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Post by Rodimus Prime on Sept 15, 2011 19:38:53 GMT -5
So much for trying to defuse things.
Rodimus's optics widen as Bambi transforms, and that's all the hint he needs for her intentions. He makes a grab for her as she tries to launch herself at Zippo. "Bambi, no! There will be no biting over whether or not the Incans had help building the pyramids!" He takes a moment to cast a glare towards Zippo. "From either of you!"
Rodimus vaguely wonders if Hot Rod would have cheered the fight on, then decides that no, this is an absurd reason for a fight even by Hot Rod's standards.
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Post by Zippo on Sept 16, 2011 7:42:54 GMT -5
Zippo totally knows the difference between anger and angst, it’s the script writer who rolled the natural 1 in psychology.
Zippo’s own aggression dissipates into disappointment the moment Bambi makes her move, a heated discussion is one thing but infighting was just not his thing. Truthfully he had hoped for more from the bambiraptor and her magnificent intellect. Still he had two dinobots for roommates and so the pounce came as no surprise.
The moment Bambi began her transformation, Zippo leapt back and into the air, the soft whir of his vtol fans making hearing F-15s that much harder. Hovering near the ceiling Zippo briefly wondered how high Bambi could jump and how tasty did his robot toes look right now?
“I apologise to both of you. I fear I did not make myself clear”, he holds his open hands out in front of himself, the perfect image of sincerity. “Perhaps if your willing Bambi, we could continue this discussion on what makes a civilisation advanced and what makes them civilised at a later point, I feel I am holding things up here”. Like the thread for one.
At the mention of Incan pyramids Zippo grinned with friendly amusement at his leader, “they would definitely have needed help getting the pyramids built too, like a time machine perhaps”.
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Post by Duskwing on Sept 16, 2011 18:39:47 GMT -5
Duskwing does a low pass over the human camp, trying to figure out if they have any kind of heavy weaponry. It's a fairly fast pass, of course, since he's a jet right now, and would stall out if he loitered slowly. Duskwing still doesn't use his lifters in jet mode very much, out of age-old habit. He never had them until these last few years, though he does like them in robot-mode. And for tricks like stopping in mid-air and transforming.
He sees the tiny figures climbing the temple steps, and considers dropping down to demand if they know where the power crystal thingy is. What the slag, what's the worst they could do, lie?
The dark blue and purple jet halts in mid-air above the long steps and transforms as he drops; Duskwing lands lightly on the steps about ten feet above the two humans.
"Hey, youse guys know where the power crystal thingy is?"
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Post by Holi on Sept 18, 2011 8:12:23 GMT -5
Never one to be easily thwarted, Dr. Suzuki beams at Dr. Hoffman; she already has a response for this argument, as she's heard it many, many times before.
Fortunately for Dr. Hoffman, they're interrupted by the arrival of a fighter jet in the form of a man. Dr. Suzuki startles at his sudden arrival and very nearly teeters backwards down the very long stairway. She ends up on her rump with one leg folded under her on one step and her other leg stiff on a lower step to brake her fall.
"Oh my goodness!" she gasps in a mix of shock and elation, pushing her glasses back into place and unhelpfully doing little to answer the robot's question.
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Post by Frenzy on Sept 18, 2011 13:33:32 GMT -5
She just bets Dr. Suzuki has.
The arrival of the giant robot startles Dr. Hoffman just as much as it does Dr. Suzuki. She recovers more gracefully, teetering on the edge of the step before stumbling down a few steps but remaining on her feet.
"-Power crystal thingie?" she repeats, staring up at the impossible creature asking her impossible questions in a Bronx accent. This can't be happening, this-
Still a bit shell-shocked, she says, "I think it would be in the temple. Don't you think, Dr. Suzuki?
This is happening, and she will have to write up a paper on it for the Heritage Society. Bother. This is going to make Dr. Suzuki insufferable.
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Sept 21, 2011 14:15:33 GMT -5
The temple they are in currently happens to be a pyramid as per the episode. That would be the Incan pyramid to which Rodimus Prime was referring, which further provides evidence for Bambi's theory that Zippo is an idiot.
Rodimus manages to catch Bambi by the tip of her tail, and she thrashes about, snarling and trying to hook her foot-claws into his arm. Given how durable he is, this may be a challenge. Bambi seethes, "You Prime owe me Bambi!"
He does.
But Bambi can't help but hear a jet doing a low pass and voices on the opposite side of the temple, despite her wrath. She snarls, "Me hear Seeker, same one at big fight," which is not very specific, but Duswking was there at a big fight on Gillanan in which Bambi participated, "and humans. Me kill Seeker, and then me kill Zippo."
