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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Jan 27, 2012 19:56:37 GMT -5
Jetfire jolts when he hears his name, finally paying attention to what's going on around him. He stares up in confusion at 'Elita'. That... is a weird thing for her to say to him. That sounds more like something Sentinel Prime would say to him. Sentinel Prime whose body he just melted into a formless mass.
Can they stop the day? Jetfire wants to get off.
"Flying is fun..." he mumbles quietly.
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Brawl
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Heavy Metal Accident
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Post by Brawl on Jan 28, 2012 12:20:14 GMT -5
Brawl reflects, somewhat groggy from the aftereffects of Elita-1's draining touch, that a limb is a great alt-mode, and if they were in space again they could turn into Bruticus and hop around annihilating things utterly. Perhaps not in so many (polysyllabic) words.
The tankformer drifts toward the ground slowly on his anti-gravs, drawing his electron gun and firing up in what could be termed the general direction of Sentinel Prime if one was feeling generous.
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Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 28, 2012 12:29:38 GMT -5
Optimus Prime is one of those bots whose only possible reaction to having a female dropped on them is embarrassment. Even if the female is so androgynous she is actually male in Japanese. "Um, Override, could you, uh, move?" he asks, cheeks blushing a deep shade of blue.
Naturally, any shot he may have been lining up on any Combaticon is ruined now. Of course, now he has someone who has practice with a ranged weapon lying on top of him. "Hold this," he says, reaching up to hand Onslaught's rifle to Override. The tone of voice is more a question than an order.
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on Jan 28, 2012 12:35:30 GMT -5
Vortex has the time to decide that Blackarachnia’s past self is more annoying than her future self before his whirlwind fades out. The unstable updraft from it causes him to swerve even more wildly in the air without his previous ability to and he crash lands in the middle of the fighting pit hard enough to knock him into root mode. Two of his rotors have snapped off in the process and one of them was making its rounds bouncing around the arena.
He’s still sort of conscious but the heli probably isn’t going to be getting up for a few minutes.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jan 28, 2012 13:09:28 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime already has a gaping hole through her chest and assorted minor damages. At the launch of missiles at her, she dodges wildly, her flight like that of a three-winged biplane on amphetamines. Somewhere, a Seeker is feeling violently ill because her flying is just that offensive to the concept of flight in the universe.
Her wild flailing panic lets her dodge one of the missiles and Brawl's shot. There is a second missile, and in the moment that it hits, she thinks she's done for. When the smoke clears, it has knocked her out of the air, and moreover, it has exploded her right arm off her body. The tanklike armour that she stole off Brawl, however, is what has kept her from turning into a rain of lemony yellow shrapnel.
There is a brief moment where she contemplates grabbing her arm and just beating someone over the head with it. Then she dismisses the idea as dumb and wonders where these stray thoughts keep coming from, like how she winces when Vortex crashes - and then promptly thinks that he's probably enjoying the pain, anyway.
Sentinel Prime transforms. Her car mode is a missing a bit of the back end, because she's missing that arm, but all the wheels are on the... dirt, so that's well enough. The twin sonic cannons boot up, and she tries to decide how best to use these things. It's like how she always shouted at recruits in Autoboot Camp to break lockstep when marching on a bridge, right? Because everything has a frequency where it breaks.
The missile truck is the lynchpin here. He's hurt Optimus. He's hurt Jetfire. He also blew off her arm. He's not crashed like the space shuttle and the helicopter, and he seems a lot smarter than the tank. Finally, he stepped away from the Override and Optimus pile, which means she has a clear line of fire on him. Sentinel Prime tries to estimate what that missile truck is made out of - probably similar to her universe's Ultra Magnus? She did pick out his Earth mode for him, anyway - and unleashes the wail of sonic energy on him.
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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 28, 2012 20:55:40 GMT -5
Override is in the process of rolling to her feet (and off of Optimus) before he even gives an order, and pretty much the moment she's on her feet, she's being handed a gun. She accepts it with a shrug, then takes a moment to figure out what's going on. She's swaying a little, dizzy from the multiple throws, but it takes no more than a moment to assess the situation.
Shuttle guy down, annoying helicopter down, dumb tank looks weaker than normal, to judge by his flying. She points Onslaught's gun at him and glances at Optimus out of the corner of her field of view.
"You know, we might have a chance to deal the 'Cons a major setback here," she observes practically.
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Post by Onslaught/Octavian Comstock on Feb 2, 2012 19:58:48 GMT -5
Oh, if only they weren't missing a limb, or could do it Scramble City style and simply swap limbs around. If that were possible, Onslaught would have dug Blast Off out of the tribunes himself and initiated the combination already.
It is with an entertained chuckle that he watches Sentinel blow up. But not nearly into enough pieces. Just a dismembered arm with the rest of her more or less fully intact! Why is it always the arms, and not something more vital, like a torso or even the head? At this rate he will have to start wondering if he might have a subconscious obsession with the bloody things!
Things are getting rather frantic now. There is the second walking scrapheap that is now racing around with an exposed rear, the pile that is getting back up to it's feet...Good lord, Vortex downed as well!? Quickly, he analyzes the situation, assesses the targets and viable tactics to use.
Brawl can handle Optimus and Override for now.
That blasted woman survived a direct hit when she looks like she is supposed to have paper thin armor. She is also a past iteration of Blackarachnia, so chances are that she absorbed Brawl's toughness, maybe more.
