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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[The little drone is looking down on a rather beat up looking blue mech.  His red faceplate is marred by a huge hole where his left optic should be.  The mists are still fading around him.  After a moment his limbs twitch, and then he's surging upright and to his feet with a roar.]

[He stops, completely shocked by his surroundings.  He's among graves.  Simple stones marked with names ranging from clearly Cybertronian to more Human.  Turning a slow circle he spots the drone and frowns.]

What the scrap is going on here?

Comments

[atjackisback]

Hell if I know. Something something, evil cloud, something something alien planet.

[Raiden was busy walking through mountainous ruins if the drone footage was anything to go by, a little gunky and not just from the Miasma.]

You all right?

[Well, when stuck on alien planets because evil cloud...]

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[He frowns at the drone.]

Who're you?

[Good job, Breakdown, just ignore the guy's question.]

[atjackisback]

[Raiden rolled his eyes. Be that way, robot bro.]

Name's Raiden. Who're you?

[a_little_red_in_the_face]

Breakdown...

What are you? [Sorry, you look weird.]

[atjackisback]

They don't have cyborgs where you're from?

[Hey that is a new one.]

[action]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[Such a roar was the last sound Sam expected to hear, wandering the southwest---with what she knew to be there, it had always seemed serene enough; safe, certainly. Consequently, it's more curiousity than concern that brings her to the burial ground from the edge of earshot, until she gets her first glimpse of the probable source of the shout. What---whatever happened, it wasn't good, and she doesn't need to see the mech's face to know.]

...Hey?

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[Breakdown spins around with a snarl and...pauses at the sight of a human. This one isn't in the same armor stuff as those from MECH, so he hesitates.]

What?

[action]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[She stops as he turns to her, but just for a beat---long enough to reweigh her plan of approaching and decide to press on, long enough her eyes happen on the hole where one of his once was and she grimaces. Even as she picks a path past stones, slowing and then stopping at what's not quite a conversational (but a seemingly 'safe') distance, she stares.]

Shit.

That---ah, that looks like it hurts like hell.

[There's a question there, and concern.]

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[It...actually doesn't, but the fact that she's commenting on it has him frowning...in confusion.]

What about it?

[action]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Well, that, and it looks like it ought to be taken care of...? There's a hospital here, open to all comers; might be the only option. Can't say for sure, but it's your best bet---the one place there's bound to be somebody who can help.

[And she'll offer a shallow little shrug, uncertain.]

[Video]

[cutejustice]

[It isn't like she can help. But Maya responds to the video anyway, because the man looks hurt. And in a graveyard. Did he come out of one of those graves? Could robots be zombies? Was that possible?]

Um... are you... all right?

[That was probably a better question to ask than if he was alive, right?]

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[He starts to growl, but when he spots the face on the drone's screen he pauses.]

I'm fine.

[It's...not as much of a growl as he normally would have given.]

[Video]

[cutejustice]

[Maya looked skeptical. And she bit her lip. Maybe arguing with the giant robot wasn't the best of ideas... but it couldn't be any worse then when Nick had argued with the parrot.]

You do know you have a big hole in your head... right?

[Maya Fey, Captain of the Obvious.]

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

I know that, human! [Oops, there's that growl. Sorry, Maya.]

What do you want? Do you know how I got here?

[Video]

[cutejustice]

[Okay, that is definitely an Eep, and Maya takes a step or two back from the video screen.]

Doesn't it hurt?

[Once she had determined that the growly robot man wasn't going to leap through the video screen and stomp on her, she took a few deep breaths. This whole place was more than a little crazy. So he was new too? And apparently hadn't listened to his little robot buddy's little history lesson.]

The same way I did, I'd imagine. Through that nasty black-purple mist stuff.

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

Breakdown.

[Wow, he probably looks, and sounds, about as neutral as Breakdown's ever heard him. This is some kind of freaky trade off of partners or something.]

Sorry to tell ya, you missed Knock Out.

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[He jerks around to face the drone giving Bulkhead a wary and searching look.]

[Just missed...]

What do you mean? Where are we? [And why would Knock Out leave without him?]

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

[Have wary guardedness in return.]

This is Haven, a city on Cybertron. ...not our Cybertron, but another one.

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[His remaining optic twitches...that...didn't mesh with his last memories.]

How'd we get here?

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

[Yeah, he notices the lack of eye, and the patch.]

Miasma mists spitcha out like it did us.

And what happened to your patch? Ya lose it?

[Video]

[thankyou4myheart]

You look like you could use a medic. I'll send you the coordinates for the hospital if you'll accept them.

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[He pauses at the sight of the unknown bot on the drone's screen.]

Who're you? And who're you with?

[Video]

[thankyou4myheart]

My name is Deckard. And if you're Cybertronian, I'm probably safe to assume you mean am I an Autobot or Decepticon? Neither. I'm a robot detective from a planet called Earth, likely not the same one you'd think of if you're familiar with the world.

You're on Cybertron, but one in a different reality from whatever one you're from. This city is called Haven.

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[a_little_red_in_the_face]

[Have a big frown, Deckard.]

You aren't making much sense, mech.

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[thankyou4myheart]

…it's a difficult concept, I understand. [No, he's not insulting at all in his tone, just acknowledging the truth.] Are you familiar with the concept of alternate universes? Quantum physics?