Swoop's log

[thecuriousdinobot]

Going forward I wanted to make this 100% clear. Thecuriousdinobot is a roleplay/askblog where I roleplay as the version of the dinobot swoop from my transformers unified continuity au. I've gotten just one ask so far and it genuinely made my day. I like asks, I like replies. But more than anything else I love the questions other people ask, because they make me think, so please. Don't just scroll by my posts, but instead take the time to read a couple. And if questions come to you, ask them. I'll do my best to answer every one. So please, if you have them, make my day and send an ask

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[skywimp]

"yes " he gave a shaky wing wag and smiled "I'm um....an allspark clone ... please don't tell anyone" he feels safe around this large one she seems really sweet he scratched his arm with his talon by accident and anxious tick probably

[thecuriousdinobot]

That sounds fascinating, but don't worry your secret is safe with me. I'm sure you'll find your way home eventually swoop replies softly, one clawed hand gently pat ing the top of his head and, in the meantime you can stick with me

[skywimp]

He nodded softly his head leaning into the pats enjoying them happily before looking around "I'm guessing your swoop yes?" He gives figuring her identity out

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop let out a gentle yet low rumbling laugh for a moment what gave me away? Was it the wings on my back, the clawed feet, the pteranodon looking dino head on my chest plate, all of the above? Or a lucky guess? Swoop gently asked, giving skywarp the closest she can to a reassuring smile, despite her natural smile being a rather toothy and somewhat intimidating and unsettling grin

[skywimp]

"your very sweet " skywarp compliments her sweetly being a sweetspark "... would you like to be friends?" He offer's shyly

[thecuriousdinobot]

I'd love to be your friend swoop replies softly, then gets a contemplative look in her eyes although I really am curious what specifically made you guess that I'm swoop, I certainly doubt that I look much like any swoop that you're familiar with

[skywimp]

"the crest " the seeker replied tapping his own helm with a grin "um do you know anywhere I can throw up?...warping is still new to me"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I suppose the particular back swept shape and red coloration of my head crest is rather unique compared to many. As for your nausea, my time spent mastering flying up on my wings has made me rather familiar with most of the issues regarding nausea and such. If you'd like, I can try something that might alleviate your issue for now, so you don't have to throw up swoop offers with a small and encouraging grin

[skywimp]

"sure what is it?" Skywarp asked Curiously and slightly nervous...was it a good Idea?

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop reaches one finger down, and a faint crackling sound is heard as a small charge of energon based electricity covers the tip of her finger, as the very tip lightly pokes skywarp's forehead and then the center of his chest plate above where his spark chamber is. Almost instantly skywarp's nausea settles down and vanishes much like in humans, nausea is often just a confusion in our spatial perception that occurs when we are unused to a particular way of moving. A simple jolt to the secondary processor nodes in the temple and chest plate regions using a small charge of energon based electricity tuned to a certain frequency will normalize the malfunctioning subsystem. Better now?

[skywimp]

The sweet guys ache subsided as his faceplates fell into a happy relaxed expression "that's soo much better thank you swoop" he lets out a relieved sigh "so Um what would you like to do?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

That depends, do you trust me? Swoop asks softly, reaching one clawed hand out and taking one of skywarp's much smaller hand in her own as she gently guides him up onto his feet. Thanks to swoop's crouch, skywarp can somewhat see as on her back the dinobots' wings relax and partially unfold from their fully retracted state

[skywimp]

"that's incredible....my Dinobots are quite.....dumb" he smiled softly before blinking at her question "I feel like I can trust you"

The seeker was just a bunch of nerves bless his spark

[thecuriousdinobot]

How would you like to see what it's like when I fly? Swoop asks softly, a fierce yet also the closest swoop can get to a gentle and encouraging grin on her face as behind swoop her wings extend outward as they unfold further. Now skywarp can rather easily see the tips of both wings as they curl around swoop's frame and even partially his own thanks to their large size at least, if you're alright with riding on the back of my dino mode

[skywimp]

Skywarp nodded excitedly "so I just sit?" The jittery seeker asked wanting to understand the idea "..how fast do you go?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

That depends on how well you're able to hold on, because I can get pretty fast. Ready to fly? Swoop asks softly, sinking down onto one leg as her wings visibly tense

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[skywimp]

"yes " he gave a shaky wing wag and smiled "I'm um....an allspark clone ... please don't tell anyone" he feels safe around this large one she seems really sweet he scratched his arm with his talon by accident and anxious tick probably

[thecuriousdinobot]

That sounds fascinating, but don't worry your secret is safe with me. I'm sure you'll find your way home eventually swoop replies softly, one clawed hand gently pat ing the top of his head and, in the meantime you can stick with me

[skywimp]

He nodded softly his head leaning into the pats enjoying them happily before looking around "I'm guessing your swoop yes?" He gives figuring her identity out

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop let out a gentle yet low rumbling laugh for a moment what gave me away? Was it the wings on my back, the clawed feet, the pteranodon looking dino head on my chest plate, all of the above? Or a lucky guess? Swoop gently asked, giving skywarp the closest she can to a reassuring smile, despite her natural smile being a rather toothy and somewhat intimidating and unsettling grin

[skywimp]

"your very sweet " skywarp compliments her sweetly being a sweetspark "... would you like to be friends?" He offer's shyly

[thecuriousdinobot]

I'd love to be your friend swoop replies softly, then gets a contemplative look in her eyes although I really am curious what specifically made you guess that I'm swoop, I certainly doubt that I look much like any swoop that you're familiar with

[skywimp]

"the crest " the seeker replied tapping his own helm with a grin "um do you know anywhere I can throw up?...warping is still new to me"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I suppose the particular back swept shape and red coloration of my head crest is rather unique compared to many. As for your nausea, my time spent mastering flying up on my wings has made me rather familiar with most of the issues regarding nausea and such. If you'd like, I can try something that might alleviate your issue for now, so you don't have to throw up swoop offers with a small and encouraging grin

[skywimp]

"sure what is it?" Skywarp asked Curiously and slightly nervous...was it a good Idea?

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop reaches one finger down, and a faint crackling sound is heard as a small charge of energon based electricity covers the tip of her finger, as the very tip lightly pokes skywarp's forehead and then the center of his chest plate above where his spark chamber is. Almost instantly skywarp's nausea settles down and vanishes much like in humans, nausea is often just a confusion in our spatial perception that occurs when we are unused to a particular way of moving. A simple jolt to the secondary processor nodes in the temple and chest plate regions using a small charge of energon based electricity tuned to a certain frequency will normalize the malfunctioning subsystem. Better now?

