Post by Needlenose on Aug 10, 2011 17:36:16 GMT -5
OOC: This is sort-of, kind-of intended to be the Decepticon answer to Kup's What's Going On thread. However, I'm starting much later and Needlenose doesn't have near the patience for telling long stories, so expect it's going to be abbreviated. Very, very abbreviated.
Needlenose has this recorded in video format, and it's accessible to all Decepticons and Decepticon allies. This entry would have been made in the first half of Earth Month 2.
The video starts, and Needlenose is in front of his desk, leaning back against it with his rear, right leg propped against it at an angle.
"Righto. So if you're viewing this, you're probably a new arrival with a lot of questions. Or really, really bored, but I'm betting 'new arrival with a lot of questions.' And unfortunately, the answer to most of those questions are, 'We don't really know,' and 'We're not really sure.'" He shrugs. "Sorry, folks, but them's the breaks."
"A few years ago, Transformers started appearing on an abandoned world that's currently in our official database as 'Starscream-Alpha III,' which I'm kind of expecting to change as soon as someone besides me remembers that we let the first Starscream to arrive in this reality name it, but that the original inhabitants called Gillanan III. We didn't know why it was happening, we still don't know why it's happening, but it was only happening in certain spots.
"Different factions, different time periods, different realities, even. Transformers were being yanked from all over the place. After awhile, we started aligning together based on, well, the general philosophy that we had held back home, the primary one being whether Transformers are the greatest species in the universe, even one that we've totally just arrived in. We," he holds his fingers to his chest, "think that Transformers are awesome, and the Autobots and Maximals and... they might have something else, who knows? They think that other species are as good as Transformers, so those of us who think that we're awesome bound together in a spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding to try and figure out what is going on and advance our glorious mission of making sure everyone else knows how awesome we are. Also because the 'Bots had Omega Supreme who's pretty darned scary and generally in favor of pummeling any guy wearing a purple symbol he comes across." Needlenose shakes his head and snorts. "I tell you, for folks who claim to believe that might shouldn't be determined by the guy with the biggest gun, they sure bring some hefty ones to the table!"
"So anyways, we were both laying down roots, trying to figure out where all people were showing up and taking control of them, that sort of thing. Even found out that there used to be a Starscream-Alpha IV, and we found out what happened to it. Turns out, Unicron ate it. For those of you who don't have a reality with Unicron, basically, he's a huge old planet-eating-transforming planet. Oh, and sometimes a dark god. Like my reality. If you don't know who Unicron is, we have a record of the holographic broadcast that explains everything in the database, but I'm warning you, it's kind of disturbing. I mean, really. Even for the awesomest species in the universe. But since I know you all are going to ignore me just to prove how awesome you are, all I can do is recommend you watch it full size in the hard light sim room. With all other lights turned out. Wouldn't want to miss the full effect!
"So anyway, some time after we unlocked that little bit of sunshing, a whole bunch of Autobots showed up who were a lot more... uhm... amenable to our point of view, so we got them to help us blow the slag out of the Inferiority-Complex Autobots' base! We leveled the thing, it was great!" Needlenose's antennas perk in obvious pleasure at the memory. "But most of 'em escaped," his wings droop, "and then a whole bunch of Inferiority-Complex Decepticons showed up, and the "Bots we were working with kinda got to be a drag, so we shuffled them all back home." He lifts his right hand and snaps his fingers while moving his hand in a dismissive gesture.
"During the whole mess, though, we figured out that at the center of all the spots where we'd been arriving was the left overs of a big old meteorite that apparently came from Cybertron. And no, we don't know how it got there yet. Told you, the answers to most of these questions is 'We don't know.' But we decided we ought to start figuring it out, and besides, Starscream-Alpha III was starting to get dull, and as it turns out, when you get enough of those rocks together, but separate from that main chunk? Folks start arriving on them, too! So we grabbed some rocks, built a ship, managed to find a worse name for it than we did for the planet, and took off into space!
"So did the 'Bots. We ran into them again on a planet called Pz-Zazz. Pz-Zazz is a cheerful little planet with a thriving economy and a strong interplanetary trade presence and a colorful local culture! Oh, and a bunch of Unicron cults." He tilts his head and lifts his right hand to rub his chin, resting the elbow of that arm in his left palm. "Don't know what was up with that," he mutters. "Wasn't like that in my reality." Then he shrugs and returns his focus to the camera. "Lots of stuff happened there but, well, not much that we care about anymore. Some time before we got there, Shockwave took over from First-Starscream, but for some reason didn't rename Starscream-Alpha III. Some time after we got to Pz-Zazz, Shockwave got sick of him and sent him back to his planet, where he's one of the folks holding down the fort with some of the forces we left behind. Gotta have someone holding down the fort. There's still people arriving there.
