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Post by Override on Sept 5, 2011 20:18:08 GMT -5
"Eh, that's all right. Anyway, I'm fueled now. Time to move on, just make sure you put that nozzle back first, will you?" Unlike Twin Twist, Override didn't have her engine going while she was being fueled up, and she doesn't start it until the nozzle is removed.
"Don't have too much farther to go, and then you can get to work." Hopefully, having ground to dig through will keep Twin Twist from going after the lamp posts and K-rails.
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Post by Tessan Toov on Sept 6, 2011 21:37:11 GMT -5
Twin Twist manages to wedge the nozzle back into the pump... upside-down. He stares at it for a moment and then shrugs. That is probably good enough, he reasons. Someone else will surely come along, use it, and put it back correctly.
He snaps back down into drill tank mode, and then he's off. They should indeed be there soon, and drilling underground means that the only way that he will be taking out lampposts and K-rails is by undermining them.
Twin Twist asks, "What do you think it is?"
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Post by Override on Sept 7, 2011 16:20:23 GMT -5
Override speeds towards the crash site for a given value of 'speeds' that is slow enough for Twin Twist to keep up (hopefully without causing an accident) but fast enough to be considered illegal if she had a driver.
"Not sure. I mean, Earth's orbits are pretty cluttered. You'd think that more stuff would crash down than it does, anyway. But bridge-watch said this something had some sort of weird energy reading, so I'm expecting... energetic space trash, I guess."
It's always weird energy readings. Always.
They get there quickly enough, and Override arrives on scene with her usual flash. She shouts, "Override, transform!" and lands just short of the crash crater, a grin on her face.
Of course, it's possible that someone else is already here to look into that energetic space trash...
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Post by Swindle on Sept 7, 2011 19:43:05 GMT -5
There are several someones already here to look into the energetic space trash. There are some unusually serious-looking blue collar-type people in yellow hard hats, operating digging machinery. There are people in full radiation suits, setting up sciency-looking equipment. There are also a few men in black suits standing around with a proprietorial air and doing their best not to help with any of the actual work.
One of them notices the arrival of the Transformers and scowls. He reaches onto his belt for his walkie-talkie and speaks into it, waiting for a reply. It's very hard to tell a giant robot to go away when you aren't authorized to interact with it.
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Post by Tessan Toov on Sept 7, 2011 20:30:29 GMT -5
Twin Twist pops up into robot mode when he sees the group of people here, and he exclaims, "Hey, it's dangerous! Humans shouldn't be here - they might get hurt."
He is still speaking in Cybertronian, so it's a bunch of boodly modem noises. Override might want to tell him to switch to English so the humans won't think Twin Twist is talking about how delicious humans are.
But it seriously is dangerous here. Gasoline could reach temperatures up to 175 F in the gas stations here... when they were still operated. Comes of the underground being on fire.
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Post by Override on Sept 8, 2011 15:34:14 GMT -5
Override covers her face with her hand briefly, but she's smiling when she lowers it, more amused than anything else. "C'mon, Twin Twist," she says in English. "English. No need to make these people nervous!"
One of those people, one who had been standing near the one with the walkie-talkie, looks up as the robots arrive, eyes wide behind the sunglasses. He starts to glance towards walkie-talkie man, but by this point Override's noticed him.
She brightens and her smile grows to a full grin. "Hey, it's Mikey! Mikey Franklin!" And she starts to approach the two.
Mikey Franklin's jaw drops, and for the moment he looks like he can be knocked over with a feather.
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Post by Swindle on Sept 10, 2011 11:58:20 GMT -5
Walkie-talkie man's jaw also drops. In one smooth motion he holsters his radio and whips off his sunglasses to give Mikey Franklin an angry glare. "What's this?! You know this thing? You're good buddies? You been fraternizing!? You know we're not authorized! I'll have you drummed out of S7! I will lock you up forever!" he rants, grabbing the other man by the front of his jacket and shaking him.
A couple of the men in the hazard suits stop what they're doing to watch. The wiser ones keep right on working.
OOC: Shaking with permission.
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Post by Tessan Toov on Sept 10, 2011 15:16:18 GMT -5
Twin Twist switches to English and says aloud, "My Key? Is he really possessive of door openers or something?"
See, Twin Twist is a name that makes sense. It basically means 'two drills', except it also says that Twin Twist has a brother, which he does.
He frowns a little and his head tilts when the one human starts shaking the other human. Twin Twist turns to Override and asks, "Are they supposed to do that? 'cos I can separate 'em if they're fighting."
Twin Twist would just love being a bouncer. He'd get paid to fight people in bars. Okay, to break up fights. There'd still be punching a-plenty.
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Post by Override on Sept 11, 2011 21:32:43 GMT -5
"Hey!" Mikey protests as he's shaken. He reaches up in an attempt to pull Walkie-Talkie man's hand off his jacket. "I never saw that robot before in my life! Except on the news, but everyone has seen her on the news!" You don't have to be a person in his career field to take an interest in something like robotic aliens turning up at the UN. "I don't know how she knows me! And it's not like I can ask her, what with not being authorized to interact!"
