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[breakthrough]

'Deserved what I got' did I?

I can't say the irony of my... fate escaped me. But really, when opportunity knocks, you answer, most successful men are aware of this. However, there's always that one knock that you're better off ignoring, or, perhaps, not underestimating.

[He just made a pun, in a very roundabout way. Breakdown would be disgusted proud.]

All I saw was a lot of wasted potential, how disappointing.

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[sweet_riiiiims]

How funny, a knockoff talking about wasted potential.

[He can make puns too.]

[breakthrough]

An improvement of the original product you mean.

Breakdown was a fine specimen, but his death was hardly any more glorious was it?

Want to know how MECH found him? I know you're dying to know.

[sweet_riiiiims]

Probably caught him off guard with one of your pets.

[breakthrough]

Actually, we had nothing to do with how he died.

We just found pieces of him. I suppose you could say he... broke down, and MECH put him back together. It's always nice when you unexpectedly come across a familiar face hmm?

[sweet_riiiiims]

[Here you can see Knockout's facade begin to crack slightly--okay a lot.]

Reunions can be painful, didn't anyone tell you?

[breakthrough]

Or they could provide others with new opportunity.

[sweet_riiiiims]

[A slow smile spreads across his face.]

Have to agree, I just got the opportunity to dissect a skinjob inside out.

[staresat]

Interesting how your species can go from crawling in mud to merging yourselves to alien technology in only a manner of millenia.

[He's just as eager to cut open that chassis and see what's inside, albeit for different reasons. Much less.. personally driven.]

[breakthrough]

We're nothing if not adaptable.

It hasn't paid for your kind to underestimate us in the past.

[He honestly wants to keep his insides to himself thank you.]

[staresat]

[That's not going to stop him from taking a good look. Probably by leaning in just a little too close for comfort to steal a peek at what could be under those gaps in armor.]

Scientific endeavors to interact with other species were nonexistent during the War. There was little need for it.

[And while humans had never particularly intrigued him in the past, this was a different manner entirely.]

[breakthrough]

[Silas tenses ever so slightly, but doesn't step back.]

The thing about humans is that they can surprise you at the most unexpected of times.

I think you could learn a thing or two from us.

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[staresat]

[There's a good ten seconds or so of silence as Shockwave finishes his initial observation, optic occasionally tracing over a stray detail that separated itself as foreign built.]

Simple metals and polymer. Crude in consctruction, but effective enough.

[He then steps back and finally makes eye contact.]

Who was it that merged you with this body, human?