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Post by Waspinator on Dec 14, 2010 0:39:16 GMT -5
“Wazzpinator wear this zymbol ‘coz Zentinel Minor ztole Autobot one!” he snapped back. He stuck a thumb at his own chest, right over the Decepticon symbol, “thiz izz Zarge’z fault!” Wazzpinator did not hold back the venom in his voice.
Still running from responsibility Sentinel? The giant technorganic jumps off the fire escape and transforms mid flight too. He quickly speeds off after the snowplow and is soon level with the side window. “Ztill want to be Magnuzz? Then face Wazzpinator”. Time to face your fear and your past Sentinel, now or never, because they’re facing you.
Seriously though Sarge, it will be kinder on your joints, the only one beating you up is you. That's just silly.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Dec 14, 2010 2:05:43 GMT -5
"You can't blame me for your own choices!" Sentinel Prime snaps back. "I didn't put a Decepticon symbol on you. Just because you were done wrong doesn't give you the right to do wrong to others! And that's what the symbol you're wearing means. That you'll do unto others."
Sentinel Prime had actually been feeling slightly bad about Wasp when Mirage was accused of murder. He thought about how Wasp's life was ruined for basically no reason and how that was kind of a shame. Waspinator is quickly burning through all that sympathy.
The snowplow screeches to a halt when Waspinator calls him out, and he rises up and transforms. Waspinator's huge. He's ugly. He's someone that Sentinel Prime failed, big time. As much as Sentinel Prime knows he shouldn't tangle with dangerous Decepticons, as much as he wants to recoil in disgust from that sickening techno-organic look, as much as he knows he owes his ex-student something better, the fact is that Sentinel Prime's got a temper on him, and while he's been trying to make some improvements for a number of reasons, his vices aren't gone.
He postures and demands, "What, you want your old sarge to take you to school?"
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 14, 2010 3:39:48 GMT -5
So does that mean Sentinel is going to do right for the sake of doing right? Or does he still want power for himself like most Decepticons?
Admitedly Wasp was never the best example of Autobot morals and you can only blame so much on poor role models, a less than pure spark was always going to need a better one to learn from. Wasp was not perfect but he was never taught to be anything else. The Decepticons may be devious Sob’s but they were at least honest about their nature, not all Autobots could say the same. As to allying with the ‘Cons, he took the only help ever offered at the end of a very long and painful, twisting road.
It wasn’t just you who failed Wasp Sentinel, it was the whole Autobot system, Wasp had to be branded a traitor long before he became one. That was the way it felt to Wasp all those years in the stockades. No one had ever sat Waspinator down and really told him how Longarm had tricked everyone and then apologised to him for the way they had treated him, and just maybe, there wasn’t enough of Wasp left to listen if they did.
When the broken bot had been rebuilt in that Transwarp pod, it had come down to two things, the enemy of my enemy was my ally, and if you cant join em, beat em. Waspinator chose to fill the mould the Autobots made for him, he never understood a better way.
Waspinator transformed and alighted on the ground with all four arms crossed against his chest, not threatening but not backing down. “Been to zchool, got kicked out” Waspinator shrugged, deliberately taking the wrong meaning of Sentinel’s question. “No, Wazzpinator juzzt want to talk”.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Dec 14, 2010 13:09:35 GMT -5
It's not really a question of 'or'. Sentinel Prime still craves power like a starving Transformer craves energon, but he'd like to do the proper, lawful thing while getting that power. After all, without law, all is chaos, and it's not like Sentinel Prime wants to reign in Hell! Granted, lawful doesn't always mean 'nice' - there's no law against being a jerk - and lawful doesn't always mean 'right', either, which is something Sentinel Prime struggles with understanding.
Sentinel Prime scowls at Waspinator. 'Talks' with Decepticons rarely go well. Not particularly creative, he can't even imagine how Waspinator could be useful. At least with Lockdown, it seemed easy - pay the bounty hunter parts; get dangerous Decepticons off the planet; be a hero. Scowling, he points at an accusing finger at Waspinator and bites out, "I don't talk to Decepticons. You want to talk to me, you take that symbol off."
Apparently, Sentinel Prime has a thing for removing Wasp/inator's badges.