Throw her in the brig for in-fighting, Rodimus Prime, and she won't care. Bambi will just play harmonica. Badly.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Sept 21, 2011 22:32:14 GMT -5
Rodimus's optics flicker at Zippo in bemusement. "'Too'? Zippo, we're in an Incan pyramid. That's what we've been talking about all along!"
Bambi might manage to hook onto Rodimus's pipes, but at worse she only succeeds in scratching through his paint. "I know I owe you, but I'm not repaying by letting you kill a teammate! Find something else!" But then the Dinobot warns about the Seeker, and his optics narrow as he nods, putting the Dinobot down.
"Killing Seekers is fine. You're still not killing Zippo, though," he says softly. He moves towards the temple entrance as quietly as he can and looks through. Once he sees what's going on, however, he steps more boldly through, optics still narrowed, fists clenched. No weapon is drawn yet, but... he's Rodimus Prime. He has them built into his forearms.
"Step away from those humans, or you're in for a whole universe of hurt," he demands.
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Post by Zippo on Sept 22, 2011 1:39:42 GMT -5
OOC: I honestly thought the Incan Temples were not pyramidal in shape, Wikipedia, this is your fault.
By Zippo’s reckoning, Bambi has a very misleading name. For lack of a more practical solution, he will just ignore the glitch for now and defrag with one optic open. He is also very glad Rodimus Prime was his leader, Magmatron would probably have let Bambi have her wicked violent way with him.
Seeker? What perfect timing to change subject. The flier’s rocket converts to paired machine guns and he goes to head out as well. Taking a moment to watch the Prime, he sneaks out behind Rodimus and circles arround the pyramid until he can just see the dark blue jet. He takes aim and waits.
A decidedly imperfect thought snaked it way into Zippo's processor, the idea that the two dinobots who were his roomies might very much side with the one who wanted his spark extinguished. Despite the seeker in view, Zippo’s mind was not on the task at hand.
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Post by Duskwing on Sept 22, 2011 18:34:07 GMT -5
Duskwing scowled. "You t'ink? Youse ain't seen it? Figgers. Now I gotta check it out myself and--"
Then Rodimus Freaking Prime steps out of the temple. Duskwing freezes up, and stares blankly at the Autobot Prime for a moment before replying.
"Hey! I didn't do nothin'! I didn't even threaten nobody!" Duskwing snaps, aggrieved, his face the picture of hurt innocence. "I was just standin' here minding my own business, what the slag are you bothering me for?"
What was the deal on the last planet they touched down on? Oh, right. He looks down at the humans. "Be careful o' dem guys," he says, jerking a thumb in Rodimus's direction. "They's kinda violent--had 'em shoot at me for no reason before and--"
Duskwing finally notices Bambi. "HEY! You, the micro-Dinobot! What for did you hammer Blitzwing in the face and jump me when Motormaster said you was his friend? You never did 'splain dat, and then you go and join the Autobums--what kinda friend are you?"
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Post by Holi on Sept 25, 2011 9:18:16 GMT -5
"W-well, yes, of course," Dr.Suzuki says, agreeing with Dr. Hoffman. Then she looks to the robot with the conspicuously thick accent, somewhat ruffled. "We were only just ascending the pyramid when you arrived!" she protests.
And he isn't the only one to make his appearance, as from the temple itself emerges a second, larger robot dressed in flames. Dr. Suzuki practically lights up. She'll have to write a paper on this!
"He was being a little ominous, perhaps?" she wonders, looking aside at Dr. Hoffman, though clearly not trying to take any sides here until she hears more. Then she glances back at the very long way down the steps and adds hesitantly, "…Maybe falling to their deaths isn't as common as it is for us?"
Then again, if it had been the other one just stepping from the temple like that, it could just as likely have startled herself and her colleague as the first fellow. But then, he seems to think the jet intends them harm. Or is it an act? So much data!
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Post by Frenzy on Sept 25, 2011 19:30:36 GMT -5
Good gads, another robot! With friends! Or possibly children- All right, she is anthropomorphizing the robots too much there.
"Given their flight capability, it may not be an option," Dr. Hoffman replies to Dr. Suzuki. She pauses thoughtfully, then continues, "Or perhaps it's a more grand, catastrophic systems failure? He might not expect healthy beings to not be able to fly."
The winged fellow is convinced the robots from the temple are dangerous to them. Dr. Hoffman thinks he may be right, but she's not convinced he isn't dangerous to them either.
