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Post by Omega Supreme on Nov 25, 2011 21:18:52 GMT -5
Omega Supreme rumbles, "Not equivalent: haxx and hacks. Conjecture: self-deluded script kiddie."
Henry Masterson stares as the underclocked fruit salad with the AI that makes Siri look good... calls him a script kiddie. And he wonders how hard it would be to walk off with one of the suits they're building at work. For a 'field test'.
But Omega Supreme is determinedly walking to the other side of the dam and taking Blurr with him, and soon, he is out of audio-shot of Captain Annoying.
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Post by Blurr on Dec 1, 2011 12:38:32 GMT -5
While Omega leads away the still-chattering Blurr, Haywire stops just long enough to give Henry a smug look.
"You only wish you were half as awesome as my friends are," he says; he hasn't quite reached the point in his personal growth where he can resist gloating. Then he takes a swig of his soda and continues after the Autobots without even waiting to hear whatever the pasty-looking human musters for a comeback.
On the other side of the dam – the Nevada side, in fact – there's considerably more to be seen than a parking lot and a gift shop. There are also more people to gawk at the colourful new visitors. Crossing the dam affords a splendid view of the bypass bridge downstream, too, and both Blurr and Haywire take a moment to ogle it.
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Post by Omega Supreme on Dec 3, 2011 11:23:43 GMT -5
Omega Supreme also looks at the view of the bypass bridge, thinking something along the lines of it being pretty nice... for, you know, not Constructibot work.
He actually starts smiling ever so slightly, without really noticing it.
Now, what was Blurr going on about?
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Post by Blurr on Dec 8, 2011 19:51:00 GMT -5
Blurr is apparently reading, aloud to himself, at typical high speed, the inscription below the monument to the workers who died in the construction of the dam. Haywire looks on, cheery face uncharacteristically solemn to match Blurr's sober tone.
"I don't think so many should have died," Blurr pronounces after a brief silence that stretches on too long for him. "I think it's too many."
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Post by Omega Supreme on Dec 14, 2011 22:23:31 GMT -5
Omega Supreme stares at the list silently and processes it slowly. He reaches an inevitable verdict, "Agreed."
There's a spiky brown-haired, brown eyed boy who might be Japanese cavorting near the railing at the edge. That is probably not safe?
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Post by Blurr on Dec 19, 2011 22:34:36 GMT -5
While Blurr rambles about safety measures, the lack thereof, or what sort of precautions they might have taken – or not taken – that ended with so many lives lost, and does so in such a fashion as his player will kindly not detail to avoid tedium, Haywire warily eyes that kid by the railing. Should he say something? Where are the parents?
I've got it covered, Blurr advises him. Haywire, frankly, thinks that if they're here to be tourists, they should damn well be tourists. He can go be helpful while his partner takes it easy. But he can feel the admonishing vibes from Blurr well before it echoes in his head: Being on the job all day every day day in and day out is part of being who we are and doing the job we do. Blurr looks over his shoulder at the Nebulan and smiles, and one would either need to know Blurr very well or live at his speed to see that split second-long shadow of reluctance flit across his face. "Maybe you should go over first," he says quietly, "because if I go over first I might startle somebody and startling somebody doesn't look like a very good idea right now."
He pauses, then looks up at Omega and grins.
"Or would you like to handle it?"
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Post by Omega Supreme on Dec 23, 2011 22:50:14 GMT -5
The kid falls over the side of the dam before Omega Supreme can get a word out.
Haltingly, he changes the word to, "You."
Because if anyone can fix this situation, it is Blurr and his insouciant defiance of the laws of physics.
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Post by Blurr on Dec 25, 2011 13:21:27 GMT -5
If anyone ever asks Blurr what it's like to see the world through his eyes, he'll tell them that most of the time, it's something like watching an ultra slow-motion video. That's the only way he can describe it; everything seems to happen around him at a snail's pace, only beginning to catch up with his perception if he focuses on it. And he's focused on the boy, who teeters over at half-speed. Blurr is in motion long before he hears the peal of a scream – one of the nearby women – cut across the air, ringing counterpoint to Omega's bass drawl and Haywire's startled shout.
The distance is barely a stride, and the boy has barely fallen beyond the adults' reach when Blurr is there, leaning down, stretching out one arm. He curls his hand carefully around the boy and pulls him back to safety, setting the kid back on his feet well away from the edge just in time for the air displaced by Blurr's lunge to catch up with him, ruffling hair and shirts all around.
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Post by Omega Supreme on Dec 28, 2011 23:02:39 GMT -5
"Golly, that robot must be faster than Zippy!" one bystander exclaims.
Zippy is, of course, a famous metahuman speedster from Seattle. Everyone knows about Zippy! The mild-mannered auctioneer who does freelance work with the Seattle police when the freaks and black capes come out. Auctioneer, of course, because he's been banned from every race that can be run.
