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I am an Autobot. I earned my badge.

[His voice shakes a little in anger.]

I'll prove it. I'll make things better. You'll see.

[Locked to Rewind]

Look I.

I don't know. I feel like we should talk. Or something.

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Near the place I died, oddly enough.

Does that happen often around here? Or am I just that special?

I dunno, but if it's not something that could've happened to you normally, then...it had to have come from here. I've never heard of anything that can raise the dead.

[And of course if repairs were possible wouldn't his leader have done that? They were acting like it was a very final thing...]

Absolutely terrific. Now I've got to actually face the concequences of my actions. Oh joy of joys.

[He's not being entirely serious. What's the point in being alive if you can't throw some humour around, after all.]

So what's your story? What made you talk to the big bad ol' Chromedome?

[If she knew he had died, then she probably knew about everything else as well.]

Honestly? The fact that you're still here, more than anything. Coming back from the dead is like...well, it belongs in a fairy tale.

[She sighs. It's weird, but she'll have to actually try asking the people here.]

But I do want to know your side of the story. Don't think it'll do any good to yell at you or something. Plenty of other people to do that.

[She doesn't want to be the one to make him snap again. She can't condone his actions, can't forgive them. But she's aware there seem to be a large number of people he can hurt with those techniques of his and she doesn't want to start another incident. If she gives him a place to explain himself, maybe it will keep him calmer. As far as she's concerned, he's an unstable war vet, not a cruel maniac working for some greater goal.]

Not much to tell. I went crazy. Hurt people. Killed myself. And now I'm back. Oh, and I betrayed two people who loved me in the worst way possible. That last one's a kicker. And after all that, I had my needles taken away. I'm not a threat to anyone right now.

[The organics were never much in danger, since Chromedome doesn't consider any of them a threat. They're just organics after all. Squishy mortal things that only live for a few centuries at a time.]

Now all I want to do is earn back the respect of my friends. That's the Autobot way.

[She still doesn't really know the difference. The line is about as arbitrary as Earth nationalities would probably look to him.]

Guess I don't need to tell you it'll probably be a long road. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure your leader still believes in you.

[He probably already knows that, though.

It's not as if he's totally off the hook in her eyes. She'll be a little wary for a long time. But she knows if you treat someone like a monster they'll act the part in frustration. She's no sociologist (she couldn't get a formal education anyway), but it doesn't take a genius to see it's part of why the stereotypes regarding her kind have endured instead of just fading out with the initial goblinization. He wants to repent. Why not give him a shot?]

Ultra Magnus is a good person. They all are. Much better than I deserve.

I'll do right by them.

[But enough doom and gloom, Chromedome's interested in talking to this new person. He hasn't met many new people lately despite there being a whole city full of them.]

So what's your name?

It's all you can do. And my name's Fortuna.

Fortuna. And I take it you're not Cybertronian?

Nope, just another Earthling. But it looks like there're a lot of Earths, so I don't know how much that counts for.

[A pause.]

Hey, that is weird. Plenty of different Earths, only one... [Time to play "guess the noun from the adjective"] ...Cybertronia?

[Yeah that sounds suitably like a cheesy sci-fi name.]

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