Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Mar 18, 2008 20:03:11 GMT -5
OOC: This, as the title indicates, takes place a good number of hours after the Welcoming Skyfire party.
Nightbeat groans as consciousness returns to him, feeling several systems rebooting themselves in the process. His entire head feels like it's either got steel wool or a little man (preposterous!) in it. In fact, if he could take his head off right now, he probably would.
A quick check confirms that he has all of his parts. A further check reveals that his pistol is missing from his storage compartment and that his two antenna guns have been completely drained of their charge. Well, at least he wouldn't be shooting anything. Didn't mean much to this jack of all trades, but...
Okay, so he was back in his room. Wouldn't be the first time he'd woken up without exactly remembering what he'd done the night before. Truth be told, he was a little surprised he hadn't woken up in the brig. Primus knows he'd gotten thrown in for drunk and disorderly conduct under the scrutiny of any number of chief security officers. And then there were the number of times off-planet where Siren and Hosehead had had to bail him out of some planetary jailhouse.
And then there was the time he and Longtooth had closed down all the bars on an entire planet in the span of a planetary day (96 Earth hours).
He sat up slowly, trying his best to ignore the dizziness that went with it. And little by little, the events of the previous night began to come back to him. There's been Pee-Dee, and she'd been dancing... Dancing with someone he didn't like her dancing with... And there'd been lots of energon...
Just what the heck had he done?
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 20, 2008 14:16:51 GMT -5
Standing in the doorway is the arms-crossed imposing form of the Dinobots' commander, and he doesn't look very happy. He's stuck watching his roommate while he recovers, when he'd rather be doing stuff like... Well. He's not quite sure, but there's better things he could be doing!
"Me Grimlock say you have big mouth, and no know when to keep it shut."
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Mar 20, 2008 14:25:51 GMT -5
Grimlock is a terrible sight to be waking up to even when you're not hungover. When you are, it's much, much worse.
Still, he tries to play it cool, putting on his best grin, no matter how much it makes his head hurt. "So... That really happened, then?"
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 20, 2008 14:49:27 GMT -5
"Which part? Part where you punched Xaaron in the face, part where Pee-Dee punch you back, or part where Xaaron chew you out for calling him pompous?"
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Mar 20, 2008 14:53:12 GMT -5
That all came back to him in a rush. Oh Primus. He hadn't gotten that drunk in a good long time. And he'd made a colossal fool of himself in the process.
...He'd called Emirate Xaaron pompous. People who did that usually wound up very dead, smacked by a zombie, or both.
"Do you remember why I punched Xaaron? Or did I not say?"
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 20, 2008 14:55:46 GMT -5
Grimlock would grin if he had a mouth. This was almost a little fun, helping the poor sap remember.
"Me sorta remember you saying something about Xaaron 'dancing with your woman'. Then Pee-Dee says she no be your woman if you last mech on planet, that she go 'lesbian' to avoid it."
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Mar 20, 2008 14:59:01 GMT -5
Oh, well, that explained a whole heck of a lot.
It wasn't as if he even liked Pee-Dee. So why the heck had he been so jealous? Jealous enough to get drunk enough to slug the Emirate?
Because he was dangerously captured by the forces of genre cliches, but he doesn't know that.
"Well, that makes my..." He counts on his fingers for a moment, "fourteenth count of assault a superior officer this vorn."
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 20, 2008 15:16:59 GMT -5
Grimlock snorts.
"Be glad me not your superior officer. You remember how well training went. Or, me could just sic Slag after you now."
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Mar 20, 2008 15:18:48 GMT -5
This gets him bolt upright. Slag is dangerous even when completely calm--which he can't ever actually remember happening--but with Grimlock involved...
"Wait... Your universe's Slag or mine?"
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 20, 2008 15:42:27 GMT -5
"Me fairly that him my Slag. Still stupid and hard-headed as ever. Came here declaring himself new Dinobot leader, spewing some stuff about me getting smooshed by Trypticon."
Grimlock shakes his head. "Me knock some sense into him, though. Not bright, but still dangerous."
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Mar 20, 2008 19:58:10 GMT -5
Well, that was actually reassuring. It meant the odds of Slag going berserker were fairly small. And it meant that Nightbeat stood a reasonable chance of outwitting this Slag if it came down to it. Granted, he could also outwit regular Slag, but that one would probably have roasted his aft while Sludge and Swoop held him down.
"Hmmm," he says, making a noncommittal noise. "Sorry I missed that. "
He frowns. "Let me guess... I'm confined to quarters until further notice, pending community service?"
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 20, 2008 20:42:27 GMT -5
"Me Grimlock here to make sure you do service" he notes, grabbing a handy-dandy box of cleaning supplies, and dropping it in front of Nightbeat. He then steps out of the doorway. "Kup say your service to clean up party mess. Me say hurry and get started before wind kicks up and makes job harder."
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Nightbeat
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Post by Nightbeat on Mar 20, 2008 21:52:45 GMT -5
Nightbeat looks at the cleaning supplies with abject horror. "Oh, Primus..." he mutters.
He stands, slowly, and grimacing as it takes him a minute to get his balance. He picks up the supplies. "Better get this over with then."
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Slag
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Post by Slag on Mar 20, 2008 23:19:47 GMT -5
It looks like the wind's just kicked up!
Slag comes stomping towards Grimlock's room, a look of annoyance on his face. Of course, for anyone who knows Slag, this look is normal for him.
"Why you Grimlock no have room easier to get to? Me think we need shortcut here!" he grumbles, looking into the room, then looking back at Grimlock in confusion.
"Why silly blue bot in room? Him strong?" he asks, figuring the only way someone would willingly room with Grimlock is if they were strong, or a Dinobot.
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 20, 2008 23:25:10 GMT -5
"Me Grimlock have no trouble finding room after first time. You get better at it" he says to Slag once he speaks.
"Me no know who make room arrangement, me just know him in there. Me say it better than rooming with some others, though. Him sort-of strong. He have guts, at least. Him tried to take me Grimlock on head-on in training, and him punched shiny gold leader-bot in face at party yesterday."
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