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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 18, 2008 18:39:22 GMT -5
Pee-Dee leans against a wall just around the corner and out-of-sight from Kup's little showdown with not-Xaaron and not-Swerve. If all was truly right with the universe, she'd have a trenchcoat billowing dramatically in the wind.
Since there isn't and it isn't, she has her hands up to her face in the pose of a smoker shielding their cigarette from the wind. Her optics are dim as she listens intently to what everyone has to say.
Sounds like things are going to get interesting around here.
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Post by Bumblebee on Jan 19, 2008 16:07:08 GMT -5
Bumblebee travels in silence back to Perceptor's service garage-come-lab, uncertain whether or not his taste in music is going to be appreciated. Considering Perceptor was a passenger inside him, he opted to err on the side of caution and the trip was a silent one.
Bumblebee decided to ask some questions instead. And he starts with the most pertinent one.
//what can you tell me about this portal unit you have built.//
Hmm, looks like Pee-Dee isn't too far off from the scene. The Camaro pulled over near by the Junkion. //hello pee-dee. we are going to perceptor's lab to secure the area. i have questions for perceptor. kup has requested you come with us.//
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jan 19, 2008 19:58:35 GMT -5
A thin blue hazes starts to halo and wreathe Pee-Dee, as f he imaginary cigarette wasn't quite so imaginary. If she looks down, she'll notice a little jet parked on the ground next to her. In fact, she probably noticed him walk up, transform, and park there. It's not like Skyblast is sneaky or anything.
He has never been to Earth. He does not know its culture. However, Skyblast has travelled space, and humans are not the only creatures to conclude that inhaling through burning objects is kind of fun.
Skyblast just couldn't resist adding some special effects to Pee-Dee's miming!
The jet stays quiet at Bumblebee's approach. Maybe Bumblebee won’t notice him, (but Bumblebee probably will).
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 19, 2008 20:04:11 GMT -5
You can say many things about Pee-Dee, but not that she's completely oblivious. Besides, having a tiny jet parked next to her is "easy" to interpret as a K9 companion flopped down, waiting for the signal to get up and save lives.
The smoke effects make her grin, and she takes a 'drag' from her 'cigarette' before pulling it from her mouth. "Thanks."
She keeps an eye on Bumblebee out of the corner of her vision, but mostly strains to hear the conversation between their boys and the not-quite-their-boys. However, the approaching car kind of drowns that out.
"Yeah, I heard Kup. Guess he wants me not to cause any trouble."
Should it be worrying that she assumes that rather than that Kup wants her to keep other people out of trouble?
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Post by Perceptor on Jan 20, 2008 15:30:26 GMT -5
Tucked safely in Bumblebee's passenger compartment, Perceptor is still turning these most recent events over in his CPU, trying to puzzle it out. The Portal device should not have been funcional, which means that the matching unit in Xaaron and Swerve's world must be more funct-
"I'm sorry, wha- Oh, the Portal. I have been researching a means to return everyone home by means of an inter-dimensional portal which I have been constructing. It is, however, not yet functional. There are significant components that have not yet been constructed and installed, and... I need to disable the device and examine it. "
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Post by Bumblebee on Jan 20, 2008 16:04:34 GMT -5
If Pee-Dee wanted smoke, Bumblebee could have obliged. Somehow it probably wouldn't have been the same, though.
Bumblebee doesn't really know much about the Junkion to offer an opinion either way to offer an opinion of kups' motives. Maybe she plays music too. Broadcasting to everyone in the area: //perceptor, could the portal device be used as a means of receiving for a similar unit.//
And yes, countless centuries of scouting work have sharpened Bumblebee's observational abilities, and it's just as well otherwise he might not have noticed that there is in fact a jet parked in front of him. //and hello, skyblast. feel free to join us.// Bumblebee takes off at a walking speed, but that will change if Skyblast joins them and follows at jet speed.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jan 20, 2008 21:58:44 GMT -5
Skyblast would object to being called a dog, although some of his exes might agree with that assessment. At her thanks, the jet's flaps wag. He is so not helping his case.
Perceptor's explanation is interesting, and it certainly explains things. Since Bumblebee offers to let him come along, Skyblast transforms, for the moment, and moves to follow. If the group speeds up, he'll transform back to jet mode.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 21, 2008 21:37:48 GMT -5
Pee-Dee carefully 'stubs out' her 'cigarette' on her arm. "Arright. Something has to be done about this, but nothing too original, because hey, this is Hollywood."1
With that, she transforms and zooms off ahead of Bumblebee for a way, before slewing around to the side and stopping in the middle of street. Well? Aren't you coming any faster?
