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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Feb 5, 2008 23:00:48 GMT -5
Skyblast replies, "Slingshot's in, or I revoke his privileges as a jet. Oh, Botanica's in the park. This way!" He grabs hold of a lead rope and starts moving off in that direction, although he'll certainly need help hauling it. He is little. It is not.
How does he know where she is? See, Skyblast always makes a point of keeping track of the ladies' radio frequencies. And the commanding officers'. And the cute boys'.
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Post by Oracle on Feb 5, 2008 23:50:01 GMT -5
Revoke his privileges as a jet? How would you do that, take his member card back?
It was good he knew where Botanica was, that solved a lot of potential problems. Evidently Skyblast had done the smart thing and radioed to get a location. Now that someone knew where they were going Oracle didn't have any problem lending her strength to the endeavor. Even if she wasn't exactly the strongest one around, she did have the benefit of being larger then the drone even if all that meant was more weight to throw against the tow cables.
Briefly looking back at the damage done to the drone first by the toss, and now by the dragging, Oracle winced. "I hope Botanica knows a good mechanic. She's going to need one." It might not be as bad as it looked, but what it did look was beaten up.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Feb 6, 2008 20:54:48 GMT -5
Skyblast could see that Slingshot never joins the Mile High Club, anyway. He puts his all into hauling his share of the drone, and he chatters, "Botanica's pretty good with machines, I hear. I mean, she's not the second in command of Engineering/Medical/Science for nothing, and even if this sort of thing," he glances back at the drone for a moment, "isn't her bag, I'm sure she knows someone who is, y'know, being in the division she is."
They should be there in no time at all.
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Post by Oracle on Feb 7, 2008 5:19:13 GMT -5
Adjusting the cable so it isn't biting into her arm Oracle smiles slightly at the smaller jets chatter. "Well hopefully she'll appreciate having the drone. I'm not really sure what use she'll find for it, but hopefully something at least moderately useful." All in all though, even if Botanica wouldn't be able to find an actual purpose for the battered gardening drone, at least the capture and subduing of it had been an interesting and distracting episode.
"And you're right. If someone in her division doesn't know how to fix it, it probably can't be done." Or at least not by anyone currently here. Unless someone is hiding some really interesting abilities.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Feb 7, 2008 10:01:14 GMT -5
Skyblast flicks his wings and comments, "She's into that whole gardening deal, right? It's a sympathy thing or something, I think. Like, if you saw a wrecked out jet, you'd at least kind of want to wince, right? Me too, because we're jets. She's a plant, so when she sees plants in bad shape, she wants to do something about it. At least, that's what I figure. So she could use this gardening to drone to... I don't know. Get rid of extra branches that trees don't need? Not really sure how plants work."
Okay, there's the park, and Botanica said she was in there at <coordinates>. Skyblast supposes that perhaps they should stay off the grass.
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Post by Shanodin on Feb 7, 2008 11:56:58 GMT -5
Staying of the grass would most certainly be appreciated, especially since Botanica has taken the time and care to work a turned-earth footpath into the park's designed. It should be wide enough for most Transformers to walk without damaging the wildflowers which were beginning to flourish alongside it. It might be a bit disconcerting to some, walking on the soft ground instead of metal or pavers, but they will simply have to make do.
Her attention is currently caught by a sickly tree in the park. It simply isn't thriving, despite being seemingly healthy. She's pretty far lost in thought; Anyone coming to visit might want to make a bit of noise to get her attention.
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Post by Oracle on Feb 7, 2008 18:06:56 GMT -5
"Not real sure how plants work myself. Haven't exactly had much experience with them." But if plants needed pieces removed to grow well, it explained why the drone they caught had sharp bits in the first place.
