[OPEN] Arrival

[academybot]

Who: Optimus Prime & You
Where: The Clinic, The Crater
When: After Optimus (IDW)'s return to the city
What: Optimus Prime arrives on the planet
Warnings: ?

THE CLINIC

Wandering through the destroyed city, Optimus took a moment to consider how getting suddenly transported to another planet was pretty high on the list of strange things that had happened in his life, a list that had grown much quicker in the past few months than he would have thought possible. This was certainly not a specific scenario they'd trained for at the Autobot Academy, that's for sure.

With so many buildings in serious disrepair, finding one that not only seemed intact but to have working electricity was a surprise to say the least. With some apprehension he made his way over to the building, cautiously sticking his head in the doorway and hoping whoever, or whatever, might be inside was friendly.

"Hello? Anyone here?"

THE CRATER

Optimus had left the clinic some time ago to try and get a better feel for the city. It was pretty unnerving how much the ruins looked like Cybertron, and the silence was starting to get to him by the time he made it to a huge crater in the middle of everything. An unrefined energon deposit? Just sitting here unguarded in the middle of the city? That was certainly strange. Even if there weren't many bots here, leaving a resource like that unprotected went against everything he'd learned at the academy.

He quickly made his way down into the crater, sliding down some of the steeper slopes to get to the energon vein, running a hand over the rough crystal with a frown.

Comments

/EXCITED ROBOT NOISES

[chickscream]

Slipstream isn't exactly helping out at the clinic, but she hangs around there, cautious around the Decepticons that pass through and casual around the Autobots. No one has even tried to shoot at her yet, thank the Allspark, and she's kind of... enjoying the company of people who don't have their heads and egos stowed up their afts.

It's weird, but enjoyable.

Even weirder, though, is hanging around the back of the clinic and hearing a voice she knows, the voice of someone from Detroit, and she metaphorically flies to the front, skidding to a stop and looking over the robot before her. It's someone who looks normal! An Autobot, sure, an enemy, sure, but familiar.

"You!" she cries, and lets a smile curve her mouth, red eyes bright. "I know you! Please tell me you didn't bring Starscream with you."

[academybot]

Having one of the Starscreams rushing at him from the back of building was exactly the kind of thing Optimus had been afraid of happening. He leapt out of the doorway, putting more space between him and the other bot and drawing his axe.

He also was not expecting that question.

"I don't know why you're asking me. He's your partner isn't he?"

[chickscream]

She stares in incomprehension at his axe, then laughs, delighted. Does he think he's going to fight her with that little toy? Does he think they're going to fight at all? He must be freshly new!

(She is, too, but she's at least a few days less new, and a few days mean a lot more when you're only a year old.)

"He's no partner of mine," she tells him, amused, and leans back against a wall, hands raised and guns pointed at the ceiling. "Put your, ah, weapon away, Optimus, this is a clinic. Haven't you any manners?"

Slipstream said weapon like the thought of it being dangerous to her is hilarious (which it is).

im sorry for this in advance

[staygoldponybot]

After the damage Megatron had done to Sentinel and rather unfortunately for everyone in the clinic, he's found himself needing regular check ups to make sure his organs aren't respaghettifying themselves. He's sure most would just prefer he drop dead, but, well, fuck 'em.

Unfortunately for Optimus, he looks into the clinic right as Sentinel is walking out after been checked over and told to bugger off by whatever medic saw to him. Like a terrible, terrible classic comedy, the massive Prime just about walks directly into him. He's used to looking down - both figuratively and literally - to see people, but not that far down!

but not this (also crater for this one)

[planate]

Pipes hadn't expected anyone new to show up. He'd just thought it was the first surge and that was it, but evidently not. Not that it mattered to him - he's still delighted at the prospect of meeting anyone (who isn't Overlord) new.

He was looking around for more of the odd fruits to take back for the humans and saw a large red bot he assumed was the Matrix bearing Optimus. Like when he first arrived, he immediately runs over.

"Opti--" Wait. That shape is wrong. "Wait, what?"

[academybot]

He lowered his axe, but very pointedly did not put it away. If she was trying to get him to lower his guard she was going to have to try harder than that. Just because he didn't have a good chance of fighting a decepticon on his own didn't mean he wouldn't try.

"What, a decepticon clinic?" he asked, suspiciously. It sounded a bit oxymoronic.

[chickscream]

"Yes, a Decepticon clinic, you must be this evil to be treated-- no, you circuit-fried idiot, it's an Autobot clinic."

Well, aside from Megatron. She thinks maybe he wouldn't believe her if she mentioned that, though.

She's kind of grinning, though, and settles herself on the floor in a tailor's seat, so she's approximately eye-to-eye with him, hands on her knees and a bright expression on her face. Sure, her lips twist a little lopsided and smirkily, her eyes narrow a little sly, but she does actually and genuinely seem pleased to see him.

"By the way, sorry about the thing," she says, offhandedly. What thing? Any thing that he thinks she needs to apologize for! She's not going to incriminate herself by apologizing in detail.

Re: but not this (also crater for this one)

[academybot]

Optimus turned around hearing someone start to say his name, looking down at the other bot. He didn't look familiar, but Optimus was very relieved to see the Autobot badge. The more Autobots around the better as far as he was concerned, especially having run into Decepticons on this planet already.

"Hello. I don't think we've met."

Re: im sorry for this in advance

[academybot]

Optimus tried to get out of the way add the other bot suddenly came striding through the doors but not quite fast enough to avoiding bumping into his leg.

"Excuse me." He apologized, albeit a little rudely. Since it was pretty clearly the other bot's fault for not paying attention.