[skywimp]

The sweet guys ache subsided as his faceplates fell into a happy relaxed expression "that's soo much better thank you swoop" he lets out a relieved sigh "so Um what would you like to do?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

That depends, do you trust me? Swoop asks softly, reaching one clawed hand out and taking one of skywarp's much smaller hand in her own as she gently guides him up onto his feet. Thanks to swoop's crouch, skywarp can somewhat see as on her back the dinobots' wings relax and partially unfold from their fully retracted state

[skywimp]

"that's incredible....my Dinobots are quite.....dumb" he smiled softly before blinking at her question "I feel like I can trust you"

The seeker was just a bunch of nerves bless his spark

[thecuriousdinobot]

How would you like to see what it's like when I fly? Swoop asks softly, a fierce yet also the closest swoop can get to a gentle and encouraging grin on her face as behind swoop her wings extend outward as they unfold further. Now skywarp can rather easily see the tips of both wings as they curl around swoop's frame and even partially his own thanks to their large size at least, if you're alright with riding on the back of my dino mode

[primeratchet]

Ratchet was just doing idle work on the computer systems in the main area of the autobot base when the ground bridge activated on its own, except the color of the portal was slightly off. A small cloud of what at first glance looked like regular earth insects flew out shortly before the portal closed and flew around a bit before flying straight into ratchet's chest plating by accident and bouncing off. A good part of the cloud seemed to swarm together, becoming what looked like a scraplet when it opened its eyes but had its mouth shut. Except the details weren't quite right, it looked more like someone tried to build a scraplet but only had most of the details regarding a scraplet's appearance and none of the specifics. It peered at ratchet with bright orange eyes (another detail that wasn't right, scraplet eyes are a bright electrical blue), then the rest of the seeming insect cloud swarmed the not-scraplet as it broke apart into the rest of the cloud before settling down into what appeared to be a regular human teenager about Jack's age still looking up at him with those curious bright orange eyes

you look kinda like my ratchet, but the details aren't quite right. Who are you? The question was one of a clear and genuine innocent curiosity

@thecuriousdinobot

Originally thinking it was a scraplet he freaked out a bit, jumping back, about to turn his arm into his weapon. But when it changes into.. a human, he just became baffled. What the frag...

He blinked a few times. His Ratchet? Was this person or- thing- from a different dimension?

"I...." He shook his head. "Who are you? How did you activate the ground bridge?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Her large, and curious bright orange eyes glimmered with a level of amusement as she almost chirped her reply

with a ground bridge remote access key holding the necessary credentials for the handshake protocol needed for a remotely activated ground bridge portal generation. You're silly, you built the ground bridge you should know this. Or, at least I assume you built the ground bridge a peculiarly contemplative look came to her face I know my ratchet did, but you still haven't explained why you look like my ratchet, but not exactly. You look pretty much like him but some of the details are off and the proportions of a few things aren't quite right, and neither is some of the positioning on some of the armor plating

[primeratchet]

"I did make it, but I don't remember giving you credentials. At all. I don't even know who you are, and vice versea." This was.. Odd.

"My name is Ratchet. I think you're from a different universe."

[thecuriousdinobot]

That explains why you look off from my ratchet she paused and whispered to herself and the missing holes in the ground from the cave in before continuing and as for giving me access credentials you didnt, and technically neither did my ratchet

Her expression turns slightly awkward and shifty

So, what my ratchet had done was give me a puzzle that when I solved it, it unfolded and had a neat little doohickey inside along with a riddle to the next puzzle. Seven or eight different riddles and puzzle boxes later I was holding a ground bridge remote access key that data wise was incomplete. It was missing the credentials needed for the handshake protocol but did have a set of destination coordinates pre programmed in the incomplete ground bridge remote access key.

She visibly paused, and takes a deep breath while her hands start frantically fidgeting with each other

What I thought this meant was that my ratchet wanted me to use my skills, and the system access port cord that had been physically integrated into the modified access key, to extract the remote access credentials from the central database and use the now completed ground bridge remote access key to create a ground bridge portal to the coordinates pre programmed in. And do so without bringing the whole server down on top of me. Which was awesome as I don't get to use my data extraction subroutine protocols all that often, despite jormungandr not having been intended for non destructive data extraction, and I even succeeded

She starts awkwardly laughing

What I found out when I arrived was that the series of puzzles wasn't to distract me so I didn't bug him, but a distraction while they put the finishing touches on my birthday party. Well, that and that I completely misinterpreted what my ratchet had wanted me to do. I was supposed to use the system access port cord and the modified access key programming to bridge the code of the two devices and insert the destination coordinates into the ground bridge. Which ratchet had already primed for activation as soon as destination coordinates were input. But my ratchet, seeing that I managed it without accidentally slagging the ground bridge systems, he let me keep the ground bridge remote access key I had finished

[primeratchet]

"Ah... but... how did you get to this universe? Do you know?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

She cocked her head in surprise

That's what you're curious about, not how I have subroutine protocols in the first place?

[primeratchet]

"Not at the moment. I'm more worried about how you GOT here. Because if it's this easy for someone to get in, that means it's that easy for enemies as well." He crossed his arms.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh, that's easy. I was trying to find a friend that's been displaced to another world somewhere out there in the dimensional sea. That and it makes it easier on the dimensional slip space portal generator to go from one version of the same place to another version of the same place

A nostalgic smile comes to her face as she takes a look around the base

It's a real memory trip getting to see what the base looked like originally again, and love it. Then again that makes sense when the base had been my home for over a year when it needed rebuilt

An amused yet nostalgic smile came to her face

Any other questions?

[primeratchet]

"Who the scrap are you?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I'm syndia, and my team prime might've kinda basically adopted me when they realized that for understandable reasons I didn't exactly exist as far as the government was concerned

[primeratchet]

He cocked an eye.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Well

Syndia's voice grew quite soft as she whispered

You kinda have to have biological parents to have a legal and government recognized identity, even if you don't know who they are. They still need to exist in the first place

[primeratchet]

"Yours... don't?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Was that not clear?

Syndia's reply was to the point, yet the underlying emotion struggled to convey the sheer level of longing she had for the idea of having parents

[primeratchet]

Ratchet hesitated but nodded slowly. "I suppose it was.."

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia shook her head, and looked back up at him. Her simple, innocently curious smile was back, but at the same time it was different now. More fragile. He could see the pain in her eyes

Do you have any other questions ratchet? I know I've told you who I am and how I got here, but you probably have other questions?

[primeratchet]

"At the moment.. No... I just need to figure out how to... send you back right your dimension." He said, his tone getting softer with her expression.

[thecuriousdinobot]

No need for that, I can actually handle that myself I just need to activate the dimensional recall beacon so they know to open up the cross dimensional slip space portal between this dimension and mine

She replies, starting to slowly bounce up and down on the balls of her feet. Then she gets a contemplative look on her face and cocks her head to one side

Not gunna ask how I'm here if I don'na have biological parents?

Syndia asks, her voice still soft, but a smidge brighter and innocent genuine curiosity clear in her voice

[primeratchet]

"Didn't know if you wanted me to ask." He grunted. "Or if it was a sore spot to ask." The medic grumbled as he went to the control panel, doing a light check up, while still keeping a optic of Syndia.

[thecuriousdinobot]

No? Syndia cocked her head in the other direction I wouldn't've mentioned jormungandr earlier if it wasn't

Syndia perks up as a thought occurs to her

Oh, if you're doing a check on the controls and whatnot. The programming itself is a-o-kay, not so sure about the actual components. That's not exactly my thing. But the programming itself is running perfectly fine, with no maintenance currently needed

[primeratchet]

"How can you tell?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I can tell, because code is jormungandr's thing, and jormungandr is me just as I am jormungandr. Or, well

Syndia visibly gets slightly embarrassed

Technically jormungandr is only part of me, not all of me

[primeratchet]

"...Huh." he glanced at her, oprics narrowed with confusion.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia stops cocking her head to one side and looks ratchet directly in his optics, but something is really off about her eyes now. Everything else aside, they've somehow gone from the bright mirror like look of a regular human's eyes and are now a completely flat and dull orange and disturbingly intently focused on ratchet

Are you going to ask what jormungandr is?

