[Voice]

[needlefingers]

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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[audio]

[needlefingers]

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.

[audio]

[shadowsgambit]

[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?]

[audio]

[needlefingers]

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?

[audio]

[shadowsgambit]

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

[audio]

[needlefingers]

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

[audio]

[shadowsgambit]

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.]