robothell | come along to the great unknown

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come along to the great unknown

Who: RiD Sideswipe and YOU
Where: the CRATER then CITY
When: NOW
What: An Actual Child arrives on the planet of manchildren and... well. Things happen.
Warnings: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE NEW CARTOON?? that's about it.

[SCENARIO A - CRATER]
This... is not the scrap yard. Not even close. It looks a little like Earth at first -- what with the plant life and everything. So for an instant, he thinks maybe that's what it is. He made a wrong turn, or this is some sort of joke Grimlock is playing. Dumping him off in the wilderness to see who can get back first. That would make sense.

Sort of.

"Okay, really funny," he grumbles into what he thinks is his comm unit. "You win, you're hilarious, whatever. Strongarm put you up to this, right? Because of the whole patrol-taking thing?"

There's no answer. No nothing. Just silence. Which... he likes to pretend makes sense if they're mad at him for some reason.

Except when the red bot staggers out of the little copse of scrubby plant life, it's... apparent this is nowhere near anything like Earth. It's not like anything he's ever seen before, actually. He actually stumbles a little, staring around him in wide-eyed shock. He keeps his comm pulled up, just in case. Just in case some Decepticon had the ability to mess around with his head or make him hallucinate or whatever Bee had been babbling about.

"C-C'mon! This really isn't funny! I was kidding about that part! Bee? Grims? I'll take Strongarm even! Throw me a word here!"

More silence -- heavy and cloying and a little unnerving after so much time in close quarters with other bots and humans. After a life (albeit a short one) spent living in the middle of a big city. There's just so much nothing, it boggles his mind trying to pick up any familiar sound at all. The next word out of him is a little shaky, at odds with his earlier, brash, shouting.

"... guys?"

[ SCENARIO B - THE CITY ]
... it doesn't get any better when the lanky young bot arrives in the city proper. In fact, it gets worse.

The last time Sideswipe saw Cybertron, it was restored. More or less. Bots everywhere. Life everywhere. Enough to where they needed a police force to mitigate things. But this... this is just wrong. He can recognize it as Cybertronian, but that's it. It looks like the place has been through a war, compared to the Cybertron he knew.

That thought, for someone whose "serious action" is only dodging authorities and collecting rogue Decepticon criminals, is horrifying. He actually stops in his tracks, staring at the shell of a building on the edges of the city, looking it up and down in what is pretty much mute horror.

"This is... this is so not okay."

It's about all he can say. The building is all he can stare at, stupidly. Not even thinking to watch his surroundings.

This is not how he wanted to come home to Cybertron. Not in the least.

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Enter obnoxious minibot, stage left. Pipes has decided to say 'hi' to everyone that won't rip his face off because of all the alternate universes. He has to meet everyone, it's important. So, of course, when he sees the new bright red guy, he has to pop over. Not like he has a busy schedule, anyway. Scavenging here, there, maybe swinging by the medibay. Lots of free time.

He calls over to Sideswipe, from across the road. "Hi! Are you looking for something?" Bright as ever, completely unfazed by everything that's upsetting Sideswipe.

There's a scuff on the ground behind him, immediately followed by a deep voice, "You seem lost."

There's no Decepticon symbol on the mech looming behind Sideswipe - and he certainly is looming, taller than anyone the Autobot is likely to have dealt with - but he does have animalistic traits to him that seem common on the 'Cons from the universe Sideswipe is from. Multi-jointed legs curl over his shoulders, massive crab-like claws resting against his back.

Not that Rampage is a Decepticon or from Sideswipe's universe. He's just really bored and this Autobot feels troubled. Maybe he can trouble him some more.

Near some of the aforementioned plant life is a human-sized wolf bot, who was busying himself with all of those plants not too long ago. Now, his focus is on the red robot who's very clearly lost and uncertain about this place. Koh was in that position not too long ago, so why not extend the same courtesy that was shown to him?

The robot approaches, tilting his head curiously. "You've awakened here, as well."

Cybertron being a ruin is something Rodimus expects, really. He's been on it too many times since the exodus to really assume it's going to be anything else. He's even gotten used to this Cybertron being full of crumbling buildings after his time back home where it had looked a little bit more livable thanks to Metroplex and no thanks to Shockwave.

"You're gonna have to be more specific," he offers unhelpfully from where he's picking around in the rubble, trying to find something to make his current place of residence less... empty. He hasn't even looked at whoever he's talking to because it's not a voice he recognizes and therefore looking at them can wait until he's found whatever it is he's looking for.

People seem to spawn around the crater. It's something that Bumblebee has noted and thus he occasionally takes his 'patrol' route around the area. Just in case. Nothing really seems amiss. A little bit of yelling, but that's fairly common too. Confusion... Thinking this is a joke or some kind of illusion... Pretty normal, right? Bee had been through the same thing.

So he waits for whoever is down there to sort themselves out. To see this new one come out of the crater is more beneficial for Bumblebee than them. He has the high ground just in case a Decepticon decides it doesn't like what's going on and wants to lash out at the first thing it sees.

Hearing his name, though? That's a pause and he squints as the red Autobot climbs out.

"I don't think the ones you're looking for are here just yet."

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