[primeratchet]

"....What is... Jormungandr...?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

The smile that came to syndia's face at ratchet's words looked very wrong. It wasn't nice, it wasn't kind. It was almost malicious with some amusement at ratchet's words

Good call, not he, not she, but it. Jormungandr is me and I am syndia. Or a part of her at least. But that a who not a what. The what, well that's simple. Jormungandr is a cutting edge next generation and practically a one of a kind masterwork self adapting and evolving data infiltration and extraction virus

As syndia said the word virus, she or her body at least, reached out and poked the screen display for the computer systems, which instantly began to glitch out as dozens of warnings popped up saying "unknown virus detected. Firewalls down. Computer systems compromised" go back to normal the moment syndia's finger was removed from the screen

[primeratchet]

"hey hey hey! Yip yip! Don't touch anything!" He said strictly, standing in front of the panel now. He glanced back at it to make sure it was ok; from the first look it seemed alright so he turned his gaze back to her.

"A virus? In you? How is that-"

"Venom type shit." Dylan peeked out of Ratchets shoulder, speaking for a moment, before going back in.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia blinked, and her expression and eyes were back to normal.

Nah, not venom. You know what jormungandr is, well basically it was used to attack a government black sight research facility with the intent to destroy all the data there and hopefully burn itself out on the closed network. But one of the lab's projects was a biotechnological nano machine poject

[primeratchet]

"Interesting... and you came into contact with it."

[thecuriousdinobot]

Nooo, instead the meteor shower that started happening at the time of jormungandr finishing it's avatar made of the biotechnological nano machines was debating how to best escape the lab and was debating using one of the scientists as a meat puppet when a meteor hit the lab. Said meteor contained scraplets, which proceeded to try and consume the biotechnological nanite construct. Even as jormungandr tried to consume them

[primeratchet]

"Hm..." he listened... how Odd. Interesting.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Going to ask how we get from what sounds like the barely averted start of a horror movie to where I come in?

Syndia asks cheerfully

[primeratchet]

"why not... How?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Good question, if you figure that out. Please let me know, because it has me confused and I lived it

Syndia cheerfully replied

All I know for sure is that at some point in that fight back and forth they melded together, and the resulting combination had mental capabilities sophisticated enough to develop sapience and sentience. Then that proto-me went to a computer and accessed the human Internet in the hopes of learning who I am. Eventually I stumbled upon a forum where I met humans who I talked back and forth with through the forum. As I did so, with each discussion I became more me, and the forums is where I met jack

A nostalgic yet happy smile came to syndia's face

I like my jack syndia admitted, then blushed bright red at her own words

[primeratchet]

(FIXING THIS- SORRY EJFJD my brains jumbled)

"You like Jack?" He cocked an optic, going back to work, but paying attention still. "Why?" He didn't see the appeal.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia cocked her head to the side, a genuinely curious look on her face

If you were lost, if you felt you were alone in the world. If you had no true understanding of who you are or if you're truly alive and not just a construct simulating life. If you poured your heart out into a forum and reached out to dozens, and just when you'd lost all hope. Someone new reached out in turn

A happy, nostalgic smile came to syndia's face

If that person helped you, helped you realize who you are. If they made you know for sure, in the darkest depths of your mind and heart that YES you are alive.

Wouldn't you fall for them? Wouldn't you cherish them, want to hold them close? Want to do everything with them, and have them part of your everything for the rest of your life?

I may not have met my jack in person until after he met team prime, but by that point I'd been talking with him through forums messages, text, and even calls for more than a year and a half. I'd been carrying a proverbial torch for him, as humans would put it, for at least five months by that point. I was afraid, he was my everything, my world. I was afraid that if he met me, if he knew what I really was. That he'd reject me, and want nothing to do with me

Syndia's expression, although backlit by her blush being almost literally luminescent red now, turned sad

I'm not going to lie, if that had happened. I would have left as he asked, but my next act would've been to either find or build an electromagnetic field generator strong enough to rip the biotechnological nano machines comprising my body apart and wipe my code. Without jack, I wouldn't have truly learned to live. And in a world where he wants nothing to do with me, I wouldn't see a reason to continue to live either

[primeratchet]

"Ah..." so she depends heavily on him. Fair.

Ratchet knew what it was like... he said nothing though, just nodding along.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Good news, when he did find out about my true nature he didn't reject me. I also accidentally admitted to my crush on him shortly after revealing/admitting to my true nature. Did your world's raf every get a bit of dark energon in his system because he was in the back seat of bumblebee's vehicle mode when bumblebee got hit by a long range shot by Megatron's fusion cannon?

[primeratchet]

He paused for a moment, the memory filling his processor. "Yes. He did."

[thecuriousdinobot]

Well good news, sorta. So among the other weirdness of the whatever hodgepodge hybrid of the stuff I'm made of I am. I can somehow literally smell smd manipulate blood. And somehow the weird mixture of scraplet, military biotech nano machine, and super virus lets me basically be a ripoff vampire sometimes. So I could literally smell the dark energon in him, and for my raf at least

An odd expression comes to her face as her blush starts dying down

It, really wasn't pleasant, but I basically sucked the dark energon out of him along with a small amount of dark energon infected blood. Rag was okay afterwards, thank Primus. I love the little dude like a younger brother. Now if I can just convince Jack to let me go biblical plague style nanite swarm on the decepticons for almost killing raf. But he said no.

Aaargh

Syndia growled out and through her hands in the air in clear frustration

If only he weren't so cute, and I wasn't so much on cloud nine when he responded to me admitting to my crush with asking for a date and if I could be his girlfriend, I could've just knocked him unconscious and done it anyway. But no, I had to fall for the guy whose heart is big enough he doesn't want me to go biblical plague style nanite swarm on the bad guys because "it's unnecessarily cruel"

"raf's blood was literally rotting in his own veins from that dark energon. I couldn't give a slagging hell if it's unnecessarily cruel to the faction composed of war criminals, sadists, and murderers when they all should've been reduced to molted slag centuries ago

As syndia's clear irritation grew, her body seemed to vibrate and her voice gained a chittering undertone like the clicking of untold hundreds of unusually small scraplets' maws

[primeratchet]

He glanced at her then went back to working. "I understand what you mean." He grunted.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia starts laughing, it's an odd but none the less warm laugh heavy with the chittering undertones. Yet the glee and amusement in her eyes is almost unholy

They can't kill a nanite swarm that can eat the energy out of their projectile blasts after they've been shot

The warm smile syndia gave ratchet looked odd, far more like something belonging to an inhuman apex predator despite the warmth and not one that looked like it should belong on a human face, but again still warm and looked more natural. More real on syndia's face than her previous more human grins

[primeratchet]

He narrowed his optics at the feeling he got when they smiled. It was.. a bit unsettling. Whatever. He shook away the thought and went back to work.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia's body slowly relaxed, and while her body continued vibrating it grew quieter, and a set of almost insectoid looking organo mechanic wings formed on her back. Syndia looked ratchet in the optics do you mind if I watch you work? I'd like to give the dimensional slip space portal generator some cool down time before I use it to open another portal her voice retained that same chittering undertones, and the curiosity in her eyes was a little less innocent and a little more hungry than it was earlier. But much like her smile, this somewhat unsettling and almost hungry sort of interest/curiosity was more real more true to herself than the earlier and more innocent curiosity. A subtle tenseness in her body language had relaxed throughout the time she's spent with ratchet. There were other details ratchet noticed about how her appearance changed subtly as the discussion continued, little ways her more insectoid aspects peaked through, or how as syndia smiled at him ratchet could see that all of her visible teeth were slightly pointed with a slight metallic glint to them

[primeratchet]

Everything about her seemed unsettling and made Ratchets wires tense. But he pushed those feelings to the back of his mind for now. "Uh... yeah. That's fine." He slowly nodded.

