Nexus, Near the Sign and the Black Dog, Introductions
Showtime: *scowling at the PMQ machines, since they're still showing error messages when she tries to get home*
Blackout: *snerks at her from the shadow of the sign*
Showtime: *Attention going towards the snerk, wariness clear on her face and in the angle of her doorwings*
Blackout: *smirk. Loom*
Optimus: *falls out of the sky with a crash*
Blackout: ....
Showtime: *Startled shriek*
Optimus: *staggers to his feet and then looks around with muzzy confusion* ...Starscream?
Showtime: *Surprised, moves to approach* Optimus? Are you alright? *concerned*
Optimus: *blinks at her, his ax lowering as he sees her badge* No... I think my processor's damaged. Because I'm not properly registering my surroundings.
Showtime: *Hoping against hope that this is the Optimus from her reality, but weeks of error messages on the PMQ machines have left her a bit cynical* I know where there's a medic... *holding her hand out to the red and blue mech*
Optimus: *looks dazedly at the hand, then at the small femme*
Showtime: *being gently insistant* If your processor's damaged, the sooner you see a medic to get it fixed, the better....
Optimus: But I'm fighting Starscream.
Showtime: You got knocked out of the reality...
Optimus: ...What?
Showtime: You fell from the sky... and landed in a multiversal hub called the Nexus... *going to try and grab your hand now, Optimus*
Optimus: *lets her get the hand now, his ax making a soft thunk as the head hits the floor/ground* Oh....
Showtime: *Fusses gently, will move to try and lead the mech to the Black Dog*
Optimus: *follows* I have to get back... my team... *stumble*
Showtime: I'll help you with that, once you're repaired.
Optimus: They're in battle now.
Showtime: *gently, but firmly* It will be alright.
Optimus: *muzzy frown, but he's following*
Showtime: *Will lead the way to the Black Dog, before she's looking for a certain green mech*
Rhinox: *not on the bar today. Which doesn't mean he's not around*
Showtime: *Doorwings down, moves to approach the bar* Nemesis, do you know where I could find a medic?
Nemesis: Hormah's over at her place. Rhinox is in his. *polishes glasses*
Showtime: *small frown* Alright... Which one's closer?
Rhinox: *appears at the entrance to the small bot elevator by the staircase door*
Nemesis: You figure it out.
Showtime: *Doorwings up, will gently tug Optimus towards Rhinox* Optimus needs help....
Rhinox: Can you get him up the stairs? *frowning up at this Optimus and seeing that it's a new one*
Showtime: I think so...
Rhinox: *heads back into the elevator* I'll meet you in Nem's living room.
Showtime: *nods and moves to guide Optimus towards the stairs*
Optimus: *stumbling a bit still, and his optics are dimming as his systems reroute power where it's needed*
Showtime: *Talking quietly to Optimus and trying to help him up the stairs*
Optimus: *finally makes it, and then blinks around the big spartan living room that the stairs open onto*
Rhinox: *has his tools and some spare parts over there in the middle of the floor, which is covered in textured steel*
Showtime: *Will bring Optimus over to Rhinox and try and get him laying down*
Optimus: *moving to lay down, and then... THUD*
Rhinox: *glad he was out of the way, and that Optimus missed Showtime*
Showtime: *Fuss, doorwings up!*
Rhinox: Well, he's out. Help me turn him over.
Showtime: *Small nod, moves to help*
Rhinox: *strong for his size, though he winces at the clatter as Optimus lands on his back* Where'd you find him? *grabs a scanner and climbs up on the mech*
Showtime: He fell from the sky near the sign....
Rhinox: ... That's a new one.
Showtime: ...
Rhinox: Alright, he's only got processor damage and low energy. Hand me that tool there, the one that looks like a sonic screwdriver.
Showtime: *moves to do so* He said he was fighting Starscream....
Rhinox: Yeah, it looks like he took a null ray to the cranial unit. *takes the tool* Want to take his helmet off?
Showtime: *looking a bit uneasy* A-Alright... Show me what to do?
Rhinox: *looks at her with surprise* Just take it off.
Showtime: *hesitantly does so, trying to keep her hands from shaking*
Optimus: *looks kinda funny without his helmet*
Rhinox: Thanks. *goes to work*
Showtime: *will help by fetching parts as they're requested, doorwings buzzing quietly due to her sudden bout of nervousness*
Rhinox: *only needed one small chip before he's closing up again* There, now once he reboots he'll be a bit slow, but functional. Give him that energon.
Showtime: *proceeds to do so* I promised I'd help him get home.... *will get her PINpoint out, intending to give it to Optimus*
Rhinox: *jumps down off his patient* Why don't you go with him?
Showtime: *Quietly* I don't know if this is the one from my reality.... If it is, then I can go home, finally, but if it's not... then I'll keep looking for a way home...
Rhinox: *shakes his head* Showtime. Let go.
Showtime: *Doorwings down*
Rhinox: Sometimes you just have to go forward.
Showtime: *even quieter* I can't go with him, Rhinox... *cycles air for a few moments* I'd better get the PINpoint programmed for him... *moves to head for the stairs*
Rhinox: Stop.
Optimus: *groans and turns onto his side, hand groping groggily at the floor*
Showtime: *Starting to shake a bit, looking like she wants nothing more than to bolt*
Rhinox: They're going to need another bot in Optimus' reality.
Showtime: *doorwings fluttering a bit as she cycles air and thinks about what Rhinox just said*
Optimus: *looks around with a perplexed expression, and then focuses on Rhinox as the smaller bot explains to him where he is and how he got here*
Showtime: *internally cursing as her curious side gets the better of her and her doorwings slow in their fluttering. Seems she's decided to take Rhinox's advice and go with Optimus*
Optimus: *gaining his feet* I need to get back. My team can't take much more of that punishment.
Showtime: We need to get to a PMQ machine.
Rhinox: Nah. *points his watch at Optimus*
Optimus: *defensive crouch!*
Showtime: *moving to approach Optimus* He's just getting coordinates so we can go.
Optimus: *blink* We?
Showtime: *nod* I'm coming with you.
Optimus: ...Oh. Alright. *processor still slow, but figures that if the Autobot femme is offering she must know what she's getting into*
Rhinox: *taps a button and sends the coordinates to Showtime*
Showtime: *nods as she recieves the coordinates and transfers them to her PINpoint*
Optimus: *looking at her and waiting*
Showtime: *hand on Optimus' arm, will bring him to his reality... and then jet-judo Starscream by way of introducing herself to the team*
((Co-written with random_xtras))