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Post by Breakaway on Sept 26, 2010 23:22:48 GMT -5
Day 16, Open to Team Good
Breakaway shows up for his scheduled rock watch with an overwrought sigh. All things considered, he got off light, but air brakes, all this extra duty is starting to wear on him. He salutes the 'bot on duty as he relieves them, then eyes the chair behind the console. He sighs, turns it around so he can actually sit in it facing the rocks, and straddles it, resting his arms and nosecone on the back of the chair. (Pity the poor kibble-heavy transformer.)
"Yep, those sure are some rocks."
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Post by Firebolt on Sept 27, 2010 0:06:16 GMT -5
Firebolt wobbles in a few moments later, still feeling like her legs that were rebuilt aren't her own. She scruches her face up a bit and then waves to Breakaway and jogs over.
"Hi, Breakaway!" she says, cheery and happy to see him. At least she won't be alone on this watch! She looks around for an extra chair and then shrugs and plops down onto the ground in front of him, stretching out her legs and then looking up and smiling. "Hi! Yeee! I get to work with somebody who's been on Earth! Now I won't feel too out of place."
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Post by Breakaway on Sept 27, 2010 16:07:38 GMT -5
"Oh, hi, Firebolt," Breakaway says as the carformer makes her way unsteadily into the room. "Go ahead and take the chair," he adds, vacating it and just standing instead. "It doesn't really fit me. So Swerve fixed you too, huh?" he asks, at a loss for conversation.
Then Firebolt gives him an opening. "I think a lot of the 'bots here have been to Earth at some point, judging by vehicle modes. Kind of weird when you think about us all being from different realities." The jet cocks his head to one side, as far as it will go without bumping against his canopy, anyway. "You have been to Cybertron, right?" He knows a few of the transformers here were manufactured elsewhere, but it still seems odd to him.
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Post by Firebolt on Sept 27, 2010 22:00:12 GMT -5
"Aw! But I just sat down!" She looks up at him and smiles. "You're all nice and everything. It's nice to see," she pushes herself up and then goes and sits on the chair. "You can sit on the floor then instead? The floor is a big chair."
"Well, I was only there for a little time. I don't remember much. I was sent to Earth very quick to scout," she shrugs a bit and then looks up at him. "What's your Cybertron like?"
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Post by Breakaway on Sept 28, 2010 21:18:28 GMT -5
Breakaway raises one optic shutter. "Sure I'm nice. Not everyone is a glitch-head like Swerve. Thanks, but I'll just stand."
"My Cybertron? Well, it's metal and pointy." A wordsmith he isn't. "Pretty beat-up now, too. Lots of ruins. The war's been going on for . . . way too long and there's not a lot of time to repair anything that isn't necessary for the war."
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Post by Firebolt on Sept 30, 2010 20:31:06 GMT -5
"Oh c'mon, it's a compliment," Firebolt waves a hand at him, "Thank you though, for letting me use the chair."
She looks a bit disbelieving when she hears that it's pointy. Sure it's all metal, but how pointy are we talking? She obviously hasn't seen a good picture of it.
"War isn't too good, huh? Sorry your home is all war-torn and bad," she looks at him. "Earth was full of little humans that only fought too. Blah blah this and blah blah that."
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Post by Breakaway on Oct 2, 2010 23:12:40 GMT -5
"It wasn't always a wreck, but without the Allspark there. . .the planet's just sort of decaying. War sucks . . . but we've been at it so long, I'm not sure we could stop now if we wanted to. Why we started barely matters any more, we're just mad the Decepticons because of the last time they attacked us. And they're mad at us because of the last time we attacked them."
"'Humans are a primitive and violent race'," Breakaway quotes, doing his best Ironhide impression. "Though they didn't shoot their planet's only source of energy into space and doom themselves, so I guess being an advanced violent race has its drawbacks too. You've gotta admire the lines on some of their machines, though," he says, turning to show off his kibble.
