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[nuclearphoenix]

Hi! This is Sunstorm, adherent of Solus Prime. Leave a message.

But Shockwave, if this is you, you can kiss my fragging-

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[nuclearphoenix]

Bastard, you weren't around to see me off. We could have- I could have used the luck.

Where are you? [ There's something genuinely hurt in her tone. She doesn't have to say it outright, but she was just as hurt he wasn't there when she returned, either.

But there's a pause, and then an audible sigh. ]

...Yes.

Monstrousness is- A matter of perspective, anyway. Most Seekers from my world consider me as such.

[eldritchvirus]

I'm sorry, I'm a coward when it comes down to it.

I didn't want to say goodbye. I didn't want to send you off because if I did and you didn't return... would it be my own doing?

Sunstorm... I am an algorithmic death. One might even think I'm a curse to have around, but I was pulled from my source... I'm thinking alittle crazy these days.

[nuclearphoenix]

Our deaths would have been their doing, not yours. You didn't raise a hand against us.

And you're not a curse.

[ For a long, long moment, there is silence. Sunstorm, thinking over her words. When she speaks again, it is uncharacteristically quiet. ]

When I became like this, I killed... I killed a lot of people, my own people. I don't know how many. Dozens. Maybe - probably - more. People I knew and cared for, thrown at me to try and stop me. The entire city state, lit up with solar radiation so powerful the Autobots could see it from their own holdouts miles away.

The only reason Slipstream, my dearest moonlight, was not caught up in it was because she was on a mission, and simply wasn't there.

Seekers still think it's bad luck to say my name.

If you are a death, Sideways, then you're not alone.

[eldritchvirus]

Well, at least you'll be happy to know you can't kill me. No one can.

I'm four in one, I am all and nothing. I'm starving.

[ He's talking what sounds like nonsense, but he speaks as if it makes all the sense in the world. ]

Sunstorm, your counter in my reality. He was a zealous fool, but you. You're not, your smart and chaotic. You blazed your own path even knowing your power. You stood down a god and I see you burn brighter... even if you fade in the temporary sorrows... Sunstorm, you're... [ His voice becomes pure static. ]

[nuclearphoenix]

Well, you haven't heard me talk about Solus yet. Some people think I'm still pretty zealous. But she's my light, my saviour. I have to be.

...Sideways?

Sideways, do you need me to come to you? [ It may not make sense to Sunstorm, but it still feels like he's... Distressed. Something is upsetting him, and maybe he's skirting around telling her outright, but- He's still telling her.

They're all a little distressed, right now. But nobody should weather it alone. ]

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[eldritchvirus]

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Sunstorm... I am beyond. I am everywhere... Do you know what that's like? To hop realities? I don't know who I am.

Hide. Run. When you realize I'm He... [ the static is loud, corrupting, like its eating metal. ]

Will you still say I'm redeemable?

[nuclearphoenix]

I won't. Not from you.

[ Maybe there's something about her ignorance that makes her brave, or maybe she would be like this regardless. Either way, there's an edge of sharp determination in her voice, the same sort she wore going into battle with his god.

They'd won, too. Even if not the war, they'd won the battle, and for here and now that was enough.

The static is biting, but Sunstorm knows where she stands. ]