They didn't tell us about Unicron until we'd already lost how many?

[thehardway]

I don't have much of a choice. They are the authority of this world, Drift. I have to.

[sword_redemption]

Then that's your choice.

I can make a different choice. Because I've fallen for false leaders before. I won't do it again.

[thehardway]

I will follow rank and law, as is always required of me. Their word is the closest we have to fact, outside of a familiar feeling you are experiencing.

And I will not lose another mech to his own foolishness. Which seems to be a concept you cannot grasp.

[sword_redemption]

That's not your choice or your power to control, Ultra Magnus.

[thehardway]

Perhaps not, but you could make it infinitely simpler.