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 14, 2010 19:26:11 GMT -5
Actually Waspinator didn’t know how to remove the current symbol of his affiliation; it seemed to come with the rebuild. Maybe Chickbot’s teleporter Transwarp pod had something to do with it. He had to give Sentinel credit; he wasn’t running or trying to use force.
Waspinator sighed and grinned wryly to himself, “Zarge want thiz zymbol off, have to take it by force and intel Zezz Zarge not allowed to do that. Wazzpinator not remove zymbol, not yet. Now izz thiz anyway to treat your cadet?”
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Dec 14, 2010 20:00:08 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime appears to be brave or something like it at times. It wasn't cowardice that led him into a spooky abandoned Decepticon ship. Besides, he has orders not to get in trouble for assault (or anything else). Double chore shifts are a pain. Sentinel Prime doesn't want to know what triple chore shifts are like.
He starts walking again, still following the map layered on his HUD, passing by tattered corkboards covered in ratty fliers. Sentinel Prime dourly expects that Waspinator's going to follow him. He bites out, "You're not my cadet."
Sentinel Prime has to tell himself that. Wasp was a good performer in boot, much better aim with his stingers than that bumbler, and Wasp hung with the right crowd, the who's whos. This Waspinator isn't Wasp anymore. Can't be. The bot changed, and he's not the same bot now.
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 14, 2010 20:21:43 GMT -5
Wasp was only partly changed, the rest was buried in a technorganic chassis, a small part that had even managed to forgive Bumblebee. Wasp wasn’t ready to let go of Sentinel just yet, he wanted answers, explanations and a real apology, and maybe even help. All in all, difficult things to get out of a xenophobe.
Waspinator was going to make one last attempt to get through Sentinel’s heavily armoured head before he’d call it quits and just go in stingers blazing when the bossbots gave the all go. “Face Wazzpinator now or Zarge will be even worze leader than Zarge waz az Zentinel Minor. Wazzpinator promise not to sting”.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Dec 14, 2010 20:35:33 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime throws his arms in the air and demands, enraged, "What the frag do you want out of me!? You're a Decepticon! In case you don't remember, I joined the army to fight Decepticons. What do want, a pat on the back and for me to say 'nice new mods'?"
Because Waspinator's not getting either of those. Techno-organics severely unnerve Sentinel Prime. Working with Botanica has helped a bit, but they're still repugnant to him.
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 14, 2010 22:17:53 GMT -5
“Wazzpinator wantz Zarge to answer for what he did to Wazp, for what all Autobots do to Wazp. Longarmz not only one to blame, merely give opportunity”. He didn’t shout, didn’t snap, he kept his voice level and civilised, almost begging Sentinel to at least listen.
Waspinator would hate Longarm/Shockwave more if he simply wasn’t just an excuse to be waved around like a white flag, he’d never seen any proof at all that Longarm had ever done anything the Autobots now accused him of. All he knew was that Bumblebee was the one so willing to point the finger, and that Sentinel had been so ready to take the credit and suck up the promotion. For all Wasp had ever known, those two had planted the evidence themselves though he did feel the combined processor power of the pair would never had been enough.
“And would Zentinel Prime really take Wazp back now? After what hazz happened, Zymbol or none” he spread his arms and tilted his head in genuine question.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Dec 14, 2010 23:09:54 GMT -5
"Really?" asks Sentinel Prime. "Really?" He is completely fragging incredulous. "All I did was what I was supposed to do - follow the laws of my society, which keep civilisation from crumbling into chaos. You want me to answer for that?"
He stares at Waspinator, twitching. Sentinel Prime is angry and disgusted and frustrated. He's not going to get to do the casing of Club Con that he wanted, he's sure of that now, so all he wants to do right now is get back to the frakking Event Horizon and stand Pilot Watch, which is mind-blowingly boring. This misbegotten freak of nature has ruined his plans for the day and, worse, has made Sentinel Prime think some rather uncomfortable thoughts.
His voice softens just a bit, and he rubs the back of his helmet as he admits, "Yeah. We'd take you. If you really meant it. Slag, one of my roommates used to run with Shockwave and the other rolled with Starscream."
Waspinator's just setting him up for a trap, he's sure, and Sentinel Prime's going to regret everything.
