Wreckage
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Post by Wreckage on Jun 19, 2009 18:34:38 GMT -5
And it begins all over again. When Bonecrusher leaps into action, so does Wreckage – charging the other frontliner full-speed, hopefully to throw him off the smaller Decepticons. It is not out of any liking for either of them; Frenzy and Barricade are nuisances at best. But they are far more useful to the faction when not broken into several mangled pieces.
He never cared for Bonecrusher attempting to cripple the unit, either.
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Jun 19, 2009 20:13:59 GMT -5
"I'll rip out yours first!" Bonecrusher shouts back to Barricade. He's ready to follow after the smaller 'Cons and yes, shove that boulder at them, when Wreckage slams into him from the side. Tumbling over, he swings his arms around to hit, grab, tear, whatever he can manage. He makes no move to get up yet. He's perfectly okay with wrestling on the ground if he can drag Wreckage down.
"I'm going to kill you all!"
Wreckage first, then Barricade and Frenzy.
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Barricade
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Post by Barricade on Jun 22, 2009 5:30:03 GMT -5
Lovely. The flying Rageball has gone psychotic, too. Fortunately, Wreckage, never one for traitors and unit friction himself, tackles Bonecrusher before the Buffalo can manage to scrabble after Barricade, or heave that boulder into he and his tiny partner. // Lord Shockwave, // Barricade transmits privately to the ranking Decepticon, // Bonecrusher has apparently decided to flip his exhaust. // Oddly, Barricade does not sound particularly surprised by this turn of events. Annoyed? Hell yeah. A little distracted by? Yep. Surprised? Not really. // Unless you're particularly interested in seeing Wreckage reduced to sparking scrap, we could use some assistance subduing the stupid slagger at <their coordinates>. // 1Reinforcements requested, with a quick burst of transmission to Wreckage letting him know what he's done, Barricade carefully pries Frenzy free and tosses him out of the direct line of the fight... And then he dives in to back-up Wreckage, aiming himself to land on Bonecrusher's back if he can. Let's see how much you can concentrate on flipping your exhaust when you have a few tons of pissed-off Saleen trying to rip your head off from behind, 'Crusher, old chap. Barring that? Barricade will be happy to settle for ripping out great handfuls of whatever he can get his claws around while he tries to keep the two much larger front-liners from simply rolling over on top of him. 1 - mirrored in Barricade to Shockwave
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Wreckage
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Post by Wreckage on Jun 22, 2009 23:31:15 GMT -5
Wreckage spares no concentration on answering either Bonecrusher or Barricade. He has enough on his plate with Bonecrusher trying to do far worse than simply disarticulate him, and this is a situation he has spent considerable effort circumventing over the millennia.
He has also been holding back during this encounter. He has his standards of conduct, after all. Bonecrusher seems unwilling to leave him any other choice, however, and while he knows he can outmanoeuvre the other front-liner all the day through, Bonecrusher is in a full rage and all he has to do is get a solid grip on the Stryker to bring an end to the whole sticky affair.
Grim-faced now, Wreckage twists with Bonecrusher, contorting himself to guard his head and front from Bonecrusher's thrashing arms while he drives one spiked knee toward the hollow beneath the overhand of Bonecrusher's chest plating where, if he connects, it may hit critical system junctions. He considers making a grab for the MPV's head to rake out his optics – while Bonecrusher would still know where the other Decepticons are even blind, actually targeting them would be considerably more difficult without visual aid – but an uncomfortable crunching sensation where large claws find the plating on one shoulder disrupts that plan.
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Jun 23, 2009 10:11:50 GMT -5
Are we having fun yet? Well, no, not really. He'll be having more fun when they're dead. In the meantime they're only painful and annoying.
Bonecrusher howls with rage as Barricade lands on his back, the Saleen's claws digging into him, a sound that is quickly cut off by a loud grunt as Wreckage's spiked knee digs into his chest. Pain. The impact of Barricade's weight having shifted him slightly, he avoids the knee driving into anything immediately vital, but at the same time he can feel several areas on his chest flaring with white-hot pain before going uncomfortably numb as connections are torn.
