[Voice]

[onemanaloooone]

I got a newsflash for you, Axiom Nexus.

Any of you out there still holdin' on to the last dregs of hope they're gonna get your work all nice and neat... get your ass back where you belong?

Nah. Ain't gonna happen. Because --

[And here, the man pauses, and raises his voice, as if he's shouting over his shoulder.]

-- Metal heads said they'd

Comments

[endless_avarice]

Interested in ending it all?

[onemanaloooone]

There is a very large gap between a guy who's sick of bureaucrats, and a guy who ain't interested in livin' any longer.

Me?

I am most... definitely not the latter. You might wanna get your robo-ears checked.

[endless_avarice]

Your lives are so very short anyway, I assumed three wasted years of it would be depressing enough.

Then again, I can't really gauge your age. [Squints at]

[onemanaloooone]

Y'know what they say about assumptions.

[tattooed_jet]

And it has taken you three years to figure this out?

[Starscream had that solved within a cycle of arriving here.]

Your processing speed is truly astonishing.

[As in...how you remember to ventilate without reminders.]

[onemanaloooone]

Uh huh.

'Cause it ain't like no one ever goes home. You been here what? Three times now?

Guess y'just couldn't stay away, eh, you big flyin' Dorito?

[tattooed_jet]

[What is with this ridiculous notion. Starscream has never been here before.]

[He squints.]

I see through your pathetic attempts to try to make me doubt my sanity, naked monkey.

[onemanaloooone]

Better go back and check the comm records again, there, Doritoscream.

Y'been here before. This? I know.

[good_grrrl]

Do you mean others who got their exit visa didn't really go home? Roger waited like a year to go back to California.

[onemanaloooone]

How should I know what happens after they walk outta here?

[good_grrrl]

Um, well, I don't guess you would know. Sorry. It's just, you made it sound like no one actually gets to go to their proper home.

[She catches on that Simmons might mean he's been there three years.]

But, if you've been stuck here three years, I get why you'd be totally upset.

[voice | locked]

[leader_prime]

Three years, and I imagine every possible outlet has been attempted to get us home.

[It isn't a question - he knows it has already happened. He knows better than him have already tried and failed.]

[voice | locked]

[onemanaloooone]

Well, well. Look who came rollin' back into town.

Your boys ain't been here near as long as me. I'm what they call, the eldest in terms of how long they got be stuck here.

[voice | locked]

[leader_prime]

It wouldn't be the first time. I am inclined to trust your word on it.

[voice | locked]

[onemanaloooone]

... How 'bout that. The mighty Optimus Prime... leader of ev'ry Autobot rollin' around the planet... is trustin' little old me.

I do somethin' in your time stream to suddenly get on your good side, Robojesus? I ain't complainin', but this? This is a little outta the big wide blue.

[wave_ifyouwould]

Alternatively, maybe they just love your company, charming man that you are.

[onemanaloooone]

That would be just my luck. Gettin' stranded on a'count of a bunch've robot perverts.

Yeesh.

[wave_ifyouwould]

I think you're grossly underestimating your luck, Agent Simmons. Robot perversion has a charm of it's own, as a matter of fact. [Tone says dead serious, smile (fortunately) says joking.]

[onemanaloooone]

[PAUSE.]

I know you from somewhere, pal?