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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Jul 3, 2009 15:39:54 GMT -5
Jetfire has been watching the various arrivals curiously, some of the faces being completely new to him despite his months on this planet. A few of the newcomers garner special attention from him. So many flying Autobots! Oh, sure, they are highly out numbered by non-flying Autobots, but when you come from a universe where you and your brother are considered the only ones (excepting Omega Supreme), any number of flying Autobots seems like a lot.
He watches Slingshot and Oracle, considering joining them, when Skyblast shows up. Ooh! That was a fancy landing. Kicking up into the air briefly in order to pass over the crowd rather than make his way through it, he lands next to Skyblast, smiling enthusiastically.
"That was most excellent landing!" Jetfire says. "I am much very impressed!"
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jul 5, 2009 19:33:51 GMT -5
Skyblast's dull gold optics seems to come alive and sparkle at Jetfire's praise. Skyblast is an artist and entertainer, and he lives for attention. He looks up at Jetfire, considering Jetfire's styling. He's certainly not from Skyblast's own reality, which tends to be a lot... looser with the panels and rather more complicated. The styling looks a bit different than the other realities Skyblast has seen so far, though. More stylised. Also, goggles!
Skyblast grins and replies, "Oh, you haven't seen anything yet."
Jetfire really hasn't. Skyblast didn't even have his smoke generators on!
He holds up a hand to shake and offers, "I'm Skyblast. What's your name?"
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Jul 5, 2009 21:45:47 GMT -5
"Really!?" Jetfire says, smiling brightly.
As a 'Bot who once had vague dreams of being a cyber-circus performer, Jetfire is all about the acrobatics, and since gaining the ability to fly had gained an interest in aerobatics, too. While he and his brother had taken to the sky like they were born to it and quickly developed their own flashy style, it was not so much refined or graceful as it was just... energetic. But here, has he found an Autobot actually experienced in fantastic flight maneuvers?
Skyblast may have just gained a fanboy.
Grabbing hold of Skyblast's offered hand with his own, he pumps it up and down enthusiastically. "I am Jetfire! Is being very nice to meeting you."
Practically bursting with excitement, he can't help but blurt out, "Can you to be making with more of the fancy flying?" Does he get more incomprehensible the more excited he gets? Why yes, so it would seem!
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Jul 6, 2009 20:14:08 GMT -5
No one is stopping Emirate Xaaron from clinking on top of the ship?
In his own reality, someone would have totally stopped him before he even got halfway up the side of the ship. However, in his own reality, the Autobots (and there were only Autobots there, no Maximals and Decepticon contractors, who really do liven the place up, he has to admit) understood that Emirate Xaaron is sort of lacking common sense when it comes to the issue of his own personal safety. These Autobots and Maximals and Decepticon contractors just foolishly assume that Emirate Xaaron is concerned about his own well-being and will try to avoid breaking his own neck.
Well hah! He'll show them!
He stands up, a tiny, tiny figure standing on more or less the bow of the ship. The wind howls and whips at him, and his footing feels a bit unsteady, However, he's been on more perilous stages. Showing that he really knows how to project his voice to carry, Emirate Xaaron announces, "The children of the light hereby cast the terrible secret of space away from this vessel!"
Emirate Xaaron then drops to his knees, lightly cuts one of his wrists, and completes the ritual with a few drops of his own fuel.1 He then clutches his wrist, waiting for the autoseals on the lines to handle the minor wound.
1 Yup. Totally made that up. Well. It was somewhat based on a Decepticon ritual in the Marvel comics. I couldn't think of any time a new ship was ritually seen off in canon.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Jul 6, 2009 23:30:00 GMT -5
Rodimus Prime foolishly assumes that Emirate Xaaron is sensible and concerned with his own safety. The mechanoid was a legend! Legends don't make awkward miscalculations! Well, okay, maybe they could. When Emirate Xaaron completes his ritual, Rodimus cheers. "Bravo! Well said!" And then he whistles. No, Rodimus is still completely unaware of just how foolish a risk that Emirate Xaaron is taking. At least, until Kup leans near him and asks, "Uhm, lad? Should he be climbing around up there like that?" Rodimus's optics flicker in surprise. "Huh?" he responds, making it obvious he hadn't even considered it a problem. Then he waves it off. "Emirate Xaaron knows what he's doing." Then he remembers the lavender paint debacle. "Well, wait, on second thought..." he starts looking around, "where's Grimlock?" Grimlock, after all, has the advantage of both being able to hover when he flies and of being very, very strong.
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Post by Grimlock on Jul 7, 2009 13:24:31 GMT -5
Grimlock is hiding in plain sight! Perhaps that training he did with Mirage actually worked.
Naw, he's just there among the crowd, being quiet for once in robot mode. He's rather confused by what Xaaron is doing. Granted, a lot of things other 'bots do confuses him. Ah well.
