Dissect-a-con

[Screwdriver]

Screwdriver beams at Hook. "Plenty to go around! Double your pleasure, double your fun!" Junkions are ultra-redundant, after all. She has spares to spare!

She then returns her attention to the piece that she's holding, particularly the currently cut off connectors. "At their approach the mountain should open a little so the bagpiper can go in, after which it must close again!" she mutters thoughtfully, frowning. She points to several of the fuel lines to any who will look, then puts down the piece of Waspinator she's holding to remove her left arm and point to a similar segment in her own arm, particularly the valves that automatically cut off flow and a small sensor that ensures that it only re-opens when reconnected to the other end of an actual fuel line. "We must appoint a watchman of the night!"

[Dr. James Hook]

See, Hook isn't threatening Screwdriver. He really will take the parts out of her if she breaks something here.

He answers Waspinator absently, "She's my second in command. Serves as a science officer and general nuisance." It's nothing personal. Almost everyone is a nuisance to Hook.

Hook is much more interested in looking at what Screwdriver has to show him. He murmurs, "Well, well, well. Fast-acting shut-off valves. Seems someone's inadvertently invented the techno-organic Junkion. I suppose it had to happen some time or other." He looks back at Waspinator and Tarantulas's work, commenting, "Our patient here is going to be very, very difficult to kill for good once we get him set up properly."

[Tarantulas]

"Difficult to kill, but easy to blow to bits. Seems like it goes along with the name," Tarantulas snorts, peering at Waspinator's exposed systems and pondering how best to make the proposed modifications.

[Waspinator]

“Blackarachnia is actually physically here!? Oh slag”, Waspinator wasn’t sure how to feel about this piece of news, she had made him Megacool™ but only so she could unmake him, for a brief time not long past he had certainly hated her more than he thanked her. But the news of his apparent near immortality had a definite uplifting effect; he was even more determined than ever to see through some of his plans.

Haha hear that fate, you can’t kill Waspinator <<Blows Raspberry at Fate>>

Fate’s ego bubble has been popped by Waspinator
Frag Score: Fate – 1, Waspinator – 1

Waspinator gives Tarantulas a focused look “Doezz Spiderbot know another Wazzpinator?” An alternate version of himself, this is an interesting concept.

OOC: I'm loving how this is going. Tarantulas - no mind control shell programs, bombs or anything while you tinker in there please. There might be other oportunites however.

[Screwdriver]

Screwdriver picks the Waspinator component back up, darts to the nearest open work bench, and plops it down. Then she begins to lay out her tools, not pulling them from subspace, for the most part, but opening various panels on her body and drawing them out. In some cases, the tools even double as (redundant) parts of her system, though obviously not so essential that she can't do without them for a period.

"The king, however, thought that it would not cost him much to part from the princess in order to gain such a delightful toy,"¹ she observes in a serious tone as she lifts a small cutting tool and reaches for one of the more organic components. She understands component modularity quite well - it's the organic aspect that has her curious.

Of course, should anyone recall what she tends to do to organics in the process of satisfying her curiosity, they may want to raise an objection...

¹ The Enchanted Horse

[Dr. James Hook]

Hook pull up Screwdriver and Blackarachnia's baseline settings from the medical database, overlays them with an & filter, adds in tolerances and margins of error, and edits the resulting profile a bit to ensure Blackarachnia's privacy, since she is so picky about it. He sets a copy down next to Tarantulas. "We can work off this - we'll end up scrapping this entirely, of course, but we need somewhere to start."

Take down notes. Observe how Waspinator is completely different. And so on.

Hook doesn't recall what Screwdriver does to organics, because he tries not to pay too much attention to her. She's brain hurting. Someone else will have to stop her! Or no one.

"Oh slag?" Hook sniffs. "I know Blackarachnia's not perfect, but really, who is?" Aside from Hook. Hook totally is. That goes without saying.

[Tarantulas]

"Yes, I knew another Waspinator back in my home reality. He made excellent cannon-fodder. He was a moron, and he came apart easily, but he never actually ever went offline. Incidentally, there's also a Blackarachnia in my reality."

Tarantulas examines the document Hook places in front of him, hemming and hawing. "We're going to have to come up with parts that neither his organic nor mechanical systems will reject if we're installing cut-off valves."

Tarantulas has no idea what Screwdriver does to organics. If he did, he'd probably just be upset that he didn't think of it first.

[Waspinator]

There are too many bodies in the way for Waspinator’s head to see what Screwdriver is doing to the part of him that she’s picked, so he doesn’t know to be worried. Looks like no one is going to stop you Screwdriver.

