Swoop
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Knight of the Obsolete Aircraft
It's always the quiet ones.
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Post by Swoop on Mar 26, 2011 22:54:42 GMT -5
Month 2, Week 1, Day 1, Event Horizon, Open to Team Good
Swoop has just had a security interview and been released into the wild. It's pretty much the strangest wild he's ever seen, much as the interview was the most he's ever talked all at once. He's in a weird place, but he doesn't understand why. Prowl is here, which is nice, he guesses, and so is Grimlock. It isn't his Grimlock though, it is someone else's. He has been told it is Perceptor's Grimlock. He wonders if he gets to keep Grimlock if he beats up Perceptor. Snarl is here too, only it isn't his Snarl and his name is Slag and he's not actually here, he's somewhere else. Also, Bambi is here, and it is his Bambi, even though he didn't even know he had a Bambi. Swoop is very, very confused.
By dint of trial and error, he's managed to make his way to the personnel section of the Event Horizon. He's in robot mode and everything, since that seems to be the trend here. He has no idea which room is supposed to be his, so he knocks on a door at random.
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Mar 26, 2011 23:13:55 GMT -5
Bambi is heading back from the perilous environment that is the laboratory, after a busy three-day marathon session of... analysing pot sherds. Mayday throws a fit when she takes 'dirty' things into her room. At the moment, she herself probably counts as a dirty thing, as she picks some mud out from between her claws, flicking it off absently. She is in dinosaur mode, because she had no particular desire to impress anyone at the moment.
Then the scent of a particular aviation-grade alloy mix hits her. No one in the crew smells like that, and she hasn't smelled that scent since - well, the day she was created! With a blood-curdling warcry joyful call of, "Him Swoop!" Bambi attempts to jump onto her prey and hook her killer claws into his back glomp Swoop.
This is probably going to be the wrong Swoop, and Bambi is going to feel like the hugest idiot.
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Swoop
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Knight of the Obsolete Aircraft
It's always the quiet ones.
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Post by Swoop on Mar 27, 2011 10:46:37 GMT -5
Swoop isn't trying to impress anyone by being in robot mode. He's just a conformist. Plus, he can't walk too fast in pteranodon mode, and flying down the hall is a bit awkward.
When he hears his name called, he gets half-way turned around before a small mecha-muscle propelled missile hits him in the back. He squawks and flails his arms. The car robots are attacking him! After they kept telling him he wasn't allowed to hit anyone wearing the red symbol! No fair!
Swoop grabs at his back, trying to dislodge Bambi. He happens to be the right Swoop, but he has no idea who Bambi is.
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Mar 27, 2011 11:29:34 GMT -5
Bambi is not a car robot! She would be affronted by such a suggestion!
Bambi is dislodged and hits the wall, sliding down it to the floor. She sniffs and protests, "You no see that happen," and makes to run off.
Clearly, Bambi has gotten the wrong Swoop. Embarrassing!
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Swoop
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Knight of the Obsolete Aircraft
It's always the quiet ones.
Posts: 105
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Post by Swoop on Mar 27, 2011 15:24:05 GMT -5
"No see what happen? What? Who you?" Swoop asks. He holds out an arm to try and stop Bambi from going. She looks like a Dinobot, but not one he's ever met.
"How you know me, Swoop?" he croaks after a second.
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 27, 2011 16:02:10 GMT -5
The door that Swoop knocked on opens, and a very grumpy Grimlock stands in the doorway. "Me Grimlock hear you first tim--"
A Swoop? But not his Swoop. He looks kinda similar to Bambi, who is running down the hall? This is going to be a long day, isn't it?
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Mar 27, 2011 16:11:51 GMT -5
Swoop's arm stops Bambi, and she squirms a bit, clearly embarrassed. She opens her mouth, but then Grimlock pokes out. Bambi groans and throws her claws over her optics. She admits grudgingly, "Me Bambi have Dinobots for brothers, but you not Bambi's him Swoop."
