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Byte's Log, Terran date Oct. 24, 2010 |
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(http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4310571/1/The_Adventures_of_the_ChibiBee)
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Greetings, organics. I am Autobot S.O. agent Byte once again borrowing our human host's Gaia log.
In the months since Chibi-'Bee's and my arrival in this reality, we have had limited luck in locating and contacting others of our kind. We have had even less good fortune in finding a way to return to our own reality. A scant number of other Cybertronians have moved into this area, but communication with them has mutually been left at a minimum. Though many of us still wear our factions' insignias, we have unanimously come to an unspoken agreement; for us, the war is over, and in our shared exile we have come to know a sort of peace.
But in that peace, we each face a new enemy that none can overcome for long:
Our own physiology, alien to this word, and how it now succumbs to the limits this reality has set upon us.
While it is true that we Cybertronians can adapt foreign fuels to meet our power needs, it is a poor substitute for true energon and we eventually suffer for it. I myself have felt the cold, creeping sense of my system's decay as my power cells begin to fail. The time between when I am fully operational to when I must recharge is becoming shorter and shorter. Thankfully it is as-of-yet the only symptom of my hunger. Chibi-'Bee has not been so fortunate.
He has valiantly attempted to conceal the growing number of system errors plaguing him, but I knew it could not last. Over the past few months his performance has become sluggish. His comm. systems flicker in and out and his processing ability is compromised. File corruption has become common.
He has had difficulty rebooting himself and in waking from slumber, and recently his power cells completely failed to recharge. For an Autobot this is a critical failure and means deactivation once one's in-built power supply is depleted. Chibi-'Bee's saving grace has been his self-created form of life-support.
CB has been using his alt. mode's power adapter system, taken from the computer he originally replaced himself with, to fuel himself. The adapter had become worn and burnt out, but he vehemently refused to admit it needed replacing and went so far as to modify it himself to continue the deception of functionality. This has not helped his failing systems any.
When at last he went into stasis lock this morning, our host, Nurann, was not pleased to say the least.
There is little we can do for his internal state at this time, but we frantically raced out to replace the power adapter so that Chibi-'Bee could attempt to refuel. This has appeared to have had some measure of success. The young Autobot recharged for the better part of this solar cycle. After a series of diagnostics and at the insistence of our host for Chibi-'Bee to raise his power consumptions levels from "power saver" to "optimal," he appears to be functioning properly again (his reduced power consumption in addition to the adapter's damage could have been compared to starving one's-self to preserve one's dwindling supply of nutritionally deficient rations).
It is hard to say how long his current stability will last.
As it is with all Cybertronians exiled in this foreign reality, we will eventually fail and deactivate from energon hunger. In the face of this fate it is hard to believe that our archaic war was all for naught, for within a few hundred of this planet's stellar cycles none of us ancient beings shall remain here to remember why we fought in the first place.
I write this perhaps final report from my own adapted recharge berth; a clock radio designed to seat my alt-mode, an iPod nano. Like CB, this new power source has bought me a measure of time. Like CB, it is hard to say how long my power cells' stability will last.
Our war is at last over, and in our shared knowledge of our eventual fate, we have come to know peace.
~Byte, Autobot Spec. Ops.
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I don't own Transformers, just CB and Byte. CB's (and Byte's) opinions are his own and don't necessarily reflect my real ones.
 Nurannoniel · Sun Oct 24, 2010 @ 11:23pm · 0 Comments |
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