“Oh Chickbot did good job of upgrading Wazzp but only so she could experiment on Wazzpinator and turn Chickbot back into pure zybertronian” there was a lot of venom in his voice for some one who’s stingers weren’t actually poisonous. He had a lot to learn about being a Decepticon apparently.

[Screwdriver]

Screwdriver begins to slice at one of the more organic components, intent to cut it away completely. However, she creates no more than a small incision before a small metal object jumps free of one of the openings in her armor left behind when she removed her tools. The thing, a small toy cricket, makes a chirping noise that's faintly painful to the audios, and Screwdriver sits up straight, optics wide. She spins on the cricket and exclaims, "Patience, grasshopper! Your training is not yet finished!" But then the thing hops off, heading out the door of medical. Screwdriver goes chasing after it, and out of the thread!

(Hopefully, she'll catch it before it gets up to full power.)

[Dr. James Hook]

Hook points out, "Tarantulas. Waspinator already has shut-offs valves and wireless-linked control sensors. That's why he hasn't leaked out yet. We just need to map out his new normal, put him back together, and upload the new normal into his self repair system."

He stares at Waspinator disapprovingly and sniffs, "Pure Cybertronian? What nonsense are you on about?" Hook was rebuilt on Earth into an Earthen vehicle, and he's awesome! As long as you use proper quality controls, components are components!

When Screwdriver runs off on one of her inane errands, Hook paces over to the part she was working on and works on benchmarking it himself, making fastidious notes. He notices the incision she made, inspects it, and decides, after some deliberation, to stitch it up with some of the degradable stitches they start stocking after Predacons started showing up. He makes a note on the medical file to check and make sure what Waspinator's healing timeline is - before the stitches degrade, during, after?

[Tasha Walker]

Blackarachnia sidesteps Screwdriver as the Junkion chases her conscience out the door. Pausing a safe distance away from the bug on the berth, the spider leans against the back of a chair.

"So, get me up to speed on green, winged, and decapitated here."

She seems rather lackadaisical about the whole affair. She's watching the wasp very, very carefully, however.

OOC: feel free to summarize folks

[Tarantulas]

"So good of you to join us, Blackarachnia. Waspinator here has the ability to put himself back together when he blows up, but his internal schematics are out of date and he almost suffered an overload." It's okay though. They can rebuild him. They have the technology.

Tarantulas gestures to Waspinator's Autobot blueprints. "See for yourself."

[Waspinator]

Waspinator’s head spun around using his mandibles to crab walk at the sound of Blackarachnia’s voice. Slowly a look of shocked horror spreads across his visage. “C...ch…Chickbot!” Horror turns to determination and resolve. “Chickbot upgrade Wazp into Wazzpinator, Wazzpinator thank Chickbot, but will never allow Chickbot to experiment on reversing upgrade!” the last part, a statement of fact, was said through almost clenched teeth, Waspinator had power now, and he was not going to let it go. He was after all, the tallest in the room and his stingers were literally at his fingertips… just currently experiencing some technical difficulties.

Just wait until he gets assigned to her room, just watch his paranoia then.

And that boys and girls is the story of how Waspinator didn’t sleep for eight cycles straight, became addicted to coffee-milk in order to cope, and if you listen carefully on a really quiet night, you can still here the terrorised screams of his nightmares echo across the space-time-continue-nom.

[Dr. James Hook]

"We're working on benchmarking his baselines and tolerances to establish new schematics for him," Hook adds to Tarantulas's summary, and he gestures to the schematics he's been working on. he takes the part he just stitched up and documented back over to the rest of Waspinator to work on writing up it attaches to the rest of him.

Slightly acidly, he adds, "So nice of you to drop in. You have such a soothing effect on people."

[Tasha Walker]

"That's me, the perfect little candy striper," Blackarachnia retorts.

She saunters over to the table reaches over, and attempts to pick up Waspinator's head and hold it at eye level. Regardless of success, she will hiss out the following:

"I don't have to try and change you back here. I've got a simulation chamber that can enact any scenario or schematic I wish. But if you call me 'Chickbot' again, I certainly will take you apart- and make sure you can't go back together."

"Disassemble will equal dead. Got that, buzzboy?"

She gestures at the schematics. "It isn't just a matter of resetting his defaults. You need to convince is internal repair that the organic parts of him are actually parts of him. For me, it was a painful and lengthy process, resulting in my very spark requiring the organic parts to survive."

"It will be interesting to see if that happens a second time."

OOC: Editing in what I forgot- that Oil Slick's stopgap measure is in place so she can touch folks. No, I'm not telling you what that measure is yet.