Needlenose pauses and tilts his head, optics narrowed. "So where was I... oh, yeah, Pz-Zazz. Fun little planet, but stay away from their recreational drugs. Especially the stuff they call 'Blight.' Sometimes it's a black powder? I think? Sometimes it's other forms. Anyway, long term effect is it starts killing you from the inside out, eating away at your systems, that sort, and it's pretty damned addictive. Oh! And it eats a hole in your soul!" He pauses. "Oh! And it affects Transformers even worse than it affects most species! So don't mess with it. Also, the Quintessons are jerks. And killing Sharkticons can be a pretty good release, but they get annoying after awhile.
"Pz-Zazz got boring, and besides, we still want to find out what's bringing us here and how can we use it and stuff, so we left. We attacked the Autobot ship first and blew some good sized holes in it, but didn't get to blow up their engines like we wanted to." He shrugs. "It happens. The worst thing about it was that they managed to kidnap Hook, which sucks, because Hook's the one who designed Ship, and helped build it, and named it, which mostly shows that he's a better engineer and designer than he is a namer. But right now, the 'Bots have him.
"Next, Shockwave, uhm.... he tested a spacebridge he made. I'm kind of hoping he didn't mean to test it on himself. But whether he meant to or not, he... vanished. So now Scourge is in charge, and Second-Starscream is his second in command. We decided to head to Earth because we want Hook back, and we figure if we're poking around Earth, the 'Bots will come running. Also, poking at Earth is fun, and they usually have some great energy resources! Before we got there, though, a big old slagger calling himself Gigatron showed up among the rocks slagged all to blazes. He was a 'Con, and he seemed to favor the sorts of things we favor, so we put him back together." Needlenose hunches his shoulders and lifts his right hand to rub the back of his neck with embarrassment. "Turned out that was a bad idea. After hanging out here for awhile, he suddenly went psycho on Rock Watch and wrecked... uhm... a lot of us. He also stole a bunch of our rocks. We... can't afford to lose any more. Folks will stop showing up. And then he took off. So. Guy's still out there. And he's... yeah. Dangerous.
"Then we got a radio signal on Shockwave's frequency containing Earth's co-ordinates! Which is great, because we were going there anyway! We're currently hiding out on the opposite side of their moon and using shuttles and spacers to get to Earth, but it's tricky. Turns out on this Earth, they've got a moonbase here! We're working on getting an Earthbase built so we can get by with a bit less shuttling. We're also looking for Shockwave. Haven't found him yet. About a month after we got here, the Autobots showed up, which is good, because we want to get Hook back from them! But it's also annoying, because they're a bunch of killjoys who hate fun, so they're liable to get in our way. They also went right up to the U.N. and fessed up to being here, so... so much for laying low! We've been told that we've got free reign to cause problems for any countries that work with the Autobots, but I haven't been told that we're not allowed to operate in other countries so... freer reign, I guess?
"But anyway, that brings us up to date." He shrugs. "Now get out there and do something useful."
The camera stops recording.
Needlenose has this recorded in video format, and it's accessible to all Decepticons and Decepticon allies. This entry would have been made in the first half of Earth Month 2.
The video starts, and Needlenose is in front of his desk, leaning back against it with his rear, right leg propped against it at an angle.
"Righto. So if you're viewing this, you're probably a new arrival with a lot of questions. Or really, really bored, but I'm betting 'new arrival with a lot of questions.' And unfortunately, the answer to most of those questions are, 'We don't really know,' and 'We're not really sure.'" He shrugs. "Sorry, folks, but them's the breaks."
"A few years ago, Transformers started appearing on an abandoned world that's currently in our official database as 'Starscream-Alpha III,' which I'm kind of expecting to change as soon as someone besides me remembers that we let the first Starscream to arrive in this reality name it, but that the original inhabitants called Gillanan III. We didn't know why it was happening, we still don't know why it's happening, but it was only happening in certain spots.
"Different factions, different time periods, different realities, even. Transformers were being yanked from all over the place. After awhile, we started aligning together based on, well, the general philosophy that we had held back home, the primary one being whether Transformers are the greatest species in the universe, even one that we've totally just arrived in. We," he holds his fingers to his chest, "think that Transformers are awesome, and the Autobots and Maximals and... they might have something else, who knows? They think that other species are as good as Transformers, so those of us who think that we're awesome bound together in a spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding to try and figure out what is going on and advance our glorious mission of making sure everyone else knows how awesome we are. Also because the 'Bots had Omega Supreme who's pretty darned scary and generally in favor of pummeling any guy wearing a purple symbol he comes across." Needlenose shakes his head and snorts. "I tell you, for folks who claim to believe that might shouldn't be determined by the guy with the biggest gun, they sure bring some hefty ones to the table!"
"So anyways, we were both laying down roots, trying to figure out where all people were showing up and taking control of them, that sort of thing. Even found out that there used to be a Starscream-Alpha IV, and we found out what happened to it. Turns out, Unicron ate it. For those of you who don't have a reality with Unicron, basically, he's a huge old planet-eating-transforming planet. Oh, and sometimes a dark god. Like my reality. If you don't know who Unicron is, we have a record of the holographic broadcast that explains everything in the database, but I'm warning you, it's kind of disturbing. I mean, really. Even for the awesomest species in the universe. But since I know you all are going to ignore me just to prove how awesome you are, all I can do is recommend you watch it full size in the hard light sim room. With all other lights turned out. Wouldn't want to miss the full effect!