...She is an earlier version of Blackarachnia, but she's not her.
The inexplicable rage grows.
Onslaught turns around and races away from Sentinel-Elita, so he can lower his turret and target her without his cab getting in the way. The barrels hum and start firing not missiles, but lasers that streak towards her like purple lightning, intent on rending her asunder!
"Oh, I am going to enjoy seeing just what it will take to finally kill you-!"
At least, before the sonic attack hits Onslaught. Or rather crashes into him with enough force to send the missile truck toppling over, smacking him through a row of pillars and into a wall, a cloud of dust washing over him.
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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 Feb 2, 2012 21:02:16 GMT -5
Blast Off thinks he has his vertical stabilizer moving again. This is a major improvement!
It makes him look like a dog wagging his tail.
OOC: Skippable. If anyone shoots at me, I'll come back to pose the hit, obviously!
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Feb 3, 2012 19:40:58 GMT -5
Okay, the Autobots... actually seem to be doing pretty good right now. Jetfire is just going to concentrate on his hands right now and try to keep an eye out for any incoming attacks.
His arms slowly begin to warm through sheer force of will. Come on Jetfire! Where's your usual fiery spirit? Slowly but surely...
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Brawl
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Post by Brawl on Feb 3, 2012 22:15:06 GMT -5
Brawl begins to spin lazily in the air as he floats to the ground, revolving slowly around his axis. While he's pointing downward, he catches a glimpse of Elita-1 taking out Vortex, which is honestly pretty hilarious and well-deserved, if somewhat upsetting because only he gets to beat up Vortex until Crazy McRotorback stops enjoying it. And then she blasts Onslaught with . . . his sonic cannons?
"Hey, she stole my guns!" he says, snapping out of his Dazed status condition. Little Autobot driving around like she owns the place with his cannons! Brawl rights himself in the air and extends his arms in front of him, flying toward Elita-1 on his lifters.
Once he's above and slightly in front of her (aiming where she will be, not where she is, he's dumb, not stoopid), he cuts his anti-gravs and drops, elbow-first. The tankformer fully intends to body-slam Sentinel Prime, rip the cannons off her, and then beat her with them.
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Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 3, 2012 22:34:36 GMT -5
Optimus is on his feet right after Override is, scooping his axe up off the ground and surveying the arena. It looks like the 'Cons are actually on the ropes!
"Then by all means, let's," he replies to the Velocitronian, mouthplate sliding into place. He advances toward Blast Off, extending a hand to catch Vortex's rotor as it bounces past.
She did mean they should execute the wounded Decepticons with their own body parts, right?
OOC: Rotor-snagging with permission.
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on Feb 4, 2012 15:38:51 GMT -5
The world spins back into place after a long eternity and Vortex resets his audials to clear away the rest of the static. He visor flickers on with a dim red glow but for now, he doesn’t even cycle an vent. The list of damages scrolls down the side of his blackened vision: nothing that’ll stop him from moving, but a lot of things that would definitely slow him down. The heli turns his attention outwards in favor of doing a quick scan of the area.
Should he move? Or should he play possum and see which sucker turns their back on him? Watching the Optimus advance towards Blast Off makes him twitch inwardly but he waits for now.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 4, 2012 16:09:22 GMT -5
"Oh, you're never going to get the satisfaction of killing me," Sentinel Prime blusters, and this is true. She is dead. The missile truck could destroy her, but death already happened several months ago.
The evil purple lasers blow out one of her tyres, and she skids out, ruining yet more priceless architecture and her bodywork in the process. Clearly, she was having too much fun trying to shatter Onslaught into tiny little pieces with sound waves. This does move her somewhat away from Brawl's body-slam attempt, though she racks up some more damage from that attack, too.
Now, being somewhat numb is not a good thing. It means that she will keep going and push her limits when she is actually actively breaking things. There is a reason why humans with no sense of pain tend to not live to adulthood.
Creaking, Sentinel Prime transforms, staggers a few steps, and summons a copy of a 10-megawatt electron gun. Given that the missile truck is busy being dramatic in a cloud of dust, and there is a tank in her face trying to kill her, she tries to pump lightning into the tank instead.
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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 Feb 5, 2012 11:00:36 GMT -5
Optimus Prime's interpretation of Override's suggestion is close enough! But it would seem that the live ones are giving them some problems.
"Hey!" she shouts as Onslaught takes off. She fires off one shot at him with his own gun, then attempts to smash the thing against the nearest ruin, making it notably more ruined. There's reason for this - she has to use her own gun if she wants to give chase, but she doesn't want one of the 'Cons to pick up Onslaught's gun and use it again. Solution? Break it! Whether she succeeds or not, she tosses it as far from the battle as she can before transforming.
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Post by Onslaught/Octavian Comstock on Feb 5, 2012 17:44:24 GMT -5
Override's attacks hit the dust cloud, and while it's impossible to see whether they hit, it can be heard. Stone rumbles, but more telling is the Combaticon grunting in pain and the distinct sound of laser punching through metal.
When the dust clears, Onslaught is no longer there. But he doesn't stay out of the fight for long. Sentinel thinks that he's being dramatic? He proves her right when he punches his way through the tribunes with an angry roar, his armor dented and punctured in places, and then he grabs a nearby column, rips it off it's pedestal and hurls it at Optimus.
//Combaticons, damage reports!//
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