Brawl
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somethingcidal
Heavy Metal Accident
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Post by Brawl on Jan 9, 2012 19:56:09 GMT -5
"Yeah, story of my life," Brawl snarls back at Override, tracking her and firing as she moves. He's unable to keep up with her acceleration however, meaning that his shots keep hitting the ground right behind her in a terribly dramatic fashion that makes everyone want to buy her toy.
"Slag this," he says, transforming to tank mode and trying to line up a shot in front of Override. In his experience, carformers tend not to deal well with sudden craters.
He hears the commotion about Elita-1's arrival, but he isn't about to rotate his turret around to see, because tank turrets are not known for rotating quickly and he is trying to line up a shot, thanks. He'll probably get yelled at later for not engaging Elita-1. Of course if he did, he'd get yelled at for not minding his own business with Override.
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Optimus Prime
Minor
Caution: Hero makes wide right turns.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 9, 2012 20:06:27 GMT -5
"Elita?!"
Optimus's world slows down for a moment as his processor tries to cope with the massive overload of pig-iron that is his social life. Seriously, people. Either die or don't. This slag is getting ridiculous.
"Did I-" Optimus looks incredulously at Onslaught for about a second before his functional hand goes for the Combaticon leader's neck. "What kind of sick slag is this?!" is the only thing he can say. The look of sheer murderous hatred in his optics communicates so much more that he can't put into words.
Optimus has two regrets right now. One is that he doesn't have the use of his other arm to strangle Onslaught with. The other is that he doesn't have a gun for the rest of the Combaticons.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jan 9, 2012 21:34:06 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime does not react like Elita is her name when people say it. She does not look at the speaker - instead, she looks around, as if she is looking for someone else named Elita. She doesn't move like Elita, either. Sentinel Prime tends to move as if... she's used to being bigger somehow, taking up more space. She walks straight-legged, with no sway to her hips. There are a thousand little tells about her that says she is, at the very least, not the Elita-1 that anyone here has ever known.
She grimaces when her shot only clips Blast Off's wing. Thankfully, Sentinel Prime does not have the context to understand what Onslaught is getting at. She does, however, want to put many, many holes in whoever has put Jetfire through... that.
Sentinel Prime considers continuing the charade and saying, 'Why yes, of course I am Elita-1.' Crushing the hope here would be so cruel.
But deception would be crueller.
Sentinel Prime can't do that to these people. She especially can't do that to Optimus. Some things, such as evil spider ex-girlfriends, one just has to warn a bro about. At least, that is how it works in theory. Some bots just do not understand these subtleties. But Sentinel Prime is pretty sure that this situation falls under the category of things that should be warned about, so... slag the advantage of surprise. The Decepticons would have figured out that she's not Elita-1 eventually, anyway.
Her voice steady and almost conversational, Sentinel Prime admits, "No. I'm not Elita-1. But that thing looks like it has a broken lance."
The plasma blaster feels strange in her hands. Firearms are not her forte. She tracks the shuttle's path and takes another shot at the shuttle anyway. That slag-wad is going down, and then... either the helicopter with that stupid glue gun that hurt Jetfire or the missile truck that's hurting Optimus. And then the tank. And then then Tokyo.
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Override
Minor
The Chancellor, Her Noble Potency, Empress Override. The Glorious Victor over Everyone Else On the Track
Shut up and drive
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Post by Override on Jan 11, 2012 13:33:50 GMT -5
Override had taken quite a few hits early in the fight, but that was before she took to her tires. On the roll, she's at her best, jinking and darting to avoid the majority of Vortex's blasts - one perhaps hits a fin here, glances off a side there, but she manages to avoid the worst of it, even as Brawl's attacks begin tearing up the Arena behind her. She continues to fight from her strength... and the more Decepticons she can keep focused on her and not the others, she thinks, the better. Thus, as she comes around for a second run, she blasts a couple of shots at Brawl for the brief period that he's within her sights, then starts looking for something to ramp off of.
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Blast Off
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I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite.
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Post by Blast Off on Jan 11, 2012 17:42:29 GMT -5
//With pleasure,// Blast Off replies, at the order to kill Elita-1 dead.
Of course, he owes fealty to Lady Blackarachnia. She would, most likely, prefer that Elita-1 be left mostly intact. He decides to make this quick, then. Blast Off nimbly dodges her amateur shot, lines up his own reply, and rains x-ray doom down from the sky.
But the problem is, he's looking down at her. Oh, sure, Blast off has an awareness of any other large flying objects around him, but...
