[TEXT][encrypted: to Autobots][URGENT]

[astoldinsong]

I just spent the last 23.5 Earth hours filling out questionnaires, had a tag bolted on me, and been booted to 'Zone 3', whatever that is.

I just have one question: what the frag is going on!?

Actually, I have one other question: anybody got a place I can recharge? I need to defrag after that nightmare.

Comments

[Video]

[sciencebuttrfly]

Near as I can tell, you're a guest as a result of a TransTech mistake. Not that they admit to making such.

[Jetfire doesn't get why everyone's always so irate after inprocessing. He found the paperwork to be quite soothing.]

I believe other Tyran Autobots may be able to shelter you.

[He lives in a tiny apartment above his workshop.]

[TEXT]

[astoldinsong]

You're an Autobot!?

[He hasn't met Jetfire in his universe.]

(let's presume J videos B texts just to stay sane y/y?)

[sciencebuttrfly]

....[He is surprised that you are surprised.]

Yes. Is that unusual? [He is, of course, more than a little interested in the alternate universes and how they operate.]

I am always up for this solution :)

[astoldinsong]

I don't know if it's unusual, but you're not one where I come from.

[Huh. A flying Autobot!]

[sciencebuttrfly]

Indeed? [He wants to ask more, but...well, you just got here.]

You may find many things different here. What did they tell you inside?

[astoldinsong]

Trans-dimensional bleed, stuck here until I'm processed, terribly sorry, blah blah blah. It's not the cross-dimensional stuff that's confusing me: it's the fact that so many of us end up here that they've developed a bureaucratic process for it.

[The trouble with texting is that there's no emotion behind it. He's pretty frustrated and really suspicious.]

[and whatever but locked]

[sciencebuttrfly]

[Jetfire can pick up on that. He must be psychic.]

I suspect they find paperwork and bureaucracy fill the void that war does in our universes.

Also, that Optimuses and Megatrons are illegal.

[Lock]

Yours is here. He might be able to take you in.

[also locked]

[astoldinsong]

So there really isn't a war here? The development is astounding, but it's not even underhanded?

[Lock]

Is he? Thanks for the heads-up. I wouldn't impose on him but I should probably report.

[locked]

[sciencebuttrfly]

In a sense, there cannot be: anything too rambunctious and the TransTechs are forced to notice, and then act.

In the other sense, any time you have Autobots and Decepticons, there is at least....positioning.

Orion is a new arrival [Why yes Jetfire monitors the feeds: he has no life,] but seems quite concerned for the welfare of his own kind.

[locked]

[astoldinsong]

But the TransTechs aren't at an underground war themselves?

Regarding Optimus, I have no doubt. If you hear from him first: I'm fine, just a little slow on processing power at the moment.

[locked] (Sorry secret hurricaneatus)

[sciencebuttrfly]

Mostly a war against war, it would seem. The fastest way to deport to a Dead Universe is to endanger their peace.

...I'm sorry. I will advise him if I speak to him.

[locked] (no it's fine, I was evacuated myself)

[astoldinsong]

Understood. I'm interested to know who runs this place.

Hey, a recharge cycle and I'll be back on track. Thanks for the help.