[thecuriousdinobot]

At his words, syndia's entire body seemed to almost vibrate with the intensity of her joy/elation/happiness "thank you, thank you, thank you" syndia half shouted, as the part chitin part metallic insect wings extending from syndia's back perked up and began to flap/flitter too fast to see as syndia took flight from the work bench to fly over and settle on the top of ratchet's right side shoulder plating. Settling in a half crouch half laying position, syndia's eyes moved to look at ratchet is this an okay position? I wanted somewhere I could have a good view of your work, and I'm small enough my weight shouldn't impede your arm movements all that much if at all

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[skywimp]

"yes " he gave a shaky wing wag and smiled "I'm um....an allspark clone ... please don't tell anyone" he feels safe around this large one she seems really sweet he scratched his arm with his talon by accident and anxious tick probably

[thecuriousdinobot]

That sounds fascinating, but don't worry your secret is safe with me. I'm sure you'll find your way home eventually swoop replies softly, one clawed hand gently pat ing the top of his head and, in the meantime you can stick with me

[skywimp]

He nodded softly his head leaning into the pats enjoying them happily before looking around "I'm guessing your swoop yes?" He gives figuring her identity out

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop let out a gentle yet low rumbling laugh for a moment what gave me away? Was it the wings on my back, the clawed feet, the pteranodon looking dino head on my chest plate, all of the above? Or a lucky guess? Swoop gently asked, giving skywarp the closest she can to a reassuring smile, despite her natural smile being a rather toothy and somewhat intimidating and unsettling grin

[skywimp]

"your very sweet " skywarp compliments her sweetly being a sweetspark "... would you like to be friends?" He offer's shyly

[thecuriousdinobot]

I'd love to be your friend swoop replies softly, then gets a contemplative look in her eyes although I really am curious what specifically made you guess that I'm swoop, I certainly doubt that I look much like any swoop that you're familiar with

[skywimp]

"the crest " the seeker replied tapping his own helm with a grin "um do you know anywhere I can throw up?...warping is still new to me"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I suppose the particular back swept shape and red coloration of my head crest is rather unique compared to many. As for your nausea, my time spent mastering flying up on my wings has made me rather familiar with most of the issues regarding nausea and such. If you'd like, I can try something that might alleviate your issue for now, so you don't have to throw up swoop offers with a small and encouraging grin

[skywimp]

"sure what is it?" Skywarp asked Curiously and slightly nervous...was it a good Idea?

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop reaches one finger down, and a faint crackling sound is heard as a small charge of energon based electricity covers the tip of her finger, as the very tip lightly pokes skywarp's forehead and then the center of his chest plate above where his spark chamber is. Almost instantly skywarp's nausea settles down and vanishes much like in humans, nausea is often just a confusion in our spatial perception that occurs when we are unused to a particular way of moving. A simple jolt to the secondary processor nodes in the temple and chest plate regions using a small charge of energon based electricity tuned to a certain frequency will normalize the malfunctioning subsystem. Better now?

[skywimp]

The sweet guys ache subsided as his faceplates fell into a happy relaxed expression "that's soo much better thank you swoop" he lets out a relieved sigh "so Um what would you like to do?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

That depends, do you trust me? Swoop asks softly, reaching one clawed hand out and taking one of skywarp's much smaller hand in her own as she gently guides him up onto his feet. Thanks to swoop's crouch, skywarp can somewhat see as on her back the dinobots' wings relax and partially unfold from their fully retracted state

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[skywimp]

"yes " he gave a shaky wing wag and smiled "I'm um....an allspark clone ... please don't tell anyone" he feels safe around this large one she seems really sweet he scratched his arm with his talon by accident and anxious tick probably

[thecuriousdinobot]

That sounds fascinating, but don't worry your secret is safe with me. I'm sure you'll find your way home eventually swoop replies softly, one clawed hand gently pat ing the top of his head and, in the meantime you can stick with me

[skywimp]

He nodded softly his head leaning into the pats enjoying them happily before looking around "I'm guessing your swoop yes?" He gives figuring her identity out

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop let out a gentle yet low rumbling laugh for a moment what gave me away? Was it the wings on my back, the clawed feet, the pteranodon looking dino head on my chest plate, all of the above? Or a lucky guess? Swoop gently asked, giving skywarp the closest she can to a reassuring smile, despite her natural smile being a rather toothy and somewhat intimidating and unsettling grin

[skywimp]

"your very sweet " skywarp compliments her sweetly being a sweetspark "... would you like to be friends?" He offer's shyly

[thecuriousdinobot]

I'd love to be your friend swoop replies softly, then gets a contemplative look in her eyes although I really am curious what specifically made you guess that I'm swoop, I certainly doubt that I look much like any swoop that you're familiar with

[skywimp]

"the crest " the seeker replied tapping his own helm with a grin "um do you know anywhere I can throw up?...warping is still new to me"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I suppose the particular back swept shape and red coloration of my head crest is rather unique compared to many. As for your nausea, my time spent mastering flying up on my wings has made me rather familiar with most of the issues regarding nausea and such. If you'd like, I can try something that might alleviate your issue for now, so you don't have to throw up swoop offers with a small and encouraging grin

[skywimp]

"sure what is it?" Skywarp asked Curiously and slightly nervous...was it a good Idea?

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop reaches one finger down, and a faint crackling sound is heard as a small charge of energon based electricity covers the tip of her finger, as the very tip lightly pokes skywarp's forehead and then the center of his chest plate above where his spark chamber is. Almost instantly skywarp's nausea settles down and vanishes much like in humans, nausea is often just a confusion in our spatial perception that occurs when we are unused to a particular way of moving. A simple jolt to the secondary processor nodes in the temple and chest plate regions using a small charge of energon based electricity tuned to a certain frequency will normalize the malfunctioning subsystem. Better now?

