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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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He released Optimus like his plating was red hot, stepping back from him. He looked more like Prime had just punched him in the face than anything else.
How... could it be over? How could it be even remotely over? They were just--
"I don't understand, Prime."
Help.
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"I know it sounds strange, but I am from a time much later than you. And you are saved from being stranded on Cybertron. And the war does come to an end."
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He doesn't know what to make of this. They'd all been fighting not even a week ago, and now? Now he was supposed to believe things were just over?
He looks away for a minute, his jaw clenched, body tense -- anger warring with uncertainty and gratitude. Because at the end of it all, Optimus is here.
Optimus is here.
"I wanna believe you."
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"I can tell you the whole story once we're situated. But for now...I need you by my side."
A simple order. Something Ironhide could probably use.
"Can you do that?"
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He's floundering a while longer. Unsure of what to say or how to answer. He can't understand any of this. Why this is happening -- how it's possible. Or...
That's an order.
His head lifts, and he meets Optimus' face finally. "Yeah, Prime. I can. 'Course I can."
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"We'll figure out this mess as soon as we figure out where...and when we are."
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"Good plan," he agrees, and rolls his shoulders. "What's the next move?"
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"We investigate what happened here. I assume it wasn't your handiwork."
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"Nah," he drawls. "If it was me, there'd be more stuff uh... on... fire."
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OPTIMUS THE DAD JOKES HAVE TO STOP.
Feel free to hit him for that, Ironhide.
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He won't hit him. He couldn't. Not outside of a friendly brawl, or some other play fight situation.
He will, however, knock his shoulder into Optimus' side. Hard.
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Haha yeah he knows he's not the funniest clown in the car you don't have to tell him twice. He's going to quickly attempt to change the subject, though.
"We're going to need to establish a base."
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Sorry Optimus, he'll never let you live it down. Because he loves you, really. He snorts, and casts around.
"Well. Sure got our work cut out for us."
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He had a feeling Ironhide would say that. The bot was one of his closest friends, and that was the kind of thing they did, whether Optimus liked it or not.
"Well, unless you've got other plans..."
Is that...a slightly teasing tone?
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With Prime around, literally anything is possible. The world is right.
"I was thinkin' about learnin' some of that practical astrophysics, but hey, if you really need another hand."
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...
But that causes Optimus's head to turn.
"I...didn't even think you knew what that was." Someone's slightly impressed, although that could be teasingly too.
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And it probably won't.
He falls into step beside Prime, easily. "I heard Trion complainin' about it. Figured it sounded smart enough."
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Although he appreciates your undying loyalty more than words can properly describe.
"Ah. Trion often does throw things out in a very scientific way. I sometimes lose myself listening to him as well."
By the way, Trions one of the first of 13 Primes how's that food for thought.
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Because he takes the "undying loyalty" term to new levels.
"Wait, you're listenin' to that old cook?"
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He says that so firmly, because when he needed a mentor, Trion had always been there. Granted he hadn't always understood him, or agreed, but he'd been there.
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Optimus the guy was crazy. And ditched them on dead Cybertron.
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"You two have a lot more in common than you'd like to admit."
A pause.
"He said the same thing about my bodyguard."
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Because that's sort of an important distinction. Ish.
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"So. This IS Cybertron, just...not the one we know."
Dodging. That. Bullet.
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Optimus no. He knows you too well by now.
"What's wrong."
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