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[It's Slipstream, Cybertronian Seeker with a light-teal and violet deco. Thruster repaired, she's hovering within the void of a crater. She attempts to sound pleasant, though whether she's successful is arguable.]

First off, any of you big bots or fellow refugees seen parts of this planet not littered with piles of scrap or marked with so many stellar craters. [Sarcasm: it is thick here.]

No offense to the big bot. The neighborhood looks to be undergoing some urban renewal, and offers all kinds of nostalgia for bots with experience in mining or demolitions. There's even attractions for the organics, like the ice hockey rinks. [Meaning the icy surfaces in the depths of the craters, images of which she's broadcasting.] And there's plenty of available residences in secure, well-shielded excavations.

And, second, since it's been established we weren't collected one from each universe, anyone noticed an exceptionally charming, handsome, egotistical, suck-up of a Seeker skulking around? If he's not in a pile of scrap waiting to be recycled, he's probably making a nuisance of himself!

You might say he looks something like me. [She gestures to those parts of her own body corresponding to her description.] Extra-broad shoulders. Strong- jaw. Amber canopy.

[Slipstream crosses her arms over her cockpit canopy. Lip components press together in something near a frown.]

It's not like I need to find him, or he's some great leader, or useful. But, I might not mind knowing if he's around.

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... I suppose, yes. [Maybe not a very good joke, but Slipstream does have a point, so while Elita's smile is fleeting, it's there.] "Metalquakes" if we're being general, but Cybertron is singular enough it should probably be the first if we're not using earthquake.

[She's not serious, but it's an amusing conversation, so why not? At the question, Elita frowns and then shakes her helm.] That's not what my altmode's for, no.

[Technically, there's no reason to be evasive about her altmode, but considering the situation, she's not sure how much she wants to give away... and to what seems like a Decepticon, she's rather sure.]

I found her pleasant enough; she had enough patience to answer any questions I had, anyway. Hit a bad spot, perhaps?

[She's not smirking, but her tone might lean towards more bite than just a friendly question; more teasing.]

Hardly seems fair to compare the quakes, given the differing densities of 'metal' and 'earth', but this Cybertron is rather unusual, not actually being Cyberformed. [Just casual small talk.]

You considered a closer temple, given you're walking?

It's not that I have anything against your host, there. Just...don't suggest her ability to create things relies on mere technology.

Mmm, yes, there's that. But considering this Cybertron still has quakes, and it is probably mostly made of metal.

[Indeed. Rather interesting, too. Of course, they could just use "quakes" as well. Easy and short.]

... Not yet, at least. [The thought had, frankly, not occured to her, and her brief surprise might be testament to that.] If anything, I might have to consider changing altmode anyway. If there is anything suitable to change into.

[Which... might be an issue, here.]

That's what she does, then? And if they're agents of Primus and the first among us... or of the cybertronians here, it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't more than just technology.

[She shrugs and had to veer around a larger outcropping than most; this one stretches above her, though maybe not at the size of the Firstforged.]

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[Slipstream's ailettes rise and fall as she shrugs. What kind of vehicle even looks good in pink? Not that pink is a bad color, it's kinda sexy in that non-reproductive way of being slick, fast, dangerous, and well-curved. And: energon color.]

Sports car? If you'll continue with the unpaved routes, maybe a moon buggy landed in the scrap pile.

She can transform external material- [The Primus cult? Seriously?] -It's probably technology, just really advanced technology.

[None might look good in pink, but it is her colour... And it carries enough implication on its own, since yes. Energon colour.]

I'd need to find something--- [She can't help the grimace at the mention of the moon buggy. That might be useful, but she's fast, and being locked into something that isn't...] around here, and I'd need something to accomodate these.

[She gives a wave back towards her back-mounted panels, which, even if they stylistically remind of wings, aren't. Just part of her hull.]

Practical. [You'd need a lot less tools lying around that way... And yes, Slipstream, Primus cult. Want Elita to tell you about when all surviving Decepticons and Autobots fought Unicron and Primus made an appearance?]

And whatever it is, that's impressive.

[Silver and pink: bare metal and energon.]

They don't look like aircraft wings. But, maybe some other bot here has a hovercar alt-form of suitable mass. Or, rocket plane?

I can't argue it's useful. [Just the whole robot magic and gods thing; a debate is inevitable.] But, to know all about bots coming from different universes and then get offended when they have different ideas seems kinda illogical!

[May not seem dangerous to, say, humans, but a cybertronian would definitely understand.]

They aren't, no. They don't serve quite the same function as the wings of an actual airframe.

[Shrugging, Elita tapped her chin in thought briefly. The problem was still to find something (or someone, as Slipstream had pointed out) suitable.]

Good ideas. Might be necessary, even if I have the feeling we won't have nothing but time until they find a way for us to go home.

[She also liked travelling across bodies of liquid dense enough to carry her while in alt. It was a different sort of feeling to be travelling at speed through liquid than on the ground, even while hovering.]

Well, if all of it usually fits together, an exception might be more incredulous? [A shrug, since Elita has no idea about the lack of Primus in Slipstream's universe... though she would probably assume Primus'd had a hand in the Allspark's creation somehow.]

At least this way everyone gets to live on Cybertron. Not much of an incentive to some, but apparently some Cybertrons are kinda dead.

Still, it's not like a bot from the 'odd universe out' knows they are the exception! Their way is normal to them, right?

I can't say mine was that bad, but it wasn't very good either until recently. Completely dead though..?

[She grimaces, back-mounted panels twitching. The thought it ~~terrifying~~, unpleasant.]

Not really, no. So what's the exception?

[It feels... odd, to be having this sort of discussion with a Decepticon, but more because of things in general than the built-up rage and idstrust of having been in a war for millions of years, beacuse she hasn't.]

So it's been said. Some are in control of one faction or another, which is possibly as bad, if you're not the resident faction.

[Just small talk. It's not like they're discussing troop movements.]

Seems here, we're all an exception in some way. Who's winning the war, whether it's over, the condition of Cybertron, religious movements.

Depending on your point of view, yes.

[Of course only small talk. Nothing else at all, so Elita's sharp little grin is just part of it.]

The details are important after all. It'd be interesting to learn what all the differences are, but that might get unwieldy, unless you had somewhere to store the information...

[She wasn't much of a "social patterns" type of femme, but it was still an interesting thought in general, all these possible differences and similarities.]

Of course. [Have a pout at not being part of the resident faction back in the world.]

If we're really gonna be here a while, there's likely time enough for discussion. Though, designations would be useful. 'Universe Alpha' or that sort of thing.

At least for any universes that have... similar design? There does seem to be some general differences in design between some universes.

[Shrugging, Elita knew that that would probably be interesting for any scientists; she, however, was merely noting the differences to be able to tell everybody apart.]

Right. Whether bots are more pointy or boxy or curvy. [It's not quite sarcasm, but bitter all the same.]

Universes where the Autobot leader is the Magnus and carries a hammer. Universes where they never heard of such a hammer.

[She's just going to stare, helm slightly tilted. Yes, that was pretty much what she meant.]

... Magnus leading all the Autobots? That's... new. He commands the ship I'm with along with Grimlock in my reality.

[It's almost easy to phrase it like that, now. "My reality", as if it's such a simple thing, nothing special.]

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