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Post by Firebolt on Oct 4, 2010 23:51:57 GMT -5
"Sounds like a big ol' cycle of fighting that'll eventually lead to people saying 'Well what were we fighting about in the first place?' sort of thing," Firebolt nods.
She peers at him questioningly for a moment before pointing, "Are you showing me your butt?"
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Post by Breakaway on Oct 5, 2010 14:29:23 GMT -5
"Sadly, people rarely stop to question why they're fighting once they've been doing it for long enough. The Decepticons pretty much want to either enslave or exterminate all other sentient life though, so that's the main reason we're fighting them in my reality."
"And I'm not showing you my butt!" he adds, mock-indignant, finishing his turn and facing Firebolt again. "I don't have a butt! I have a P&W F135 afterburning turbofan with Cybertronian components and modifications! It goes from zero to 'hey, wasn't Breakaway way over there a second ago?' in no time flat, which is more than your skidplate does, I bet."
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Post by Firebolt on Oct 5, 2010 19:25:28 GMT -5
"You lack a butt?" Firebolt just can't keep a straight face as she starts to giggle, and then full out laugh. His all-too-serious reaction too, is just oh so amusing. She holds a hand over her face and continues laughing, before she just falls right out of the chair and onto the floor next to it.
"OOF! A-hA!" She laughs at herself a little before smiling up in a goofy sort of way at Breakaway.
"Aah... Man. No, my butt doesn't do anything special. You seem very proud of yours though. All upgraded and shiny," she pokes a little more fun, her tone happy and conveying a joke.
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Post by Breakaway on Oct 5, 2010 22:41:58 GMT -5
"I guess it depends on your defenition of 'butt'," Breakaway responds, chuckling. "All my hardware is shiny and awesome, regardless of location," he asserts.
He snorts, then facepalms. "This is quickly becoming the most inane conversation ever. Enough about how great I am, let's talk about something else." Just in case an officer happens to walk in, he spares a glance toward the rocks. Nope, no-one new there.
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Post by Firebolt on Oct 7, 2010 20:02:57 GMT -5
"Like there's anything else to really talk about?" Firebolt says as she pushes herself back up, wobbles a bit on her feet, and then sits back down. "Things still feel a little stiff," she says, and pats at her thigh, "But it's breaking in really fast! I only wish Swerve wasn't so mad about me thanking him. He did a really good job."
She leans her elbows on her knees and watches the rocks a little too.
"So what do you think these have to do with well, anything," she says, pointing at the rocks.
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Post by Breakaway on Oct 7, 2010 22:56:54 GMT -5
Breakaway shakes his head (as much as he can within his canopy, anyway.) "I never would have pegged that glitch-head for a medic. He seems to prefer slagging 'bots to healing them. Don't let his attitude worry you."
The jetformer follows Firebolt's pointing finger with his eyes. "You've got me. The eggheads say they're pieces of Cybertron, but they look just like any other rocks to me. They're supposed to be part of what's drawing us here or something?" He shrugs. "Over my pay-grade. I just wish we didn't have to babysit them. You were with the crew on Gillanan when they first found these, right?"
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Post by Firebolt on Oct 9, 2010 23:09:35 GMT -5
Firebolt stares intently at the rocks as if they'll say something. They don't. They're not talking rocks.
"Well kinda. I wasn't told anything though, really. I'm not as important as you would think!" She says, then thinks. She pushes the wheeled chair back a little and then spins in it. "They did all the important stuff. I kinda just helped build the ship and whatever they needed me to do."
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Post by Breakaway on Oct 10, 2010 19:25:11 GMT -5
"You don't have to be important to get basic intel. This stuff is in the database, right? The rocks were originally in the shape of an artifact called the Matrix from Perceptor's reality. That was the briefing I got, anyway. Still don't see why the shape matters for all this interdimensional stuff. Someone would have had to arrange them like that, wouldn't they? I mean, if Cybertron blew up or something, the rocks wouldn't just happen to crash down in a particular shape."
Breakaway leans against the wall, thinking. Clearly there are far too many aliens out there making crop circles and rock circles and generally screwing with people. "Glad I'm not on the science team."
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