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Post by Sentinel Prime on Nov 2, 2010 22:16:26 GMT -5
Day 10, starts at the staterooms on the Event Horizon but will probably move elsewhere. Open. Jetfire, Jetstorm, please let me know if this is all okay. If not, I can take it down or edit.- - - Room 13. Auspicious. Sentinel Prime shrugs, looks left and right, and then pulls out his shield, going wham! wham! wham! on the door. He could just radio ahead, but that wouldn't be like him. He is, after all, loud and proud. Jetfire and Jetstorm are not too quick on the uptake sometimes, but he doesn't want to give them any reasons to suspect that there's something wrong with him, because they do know him rather well. Sentinel Prime shouts, "Jetfire! Jetstorm! You kidbots in there? Or am I just disrupting Clipper's beauty defragment?" Sentinel Prime recalls that the little administrative assistant doesn't like him one bit. She's probably not a good influence on the Twins, he's sure. If she wants to have an out, there will be an out. Then he'll go buy the Twins some energon goodies or whatever the scrap the space station gift store has that passes for energon goodies, because that's actually why he's here. Or maybe some video games? They like video games, right? That Ninja Gladiator processor-rot?
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Post by Clipper on Nov 3, 2010 3:47:48 GMT -5
Clipper hasn't been defragmenting in the room she shares with the twins - not since returning from Pz-Zazz, that is. She'd tried, sure, but... it hadn't gone well, so lately, she's been doing most of her real resting while curled up with Holi watching movies. She's afraid that Holi is starting to notice, though, or at least notice that she isn't as well rested as she normally is, and so, for the first time since her rescue, she's actually in her room, trying to make herself spin down.
So much for that.
She really isn't having much luck, anyway. Hopefully, though, no one else hears her little, "Eep!" when she is startled into sitting straight up. If they did... That knocking is pretty loud, though, right? It'd make sense for anyone to be startled into looking at the door with wide optics, with as loud as that had been. Right?
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Nov 3, 2010 10:45:05 GMT -5
OOC: Works for me!
Jetfire, for his part, is getting his beauty rest. Not that he needs it, unlike his brother. At Sentinel's loud knocking and shout, he bolts upright in his berth. His groggy processors register Sentinel's voice before they remember where he is, and running on automatic he quickly finds himself standing at attention in front of his bunk, one arm raised in a sharp salute.
He looks a bit confused when he realizes he's saluting a startled Clipper rather than a frowning Sentinel Prime. Then his processors finally boot into gear. Right! Alternate universes, the Event Horizon! Sheepishly, he drops his salute, then lunges to open the door getting ready to greet their visitor with an enthusiastic, "Sentinel Prime, sir!"
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Post by Jetstorm (Ani) on Nov 3, 2010 18:50:42 GMT -5
Jetstorm was not asleep - he was sitting on his berth, though, reading comics!
When Sentinel Prime comes a-knockin', however, he scrambles to stand up, and comically flails about to try and keep from dropping the datapad he was reading on. He finally gets ahold of it, and joins his brother at the door, saluting and speaking in unison with his brother - "Sentinel Prime, sir!"
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Nov 3, 2010 20:05:48 GMT -5
Once Jetfire opens the doors, Sentinel Prime stows his door-knocker-née-Skyboom-shield, because he doesn't need that anymore! He takes a quick look around - oh great, he's scared a little girl. Great going, Sentinel Prime. That was brilliant, as usual. He facepalms briefly.
However, the fact that Jetfire and Jetstorm are still saluting and calling him 'sir' does bring a smile to his face. They don't have to here. Sentinel Prime has no authority over them, and while he finds that rather irksome, there's not much he can do about it unless he wants to start hoping for horrible things to happen to Springer, and Springer is... a decent enough bot. Maybe better than decent. Springer probably doesn't deserve to suddenly die young of a horrible accident. Probably.
No, Springer definitely doesn't.
Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he greets, "Jetfire! Jetstorm! And of course, the ever-lovely Clipper. I hope you don't mind if I borrow your roommates, if they have a bit of time?"
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Post by Clipper on Nov 3, 2010 22:20:26 GMT -5
Clipper is so NOT a little girl! She's a Micromaster! Which... basically... makes her... a little girl. And if the sudden, booming thuds of Sentinel's shield knocking on the door aren't enough to startle her, Jetfire and Jetstorm just as suddenly springing into action are. She watches them both with a slightly dazed expression, optics wide as they both leap from their berths and (eventually, in Jetfire's case) dive for the door.
"O-of course not, sir," she replies, still too shaken to remember that she's supposed to be angry with him. But... now their room will be empty; she's not certain she's quite ready for that. "Have... fun?"
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Nov 4, 2010 21:54:42 GMT -5
Old habits die hard! Especially ones drilled in as deeply as Elite Guard training.
Jetfire is curious about what Sentinel might want to borrow them for. Usually when he came looking for he and Jetstorm it was for Elite Guard training, or related duties, but that didn't seem so likely given that there was no official Elite Guard in this universe.
