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robothell2014-12-19 11:20 pm
robotsatan) wrote in robothell2014-12-19 11:20 pm
[ INTRO LOG ]
You don't know how you got here. One minute you were walking, sleeping, maybe dead -- then you're here, your feet suddenly carrying you down an empty street. Where's here?
Any Cybertronian would recognize this as their home planet, Cybertron, but it's not a Cybertron they've ever known. It has all the familiar hallmarks, but none of the specifics -- the city isn't one anyone here could identify, and even at a glance it's obvious that no one's set foot on the planet's surface in hundreds of years. The city and its surrounding areas all bear the marks of devastating war, of dust and rust collected over centuries. With no one in sight -- right at first, anyway -- there's plenty to explore. In fact, if you start walking, you'll find that your feet may just carry you in one particular direction.
A) The crater.
On one edge of the city is a massive crater left by some wartime weapon that seems to have taken out a large chunk of the surrounding metropolitan area. At the center of the crater it's broken through the surface of the terrain to reveal what looks like it might be a promising energon deposit. There is some strange but native vegetation growing around the edges, too, that no Cybertronian would be able to identify -- small, metallic, brittle-looking sprouts that bear a curiously organic-looking fruit of some kind that doesn't look like it's intended for consumption by any natives of the planet. In one rocky nook of the crater, light catches on the surface of a pool of water, which seems strangely out of place on Cybertron. On closer inspection, it seems that somehow an underground water source has formed a spring in the crater.
B) The center of the city.
If you follow where your feet seem to want to carry you, you'll find yourself in the middle of the ruined city. It seems that the center of the city was once home to a massive forum, and some of the pillars and structures still stand. At the very center of the forum is a massive, elaborately constructed fountain, although it has now long since run dry of whatever used to fill it. One of the low, inner walls of the forum has a terminal embedded in its surface, although it looks curiously ancient, out of place with the rest of the city, and unlike the rest of the technology still left around, there doesn't seem to be any way to power it on or operate it. There are a few scattered pools of water and a few of the strange metallic plants in the city, too, but they're not quite as plentiful as in the crater.
The planet was obviously once home to a massive network of communication relays, but those have all been long since destroyed. However, with the bits and pieces left behind and a few determined minds, it wouldn't be too hard to build a working, if rudimentary, one...
Any Cybertronian would recognize this as their home planet, Cybertron, but it's not a Cybertron they've ever known. It has all the familiar hallmarks, but none of the specifics -- the city isn't one anyone here could identify, and even at a glance it's obvious that no one's set foot on the planet's surface in hundreds of years. The city and its surrounding areas all bear the marks of devastating war, of dust and rust collected over centuries. With no one in sight -- right at first, anyway -- there's plenty to explore. In fact, if you start walking, you'll find that your feet may just carry you in one particular direction.
A) The crater.
On one edge of the city is a massive crater left by some wartime weapon that seems to have taken out a large chunk of the surrounding metropolitan area. At the center of the crater it's broken through the surface of the terrain to reveal what looks like it might be a promising energon deposit. There is some strange but native vegetation growing around the edges, too, that no Cybertronian would be able to identify -- small, metallic, brittle-looking sprouts that bear a curiously organic-looking fruit of some kind that doesn't look like it's intended for consumption by any natives of the planet. In one rocky nook of the crater, light catches on the surface of a pool of water, which seems strangely out of place on Cybertron. On closer inspection, it seems that somehow an underground water source has formed a spring in the crater.
B) The center of the city.
If you follow where your feet seem to want to carry you, you'll find yourself in the middle of the ruined city. It seems that the center of the city was once home to a massive forum, and some of the pillars and structures still stand. At the very center of the forum is a massive, elaborately constructed fountain, although it has now long since run dry of whatever used to fill it. One of the low, inner walls of the forum has a terminal embedded in its surface, although it looks curiously ancient, out of place with the rest of the city, and unlike the rest of the technology still left around, there doesn't seem to be any way to power it on or operate it. There are a few scattered pools of water and a few of the strange metallic plants in the city, too, but they're not quite as plentiful as in the crater.
The planet was obviously once home to a massive network of communication relays, but those have all been long since destroyed. However, with the bits and pieces left behind and a few determined minds, it wouldn't be too hard to build a working, if rudimentary, one...
