19th - Audio

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Anyone else suddenly get a bad feeling?

As if something horrible has happened, and you have no power to set it right again?

[He has no idea where this feeling is coming from, or why it's there, but ignoring it isn't exactly helping anything.]

[It just makes him feel more and more restless.]

Need to go hit something. Badly.

Comments

[Video]

[mister10below]

I've been feeling that off and on since I got here, actually.

[He's just trying not to dwell on it.]

If you want something to hit that can withstand a few punches but won't get you punished, I can probably manage that.

[Video]

[heavyweaponsbot]

[He squints his good optic at the video.]

You? One blow from me would shatter your frame, boy. And I care nothing for their punishments.

[Video]

[mister10below]

[Bobby smiles at that.]

Hey, I'm a lot tougher than I look.

[He pauses, then the next bit is said quickly.]

But, uh, no, I wasn't talking about me. I could make some walls, or something, maybe some sculptures.

[Video]

[heavyweaponsbot]

Still organic.

[Which is a real sticking point, when you're about to be punched by something huge and made of metal.]

Make some... walls?

[Video]

[mister10below]

Technically, yes.

[But only because his ice form is organic ice. Not that Bobby's really looking to be punched by something huge and made of metal.]

Yeah, ice walls. I can make them pretty easy, even here.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

I feel that way all the time.
Being here just makes it worse.

I hear the outside walls are unbreakable, so you can just keep punching those until you break your fists or something.

*Hitting people is better but...*

[heavyweaponsbot]

Lucky you.

[A derisive snort.]

My frame is sturdier than that. And I am not so stupid as to damage myself over a feeling.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

I can tell it'd take more than a few hundred hits to do anything to you.

[heavyweaponsbot]

First smart thing to come out of your mouth yet.

[Audio] AS IF A THOUSAND VOICES CRIED OUT AND WERE SUDDENLY SILENT?! :D

[lightwithin]

What happened?

[Audio] PRETTY MUCH...

[heavyweaponsbot]

Nothing.

Nothing I know of. Just have a bad feeling.

[Audio] \o/

[lightwithin]

Well, can you follow it?

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

What do you mean follow it?

[Audio]

[lightwithin]

Well...

If there's somewhere you feel like you should be... Go there.

You might find out what's happened.

[Maybe.]

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

I feel I should be home.

[Audio]

[lightwithin]

Mm.

Maybe... I can help

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

Help us get home?

[Audio]

[snowtop]

[Oh, Ironhide.]

N-Not... n-not right now, b-but... but... I-I know, what-- you mean.

I-I just--

I-I'm so... t-tired, of not being a-able to... do a-anything.

[Audio]

[heavyweaponsbot]

... You and I both, boy.

Something happen to you?

[Audio] Sealed

[snowtop]

[Xanth breathes in and then lets out a long sigh, sealing up the entry as he does. This isn't something everyone should hear.]

I-I...

D-Do you remember, b-back-- like-- i-it was like a-a month ago... w-when a whole b-bunch of people showed up? A-And, the, th-the next day, th-they were... g-gone?

[Audio] Sealed

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Ironhide doesn't answer right away.]

[He... doesn't answer for a while. When he does speak, his voice is low, ragged.]

Yeah. I remember.

[Audio] Sealed

[snowtop]

I-I saw... K-- Kairi. From, y-you know, the-- f-from... the-- Sh-Shore.

[The words don't come easily. He hasn't spoken about this to anyone yet, and part of him wants to, but part of him wants to forget the whole day.

There is a period of silence, but then, Xanth continues.]

Only, I, I-I think... sh-she was from-- a-a lot... a-a lot farther ahead, th-than... than w-we are...

[Audio] Sealed

[heavyweaponsbot]

I... saw many. From the ship. One of Jak's people. Bryn. Zuko.

[His voice breaks a little on the last name. The boy had been another one Ironhide was very close to. Seeing him again...]

[After another pause, he speaks again.]

... Further ahead?

[Audio] Sealed

[snowtop]

[Xanth recognizes those names, but the only thing that strikes sadness into him is the way Ironhide says them. They were people he knew. People he missed.

But how to explain this...?]

She-- sh-she was-- from th-the Golden Shore. B-But, not-- n-not... wh-when we were from. I-I think... I-I think she'd-- b-been there-- months.

[Audio] Sealed

[heavyweaponsbot]

Then... the Shore is still there. That is the only way she could have been gone months.

[If it's still there, then so are the others. So is Ratchet. There's something urgent and painful in his voice, when next he speaks.]

[He almost doesn't want to ask.]

[But he has to know.]

How long? How many months?

[How long has he left his charges, his friends, his partner unguarded in that place?]