Then he hears Rodimus ask about him, and he looks over, waving. "Me Grimlock over here!"
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jul 7, 2009 13:27:25 GMT -5
Skyblast is shaken back and forth a bit by Jetfire, but he manages to keep his balance. He smiles up at Jetfire and say, "Can I? I totally can! Of course, it might be a bit tricky inside the ship, but that'll just make it more interesting."
Yes, Skyblast totally thinks that stunt-flying inside a spaceship is a good idea. He is what is known as a bad influence.
He claps politely but not too long as Emirate Xaaron does whatever it is he's doing up there.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Jul 7, 2009 21:19:49 GMT -5
Jetfire does not squeal out loud, but his does bounce slightly in place. Stunt-flying inside a spaceship? He would be so there!
"Can you be showing me, I-" the excited jet-former is distracted as Emirate Xaaron begins his ritual. "Ah! Speech!"
Okay, so it's not really a speech, but he still turns to stare at the far-up figure of their current leader. Straightening to attention, he whips his arm up into a sharp salute, even as he continues to smile brightly. Everything is so exciting at the moment! Huge ship, going into space, meeting other Autobot fliers... If only Jetstorm were here then things would be perfect.
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Post by Mayday/Maddox Wayne on Jul 7, 2009 21:56:19 GMT -5
Mayday squints up at Emirate Xaaron and finds himself wondering a little about his sanity. Not so much for the spaceship-climbing, he's used to doing that himself - though admittedly that's usually while wearing a harness of some sort, not that he's ever really come close to falling himself, but it's always nice to have a little insurance against falling to a horrible, painful- er, thought digression. Right.
No, the climbing wasn't the issue, just... what the slag was he talking about? Children of the light, who? Terrible secret of space, what? Yeah, he's just going to sort of... ignore that and go with the flow. Soon he'll be back in space and then everything will be better! Or something.
Making a few quiet whining noises to himself, Mayday waits a bit impatiently for the ceremony to end.
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Post by Oracle on Jul 8, 2009 20:05:26 GMT -5
Hearing Xaaron's voice behind her, Oracle loops over in the air to face the ship to see what's happening while she's been rather distracted. Then she flips right side up and transforms to robot mode staring rather dubiously at the ship and the Autobot on it. Xaaron couldn't fly, could he? And if he couldn't, what in the world was he doing way up there without a safety line?
Uncertain gaze turned to those on the ground instead she tries to figure out if someone is planning on something about this before it becomes a problem of the 'catch before splatter' variety. Oh. Grimlock. That will work.
Still, she flits around rather closer to the ship then she had been, in case gravity and Xaaron become more acquainted then usual, before something else occurs to remedy the situation.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Jul 8, 2009 22:10:34 GMT -5
Rodimus nods to Grimlock, then points to Emirate Xaaron. "Get up there and be ready to catch him in case he falls, Grimlock," the young Prime orders.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Jul 10, 2009 15:39:50 GMT -5
Emirate Xaaron isn't going to go for a huge speech, not right now. He can tell that morale is high enough, as it is. He'll save the speeches for later, when what he has to say is what they need to hear.
Unaware of Oracle, Rodimus Prime, Kup, and Grimlock's machinations, he cheerily starts to climb down, the wind prying at his grasp.
Hrm, it really is a long way own, isn't it?
And perhaps he teeters a bit, wobbling...
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Post by Grimlock on Jul 10, 2009 16:01:28 GMT -5
Grimlock looks at Rodimus a bit at first. He's not so keen on the idea, as he's still a little miffed about that little stealth exercise. ...but, it'd Rodimus, so Grimlock engages his flight capabilities, lifting up into the air, and drifting close to the ship.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jul 10, 2009 21:14:48 GMT -5
After Emirate Xaaron finishes christening the ship, Skyblast replies happily to Jetfire, "Can I be showing you what? What do you want to see? If I've heard of a move, I can do, and if I haven't heard of it," he sounds dubious - but these are other realities, "give me a half a second, because that's all it'll take for me to figure out."
"But that's all really nothing."
Because Skyblast's aerobatic stunts are all secondary to his true aim: painting. But he'll get there. Gotta sell it up first.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Jul 10, 2009 21:48:17 GMT -5
Seeing as Emirate Xaaron is busy making the return trip to the ground, Jetfire drops his salute and turns back to Skyblast. He shrugs a little. "Can you be showing... anything!"
He feels he should explain a little more. "My brother and I, where we are coming from we are first Autobots to fly like Decepticon and are having to teach our own selves the flying. But you are flying Autobot too! And we- ah, I, am liking the acrobatic-type flying." He smiles, optics both hopeful and pleading. "So, since you are knowing to fly fancily, I was hoping you could show, please?"
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