0-1 Action; Walking through the city

[zerolimits]

Zero could learn close to any technique from defeated enemies. He could fight off hundreds of Mavericks without much effort. He could even rush back into action constantly, mission after mission. But there was one thing he had difficulty doing. And that was dealing with excessive free-time.

Since being brought here, Zero has had close to nothing to do. He would train from time to time in the small area that was his living space, but he could only do so little without risk of either wrecking his room or accidentally smashing into someone else's. He tried to do some reading a couple days ago, but there was little at the library that interested him by way of fiction. He did read about the different races within and without the fleet's Confederation, particularly the Wadjit and the AIs of Bama, the latter he though of as just Mavericks by a different name.

Today, Zero can be seen just walking around Teuberg, minding his own business. He has been walking for sometime now, since late in the morning in fact. Just walking, thinking about what to do to occupy his time, which by now was what he WAS doing to occupy it. When he finally got fed up with that, he let out a sigh as put his hand to the jewel on his forehead in aggravation.

"All of this downtime is torture. At this rate, even I might go Maverick if I don't find something to do," he said out loud to no one. With the wording, he of course meant that he'd go crazy.

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[zerolimits]

Zero must have been crazy already if he didn't notice such a large robot approach him before speaking to him. Looking up, he estimated the machine to be about ten feet tall. Not really a size that seemed imposing, considering what he HAD seen before.

"It wouldn't be so bad if I was at least still sealed away. Least then I wouldn't be awake to BE bored by the downtime."

[driftlock]

Yeah, yeah, even in Deadlock's world he doesn't exactly rate as a physically imposing powerhouse.

Not the size of the frame that matters, if you ask him.

"You want to be sealed away? In that place where they woke us up doing Primus knows what to our bodies?" Yeah, he's been talking to Flashpoint and she's been putting creepy thoughts in his head.

[zerolimits]

Zero would agree on that. If size was power where he comes from, then he'd either be dead or several times bigger by now.

"No, I was sealed away in my world prior to the event that brought us here," Zero explained to the robot.

[driftlock]

"Sealed away. What? You some kind of dangerous thing?" He sounds...almost impressed.

[zerolimits]

"...Let's just say that I can be a major threat to other machines. Mainly those that try to either harm me or the defenseless," Zero said after a short pause.

[driftlock]

"Threat to machines." He doesn't know whether to be wary or smug. Because, you know, he just happens to be a machine, but then again, he's Cybertronian and therefore awesome.

"So who the slag locked you up, then?" If the guy's only a threat to people attacking the defenseless, you know, you'd think he wouldn't be all locked up.

[zerolimits]

"I willingly sealed myself away," Zero said in reply. "I had something in me that needed to be removed. Something dangerous to those around me that would only promote the war I was fighting in."

[driftlock]

That...yeah, that's gonna take a minute to process.

"But would it have helped your side win?" He's not normally a question asky kind of mech, but this is a special circumstance. Because if he had like a bomb or a super virus in him and it would take out a mess of Autobots, he'd use it.

[zerolimits]

"You don't understand. 'Those around me' include my friends, allies, and innocent bystanders. It's a virus that changes the personality and programming of machines to where even ones as harmless as a gardening robot will seek to do harm to humans and other robots around it," Zero plainly explained to the machine.

[driftlock]

"Hngh. Friends." You see, right there, Deadlock has diagnosed your problem. Friends! Like some kind of infection or something.

"And if you got it how come it's not messing you up all angry and harmy, huh?" Deadlock's superior robot logic.

[zerolimits]

If friends were an infection, then they'd be one that you'd WANT to get.

"It's...complicated." Zero has his secrets, and this one he wasn't gonna tell someone he just met.

[driftlock]

Deadlock had friends once. They died. Yeah, he's not keen on signing up for that again.

"Hngh. You let one of these medics check you over?"

[zerolimits]

Look on the bright side. You didn't have to retire most of yours whenever they went mad.

"I have not." It being more of a computer virus, Zero would've had to see either an engineer or a programmer anyway.