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Post by Slingshot on Mar 25, 2008 12:58:24 GMT -5
"... the frag?" Slingshot knows he hasn't been drinking that much.
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Post by Skyfire on Mar 25, 2008 17:47:26 GMT -5
Skyfire gave everyone a quizzical look. "Er?"
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Post by First Aid on Mar 26, 2008 0:42:57 GMT -5
Whatever this is, it is visually appealing, it will make a great story, and it has (at least for the moment) distracted his companions from their interest in his transformation into an air vehicle.
So, he watches with undisguised amusement, waiting for the no doubt dramatic and keenly timed explanation.
(Well, all right, there might be some doubt as to whether it’ll actually be a dramatic and keenly timed explanation, because most people don’t stay totally sober long at parties, and intoxication tends to detract from the critical faculties necessary for keen timing and dramatic explanations, but optimism is good. At any rate, it’ll be coming in the explainer’s time, not his.)
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Oracle
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Post by Oracle on Mar 26, 2008 17:24:34 GMT -5
Is she seeing in triplicate or is someone playing the best joke she's seen in a while?
Considering that the arriving group seems to be Goldbug times three, plus the small tiltrotor that had been with the other group Skyblast had wandered over to, Oracle was leaning heavily toward the second option, but that didn't prevent her startled exclamation as she took in the new arrivals. "What in...?"
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Mar 26, 2008 18:02:09 GMT -5
After a long moment, so that the audience can suitably goggle at the display - Skyblast is nothing if not a showman, the lead Volkswagon Beetle transforms, the rounded shell of the beetle splintering and arraying itself on a skeletal form. Golden doors and rear view mirrors cling to his black lower arms like wings, upthrust and defiant. A glassy windshield covers on his chest, and his heels have wheels. His normally grey helmet is a matching gold.
Without looking back, Skyblast points at Bumblebee and explains. "I figured everyone could do this, but I've had it explained that you can't. Guess that's what I get for assuming, eh? Suppose you'll have to weld on wings, then, First Aid. Sorry about that."
How did he know which one is Bumblebee, anyway?
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Post by Bumblebee on Mar 26, 2008 20:27:55 GMT -5
Bumblebee follows suit and is next to transform. The Volkswagon form doesn't become him very well--he seems to be kinda shorter than usual, and a log pudgier in places. However, it is easily identifiable as Bumblebee. Well, a Bumblebee.
He just offers another goofy wave to the people, before turning to the last Beetle and waiting for it to follow suit.
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Goldbug
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Post by Goldbug on Mar 26, 2008 20:42:49 GMT -5
And Goldbug is the last to transform. Compared to Bumblebee and Skyblast, he's quite the different mechanism. Blocky, with easily defined corners, his body structure is simple but quite sturdy.
"Heh. Been a while since I've done anything like that."
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Post by Makeshift on Mar 27, 2008 15:28:29 GMT -5
Makeshift chuckles. "Heck of a conversational starter."
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Post by Slingshot on Mar 27, 2008 17:31:01 GMT -5
Slingshot boggles suitably. Skyblast now turns into a Volkswagen. Whut.
He jabs a finger at the ex-jet. "How long are you stuck like that?"
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Post by Skyfire on Mar 27, 2008 17:38:05 GMT -5
Skyfire looked surprised. "So all Transformers from your reality, Skyblast, can scan anyone or anything and change your alternate mode to it?"
Skyfire also sounded a bit worried. All the thoughts that had occurred to Kup back when he first saw Bumblebee's demo were occurring to Skyfire now.
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Post by First Aid on Mar 27, 2008 21:42:38 GMT -5
First Aid’s thoughts are several. Most of them run along the general lines of “So that’s what those are for!” with an accompanying line of happy mental plan laying. If nothing else, being dumped in this place has left him with at least a century’s worth of fodder for his engineering grist mill. (…Is steel mill a better metaphor? )
The rest are along much the same track as Skyfire’s, and he would worry, but –
Well, Goldbug’s in on this. Whoever knew before this, the information’s in the right hands now, and that aspect is not his worry. He could get people in serious trouble asking too many questions.
So he answers Skyblast instead. “It’s an understandable assumption – why would you expect us to have to stick to form, when you’re used to people having whatever they want?” He’s going to ignore the bit about the wings.
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Post by Oracle on Mar 27, 2008 23:23:52 GMT -5
Skyblast was currently a car. A Volkswagen Beetle in fact. While some part of her had guessed that when the three drove up, until he transformed it hadn't exactly sunk it. Having just been part of a discussion about how to give First Aid wings, it seemed almost surreal that Skyblast would choose to give up his wings and trade them in for wheels to prove a point. She really had to agree with Slingshot's sentiment.
Skyfire's comment shifted her attention pretty quickly though, and her head snapped around to look at him in surprise as she considered the implications. Transformers from that reality could do what Skyblast, and she was guessing Bumblebee, had just done? Interesting ability, and it made her wonder what the limits were. She didn't say anything about the various thoughts racing through her slightly fuzzy head, but she did look at Makeshift and grin slightly. A conversation starter was one way to put it.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Mar 28, 2008 7:52:25 GMT -5
Like a cheeky little magpie who will gleefully tear the tail-feathers from a great eagle, Skyblast bridles and mantles up, a battle mask of roughly the same style as any battle mask shown among his peers slides over his face, giving his mostly humanoid features a decidedly inhuman cast. He takes a step closer to Slingshot, too close, and he snaps, "Stuck? Stuck? You're the one who is struck! You can't even reformat yourself. I can switch my alternate mode anytime I want to." Then, the brings his two index fingers up and twiddles them together, adding, "Any time I have sufficient fuel to do so."
However, he's at a party, and he's being slamming them back, hasn't he? There is another flash of light, and his familiar wings are back on his arms, his colouration back to grey drab. The battlemask retracts. More pleasantly, he confirms to Skyfire, "Of course. We're Transformers."
Skyblast just nods to First Aid. At least someone can see Skyblast's side, here.
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Post by Bumblebee on Mar 29, 2008 4:02:33 GMT -5
Bumblebee decided to keep his new mode for a little longer. After all, no point in wasting all that fuel if he couldn't get a few more laughs out of it.
However, he recognized the concern in Skyfire's voice. He transmitted to everyone on a local frequency: //it is worth noting we can detect our own, and there are limitations in mass. kup has all the details.//
Also, Goldbug's line confuses him. //goldbug; done something like what.//
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Post by Goldbug on Mar 30, 2008 11:18:28 GMT -5
"Played a trick on someone like that, Bumblebee," Goldbug replies. "Last time was... probably more than four million years ago, back on Cybertron. There, me and Cliffjumper, and this other guy, Bumper, who all turned into pretty similar looking little hover-cars, got the same paint job."
He reflects. "Of course, this was for a mission, actually. The Decepticons knew an Autobot would be currying an important data-disc, but all they knew was his basic color and build type. So they painted us all the same and sent us all out. Not enough Decepticons in pursuit to chase all of us... And we made sure they went after Cliffjumper and Bumper. Wasn't pretty, but it got the job done."
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