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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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"And you're the one who snuck up behind me with your weapons pointed at my back," he points out flatly. "But... I suppose I should at least credit you with the common sense to realise how pointless it would be to attack me. I am every bit as stranded here as you are. If we want any hope of returning to where we came from, everyone here will need to cooperate." His optics are narrowed slightly, in an I'm-sure-that-was-what-you-were-thinking-right sort of way.
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The seeker glances around nervously, twitching a wing and making like he's just staying alert to their surroundings instead of avoiding meeting this other Megatron's optics. It... wasn't precisely what he had been thinking, but then again he hasn't really worked out an alternate plan yet, either. May as well go along with it. He looks back, expression contrite. "So... what you're suggesting is that I stick with you, for the time being, so that we might work out a plan? Together?" he tries not to look too obviously hopeful about the idea.
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"...Even if you are apparently from some sort of 'alternate dimension' wherein the history announces that you serve the Autobots, rather than forming your own faction," he growls thoughtfully. "The important thing is that you make an excellent point. Very well: I shall accompany you, and assist," Starscream says, confident and matter-of-factly, as if he were actually formally extended an offer for a position at this Megatron's side.
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"Have you encountered any other Autobots here, yet?"
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He trails off, suddenly putting two and two together now that he understands that there's some time and alternate universe shit happening in this place. "Ah."
He decides that touching upon how he fired on the guy for ignoring him is probably not a good thing to bring up right now.
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"Dreadwing?" He raises a non-eyebrow, clearly looking for an explanation.
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He waits a moment and then adds: "I would never in a million cycles have guessed that he would be here, but now that I have the context of time discrepancies, it makes a great deal more sense that he would unfortunately be flying around in the same air space as me instead of rusting in a scrap heap like he should be."
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"...No, I was not the one who killed him. Megatron was." The seeker doesn't seem very keen on divulging any more details on the matter unless pressed.