And thus is Cubefall come.
Optimus, having been alerted by Bumblebee, has entered the Bar. He's a bit more scuffed, but there's a general air of ...well, more relaxed than he's been.
He gets a glass of whiskey from the Bar, then settles down at a table near where Bumblebee had set up, with a sign:
Cubefall has come!
Cubefall is a holiday from the Transformer homeworld of ( Read more... )
He gets a glass of whiskey from the Bar, then settles down at a table near where Bumblebee had set up, with a sign:
Cubefall has come!
Cubefall is a holiday from the Transformer homeworld of ( Read more... )
"I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots - self-aware mechanical beings from the planet Cybertron, who are now residing on Earth. As to what happened... the Bar, for whatever reason, has chosen to celebrate our most sacred holiday, Cubefall. On our world, there was nothing until the Allspark - also called the Cube, as it was a large cube of metal - landed there, creating the first thirteen of us, and imbuing them with life and intelligence."
He pauses to let that sink in, then goes on. "For us, it is a time of consideration, thinking about one's place in the universe and what one does. Before leaving Cybertron, before the great war, it was the time to think about changes in life - for us, having a body refit for a new place in society, which for humans is similar to changing jobs. It was also a time for celebrating new inceptions - similar to births for non-robots - and remembering those that had fallen, all the way to the first Fallen, the first of us to teach us that we may be machines, but we were mortal and could end."
"As to what happened to the place... well, as you might expect, building and creating are considered good luck. And the furnace over there," he indicates with a finger, "allows people to place items in there and have them reforged into something else. Some of these things," he says with a confidential tone, "don't entirely make sense to me."
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At the end she responds. "That sounds like a fine tradition to uphold. Thank you for explaining, Optimus Prime. I am Sativa, Chosen One of the Arroyo Tribe."
It's also a little comforting that some things - like Milliways, just Milliways confuse just about everybody.
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Maybe it's a religious secret. He doesn't know."
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The way her people went on about it, you could say it's a bit religious.
"The Vault is one of many large underground shelters humanity went into the survive the destruction of the Great War."
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