[video] Enter the Fanboy

[cerebroshellshocked]

[The video feed pops on, to a slightly breathless sounding voice and a worried pair of blue optics.]

...must have gotten knocked out.

Perceptor?  Verity?    Springer?  A-anyone? 

[He tries to make his voice sound a little calmer, a little less unnerved. ]

I'm okay. Something must've, uh, hit me on the head or something.

[Not, you know, the passing out thing. Of course not]

Tell me it's over.

Tell me...we won.

...

Tell me I'm not alone.

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[audio]

[cerebroshellshocked]

Corresponding temple?

[This sounds like some adventure story. ]

...I could visit you in the medbay?

[Lonely? Ironfist? Yep.]

[Video]

[cerebroshellshocked]

I didn't want to change.

[He just wanted to be different, and discovered he couldn't. He wasn't a Wrecker, and no amount of spark could change that.]

I lived, but others could have. Or should have. Pyro deserved better. I should have done that.....

*clings to him anyway*

[cerebroshellshocked]

[Swerve is of course pulling it off: it is one of his many talents. As is talking without the need to breathe.]

It was effective, I guess. [He's not happy with it either. Shouldn't Autobots be the good guys, not the guys planting remote trigger bombs in people's heads?]

....I don't.

It doesn't help. Because I didn't even report him when I knew.

[Emo-moebot is emo. ]

[Video]

[rungout]

You can't change what's happened or what others decided to do, Ironfist..what you can do though is make the best of this time you have now and not let their sacrifices and even the ones you made go to waste.

[Video]

[cerebroshellshocked]

But it's already gone.

Rung. I was...I think I was ready to die.

[Video]

[rungout]

[Rung's quiet for a moment as he contemplates that.]

...Are you upset that you're here? Alive I mean?

[Video]

[cerebroshellshocked]

...I don't really suppose it changes anything. I was dying then, I'm dying here.

[Rung you are bringing him down.]

*pets presh emo bot* there there buddy

[chatterbot]

[Things that got him through the Academy.]

Effective is one word for it. [Violation of basic cybertronian rights is another, though it's more like a phrase.] Not that I'm objecting to Overlord having a few in him.

What would you've said? You didn't have proof at the time, and he tried to set you up.

[You stop that.]

[Video]

[winged_knight]

I...could. If only things would calm down a little. Never dull around here it seems.

[The more people who do the less he can stubbornly ignore it.]

Ye-- [OH, uh...] You did....!?

[Video]

[cerebroshellshocked]

Oh, that'll never happen. Trust me. You always think 'oh okay I'll take a break when this goes down' but then something else always comes up.

[He presumes Wing is a nerd like him.]

....I did. I'm...^sorry?

*clings like a spidermonkey*

[cerebroshellshocked]

No. I mean, if we have to have them and they have to be used, better on him than anyone else.

But maybe I would have seen it if I hadn't been so blind.

...he did more than try to set me up. [The whole malfunction. It had been harder to hear that than that he'd basically gotten a death sentence. One was bad luck, the other was just...betrayal.]

But I guess that doesn't matter here, right? [He's trying, look at him!]

[video]

[aerospacecommander]

Just strive to be a god and it will happen.

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[percept]

Earlier arrivals awoke in one of the temples, rather than the junk pile. Our lodgings are in these temples, although there does not appear to be anything else binding us to a given location.

...Ah. You could, if you wish.

[ He isn't exactly in the best of shape to be entertaining, but he's not about to say no. ]

[audio]

[cerebroshellshocked]

I wonder why we're different.

...unless I'm dead or something. [Always full of cheerful thoughts.]

I'd like to. We could maybe...talk.

[video]

[cerebroshellshocked]

I don't think I want to do that.

Why do you want to be a god?

[audio]

[percept]

With any luck the Firstforged will come forward with some explanation as to why the arrival patterns have altered so dramatically.

[ There's the smallest of pauses, then; ]

I would like that, Ironfist.

[ He's being honest. While part of Perceptor is ashamed of his current state, a much more vocal part of him is desperate for some stimulation beyond what the medbay routine offers. ]

[audio]

[cerebroshellshocked]

Who are they? Did they bring us here?

_{Why would they pick me, though?}

I will! [That's the closest he's sounded to happy since he got here.]

Do you need me to bring anything? Or something?

[Video]

[rungout]

Are you?

[Video]

[cerebroshellshocked]

...I still have the bullet, Rung.

shh shh it's okay

[chatterbot]

Yeah, you explained that too. In the message, I mean. Used to find it hard to believe he did all that for a lab. [But it turns out some people are just terrible and sociopathic. He doesn't know why this is such a sudden revelation to him.]

But that's be right, there. That kinda stuff is a bit on the backburner here. It only matters as much as you or anyone else is willing to let it. Not like anyone's gonna hold it against you if you don't wanna let it go, though. [At least, he won't.]

[audio]

[percept]

They are the entities responsible for the Haven. As far as I am aware, they have no control over who or what comes through the Lambda.

I do not require you to bring anything. All I can really ask for these days is company.

[video]

[aerospacecommander]

Why wouldn't someone want to be a god?

[Video]

[winged_knight]

[He sighs somewhat dramtically/symbolically.] That is so very true. It's been like that for over a week.

[He kind of is though. He's a closet nerd, don't get him started on history or religion.]

Oh--no, NO! I'm the one who's sorry, I didn't mean anything by it, I was just surprised. I mean, what are the odds really? Those were...some pretty amazing logs to read. [How exactly do you summarize 'exciting and horrifying at the same time' and still sound polite?]

[cerebroshellshocked]

I...I thought we were like...actual friends. [And he feels so stupid for it.]

[Swerve isn't a lifelong fanboy geek who has never had actual friends and tried to fill the void with memorabilia.]

I don't want to, but, well....

....there's something in my head.

[Video]

[cerebroshellshocked]

You should recharge! [He sounds really worried. What he does is different, because Ironfist has nothing else going for him.]

I...uh...they were. [He doesn't sound happy about it.] I was wrong to do them.