Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 3, 2012 22:44:44 GMT -5
Oh, so that's how it's going to be is it? Well, if Sentinel wants to trade drunken barbs that they'll all regret later, then it's on, girlfriend.
"Just because you're not legally obligated to do something doesn't mean you shouldn't, Sentinel. And in this reality," okay not technically this one, but Optimus is tipsy, "we both ended up Primes, only you ended up next in line to be Magnus, and I ended up breaking rocks at the back end of nowhere. Ultra Magnus had to pull strings just to get me any command at all, and it wasn't exactly a glamorous one."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 3, 2012 23:14:39 GMT -5
"But why should I have spoken up? What good would it have done if I had?" Sentinel Prime demands, "It wouldn't gotten you a lighter sentence. It would have just gotten me a harsher one. Ultra Magnus didn't like me like he liked you. I'd have spent the rest of my list as a third class maintenance bot, and that's a waste of my talents, and we both know it. So I would argue, ahem ahem, in fact, that me speaking up would have been a greater evil because it would have squandered resources better used elsewhere. And, okay, so maybe blaming you for everything forever was a skidplate move. Maybe I should have said nothing, gotten my own career established, and then written you some really nice letters of recommendation."
"Except that you got to be a Prime before I did, even if the actual commission blows, anyway, so... I dunno, maybe I should have been asking you for really nice letters of recommendation instead," she points out, smirking like this is absolutely hilarious.
"But my point is... my point is..." she waves a hand hazily, her fingertip following the flight path of a drunk bee, "even you admit that Ultra Magnus pulled strings. You're perfectly willing to benefit from other bots behaving badly around you. You just want to look.... heroic while doing it. I mean... frak. What if those spiders hadn't been there, huh, Optimus? What if we'd just found the ship and all the energon and everyone came home happy, safe, and rich? Would you have gone on and on about how we broke regs? Or would you have just signed autographs for your fan club? Because you would have totally had a fan club. I guarantee it."
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Optimus Prime
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Caution: Hero makes wide right turns.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 10, 2012 20:30:33 GMT -5
"So being a maintenace bot would have been a waste of your talents, but it was okay for me?" Optimus retorts, slurring his words ever so slightly. He has talents too! How many Megatrons have you killed defeated, Sentinel? One less than Optimus, that's how many.1
The Prime sighs, slumping into his seat. "Sentinel, if there hadn't been any spiders, we all could have had fan clubs. All three of us. And we probably would have gotten off with a slap on the wrist. But there were, and we didn't and . . . I don't know. I don't want to talk about it anymore. It's all we ever talk about.
I want to build some kind of life here that isn't lived in the constant shadow of what happened on Archa Seven. But this place seems determined to keep throwing it back in our faces. I'm tired of fighting the same old battles over and over. Aren't you tired, Sentinel?" he asks, turning his eyes on the other Prime, a note of desperation in his voice.
1. Yes, he is going to keep riding that pony forever, thanks for asking.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 10, 2012 21:01:57 GMT -5
"I'm saying, that was going to happen to you no matter what I did!" Sentinel Prime snaps. Then she purses her lips. "Okay, no. If I went insane and kidnapped you and dragged you off to New Kaon, we could have joined the Decepticons and been space pirates."
"But neither of us know how to use a cutlass, so that would have been a bad idea, anyway." She is a few cubes too many for the more obvious reasons why that was a bad idea to occur to her.
Sentinel Prime sighs. "I don't want to talk about it, but it keeps coming up because we never really got over it and because... we don't really have much now to talk about. What have we done together now that's worth talking about? I poked you to go out with Elita-1. I helped you study. I interviewed you. We trained a lot. I accidentally crashed a party I wasn't invited to. There was more training. There was that... thing with the Lithonians. And the... thing with the Combaticons. And anyway, since I... quit, it's not like we have any reason to even see each other right now."
Aside from the fact that they are theoretically friends.
"I mean... slag. What's new with you?"
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Optimus Prime
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Caution: Hero makes wide right turns.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 11, 2012 19:49:24 GMT -5
Optimus buries his face in his servos and gives the muffled response, "You just listed everything that's new with me." He straightens up, attempting to lean back in his chair before remembering he is sitting at a table in the mess hall and thus on a bench. He recovers his balance just in time.
"But that's what I'm talking about! The Lithonians, the Combaticons. It doesn't all seem like it's trying to throw what happened back in our faces to you?"
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 11, 2012 20:08:27 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime briefly looks guilty and tries to give Optimus a pat on the shoulder with a gloved hand. She prods, "C'mon, tell me about how you're running the Elite Guard differently, and... I'll smile politely and nod instead of back-seat driving. It'll be great."
His other point makes her feel uncomfortable, and she admits, "I guess. Though I think the Combaticons were doing it on purpose. I mean, Blackarachnia is a huge glitch. Tell me that we can agree on that?" If Optimus is going to get sappy about how he still loves her and wants to redeem her, Sentinel Prime needs to be more overcharged than this. "So one of those Combaticon slaggers probably asked her, 'Blackarachnia, what can we do to make massive skidplates out of ourselves?'" She holds up a hand as a little puppet and then puts up her other hand to answer it, doing a slag-poor attempt at imitating the voices. "'Glad you asked, tee-hee-hee! I think that you should mess with Optimus with zombies.' So that's the thing. We both have these huge, obvious buttons, and as long as that's so, the 'cons are going to push those buttons, because that's what they do."
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Optimus Prime
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Caution: Hero makes wide right turns.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 15, 2012 19:51:17 GMT -5
"I've changed the training schedule around a little and we're trying some new drills. Nothing major," Optimus responds.
Sentinel's Blackarachnia impersonation is dead-on as near as Optimus can tell. Of course, Sentinel is currently using Elita-1's voice, so that probably has something to do with it. "I'm tired of getting my buttons pushed. It's sending me places I don't like."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 15, 2012 20:47:11 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime smiles politely and nods.
"So push back," she says.
Sentinel Prime is not the nicest bot Optimus Prime knows.
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Optimus Prime
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Caution: Hero makes wide right turns.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 16, 2012 20:55:04 GMT -5
"I intend to," the red and blue Prime responds.
Optimus is also not the nicest bot Optimus knows.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 16, 2012 21:22:10 GMT -5
The fairest rose of Texas is lying in a grave. But she wasn't the nicest bot they knew, either. (It is probably Spy Shot 6 or Perceptor or Holi or someone like that, to be honest. Maybe even Seaspinner.) Sentinel Prime smiles and fairly purrs in that used-car-salesman way that Sentinel Prime has, "There's the Optimus Prime that I know and like." - - - OOC: Fade?
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Optimus Prime
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Caution: Hero makes wide right turns.
Posts: 385
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 18, 2012 18:33:04 GMT -5
"That is just so much creepier coming out of Elita-1's vocal circuits," Optimus says, repressing a shudder.
OOC: Fade!
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