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Swoop
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Knight of the Obsolete Aircraft
It's always the quiet ones.
Posts: 105
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Post by Swoop on Mar 27, 2011 16:48:26 GMT -5
Swoop turns to look over his shoulder at Grimlock. It sounds sort of like Grimlock, and it looks kind of the same, but it clearly isn't Grimlock. So there really is more than one Grimlock. And this is the wrong one. He has no mouth, for starters.
"You Bambi?" he repeats. "Me Swoop." He had been informed that his reality had a fourth, secret, Dinobot that had shown up here. This must be her. And she's . . . tiny. Smaller than Swoop. Which means Swoop is not the shrimpiest Dinobot.
The pterodactyl-former reaches out to pat the Bambiraptor on the head. "You, Bambi adorable," he says. This is likely extremely unwise.
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Mar 27, 2011 18:31:10 GMT -5
Grimlock head tilts a bit at the strange display.
He seems to act similar to the Swoop he knows, but still looks very different. "So we get another Dinobot that not one of our Dinobots?" Grimlock scratches at the cheek part of his faceplate a bit. "At least him actually look like -a- Dinobot, and not just some bot -named- Dinobot."
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Mar 27, 2011 18:52:37 GMT -5
Bambi glares and sulks when Swoop pets her on the head and pronounces her 'adorable'. Only him reminding her so very much of her own Swoop keeps her from trying to bite his hand off. She growls sullenly, "Me Bambi fierce predator."
Bambi sighs and agrees with Grimlock, "Yeah, another wrong Dinobot. Us not lucky like them Twins."
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Swoop
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Knight of the Obsolete Aircraft
It's always the quiet ones.
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Post by Swoop on Mar 27, 2011 19:18:11 GMT -5
Swoop just smiles amusedly when Bambi declares herself to be a fierce predator. She looks a little like a tiny Grimlock, if Grimlock had longer arms and was more svelte.
"Him Grimlock wrong Dinobot. Him not have mouth," he declares. "Him car robot say Bambi right kind of Dinobot to match Swoop. Me, Swoop, not know you, Bambi." Is she sure she's the correct Bambi?
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Apr 2, 2011 15:37:05 GMT -5
"Why would me Grimlock have mouth?" Grimlock's head tilts to the side just a bit. All this time here, and still the whole 'there might be another me who has different features' bit goes over his head. Granted, many things go over his head, but still...
"So...Bambi know Swoop who look like this, but Swoop not know Bambi. That kind of like me know a Rodimus, but him Rodimus know a different Grimlock." Sort of.
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Swoop
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Knight of the Obsolete Aircraft
It's always the quiet ones.
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Post by Swoop on Apr 5, 2011 21:06:30 GMT -5
Skipping Bambi due to time-out.
"Him Grimlock have mouth," Swoop explains. "Other Grimlock," he adds, by way of explanation.
He squints at Bambi, and then at Grimlock. He can't really put his thoughts into words, and the concept of a design style is completely lost on him. Nonetheless, the little bambiraptor certainly looks like she matches the set of Dinobots Swoop is familiar with.
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Apr 6, 2011 10:07:32 GMT -5
"Me Bambi wrong Bambi, him Grimlock wrong Grimlock, and him Swoop wrong Swoop," Bambi declares. "All us wrong Dinobots."
"But."
"Him Dinobot wrongest Dinobot wrongest Dinobot of all." She settles down on the floor to examine her claws.
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on Apr 7, 2011 3:17:26 GMT -5
Grimlock wonders why another version of him would need a mouth. Then again, he was the only Dinobot who didn't have a mouth of his five, so he was the odd one out anyway.
"Me Grimlock agree with Bambi. Him Dinobot not a Dinobot, but him seem okay for a Dinobot that not a Dinobot." Even if he gets too hung up on that 'honor' stuff.
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