...this flock of birds, startled by all the fighting, is not a large flying object. The birds are pretty small, slow, and non-metallic, to boot. They smash into him, and down Blast Off goes crashing into the stands. Thankfully, he does not explode, but everything hurts, and he's not sure that he can transform. He can scream pretty well, though!
This is what having Endurance 3 on the ol' tech spec means, people. Getting throttled by Override, shot through the wing by not-Elita-1, and then hit by a bunch of birds is enough to take Blast Off out of a fight.
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Post by Onslaught/Octavian Comstock on Jan 11, 2012 21:07:22 GMT -5
The zombie is still as a statue. Directionless, a useless puppet, a corpse. It does not even attempt to flee when the flames come, and when the searing heat engulfs it, it simply melts away. When the flames will go out, there will be nothing left but a molten mass in the vague shape of what was once a humanoid.
Onslaught would care, probably even scream something like 'They melted our battle zombie!', but alas, he is currently being occupied by a Prime who is intent on strangling him.
The burning hatred in Optimus' eyes, the way his face contorts with so much anger and pain and sorrow, expressed all the more fully by the hand that clenches around his throat and makes the metal plating screech under the pressure...It gives Onslaught pause. But not for the reasons Optimus might expect.
"You look like Scourge."
It is said in a quietly surprising quiet tone, uncharacteristic of the Combaticon leader, like he just had his very first realization and could not comprehend it yet. Then, he does.
"But you are not him."
Onslaught can not hurt Scourge. But this is not Scourge. This is someone who looks like him, very much so in fact. Onslaught does not know why he is suddenly feeling feeling a burning desire to veraciously murder Optimus Prime. Well, more so then before. But he does not particularly care, either.
With a flash of his optic band he springs back into life, the reflection of the flames consuming the zombie only making the look in his eyes that much more hellish. Onslaught moves to grab the hand pressed like a vice grip around his throat, and if he can get a grip? He will show Optimus true strength as he tries to apply as much damage to his wrist as possible. "Oh, please, do give in to the hatred burning a hole through you. It will simply make besting you and murdering you all that much more enjoyable."
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Jan 14, 2012 23:07:16 GMT -5
Jetfire's flames slowly die as Sentinel Prime's body melts away in his arms, his paint fading back to its original colour. There's no struggle to do it like usually happens when he catches alight like that. He just extinguishes without a fight, leaving him with cooling slag in his joints and his own systems flashing with warnings about overheating.
He should really still feel angry. There are still Decepticons to fight, to bring justice for this atrocity! But for once he doesn't really feel like fighting anyone. He doesn't really feel much of anything right now.
Staring blankly at the mass of molten metal that was once his commander, Jetfire topples onto his knees.
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Brawl
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somethingcidal
Heavy Metal Accident
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Post by Brawl on Jan 16, 2012 15:19:33 GMT -5
OOC: Skipping Vortex due to time-out.
Brawl continues tracking Override, bringing his main gun around as fast as he can. If he can lead her just a little bit . . . nope, screw it, she's too fast. Jetfire is just kneeling there begging to be executed though. The tankformer swivels his turret around and shoots at him instead.
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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 Jan 16, 2012 15:25:59 GMT -5
Optimus is so out of it right now that he's about to reach for the zombie to throw an actual broken lance to Elita-1. She's unarmed, after all. Jetfire melting the zombie into slag snaps him out of it, somewhat. Is Elita-1 trying to tell him that she's actually Sentinel Prime? That . . . sounds about par for the course actually. Whatever. He'll sort it out later, when he isn't wrestling with someone twice his size and talkative.
"Shut. Up," he suggests, attempting to punctuate his comment with a headbutt, trying to ignore the pain as Onslaught crushes his wrist.
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on Jan 16, 2012 15:51:22 GMT -5
//... So like, when we take over this planet, let’s just firebomb all the fauna,// Vortex grumbles over Blast Off’s screaming. Birds are horrible, horrible beasties and they all needed to die.
His wind generator turns on with an unholy roar as he flies after Override, leaving behind a truly impressive cloud of dust in his wake. The heli will try and vacuum her up into said terrifying mini-tornado. If he succeeds, he’ll use the whirlwind to toss Override at Elita. Unlike Blast Off, Vortex has no fealty to Blackarachnia whatsoever!
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jan 16, 2012 16:01:19 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime wants to comfort Jetfire somehow. She was, after all, the first one to rush off and check on the Twins when the simulator glitched - even before Jazz did - though there was not anything she could do for them in that case. Then she notices the tank rotating to fire upon Jetfire.
