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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 17, 2011 19:47:16 GMT -5
Day 30. Takes place down on Pz-Zazz. Semi-private. Please ask to join.
Hook isn't allowed to go participate in the attack. While he doesn't consider himself a warrior, he does consider it all a shame. After all, he has a vested interest in helping to keep Long Haul alive by helping Long Haul off into a Decepticon brig cell, where Hook can pick Long Haul's brain at his leisure. Tawdry people would call this kidnapping. Hook just thinks that Long Haul needs a special nudge to attend the Constructicon reunion.
Right now, Hook is just sitting dourly in a café, watching the wretched people of Pz-Zazz stroll by out the window. At least his drink is good. It's good because Hook took one sip of the first drink the server brought him, grabbed the chiropteran server by the ear, dragged him back into the kitchen, and completely dismantled and rebuilt the entire kitchen. They can thank Hook later.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 18, 2011 18:34:36 GMT -5
Another robot walks into the cafe' where Hook is sitting, wearing a familiar red and blue paint job. He walks up to the bar, takes a seat on a stool, and orders a drink. "Just a light fuel oil please, thanks." The server nods and disappears into the kitchen.
When he returns with Optimus's drink, the Prime has a sip, makes a face, and pushes the drink away, then raises his servo to call the waiter back. "Actually, could I just have a bit of degreasing fluid instead? This oil doesn't really agree with me."
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 19, 2011 15:19:06 GMT -5
Hook would make a terrible spy for a laundry list of reasons, but he was people-watching, and it's hard not to notice Optimus Prime. Hook watches him, and when Optimus makes that face, Hook makes a face of his own, noting snidely, a casual smirk on his face, "Ah. Such a typical Autobot. Bright, primary colours," secondary colours like green and purple are where it's at! At least dark colours like navy, "and absolutely no sense of taste."
This is the Optimus Prime that Misfire beat?
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 20, 2011 21:24:02 GMT -5
Optimus Prime spins quickly around on his barstool. The only people on Pz-Zazz who'd know what an Autobot is are Decepticons, or people involved in some weird conspiracy who keep tabs on everybody. Either option means trouble.
"Hook! What do you want?" he says suspiciously, before his eyes go wide as he recieves an emergency transmission over his radio. Boy Scoutimus Prime has never had much of a poker face. He pulls a pile of local currency out of his subspace, plunks it down on the counter without counting it, and then heads for the door, walking quickly.
"Whatever it is, I don't have time right now."
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 21, 2011 22:18:12 GMT -5
"To go home," Hook answers evenly, sipping his drink. Go home, be with his Constructicons, raid some hydro-electric plants at dawn, build some temporary bases shaped like giant Decepticon symbols, oh, and, completely alter the flow of history using what he knows of the probably future, plus, introduce alien technologies and watch all the new ways of exploding Autobots be put to good use.
Hook's mouth quirks, and he adds, "Or did you mean from you? Because the idea that I could desire anything from you, personally, is rather laughable. Impersonally, I suppose I could manage a small gavial out of your dismembered components."
That is what Constructicons do with Optimus Primes. Turn them into Crocodilia.
Of course, this Optimus Prime is already having a bad day, it would seem. Hook wouldn't know anything about that!
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 21, 2011 23:16:36 GMT -5
"Oh yeah?! Well I don't know what a gavial is, so the joke's on you!" Optimus retorts as he pushes through the front door of the cafe', leaving it swinging in his wake with the little bell on top ringing wildly. His friends are in danger elsewhere! He has no time to banter with a Decepticon here!
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 21, 2011 23:25:29 GMT -5
"Mmm, yes, my erudition is clearly hilarious," Hook deadpans, "whereas your ignorance is merely droll."
