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Post by Shortround-3 on Aug 20, 2008 21:03:14 GMT -5
Shortround would roll his optics at Runamuck, but he wears goggles.
Then he notices Optimus looking at him. "... What?" he asks, casually shrugging. Then, he remembers Runamuck's gesture. And the fact he's holding a plasma rifle. And was following the Autobot...
"Fine. Don't come crying to me if anything fires at us" he grumbles, storing the rifle in subspace. Not that, if it comes to it, it will stop him from blowing up stuff. His Cyber-Key powers are still potent, he just prefers to watch things burn.
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Skid-Z
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Post by Skid-Z on Aug 21, 2008 6:42:23 GMT -5
Good guys are getting along juuust fine. For now.
Skid-Z catches up, tilting his head curiously at the exchange between bot and con.
But as long as no-one ends up shooting someone in the back, Skid-Z is determined to give the Decepticons every chance to work together.
"We can't blame Shortround... it's good to be prepared after all" he says, gesturing as in waving the tension away, "though walking with weapons drawn might mark us as 'the bad guys'..." He admits at that.
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Runamuck-3
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Post by Runamuck-3 on Aug 21, 2008 11:20:11 GMT -5
Runamuck sighs. Who ever heard of a Battlecharger playing peace-maker?
"Tell ya what," he says, stepping over to Optimus and reaching to pat a hopefully reassuring hand on the young bot's shoulder. "I'll walk up front with ya. Shorty does something wrong, your guys can plug me." His optics crinkle in the imitation of a smile he lacks the mouth for. "'Sides, I fight better at the front anyway, if it it comes to that."
That said, he turns to look around. "So where do we start?" He peers curiously up at a billboard with what looks like a Gillanese female in her undergarments, holding a drink. What is it with organics and females without their outer layers?
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Goldbug
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Post by Goldbug on Aug 21, 2008 19:36:28 GMT -5
Goldbug had decided that Shortround wasn't a thread, and thus wasn't paying much attention. Instead, he's looking around, trying to drink in as much information as his multiple senses can provide him.
"Huh. Kind of weird, Optimus."
Even weirder to be talking to another Optimus, when the one in his world is dead and gone, blasted away into space. ...Until he gets better, in a part apparently helped by Goldbug himself. Given everything with Galvatron and the time travel there... This is not as confusing as one might think.
He stops to examine a machine just a little bit shorter than he is. There's a can of some kind painted on the front, and lots of little buttons. "Huh. Weird, how much like the humans these guys were."
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Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on Aug 24, 2008 5:42:31 GMT -5
Prime feels ashamed for his actions, and sighs heavily. "No, Shortround, I apologize. I haven't had much first-hand experience with any Decepticons, let alone ones that are supposed to be good."
As for time travel and inexperienced Optimus', Prime cannot believe that with the three Bumblebees on this planet, put together, are less talkative together than the one that he knows best.
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Post by Shortround-3 on Aug 25, 2008 12:15:03 GMT -5
Shortround justs shrugs. Of course, he doesn't trust Optimus either. But he keeps his weapon in subspace, possibly a good sign!... Or possibly a sign that he is going to laugh if they're attacked and blame it on this Prime. Probably the later.
Shortround looks at the sign Runamuck is looking at, and can't help but snicker. "Kinda reminds me of Thunderblast..." he says, snickering a bit more, before turning to face the rest of the area. "Well, if we're gonna salvage this scrap later, you'd best save the weaponry for if a sulfur-fueled afthole shows up, and you'd better have good aim, cause I don't wanna be digging through burnt slag all day long and I doubt any of you want to either" he says, raising a claw to his chin as if surveying the area and what may make good salvage.
Not that Shortround knows much about good salvage. He just collects as much as he can and calls it good salvage.
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Runamuck-3
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Post by Runamuck-3 on Aug 28, 2008 15:09:46 GMT -5
OOC: Skid-Z has timed out. Going ahead.
"You guys and your robots with genders. I just don't get it." He'd probably be just as disturbed if he saw all of the gratuitous underboob shots Cybertron tended to indulge in with Thunderblast. In any event, Runamuck's knowledge of gender doesn't go much further than "organics need it to reproduce". Transformers are built, not born, so he doesn't have much use for it.
The Battlecharger shrugs, looking around and arbitrarily picking a direction. "Wanna start looking this way? We ain't gonna get much done standing around here."