Then an x-ray lances down from the sky and punches cleanly through her chest, incinerating through where a spark would be. Sentinel Prime spends a moment staring and blinking dumbly. She even puts a hand through her chest, fingers wiggling out the other side. She has no spark. It hurts like blazes, and she drops down on one knee. Yet, she's not falling over or going grey or...
"Oh," Sentinel Prime says in a small, disbelieving voice. "Oh. I guess I am dead, then. The Decepticons were right." She can't deal with this right now. She has to worry about Jetfire and Optimus Prime and Override right now. She can be a dead zombie girl later.
The plasma gun fades away in her hand, the download over. What does Sentinel Prime have left in her download buffer, she checks, and she comes up with a wicked red blade in her hand, a copy of the Sword of Fury. Didn't Blackarachnia copy that thing, too? And spear Sentinel Prime with it, in front of Optimus and Elita-1 back on the Event Horizon? Luckily, this thing is light, because Sentinel Prime does not have the strength that she usually would. Sentinel Prime remembers the pointwork drills with Impactor. She will need to put the point of this blade into something vital, because she won't be able to put much force behind it, and she will need to be quick, because she has no idea how long a download lasts.
Sentinel Prime closes the distance between her and Brawl as best she can and tries to put the blade down under the turret, between the body of the tank, to scuttle Brawl's ability to traverse his turret, and she calls out, "Jetfire, watch out!"
Blast Off crashing into a flock of birds? Sentinel Prime definitely planned it that way. That is what she will claim the next time she is drunk and bragging, anyway.
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Override
Minor
The Chancellor, Her Noble Potency, Empress Override. The Glorious Victor over Everyone Else On the Track
Shut up and drive
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Post by Override on Jan 16, 2012 20:45:28 GMT -5
Override finds her ramp, which she had intended to use to launch herself towards either Vortex or Blast Off, but then Blast Off got taken out by a flock of birds and Vortex moved himself behind her. Whoops! What's worse, now that she's in the air, she's easier to grab by Vortex's, well, vortex, which snatches her up, spinning her confusingly for a moment before tossing her towards Elita (and therefore towards Brawl). She transforms as she's flung (in one of those rare-shout-free transformations. This should let her roll a bit better when she hits, but she doesn't have much control of where she's going to land at this point - either on the tank, on the girl, or both.
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Blast Off
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I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite.
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Post by Blast Off on Jan 16, 2012 20:53:41 GMT -5
"Oh, tricurse it to Xal!" Blast Off howls. Yes, the only good thing about the G2 Cybertronians their curse words. Blast Off will gleefully pilfer himself some dirty words. "My shot was good! That tart ought to be dead."
He wiggles a bit, but he is still stuck and still in amazing amounts of pain. Onslaught may need to tow Blast Off out of here.
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Post by Onslaught/Octavian Comstock on Jan 17, 2012 19:55:16 GMT -5
The sound of metal tearing, the feel of armor giving under the pressure of his fingers sends a little shiver down Onslaught's spine. He makes it hurt. He wants Optimus to feel this. To make it hurt so bad that not even his rage-induced state can hide the pain. But then he's send reeling by the impact of blue crest against crest, his vice like grip releasing Optimus' hand and making the Combaticon fall back. But he recovers quickly, his optic band a burning furnace of pure hate, focused on Optimus.
"Oh, you will pay dearly for that, Optimus. I am going to enjoy killing you. But first...I think I will burn your heart out of you. That sounds like SO MUCH MORE FUN." Onslaught pulls out his rifle and quickly looks for the best target. What will hurt Optimus more? Killing Sentinel, or Jetfire? Oh, you know something? Brawl's right, Jetfire is just BEGGING for it. He takes aim and fires at the same time the tank does.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Jan 18, 2012 21:51:01 GMT -5
Jetfire isn't really in a position to dodge, just barely looking up in time to stare blankly at what looks like Elita-1. Shouldn't she be dead? There's a giant hole in her chest. If she wasn't dead before - which she should be - she definitely should be now.
His dull surprise is interrupted by enemy fire, and he cries out as he's thrown to the ground with a great big hole blasted in his back. It's not lethal - as least not immediately - but it certainly hurts like the Pit. Somewhat shaken out of his reverie by the attack, Jetfire tries to raise his hands for a counter-attack. It's no good, though, there's quickly hardening metal clogging his elbows and his finger joints and trying to move them is agonizing.
Jetfire makes a soft noise of distress. However is he supposed to avenge Sentinel in this state?
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