Starscream
Major
"Sometimes I can almost feel it!"
strangely enough, male.
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Post by Starscream on Jun 18, 2007 14:48:08 GMT -5
Starscream did his best to continue to draw fire from the craft. Barrel rolls, loop-the-loops. He was a lot more focussed now so even though it was difficult, he managed to avoid getting caught by one of the blasts.
//Excellent tactic, Fleetwind.// Starscream transmitted to everyone. Oh noes, does that mean that Fleetwind is being noticed?! //Just be quick about it, I have better things to do today than be shot at. Does it appear to be manned?//
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Post by Starfighter on Jun 18, 2007 15:35:53 GMT -5
//If it is, the people manning it are very small. I don't see any corpses in here.// Starfighter kept dodging about in the air, his arms full of small, charred bits of machinary. He was directly below the other dirigibles, out of range in the sense that their weapons could not tilt down to a proper angle to shoot at him. Starfighter was grateful for this.
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Fleetwind
Major
The Chancellor, His Eminent Grandeur, Marquis Fleetwind. The Insurgent Subduer of A Non-Threatening Cute Little Furry Kitten
Twined Elf
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Post by Fleetwind on Jun 18, 2007 17:27:55 GMT -5
The Pastel Pyramid of Power1 nodded his head as he continued slicing. // Thank you, sir, // he replied, not because he was thrilled with the compliment, but because to say otherwise would be rude. He takes out the engine; the thing is still armed, but can no longer move, and adds, // I'm not seeing any indication of manning so far, sir. //
He leaps to the nearest weapon mount and jabs both daggers into it, shutting it down. Then he scans for the others, and frowns. Be quick about this? Well, he'll do his best!
1 Actually, more like the Pastel Pyramid of Patheticness, but that sounds less impressive. Also, he's not a pyramid right now, he's a robot.
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Starscream
Major
"Sometimes I can almost feel it!"
strangely enough, male.
Posts: 945
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Post by Starscream on Jun 18, 2007 18:38:38 GMT -5
Unable to move and with one gun down? MUCH easier to avoid. Starscream began a sharp nose dive out of harm's way. He headed toward the crash site of the first two dirigibles.
//Good work, Decepticons. At your first available opportunity, Return to the crash site and help me sort this out.// Starscream transmitted to everyone, before transforming and landing. After a brief moment as he woefully examined his own grazed wing (it's really not that bad,) he began to examine the craft for anything small and immediately worth salvaging. Everything else he's going to conceal as best he can.
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Post by Starfighter on Jun 19, 2007 8:38:47 GMT -5
If Fleetwind wanted to be the Pyramid of Patheticness, Starfighter was happy to pass on the title to him. The accountant had certainly had it long enough to get bored with it.
//Yes, sir.//
Just as well, Starfighter was beginning to get rather loaded down. He followed Starscream to the crash site, having to stop every once in a while to dip down and grab whatever collection of scorched metal had fallen out of his hands this time.
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Fleetwind
Major
The Chancellor, His Eminent Grandeur, Marquis Fleetwind. The Insurgent Subduer of A Non-Threatening Cute Little Furry Kitten
Twined Elf
Posts: 730
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Post by Fleetwind on Jun 19, 2007 8:47:29 GMT -5
Fleetwind still had a few more weapons mounts to disable. He flitted from embankment to embankment via the underside of the craft, usually slashing with his daggers, but sometimes resorting to a close-ranged blast of his shoulder-mounted laser rifles.
Finally, he finished, and swung his hands up to replace his wing-tips. He folded forward at the waste, then the rest of his body followed as he dived down to join the others, leaving the immobile, weaponless dirigible above. // I'm on my way, Starscream, // the Seeker radioed.
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Starscream
Major
"Sometimes I can almost feel it!"
strangely enough, male.
Posts: 945
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Post by Starscream on Jun 19, 2007 16:45:05 GMT -5
There were a few things that were salvageable immediately. A couple of the armaments had fallen out from the plating. It was wobbling loose on the one part of the mounting frame it was still attached to. With some effort, Starscream managed to tear the already-weakened connection free. With a new mount re-attached and some rewiring, it could serve as the beginnings of a base defense.
After removing some panelling, A console was also left intact. Starscream's left hand retracted and a welding torch extended. Turning up the heat, Starscream managed to melt a large panel free and to remove several useful circuit boards and chips safely.
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Post by Starfighter on Jun 20, 2007 12:47:13 GMT -5
Starfighter landed and set out the machinery he'd caught in a neat pile, sorting out useless slag from recoverable circuitry. There wasn't very much left, but what was there looked rather interesting--and not in the familiar configurations that he'd seen in Shockwave's flying drones. He held up the remains of something melted and translucent and peered thoughtfully at it.