[academybot]

"Riiight." He wasn't planning on forgiving her anytime soon, but then she also hadn't attempted to shoot him yet, so there was that. And as much as he disliked it at the moment the flier was his only source of information. He slowly put away his axe as she sat down, crossing his arms over his chest.

"So what's a Decepticon like you doing on this planet in an Autobot clinic?"

[chickscream]

Oh, she can hear that sarcasm, Optimus! She is an expert in sarcasm, and it's pretty funny, coming out of him.

"Well, I was bored with flying around the planet, so I came back here," she tells him, tone innocent and sweet (or as innocent and sweet as someone who sounds like Starscream can sound), "and then I came inside, and then I talked to one of the medics and hung around the back. That's what I was doing. What're you doing here?"

[staygoldponybot]

He'd be perfectly content ignoring this guy, but...

"You're new."

[planate]

"Yeah-- ah, I'm Pipes."

He gestures to one of the pipes on his arms. Guess why he's called that!

"Have you been here long?"

[academybot]

"Yes, I suppose so. Mind telling me what's going on here?"

He did come here looking for some answers after all, though a slightly more courteous conversation would have been nice.

[academybot]

"A little unclear on that myself, to be honest. How did you get here?"

Far as he was concerned they should both still be in Detroit, considering Megatron's space bridge exploded.

[chickscream]

"Ah, that one."

Her smile finally breaks down, into a displeased frown. "I don't know. No one knows, as far as I know, though maybe I'm just not asking the right people yet." She squints at him for a moment, then decides that, well-- she's not the lying one, she might as well tell him the truth. "Whatever net caught us up was cast very, very wide, though. You'll see all kinds of bots around here, and more than one of some of them-- there's at least two Starscreams, though neither are the one you and I are unfortunate enough to know."

[staygoldponybot]

Crouching down to Optimus' level, Sentinel looks him over. He's silent for a long few minutes.

"Cybertron pulled us here. Why? It's not clear. Presumably to bolster the population. Or to watch Deceptions and Autobots slaughter each other again."

Personally, he's hoping it turns out to be the latter. He sure does want to murder a few people.

CRATER.

[tomemyoutliers]

Shockwave's taken to surveying this Cybertron from the air - programs running to compose a map with notable differences in the planet; although he can't say anything interesting has come of it. It's better to keep busy and work on a solution than to do nothing, however, so he's been keeping himself occupied.

It's not the crater and the energon that draws his attention but the bot approaching it. That's a familiar color scheme if he's ever seen, although the bot isn't one he completely recognizes. Another one from a different universe. Well, he still should introduce himself, see how different similar this particular Optimus is.

Landing - and setting up a rather dramatic cloud of dust that, while great for atmosphere, just caused his paint job to become dimmer - he straights up with a grin and a welcome gesture towards the blue and red bot.

"Optimus, I presume? Or do you go by Orion."

Re: CRATER.

[academybot]

Hearing something land beyond him, Optimus spun around, instinctively in a defensive pose. This bot didn't look like he was going to attack and he didn't see a decepticon badge, but then as far as he knew Jetfire and Jetstorm were the only flying Autobots. If they hadn't mentioned his name he would have already gone for his axe.

"Optimus Prime, actually." He couldn't figure out where he got the name Orion, but then he had only just been told about the alternate universe issue. It didn't occur to him there might be a connection.

[academybot]

"Two Starscreams. Well there's a shocker," says Optimus to one of the Starscream clones. Any number of Starscream were bad news, but as far as he was concerned it wasn't new.

"You're saying every bot on this planet just got pulled here randomly from wherever they were in space? Decepticon or Autobot?" he asked, frown increasing.

[chickscream]

She snorts a laugh, and tells him, "Two completely different Starscreams. One of them is even likable, and that's the real shock."

Slipstream is probably the only person on Cybertron who finds Primescream likable, but shh let her have this version of her dad she can actually bond with.

"And, uh, I guess? I really have no idea what the sorting pattern is. I've only been here a week, and this kind of thing isn't something Starscream had memories of when he made me." She taps her fingers, thoughtfully, on her knee, her gaze distant and thoughtful. "You're the only bot I've recognized, though. None of my brothers are here, thank the Allspark, or any Decepticons I or Starscream knew, or any of your Autobots."

[academybot]

"Pipes. Got it. I'm Optimus Prime but you already seem to know that." Judging from the fact Pipes didn't look like the kind of autobot Optimus was used to, he was starting to suspect this was one of those alternate universe things he'd been told about.

"and no, actually, I, only just arrived here. Seems like you've been here a while though?"

[academybot]

Optimus took a step back as the other bot crouched down to stare at him, taking the moments of silence to notice he wasn't wearing a badge, which was hardly reassuring.

Neither was the answer when it finally came.

"Wait, you're trying to tell me this-" he pointed at the ground below them incredulously, "This is supposed to be Cybertron?"

[academybot]

"Right." he replied, shaking his head as he tried to come to terms with everything she was saying. Not to mention the fact he was listening to this decepticon at all.

"You said this was an autobot facility, mind taking me to the bot in charge?" Not that Slipstream was poor company, but he would much rather be having this conversation with someone he didn't have to worry about suddenly stabbing him in the back.

[staygoldponybot]

You'd think a Prime would have at least one Autobrand somewhere

"Post-war."

Sentinel wonders briefly if this Autobot was from pre-war, like he is.

"You may want to seek out Optimus Prime for explanation of why our planet is barely clinging to life." He can also see the resemblance. If he was capable of feeling excited, he might be to see the smaller bot's reaction.