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"That's slightly more believable than seeing you as a cyberhound for Sentinel," he glances at the badges on Pax's shoulders,"How long have I been off-world?"
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His reaction to being a Prime? Set it in stone. There's a weary sigh as he approaches him, wondering just how far back into the past Megatron had come from. His eyes are searching, scanning every part of Megatron's face.
He'd be lying if he said he wasn't worried.
"Sentinel. As if I'd ever work for him." The tone was dark, cynical. The next part is a little more hard to admit. "It seems we're not from the same time."
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"If what you're saying is true, and only under circumstances as bizarre as these would I consider that, then I've missed something significant."
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The one who alerted him to everything wrong with the Senate.
"You have no idea, Megatron. It's...something we'll have to discuss."
A pause.
"You're still writing?"
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For reasons he's not particularly proud of, either. He'd be horrified with himself if he'd known the path he'd be forced down just a few centuries earlier.
But in the end, he had to survive and see it through.
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Fighting to live in a world that didn't want him.
"Try to find time, if you can. You have so much more to give to our people. Your words can change things."
You can change things.
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It was more difficult to believe his encouragement the second time around than when he first heard it in the Rodion Police HQ. Sure, he can change things. But not without an application of force behind his words. That was a simple fact of life.
He looks at the crater around them,"But shouldn't we focus on figuring out where we are?"
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Despite their history, he still put some trust into Megatron. More than anyone would recommend him doing.
"It's certainly Cybertron. Although I'm not sure when. Or if it's even ours."
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Megatron starts to make his way up the crater. He'd gotten what he'd wanted from the pool of water and was ready to leave the desolate hole in the ground.
The city would probably have more answers, anyway.
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How exactly do you tell someone that STARSCREAM was in charge of Cybertron and this could very well be the remnants of what was struggling to survive. It honestly wouldn't surprise him to learn that Starscream had ultra-failed as a leader.
It wouldn't surprise ANYONE, really.
"But much has changed since you were a miner. Dreams, ideals...everything."
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"I can imagine," before he'd arrived he'd been making preparations to join an underground fighting ring. He didn't expect to go through that unchanged.
He looks back at the Prime,"I understand sometimes things must be destroyed for there to be change... But, surely things worked out better than what was there before? This couldn't have been the result."
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"Megatron," he starts, although where he was going with that is a bit undetermined, still. The miner deserved to know of his fate. It could deviate him from that path in the future. But time was fragile. One fix could cause disaster elsewhere.
His audials flick slightly.
"Destruction of our society was never the answer."
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He trudges on ahead.
"Should I just sit and watch it happen? I can't do that."
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He falls into place with him, walking just as they had when he was released from trial. As they had when they were Orion and the miner. It'd always felt 'right'. You wouldn't have known they were worst enemies at one point.
"Reform is what Shockwave wanted. Destruction only leads to more destruction."
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It's clear enough it won't be easy to get him to budge on this one, Optimus. He doesn't have the cynicism of four million years of war and destruction on the mind.
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He saw the destruction of Cybertron, and it'd brought them no closer to having an equal society than the old Senate had.
"Destruction leads to chaos."
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"I don't think it will be possible to touch the Senate without creating a threat they fear, Orion. They can't be reasoned with. I was misguided to believe otherwise."
He looks up at the city,"How did you find me?"
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"There are ways to remove them from office other than death and destruction."
...
His head tilts down, in response.
"I'm not sure I understand."
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Looks like it was time for a change of topic before this argument got any more heated. The last thing they needed was for him to want to tear Orion's head off.
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HAHAHA...okay that was awful and he realizes it. He'll quickly answer to avoid any confusion.
"The plant life. It's connected to the Energon deposits. I'm curious as to why the foliage exists in the first place and...well, you happened to be here while following the Energon to its source."
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"You're right. None of this place makes much sense, but the plants are particularly out of place."
He goes down on one knee to brush fingers over the plump, organic fruit.
"It doesn't feel like anything I've touched before."
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"There was a planet I frequented called Earth. Their entire planet is covered in lush plants like this."
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He has to base of reference to compare these fruit too, so that's what he'll assume.
"This can't be Cybertron if that's the case."
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Definitely confusing. It certainly LOOKS organic, but it's actively growing on Cybertron..."Perhaps from an earlier point in Cybertron's life. Before we were here."