She hasn't come back from some of the places she's been by trusting everything anyone tells her. She shifts her weight, ready to knock Dr. Suzuki aside if things go pear-shaped.
She really hopes she doesn't have to. For one thing, there's all the darned stairs.
Something about the big red one is ringing bells in the back of her head. Has she seen him before? ... She swears, if it was on some sort of carving, scroll, piece of pottery, or other artifact, she is going to scream.
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Sept 26, 2011 19:55:41 GMT -5
"Then me Bambi going to document Matrix and publish paper!" Bambi snaps angrily back at Rodimus Prime when he insists that she's not allowed to kill Zippo.
Anyway, Bambi is a child, after a fashion, but Rodimus Prime is not her father, and her height and mental age have nothing to do with each other, so Dr. Hoffman is partially correct for the wrong reasons. Also, she is a not-to-scale Bambiraptor feinbergi, which makes the source of her name plain and manifest. It is kind of like Kup the pickup truck.
Bambi growls at Duskwing, "Them try take me Bambi where me Bambi no want go. No one do that to me Bambi. Anyway, me Bambi not Autobot. Me Dinobot, first and always, and you? You leaving. Now." Her killer-claws flex.
She doesn't want to make a mess of him here, because she's pretty sure energon and shrapnel aren't good for temples, but she isn't going to warn him a second time.
Wait, is that Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Suzuki? Bambi's attention shifts, and her slit-pupil optics narrow. Wow, she feels bad for Dr. Hoffman having to put up with Dr. Suzuki, but this is not the way Bambi wanted to meet Dr. Hoffman! At a conference, where Bambi could fangirl Dr. hoffman's latest paper, yes, yes. While threatening a Seeker? Nooo!
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Sept 28, 2011 21:01:44 GMT -5
"Well go not threaten anyone farther away from the humans," Rodimus demands. And, because he's bright enough to remember how Duskwing departed last time he had been ordered away to keep from making things worse, he adds, "And make sure you walk away from them first. Do not activate your jets where you are, or I will shot you for a good reason!"
Then he glances down towards the humans. They're on the other side of the Seeker, and any sudden moves Rodimus makes just now could put them in danger. Still, he starts to carefully try and circle around them, not moving any closer to the Seeker, but attempting to put himself at an angle where he can dive in and protect them if something goes wrong. He holds up a hand, palm down, in an attempt at a comforting gesture. "Please, uhm..." okay, those are female humans, which means... there are about a billion potentially valid forms of address, and no way to guess which ones won't give offense, "you two, you should back away from him, carefully." Again, Rodimus is thinking back to Duskwing's departure on Pz-Zazz - even if Duskwing doesn't intentionally menace the two women, another departure like that is liable to endanger them.
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Post by Zippo on Sept 29, 2011 18:08:15 GMT -5
Sounded like getting hit in the face with Bambi’s hammer was getting off light compared to her claws and fangs.
The confrontation brought Zippo’s thought firmly back to the here and now, and right now he was sighting his guns at Duskwing’s wings. He waited patiently for the ‘Con to leave or to get perforated.
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Post by Duskwing on Sept 29, 2011 20:14:33 GMT -5
Right now, his argument with Bambi has Duskwing's attention and rather selective memory. "You was lost! All by yourself out dere wit' robot tanks and crazy mining worms and stuff, and Moto was sayin' we had to rescue you, and den he went and blamed us 'cause you went all hammer-time on Blitizwing! Said we musta done somethin' wrong. Now Moto ain't the Stunticon's Motormaster, but he's still not the kinda guy you wanna torque off, knowwhatImean? An' all I did was try to talk you outta the swamp, see? An' for all dat I got a hole blowed clean through my head by Springer, and it weren't none of his business anyway, see?"
The dark blue Seeker folds his arms and scowls, then glances down at the humans. "Whaddaya talkin' about? What system failure--"
Rodimus Prime just gave him a weird order. Duskwing stares at him, confused for a moment. Why is the Autobot giving him orders rather than shooting? Why the slag is he, Duskwing, standing around in front of Rodimus Prime who is fully capable of tearing him from limb to limb even if he isn't Psycho Clown Prime? What the frag about the jets? Why is--
Duskwing's mouth opens, and then closes a few seconds later. Right. "Shockwave already reamed me 'bout dat," he mutters, hunching his wings. "You don't gotta get on my case, too! Besides," Duskwing straightens up, "you ain't in my chain of command. I don't take orders from you!"
He tosses his head back, gives Rodimus the single-finger gesture of fertility, and rises on his lifters, not using his jets and drifts away, settling down toward the base of the pyramid.
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