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[skywimp]

"yes " he gave a shaky wing wag and smiled "I'm um....an allspark clone ... please don't tell anyone" he feels safe around this large one she seems really sweet he scratched his arm with his talon by accident and anxious tick probably

[thecuriousdinobot]

That sounds fascinating, but don't worry your secret is safe with me. I'm sure you'll find your way home eventually swoop replies softly, one clawed hand gently pat ing the top of his head and, in the meantime you can stick with me

[skywimp]

He nodded softly his head leaning into the pats enjoying them happily before looking around "I'm guessing your swoop yes?" He gives figuring her identity out

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop let out a gentle yet low rumbling laugh for a moment what gave me away? Was it the wings on my back, the clawed feet, the pteranodon looking dino head on my chest plate, all of the above? Or a lucky guess? Swoop gently asked, giving skywarp the closest she can to a reassuring smile, despite her natural smile being a rather toothy and somewhat intimidating and unsettling grin

[skywimp]

"your very sweet " skywarp compliments her sweetly being a sweetspark "... would you like to be friends?" He offer's shyly

[thecuriousdinobot]

I'd love to be your friend swoop replies softly, then gets a contemplative look in her eyes although I really am curious what specifically made you guess that I'm swoop, I certainly doubt that I look much like any swoop that you're familiar with

[skywimp]

"the crest " the seeker replied tapping his own helm with a grin "um do you know anywhere I can throw up?...warping is still new to me"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I suppose the particular back swept shape and red coloration of my head crest is rather unique compared to many. As for your nausea, my time spent mastering flying up on my wings has made me rather familiar with most of the issues regarding nausea and such. If you'd like, I can try something that might alleviate your issue for now, so you don't have to throw up swoop offers with a small and encouraging grin

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[skywimp]

"yes " he gave a shaky wing wag and smiled "I'm um....an allspark clone ... please don't tell anyone" he feels safe around this large one she seems really sweet he scratched his arm with his talon by accident and anxious tick probably

[thecuriousdinobot]

That sounds fascinating, but don't worry your secret is safe with me. I'm sure you'll find your way home eventually swoop replies softly, one clawed hand gently pat ing the top of his head and, in the meantime you can stick with me

[skywimp]

He nodded softly his head leaning into the pats enjoying them happily before looking around "I'm guessing your swoop yes?" He gives figuring her identity out

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop let out a gentle yet low rumbling laugh for a moment what gave me away? Was it the wings on my back, the clawed feet, the pteranodon looking dino head on my chest plate, all of the above? Or a lucky guess? Swoop gently asked, giving skywarp the closest she can to a reassuring smile, despite her natural smile being a rather toothy and somewhat intimidating and unsettling grin

[skywimp]

"your very sweet " skywarp compliments her sweetly being a sweetspark "... would you like to be friends?" He offer's shyly

[thecuriousdinobot]

I'd love to be your friend swoop replies softly, then gets a contemplative look in her eyes although I really am curious what specifically made you guess that I'm swoop, I certainly doubt that I look much like any swoop that you're familiar with

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

@thecuriousdinobot

As Optimus was walking through one of Earth's many forests, he stopped as a the visage of another cybertronian flickered into view. Though their appearance was oddly (in a more curious way) diverged from what he was familiar with, he could still tell a few things. 1 the bot, despite having a build both bulkier and physically heads and shoulders (and a good part of the upper torso) above Optimus himself, was clearly a femme. 2, certain details on the femme's frame indicates some form of flight capable beast mode with some vague resemblance to the earth pteranodon. And three, for some reason her body appeared ephemeral and see through

Huh, so that method is more of an astral projection than actual dimensional shifting. Neat! Not immediately useful but still neat

The femme paused speaking as she looked up from gazing at her own see through body and locked eyes with Optimus

Oh, hello, and who might you be?

Optimus was surprised to see another bot like him. There were more survivors?

"Optimus prime." He rumbled. "And you are...?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop, and you're surprisingly not that much smaller than the Optimus I'm familiar with the femme's visage then shifted, clearly showing her being apologetic but I'm afraid I'm not actually native to your world, so I can't actually say for sure whether other survivors of your Cybertron still exist

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"Are you from another universe?" He asked. Coming a little closer, he tilted his head. Universal hops seemed ti be more frequent than ever before.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Err, yes. To be truthful I'm not entirely sure you could technically say I'm in your reality. Long story short, but I ended up transported from my home reality to a different one and I'm trying to build a device to allow me to get home. My current attempt seems to have temporarily projected my spark into your world from the world my body is in. Hence the insubstantial appearance of my body

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"interesting..." optimus rumbled, now close enough to see thst the other was indeed transparent. "You are... half here." He said mostly to himself, taking in the situation.

[thecuriousdinobot]

That's one way to look at it I suppose, another would be that I'm here in mind but not in body. As for your earlier surprise when I first flickered into view, have you considered sending out a ping that has been quantum entangled via mechanical based booster mechanism with the autobot insignia so as to radiate across the known universe and beyond? And in doing so reach every autobot still functional

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"Ratchet has done that, yes, along with a message." Optimus nodded. "We are just waiting and hoping." He mused softly, watching Swoop carefully.

[thecuriousdinobot]

That's great, but did you also remember to set up a counter ping receiver quantum linked to the outgoing ping and mapped onto a star map? That way, even before you get a reply you know when an autobot received the ping and if they're still online?

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"I... do not know. That is something I will have to ask the others." He rumbled, actually unsure if his troops thought of that. He hadn't.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Admittedly, I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't thought about it. Being perfectly honest, my own version of the autobots only started doing that after autobot high command permitted a modified version of the quantum entanglement achieved communications array to be declassified and released to the r&d taskforce. Prior to that, the existence of autobot made quantum entanglement based communications systems were kept completely classified so the decepticons didn't have any chance to crack the covert communications systems used by the autobot elite strike force teams. It wasn't until grimlock of all bots made a couple suggestions regarding a few ways a quantum entanglement based communications array could be modified that we had one different enough and low power enough for the covert operations command to okay the declassification of a quantum entanglement based communications array. Basically, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't a thought that occurred because in my world a form of the technology needed to achieve quantum entangling a receiver module with an outgoing ping has only recently been declassified. And why would they think of doing something requiring tech that they only recently have been made aware of even exists

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[skywimp]

"yes " he gave a shaky wing wag and smiled "I'm um....an allspark clone ... please don't tell anyone" he feels safe around this large one she seems really sweet he scratched his arm with his talon by accident and anxious tick probably

[thecuriousdinobot]

That sounds fascinating, but don't worry your secret is safe with me. I'm sure you'll find your way home eventually swoop replies softly, one clawed hand gently pat ing the top of his head and, in the meantime you can stick with me

[skywimp]

He nodded softly his head leaning into the pats enjoying them happily before looking around "I'm guessing your swoop yes?" He gives figuring her identity out

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop let out a gentle yet low rumbling laugh for a moment what gave me away? Was it the wings on my back, the clawed feet, the pteranodon looking dino head on my chest plate, all of the above? Or a lucky guess? Swoop gently asked, giving skywarp the closest she can to a reassuring smile, despite her natural smile being a rather toothy and somewhat intimidating and unsettling grin

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

@thecuriousdinobot

As Optimus was walking through one of Earth's many forests, he stopped as a the visage of another cybertronian flickered into view. Though their appearance was oddly (in a more curious way) diverged from what he was familiar with, he could still tell a few things. 1 the bot, despite having a build both bulkier and physically heads and shoulders (and a good part of the upper torso) above Optimus himself, was clearly a femme. 2, certain details on the femme's frame indicates some form of flight capable beast mode with some vague resemblance to the earth pteranodon. And three, for some reason her body appeared ephemeral and see through

Huh, so that method is more of an astral projection than actual dimensional shifting. Neat! Not immediately useful but still neat

The femme paused speaking as she looked up from gazing at her own see through body and locked eyes with Optimus

Oh, hello, and who might you be?

Optimus was surprised to see another bot like him. There were more survivors?

