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Post by Long Haul on Oct 7, 2007 10:51:40 GMT -5
Long Haul had been looking for Emirate Xaaron, but with his new orders, he heads back towards Autobase. He picks a spot down the street from it - in view, but mostly sheltered by other buildings - and then transforms.
Then he looks around and wonders what he needs to do to prepare, beyond getting his tool kit ready (and his tool kit is ready, really). Well, not having to repair folks on the ground might be good... the Constructibot starts pushing some abandoned vehicles near each other. When he's done with that, he's going to grab an outter wall from one of the nearby buildings and make him a table!
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Sideburn
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Post by Sideburn on Oct 7, 2007 11:02:39 GMT -5
Well, it seems like there's plenty of people centering in on the base, and since the idea of surrounding it was basically crossed off the list... Sideburn goes off to find Long Haul, then. They did ask for those who could do repairs to be ready, and this Long Haul is supposed to be in charge of setting up the triage area.
Not far from the base he spots a lone Autobot prepping an area, and he figures it's probably this Long Haul. As he gets close he transforms.
"Erm, hey, are you Long Haul? Need some help?"
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Post by Long Haul on Oct 7, 2007 11:13:25 GMT -5
Long Haul straightens, and his optic band flashes briefly. Hey, who's this guy? Well, if it's someone who doesn't recognize him, that's usually a good thing. He nods his head. "Yeah, I'm Long Haul, and I could use some help. Mostly, I'm just tryin' to set up a couple tables to work on, if we need it. Figured I'd move these things together and lay something across it." He shrugs. "During the big fight, they were usin' my truck bed to work in, but it'd be kinda hard for me to work if they do that again."
He tilts his head and shifts his weight from one leg to the other. "What's your name?"
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Post by Firebolt on Oct 7, 2007 11:56:44 GMT -5
One could almost expect to hear the Mazda 'Zoom-Zoom' music playing as Firebolt drives up. Except she's not a Mazda. She spots two other robots standing off to the side of repair and then slows down to a stop, just a bit away from them. She easily transforms and then walks up, glancing around.
"Uh... Yo," she waves lightly, recognizing one of the bots but not saying anything. She didn't know much about him in person anyway. "Mirage sent me after the pirate dude and I'm guessing we're waiting here...? M' Firebolt... The uh... The one who was almost crying over radio..."
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Post by Sideburn on Oct 7, 2007 12:29:23 GMT -5
"I'm Sideburn." He looks around. "What are you planning on using for the top?" Sideburn's never had to set up a triage station beyond finding a nice, sheltered place and having Prime transform his trailer into its "base" form.
And luckily Sideburn has his back to Firebolt as she approaches, only turning around once she's in robot mode. Wouldn't do to have him go all red-crazy when he needs to be working. "Hi there! Actually, this is the triage area that they talked about on the comms. The base where the main action is going down is off that way." And Sideburn helpfully points in the direction of the base, but she doesn't need to go. Help makes everything go faster!
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Post by Long Haul on Oct 7, 2007 12:57:04 GMT -5
"I was just gonna yank off one of the walls of these buildings," Long Haul gestures in answer to Sideburn's question. "They're what we got available, y'know?" He looks around. "I don't like havin' to tear apart so much of this place, really, but... they built it too small." He just can't seem to get it into his head that it was built just right for the people who built it, no matter how many times it's been explained to him.
With Firebolt's arrival and introduction, Long Haul nods sympathetically. He takes one step towards her, then tilts his head a little to the left. "Yeah, I unnerstand. It's... pretty scary. I never hadda deal with nothing worse than a barroom brawl before I got here. A real war... s'nothing like I ever faced."
"In my first few days here, we hadda go fight a big ol' battle by a power plant, only, well, I couldn't fight, 'cos Jazz was hurt bad and they needed a place to fix him. So there I was, rolling around the huge old fight, shots going everywhere, and me not even able to transform, and... and... one of Hook's teammates, him threatening me over the radio, and Hook not even saying anything about it," it doesn't seem to occur to Long Haul that these people might not know who 'Hook' is.
Long Haul sighs, and his shoulders slump for a moment, but then he shakes himself out of it and reaches towards Firebolt, trying to place a comforting hand on her shoulder. "But we got through that, and now alla the folks that got hurt, they're up and about again. We'll get through this, too. 'Kay?"
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Post by Firebolt on Oct 7, 2007 15:52:36 GMT -5
Although her first reaction is to flinch, Firebolt doesn't as she looks at Long Haul. He doesn't seem as scary as he should be... She listens to him talk, the memories of the human's wars floating through her mind. So much death and carnage and sometimes... Only over ten feet of land. The very thought made her sick. She fights the urge to transform into her vehicle form, thinking it to be safe and comforting in a strange environment, and then nods lightly, letting Long Haul touch her shoulder.
"The most I can do right now is just hope and pray and wish that nobody gets hurt," she says, going to put her hand on top of his and glancing over at him, blue optics meeting his band. If a Transformer could look like they could cry, Firebolt had that look.
