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Post by Rattrap on Oct 25, 2007 12:45:10 GMT -5
Wait, wheels? Rattrap gets wheels? Oh, sweet Primus, no more dragging behind the rest of the pack or hitching rides! No more being the slowest Maximal! No more–
…He has to give other people rides, doesn't he?
"Great," he mumbles. "So Optimus is gone, Megatron's comin' ta waste us all, you an' da tigah are out chasin' stasis pods, and da boss monkey radios ya from beyond." That takes a nano-klik or two to register. Once it does, Rattrap's jaw drops once again and his optics widen as far as the constraints of his brow ridges will allow. "Hang on a cycle… are you sayin' Optimus is still alive…?"
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Post by Airazor on Oct 25, 2007 20:30:28 GMT -5
Sorry, but Airazor wouldn't know that he would have to give Dinobot rides. She'd tell him if she knew, just to see his reaction.
Airazor nods. "I don't know how, but yes. He came back."
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Post by Rattrap on Oct 27, 2007 17:49:35 GMT -5
If you ask Rattrap, Dinobot can slagging well use his own two scaly feet to get around. But nobody ever asks Rattrap anyway.
"So," he says finally, propping his hands on his hips again, "ya got any more bombs ta drop on me? Like, Cheetor's leadin' while Optimus is away? Or – wait, lemme guess… Chopperface did us all a favour and jumped in front o' Megatron." He'd rather Airazor doesn't have any more surprises, really, but the question has to be asked.
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Post by Airazor on Oct 27, 2007 18:25:21 GMT -5
"We had Starscream show up and take over Waspinator's body at one point...." Airazor looks thoughtful. "And there was one time when everyone except Tigatron and me had their beast modes take over."
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Post by Rattrap on Oct 28, 2007 20:59:34 GMT -5
Rattrap blinks owlishly at Airazor and says absolutely nothing for a few nano-kliks. He blinks again. When he finally speaks up, his tone is thick with disbelief. Dripping, even. And if she'd like to infer that he thinks she has a few screws loose, she won't be too far off the mark.
"…Starscream." He frowns. "You're tellin' me Starscream, totally outta the Primus-forsaken blue one day, decides ta possess Waspinatah." Starscream. Who died hundreds of years ago and whose name hasn't been mentioned in any public records in almost as long.
The whole alien thing, that isn't too far-fetched. Optimus coming back from the dead, that's pushing it, but Rattrap's willing to swallow it if only because it's better than the alternative. A very long-dead Decepticon just one day taking over the dumbest Predacon ever built? Sorry, that breaks his suspension of disbelief. Rattrap has to wonder just how insane the whole world's going if Airazor can tell him that with a straight face. Being controlled by his beast mode hardly even registers in comparison.
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Post by Airazor on Oct 29, 2007 16:45:19 GMT -5
And Airazor is hardly surprised at his disbelief. "I had a hard time processing it myself. Apparently he, or at least his spark, is immortal. However, with Dinobot's knowledge of the Great War we were able to trick him, and then removed his spark from Waspintor and shot it back out into space."
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Post by Rattrap on Oct 29, 2007 22:06:24 GMT -5
"…Immortal spark." See this? This is Rattrap's 'what the slag is in your fuel?' face and it's just for you, Airazor. Because there has to be something screwy the falcon's been drinking.
After a moment, Rattrap slouches and lifts one hand from a hip to rub at his optics with a great, gusty sigh. Once he's done not-quite scraping his optic lenses with his fingertips, he pinches two fingers where the bridge of his nose would be if he had one like everyone else's but he doesn't look back up at Airazor just yet.
"Arright, so lemme get dis straight." Bear with him, he wants to make sure he can at least repeat all this even if he doesn't quite get it. And sometimes he just likes to hear himself talk. "Da aliens break out a planet-bustin' weapon an' try ta kill us all wit' it, but Boss Monkey manages ta stop it only ta get blown up. But he ain't really dead and he comes back. An' then Starscream's spark – which is immortal – shows up an' takes ovah Waspinatah, then Dinobot saves da day. Oh, and we all go supah-critter at some point, 'cept fer you an' da tigah." He peers up at her from beneath his brow ridges. It probably makes him look more annoyed than he actually is. "I miss anything?"
