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[Video] [Origin : Junk Pile] Macro-Dimensional shift gives me a headache.
Arright. Something is seriously wrong with Cybertron's chrono-dimensional anchor. I dunno who, or what, or even when, but this constant planet change is not right at all. I mean, first the whole planet resets like someone hit 'Undo All'... and now it does it again only there's apparently rusting First-Forged walking around!
Ugh. There's also a huge anomaly out here that shouldn't be sustainable without insane levels of energy but at this point I'm willing to just overlook it, given that we're probably dealing with some kind of rupture in fourth or possibly fifth dimensional barriers here.
[Have an extended sigh, as Wheeljack runs his hands over his faceplate.]
I coulda dealt with things as they were. I mean sure we had an overpopulation of three different factions on a Cybertron that seemed to want nothing more than to kill us but at least things were starting to get organized.
Now I'm back to piles of junk.
Ooooohkay. Bee, Prowl, Metalhawk, Starscream - If any of you made it, let me know. Oh and Bee, if yer out there, this was not me.
Ugh. There's also a huge anomaly out here that shouldn't be sustainable without insane levels of energy but at this point I'm willing to just overlook it, given that we're probably dealing with some kind of rupture in fourth or possibly fifth dimensional barriers here.
[Have an extended sigh, as Wheeljack runs his hands over his faceplate.]
I coulda dealt with things as they were. I mean sure we had an overpopulation of three different factions on a Cybertron that seemed to want nothing more than to kill us but at least things were starting to get organized.
Now I'm back to piles of junk.
Ooooohkay. Bee, Prowl, Metalhawk, Starscream - If any of you made it, let me know. Oh and Bee, if yer out there, this was not me.
[Video]
He listens a moment to the techno babble that seems to come out of this bot's not-mouth before he decides to speak up.]
Uh...calm down there, geek squad.
[Video]
I'll calm down when reality fluxes stop dumping me on increasingly primitive versions of Cybertron.
And the name is Wheeljack.
[And only now does he take a moment to study the image on the video feed.]
...
...
huh.
[Video]
Yyyyyep.
And this next sentence is gonna be pretty awkward, champ.
Name's Wheeljack.
[Video]
Right. Okay. Different realities. Stands to reason that there are alternate versions of me too.
[The look on his face betrays the fact that he never expected to actually run into one of them.]
Hey, wait. If yer me, how do you get off callin' me a geek??
[Video]
Uh, ya just rattled off some babble I'd more likely hear from the ol' Doc than somethin' I'd say.
[His eyes aren't really focused on Wheeljack's optics, but more to the head fins. Yes, they were in the same position....but...
SORRY, SOMETHING'S BUGGING HIM. He reaches up and points to his own headfins.]
Uh...ya got somethin on your...
Do they always do that?
[Video]
[Now that you mention it, this other Wheeljack sounds a bit, well... let's be kind and say unrefined.]
[He reaches up and puts a finger on his own fins]
What about 'em?
Wait. Why aren't yours glowing?
[WAIT. WHY DO YOU GET A MOUTH.]
[Video]
[Is this what happens when you mesh Ratchet and himself together? His wings give a slight flutter, as if chilled by that.]
Cause it'd be weird if they did, partner.
Also you're not in battle, ya can let up on that mask.
[Video]
[Okay, that's weird. Granted he wasn't expecting another version of him to be an exact copy but this was kinda like...
like...
He couldn't even come up with an adequate metaphor. He had no idea how to feel about an alternate reality in which he never went to college.]
So you just, uh, fix vehicles then?
Yeah, it's not a mask. It's a faceplate. And that's why these glow, because bots said it was freaky when there was nothing matching my voice.
Why do you have them? Since you've already got a mouth.
[TOTALLY NOT BITTER]
1/2 [Video]
[Oh Wheeljack, you haven't even cracked this iceberg yet. Not only is he not a scientist, but he's in another fraggin' spectrum. REALLY MAKES YA THINK!]
When I'm not breakin' em down.
...
Wait, so you're sayin it doesn't-
2/2 [Video]
That faceplate slides along over his mouth, and pretty soon, the two Wheeljacks are twins in the faceplate department.]
-slide on?
And they're my audio receptors, bud. Need 'em to...yannow, hear.
[HE'S NOT ENVIOUS IN THE LEAST.]
[Video]
You need audio receptors that big where you come from? Maybe there's a difference in gaseous particle density that requires more extensive exposed area?
Ahem. But more importantly... you're a what?
[Video]
[Are you analyzing his ears, Wheeljack?]
I'm a Wrecker. Don't tell me ya never heard of em.
[Video]
Y-yeah, I've heard of them.
Where I come from, they're the Autobots suicide squad. Periodically someone gets together a bunch of bots with nothin to lose, goes after some high-up Decepticon warlord and usually everyone ends up dead.
Sound about right?
[And what on Primus' grey Cybertron would ever make a version of him sign up for the wreckers??]
Re: [Video]
[Well, he certainly seems proud of that...]
[Video] In which IDWjack thinks a lot.
Granted, Perceptor did decide that he wanted to follow that path but then this is the mech who drilled out his own optic. 'jack had always thought that something in Percy's finely analytic mind had just snapped one day. Thankfully he seemed to have the deathwish thing out of his system after Garrus-9 but still. He'd never understood the reasoning and to find out that he might end up doing that? It gave him chills to think that there might be some inherent glitch in science-bot programming that eventually led to going loose nuts and deciding to shoot a lot of people.
After mulling it over, he had only one question.]
WHY?
[Video] Never change IDWjack ;~;
When the engineer finally speaks up again, he can only shake his head, chuckling a bit.]
Seemed like a better use of my time than stayin' on Cybertron.
I'm guessin' this is a surprise to ya too.
[Without another moment's hesitation, he draws his two swords to show him.]
[Video]
Not understand, mind, but accept.]
[He might not a wreckers fanboy but he knows enough that no one joins up out of mere boredom. He'll let it pass for now though.]
Uh huh.
Oh jeez, it's like Drift all over again.
Here, these are my weapons of choice.
[A compartment on his legs slide open and he pulls out a wrench, which his wiggles at the camera]
[Video]
[Oh no. Don't wave that-WHEELJACK...
At the mere sight of it, the Wrecker!Wheeljack puts his hand on his helm, dipping his head slightly downward, as if trying to avoid something by default.]
[Video]
Well, I'll tell ya what I told Drift - swords take up two much space for only doing one thing.
[He pauses, mid-waggle, before continuing with a mixture of confusion and amusement.]
What? It's just a wrench. A little shake won't hurt anything. It's not like it's my sub-sonic impact driver. Ah shoot, I just realized that got left behind too. Slaggit. I hate having to start over with no tools.
[Video]
Heh, apologies for that. More often than not Ratchet ends up tossin' those things at my head.
I usually deserve it, too.
And I know what ya mean. I miss my grenades. Makin' em from scratch here just isn't the same.
[Why yes Wheeljack, he makes his own explosions just like you!]
[Video]
Don't tell me that the Ratchet from your universe is a wrecker too. Personally I can't imagine him as anything other than a grumpy old medic but after this? It wouldn't shock me.
Oh? What kinda grenades? Standard fragmentary, I assume?
[What with you not being a scientist and all they probably wouldn't be the neat kind - like stasis field or cryo-spreading.
But you've gotten his interest.]