IC CONTACT

[hellraiser02]

Hey, you've reached your good pal Shinigami! I'm a little busy right now and can't answer my comm, so leave your name- or alias- and I'll get back to you in a jiffy!

[click!]


[functions: voice, text message, image/media text]

Comments

inb4 liam

[knaval]

whomst

JUST KIDDING FUCK U JABBERS

[d33tached]

You've returned.

[He's only been checking the network for him every day - and maybe that reflects in his eager welcoming, but D33 doesn't really care. He just hopes that Shinigami will still remember him.]

savage

[hellraiser02]

[what the fuck]

[what the FUCK]

[Duo is still busy in the overwhelming state of absorbing information about his new state of existence, or rather the state of this place's existence, when he gets....]

[two pings. at the same time.]

[Gee, Mr. Popular all of a sudden! Where was all this when he was talking up the girls!?]

Gesundheit

[A cursory search of this network revealed... his own existence, very recently. So then, could this be someone that had known him in the inbetween space of him being in the City and... well, here?]

[Shit. He needs to do his research fast.]

rekt

[hellraiser02]

[Oh this isn't creepy at all.]

[Like the first ping, he takes his time in making any replies; he has enough on his plate without worrying about potential timey-wimey shenanigans and forgotten acquaintances.]

[In fact, it's a good several hours before Dee gets any reply at all, but by that time at least he's managed to sniff out where he's hid his own notes and crack open the vault.]

[Which is why he knows exactly how to reply.]

How's it hanging, Deedee?

[knaval]

no riptide
u got ported out for a while there bud
didnt even leave me anythin im spark broken

[hellraiser02]

[If Duo was yet privy to the memes of this era, Riptide would be receiving a nice NO THIS IS PATRICK maymay right about now. Luckily for everyone involved, he's still got his hands full with things that are actually important.]

[Riptide is left hanging for a little bit. The reply Duo got is friendly enough, so he doesn't think he has to worry yet about enemies coming out of the woodwork to have his ass, which means he has some wiggleroom to figure out what the hell is going on, in every sense of the phrase.]

[By the time he can formulate a reply, he's gotten into his old cache of information, so he can immediately find out just how much new experience he's gotten with the new faces of his old friends.]

[......Poor Optimus, all he can think. What the hell happened?]

Starscream? Really???

[The most important takeaway, from all those notes.] Better than Evil Barney, I guess.

[knaval]

[what]

what

[hellraiser02]

That asshole isn't here, right? Or any Decepticons, for that matter.

[It's still not context but don't worry, you didn't need it.]

[knaval]

[riptide raises his robo-brows at this.]

no
some have come and gone but there's none here right now
tailgate was ported out so its just me and getaway
tho i guess getaway is like a decepticon

[hellraiser02]

With a name like that, I bet

[Was that racist? He's not worried about that right now]

Anyway that's good enough for me so here's a followup question

How long would you say I've been gone? [He can tell, he thinks, from looking at his network activity and the last edits made to his server, but it never hurts to have more information... Especially from the public side.]

[knaval]

[if it is, riptide doesn't care to comment.]

idk i wasnt payin attention
week or so?
i dont eve kno how long i was dead for

[hellraiser02]

[oh]

[hellraiser02]

[ah]

[hellraiser02]

[sounds about right]

one more

[hellraiser02]

Cool let's never talk about that again

[hellraiser02]

Bad breakup huh

1/2

[knaval]

ok i thought you knew
it was embarrassing anyway

[knaval]

guess u forgot everythin?
u have no idea
it was of the "he fed all my friends into a meatgrinder" variety

1/3

[hellraiser02]

Embarrassing not the word I'd go with but what do I know, I've never had the honor

Ouch

Anyway, good we're on the same page now. Sorry I didn't say it upfront but you can never be too safe, right? Seems like this place is just as explosion-happy as the City anyway...

fuck duo too

[d33tached]

[D33's entire body seems to relax at the greeting - one he usually rejects, albeit, but he feels no sense of malice toward it now.

[Still, he just has to make sure...]

Are your memories in tact, then?

2/3 video

[hellraiser02]

[And just like that the video flicks on; it is... certainly not the Shinigami Riptide is used to seeing; even if he's not great at telling human ages it's obvious he's a lot........ younger.]

[His shitty grin was always the same, though; maybe it's a little more genuinely peppy. He gives a cheerful wave!!]

Guess that's a nice to meet you again, then, Riptide ol' pal! Or... new-old pal.

[hellraiser02]

.............Do you guys even have craniums? I guess they would be thick if you did.

also 2 vid

[knaval]

Ugh, you. [hello here's the dude you're talking to, yellow optics and purple noseless face and all.] I remember you... you're younger. I think...

Well, I'm not a stupid baby again so I guess that's fine.

[not gonna touch on that death thing again.]

You talked a lot. Too much. Uh. I guess that doesn't bother me as much now. Uhm... do I need to tell you anything?

not his type dee!!!

[hellraiser02]

[Oh]

[This's gonna be rough, huh. By the time Duo gets back to this, he already has read the file on the kid, to extremely unsettling feelings. He's... not sure, exactly, what kind of person he must be in the future; but the way he wrote about this guy is in a way he just can't exactly connect with, the way he is now. This mentorship, or whatever it was, feels strange and foreign in his mind as he thinks on it now.]

[That, and just from the things he's reading about this guy, he wonders why he bothered at all.]

[...Maybe he doesn't, though. After all, he'd been sort of the same, hadn't he? He never did quite ...get it.]

[Duo chews on this reply for an even longer time, so when Dee finally does get a reply back, at least he can give him the truth.]

No.

Sorry, pal. I guess you must have known me, in the future? Or the past, whatever.

I only remember things from before this world, in a place called the City. Ever heard of it?

[hellraiser02]

[There he is!! Duo beams a gleeful smile at the image of the Transformer in front of his screen, looking at him like he's more taking in the sight of him than listening exactly, but his glee is knocked off right quick with that reaction.]

I'm not a stupid baby... [Duo whines, in exactly the tone a stupid baby would use.] I'm eighteen!!

And I thought we were friends! Pals! Buddies!!! Where's the love.

[Oh, here he go]

Yeah gee I never heard that one before. --I mean, I got all this backlog of info to read up on, [He gestures wildly at his comm and the computer screen off the side of him, giving off a gentle glow in his hacker cave,] But if there's anything really important you think I should know right away.........