He stays sitting right where he is, sipping his drink. So, the attack is underway, and he's not there. Hook frowns into his drink, his reflection looking back at him darkly.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 21, 2011 23:43:12 GMT -5
Optimus is already running down the street toward the spaceport when he gets Xaaron's transmission on the broadband. He skids to a halt and reverses direction, drawing his axe from subspace and extending it into two-handed mode, igniting the thruster on the back of the blade to further increase his speed as he dashes back at the nice big picture window that has Hook on the other side of it.
Nearby pedestrians, sensing Something Is About To Go Down, either run away, or retreat to a safe distance from which to ogle.
The young Prime deploys his mouthplate just as he leaps into the air, smashing through the window axe-first, intending to tackle the Constructicon to the ground. Because whatever else he may be, he is an Optimus Prime, dangit, and that is the sort of thing Optimus Primes do.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 22, 2011 19:46:07 GMT -5
Hook was sitting at a table, so when an axe-wielding, masked Autobot homicidal maniac crashed through the window at him, he tips the table up in Optimus's face, applying the simple physics of a lever. Hook doesn't put all his strength behind the shove, because he seriously would have broken the table if he did; Hook can dead-lift 20 tons, and a split in half table doesn't make a very good barrier.
Hook retreats back behind his chair and draws the violet lightsaber he's had since way, way before Mace Windu made violet lightsabers cool. His expression is a rather cruel sneer.
Some of the patrons groan and scatter.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 23, 2011 0:32:25 GMT -5
Optimus Prime isn't homicidal! All the other stuff is pretty much true, though. He swings his axe down as the table comes up, planting it in the table and attempting to do a really cool thing where he sort of pole-vaults over the table and kicks Hook in the face. What actually happens is that Optimus's axe doesn't bite into the table very well, and he slips, sliding over the floor to end up on his back at Hook's feet.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 23, 2011 9:06:46 GMT -5
Hook gives the Autobot at his feet a dubious look, as if asking, Really? This is who Emirate Xaaron sends to kidnap him? Hook is frankly insulted.
Since he already has his lightsaber in his hands, Hook does what Decepticons are rumoured to do and tries to stab Optimus Prime in the back stabs at Optimus in the front, since Optimus is showing his front, not his back. Hook being Hook, he tries to stab, specifically, for Optimus Prime's torso motor control nexus, but Hook's never had a chance to eviscerate operate on a Transformer of this bodyshell-type, so it is possible that he ends up just slightly to the left or that Optimus Prime rolls out of the way or something equally silly.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 23, 2011 21:09:03 GMT -5
Optimus's Academy training kicks in, and he rolls to the side just in time to not suffer a horrible stabby fate. He starts to scramble to his feet, but half-way up, still crouching, he launches a grappler at the hilt of Hook's laser-sword, intending to yank it away. Hopefully he'll manage it. And hopefully the fact that it is a laser-sword and not a regular sword won't cause him grievous bodily harm if it does come flying toward him.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 23, 2011 21:43:08 GMT -5
Hook isn't terribly agile, so Optimus Prime succeeds in yanking a sharp, burning object away from Hook and towards himself. Hook, being the pragmatic G1 Decepticon he is, scorning the conventions of later series that swords and other melee weapons are the be-all and end-all of everything, pulls out his laser pistol and tries to shoot Optimus Prime in the head.
He comments arrogantly, "You'll be the second Optimus Prime I've rendered headless."
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 24, 2011 19:09:10 GMT -5
The lightsaber scrapes Optimus's face, burning a line across his mouthplate as it sails past to implant itself in the floor. Optimus Prime retracts his grapplers and, seeing Hook about to shoot him, does the only thing he can think of and sprays fire-retardant foam at his face.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 24, 2011 19:58:56 GMT -5
Optimus Prime is not coldly shot in the head. Hook happens to be a G1 cartoon Decepticon. This means that he is nonsensically vulnerable to fire retardant foam. As the foam washes over him, he seems to stiffen and lock up a bit, and he cries out in sheer and utter horror, "Fire retardant foam! No, my circuits!" Hook promptly tries to run out the broken window, because if he sticks around covered in foam, he'll suffer permanent circuit damage!
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