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 14, 2010 23:39:49 GMT -5
It often takes a convicted innocent to see these things “In caze Zarge haznt noticed, Autobot lawz need reformatting Bigtime”.
Worse comes to worse for this evening, Waspinator has got a feel for this Sentinel Prime, has maybe got him to think, definitely fragged him off. It was certainly an interesting night. If the Predezecticon was gonna trap Sentinel then it would have been sprung by now. No, this was only a small step, certainly a big part of him wanted to Slag Sentinel Prime right her and now, but because he knew he could escape the repercussions of that particular action, he was feeling his way along another path – and actually off one plan and onto another.
“Really? Which Ztarzcream? We got two and more in databaze”. Waspinator looked around and spotted an all night Drink Vendor, “Want liquid refrezhment?”
OOC: I always have to go back anc check for 's' in Waspy's speech, plus minimise pronoun use
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Dec 14, 2010 23:50:03 GMT -5
"I'm not Magnus!" Regretfully. "I'm not even a Councilor like Alpha Trion." Annoying old bootleg. "I can't do anything about the laws. If everyone started breaking them left and right, it'd be sheer and utter anarchy, and if there's one thing I don't want, it's anarchy."
Sentinel Prime also doesn't want to be here at all, but that's another issue. The point is, Sentinel Prime's willing to go along with unjust laws because they keep society from falling apart. Order is more important to him than justice.
He glares at Waspinator as Waspinator suggests drinks and snaps, "No, I do not." Like being drugged by Oil Slick hasn't given Sentinel Prime enough worries about what's in his drinks. "And tell you what? I'll tell you which Starscream when you check in with an Autobot recruiter." No sense in giving the enemy information.
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 15, 2010 4:03:31 GMT -5
Tyrants don’t want anarchy either, they want everyone under there absolute control, sparkles slaves to the will of one – in pure crystalline order.
“Wazzpinator izz the anarchy that izz brought by blindly following unjust rulez. Autobotz should have juzztice system, not legal system”.
The Decepticon system was very simple, might makes right, might of the processor or the chasis. Waspinator was still undecided about whether he wanted “Justice for me” or “Justice for all”, he’d yet to see the horrors that happened on his current side of the fence, he’d yet to find out where that would sit with him. Even as a technorganic monstrous freak, there would be a lot that would appal him. And Rule the universe was not one of his plans.
So much for the plan where Waspinator gets Sentinel to buy him a Caramel crème frapacino. He really had to work on a way to earn some creds for himself, the supply he had was awfully precious, still, sweet organicy goodness. Waspinator caved into his cravings, went over to the vendor and ordered the desired refreshment. The Vendor who was used to much worse didn’t even bat one of his three eyelids and the half-wasp.
“You’re mizzing out Zarge”.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Dec 15, 2010 5:11:18 GMT -5
"Slag, why am I even arguing this with you?" Sentinel Prime demands, throwing his arms in the air. "You say you want to stay in this reality? Then stop going on about home! I told you the Autobots are different here."
Pretty confusing and frustrating to Sentinel Prime. Getting in with the in crowd has been a horrible struggle. Being a nobody and a loser blows.
Sentinel Prime can't restrain himself any longer, and at Waspinator's drink, he blurts, "That's the most revolting thing I've seen all day."
He misses Maccadam's and their energony goodness so much.
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 15, 2010 12:55:51 GMT -5
Looks like somebody just doesn’t get the ‘some rules just suck’ bit, or that being part organic really has its bonuses. Waspinator for his part had taken the whole technorganic thing in stride. Other than the small hiccup of the transwarp enrgy overload ohnoes kaboom issue, Waspinator was stronger, faster, more powerful and he could fly, all round megacoolness.
When life give you lemons and steals your sugar, you learn to either like lemons or make friends with that weird Decepticon neighbour and borrow a cup of sugar, make lemonade and share it around.
Waspinator took a long sip of his drink, exaggerating how much he was enjoying it just to tease Sentinel. Actually he as enjoying it more than his plans with his old Sarge.
“Zarge, Wazzpinator do favour and buzz off now but Zarge do something too, think about how good rulez can have bad resultz, maybe time to re-write the old book”.
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