Video: A formal call to the Decepticons of this lovely city

[aminerproblem]

I've been told time and time again that this war is over, but I have yet to see it beyond a tolerance teetering on a knife's edge between episodes of unnecessary, extreme violence. We can do better than this - we can do better than wallowing in our circumstance.

To the Decepticons here who still follow my word: If you can hear this, now is the time for you to break out of this malaise and act. I am in need of your skills, and we've remained scattered in this rubble for far too long. 

We, of all of us here, should understand how to build something grand from nothing.

It is time we take that first step. 

(Private To Sixshot)
Sixshot, how skilled are you at tracking someone's scent?

(Private To Spinister.)
Spinister, I am in need of a medical advisor. It is important you come to the Autobot clinic immediately.

Comments

[chickscream]

[She doesn't really count herself as a Decepticon, and certainly not a loyal one, but Slipstream is curious and bored enough to ask:]

What kind of actions are you planning, Megatron?

[Her voice scrapes past suspicious, but otherwise seems like a serious inquiry.]

[aminerproblem]

Building a better place to call home while we're here should be our priority.

There's no use treating this city like a battlefield when there's no enemy to fight.

[Basically, their compound is pretty trashy and they could do better.]

[chickscream]

[She legit has never been to the Decepticon compound, greatly preferring to bum around on her own, but now she's actively curious, leaning her elbows on the terminal and her chin into the palm of one clawed hand.]

You mean like a construction project? Hmm.

[She's never built anything before, and she's definitely never had a place to call home before, but the idea interests her, a little.]

I've never had a home, and never seen Cybertron when it was inhabited. [Starscream had certainly never really cared for things like that, so she's left with barely any memory of anything but living on ships, or New Kaon, or hiding on Earth and its moon, none of which were particularly homelike.] What would building a place to live entail?

[aminerproblem]

Getting electricity and energon lines running through it, ensuring it is stable and spacious enough for any one of us who still needs a roof above our heads.

Any number of things, I won't give you the entire to-do list, but it is a project that needs many hands to tend to it.

[chickscream]

Well, I have hands and they aren't doing anything at the moment.

[She wiggles them at Megatron, demonstratively.]

Can't say I've ever built anything myself, but I can't imagine I'd be miserably bad at it.

[Slipstream, are you... volunteering? (She is. She is also very bored.)]

[aminerproblem]

It's simple enough with a little instruction. I'll be glad to have the extra help.

What is your name?