Shuddering, Bonecrusher roars and attempts to dig his fingers into Wreckage's shoulders, bringing around his other hand to grasp for the leg that been driven up under his chest plating. At the same time his swings his minesweeping arm out violently, attempting to knock Barricade from his perch before the Saleen can get a good grip on his head or damage anything important. In another timeline, Bonecrusher has already been beheaded once. It wouldn't do to go out that way again.
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Frenzy
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Post by Frenzy on Jun 23, 2009 20:02:12 GMT -5
The grasses rustle.
This goes unnoticed, given the brawl over thataway. Who cares about grasses rustling when there are three giant metal monsters tearing chunks out of the landscape and each other?
A line of rustling grass moves towards the fight, then something small and bright and silver bursts out into the open.
Filthy curses spill from a tiny vocoder, sharp fingers bite into armor as the little horror dashes up Bonecrusher.
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Ascent of Bonecrusher done with player permission.
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Post by Sable Conolly on Jun 23, 2009 21:34:18 GMT -5
Far, far away, there is a tanker truck barrelling to the coordinates that Shockwave gave him. He has the hammer down, and he's at top speed, but getting there will still take him a while.
It doesn't particularly matter to him if he gets there on time or not, though. Barricade went over his head to Shockwave. So, if this Bonecrusher tears Barricade apart, Scourge will cry no tears. Wreckage, though, would be a regrettable loss. Frenzy? Is the little goblin there? Frenzy doesn't seem to like Scourge, anyway.
Either way, Scourge is not coming to save Barricade. He's just coming to beat Bonecrusher's face in as a personal favour to Shockwave. That one motive can be mistaken for the other is a pity.
OOC: Scourge is a fair way off, since Shockwave just ordered him out now. He'll show up... sometime.
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Barricade
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Post by Barricade on Jun 25, 2009 15:21:36 GMT -5
Barricade had appealed to Shockwave rather than Scourge for one reason, and one reason only: his player is a moron and had forgotten that Scourge is Barricade's boss. No more, no less, though that does not excuse the breech of chain of command.
Barricade howls as that mine-sweeping arm connects and knocks him loose; he saves himself from tumbling free only by jamming his claws deeply into one shoulder. Hopefully it's the shoulder of the hand which is currently crumpling Wreckage's shoulder. Barricade doesn't hold on long to that shoulder, though, just long enough to slash whatever he can reach in there before he withdraws his claws and dives for that minesweeping arm. He needs to disable it - by ripping it free, if possible - before Bonecrusher can use it to do worse to his partner than merely sweep him off.
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Wreckage
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Post by Wreckage on Jun 27, 2009 11:02:27 GMT -5
Getting crippled is not in Wreckage's plans. For a split second, his optics widen as he sees Bonecrusher reach for his leg. Then his face settles into its usual mask again and locks release with a slam, blades unsheathing. Barricade has already moved from his token effort at getting the enraged MPV to let go of Wreckage to covering Frenzy – admirable devotion, perhaps – and tackling the minesweeping arm, so that leaves the other four limbs to the Stryker.
A fair bargain.
Wreckage shifts his weight back, yanking his knee free of Bonecrusher's chest, and drops as he turns, making sweeping cuts for the motor lines in Bonecrusher's left leg.
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Jun 27, 2009 12:49:58 GMT -5
Having Barricade's claws dig into his shoulder is a remarkable distraction from the feeling of much smaller fingers scaling his body. The Saleen's claws scratch furrows in Bonecrusher's heavy armour before catching on something that makes his hand spasm, releasing it's grip on Wreckage even as the Stryker pulls away. The damage to his shoulder isn't significant and the arm remains functioning, if a bit twitchy. The same can't be said for his leg.
Bonecrusher howls as Wreckage's blades cut into his leg, severing motor lines. The leg collapses beneath him, and with his balance further thrown off by Barricade's sudden weight on his minesweeping arm. He topples to the left, almost dropping entirely to his side, but braces himself with one long arm. Growling, he drags his Saleen-laden third arm as close to his body as he can then pushes himself into a roll onto his back. His arms swing as he rolls over, first attempting to backhand Wreckage with the right, then swiping at him with the left. As he comes down onto his back - hopefully crushing his annoying cling-ons - he uses his momentum to help continue his roll, beginning to flip back onto his front.
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Frenzy
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Post by Frenzy on Jun 27, 2009 16:10:18 GMT -5
The curses fall silent as Frenzy scrambles over Bonecrusher to avoid being crushed in the fight and get close to the Transformer's head.
