[accidental video] - southeastern sector

[still_learning]

[As promised, the world endserupts in explosions here and there and everywhere one random night. Why wouldn't it, right? Sure, this is all fun and games, or is it?]

[It's not quite, not for this little mech the camera has seen fit to track, as is apparent from his screams as he darts behind this piece of rubble and that, trying desperately to get to that broken down building right over thar. Whatever has caused these massive craters around him, it clearly isn't finished, and he's right in the middle of it.]

[He lets loose a last cry as one particularly shiny explosion catches him right near on his aft and makes a wild dive for the ruined entrance - or at least, it might have once been an entrance at one point - and scrambles to get back up from the floor to slam his back against the wall, optics wide with frightalarm. He presses a palm to his chest to help steady him because omfg what is going on even this is cray. He could fight back if he could at least see what he'd ticked off, but there's just nothing there! That same hand is lifted and two fingers go to the side of his head]

Master Drift! Slipstream! Please, respond! We are under attack!

[And he has no idea where he is. And please are you alive. This isn't Earth. This looks more like Cybertron. But it's not. Scrap is going down. What happened here what even is going on this is so not Kansas anymore STOP SHOOTING AT HIM]

[Whatever that little drone thing was that was near him, he hopes it... Oh. There it is, right in front of him. He stares at it. His mouth moves to say more. And the feed drops there.]

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[video]

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

[WOW this is a really unfortunate time for a newbie to drop in. The poor little guy, he looks terrified.

Drift'll just kind of ignore the name thing for now because yeah weird]

Hey, can you hear me? Are you okay?

[video]

[still_learning]

[His drone is making sounds. He reaches out to grab it and on the screen is... Is that... It looks Cybertronian, but there's something off about the way it looks. He looks?]

I-I can hear you. I am not hurt. [An explosion from somewhere near the wall directly behind him and his flinch at it say he may not be for long.]

But I am in a bad place. Master Drift and Slipstream are not responding. They may be hurt! What is happening out there?

[video]

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

Um. I. Well. Things are exploding?

[OBVIOUSLY.]

I don't know why, exactly. Weird things like this just happen around here.

Listen, you just keep avoiding the explosions. Don't worry about staying in one place. I can track your drone and give you a lift. Your friends might not even be here, we'll worry about that once you're somewhere safe.

[video]

[still_learning]

[SIR U R NOT HALPING. here have a look of confusion and maybe some relief]

Good! I am glad that they are not here. This is a terrible place to be! I... would greatly appreciate your help. [just please let it be help not harm he's hardly able to deal with the stuff around him right now this is bullshit]

[Action?]

[mercury_gaze]

[She's been fleeing those explosions too. So when a big (to her) bot scramblea into the same hiding place she's found, she lets out a gasp! She tucks into a little corner.]

They're following you too, huh?

[action!]

[still_learning]

[Admittedly, he hadn't really been watching where he was going when he ran in here. It's a little hard to stop and knock when there are bad, bad things happening around you in a landscape that has already had bad, bad things happen to it. So when she gasps, he lets out a cry and probably would've leapt out of his armor, were such a thing possible.]

A thousand apologies. [Have a quick bow. He's trying not to forget his manners even though there's a - FLINCH... things exploding just outside.] I do not know what I have done to deserve this.

[He'll wonder over the oddity that she is to him and how he can understand her later. Right now, there's something attacking them. He dares to angle himself just a little to try and peer out the opening and is quickly dissuaded by another bright flash of light.]

[Here, let him look around for something to try and barricade the.... opening in the wall that he ran through a moment ago.]

Do you know what is after us, small organic creature?

Re: [action!]

[mercury_gaze]

[She just shakes her head.] The bangs, and light, and fire have been following me all day. I don't know why, or who.

[action!] ogod I have missed dis preshus fais

[still_learning]

[There's rubble here. There's things. But none of it is big enough to put across the opening or even to try and hope to block off what's going on outside. He might be able to scoop piles of it up, but that might take too long, and he's not looking forward to being a smallstanding target.]