"So anyway, some time after we unlocked that little bit of sunshing, a whole bunch of Autobots showed up who were a lot more... uhm... amenable to our point of view, so we got them to help us blow the slag out of the Inferiority-Complex Autobots' base! We leveled the thing, it was great!" Needlenose's antennas perk in obvious pleasure at the memory. "But most of 'em escaped," his wings droop, "and then a whole bunch of Inferiority-Complex Decepticons showed up, and the "Bots we were working with kinda got to be a drag, so we shuffled them all back home." He lifts his right hand and snaps his fingers while moving his hand in a dismissive gesture.
"During the whole mess, though, we figured out that at the center of all the spots where we'd been arriving was the left overs of a big old meteorite that apparently came from Cybertron. And no, we don't know how it got there yet. Told you, the answers to most of these questions is 'We don't know.' But we decided we ought to start figuring it out, and besides, Starscream-Alpha III was starting to get dull, and as it turns out, when you get enough of those rocks together, but separate from that main chunk? Folks start arriving on them, too! So we grabbed some rocks, built a ship, managed to find a worse name for it than we did for the planet, and took off into space!
"So did the 'Bots. We ran into them again on a planet called Pz-Zazz. Pz-Zazz is a cheerful little planet with a thriving economy and a strong interplanetary trade presence and a colorful local culture! Oh, and a bunch of Unicron cults." He tilts his head and lifts his right hand to rub his chin, resting the elbow of that arm in his left palm. "Don't know what was up with that," he mutters. "Wasn't like that in my reality." Then he shrugs and returns his focus to the camera. "Lots of stuff happened there but, well, not much that we care about anymore. Some time before we got there, Shockwave took over from First-Starscream, but for some reason didn't rename Starscream-Alpha III. Some time after we got to Pz-Zazz, Shockwave got sick of him and sent him back to his planet, where he's one of the folks holding down the fort with some of the forces we left behind. Gotta have someone holding down the fort. There's still people arriving there.
Needlenose pauses and tilts his head, optics narrowed. "So where was I... oh, yeah, Pz-Zazz. Fun little planet, but stay away from their recreational drugs. Especially the stuff they call 'Blight.' Sometimes it's a black powder? I think? Sometimes it's other forms. Anyway, long term effect is it starts killing you from the inside out, eating away at your systems, that sort, and it's pretty damned addictive. Oh! And it eats a hole in your soul!" He pauses. "Oh! And it affects Transformers even worse than it affects most species! So don't mess with it. Also, the Quintessons are jerks. And killing Sharkticons can be a pretty good release, but they get annoying after awhile.
"Pz-Zazz got boring, and besides, we still want to find out what's bringing us here and how can we use it and stuff, so we left. We attacked the Autobot ship first and blew some good sized holes in it, but didn't get to blow up their engines like we wanted to." He shrugs. "It happens. The worst thing about it was that they managed to kidnap Hook, which sucks, because Hook's the one who designed Ship, and helped build it, and named it, which mostly shows that he's a better engineer and designer than he is a namer. But right now, the 'Bots have him.
"Next, Shockwave, uhm.... he tested a spacebridge he made. I'm kind of hoping he didn't mean to test it on himself. But whether he meant to or not, he... vanished. So now Scourge is in charge, and Second-Starscream is his second in command. We decided to head to Earth because we want Hook back, and we figure if we're poking around Earth, the 'Bots will come running. Also, poking at Earth is fun, and they usually have some great energy resources! Before we got there, though, a big old slagger calling himself Gigatron showed up among the rocks slagged all to blazes. He was a 'Con, and he seemed to favor the sorts of things we favor, so we put him back together." Needlenose hunches his shoulders and lifts his right hand to rub the back of his neck with embarrassment. "Turned out that was a bad idea. After hanging out here for awhile, he suddenly went psycho on Rock Watch and wrecked... uhm... a lot of us. He also stole a bunch of our rocks. We... can't afford to lose any more. Folks will stop showing up. And then he took off. So. Guy's still out there. And he's... yeah. Dangerous.
"Then we got a radio signal on Shockwave's frequency containing Earth's co-ordinates! Which is great, because we were going there anyway! We're currently hiding out on the opposite side of their moon and using shuttles and spacers to get to Earth, but it's tricky. Turns out on this Earth, they've got a moonbase here! We're working on getting an Earthbase built so we can get by with a bit less shuttling. We're also looking for Shockwave. Haven't found him yet. About a month after we got here, the Autobots showed up, which is good, because we want to get Hook back from them! But it's also annoying, because they're a bunch of killjoys who hate fun, so they're liable to get in our way. They also went right up to the U.N. and fessed up to being here, so... so much for laying low! We've been told that we've got free reign to cause problems for any countries that work with the Autobots, but I haven't been told that we're not allowed to operate in other countries so... freer reign, I guess?
"But anyway, that brings us up to date." He shrugs. "Now get out there and do something useful."
The camera stops recording.