Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-26889090-20181023170512/@comment-26892768-20181025195032

And then Sari gets another call from Bumblebee.

"Okay, update: a weird mushroom thing landed next to me, and...long story short, turns out the bug is a bit more hostile than I thought - and it can create blades of pure light. A lot of them, actually." Bumblebee informs.

Sari stares blankly ahead, and then looks at Terezi. "...I think I should go. I'll get back to you later, alright?"

And with that said, Sari...well, to put it in one word, transforms.

https://i.imgur.com/X8oNAuf.gif

And with her new form, Sari starts running back towards Bumblebee.

"Well, if they are here, then we should be able to just-" Optimus then notices something - a portal snapping open high in the sky. "-hold that thought..."

Optimus starts to cautiously approach on foot when two humans, a metal stag beetle thing, a metal bat thing, a metal bird thing, a metal dinosaur thing, a metal frog thing, and a metal snail thing fall out of the portal. His optics widen, and he promptly transforms into fire truck mode.

"Come on!" He yells to Grimlock, shortly before zooming towards the scene...only to find in a few moments that he doesn't have to.

The metal bird lets out a melodious cry before flying to one of the humans and letting out a green beam of some kind, absorbing the human as he turns into data.

"What the..." Optimus slows down.

The remaining human pulls out what appears to be a large USB drive and plugs it into his watch -

"SPIDER!"

- which promptly transforms into a metal spider thing, clamps harder onto the human's wrist, and fires a grappling hook around the stag beetle, bat, and bird, which provide enough lift to stop the human's fall...and get him to fly upwards, towards the still-ooooooaaaaaaaand it's gone.

The human curses under his breath, gesturing for the various devices to lower him to ground level, where he disengages the grappling hook and lands on the ground, completely unharmed.

Optimus has completely stopped at this point, and is now having an internal debate - should he investigate what the deal is with these odd humans and their devices (maybe see if they could help out), or get back to finding Sari?

Meanwhile, one of said humans - a man by the name of Shotaro Hidari - sighs, pulling the Spider Pseudo-Memory out of the Spider Shock as the Stag Phone and Bat Shot fly up to catch the Frog Pod and Denden Sensor. The Xtreme Memory, letting out it's melodious cry once more, then deposits the other human - Philip. As soon as it does, the Fang Memory perches on Philip's shoulder.

"Damn...whatever that was, it closed too quickly for me to get us back through." Shotaro sighs, before looking to Philip. "Think it was a Dopant?"

Philip shakes his head. "I don't believe so - while I can certainly see the use of a Dopant who can open up a portal to a pocket dimension of some sort, if that was the case, this field would've likely seen more use."

"Good point..." Shotaro muses. "So, you think we're in a pocket dimension?"

Philip shakes his head. "If it was a Dopant that caused that, this field would be a pocket dimension, but since it likely wasn't, my current assumption is that we're in another universe."

After he finishes explaining, Philip looks at Shotaro...who has a completely blank stare at the moment.

"...You don't know the difference, do you?" Philip states.

"I mean...I kinda know the difference..." Shotaro rubs the back of his head. "...maybe..."

"'New gal'?" Ransack asks. "What kind of gal we talking he-"

The room suddenly rumbles as an explosion sounds out.

A moment later, Crumplezone points to the sky. "Hey, look, it's Thunderblast!"

"...oh. That kind of gal." Ransack sighs.

The motorboat - Thunderblast - is now flying through the air on trails of energy, and promptly transforms, with the undercarriage of the motorboat splitting apart and folding away to reveal a feminine figure, who promptly reaches behind her to grab her missile launcher.

"Now, where did that bat go..." Thunderblast muses, looking down at the lab while aiming her missile launcher at it.

Meanwhile...

A firey portal snaps open, and a collection of corrupted data is dumped out of it, which, after a moment, forms a screaming figure engulfed in flame that promptly starts rolling on the floor in pain as more definitive details start to make themselves clear. Then a mark shaped like a USB port appears on the figure. And another. And another. And another, and another, and another, until the figure is covered in a port patchwork. Then, the ports begin to glow, and the flames die down, and color starts to bleed into the figure, until all that's left is a man in a nice suit, a thin umbrella, and plenty of ports all across his skin.

The man looks at himself for a moment, observing his hands and the marking on them. Then he starts to laugh. He laughs, and laughs, and laughs...

He picks up the umbrella and something else - a light gray USB drive with a molded rib cage around it, marked with a stylized W.

He may be a bit scarred now, but Shinkuro Isaka has come back from the depths of hell - and he intends to make the most of it.