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[Heatwave's first post opens with him talking excitedly and very fast, as though worried that if he doesn't blurt this out immediately he'll forget it. He keeps alternating between clipped briefness like he's trying to give a mission report and...well...babbling.]

[So it's like he's trying to give a really bad mission report.]

I remember how I got here.

[Yes, he sounds horribly pleased about this. He doesn't hold much hope out for his memories, okay.]

It was the Autobots. They had a Stellar Spanner - which is impossible technology. They shouldn't have had it, which is why I had to go talk to it even though it was a glitched thing to do. Sorry, Blitz. Long story short, they caught me and decided to use me to test it. I can't exactly blame them. There is always a danger of finding yourself at the far reaches of the universe if something goes wrong with one, and that's if you're lucky. Or that's what we think, anyway. This is all theoretical. The only mech who had a Stellar Spanner before this was the Old One and he was...well, crazy's putting it lightly.

I freed myself, but it was too late by then. I couldn't get the Spanner to shut down once it had started. Rude, stubborn guy. I was sent through and the next thing I remember, I'm here.

The Stellar Spanner is transwarp technology. I don't know much about it; I'm not a physicist. Part of what I do know I'm not sure I can translate appropriately into any human language. I either don't know enough of human sciences or there is no translation yet, not helped by how the majority of my knowledge isn't from a fellow Cybertronian but solely from what I heard from the Spanner before it attempted to transport me, and my memory isn't as clear in this form. I'm not sure how much I've already forgotten.

[He dissolved into muttering toward the end there, but now he takes a deep breath and speaks up]

Simply: A Stellar Spanner is a method of teleportation across space and time - kind of like the Warp drives that were mentioned earlier, except it involves the..."spaces in between realities." [He hesitates] Not...subspace. It was talking about something else. Sorry. That's a rough translation at best and the Cybertronian glyph it used has fictional connotations, so I'm not sure how to best describe it. The Spanner wasn't exactly clear, either. No one is certain of how it works. I don't think even the Old One did. Slag, I don't think it did, and a machine that doesn't understand it's own function isn't the most stable of sources.

One consistency is that you need two Stellar Spanners to travel, or at least two very similar points; one at the beginning and one at the end. I'm not saying this is the reason for our existence here, but I obviously didn't make it to my intended destination.

[and obviously getting out is of MUCH MORE IMPORTANCE NOW thank you chase.]

[ADDENDUM: After Red Alert's freakout. CYBERTRONIAN ENCRYPTION, UNHACKABLE]

[Ratchet, your comm is going to be flashing at you and this message will stay at the top of your comm until you give it attention. Sorry. Heatwave can't let someone have a mental breakdown in the middle of a ship full of civilians without alerting the only Cybertronian officer on board.]

Ratchet. Red Alert isn't handling my allegiance very well. I think he needs someone to check on him.

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This Stellar Spanner sounds like the Gate...

[Well this was an interesting theory to hear while combing through the device for information. This really would take someone like Perceptor and Wheeljack to figure ou-

Wait a minute...did he really just say? Did that Blitz mean what he thinks it means?]

What do you mean it was the Autobots?

[That was a bit high pitch at the end there, but it's deserved because he was talking to a Decepticon.]

The Gate? Do you know how it works?

[Oh, right. He never told you his allegiance, did he?]

[Heatwave doesn't sound very concerned about this as he nods an affirmation Red Alert can't see. Not near enough concerned, oh Heatwave.]

Yes. I am a Decepticon. The Autobots aren't good mechs in my world.

[No, no you did not. Which would have at least showed Heatwave to avoid this particular Cybertronian with everything he has.]

I..you...you didn't think that was important to know!?

I gave intel to someone that might want to kill me. I showed weakness to you. Oh Primu--

[The number you are attempting to dial is currently fumbling and barricading himself into his closet. Please hang up and try again when he's high on tranquilizers.]

Why-

[And then Red's signal falls off the network. Heatwave pauses, hesitates, then tentatively tries to re-establish a connection whether Red's comm wants it or not. He understands being afraid of the enemy, but Heatwave's not and he can't leave Red Alert panicking somewhere.]

Hey. Come on. You have me outnumbered anyway, right? I'm not going to hurt anyone.

[There's shuffling and a few small thuds before a muffled voice finally answers back.]

That's what Starscream tried to make me believe as well, and at least he did it when I was damaged and glitching and...you allowed me to assume we were of the same faction!

An error on my part, don't ever trust anything being said. The fewer links the less there is for them to exploit--

[That tangent ends up being indecipherable as he both moves farther away from his communicator and starts to mumble. That breathing and talking thing is still trumping him at times like this.]

[Pause. There's someone on the other end of the line, judging from the faint static.]

...what?

It's all-

[...]

[sigh]

All right.

[HE'S GETTING RATCHET. Maybe you'll listen to an Autobot.]

Is something wrong?

What are you even talking about?

The last thing I remember before I got here. There have been a few people trying to figure out a way back. The method of transportation I was talking about sounded similar to their original ideas, so I thought it might help whatever scientists are exploring this.

Is it an artifact? Alexander said I have to look for those.

I...don't know. I don't believe it is, but how do you define an artifact?

Something like a talisman or magical object. Is a stellar spanner something like that?

So you could have intercepted another space/time rip in the process.

Sorry, but I don't think so. It's definitely technological.

Why do you need to find the artifacts? Maybe I can help.

The same reason. Alexander is trying to find a way back home.

That's what I think. If something similar was happening on this end, it could have tricked the Spanner.

That sounds like a good enough reason to help. Did all he tell you was it could be a talisman or were there any other descriptions?

I guess...anything that has supernatural power. Could be people, too.

All right. It can't hurt to cover all our bases, can it?

I'm sorry the Spanner wasn't what you were looking for.

Thats okay. You sound like you know a lot about this stuff too.

That could explain how you got here.

But it doesn't help with anyone who was doing regular, every day things.

[but Jim is becoming more and more convinced it's because of singularities that they're all here.]

Primus. I could have told you that! We're going to have to find his aft. And by Stellar Spanner, you mean space bridge?

Edited 2011-12-16 00:55 (UTC)

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