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Toph didn't go into the pizza party. Partly because she doesn't know what a pizza is, partly because the linoleum on the kitchen floor makes everything annoyingly out of focus, but mostly because she wanted to be on her own. It seems she wants to do that a lot these days
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He's been out scavenging off the farm, scanners on high for those subtle human life-signs. He's got stuff to build and a refuelling station to refit (he and Jetstorm have plans to get overengerized! It will be awesome, in a drunk way) and there are a few places that aren't inhabited anymore where people either died and left their electronics or fled and decided electronics, not being edible, were of little use.
But he's back now, and possibly looks a little ridiculous carrying a battered shoebox full of cellular phones and bluetooth headsets that don't connect to anything anymore in his manipulatory appendages.
Hey, it's possible there are people around who don't care that he looks ridiculous.
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Toph assumes at first it's some sort of mechanised vehicle, but it's moving wrong for a vehicle, and though Toph can't see through metal as well as through Earth, she can feel enough to know that it's not really built like a vehicle.
She stands, mostly to get a better feel, and experiments with a shout.
"Hey!"
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"Hey, yourself." The voice is gravelly, male, deep, and relatively friendly. It also doesn't belong to a human-- just someone capable of speaking human languages fluently. But the wheel stops rolling, the engine sounds change to idling.
And Thrust looks at Toph, curious. He still hasn't met everyone yet. Like the comlinks, it's something he's working on.
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Guess who doesn't talk like humans talk?
Toph has her head turned down, away from Thrust, but points directly at him.
"Did you say that?"
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A heavy mechanical head swings to the right, then to the left. Servos are faintly audible-- to a Transformer, that's just one of those processes that happens "You see anybody else close enough?
"My name's Thrust."
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Toph turns her head up at him to reveal her milky white, sightless eyes.
"I'm blind."
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"That's a frag of a malfunction. Humans can't repair that kind of damage?" Thrust is not embarassed (at least not yet), but he is surprised. She's stuck with a non-functional set of optic sensors that can't be replaced? Really good reason to appreciate being a mechanism instead of an organism.
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The only person who might have been able to give Toph sight is recently dead, but she's never considered it anyway.
"Anyway," because she doesn't want to talk about blindness, she turns it on him, accusingly. "You're made of metal."
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"Mostly," he agrees. "If I say 'I'm a robot' or 'I'm a Transformer,' is it gonna mean anything to you?"
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Toph loads it with indfference. The words probably aren't important.
"Did someone make you?"
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"My old boss had me built," Thrust agrees-- but Steve builds robots, too, even if they're only drones, so Thrust adds, "Dunno who built him."
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She jumps down off the bunker and strides over, one hand outstretched. "Can I feel?"
It's hard to get a proper feel for metal from a distance, after all.
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Probably entirely stupidly, Thrust rolls towards the blind girl. "You gonna tell me your name before I let you feel me up?"
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"Do you have a brain? How do you decide what to say?"
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He's certainly close enough to touch now, though he sets down his box of components (well, he thinks of them as components) before straightening again.
There's a lot of moving parts in this machine.
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She's quiet for a while, before she finally says "Wow."
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