"Optimus prime." He rumbled. "And you are...?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop, and you're surprisingly not that much smaller than the Optimus I'm familiar with the femme's visage then shifted, clearly showing her being apologetic but I'm afraid I'm not actually native to your world, so I can't actually say for sure whether other survivors of your Cybertron still exist

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"Are you from another universe?" He asked. Coming a little closer, he tilted his head. Universal hops seemed ti be more frequent than ever before.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Err, yes. To be truthful I'm not entirely sure you could technically say I'm in your reality. Long story short, but I ended up transported from my home reality to a different one and I'm trying to build a device to allow me to get home. My current attempt seems to have temporarily projected my spark into your world from the world my body is in. Hence the insubstantial appearance of my body

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"interesting..." optimus rumbled, now close enough to see thst the other was indeed transparent. "You are... half here." He said mostly to himself, taking in the situation.

[thecuriousdinobot]

That's one way to look at it I suppose, another would be that I'm here in mind but not in body. As for your earlier surprise when I first flickered into view, have you considered sending out a ping that has been quantum entangled via mechanical based booster mechanism with the autobot insignia so as to radiate across the known universe and beyond? And in doing so reach every autobot still functional

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"Ratchet has done that, yes, along with a message." Optimus nodded. "We are just waiting and hoping." He mused softly, watching Swoop carefully.

[thecuriousdinobot]

That's great, but did you also remember to set up a counter ping receiver quantum linked to the outgoing ping and mapped onto a star map? That way, even before you get a reply you know when an autobot received the ping and if they're still online?

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[skywimp]

"yes " he gave a shaky wing wag and smiled "I'm um....an allspark clone ... please don't tell anyone" he feels safe around this large one she seems really sweet he scratched his arm with his talon by accident and anxious tick probably

[thecuriousdinobot]

That sounds fascinating, but don't worry your secret is safe with me. I'm sure you'll find your way home eventually swoop replies softly, one clawed hand gently pat ing the top of his head and, in the meantime you can stick with me

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh dear I seemed to have gotten turned around

@skywimp

@skywimp swoop takes a look at the much smaller seeker, and how he's almost shaking from anxiety, and immediately crouches down so she's eye to eye with him and her larger frame doesn't look quite so intimidating I'd certainly say so, you're quite probably very far from home considering that you look nothing like the locals, and only a little like the seekers I'm familiar with. You're name wouldn't happen to be skywarp would it? Swoop asked softly, taking care to keep her voice at a soft and quiet tone with a relaxed body language

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

@thecuriousdinobot

As Optimus was walking through one of Earth's many forests, he stopped as a the visage of another cybertronian flickered into view. Though their appearance was oddly (in a more curious way) diverged from what he was familiar with, he could still tell a few things. 1 the bot, despite having a build both bulkier and physically heads and shoulders (and a good part of the upper torso) above Optimus himself, was clearly a femme. 2, certain details on the femme's frame indicates some form of flight capable beast mode with some vague resemblance to the earth pteranodon. And three, for some reason her body appeared ephemeral and see through

Huh, so that method is more of an astral projection than actual dimensional shifting. Neat! Not immediately useful but still neat

The femme paused speaking as she looked up from gazing at her own see through body and locked eyes with Optimus

Oh, hello, and who might you be?

Optimus was surprised to see another bot like him. There were more survivors?

"Optimus prime." He rumbled. "And you are...?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop, and you're surprisingly not that much smaller than the Optimus I'm familiar with the femme's visage then shifted, clearly showing her being apologetic but I'm afraid I'm not actually native to your world, so I can't actually say for sure whether other survivors of your Cybertron still exist

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"Are you from another universe?" He asked. Coming a little closer, he tilted his head. Universal hops seemed ti be more frequent than ever before.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Err, yes. To be truthful I'm not entirely sure you could technically say I'm in your reality. Long story short, but I ended up transported from my home reality to a different one and I'm trying to build a device to allow me to get home. My current attempt seems to have temporarily projected my spark into your world from the world my body is in. Hence the insubstantial appearance of my body

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"interesting..." optimus rumbled, now close enough to see thst the other was indeed transparent. "You are... half here." He said mostly to himself, taking in the situation.

[thecuriousdinobot]

That's one way to look at it I suppose, another would be that I'm here in mind but not in body. As for your earlier surprise when I first flickered into view, have you considered sending out a ping that has been quantum entangled via mechanical based booster mechanism with the autobot insignia so as to radiate across the known universe and beyond? And in doing so reach every autobot still functional

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

@thecuriousdinobot

As Optimus was walking through one of Earth's many forests, he stopped as a the visage of another cybertronian flickered into view. Though their appearance was oddly (in a more curious way) diverged from what he was familiar with, he could still tell a few things. 1 the bot, despite having a build both bulkier and physically heads and shoulders (and a good part of the upper torso) above Optimus himself, was clearly a femme. 2, certain details on the femme's frame indicates some form of flight capable beast mode with some vague resemblance to the earth pteranodon. And three, for some reason her body appeared ephemeral and see through

Huh, so that method is more of an astral projection than actual dimensional shifting. Neat! Not immediately useful but still neat

The femme paused speaking as she looked up from gazing at her own see through body and locked eyes with Optimus

Oh, hello, and who might you be?

Optimus was surprised to see another bot like him. There were more survivors?

"Optimus prime." He rumbled. "And you are...?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop, and you're surprisingly not that much smaller than the Optimus I'm familiar with the femme's visage then shifted, clearly showing her being apologetic but I'm afraid I'm not actually native to your world, so I can't actually say for sure whether other survivors of your Cybertron still exist

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

"Are you from another universe?" He asked. Coming a little closer, he tilted his head. Universal hops seemed ti be more frequent than ever before.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Err, yes. To be truthful I'm not entirely sure you could technically say I'm in your reality. Long story short, but I ended up transported from my home reality to a different one and I'm trying to build a device to allow me to get home. My current attempt seems to have temporarily projected my spark into your world from the world my body is in. Hence the insubstantial appearance of my body

[primeratchet]

Ratchet was just doing idle work on the computer systems in the main area of the autobot base when the ground bridge activated on its own, except the color of the portal was slightly off. A small cloud of what at first glance looked like regular earth insects flew out shortly before the portal closed and flew around a bit before flying straight into ratchet's chest plating by accident and bouncing off. A good part of the cloud seemed to swarm together, becoming what looked like a scraplet when it opened its eyes but had its mouth shut. Except the details weren't quite right, it looked more like someone tried to build a scraplet but only had most of the details regarding a scraplet's appearance and none of the specifics. It peered at ratchet with bright orange eyes (another detail that wasn't right, scraplet eyes are a bright electrical blue), then the rest of the seeming insect cloud swarmed the not-scraplet as it broke apart into the rest of the cloud before settling down into what appeared to be a regular human teenager about Jack's age still looking up at him with those curious bright orange eyes

you look kinda like my ratchet, but the details aren't quite right. Who are you? The question was one of a clear and genuine innocent curiosity

@thecuriousdinobot

Originally thinking it was a scraplet he freaked out a bit, jumping back, about to turn his arm into his weapon. But when it changes into.. a human, he just became baffled. What the frag...

He blinked a few times. His Ratchet? Was this person or- thing- from a different dimension?

