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Post by Topspin on Dec 7, 2010 18:53:39 GMT -5
"Not the point, just go with me on this." He's made his point already, though, so it's fine.
"I know they don't, it's just a figure of speech. Besides, my Ramjet is dead." Beat. "And I wouldn't do that, anyway, but those are some big words coming from the bot who'd try to drill through the left feet of all the combiners if they all showed up." he snorts, but it's not malicious. Go on, tell him he's wrong. He dares you.
"Autobot Seeker woman." This is the second time he's encountered a set of words he never thought he'd hear together, and he's still digesting the first. It's getting to be a habit. "They make Autobot Seekers now?" Female ones at that? Topspin isn't sure he trusts that. The Autobot Seeker thing, not the Autobot female one.
"You seem to have a way with women, Twin Twist. What's your secret?" How long has he been here again? A record was broken here, Topspin just knows it.
"Prowl is a ninja?" Topspin asks with mild interest before reigning it in. "Is he still a pain in the gearshaft?" Because that's what really matters at the end of the day.
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Post by Tessan Toov on Dec 7, 2010 19:32:54 GMT -5
"I'm already following you, anyway, I handed you the map," Twin Twist points out, when Topspin tells Twin Twist to 'go with me'.
"My Ramjet's dead, too," Twin Twist observes absently. "So are all the Decepticon combiners. And all the Decepticons. I would drill Computron, though, but that's because Scattershot's a murdering glitchhead."
"Nooo, this is not a 'now' thing. Oracle was made before the war, I guess? And she was a Seeker then. And a woman. Her reality has women all the way back. She was never a man. Oracle just signed on with the Autobots because... uh, I guess she realised that we're not evil but Decepticons are." Oracle never actually explained why she joined the Autobots, just why she's not a man, but why Oracle joined the Autobots wasn't the matter at hand, anyway, and Twin Twist thinks his guess is pretty reasonable!
He stares at Topspin when Topspin asks for his secret, and he shrugs. "I blame Springer." Springer was the one who was always hanging out with Arcee, which was so totally awkward for the rest of the Wreckers.
Twin Twist nods enthusiastically. "Yeah! Prowl's a ninja! He looks like Bludgeon, only not terrible, and gold and black, and he turns into a motorcycle. He seems pretty quiet. So... total improvement." He grins in a rather goofy fashion and gives a thumbs up.
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Post by Override on Dec 7, 2010 20:47:03 GMT -5
Some Autobots kind of frown on high speed racing in the hallways.
Some Autobots don't care.
A red and white finned race car whose front end vaguely resembles a crab turns a corner and comes speeding down the hallway at a speed that would be absurd to most Autobots who aren't Blurr. Her reflexes are as good as her speed, however, and on spying the Jumpstarters, she jinks just far enough to the left to line herself up with the gap between the two as she shouts, "Override, transform!"
In a flash, she's in robot mode, hitting the ground between the two and kicking up sparks as she skids past them to a stop. Then she straightens and turns back towards them, a cocky, slag-eating grin on her face born of the confidence that comes with having been the very pinnacle of everything her culture holds dear for a very, very long time.
"Sorry about that," she says in a tone that says, 'No, I'm not.' Then she holds out her right hand towards them, offering to shake with whomever takes her up on it first. "I'm assuming one of you is the Twin Twist mentioned over the frequency, but looks like you're both new arrivals. I'm Override."
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Post by Topspin on Dec 7, 2010 23:00:06 GMT -5
Topspin frowns in mild irritation. "I'm about to hand it back to you." Ask where; he'd be glad to demonstrate. Also, that map? Yeah, there're stylus markings, corrections and additions all over it. Just don't ask when that happened.
Topspin suddenly stops where he is, as if having just run into a wall made of pure disbelief. "Whoa, wait--all your Decepticons are dead? All of them?" There is something that manages to creep into Topspin's voice, something that if asked about, he wouldn't be able to identify himself, but it's gone once his optic band seems to glint slightly in focus. "I hear something." he says, turning around.
Topspin takes a step or two backward to give the car that is suddenly there some more room while staring after it. Sorry, he knows it'd look cooler if he stood stoically by while it rushed by him, but he's not taking any chances with something going that fast. Why it's even going that fast is beyond him.
The speed at which she transforms has his attention, though. He's never known anybody else to transform that quickly aside from Twin Twist and himself. This bot didn't look like a Jumpstarter (because there were so many of them to start with), but who knows? He's heard of weirder things before he even showed up here.