Even as the Buffalo continues to roll onto his front, Frenzy rears up just under his head. Long spike-jacks extend from the palms of a pair of his hands, and Frenzy slams them into the other Transformer's systems.
Freezefreezefreeze!
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Permission of player to hack 'crusher.
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Post by Sable Conolly on Jun 28, 2009 15:55:31 GMT -5
Elsewhere, there is still a large, angry black truck rolling steadily toward the furball. There's nothing but him and vast tracks of dust and scenery, nothing left behind but the marks of his wheels.
Soon, though, he'll be at the fight. Isn't that what he was made for?
Hmm. He was an Autobot protoform. Maybe not. What did they make him for, then?
Sigma, but this road is boring.
Someone with very sharp optics might be able to make out a small dust cloud in the distance approaching with all the dogged tenacity of a freight train.
OOC: Will get there... next roundish?
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Barricade
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Post by Barricade on Jun 28, 2009 15:56:32 GMT -5
Hey, that was significantly more than a "token attempt", Wreckage! It isn't Barricade's fault that he's a bigger target than Frenzy and got slammed with that arm! Barricade doesn't have Wreckage's mass to have kept holding on like Wreckage might have been able to!
Besides! Barricade accomplished his goal! Bonecrusher let go, didn't he?
And now Wreckage is trying to get Barricade crushed in retaliation, apparently. At least Frenzy is mostly clear, scrambling as he is toward Bonecrusher's head.
Barricade howls with fury again as he throws all of his weight against that minesweeping arm, trying to build momentum as Bonecrusher begins to fall to perhaps swing himself from directly under the massive mech.
This is going to hurt. Well, on a positive note, at least there's no way that he'll be able to miss grabbing anything on Bonecrusher if he's pinned under the big lug, and if he can get his claws on it? He's ripping it off. And then Scourge can hopefully squeegee up what's left of him when he gets there.
ooc: Barricade would like that very much, yes.
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Wreckage
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Post by Wreckage on Jun 28, 2009 22:17:34 GMT -5
Bonecrusher drops, but Wreckage doubts he will stay down long. He refuses even to go down gracefully and Wreckage takes a solid blow from Bonecrusher's right fist that smashes in the plating on the side of his head, shorting out his right optic and knocking out the corresponding audio receptor. He lets himself topple back with the force of the hit, getting claws across his flank and through the end of his cannon barrel as he goes – that hurts far more than it should – and he rolls when he hits the ground. Armour points and ridges tear furrows in the soil as he skids and pushes himself into a crouch; he can only begin to imagine what the scars on the plains look like from the air. He hopes they suit this ridiculous circus taking place.
In his tumble, Wreckage missed Frenzy's frantic climb to Bonecrusher's head. He does not see the tiny Decepticon even now, right optic flickering erratically as he tries to bring it back online, so he braces himself and wades back into the fray, winding up a haymaker aimed squarely for the centre of Bonecrusher's face that will hopefully connect as the other front-liner rights himself.
OOC: Wreckage would not be unhappy to see Scourge either.
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Jun 28, 2009 23:29:29 GMT -5
Bonecrusher has only made it partly onto his side when he feels the sting of Frenzy's jacks driving into him. He barely has time to roar his irritation when a foreign command sweeps through his systems, overriding his intentions to try and flip himself onto his front and forcing his motor controls to lock up. For a moment the frozen Buffalo teeters in place on his side then gravity does its work and he comes crashing back down onto his back.
If Barricade didn't manage to avoid the first crushing roll then he better watch out or he's going to get squashed a little flatter.
To say Bonecrusher is not amused would be the understatement of the century. If Bonecrusher were a tea kettle he would have shot past 'screaming boil' and straight up exploded from the pressure of his rage. Someone should look into anger management.
Fueled by his perpetual hatred, he fights against Frenzy's control, putting all his concentration into trying to lift his uninjured arm and swat the slagging pest from his perch. Said concentration lasts only a short moment before it is rudely interrupted by Wreckage's fist. Metal crunches loudly as the Stryker's fist crumples Bonecrusher's ugly mug. While the punch doesn't quite pop either of the Buffalo's optics from their sockets, it does loosen one of them, the orb bulging out farther than normal.
Not amused at all.
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