If he has, please say it's something sane.
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Post by Airazor on Oct 29, 2007 22:10:55 GMT -5
"Those are the main points, though they happened in the opposite order. There are other things that have happened, if you want to hear about them, but those are fairly major ones." Airazor is sympathetic. If she were in Rattrap's shoes and just hearing these things (as opposed to living through them), she would think the storyteller was off his rocker as well.
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Post by Rattrap on Oct 30, 2007 12:06:19 GMT -5
Oh, so he got it backwards. That doesn't make any of it less bonkers. Rattrap lifts his head and looks right at Airazor in resignation.
"These othah things," he begins, "any of 'em important? Stuff I really oughtta know?" Info he could actually use if he ever gets outta this joint and back to the Axalon? (Not that he thinks he really will, but it's never a bad thing to be prepared in case of the highly improbable.) …Man, if only gathering intel could always be this easy.
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Post by Airazor on Oct 30, 2007 12:42:21 GMT -5
"Since I came online, there has been the flying island that I mentioned earlier. Then the Predacons gained a new warrior named Inferno. He's a fire ant and actually thinks like one, with two large flamethrowers. Then your beast modes took over, followed by an encounter with the Predacons that left you, Rhinox, Cheetor, and Dinobot temporarily blind. Then Starscream showed up... After that the Predacons hit Rhinox with a virus that caused him to eject Energon rather violently, usually in the form of sneezes." Her optics twinkled mischeviously at that. "Rhinox ended up giving them a taste of it though after eating some wild bean vines that didn't totally agree with his system. It's been the Predacons' most embarrassing and smelly defeat. After that was a fight in which Snowstalker accidentally died, causing Tigatron to temporarily leave in his grief..." She shrugs. "Then the rest of the stuff with the aliens that I told you about."
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Post by Rattrap on Oct 30, 2007 19:55:39 GMT -5
Rattrap listens to the whole litany without interjecting any further commentary, but he can't help making a very sour face. It starts at mention of Inferno and it just draws tighter as the recap winds on. Poisoning Rhinox with a virus really ticks him off. Serves those morons right, getting their skidplates handed to them by the big guy. They were – will be? – lucky Rattrap didn't (doesn't?) make their lives a living nightmare. He knows ways in and out of their base, he has explosives, he can set booby traps.
…Eh. He's got the info and the means, but it's all moot with him stuck here. So first thing's first, get home and warn the other Maximals about what's coming. Time stream be slagged; they've already fallen into a transwarp sinkhole. Take care of that, avoid getting killed in the process, and then he can start wiring the Pred base to go up like fireworks at Six Lasers Over Cybertron the next time someone hops in a CR tank.
"Yeah," Rattrap says once he's done mentally laying out wires and explosives, "thanks fer da heads-up, Airazah. If dat's it, I think I wanna get back ta feedin' myself." He turns to leave, then pauses and looks back at the falcon. "Ya might wanna keep an eye out fer these little animals 'round heah… little bit smaller 'n me, got big ears, long bodies an' tails. They go scurryin' up da trees if ya spook 'em."
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Post by Airazor on Oct 30, 2007 20:29:09 GMT -5
Airazor nods. "Thank you. And if you wish, there are some plants over that way that seem to contain a fruit of some kind." She motions in a direction slightly off from where Rattrap was already heading. "Good eating!" And she pushes off, getting up into the trees before transforming and taking up her watch again, looking for the animals Rattrap described.
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Post by Rattrap on Oct 30, 2007 20:55:47 GMT -5
"Thanks," Rattrap answers with a cock-eyed smirk. "Have fun." Sentence some innocent tree-climbing critters to become bird food? Better them than him.
The spy double-checks the direction Airazor pointed him in before he tucks back into beast mode and scurries off in search of fruit. It's gotta be better than those little berry clusters.
OOC: Rattrap's done here.
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Post by Airazor on Oct 30, 2007 22:44:33 GMT -5
Airazor watches him leave, then settles in. It's not long before she spots one of the creatures Rattrap had mentioned. And it's only a few moments longer before the planet is one fewer of them.
OOC: And, this thread is done.
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