[Video! As usual!] Because I'm always late to the plot party!

[ichooseboth]

[Given all the accidental video plaguing the systems today, it's no surprise there is another one in the mix.  In this case, however, nothing seems to be happening until other people's screams start shrilling out from the comm.

It's only when a particularly loud one (Ironhide perhaps?) echos out into the seemingly empty room does a figure jump up

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[first_of_steel]

That didn't sound good. Are you all right?

[He'll deal with 'who is this' later.]

[ichooseboth]

[Choked, animalistic sounds of OH GOD, I AM CURLED UP IN A FETAL POSITION NURSING MY WOUNDS AND TRYING NOT TO SCREAM AND/OR CRY OH GOD OH GOD THE PAIN WHY?! is the only answer for several long minutes.]

[...Damn those lack of pain receptor switches coupled with your squishy bodies! How do you humans LIVE like this?!]

[first_of_steel]

[By sucking it up and dealing with it, that's how. And, well, inventing Med-X, let's be honest.]

I'm going to take that as a no. Sounds like you wound up in the same boat as a lot of other Cybertronians did this morning. Need help?

[ichooseboth]

[Suck it up? He's leaking just from falling off a berth!]

[There is a muffled, vaguely sarcastically toned response from down by the foot of the berth. Meanwhile, the drone squealing turns rather frantic. Someone just figured out what happened, and isn't liking it one bit.]

[Voice]

[show_my_cannons]

What are you? Drunk?

[NO IDEA WHO THIS IS.]

[Voice]

[show_my_cannons]

[... wait a second. That drone sounds...]

Who is this?

[Voice]

[ichooseboth]

[Frowns. Who is this now?]

I 'oubt you'd believe me if it told you. You are you?

[Voice]

[show_my_cannons]

[A growl.]

Try me. I am Ironhide. Or... was.

[eventusfactum]

[...This. This does not sit well with your resident psychopath.]

Is this his work?

[ichooseboth]

[Oh hell. Of all the Autobots unaffected by this ('Autobot' being used very lightly) it had to be Arcee. They were so fragged.]

...Not as far as I can tell, but you 'ever know with this place. I will be sure to let you know if I hear any such information, of course.

[eventusfactum]

It reeks of his stench, his practices, his designs.

[Locked; Maximum Encryption]

[sound_loyal]

Designation: Arcee.

Do you possess information pertaining to current situation?

[like_a_bossbot]

... Are you alright?

[ichooseboth]

[Another human he doesn't recognize. Frag, who else has been changed?]

...Not particularly. Who are you, then?

[like_a_bossbot]

Oh, sorry.

It's... me, Optarus. Sort of.

[ichooseboth]

[Blinks, surprised.] ...Oh frag. You too? This isn't good.

[Video]

[ichooseboth]

...Yes, that is Roller. [He stares, but he can't for the life of him tell who this human is supposed to be.]

'nd you are?

[Video]

[ichooseboth]

Ratchet? Is everyone stuck like this?