It may not be wise to stay here. I am not sure how long it will be before who or whatever is here will try to get inside. Do you know if there is a way to go deeper into this structure? We may be able to create a better barrier.

[Video]

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[Here, have a Decepticon.]

....You new here?

[video]

[still_learning]

[Not this. Not now.]

I do not know. I must be. What is ha-[FLINCH. Oh, that one made the wall rattle.]... happening?

Re: [video]

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

Unicron is messing with you, mini.

[True in a sense.]

[video]

[still_learning]

[Why, oh why would you tell him that?]

I-impossible! Unicron was destroyed!

[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[Is that---well, that's a much smaller Cybertronian than any Sam expected to see, but is that a new arrival? Maybe? Maybe a friend of a friend, though that doesn't matter much.]

Hey, guy! Are you hurt?

[video]

[still_learning]

[He's a Minicon. It's a sad truth of his life.]

No, I am uninjured.

[May not be for much longer, but he'll just leave that unsaid.]

[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Okay. Okay, good. [There's some visible relief at that.] Look, if that changes, and you are able, you contact me through this channel and you let me know, okay?

[video]

[still_learning]

[Have a tiny nod.]

Thank you. I cannot see who is after me. Do you know what is happening?

[though, really, thanks Breakdown, he has an idea and he doesn't like it please don't let him be right]

[Action] Here. Have a medic

[gentle_giant]

[Jetstorm has been taken to an exam room and told the medic will be along soon. It will probably be a fifteen minute wait for Jetstorm before a tall human man steps in. He looks like someone ready for a steampunk convention or something.]

Thank you for your patience. I'm Paian, head medic and Guardian. [And as Jetstorm is small enough to manage this with, he'll offer his hand for a shake.]

[action] ;3; u so sweets

[still_learning]

[It looks like an exam room. At least, he can see the parallels, but the more he sees, the more uncomfortable he becomes. Maybe coming here wasn't the best idea. Maybe this was a trap. And now where is he?]

[Master Drift would be so angry if he was here. What would he have done? Maybe try to get out? Yeah, he attempted that, and his knee wouldn't have any of it. Whatever that explosion did, he's now unable to put weight on the joint at all, and the one time he attempted to bend it since arriving... He won't be trying that again.]

[It would've been such a relief to see Fixit wheel through that door, but it's not. And he's not sure what to make of the hand that's been thrust at him. So here's him staring at it and blinking, back and forth to the man's face and hand. What's it supposed to do anyway?]

Paian. I do not know if I should be here. Perhaps there has been a misunderstanding.

Re: [action] ~<3 NPCs should be available when wanted.

[gentle_giant]

You're in the right place, you're injured.

[He will take Jetstorm's hand and give it a shake.] It's a handshake, a common greeting for a lot of people

Will you tell me your name?

[Video]

[dirge]

Slipstream? You know my sister? [He doesn't even care that you're being exploded.]

[video]

[still_learning]

[wat is this even. He recognizes the term, but it's all wrong for who it's referring to.]

Slipstream is not a femme. Perhaps you know a different bo- [BOOM]... bot.

Re: [video] 1/2

[dirge]

Of course she is a femme. She is the only one of us that came out that way. [Dirge huffs, crossing his arms and shaking his head.

Wait a minute... At first he'd just thought the com drone was at a weird angle but... The jet squints at the screen.]

[popculturecon]

Woah! Calm down there little guy! Hey, where are you, you need a lift to uh... somewhere else?

[Poor lil mini bab, he looks like he needs some help over there]

just assuming this all happens before BD comes to pick him up

[still_learning]

[who the wow this place is so full of strange new bots he's never seen before at all]

I do not know. It is not safe here, but it is not safe anywhere. I am not sure moving would be wise.

oki!

[popculturecon]

Well uh... I got... ground bridges and stuff I mean like I could just pop in and grab you.

I mean like... Are the explosions just following you?