Nexus; Safe House - Waking Up

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A few hours after being rescued by the Minicons RC woke up, wincing at the stiffness in his side, then taking a moment to assess his surroundings while the memory of what had happened slowly came to him again.

After a moment he picked up the odd looking controller that the minicons had left for him, scanning it before taking a few minutes to figure out how the TV worked. When he had it going his optics widened, and he started scanning the channels.

"Weird...."

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"Ya mind turnin' that down?" calls a female voice from the occupied room. "Some of us are trying to work around here."

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He started and dropped the remote, then looked at it in dismay, reaching for it and grunting.

"Slag it, why didn't I get a magn-ARGH!" he cried out as he tumbled off the couch, landing on his bad leg and impulsively curling as the pain coursed through his frame.

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"What the...?" The door opens and Arcee steps through, looking surprised and concerned.

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RC groaned, but as the pain subsided he looked up blearily. The other him?

"H...huh?"

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"What are you doing here?" She frowns at him.

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"M-M-Minicons, m-ma'am," he trembled slightly, then pushed himself up with another grunt of pain. "I c-can't get home."

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She winces and walks over to help him, being careful not to take too much weight onto herself. "In this shape you probably shouldn't try. What happened?"

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"Cons... attacked us and...." he stopped as he rolled back onto the couch, catching his breath, trembling slightly. "Bee has the intel... took off... I covered till he got free, but the Cons hit the meteors an'... lots of flashing lights, they were everywhere!"

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"You're the same young bot I met by the sign a while back, aren't you?" She looks at him with a slight frown. "The one that was so proud of graduating?"

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He looked at her, then looked away, circuits burning with humiliation and regret.

"Yeah," he said softly.

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She puts a gentle hand on his brow and says softly, "I probably started out the same way, RC. I just don't remember."

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He shut his eyes, trembling.

//I don't even know if Bee made it out, ok.//

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"Do you pray?" She sighs inwardly, wondering why she's been given a shellshocked kid to comfort when she's not good with dealing with young bots.

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"Pray?" he looked over at the bot, looking lost and confused.

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Arcee stares. "Don't they even teach you where you come from?"

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He frowned. "We... I mean... there's the Allspark... is that what you mean?"

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"But nothing about who created the Allspark?"

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"The Allspark wasn't created..." he looked confused and upset.

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"Oh yes it was," she says crisply but gently.

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"B-but who has that kind of power?" he said, distressed. "And where are they now?"

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"His name is Primus, and as for where he is in your reality? I have no idea." She frowns and pats him. "Calm down, kid."

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"I never heard of him. Where'd he go?" RC frowned. "I mean... if he could create the Allspark... couldn't he stop the war?"

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"You'd think so." Her frown deepens slightly, but then she shrugs. "And I don't know where he is. There are crazy cults with all sorts of different stories, but all anyone knows for sure is what I told you. That, and that he can apparently hear you when you talk to him."

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"So he doesn't want to help," he said softly, frowning.

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"I never said that. Who's to say how much worse it could be? He could be the reason there's still Cybertronian life at all."