Is this what humans call magic?

[still_learning]

Who: Jetstorm, OPEN
Where: In da city
When: NAOW-ish?
What: Meet n greet
Warnings: Cute. So much cute. And possibly lots of confusion. For Jetstorm.

[There's not much more disorienting than following your sensei back to the ship and suddenly, those aren't trees you're passing by, but tall structures - buildings, to be sure. They look almost Cybertronian in nature, but he can't remember Cybertron looking this worse for the wear the last time he saw it. No way it was. They'd been in the process of rebuilding it, years into the process of rebuilding it. Highways had been clean, buildings stood tall and pristine, and that group of craters and mess was not in the middle of the road, no they were not.]

[He's not going crazy. He's sure of it. But those were not there a moment ago. For that matter, things that had been there are now gone. The trees, the bushes, the dirt under his feet, Master Drift, Slipstream...]

[Wait, that's accurate, right? His teacher and partner? Jetstorm looks all around him in a growing panic.]

Master Drift? Slipstream?!

[Yeah, nope, they're definitely not around. And if this is some kind of training, it's the most realistic simulation he's seen to date. When did their exercises get so sophisticated?]

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bangs fists on table MINIBOTS MINIBOTS

[planate]

[pipes had been wandering around, as he was wont to do. struggling to find something to do, not really caring where he was going. he'd found another pixel deer to take to mayday, currently screwing around with its alt mode cube.

luckily, the city being nearly empty and dead meant that echoing was a thing. he couldn't make out the words and took a few minutes to actually start in the right direction, but eventually got to the point where he could understand "drift" and "slipstream."]

Hey, pal! [he calls. he should be more careful with the people showing up but lol.] I haven't seen Drift around. He's probably off somewhere meditating about ...something. Yeah.

[smooth.]

[redshitlord]

[Yeah well, this guy probably isn't the one the little guy wanted to see. Given the last thing he remembers was Drift being a big jerk and bothering them all before just taking off.]

[That, and he's still incredibly unsure of how to handle the situation with Grimlock. So, once more, Sideswipe is out and about and kicking rocks into windows. Petty vandalism on broken buildings.]

[Sorry, little guy. You'll have to get his attention.]

finally gets to this

[imatruck]

[Grimlock did what he did best: smashing junk. It didn't hurt anyone since it was already destroyed, right?

Anyhow, he's coming in from the air in one of his classic cannonballs, body slamming a big pile of scrap metal into more scrap metal. Watch out for shrapnel, Jetstorm.

Rising from the junkpile, Grimlock sees the little minibot and comes running over.]

Hey, you're that little guy hangin' around uh...Drift, right right hehe.

[Grim he just said Drift.]