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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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The whole thought of that was worrying. Just one was bad enough. More than that...we're talking 8...maybe 12 million years of war.
He shudders at the thought, although trying to hold it back to not knock her off.
"I'm so sorry. No extremely one-sided injuries or anything?"
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"No -- no, nothing like that. He was more or less perfectly cordial, actually." June frowns at that, looking deeply perplexed. "He's...different from the Megatron from my world. Honestly, I'm not sure what to make of him."
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But that's a story for another--no he's not channeling Swerve. NEVER channel Swerve.
"Oh yeah, he's polite now. I hear you on the strange part. Don't worry, he hasn't always been like that."
Perhaps the weirdest 'don't worry' he's had to utter.
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"Wait, he's on your ship?"
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"Yeah. Long story. Short story is he had a trial and everything went horribly wrong."
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"How does a trial for Megatron go that wrong? How did you even need a trial?"
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"Well, you see...the NAIL--unaligned Cybertronians wanted a trial, figuring an execution without fair trial as 'wrong'. And somehow...Megatron rigged it so he'd have an out if things didn't go the way he wanted."
Yeah, YEAH...
"So...now he's on a quest for redemption, or something."
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"A quest for redemption?" Megatron might be an Autobot, but he didn't seem enthusiastic about it to June. "And you believe that? Optimus believes that?"
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"Not a lot of us believe it, honestly. But you know...he won the trial with some kind of failsafe. A secret failsafe. And you know how Optimus is about honour. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings and I guess mass murderers are okay too."
He trusts you, OP, but really? "But the war's over, yeah? So...I guess if he's gonna change, we may as well extend a hand out."
His finger traces the inside of his palm. "I'd want someone to do it for me, anyway."
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"That's awfully compassionate of you, Trailcutter," she sighs. A secret failsafe, though. Of course. God dammit, Megatron. "I'm surprised you're willing to give him a chance, after all he's done...but I guess you must believe he's worth it."