She tilts her head to the side, one of her metallic ponytails fanning out into a satellite dish as she tries to listen for anything interesting going on in the distance Sideburn pointed in. "I can't hear shots, and I can barely hear any conversation... Things may be going as planned."
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Post by Sideburn on Oct 7, 2007 21:27:26 GMT -5
And it looks like he's the odd one out here. He's had plenty of combat experience, enough to be fairly comfortable with it by the time the war reached Earth... He fidgits as Long Haul offers comfort to Firebolt, not sure what to do. "Yeah, things'll be fine. It seems like they got the situation in control."
Sideburn tilts his head curiously as he looks at Long Haul. "Hook's your teammate, right? He got reprogrammed?" See, Kup! Sideburn was paying attention! "I'm sorry for that. It's bad enough that Autobot protoforms got reprogrammed in my universe... I dunno what I'd do if it happened to someone I actually know..."
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Post by Long Haul on Oct 7, 2007 22:26:52 GMT -5
Long Haul perks up as Perceptor's voice comes over the radio. "Yeah, see? Things'll work out, I'm sure!" he says, trying to encourage Firebolt.
He winces at Sideburn's comments. "Yeah... yeah, he did. My whole team did." He sighs heavily. "Apparently, so did I. Or, well, would, if I had stayed around there." He shuffles a bit uncomfortably, then looks at the cars. "Y'know, we really gotta get this area set up."
Work! Work takes his mind off his troubles wonderfully! Long Haul heads to the nearest likely-looking building.
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Post by Firebolt on Oct 8, 2007 11:28:03 GMT -5
With a slight shift of her weight, Firebolt goes to move after Long Haul. She throws her arms around him in a tight hug1, and simply says, "Thank you." Simple, pure thanks. She then realizes what she did, and one could swear it was an example of a transformer blushing. She goes to say something, holding up a finger, and then drops her hand, and flails her arms about.
"EEP!" She declares as she jumps down and transforms, this time for real hiding behind her vehicle form and using it for comfort. She scoots behind a bit of building and peeks out, not only trying to hide her embarrassment, but almost acting as if something she did was wrong.
1: Done with Ok from Long Haul
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Post by Grimlock on Oct 8, 2007 16:50:20 GMT -5
In the sky, the imposing form of the Dinobot Commander Grimlock is seen!
Then Grimlock cuts the propulsion, dropping his feet down to land with a loud THUD. What can Grimlock say? He likes to make an entrance.
And...he made it right on top of the cars that had been set up, crushing them.
Oops.
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Post by Sideburn on Oct 8, 2007 16:51:13 GMT -5
Sideburn walks closer to Long Haul's chosen building. "What do you want me to do?" He could hold the wall while Long Haul's cutting it out, or he could find more things for table bases...
...And then Firebolt throws herself at Long Haul. He blinks at her antics with all the bafflement of a teenage guy who will never understand girls. Which he basically is, really. Any instinct to chase at the sight of her red car form is squashed, though, by her former robotic self and the seriousness of the situation going over just a block or two away.
And then Kup's orders come over the comm. "Looks like we'll need to be moving... Do you wanna take these cars with us to set up again, or just deal with whatever we find there?"
CRASH! "...Well, I guess that answers about the cars, sort of..." Sideburn stares at Grimlock's entrance, right ontop of the twisted metal that were formerly cars.
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Post by Long Haul on Oct 8, 2007 18:05:07 GMT -5
Long Haul's optic band flashes bright with shock and his hands go into the air as he's suddenly, quite unexpectedly, hugged. And then Firebolt collapses in on herself.
The Constructibot's band flashes off and back on several times, the equivalent of blinks, and then he approaches Firebolt cautiously and asks, "Hey, you okay?" Hnh. She... kind of reminds him of Scavenger. Only she spends more time in alternate mode.
And then Kup gives his orders. He straightens, ready to get moving again, when...
CRASH!!
To his credit, Long Haul doesn't jump. He works with Bonecrusher, after all. But he does look up at Grimlock, then down at the smashed car, then up at Grimlock.
"Hnh," he answers. "Yeah. Better to just start from scratch where we're heading."
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Post by Firebolt on Oct 8, 2007 20:28:54 GMT -5
Firebolt is still glancing shyly from around the corner as she listens to the orders on radio. Wedge, she recognizes that name as well. She is about to peek back out and say something when Grimlock lands with a huge, rumbling thud.
Her tires squeal and she peels outta there faster than she thought she could. Grimlock was... Well... Scary because she didn't know what the hell he was!
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Post by Grimlock on Oct 9, 2007 16:56:47 GMT -5
Grimlock puts his hands to his hips, looking at Long Haul and Sideburn, and then to Firebolt peeling off. Heh. Still got it! Grimlock might smirk if he had a mouth.
Turning his head back to the other two. "Me Grimlock need know what we doing! Kup say you need tough 'bot. Here me am!"
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