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Post by Ravage (ROTF) on Jun 11, 2011 9:51:29 GMT -5
Ravage, already on edge from the earlier invasion of his personal space, does not react well at all to his sudden entry into a bronco riding exhibition. He screams a panther-like scream, leaping forward from his seated position and kicking back and out with his back legs trying to dislodge Frenzy.
This continues until Swindle makes his threat of separation via Pokeball. The cat stiffens and stills, still growling softly, though it's unclear who exactly is now the current subject of his ever-present anger.
//Not supposed to cause trouble on trip. Not call attention.// he warns, twisting his head first toward Duskwing, then over his shoulder at Frenzy.
Yeah, asking Ravage and Frenzy to stop fighting is like asking the little brother to stop pulling his sister's pigtails. The action will resume one the parent's back is turned.
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Post by Mistwind on Jun 11, 2011 20:03:17 GMT -5
Mistwind is totally incomparable to anyone in this room right now, except maybe Skyfire. The moment Swindle mentions 'mining', his mind answers 'work'. Swindle shows explosives, Mistwind squeals in delight.
In the prospect of good solid labor, rejoice, Mistwind, rejoice. "Yes Mister Swindle Sir, at once!"
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Post by Barricade on Jun 11, 2011 20:58:57 GMT -5
With whoops and hollers and coarse invective, Frenzy keeps his seat upon the thrashing cat as Ravage contorts and howls his way through the various gyrations intended to dislodge his little pest. Not that it's easy, of course, but Frenzy will do everything in his power to make it at least look easy.
He is outwardly disappointed when Ravage calms down, even going so far as to spit a few slurs at his unwilling mount for the benefit of their audience.
To Ravage, however, he bursts a short, encrypted transmission: // Duh. Ship's one of us, tho. Too hard to hide. Gotta act normal. // Unfortunately, "normal" for Frenzy is being a #1 pain in the aft. Especially to his "big brother" Ravage.
"Easy fix!" he crows aloud. "Kill th' witnesses!" And then he bursts into cackles as he bounces upon Ravage's back. "Hi-yo Silver! Away!"
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Post by Dark Skyfire on Jun 15, 2011 19:24:43 GMT -5
"Wait, what? No!" Skyfire is...less than pleased by Duskwing's New and Improved Plan. "There will be no 'knocking over' of mining installations." Because Skyfire is so not above pulling the 'I will turn this car around!'
Explosives...? Really? "Isn't that...dangerous? Do we know the localized ore around what we're trying to get out?" Because blowing up a volatile mineral vein would be a Bad Thing. "And you've made sure no one will get hurt in this, right?" he adds, Looking Sternly at Duskwing.
Stern Look gets very Pointed as he fixes it on Frenzy. "If anything needs to be killed, I'll do it," he says, sharply. Because he's beginning not to quite...trust anyone on this venture with a weapon.
Much less high explosives.
"Can we PLEASE separate the detonators before takeoff?"
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Post by Swindle on Jun 16, 2011 20:23:44 GMT -5
"I'm afraid the asteroid field is unclaimed, no-one's mining it. Of course, if you'd rather stay here, doing drills and standing watches, I won't stop you," Swindle replies to Duskwing, smiling sweetly. "I just thought you'd like a chance to get off Ship and stretch your legs a little."
Swindle gives Skyfire an appraising look, the same look he might give a new style of weapon he's acquired from a wholesaler and isn't quite sure what to do with. Swindle himself is a bit non-violent for a Decepticon, but this guy is something else! "No-one we know personally is going to get hurt," he promises, raising a hand. "I can't speak for anyone who tries to claim-jump on us. They'll probably get hurt. The detonators are fine. They're in stasis in another dimension. It'd take some sort of weird transwarp field for them to affect anything in this plane of existence, and even then I'd probably be the only one who blows up. Lighten, up Skyfire!" he exclaims, reaching up to slap the big shuttle-former on the back. "While you're at it, why not transform so we can load up and get this show on the road, huh?"
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Post by Ravage (ROTF) on Jun 16, 2011 23:48:58 GMT -5
Ravage snorts in exasperation at both Frenzy and Skyfire. To everyone present the cat says, //Orders are keep low profile. Frenzy and I here to deal with any monitoring stations and gather intel per Command instruction.// Which may or may not be true, but now Skyfire can't balk too much at their inclusion, rodeo antics and all.
To Frenzy alone, Ravage says, //Ship is weak. Needs watching.// Which also may or may not be true, but in comparison to the Decepticons Ravage is used to, the shuttleformer's reluctance to cause harm is suspicious.
//Get. Off.//
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Post by Mistwind on Jun 17, 2011 21:09:15 GMT -5
Swindle's explosives are safely stored in another dimension. Mistwind's are not. So he laughs when Swindle announces that everything is safe. Oh Sir, you know better! Mistwind could blow Skyfire up from the inside and the initial blame would be on you!
He turns to Duskwing, pouting, "Mister Duskwing Sir, please join this operation. You're military hardware; this operation would be much riskier without a genuine Seeker model to defend our advancing borders! There will always be inferior species that undermine our superiority and they need to be dealt with... with force! Domination is the only answer! And if you don't come along then Mister Skyfire is our only independent airborne unit, Mister Duskwing Sir..." Everyone knows what that means. Can you bear standing boring watch after watch while your partner might be having so much fun with another flier? Can you really?
Mistwind didn't held back on the more difficult words here, and he's talking a bit faster than he usually would with the purple jet. He's trying to press Duskwing's ego through an excess of grooming and the minor hint of challenge.
((Speaking of....didn't we miss a Duskwing in rotation somewhere?))
