Discovery - [Video, Unlocked, some private messages]
[The video opens in a very dark room, with a light shining around to illuminate various features of the setting a-la Blair Witch. It passes over counter-tops with broken glass and various tools, beakers, and dormant machines, then lights up what seems to be a transformer-sized lab-table in the center of the room, looking not unlike a dentist's
( Read more... )
Mission result: Successful.
[ . . . ]
[There is a long pause, but he's too emotionally conflicted to keep the information to himself. It was both a blessing and an irritation wrapped up in one confusing mess - Ratchet was gone, but he'd been once again tampered with.
Worse, the removal of the pest's presence hadn't helped to restore his former-emotionless stability.]
There are three solar cycles unaccounted for. Memory logs have been tampered with, matching Shockwave's preferred methods.
Autobot's connection is now absent.
Reply
...he left.
[He'd received the message on his communicator. It...still hurt him, a little, each time someone left. It reminded him of all the ones who'd come before.]
[Still, he begins growling.] Shockwave took you? When?
Reply
[He'd witnessed as much while he'd been away, though he hadn't had long to dwell on it. The lapse in his memory took place not long afterward.
Instead of explaining further, he'll just offer a copy of his memory logs and the relevant gap in the timestamps.]
Reply
...
I should have contacted you as soon as I knew Ratchet had left.
[He frowns.]
We should have taken advantage of that.
[This...could still be turned to his advantage.]
Did you continue to have memories connected to Ratchet when he was taken into processing? Do you know what it looks like, inside?
Reply
Soundwave: was dismissed from active duty.
[He pauses, pulling up what files he did have remaining from the Autobot's memories. The images were fragmented, distorted by whatever process they'd used on the medic to prevent him from remembering the Nexus in his home dimension... But there were a few useable ones.]
Affirmative.
Reply
[He didn't trust even Soundwave's locks against the Transtechs...though he trusted them more than most.]
...
Do you notice any additional upgrades?
Reply
[ . . . ]
Negative.
Upgrades: were not detected.
Reply
Then the only reason he took you in was to fix what he'd done when Ratchet was deported.
At least this means he can't control deportations.
[...at least, not entirely. There is still the matter of himself being brought back, but...that's different, isn't it? He was brought back, not prevented from leaving.]
Reply
Leave a comment