Of Drones and Logic

New Beginnings Part 2: Calm Before the Storm

"So you're the alien my bestie hung out with before me." Lizzy mused as she visually examined Brawl's physique.

The blonde drone arrived at V and Brawl's place just a couple minutes ago so she could be properly introduced to the Combatidrone.

"And you're the girl who helped Doll set up that trap at the prom." Brawl mused back with his arms crossed and a glare behind his visor, making the worker drone slightly freeze with hollowed out eyes before she let out a nervous laugh.

"Well V WAS using me so she could kill everyone in the prom, so my actions were completely justified."

"Ha. Relax, I'm just messing with ya. Name's Brawl." Brawl laughed, followed by a strong sigh of relief from Lizzy. V rolled her eyes before attempting to get back on topic.

"Now that we've got introductions out of the way, why were you so eager to meet Brawl, Liz?" She asked, genuine curiosity in her head like a plague.

"Isn't it obvious? This guy, as well as the cyclops that the corporate chick has the hots for and is seen as a dad to that purple emo, is real proof that alien life actually exists in the universe. I wanna be the first drone to take a pic of one." Lizzy explained, brushing her hair in her "I'm so popular and better than everyone else" style.

V just stared at her in silence, before her expression changes to an unamused one.

"Knowing you, that seems about right."

"Wait. You actually believe that? You don't think our origin is bullslag? Not even a little bit?" Brawl questioned because the idea of an entire race of sentient alien robots who been part of a civil war for millions of years DOES sounds farfetched to everyone else.

"Dude, my ex has Lovecraftian superpowers that were forced on her when her mom got infected with the blood of an eldritch goddess. Tell me, do you really think that the idea of an alien robot being turned into a murder drone sounds unlikely to you after what you saw?"

Although he had not been there for most of the whole thing before being turned into a disassembler, Brawl's encounter with Cyn alone has showed him more than enough that absolutely NOTHING about the Solver makes any sense.

As a matter of fact, even Shockwave himself already GAVE UP trying to find the logic in the Solver's existence at this point since the Sinnertwin.

"Fair enough." He shrugged before looking back at Lizzy.

"So, what do you want to know about our race? Normally Shocks gives all the history lessons but I guess I'll give it a try."

"Well, I already know your name, a little about that civil war you fought in and how that Sinnertwin thing was responsible for you transformation but that's about it." Lizzy replied, recounting her current knowledge of Brawl and Shockwave.

"Well, first, I come from the planet Cybertron, there's that obviously. Me and Shocks joined the Decepticon faction, led by its founder, Megatron, to fight in a war for a just society where everyone is treated as equals. What else? Our enemies of that war were the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime. Megatron put me on a combat squad called the Combaticons, which is where I met my buddies."

Brawl scratched his chin in thought for a moment.

"Oh, and I was also selected by Megatron himself to accompany him to raid Starscream's Energon research station along with a fellow Con named Barricade. I crashed the war ship we were riding straight into the dead centre of it. Nearly died. It was awesome. Hehe."

Brawl laughed at the memory. Good times.

"Raided the an Autobot energon transport with the other Combaticons. Raided the Ark next during the Exodus. Got blasted off into space by two aftholes named Jazz and Jetfire. Nearly died again. Landed on Copper-9 and were asleep until the core collapsed. Met Shockwave again. Did some missions here and there. Became best buds with V. Fought the Sinnertwin. Nearly died for the third time. And boom!"