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WHO: THE CREW OF THE LOST LIGHT
WHERE: MACCADAM’S OLD OIL HOUSE
WHEN: BEFORE DRIFT AND RATCHET GET MAULED BY TARN, AFTER THE RODIMUS/TARN INCIDENT
WHAT: INFORMATION SHARING AND PEOPLE DRINKING TOGETHER
WARNINGS: NONE MAN, NONE

Informality is the name of the game here, people. Rodimus and Megatron, through some handwaved miracle have managed to talk to each other without yelling long enough to get the word out that hey - if you’re a part of the crew you’d better show up for some Important Information and Crew Bonding. But probably not phrased like that unless you talked to Rodimus. Drinks, however, were totally promised (again by Rodimus). You just have to make them yourself, although that was not clarified.

There is a sign on the front door that says NO TARNS ALLOWED. The plural is important since there’s like. Four goddamn Megatrons.

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Tarn is here btw and that sucks for everyone so. Don’t.
For the time being they’re going to include Brainstorm as an Autobot - he starts acting like a Decepticon and any crew member has the right to punch him until he stops.
Drift is acting third-in-command. Non-negotiable.
AND FOR GOD’S SAKE DO NOT ANTAGONIZE DECEPTICONS WHO ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU, RODIMUS.
Ideas of why/how they got here - this includes getting the crew caught up (who hasn’t been already) on the quantum ships as well as what they know of the Brainstorm situation.
People who are capable of doing things to make life less sucky should do that. Team Rodimus! This is your moment!
AND MORE, POSSIBLY.

The rest of this post is to mingle, talk to your crew members. If you have questions that need to be addressed to either captain, specify which one you want if you have one in mind or otherwise one or the other/both will get to it!

If there is anything your character would bring up to the group as a whole, feel free to make a thread for that too - this is really kind of a free-for-all group post to have people mingle and gossip and hammer out something to do!

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Megatron frowns, feeling like that isn't the whole answer, but he doesn't press it, just nods and moves on to the explanation he promised. He likes Ultra Magnus, as much as he likes anyone on the Lost Light, and he'd prefer not to get off on the wrong foot here – which is kind of a joke, really, because he's been getting off on the wrong foot with Ultra Magnus for four million years, or for however long Minimus Ambus has been Ultra Magnus, but all the same...

"In exchange for my agreement to publicly dissolve the Decepticons, Optimus agreed to let me join the quest for the Knights of Cybertron," he explains. "I was convinced I could do a better job of it than had been done so far... which was, perhaps, overoptimistic of me. As for how I defected... I saw the error of my ways; do you find that at all plausible?"

"To be perfectly honest, no I don't. It is incredibly difficult to believe that after four million years of warfare you suddenly had a change of heart, and after everything the Decepticons have done, all of the murder, chaos, and injustice committed in your name, that you would be allowed to go free. But if that is one more thing I need to accept to get through this equally improbable turn of events, so be it."

It may be one more thing he had to accept but he certainly didn't like it. That fact was evident in his tone, which managed to stay just shy of a vindictive accusation. Primus knows Minimus had his fair share of personal grievances with the former leader of the Decepticons.

"One day you and I will have to discuss your trial in more detail, I'm very curious about how this outcome was reached. Meanwhile, why would you want to find the Knights of Cybertron?"

He'll take that 'so be it', honestly, simply for the luxury of not having to repeat himself again. Much though he'd prefer Minimus a little more on his side than this, he's had ample practice tolerating people not liking him.

"If we could really find Cyberutopia, it would be... a better home for our race than the one we ruined. The one... I ruined," he corrects himself, a little tersely. "I have rather a lot to make up for, and that would be... a start."

"Yes." It was an agreement in two parts, both for the sentiment and the scale of Megatron's reparations. The old warlord's sincerity didn't go unnoticed either, which was an unexpected curiosity. It really made him wonder more about these world altering events he seems to have missed. Or not experienced yet. Either way, it did put things in a slightly different light.

"And how has your captaincy been thus far? Knowing this crew I would be surprised if such a drastic shift in command was well accepted." Knowing this crew he wouldn't be surprised if someone had tried to murder Megatron the moment he stepped on board.

"Co-captaincy," Megatron corrects him, just a little sarcastically. "It hasn't been... smooth... but the, ah, adventures have been worse than the crew's distrust."

Minimus look slightly taken aback at the correction, surely that's implied. Little did he know the lengths Rodimus would go to assert that fact.

"Yes, the ship disappearing due a malfunction with the quantum engines. Rodimus mentioned that."

"Yes... Did he mention it reappearing, full of corpses?" Megatron asks wearily.

"No. He said the ship reappeared and after everyone boarded Brainstorm knocked out the crew in order to time travel to the past."
Rodimus may not be the best at relaying information but that sounded pretty notable, not to mention concerning. There must have been a reason he skimmed over that.

"Whose corpses?"

"Everybody's corpses," he replies, pinching the bridge of his nose. "The Lost Light that reappeared was... an alternate version that had been generated by the improbability of the quantum jump made at its launch, I believe... and," he goes on, his tone of voice taking an abrupt shift from 'tired of this quantum nonsense' to 'weary regret', "everyone on board had been massacred by the Decepticon Justice Division."

"What? That's-" Impossible? Ridiculous? but then here he was on an alternate version of Cybertron talking with an Autobot Megatron from the future. He didn't have much ground to stand on here. The look he gave Megatron was one of worried concern for the crew, even if there's was nothing that could be done at this point.

"Why would the D.J.D. attack the Lost Light? Was it because of what happened on Messatine?"

"They were after Overlord," says Megatron bitterly. "The ship full of Autobots was just a happy coincidence."

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