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Post by Duskwing on Jun 18, 2011 7:24:45 GMT -5
Duskwing was sulking momentarily. Reluctantly he says, "Fine, fine, I said I was comin', didn't I?"
He brightens up at Mistwind's commentary. "You got a point, kid. We might find some unexpected action anyhow. Yeah, dat's the ticket!"
The dark blue Seeker eyes Dark Skyfire suspiciously. There is no way he is letting his partner get carried off by Dorkfire with no other backup. Dorkfire would probably wimble and try to nicely ask his way out of the belly of a pyropod, and then where would they be? Or they might meet Autobots and he'd surrender if the Bots said 'please'. The shuttleformer needed a keeper, and though Ravage and Swindle just might manage on the ground, in space Dorkfire needed a keeper who could keep up with him. More or less.
Looks like it's Duskwing's job to be that keeper.
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Post by Barricade on Jun 19, 2011 19:38:36 GMT -5
Ooooo! Good thinking Ravage! Errr... Yeah, that's totally the ticket!
"No zoom zoom in the boom boom!" he cackles as he flings himself backward to sprawl along Ravage's back.
To Ravage, however, he replies, // Eh, don't gotta be 'Crusher to not be weak. // Frenzy's policy? Don't piss off, malign, or otherwise make fun of the transportation. And, really? The 'cons have enough crazy, psychotic, back-stabbing killers to go around. Having someone who's relatively sane and, *gasp*, Allspark forbid, polite? It's kinda a neat change, really.
Frenzy's just waiting to see how long it takes the big shuttle to snap.
// Oooo! Really? Here? Kink. Key. //
Before Ravage can twist around and snatch him off and fling him away, Frenzy tumbles off and scampers ahead, one moment clattering on all limbs, the next, strolling, cool as a cybercucumber, complete with a snazzy, jiving whistle.
Barry White? Eat your squishy heart out.
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Post by Swindle on Jun 26, 2011 9:26:36 GMT -5
Swindle continues to watch Ravage and Frenzy's antics dispassionately. Oh yeah, that's going to be fun to be cooped up on a shuttle with. Then add in Duskwing . . .
On the other servo, going into unknown territory in a new universe alone isn't a terribly bright idea. He'll feel better for having the other Decepticons with him, even if they are going to be getting on each others' last circuits by the time they're done.
Once Skyfire transforms, Swindle will go ahead and board.
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Post by Ravage (ROTF) on Jun 27, 2011 11:33:00 GMT -5
Ravage snaps at Frenzy for effect when the little terror finally dismounts. One day, he needs to stalk down Frenzy remind him of the pecking order.
The great cat yawns, and once Skyfire transforms, slinks off toward the shuttleformer.
OOC: proposing a timeskip to en route, just before reaching the target area?
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Post by Mistwind on Jun 29, 2011 19:53:39 GMT -5
Mistwind feels delighted to have been successful in his motivating. Sulking troops aren't good to have around. Life's more fun when everyone smiles a bit. Aaaaand smiles create smiles so Mistwind, too, smiles brightly while he assists in the cargo shipping.
For the duration of the trip he will be helping out with various support jobs. He's also available for extra surveillance outside paired to Duskwing.
----------------- And we go skippable!
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Post by Duskwing on Jun 29, 2011 20:15:54 GMT -5
Duskwing slouches aboard Dark Skyfire, looks around for a comfortable spot and flops down in it, feet up on the nearest convenient object. Frenzy is acting weird. Why is Frenzy acting weird, and what is that horrible noise? Duskwing considers griping about it, but decides he doesn't give a flip, and it's too much bother.
"Fine, fine..." he mutters. A bit louder he adds, "Lemme know when we get there so's I can patrol. Don't want our long-range transport here gettin' his aft shot off by pirates or somethin', see?" He raps his knuckles against Darkfire's hull for emphasis.
--- time skip the transit to our destination?
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Post by Barricade on Jun 29, 2011 21:36:58 GMT -5
Frenzy was EXPECTING that, Ravage. Just like how he's expecting to find himself under a paw, one of these days. It's really what makes life worth living.
Speaking of what makes life worth living... Frenzy cackles and bounces his way through Skyfire's cargo hold up to the cockpit, where he vaults over one of the seats and starts plying with every lever, button, and joystick his prickly little fingers can find.
"TOYZ! Oooo! What's THIS do? An' THIS!?"
Poor Skyfire.
ooc: molesting of Dorkfire's controls done with permission. Also? Feel free to timeskip away as far as Freakazoid here is concerned.
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Post by Dark Skyfire on Jul 1, 2011 8:08:50 GMT -5
((ooc also? I hate bookmarks. Will resort to manual checking. Apologies. Good thing Dorkfire's just pretty much been sitting here letting y'all load, right? CARRY ON! ^_^))
Skyfire is happy enough to get this awkwardness over. Once they're on the mission, the team will cohere. That's how it goes. Though he's not really sure that's possible with Frenzy and Ravage. They seem to want to cohere only in extremely violent and upholstery-shredding ways.
To Duskwing he says, "That's very kind, but I normally do my own protection. You should keep optics on the smaller, groundbound mechs." Us airframes, right? Right? Brofist?
The loading goes smoothly enough until...Frenzy.
"No! Wait! Don't push that! That's sort of importaaaaa--!" And that one? That downright tickles.
Meanwhile for the rest of the mechs in the hold? Frenzy's jab-o-rama has set off a blaring yellow light and a screaming siren, and enabled the onboard gravity. Combined with the gravity of Ship, the gravitational pull you feel is double.
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