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Er, so. This looks kinda like Cybertron. Woo, I made it back. Points for me, I guess.

But things are looking kind of. Weird. And I woke up in this pile of scrap.

And there's this... what do you call this? Frequency? Um. Who am I contacting?

Weak Anthropic Principle, can you hear me? Anyone?

Uh, I'll even take Grimlock?

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You need a Firstforged allegiance to get into a temple, they get...funny, if you don't have one.

Like flying without colors. It's just not something you should do.

Maybe a little. Half. I'll pick it up later.

...Okay, so this is like. Autobots and Decepticons, only it just got dumber?

Exactly.

I'm thinking--you're a K-Class, you should probably appeal to Megatronus.

Why's that?

That's your type, right? Reckless disregard for life, your own, anyone else's...

[He snorts. Sorry, he just. Can't help but do that.]

Oh sure, sounds just like me. Fearless ol' K-Class.

Am I missing something, here?

Something else, I mean.

How much do you know about the K-Class, sir?

Apparently not enough.

Enlighten me?

[his tone goes almost... kindly. The way he spoke to the insecticons.]

[With that tone, it's a bit harder to remain as sharp as he had been in his own. But Fulcrum has some... pretty strong feelings on this.]

The K-Class were made of various people. Commanders, grunts, engineers, pilots, and... technicians, like me. All convicted for one thing or another, all sentenced to death. The training they put us through, it was to try to make us fearless. Eager to serve by dying.

But that's not training. That's brainwashing. Sure, we were convicts, but do you wanna guess what this nobody was convicted for?

[ponders for a moment. Vents in softly, and then out, taking a second to really think about what he might have been convicted for.]

Minor powerplay? Sideways assassination of a harassing coworker? [because he could see it, if Fulcrum were pushed to his limit, maybe. He does seem pretty compliant, and people who are compliant don't usually betray their leaders.]

I was a technician, sir. I wasn't forged for battle. So... when the Autobots attacked our cyberforming project, I ran away so I wouldn't die.

Are you kidding?

You're probably the reason the Autobots took the project down! If you'd stayed behind, you had Optimus Prime on a platter!

[beat beat beat]

By which I mean, your higher ups were malfunctioning. I wouldn't expect Constructicons to cover my six, why did they expect techs not to find cover? [mercifully and miraculously, Starscream does not turn this into a IF I WERE IN CONTROL OF THE DECEPTICONS rant--possibly because he currently is]

[Wow, that threw him off for a second. Well played, Starscream.]

They expected me to stay and fight. I've never even shot anyone before in my life.

So I got convicted for cowardice and they originally sentenced me to the traitor's wheel. My amazing, very flattering story.

Rough.

And then what happened?

The order came in for the K-Class reformat. So, I got reformatted.

[He isn't too sure if he should say anything else, though he suspects if Starscream asks, he's not going to have any choice but to tell more.]

And then you came here.

And for whatever reason, nobody claimed you.

Okay, I get it. I think.

[There's twitch in his lips, like he's about to say something, but Fulcrum stops himself. He's usually been very good about obeying and keeping his head down. One rebellious speech at the D.J.D. does not constitute getting preachy at Megatron's second-in-command.]

Right. Okay.

Not that I'm thrilled at the idea of being claimed by anyone.

As long as you don't go near the Badlands, in theory, it shouldn't matter that you don't have a glyph. [he saw that twitch, there.]

Something else?

I'll keep that in mind.

Um. No, I'm good, sir.

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