Discovery - [Video, Unlocked, some private messages]

[not_your_gun]

[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

Comments

[notsoloyal]

Hmmm, that is nice.

[video]

[not_your_gun]

It is, yes.

And I was intending to let you pick through the remnants, there...just...is a small problem.

[The camera pans up, to show Nemesis, attacking Megatron.]

Care to assist? You can have him to study afterward, if so.

[Or, really, just help Megatron not die. He'd appreciate that. He has a meeting with Perceptor to get to.]

[video]

[notsoloyal]

Of course, it has been a while since I have had the opportunity for such an interesting specimen.

[video]

[not_your_gun]

Anytime that you're not busy...

[He sends coordinates, and secretly is hoping that you'll show up soon. Not that he intends to back down, but it is rather difficult to battle death itself.]

[[Feel free to threadjack~]]

[Locked Video]

[darklydreamndex]

What do you need an Autobot for?

[Locked Video]

[not_your_gun]

Leverage.

His kind stole something from me.

[Locked Video]

[darklydreamndex]

And what do you plan to do to him.

[Locked Video]

[not_your_gun]

Something likely not involving blood.

[He laughs.]

Unless you want to see how Cybertronians 'bleed.'

No.

All I intend to do is read him poetry.

[deadlywildlife]

[Driller hisses watching the video. It seems excited about something.]

[not_your_gun]

[He remembers you. Then again, you're hard to forget.]

Why hello Driller. [A smirk.]

Something I can do for you?

[deadlywildlife]

tools . ▌

[They remind it of Shockwave. It wants its master back, this Cybertron is so empty and confusing. It is experiencing a lack of tasks and living mostly off of its instincts... which is what it normally does, but it doesn't like the lack of tasks.]

get shockwave . ▌

[not_your_gun]

Did your Shockwave like using tools?

[Perhaps he's just curious. The Tyrans had such varied reactions to him.]

[Locked]

[sound_loyal]

Understood.

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.

[Locked]

[not_your_gun]

I know.

...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?

[Locked]

[sound_loyal]

Affirmative.

[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.]

[Locked]

[not_your_gun]

[Megatron accepts, and is silent for a long moment while he peruses the logs.]

...

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?