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1. L. A. Confidential
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Post by Perceptor on Jan 22, 2008 13:29:04 GMT -5
"If the other unit was fully functional, then yes, insofar that a particular berth in Medical could likewise be used as a set of target coordinates to receive a transmission from another unit," Perceptor answers thoughtfully, his CPU filled with images of the design schematics from his unit "However, as a specifc target to direct a transmission to without the exact coordinates from a fully functional unit... No, the device is not calibrated to function in such a manner. It could, perhaps, be calibrated to function thusly, eventually, but it would first require completion, and then additional research in order to perfect such a broadcast signal clarification function."
Perceptor falls silent again for a long moment, but it's an uneasy silence, and the sound of his processors working hard as he turns the problem over is almost audible within Bumblebee's passenger compartment.
"It appears, however, that this is not a situation of a new arrival from a hitherto unknown continuity tucked amungst the folds of our own base reality. Unless there is significant spacial, temporal, and historical dissassociation between Velicoitron and Cybertron... Xaaron and Swerve come from differing continuities within the base reality..." Perceptor observes quietly, as if speaking mostly to himself. His voice trails off as he continues his internal calculations.
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Post by Bumblebee on Jan 24, 2008 14:37:57 GMT -5
Bumblebee waded through the Perceptor-talk to get to the information he wanted. So, the device was not, in its current state, usable as a receptacle. Got it. He'll just leave Perceptor to do his thoughts in his head.
Okay, we're rushing, are we? Well, Bumblebee knows that Skyblast can more than keep up, so he does the same. Engine roaring, he begins to chase Pee-Dee.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jan 24, 2008 17:39:58 GMT -5
Skyblast observes that he is the correct size to ride Pee-Dee, actually on the small side. However, she's way ahead, and that would be kind of weird, anyway. So he leaps into the air and transforms. Skyblast is actually going rather slow by jet standards, but it's not his fault that ground vehicles are slow, is it?
Peceptor's talk goes way over Skyblast's head, despite his altitude.
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Post by Pee-Dee on Jan 24, 2008 18:33:51 GMT -5
Pee-Dee honks happily as the Camaro gives chase and takes off towards Perceptor's lab.
Ever since she'd arrived on Gillanan, once the situation with Screwdriver had been investigated, she'd been just so happy. Why she was here didn't make sense, but everything about the War made sense or everyone else was just as in the dark as her. Nothing had changed out from under her, and sure the men were a bit weird around here, but men were weird everywhere.
This was the best reassignment ever!
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Post by Oracle on Jan 25, 2008 2:38:01 GMT -5
Watching the various goings on around her from the vantage point of a rooftop, Oracle doesn't see any reason not to follow the group she seems to have ended up near when they take off. For the moment it isn't like she has anything better to do, or really anyone here she knows well enough to go off and find, but her curiosity is prodding her to go see what has the other four previously here tearing off.
Pushing away from her perch on a nearby roof, she transforms to her jet mode in the air and trails along after Pee-Dee and the others, though she doesn't make much of an effort to catch up and join them yet. She's not being all that stealthy either though, just slightly lazy.
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(OOC: Edited to fix continuity error.)
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Post by Perceptor on Jan 25, 2008 13:32:18 GMT -5
Perceptor is perceptorizing again; that sudden burst of speed doesn't even register on his proverbial radar. Novelty of this puzzle aside, he is, perhaps, deeper in thought than is normal even for him - an attempt to distract himself from thoughts of what his own alternate could be like to have inspired such wariness from Xaaron most likely. Bumblebee is probably going to have to give a good shake and a radio shout to get Perceptor's attention when they arrive at the scientist's workshop.
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Post by Bumblebee on Jan 26, 2008 15:22:55 GMT -5
Bumblebee doesn't mind the chase. If Skyblast turned into, I dunno, a cellphone or something he would have just tailed alongside him to keep him company. But Skyblast is plenty capable for keeping up with an earth car. The challenge is Bumblebee chasing Pee-Dee, now. And he might even be gaining...
However he still has another job to do, and does so. //perceptor, do you think it is a co-incidence that these newcomers arrived in the location of your own dimensional device.
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