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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jun 28, 2012 21:01:11 GMT -5
Month 11, Week 1, Day 2, Hotaru's hotel room, semi-private
Elly is supposed to be looking for odd patterns and odd lacks of patterns and oddities in general. She trolls the internet (sometimes literally, getting into flamewars over shipping - those fans know nothing, she swears. Optimus/Rodimus? Yuck!). She sorts through newspapers and rag sheets. She watches a lot of television.
That is how she came to see Hotaru Watanabe in a race. Elly has seen that kind of driving before.
Gloryhound that she is, Elly has waited for a day that she doesn't feel absolutely abysmal. Now she's taken a bus to the general location, wandered into the hotel, taken the elevator up, and she's at Hotaru Watanabe's door. This is probably pretty creepy and inappropriate, but Elly is never one to let egregious breaches of privacy stop her. She knocks on the door.
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Post by Override on Jun 29, 2012 19:15:16 GMT -5
Hotaru should probably check to see who's outside her door first. Unfortunately, a lot of hotel doors lack peepholes, and besides, Hotaru suffers from overconfidence, anyway, even if she has been thrown into a lake by a supervillain in the near past.
So instead, she just opens the door, wearing the light-material workout clothes and covered in sweat. Apparently, she had just finished a workout. She lifts an eyebrow because she totally does not recognize this person at her door and then leans against the door frame.
"Erm. Not signing autographs right now," she states flatly.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jun 29, 2012 19:41:17 GMT -5
Elly says, in her best Cybertronian, "Hello, Override."
It's worth a try! The worst thing that could happen is Hotaru calling security.
Well, no. The worst thing that could happen would probably be Sudden Unexpected Unicron.
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Post by Override on Jul 1, 2012 19:17:41 GMT -5
"Who's Override?" Hotaru asks in confusion. Also, in Cybertronian. Her eyes then open wide in sudden realization.
"What just happened?" she asks, bewildered.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jul 1, 2012 21:07:08 GMT -5
"I was hoping she might be you!" Elly replies, still in Cybertronian. Then she puts up her hands and adds hastily, "Uh, you aren't Fracture, are you?"
Because Elly is going to have to run, if that's the case, and she gets winded really easily.
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Post by Override on Jul 1, 2012 21:44:46 GMT -5
"No, my name's Hotaru," Hotaru answers in English, mouth slightly open as she shakes her head, a combination of fear and disbelief tinging her features. "And I... I don't understand why I can understand you."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jul 1, 2012 22:07:04 GMT -5
"What I am about to suggest is going to sound crazy, but I assure you, I do not do 'crazy'," Elly does the air quotes, "I do not even do 'sense of humour'. I am 100% straight-up unfun. That said, I think you may actually be an amnesiac alien, because you're speaking Cybertronian."
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Post by Override on Jul 1, 2012 22:23:21 GMT -5
Hotaru shakes her head, frowning. "Yeah, you're right, that does sound insane," she observes, though she takes this whole thing more calmly than one might expect. "And yet..." She lifts a hand to her forehead. "Wasn't too long ago, someone asked me for an autograph. Twin Twist, she called herself. She specified the... the glyphs to use, and I... I knew them! I signed them without thinking about it!"
She frowns at Elly. "But I don't have any blank spots in my memory. How can I be an amnesiac?"
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jul 1, 2012 22:51:09 GMT -5
"Because the thing that turned us human gave us a bunch of fake memories to make us complacent," Elly says perfectly seriously, "...and Twin Twist is an idiot." She facepalms. "Using his real name around someone he thought was a human? Seriously? Er, Twin Twist is actually a guy. I know, he looks like a woman. It's complicated."
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Post by Override on Jul 3, 2012 22:01:34 GMT -5
Hotaru opens her eyes wide, then she looks up and down the hall. She rubs the back of her head, frowning. "I... I should call security. The police. Something. What you're saying is completely nuts, but something... something about it..." she shakes her head. Then she gestures towards her room. "Look, you want something to drink? We probably shouldn't just stand in the hallway chatting about this."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jul 3, 2012 23:56:45 GMT -5
"Yeah, well, if you call the police, I'm just going to use my one phone call to ask Det. Dahlia for bail, so," Elly says, shrugging. Friends in high places are handy. That is why Sentinel Prime cultivates them. Then she smiles and grants, "I could go for a small glass of water."
Elly will go inside if allowed. She pulls out her smartphone and starts to pull up a video on it. She tries to show it to Hotaru. It's training footage of Override from back when Sentinel Prime was... not a zombie girl who dropped out of the Elite Guard because she has Optimus issues. "This is how Override drives."
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Post by Override on Jul 6, 2012 20:54:59 GMT -5
Hotaru shrugs. "You can call who you want, it would still have gotten you out of this hotel," she observes, although she's obviously not calling the police. Not only that, but she's getting that small glass of water for Elly.
She watches the video on the smartphone, and if allowed, will attempt to reach over and hold it steady. At first she looks board, then her eyes narrow, then they widen. "That's... that's... okay, wow."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jul 6, 2012 21:14:50 GMT -5
Elly lets Hotaru take the phone to watch. She accepts the glass of water, thought she looks at it suspiciously. Then she sits down on a couch and sips at the water gingerly. "Yeah, well, she's Velocitronian. They're all kind of like that."
"Only she was in charge of the rest of them, so moreso than usual."
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Post by Override on Jul 7, 2012 15:10:52 GMT -5
Hotaru lifts an eyebrow as she hands back the phone. "They all drive... like me?" she asks uncertainly. Because frankly, that's what she had been noticing about Override's driving style.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Jul 7, 2012 15:24:33 GMT -5
"No, they all have a deep... cultural emphasis on racing," Elly says, putting it politely, "Swerve is Velocitronian, and he drives quite... differently than Override does." She takes back her phone and putzes with it. "And Blurr's fast, but he's not Velocitronian, and he doesn't drive anything like anyone else."
Elly catches herself getting a bit sidetracked and course-corrects, "Hey, what does the Arles Amphitheater make you think of?"
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