[voice | private to Knock Out]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Dude. Are you busy? You can't be busy. Not right now, cause you are gonna love this.

Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Box sets. And it gets better---I think they're all here. All of them.

Where are you?

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[automobileenthusiast]

I'm never too busy for you, but I can't say that's one I'm familiar with. Right now I'm at home.

[10_20_15_5_50]

[Charming as ever, Knock Out. Sam's grin is consequently audible.]

You should come meet with us at the Warehouse! Come look with us for a while, cause who knows? The luck might run a little longer. And you can see what you'd like to see from today's finds because oh my friend I think this is just your sort of stuff.

[Weeks' worth of so-bad-it's-good horror and scifi? Yeah. Yeah. With and without commentary, if the box sets' backs were to be believed. Some of this 'alternate universes' stuff was not so bad. Not. at. all.]

[automobileenthusiast]

Mm, I have been meaning to get over there at some point to have a look around anyway. I'll be there in saaay, 20 minutes?

[diagnosispuberty]

[And who is Sam without her loud, opinionated perpetual shadow?]

There's a chainsaw over here!

[...might wanna make that 15 minutes, KO.]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[The same Sam, but with a little less to worry about and no reason to yell.]

HIRO, YOU PUT THAT DOWN.

[Back to indoor voices.]

See you soon---hopefully!

[automobileenthusiast]

I'll be there in ten.

[he doesn't want the dumb kid to chop up his buddy ok 8(]

[diagnosispuberty]

[From somewhere behind Sam:] It isn't even on, jeez.

[10_20_15_5_50]

Bless you, Doc.

[And then---by the sound---she's turned away from her drone to continue scolding.]

Don't even think of starting it.

[automobileenthusiast]

[there is so much eye rolling going on over here because KIIIIIID ok he's on his way

[diagnosispuberty]

[Hiro will be sitting on the ground near nothing sharp and/or dangerous, and possibly pouting as he does so, when KO arrives.]

[we are become action (officially)]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[Sam, meanwhile, will be nearby, seated herself and surrounded by movies. She'll be reading the backs contentedly, crisis currently averted.]

[YAY]

[automobileenthusiast]

[Knock Out strolls in LOOKING SUPER HOT, and very glad that Hiro isn't touching dangerous things. Because dangerous things = scratched paint and nobody likes Knock Out when his paint gets scratched.]

There you two are. Hope you weren't waiting too long for me.

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[diagnosispuberty]

[Walk up in the club like what up I gotta big--]

Uhhhh, only for hours! [This is a filthy lie, but Hiro is too busy flopped over on his side gloomily to be honest.]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Hey. [Sam will grin and wave, not bothering to stand since a) she's not done gloating over the films found just yet and b) it doesn't make much difference when talking to a Cybertronian.] How's Haven's best-decorated dude?

[automobileenthusiast]

[what's good Hiro. Knock Out just nudges the little floppy brat with the tip of his foot before moving over to kneel next to Sam.]

Incredible, as always. Now, what have we got here?

[diagnosispuberty]

[That's enough to prompt Hiro to get over himself and hop up to scurry over to Sam and pick up one of the movies, looking at the back for himself.]

Stuff that is, miraculously, older than Sam. [Automatic duck of any hair-ruffles or noogies goes here.]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Only the jackpot. Maybe half or a third of a 'Highlights of Horror: 1980s' collection, here; we got Poltergeist, we got Jaws, Gremlins, Nightmare of Elm Street among others, and then the box sets I mentioned.

[She holds one of the MST3K boxes up for Knock Out to see, giving Hiro a Look which says the time will come.]

The best of the worst. If I wasn't one of your favourite humans before, I expect I oughtta be now.

[automobileenthusiast]

[Knock Out doesn't quite get the joke Hiro.]

Aren't you both like five?

[SEE this is what happens when you're an old as literal dirt alien robot. ANYWAY time to check out what Sam's got]

Ooooh, you've got some real winners here! I think I haven't actually seen Gremlins, though. Which means we should absolutely start with that one.

[diagnosispuberty]

I'm fourteen. [Have a tiny human sticking his tongue out at you, KO. But Hiro's suitably distracted by the Gremlins movie, which gets a curious look over. It seems like it's time for Hiro to learn why his aunt called him "Gizmo" for a solid two years.]

What's that about?

[10_20_15_5_50]

Twenty-two. Scary, isn't it, to think I'm a mature specimen? How old are you, anyway? Six goin' on seven million, or...?

[But she nods---they have won the GAME today---and seizes on the opportunity to ruffle Hiro's hair while he's distracted being sassy and answer.]

Little monsters, so it should strike a note with Knock Out. Doc, you got any set-up compatible with DVDs at your place, or do we need to zip back to our pad to rip it for a file to play on the drones?

[automobileenthusiast]

Please, I'm not that old.

[and he's not going to elaborate on that either EAT IT PUNKS.]

Oh, I can play DVDs. That won't be a problem at all.

[diagnosispuberty]

[Nuh-uh, Hiro ain't letting that go. Have a grin somewhere between awed and mischievous.]

Wait, wait, wait, are you like...some kinda robot teenager? Oh man, that would explain so much.

[10_20_15_5_50]

It's not easy to tell!

[Though she will laugh at Hiro's question, sure he's barking up the wrong tree. Knock Out---though she knows better than to say so with the mech in earshot---does remind her of some older people... but just insofar as he'll say and do whatever he pleases, chipper as a chickadee, all complaints be damned.]

But; fantastic. D'you want to take a proper look round, or bail to get Gremlins on the go ASAP?

[automobileenthusiast]

I- no, what? I'm millions of years older than that!

[HIRO YOU ARE SO CONFUSING WHAT. AAANYWAY he turns to Sam and shrugs a bit.]

Well, I could use a new pad for my buffer, but I think it can wait. You two need a lift?

[diagnosispuberty]

Yeah, but that's what, a couple months in robot time?

[Aw yiss, GIANT ROBOT LIFTS!] As long as you mean literally lift!