"I...." He shook his head. "Who are you? How did you activate the ground bridge?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Her large, and curious bright orange eyes glimmered with a level of amusement as she almost chirped her reply

with a ground bridge remote access key holding the necessary credentials for the handshake protocol needed for a remotely activated ground bridge portal generation. You're silly, you built the ground bridge you should know this. Or, at least I assume you built the ground bridge a peculiarly contemplative look came to her face I know my ratchet did, but you still haven't explained why you look like my ratchet, but not exactly. You look pretty much like him but some of the details are off and the proportions of a few things aren't quite right, and neither is some of the positioning on some of the armor plating

[primeratchet]

"I did make it, but I don't remember giving you credentials. At all. I don't even know who you are, and vice versea." This was.. Odd.

"My name is Ratchet. I think you're from a different universe."

[thecuriousdinobot]

That explains why you look off from my ratchet she paused and whispered to herself and the missing holes in the ground from the cave in before continuing and as for giving me access credentials you didnt, and technically neither did my ratchet

Her expression turns slightly awkward and shifty

So, what my ratchet had done was give me a puzzle that when I solved it, it unfolded and had a neat little doohickey inside along with a riddle to the next puzzle. Seven or eight different riddles and puzzle boxes later I was holding a ground bridge remote access key that data wise was incomplete. It was missing the credentials needed for the handshake protocol but did have a set of destination coordinates pre programmed in the incomplete ground bridge remote access key.

She visibly paused, and takes a deep breath while her hands start frantically fidgeting with each other

What I thought this meant was that my ratchet wanted me to use my skills, and the system access port cord that had been physically integrated into the modified access key, to extract the remote access credentials from the central database and use the now completed ground bridge remote access key to create a ground bridge portal to the coordinates pre programmed in. And do so without bringing the whole server down on top of me. Which was awesome as I don't get to use my data extraction subroutine protocols all that often, despite jormungandr not having been intended for non destructive data extraction, and I even succeeded

She starts awkwardly laughing

What I found out when I arrived was that the series of puzzles wasn't to distract me so I didn't bug him, but a distraction while they put the finishing touches on my birthday party. Well, that and that I completely misinterpreted what my ratchet had wanted me to do. I was supposed to use the system access port cord and the modified access key programming to bridge the code of the two devices and insert the destination coordinates into the ground bridge. Which ratchet had already primed for activation as soon as destination coordinates were input. But my ratchet, seeing that I managed it without accidentally slagging the ground bridge systems, he let me keep the ground bridge remote access key I had finished

[primeratchet]

"Ah... but... how did you get to this universe? Do you know?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

She cocked her head in surprise

That's what you're curious about, not how I have subroutine protocols in the first place?

[primeratchet]

"Not at the moment. I'm more worried about how you GOT here. Because if it's this easy for someone to get in, that means it's that easy for enemies as well." He crossed his arms.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Oh, that's easy. I was trying to find a friend that's been displaced to another world somewhere out there in the dimensional sea. That and it makes it easier on the dimensional slip space portal generator to go from one version of the same place to another version of the same place

A nostalgic smile comes to her face as she takes a look around the base

It's a real memory trip getting to see what the base looked like originally again, and love it. Then again that makes sense when the base had been my home for over a year when it needed rebuilt

An amused yet nostalgic smile came to her face

Any other questions?

[primeratchet]

"Who the scrap are you?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I'm syndia, and my team prime might've kinda basically adopted me when they realized that for understandable reasons I didn't exactly exist as far as the government was concerned

[primeratchet]

He cocked an eye.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Well

Syndia's voice grew quite soft as she whispered

You kinda have to have biological parents to have a legal and government recognized identity, even if you don't know who they are. They still need to exist in the first place

[primeratchet]

"Yours... don't?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Was that not clear?

Syndia's reply was to the point, yet the underlying emotion struggled to convey the sheer level of longing she had for the idea of having parents

[primeratchet]

Ratchet hesitated but nodded slowly. "I suppose it was.."

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia shook her head, and looked back up at him. Her simple, innocently curious smile was back, but at the same time it was different now. More fragile. He could see the pain in her eyes

Do you have any other questions ratchet? I know I've told you who I am and how I got here, but you probably have other questions?

[primeratchet]

"At the moment.. No... I just need to figure out how to... send you back right your dimension." He said, his tone getting softer with her expression.

[thecuriousdinobot]

No need for that, I can actually handle that myself I just need to activate the dimensional recall beacon so they know to open up the cross dimensional slip space portal between this dimension and mine

She replies, starting to slowly bounce up and down on the balls of her feet. Then she gets a contemplative look on her face and cocks her head to one side

Not gunna ask how I'm here if I don'na have biological parents?

Syndia asks, her voice still soft, but a smidge brighter and innocent genuine curiosity clear in her voice

[primeratchet]

"Didn't know if you wanted me to ask." He grunted. "Or if it was a sore spot to ask." The medic grumbled as he went to the control panel, doing a light check up, while still keeping a optic of Syndia.

[thecuriousdinobot]

No? Syndia cocked her head in the other direction I wouldn't've mentioned jormungandr earlier if it wasn't

Syndia perks up as a thought occurs to her

Oh, if you're doing a check on the controls and whatnot. The programming itself is a-o-kay, not so sure about the actual components. That's not exactly my thing. But the programming itself is running perfectly fine, with no maintenance currently needed

[primeratchet]

"How can you tell?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

I can tell, because code is jormungandr's thing, and jormungandr is me just as I am jormungandr. Or, well

Syndia visibly gets slightly embarrassed

Technically jormungandr is only part of me, not all of me

[primeratchet]

"...Huh." he glanced at her, oprics narrowed with confusion.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia stops cocking her head to one side and looks ratchet directly in his optics, but something is really off about her eyes now. Everything else aside, they've somehow gone from the bright mirror like look of a regular human's eyes and are now a completely flat and dull orange and disturbingly intently focused on ratchet

Are you going to ask what jormungandr is?

[primeratchet]

"....What is... Jormungandr...?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

The smile that came to syndia's face at ratchet's words looked very wrong. It wasn't nice, it wasn't kind. It was almost malicious with some amusement at ratchet's words

Good call, not he, not she, but it. Jormungandr is me and I am syndia. Or a part of her at least. But that a who not a what. The what, well that's simple. Jormungandr is a cutting edge next generation and practically a one of a kind masterwork self adapting and evolving data infiltration and extraction virus

As syndia said the word virus, she or her body at least, reached out and poked the screen display for the computer systems, which instantly began to glitch out as dozens of warnings popped up saying "unknown virus detected. Firewalls down. Computer systems compromised" go back to normal the moment syndia's finger was removed from the screen

[primeratchet]

"hey hey hey! Yip yip! Don't touch anything!" He said strictly, standing in front of the panel now. He glanced back at it to make sure it was ok; from the first look it seemed alright so he turned his gaze back to her.

"A virus? In you? How is that-"

"Venom type shit." Dylan peeked out of Ratchets shoulder, speaking for a moment, before going back in.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia blinked, and her expression and eyes were back to normal.

Nah, not venom. You know what jormungandr is, well basically it was used to attack a government black sight research facility with the intent to destroy all the data there and hopefully burn itself out on the closed network. But one of the lab's projects was a biotechnological nano machine poject

[primeratchet]

"Interesting... and you came into contact with it."