Topspin somehow affects a roll of his optic band at the apology. "Your sympathy is overwhelming." he notes dryly, but he takes her hand and shakes it anyway, not especially bothered by it. Topspin points his thumb at the other Jumpstarter. "He's Twin Twist. I'm Topspin."
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Post by Tessan Toov on Dec 7, 2010 23:20:14 GMT -5
"Yeah, all of them," Twin Twist answers, and he would explain more, but there's a rustle of air in the hallway. He comes from a reality with a Blurr, so he gives the red and white flash the benefit of the doubt on being an Autobot, since they're on an Autobot ship, and Twin Twist doesn't want to end up in some officer's office, explaining why he drilled a fellow Autobot.
And what an Autobot it is. Twin Twist finds himself staring dumbly at the newcomer. He shakes the racer's hand after Topspin, and he looks over Override thoughtfully, with some obvious admiration. Twin Twist blurts out the obvious question to ask such a fine specimen of Autobot engineering, "Do you have a little Jumpstarter in you?"
He'll ask about her voice later. The fact that she might be built off Jumpstarter tech is obviously much more exciting and interesting than the fact that she might be a woman.
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Post by Carolyn Blake on Dec 7, 2010 23:47:45 GMT -5
Well, if being a woman isn't that important, let's add another woman to the mix, eh?
Metal heels tap a clack clack clack on the hallway from around the hallway curve. Arcee is heading to her room in hopes of getting in a bit of rest.
Instead, she finds the hallway pretty well blocked. And by Mr. Sparkles and company. Mrf
"Hey Override. Looks like they managed to get you glitter-free after all, Twin Twist. Good to see," she says, finishing her greeting with Top Spin, whose name she caught as she rounded the corner, "And Top Spin, you must be the one who arrived while I was out on assignment. I'm Arcee."
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Post by Override on Dec 8, 2010 8:33:12 GMT -5
Override likes to think that there are many things about her that are more exciting and interesting than being a woman! At Topspin's dry observation, her grin gets wider. "Hey, that's me, overwhelmingly sympathetic," she says in a tone that says, 'No, probably not.'
That grin gains a somewhat puzzled edge at Twin Twist's question, though. "'Jumpstarter'? Don't think so. What's a Jumpstarter?"
She turns at the approaching clack-clack-clack and her smile returns, one of greeting. "Arcee," she answers, dipping her head faintly in a nod.
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Post by Topspin on Dec 8, 2010 19:54:09 GMT -5
The great thing about having an optic band is that you have a slightly greater range of sight, and it's harder for people to pick up on where you're staring exactly, sometimes. As Arcee approaches, Topspin makes sure to look her in the face, but he catches a glimpse of her chest, too. Topspin's a Wrecker, that in itself should say enough about how much he appreciates weapons, and all he can think of is the sad waste of potential armament storage Arcee has. He frowns very slightly, almost disappointed, but he won't say why. Ever. "That would be me." he looks her over a little. She does have things in common with some female aliens he's seen, Verity included, though the differences were a little more obvious when she was in her armour.
"What's this about glitter?" he peers curiously at Twin Twist, wondering if it has anything to do with the story he still owes him. It might very well not be; it's been, what, a few hours? That's certainly enough time to get into at least three incredibly embarrassing situations. At least.
He'll let Twin Twist field the question. He seems to really want to, he notes with a small grin. Besides, Topspin is actually interested in hearing about this, himself.
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Post by Tessan Toov on Dec 8, 2010 20:10:15 GMT -5
Yes, Arcee, emasculate Twin Twist in front of his not-brother and the Queen of the Jumpstarters, Twin Twist really appreciates that, woman. He glares at Arcee and explains, "Yeah, Prime had me shower off, and then him and Springer debriefed me."
Override's sardonic mannerisms are reminding him of someone, and he looks at Topspin askance. Twin Twist ignores the question about glitter, instead deciding to explain the true meaning of Jumpstarters. "I-" before the sound has finished, he's hit the ground in drill tank mode, and popped back up into robot mode, "-I am a Jumpstarter. Topspin is one, too. We transform quicker than other Transformers. I noticed that you transform quickly, too. That's really nifty! You're sure you're not built off Jumpstarter technology?" Twin Twist looks hopeful at the last. He's not even sure why he is.