Override's optics flicker in confusion at the way the other man turns on Mikey. When she hears their conversation, those same optics widen and her mouth forms a little "O" of realization. "Oh, it's not that him that I met," she explains. "It was the other him!"
She looks back at Twin Twist and explains, "Human names usually don't mean anything." This isn't technically true, but Override doesn't know this. Certainly, no one has given her proper meaning translations for human names. She frowns as she considers his question. She lifts a hand. "Anyway, hold off a bit." She's not going to let the humans hurt each other over a simple misunderstanding, but no one's being hurt yet.
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Post by Crankcase on Sept 12, 2011 21:46:22 GMT -5
One observer to the Autobots' arrival and the strife it instantly causes goes unnoticed and unconcerned with possible reprimand from his superiors. They might, in fact, be more cross with him for ignoring the goings-on here.
Crankcase does find the humans' disagreement intriguing. So much fuss and clamour over the Cybertronians. How fortunate for him that the humans haven't bothered to check their motorcade since departure, or they might have noticed by now that one of their SUVs gives their Geiger counters apoplectic fits. Somewhere along the route here, he left the original in a ditch. On fire. It will inevitably be found, and the damage will conveniently look like the driver lost control and crashed. Which isn't far from the truth; Crankcase took the collision quite a bit better than that sorry human car.
He keeps one figurative eye on the humans, but the bulk of his attention remains on the Autobots. The female seems to know one of the humans, or a version of that human. This could, potentially, be useful. Autobots have such a soft spot for the soft creatures.
OOC: Skippable unless/until addressed.
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Post by Swindle on Sept 17, 2011 15:08:59 GMT -5
Simmons releases Franklin and takes a step back at the giant robot's revelation that it had met the other Mikey Franklin.
"The other one?!" he demands, looking at Override, then back at Franklin. "Like some sort of evil alien clone?" he demands, still not looking at the robots, since he's not authorized to interact. His gaze is drawn to all the people here, suddenly seeing robot doppelgangers everywhere. Anyone could have been replaced. It's not just toasters and vending machines he has to be suspicious of now. It's people.
The G-man's eyes narrow and he raises his voice, pointing at Override but looking at the workers. "Don't listen to it, men! It's trying to confuse us, sow discord! That's what they do! Deception and disguise, that's their M.O.! Just keep working!" he shouts, resolutely turning his back on the Autobots with his arms crossed.
Some of the men do keep working, because they weren't really paying attention in the first place. Others keep watching because they're hoping the show isn't over yet.
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Post by Tessan Toov on Sept 18, 2011 17:13:05 GMT -5
Twin Twist transforms and runs his drills at a low RPM, which is what he sometimes does when he's waiting and bored. He huffs, "Fine, I'm holding off."
Then, he shouts very loudly, "Hey! It's the Decepticons that do the decepting. We're Autobots. And it's still unsafe for humans here."
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Post by Override on Sept 19, 2011 11:26:19 GMT -5
Franklin asks, "Other one?" at the same time that Simmons does, then looking around in confusion. He rubs the back of his head. "It's a pretty common name, but the others wouldn't look like me," he muses.
Override ignores the fact that Simmons isn't directly addressing her by answering him as if he were. "Not clones. Alternate reality!" she declares brightly, then scowls at the accusations of deception. "My alt mode's for racing, not disguise!" she protests. She didn't even bother getting an Earth-based alt mode! "Anyway, Twin Twist is right, it might not be safe around here. We have to check into the... whatever," Override shrugs, "so you'll need to step back." It's not really an order, but it's not exactly a suggestion. She turns towards Twin Twist and nods towards him. "I guess we can get started, if you can find a spot where they're not?"
Mikey looks up at the robots. The ones who are right there digging at their site that they're not allowed to talk to. He looks at Simmons. He looks at the robots. Finally, he throws his left hand up and gestures towards the robots, exclaiming in exasperation, "Come on, sir! This is getting ridiculous!"
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Post by Swindle on Sept 25, 2011 10:20:25 GMT -5
Simmons throws both of his hands up in the air, because anything Franklin can do, he can do more. "I know it's ridiculous! I don't make policy!" he exclaims.
"If we were allowed to interact, which we're not," he says loudly, "I'd tell them that we're perfectly safe and we were here first, so they can just do whatever they're doing somewhere else." Simmons keeps his arms crossed, pointedly looking anywhere but at the robots as he speaks.
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Post by Tessan Toov on Sept 26, 2011 17:37:18 GMT -5
"Okay. I'm doing my whatever underground," Twin Twist states flatly, and in a whirl of drills, he dives into a new tunnel.
Override is quite welcome to follow along the path created by Twin Twist's impatience. He's being careful about how he sinks it. This area is already unstable. He doesn't need to make it worse. Plus, there are pockets of fire and who knows what else.
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