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Goldbug
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Post by Goldbug on Aug 29, 2008 20:49:33 GMT -5
If he'd still been Bumblebee, then Goldbug would likely have been more inclined to trust Shortround and Runamuck. They said they were good, so Bumblebee would have thought they were. For a spy, he'd been far, far too trusting.
But that was before he'd all but destroyed, before Grimlock had declared him and Blaster enemies of the Earthbound Autobots, before the Protectobots, as good and just a team as any, had turned into his lackies, hunting them down...
"Don't ask me, Runamuck," he says, instead. "I've heard we're supposed to get an Arcee somewhere in my timeline... But it still doesn't make any sense to me. Female Transformers? It's not like we're "male" to begin with."
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Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on Aug 29, 2008 22:26:52 GMT -5
"...But, you give your selves a male pronoun." Optimus says, completely confused. "I mean, is it so hard to think of someone who is not really female and someone who is not really male?"
Optimus looks at the sign that Runamuck and is confused at the sight, but ultimately follows the direction Runamuck points in. It takes him to an under-construction area, including the groundworks and steel girders being fitted for the next lot of skyscrapers. "Shortround! I think I've found some scrap you'd be interested in."
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Post by Shortround-3 on Aug 31, 2008 9:14:55 GMT -5
"... Female Transformers are just transformers who like to call themselves 'she' rather than 'he', plus different vocal patterns, and sometimes slimmer bodies" Shortround says simply, glaring slightly. "Thunderblast, though, looks like an organic with her alt mode strapped to her back" he adds, his tone somewhat more humored than usual.
Shortround follows after the group to the construction site, and rubs his claws together. "Excellent... This oughta keep us till next time we encounter the aftlickers..." he says.
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Skid-Z
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Post by Skid-Z on Aug 31, 2008 17:17:34 GMT -5
Skid-Z steps cautiously onto the construction site, feeling very much out of place. He shifts every now and then, but stays away from any equipment or half-done construction. He's nowhere near a strong truck or tough tank and is very aware of it.
The conversation about gender confuses the younger bot, well, at least he can be reasonably safe saying he's the youngest in this party. Skid-Z tears his view away from one of the site's exits to shoot a 'what the slaggin' fragpit?'-look at his elders. "You guys really choose the best philosophy subjects for a place like this... I never really thought about the how ...and why... our gender"
Clearing his throat, he turns to Shortround, "Do you want to keep the materials here for later pickup? Carrying them around now might slow us down"
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Runamuck-3
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Post by Runamuck-3 on Aug 31, 2008 18:57:36 GMT -5
Runamuck shrugs at all the philosophy. "Where I'm from, we don't have genders at all. We never even knew about the whole thing until we started exploring other planets. We always thought 'he' was neutral, until a couple little diplomatic screwups. Learned real quick after that." Because having a murderous queen chasing you off-world over an insult you didn't even know you made tends to be rather instructive.
He ventures along with the group into the construction site, looking up at a big crane-like machine. It looked like it had been left holding a bundle of girders when everyone abandoned the place, and the metal cable had rusted and snapped in the weather, dropping them into a messy pile of twisted steel. "Really musta left this place in a hurry. Whatever spooked 'em, spooked 'em good."
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Goldbug
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Post by Goldbug on Aug 31, 2008 20:40:08 GMT -5
Goldbug stifles a chuckle at Runamuck's mention of diplomatic screwups.
Then, he inclines his head to one side as Runamuck questions what happened. "You guys don't know? I mean, I only found out second hand, but..."
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Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on Sept 1, 2008 14:26:26 GMT -5
"Hmm, I guess I thought that a similar event happened on your own Gillnan," Optimus adds to Bumblebee's confusion. But then again, if assumptions were true, Optimus would be the Autobot leader.
"Okay, well, a giant entity called Unicron devoured this world's sister planet." Prime pauses a moment to let that register. "I've only heard about that second-hand myself. We don't have a Unicron where I come from." At least, he hopes not.
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Post by Shortround-3 on Sept 4, 2008 22:25:52 GMT -5
OOC: Whoops, sorry about that. Kinda forgot about this one
Shortround turned to Skids and said "Nah, just leave them here, we'll pick 'em up when we've got someone who isn't me to drag 'em with us". Then, before turning back, said "And you'd better get used to the weird choices of place to discuss philosophy. Its about the only thing we can do 'round here, aside from trying not to get blown up"
Shortround doesn't intrude on the conversation the others are having this time, however.
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