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Post by Override on Dec 10, 2010 20:54:54 GMT -5
OOC: Skipping Arcee due to timeout.
Override's optics flicker in surprise at Twin Twist's sudden transformation to and back. Then, after a moment, the right corner of her lips quirk up in a grin. "Not bad! So that's why you thought... but truth is, I'm not even from Cybertron." She shrugs, palms upward. "I'm from a planet called Velocitron. Our people left Cybertron so long ago, we didn't even remember that's where we were from! So I really wouldn't be able to trace myself to any particular build lines from those days, you know? I suppose anything's possible."
She doesn't push the issue about glitter, but the whole business with forced showering by Prime and then a double-debriefing certainly sounds awkward, to say the least!
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Post by Carolyn Blake on Dec 10, 2010 23:07:27 GMT -5
"Mmm, must have been fun times for you then," Arcee comments idly as Twin Twist speaks of his debriefing, "Nothing more exciting than debriefings."
Yes, that is sarcasm. Whether the Jumpstarter gets it or not is another matter.
"That's a really neat trick, being able to transform that fast," she says, and she means it, "Bet it's handy as all get out in battle, too. Is it copyable tech, or is it build-line specific?"
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Post by Topspin on Dec 13, 2010 23:07:47 GMT -5
If Twin Twist doesn't understand sarcasm, then Topspin has utterly failed his fellow Jumpstarter, as well as himself.
Then again, the failure might be on other-Topspin.
When Override mentions not being from Cybertron, Topspin's "brow" raises. Sure, Cybertron's dead now and they fight on other worlds, but it wasn't always like that. Leaving Cybertron so long ago that you forgot you originally came from there was a new one. He wonders if there's a Velocitron in his reality, and if there's a Cybertron in hers. If Override's Cybertron went the way of his...maybe forgetting about it would be par the course. There's a sad bit of sense in that.
"'Velocitron.' Lemme guess, a planet full of speed demons." At least she didn't speak at Blurr speeds, though Blurr is in a class of his own. Still, he can't help but picture an entire planet full of Blurr-speaking speedsters who never shut up, and twitches. It's almost something he wouldn't wish on his enemies, and by that he means it'd be hilarious to see them suffer like that.
Topspin shrugs and tilts his head at Arcee, "Couldn't tell you for sure. It might be possible to copy, but not without a serious overhaul." Besides, copying it would break the unspoken rule that any special ability that is remotely useful can never be mass-produced or replicated. Ever. (Combiners excepted.)
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Post by Tessan Toov on Dec 14, 2010 0:22:50 GMT -5
Override's answer is good enough for Twin Twist, and somewhere, in some reality, an Ironfist is writing Override, Lost Princess of the Jumpstarters as they speak. He enthuses, "Oh! You can still go drinking with us, anyway."
He answers Arcee earnestly, "Rodimus Prime's actually a really nice medic." Twin Twist is all for Rodimus Prime mostly because Rodimus Prime isn't Optimus Prime. Hah, take that, Arcee, Twin Twist did not have a terrible time!
Twin Twist tries to poke Topspin, reminding, "Like you'd never let me forget that you're faster than me. Er. Other you."
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Post by Override on Dec 14, 2010 9:06:22 GMT -5
"Yeah, that's right," Override answers Topspin as he guesses that her home world is a planet of speed demons. In fact, she sounds pretty proud of this. "Whole culture's built around racing," she adds, still boastful. "Actually, we've got several dozen words for 'race' or 'challenge' - about the same thing for us, really." Then she tilts her head and rubs the back of it with her right hand, thoughtfully. "Actually, I had to use the one for a particularly rough team-based underground race for 'war' when talking to the other Velocitronians. Not the one here, he'd been here awhile, but back home."
That's right. Override's language has a few dozen ways to express subtle differences in races, but not one word for 'war' before the Cybertronians arrived. GOOD JOB, CYBERTRONIANS!
She grins at Twin Twist's drinking offer. "Thanks! I'll take you up on that some time!"
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Post by Carolyn Blake on Dec 16, 2010 11:18:39 GMT -5
Arcee's optics narrow a bit as Twin Twist speaks so enthusiastically about Rodimus. Why this sets badly with her, she can't quite say- but it does.
"Well, glad you're all right then. I'm going to go find my berth. It's been a long day. Catch you folks later."
Arcee still hasn't found out who she's rooming with.
OOC: Out of thread unless stopped.
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