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Post by Perceptor on Mar 2, 2012 21:23:00 GMT -5
// An excellent thought. If anyone else makes contact, will you ask Nightbeat to please forward their information on to me? Where they were, where they were relocated to, what they were doing, any energy readings, anything of note. I will add that data, should you receive any, to what I compile here. //
// A standard data-chip will suffice. The equipment in my facilities here is all designed to utilize Cybertronian format as well as human. It is what I would have designed, if I had designed it myself. Curiously enough, I have memories of having done exactly that. I suspect some sort of quantum entanglement may be implicated, however-- // Wait. Drift won't care about any of that.
// Er, ah, yes. A data-chip or a data-stick will be quite fine. Thank you. //
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Post by Drift on Mar 2, 2012 21:27:00 GMT -5
//Got it.// And maybe he could do something with the data himself. If there's one benefit to paranoia, it was the ability make connections others might miss. //All the more reason to safeguard your location.//
You know, in case you had doubts. You need him, Perceptor. Sorry. Mission parameters.
It's not that he doesn't care. He just hates that he can't understand all the SCIENCE. Still, what he does glean is distressing enough. //So the human you made a device that can read data chips. Without knowing you or anything of our kind. ...sounds weird.//
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 2, 2012 21:38:46 GMT -5
// Effectively, yes. // When he puts it that way, it sounds much more... sinister.
And she isn't about to argue about needing him there. Perhaps he is paranoid, but that doesn't alter the fact that something very curious and potentially dangerous is happening.
Besides, she misses him.
// Thank you, Drift. //
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Post by Drift on Mar 2, 2012 21:41:36 GMT -5
Drift? Be alarmist? Gurl, please.
//Could be worse. I mean, at least we're still in the same dimension, right?// Drift struggles to find a bright side and then staple it down for you!
A snort. //Don't thank me. Haven't done anything yet.// But he'll make it up to you!
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 2, 2012 21:47:15 GMT -5
She hadn't even considered the possibility that this might be related to having ended up here in this reality, yet. Nor that they could have been separated by more than mere distance. For a moment, her expression clouds as those possibilities assert themselves.
// Another excellent point. And definitely something to factor into my calculations. //
She smiles. // Yes, you have. You answered. //
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Post by Drift on Mar 2, 2012 21:54:42 GMT -5
See? Drift's paranoia, it helps!
//Could be nothing, but..maybe it's something.// Yeah, he's losing at this helpful optimism.
//...kind of my job?//
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 2, 2012 22:08:01 GMT -5
// Botanica, Rodimus Prime, and Xaaron did not answer, Drift, // she counters. Then she smiles. // I had begun to doubt my sanity. Hearing a familiar voice was quite the relief. //
See? You don't have to do massive, epic heroic deeds all the time to be useful and appreciated. Sometimes it's the little things that make all the difference.
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Post by Drift on Mar 2, 2012 22:12:22 GMT -5
//That might mean maybe they've been....// Right, utterly failing at optimism right now. But to be honest, he's a little hurt. You called all of them...before comming him? And even then, you didn't comm him. Just the ship.
//Glad I could help.// Kind of.
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 2, 2012 22:21:40 GMT -5
// Chain of command, Drift, // she replies softly. It's a guess, but she's gotten to know him quite well since he had arrived. Hopefully, she isn't making too big a fool of herself.
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Post by Drift on Mar 2, 2012 22:23:54 GMT -5
//Frag the chain of command!//
Uh. Not literally.
//You get hurt, you comm ME first.//
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 2, 2012 22:27:41 GMT -5
// I am not injured, Drift, // she replies patiently. // Merely human. //
She looks down, and adds in a very, very quiet voice, // I was afraid that I was going mad, and that you were not real. //
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Post by Drift on Mar 2, 2012 22:33:06 GMT -5
//Close enough!// Don't try to talk reason and logic to him, Perceptor. //Could be injured walking down the street in that mode.// Or...whatever you call it.
//Could ask me. I'm real enough.//
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 2, 2012 22:41:26 GMT -5
All she speaks is reason and logic, though!
// LC could trample me in the corridors of the Event Horizon in my normal mode, as well, // she counters, but holds up one hand in a conceding gesture. // However, you are correct; this form is more vulnerable. If I had attempted to call you first, though, I would not have had as much information to pass along. //
Of course, they all probably already know that Botanica, Rodimus, and Xaaron aren't answering their radio.
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Post by Drift on Mar 2, 2012 22:43:42 GMT -5
Don't think he hasn't thought of that, Perceptor. He's stealthy in his worry.
Most of the time.
He gives a very sullen grunt. He's not really buying it, nerd. //I don't need information. Just keeping you safe.//
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 2, 2012 22:45:32 GMT -5
Except when he's having an outburst?
She smiles fondly at him. // You realize that if you had taken this time to speak to Nightbeat, you could have arrived here by now? // she teases him.
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