"Sir, there's a camera on this one. At least, that's what it looks like." For all he knows, it's Reflector.
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Fleetwind
Major
The Chancellor, His Eminent Grandeur, Marquis Fleetwind. The Insurgent Subduer of A Non-Threatening Cute Little Furry Kitten
Twined Elf
Posts: 730
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Post by Fleetwind on Jun 20, 2007 13:19:53 GMT -5
Finally, Fleetwind caught up with the other Seekers, flipping from his dive to an upright position so he could touch down. "That takes care of the rest of its weaponry," he said, walking towards the others. He looked around at the wreckage, and tried to figure out how he could help; while he was not technically inclined, he could tell slagged bits from not-slagged bits.
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Starscream
Major
"Sometimes I can almost feel it!"
strangely enough, male.
Posts: 945
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Post by Starscream on Jun 20, 2007 20:03:25 GMT -5
"Might as well keep it." Starscream said. "If the armaments can come off easily enough, take those. What we can't carry, we hide for later. The plating can suffice for emergency patchwork, or as extra armour for fortifications. There is little that could go to waste on this." His own storage at capacity, he continued to sift through the wreckage.
Starscream discovered the craft's fuel source. "As for their power source, well at least now we can refuel after expending that energy. He withdrew from subspace several cables. He passed four of them to Starfighter. "Here. You two replenish what you can from what's left on the ship." Starscream does say it, but he's claimed his one for himself. Because his Null-Rays use more energon than most weaponry, and well, because he's a greedy.
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Post by Starfighter on Jun 21, 2007 8:16:26 GMT -5
Starfighter held the cables tentatively and looked around at the other seekers. Four to be shared between him, Skystrike, and Fleetwind, and you couldn't slice a cable. Someone would get an extra and no way was Starfighter going to choose and make an enemy for himself.
"Sir, how do you want the energy to be rationed?" he asked hesitantly, setting aside one cable for himself.
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Fleetwind
Major
The Chancellor, His Eminent Grandeur, Marquis Fleetwind. The Insurgent Subduer of A Non-Threatening Cute Little Furry Kitten
Twined Elf
Posts: 730
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Post by Fleetwind on Jun 21, 2007 8:41:05 GMT -5
Fleetwind did not get up from sorting through the wreckage just yet, and he made no move for any of the cables if they were not handed to him - yet. He also did not comment on the dirigible still in the sky. After all, the weapons he had relied on the most in that battle, his energon daggers, were designed to be fairly energon-efficient. He did, however, watch the cables like a hawk, even while he fell silent and let Starscream answer the question addressed to him.
OOC: *lameposts!* Sorry. Just can't think of anything substantial just now.
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Starscream
Major
"Sometimes I can almost feel it!"
strangely enough, male.
Posts: 945
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Post by Starscream on Jun 21, 2007 15:03:52 GMT -5
Starscream grunted in confusion at Starfighter, but then it made sense as Skystrike finally landed. He forgot about him.. for some reason. After he connected his two cables up to the power source, He retrieved another pair of cables, but this pair he held on to. "Skystrike can recharge from this one when I'm done with it. You two can share that one." If there is not enough charge in this ship to replenish Starscream's supplies, he will leave some for Skystrike. But he's still getting the lion's share, of course.
OOC: Whoops, I forgot Skystrike in my last post, didn't I? Also, how much juice do you reasonably think we can get out of these?
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Post by Starfighter on Jun 22, 2007 9:59:11 GMT -5
"Er...yessir." Starfighter's still not sure what's supposed to be going on, but he hands off two of the cables to Fleetwind and keeps two for himself. All this hoarding energy and taking it in at every opportunity no matter how odd or what just happened is very...perhaps creepy isn't the word, but a bit disturbing.
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Fleetwind
Major
The Chancellor, His Eminent Grandeur, Marquis Fleetwind. The Insurgent Subduer of A Non-Threatening Cute Little Furry Kitten
Twined Elf
Posts: 730
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Post by Fleetwind on Jun 22, 2007 10:24:09 GMT -5
In case anyone was wondering about these cables, we are talking about the bizarre "nipple suction cup" style energy cables that Starscream and the Combaticons used in "Starscream's Brigade." Mostly because those were damned funny.
Fleetwind accepted the two cables with a nod and a "Thank you," leaving his small pile of sorted components where it was. He searched for what looked to be an engine of some sort and, after shocking himself (darned not-technically-inclined robots!), managed to get the cables hooked up. Then he placed them, erm, on the appropriate locations of his own body so he could begin charging.
The pastel wonder tilted his head and frowned at what he heard over the radio. He then looked to Starscream to see if the senior Seeker had any changes in orders concerning the matter.
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