[thecuriousdinobot]

Nooo, instead the meteor shower that started happening at the time of jormungandr finishing it's avatar made of the biotechnological nano machines was debating how to best escape the lab and was debating using one of the scientists as a meat puppet when a meteor hit the lab. Said meteor contained scraplets, which proceeded to try and consume the biotechnological nanite construct. Even as jormungandr tried to consume them

[primeratchet]

"Hm..." he listened... how Odd. Interesting.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Going to ask how we get from what sounds like the barely averted start of a horror movie to where I come in?

Syndia asks cheerfully

[primeratchet]

"why not... How?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Good question, if you figure that out. Please let me know, because it has me confused and I lived it

Syndia cheerfully replied

All I know for sure is that at some point in that fight back and forth they melded together, and the resulting combination had mental capabilities sophisticated enough to develop sapience and sentience. Then that proto-me went to a computer and accessed the human Internet in the hopes of learning who I am. Eventually I stumbled upon a forum where I met humans who I talked back and forth with through the forum. As I did so, with each discussion I became more me, and the forums is where I met jack

A nostalgic yet happy smile came to syndia's face

I like my jack syndia admitted, then blushed bright red at her own words

[primeratchet]

(FIXING THIS- SORRY EJFJD my brains jumbled)

"You like Jack?" He cocked an optic, going back to work, but paying attention still. "Why?" He didn't see the appeal.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia cocked her head to the side, a genuinely curious look on her face

If you were lost, if you felt you were alone in the world. If you had no true understanding of who you are or if you're truly alive and not just a construct simulating life. If you poured your heart out into a forum and reached out to dozens, and just when you'd lost all hope. Someone new reached out in turn

A happy, nostalgic smile came to syndia's face

If that person helped you, helped you realize who you are. If they made you know for sure, in the darkest depths of your mind and heart that YES you are alive.

Wouldn't you fall for them? Wouldn't you cherish them, want to hold them close? Want to do everything with them, and have them part of your everything for the rest of your life?

I may not have met my jack in person until after he met team prime, but by that point I'd been talking with him through forums messages, text, and even calls for more than a year and a half. I'd been carrying a proverbial torch for him, as humans would put it, for at least five months by that point. I was afraid, he was my everything, my world. I was afraid that if he met me, if he knew what I really was. That he'd reject me, and want nothing to do with me

Syndia's expression, although backlit by her blush being almost literally luminescent red now, turned sad

I'm not going to lie, if that had happened. I would have left as he asked, but my next act would've been to either find or build an electromagnetic field generator strong enough to rip the biotechnological nano machines comprising my body apart and wipe my code. Without jack, I wouldn't have truly learned to live. And in a world where he wants nothing to do with me, I wouldn't see a reason to continue to live either

[primeratchet]

"Ah..." so she depends heavily on him. Fair.

Ratchet knew what it was like... he said nothing though, just nodding along.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Good news, when he did find out about my true nature he didn't reject me. I also accidentally admitted to my crush on him shortly after revealing/admitting to my true nature. Did your world's raf every get a bit of dark energon in his system because he was in the back seat of bumblebee's vehicle mode when bumblebee got hit by a long range shot by Megatron's fusion cannon?

[primeratchet]

He paused for a moment, the memory filling his processor. "Yes. He did."

[thecuriousdinobot]

Well good news, sorta. So among the other weirdness of the whatever hodgepodge hybrid of the stuff I'm made of I am. I can somehow literally smell smd manipulate blood. And somehow the weird mixture of scraplet, military biotech nano machine, and super virus lets me basically be a ripoff vampire sometimes. So I could literally smell the dark energon in him, and for my raf at least

An odd expression comes to her face as her blush starts dying down

It, really wasn't pleasant, but I basically sucked the dark energon out of him along with a small amount of dark energon infected blood. Rag was okay afterwards, thank Primus. I love the little dude like a younger brother. Now if I can just convince Jack to let me go biblical plague style nanite swarm on the decepticons for almost killing raf. But he said no.

Aaargh

Syndia growled out and through her hands in the air in clear frustration

If only he weren't so cute, and I wasn't so much on cloud nine when he responded to me admitting to my crush with asking for a date and if I could be his girlfriend, I could've just knocked him unconscious and done it anyway. But no, I had to fall for the guy whose heart is big enough he doesn't want me to go biblical plague style nanite swarm on the bad guys because "it's unnecessarily cruel"

"raf's blood was literally rotting in his own veins from that dark energon. I couldn't give a slagging hell if it's unnecessarily cruel to the faction composed of war criminals, sadists, and murderers when they all should've been reduced to molted slag centuries ago

As syndia's clear irritation grew, her body seemed to vibrate and her voice gained a chittering undertone like the clicking of untold hundreds of unusually small scraplets' maws

[primeratchet]

He glanced at her then went back to working. "I understand what you mean." He grunted.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia starts laughing, it's an odd but none the less warm laugh heavy with the chittering undertones. Yet the glee and amusement in her eyes is almost unholy

They can't kill a nanite swarm that can eat the energy out of their projectile blasts after they've been shot

The warm smile syndia gave ratchet looked odd, far more like something belonging to an inhuman apex predator despite the warmth and not one that looked like it should belong on a human face, but again still warm and looked more natural. More real on syndia's face than her previous more human grins

[primeratchet]

He narrowed his optics at the feeling he got when they smiled. It was.. a bit unsettling. Whatever. He shook away the thought and went back to work.

[thecuriousdinobot]

Syndia's body slowly relaxed, and while her body continued vibrating it grew quieter, and a set of almost insectoid looking organo mechanic wings formed on her back. Syndia looked ratchet in the optics do you mind if I watch you work? I'd like to give the dimensional slip space portal generator some cool down time before I use it to open another portal her voice retained that same chittering undertones, and the curiosity in her eyes was a little less innocent and a little more hungry than it was earlier. But much like her smile, this somewhat unsettling and almost hungry sort of interest/curiosity was more real more true to herself than the earlier and more innocent curiosity. A subtle tenseness in her body language had relaxed throughout the time she's spent with ratchet. There were other details ratchet noticed about how her appearance changed subtly as the discussion continued, little ways her more insectoid aspects peaked through, or how as syndia smiled at him ratchet could see that all of her visible teeth were slightly pointed with a slight metallic glint to them

[primeperspective-deactivated202]

@thecuriousdinobot

As Optimus was walking through one of Earth's many forests, he stopped as a the visage of another cybertronian flickered into view. Though their appearance was oddly (in a more curious way) diverged from what he was familiar with, he could still tell a few things. 1 the bot, despite having a build both bulkier and physically heads and shoulders (and a good part of the upper torso) above Optimus himself, was clearly a femme. 2, certain details on the femme's frame indicates some form of flight capable beast mode with some vague resemblance to the earth pteranodon. And three, for some reason her body appeared ephemeral and see through

Huh, so that method is more of an astral projection than actual dimensional shifting. Neat! Not immediately useful but still neat

The femme paused speaking as she looked up from gazing at her own see through body and locked eyes with Optimus

Oh, hello, and who might you be?

Optimus was surprised to see another bot like him. There were more survivors?

"Optimus prime." He rumbled. "And you are...?"

[thecuriousdinobot]

Swoop, and you're surprisingly not that much smaller than the Optimus I'm familiar with the femme's visage then shifted, clearly showing her being apologetic but I'm afraid I'm not actually native to your world, so I can't actually say for sure whether other survivors of your Cybertron still exist