Oracle has to agree that staying off the grass was probably a good thing. Their feet would do a fair amount of damage, but the dragging of the drone across the ground would leave even more damage in its wake. "There's a path over there I think, and I'm guessing that's a suggestion of where we should be walking." She waits for Skyblast to take the lead again, since while it's pretty obvious where they'll be heading at this point, she really hopes he has a more specific location for Botanica. The park might be pretty in a very organic way, but Oracle didn't want to spend more time walking around in it then she had to. She'd be too wary of stepping on something important.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Feb 8, 2008 10:38:53 GMT -5
Skyblast sticks to the path and glances back, now and then, to make sure that the drone they're dragging isn't going off the path. He chatters, "Plants? The Honeydews of Tillavin are pretty dangerous. Not an experience with plants I'd like to have again. Aside from that, they're just kind of colourful, and organic creatures generally seem to like them and find them useful. The carnitarians of Floros think plants are sacred and refuse to eat plants, only eating animals and fungi, instead."
Well, he's totally being noisy.
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Post by Shanodin on Feb 8, 2008 14:42:54 GMT -5
Botanica turns, and one eyebrow quirking up at the the sight of the drone. "Well, that will be an interesting challenge, at least. Where did you find it? I wonder if it was assigned to this area, originally."
She looks from Skyblast to Oracle, "I really do appreciate your thinking of me."
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Post by Oracle on Feb 8, 2008 15:16:27 GMT -5
Looking at Skyblast in mild surprise, Oracle can't help but ask. "How do you know that anyway?" Interesting though useless info seemed more the kind of thing a diplomat or scientist might know, rather then an artist. Maybe he learned it the same way she just did? Or had he traveled to those places and learned first hand?
"We found it roughly around <coordinates>, Skyblast noticed it." Skyblast was the one that thought of bringing it to Botanica too, Oracle was really just the bored muscle in this whole project. "Where do you want it? And sorry about the damage to it, we had a bit of trouble getting it to cooperate." Yeah, it wanted them diced, and they preferred another option.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Feb 9, 2008 10:49:42 GMT -5
Hiking a thumb back and up at Oracle, Skyblast agrees, "What she said."
Skyblast half-turns, smiles winningly at Oracle, and answers, "I've been around the block - and the galaxy. See, we kind of launched the source of all new life - the Allspark - into space, so then we had to figure out where it ended up. I was on a search team."
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Post by Shanodin on Feb 11, 2008 22:42:49 GMT -5
Botanica isn't listening to the conversation between the two jets. She is busily examining the drone. What to do, what to do? Getting it running properly, programming...yes, she will be quite busy.
As far as she's concerned, she's given thanks and this interaction is over.
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Post by Oracle on Feb 11, 2008 22:56:56 GMT -5
Oracle looked at Skyblast with an amused shrug when she noticed how absorbed Botanica was in the drone they had brought her. Seemed like they had overstayed their welcome for the time being, but that was fine with her. Nodding her head back in the direction they had come, she started wandering that way.
"Allspark? I admit I'm not quite sure what that is." She thought she might have heard or read something about that, but she wasn't really sure. No direct bearing on her, so it slipped right out of her mind. Either Skyblast could follow along and continue the conversation, or pick it up another time. Either way she wanted to get off the ground and back into the air. She would wait until she was out of the park to take off though. She didn't think Botanica would appreciate her burning the greenery.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Feb 13, 2008 18:23:52 GMT -5
Skyblast starts to amble off, back to the city, while staying on the path. He hides his shocked expression. These people don't know what the Allspark is! It's so weird.
Skyblast replies, "Why, it's the source of all Transformer life!" he looks and left and then right. More quietly, he mutters, "And then we broke it."
He sighs and concludes, "I've got watch assigned, so I had better split. See you around?" He'd rather like to, so he sounds hopeful, there.
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Post by Oracle on Feb 13, 2008 23:37:00 GMT -5
The source of all Transformer life? And here she thought that was Vector Sigma? Must be another one of those different universe things she had heard about in that case. She really should have paid more attention, maybe she should go take another look at that database that had been assembled.
"Of course we can talk another time, I certainly wouldn't want to get in the way of your duty. Look me up when you have time?" Oracle seemed pleased that he would want to talk to her again, and she throws a smile over he shoulder as she heads out of the garden.
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