A man who looks rather like an old version of the boy, with greying but equally spiky hair and a mustache, who is incongruously wearing a labcoat, screams out, "Koji!"
He looks amazingly relieved that Blurr has caught, well, Koji, but the fact that a giant robot has just saved Koji from being Koji has not quite yet registered with Dr. Onishi.
Omega Supreme doesn't yet have anything to say.
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Post by Blurr on Jan 3, 2012 20:16:37 GMT -5
While Haywire looks around, questioning, at the conjecture on Blurr's speed – and somebody or something named Zippy, of which he's never heard – Blurr just beams at father and son as he backs away a step or two, making sure to leave plenty of room for relieved hugs. He does so enjoy happy endings.
"It's a good thing I caught him because if I hadn't been here to catch him I don't think anybody would've caught him and then, well, you know," he says, relieved in his own turn.
"Hey, Omega Supreme," says Haywire as he sidles up to the big Autobot. Is it okay if Haywire calls him just 'Omega'? These twofold names don't seem to work for Transformers the way given names and surnames work for humans; Ultra Magnus often gets called simply 'Magnus', while Optimus Prime is just 'Optimus' and Rodimus Prime is 'Rodimus' and occasionally 'Roddy', but nobody calls Ultra Magnus 'Ultra', and sometimes 'Prime' is a title or rank rather than part of an actual name.
And Haywire's starting into Blurr-think again.
"Omega," he goes on, backtracking, "did you see whoever mentioned this Zippy?"
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Post by Omega Supreme on Jan 5, 2012 21:47:33 GMT -5
Dr. Onishi hugs Koji tightly and ruffles his hair. Koji seems slightly annoyed by this and mutters, "Hey, knock it off!" like any embarrassed boy his age who does not quite3 understand just how close to death he just came. Then he looks over his father's shoulder at Blurr and whispers, "But those robots are so cool."
Dr. Onishi whispers something to Koji, who grudgingly turns and says in Blurr's general direction. "Thank you. For saving my life. Mister... uhm?"
Omega Supreme is okay with being called 'Omega'. He pauses a moment, trying to figure out who might have mentioned 'Zippy'. If Omega Supreme was in space, he'd be tracking all the ephemeris he could, but he's on the land here. After a moment, he inquires in the general direction of a different brown-haired boy, "Explanation: Zippy?"
The other brown-haired boy, who is unfortunately named Clump, looks shocked and exclaims, "You don't know who Zippy is!?"
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Post by Blurr on Jan 12, 2012 16:44:35 GMT -5
"Blurr," is the effusive answer. Blurr, giving Haywire and Omega Supreme's conversation only a fraction of his processing power, obligingly hunkers down to make chatting a little easier. "My name is Blurr and they call me Blurr because I'm the fastest Autobot there is. And you are? If you don't mind my asking that is because I don't want to seem forward and ask something I shouldn't ask." Changing gears in the rapid-fire way he does, he adds in a slightly more admonishing tone, "And I hope I'm not being forward in saying so but I have to say you shouldn't play around like that in places not meant to be played in because they can be dangerous and there might not always be somebody there like I was there to get you out of danger."
Haywire, meanwhile, joins Omega in squaring with Clump as, drink and snacks in hand, he grins easily.
"Pretty new here," he says with little shame, "so no, can't say I've heard of Zippy. You wanna be the one to school me?"
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Post by Omega Supreme on Jan 15, 2012 21:00:37 GMT -5
"Thank you, Mister Blurr!" Koji says cheerily.
"Yes, thank you," Dr. Onishi agrees. "Koji, you should listen to the space robot." Then he pauses and looks back at Blurr. "...do any of you turn into trains?"
Clump explains, "Zippy is definitely the fastest guy alive! Set a speed record out at the Salt Flats, and no one comes close. Almost Mach 1. I have his action figure."
So, no supersonic humans running around.
Yet.
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Post by Blurr on Jan 17, 2012 23:08:30 GMT -5
Well, there's an odd question. Blurr blinks and in half that time thinks over the roster of Autobots.
"No," he says in a long drawl that comes out sounding like normal speech. None of the Autobots turns into a train, but the Decepticons, on the other hand…. "Why would you want to know if any of us turn into trains? Have you met a train recently?"
Haywire is far too intrigued by tales of Zippy to pay the alarm jangling faintly from Blurr's end of the bond any mind. He grins at Clump.
"Almost Mach one?" he repeats. "That's all?"
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Post by Omega Supreme on Jan 19, 2012 17:41:35 GMT -5
Dr. Onishi blinks. Has he met a train lately? That is a peculiar way to put it. He says, rubbing his chin, "I wouldn't exactly call it 'met'. I just like trains."
And if there were any train Transformers, he might get their figurines, if they're O scale.
"Oh come on, that's awesome-fast," Clump insists.
Given how slow most humans are...
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