Look out, it's Robocop!

[legalcy]

Who: Ultra Magnus and YOU
When: After the Anniversary Event and beginning of May
Where: Curti Center and Safer Osu
What: Minimus gets a regain and thus a Custom Job. He now can walk around as another person.
Warnings/Notes: Ultra Magnus has a different voice from Minimus Ambus due to a voice modulator. He's also taller than Megatron now.

A. Curti Center, End of April

[A new robot emerges from Ganeshan's lab. It's not the start of a new month, so he can't possibly be a new arrival, but one would have definitely noticed a Cybertronian larger than Megatron traveling with the group. His expression is serious, but the air he carries has him appear to be pleased with something.

The suit still functions well. Some of the functionality has been lost, but Minimus can work with that. What matters is that he has a larger body capable of wielding larger weapons and intimidating criminals. At last, he isn't walking around in his irreducible form.

On the other hand, the hallways of the research center were not built for large beings, which does make sense, Miminus tells himself, as it dissuades visitors from bringing Chocobos and large suits of armor indoors.]

Excuse me.

[He squats and shuffles to the side of the walkway, allowing two interns to pass.]

Forgive me, I...am not used to accommodations of this size. [Good heavens, he ought to find a roll-up door and make his leave through the vehicle port. After some difficulty, he finds himself in the airship garage. This is familiar.

As you pass by, you can see a large blue robot have its body parts shift around to turn into a large truck]

...Hm. Something feels off. [Perhaps he has to get used to transforming after such a long time without the armor. He was certain he found nothing wrong after thoroughly cleaning the suit from the retrieval.

Oh, well. It's time to slowly ride outside.]

B. Safer Osu, Late April and May

[Said giant robot takes a walk throughout the military city, striding through the larger streets and looking over the citizens. They are all staying at least two meters away from store fronts and refraining from walking against the crowd. It helps that the residents keep clear of the large Cybertronian walking in their midst. He will enjoy working in this city.

His destination: the law enforcement department of Safer Osu. Ultra Magnus has the copy of the local laws downloaded on the Slate, his Moogle Mogsuna sits on his shoulder, waving at Heroes of Light and their Moogles as Magnus wears a deep frown, completely serious about his future employment.]

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[tiredcharmer]

Tyzias blinks at Magnus's response, having not consciously realized that she was using her old, subterfuge-based organizational system. Whoops. Even after almost a year (if you counted the time loops) on Vaikuntha, it was a struggle not to default to paranoia. Hard to unlearn the instincts that you gained to survive a fascistic, murderous regime, after all.

"Ah, shit. Right, lemme just--" A few papers shuffled around there, pushing a pile of notes there, and suddenly the entire pile is perfectly organized. Then the Cybertronian's words register.

She gives him a quizzical look. "Did Minimus tell you about me? Seems like something he'd say."

[legalcy]

He looks at the sheet on the table and glares at the form as if to etch his name into the marked line. Ultra Magnus. He had signed documents with those two words that brought awe and fear to the sparks of Cybertronians for millennia. He is Ultra Magnus, upholder of the law and all that is decent. He is the legendary Autobot who unsurprisingly will work the hardest in the law enforcement department. He is also Minimus Ambus, the newest pretender to the position of Magnus Armor Pilot.

Tyzias remembers him - Minimus, not Magnus. She knew him as the busybody and critical report-writer, not as the powerful Cybertronian. This was the opposite of what he is used to. Minimus is meant to be the nobody hiding behind a name that means everything.

"I did not speak with anyone regarding our work with the Job Pamphlets, apart from Ganeshan, the Curti Center employees, and Megatron." He had to tell her. He couldn't hide from himself forever. "You and the residents that have seen me may know me as Ultra Magnus as of now, but I was born - and always have been - Minimus Ambus."

...Somehow?

[tiredcharmer]

"Okay.

"Do you have any previous experience with law enforcement or any related fields?"

[legalcy]

Minimus needed a moment to understand the swerve in the direction of this conversation. He had revealed his true identity, he had confessed an important part of his being, and Tyzias had treated it as a minor fact to add to the paperwork? Where was the shock? Where were the questions?

He had not prepared for this. No one had reacted to Ultra Magnus with little regard. His reputation did not carry over to this universe, obviously, but to experience the lack of reverence typically associate when introducing himself as Minimus was...a challenge to experience.

"Right, yes, I do. As the former duly appointed enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, I have thousands of years of experience in apprehending war criminals and those that sought to break the Interplanetary Code of Conduct."

Was this not what he desired - a lack of differentiation in the form into which he was forged and the one granted to him. Rodimus referred to him with the same nickname, Ten had a slight preference for Minimus over Magnus, and the crew showed the same level of disrespect no matter which set of armor he bore. Still, he had to be thankful that there were no gossips on the same level as Swerve.

However, the pieces of dialogue that he had expected were so quickly removed that he stumbled, as if the stairs he had expected to be in the dark suddenly disappeared.

"Tyzias, while I will be walking about in this form, am I required to have my personal identification to be a photo of Minimus Ambus?"

That was what worried him.

[tiredcharmer]

Tyzias quickly checks the box that indicates prior experience, adds a small note, and taps the paper with her pen as she thinks on Magnus's question. The reason why she reacted with such little shock is that, frankly, it wasn't any of her business. While Tyzias is only on "loan" to the Safer Osu department, she was still a professional. It also helped that there were similar, while definitely not analogous, situations on Alternia. Other than having to strictly conform to their caste role and be blindly obedient to the whims of the highbloods, trolls were free to explore themselves.

So she has some experience in doing the paperwork in parallel fields. "Hm. Not necessarily, but if you only want to use your Ultra Magnus identification, you're probably gonna have to do all your hours in this form. It might be inconvenient when you need to fill out papers, but I'm sure the department can set something up."

[legalcy]

The concern of completing the paperwork properly and promptly was no issue for him. He has folders dedicated to separate causes, desk tidies to organize every form. The main concern is that of Starscream barging into his room and putting his things in disarray. As much as the chaos on the Lost Light exhausted him, the crew's annoyances were never done out of malice. Starscream was the opposite.

"The forms used in the force are linked to many other systems - the health system, the housing system, the banking system. It is highly recommended to use one legal name, subject to change by court of appeal." People changed their names, but typically one was considered to be legal while others were aliases. In this case, Ultra Magnus was the false identity, used as a cover for Minimus Ambus.

Wasn't is always like that? There was no Ultra Magnus, simply a series of loadbearers with lofty goals.

"That would work. However, there should be another form that has space for my legal and work identification. I should have an employee ID number for internal affairs, correct?"

His research may be a bit off - he hadn't worked in a law department and his knowledge was entirely based on research.