Regardless of motive, Jetfire is still pretty pleased to see Sentinel. The incident in the insane asylum has made him more appreciative of - seemingly - normal Sentinel. He still intended to kick some Decepticon aft over that.
"I have nothing important to do this moment," he says. "What are you planning to be doing?"
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Post by Jetstorm (Ani) on Nov 6, 2010 16:03:33 GMT -5
"I am not having things to do either, Sentinel Prime, sir!" Jetstorm adds, pulling the salute down. Yes, old ingrained habits do die hard.
And like Jetfire, he is glad to see Sentinel back to what appears to be normal for him.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Nov 6, 2010 16:32:05 GMT -5
Did Clipper just call him 'sir'? Apparently, Sentinel Prime needs to bang on people's doors more often. This is working for him! "Thanks, Clipper!"
He explains, "You two did a bang-up job rescuing me from that madhouse, and I can't give you the Novic Medal of Outstanding Valor here, but I can get you a little something at one of the station shops. What do you want? Some of those JPTS," Jet Propellant Thermally Stable (high thermal stability, high altitude fuel), always a good thing when discussing hotheaded jet-bots, "silicon wafer sandwiches?"
That's his best guess on candy for jets; it's not like he has any idea what the Twins actually like. Elite Guard rations were Elite Guard rations. Sentinel Prime has sometimes speculated that Elite Guard rations are leftovers from a Science Guild project to weaponise energon, but he has no proof.
"Or you liked that Ninja Gladiator combat sim, right? I think there's a little 'video game' store up in the second torus." No one has ever cared enough to tell Sentinel Prime that Primes needs to be careful around video games. This could get dangerous! But probably not.
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Post by Clipper on Nov 7, 2010 19:34:34 GMT -5
By the time Clipper remembers that she's supposed to be angry at/not like Sentinel, he's got her all sorts of confused. He's... being nice? And offering to take Jetfire and Jetstorm to go... get them a thank you gift for a job well done? Really?
Maybe... maybe she was really wrong about him. Or maybe... He'd needed to be rescued from Pz-Zazz, too, right? Maybe something happened down there that scared him, or something.
"Umm... you're welcome, Mister Sentinel, uh, sir?"
She's really regretting that she doesn't really have any money, or what passes for it here, though. It would be a nice surprise for Holi if she could give it to the Twins and ask them to pick something out for her for Holi while they're out in the station. Holi usually asks Mister Perceptor for help... Maybe Miss Botanica could help Clipper make something nice for him, instead?
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Nov 7, 2010 20:46:18 GMT -5
Jetfire's jaw drops open. Did- did Sentinel Prime just offer to buy they something? In thanks? A thank you gift. For them. From Sentinel Prime. Does not compute! Perhaps his time in the asylum affected Sentinel in ways Jetfire had never expected. He almost asks his old commander if he's feeling okay, but does he really want to look a gift shuttle in the nacelles? Not if it means giving up free stuff, he doesn't!
Instead, he settles for beaming and saying, "Ah! I am not having these JPTS wafers before! Actually, I have not been having many treat fuels at all, especially not in new body..."
Being an energon refinery grunt doesn't exactly provide enough to indulge much in life's little luxuries.
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Post by Jetstorm (Ani) on Nov 7, 2010 22:32:09 GMT -5
Jetstorm's thinking the same thing, pretty much, and opens his private comm to Jetfire - //This is being weird... Though I have seen him act something like this before.//
However, he grins at the prospect. "Treat is sounding good! We're having more video games than we can play here anyway!"
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Nov 7, 2010 23:05:34 GMT -5
The kid-bots want snacks? Excellent. Snacks cost less than video games! Sentinel Prime doesn't really have the hang of altruism. "Just 'Sentinel Prime' works, Clipper," he corrects absently. He doesn't know what kind of rank 'Mister' is, only that people seem to use it all over the place here, so it can't be very important. Granted, no one treats him like a Prime here, but that doesn't change the fact that he earned it, by tooth and nail. He laughs, ""More video games than you can play? That must be a whole lot of video games!" So much wasted time that they could be spending training. Oh well, it's not his call anymore. "Anyway, c'mon. It's over this way." - - - OOC: Timeskip to the sweet shop? It's basically like any airport sweet shop - not as good as an artisan candy place, but not bad either.
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Post by Clipper on Nov 7, 2010 23:18:47 GMT -5
"Oh," Clipper replies. "Um, sorry." She was trying to be polite and respectful. She really was. See what that gets her? She sighs, and gives them all a little wave as they leave.
ooc: out of thread once they're out of the room.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Nov 8, 2010 15:57:31 GMT -5
"Yes, sir!" Jetfire says, following Sentinel. He pauses at the door to wave. "Bye Miss Clipper!"
Jetstorm gets a response of, //Is very weird. But is not being so bad a weird, yes?//
Then he's off down the hall, chattering about the variety of video games on the Event Horizon.
Jetfire bounces around the station sweet shop in excitement, looking like he might float off the ground at any moment. And really, he literally might. Ah, so many delicious-looking things!
"Ooh! Look at these, brother! No wait, what are these being? They are smelling very good... Oh, what is this? Aw, is not for mechanical beings..."
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