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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Dec 12, 2010 16:59:00 GMT -5
Just two of them? Good, that means less clean up to do after! Guzzle keeps himself pressed to his cover, a large rock that provides at least sufficient cover. The Wrecker peeks out only to instantly reel back as a shot almost hits him, growling in annoyance before turning to the Twins. Looks like they engaged already; he might as well join them!
"WRECK AND RULE!" He shouts, a mighty battlecry as he rounds the rock and runs straight for Needlenose, firing off the Judge wildly...And then stumbling and falling when one of the rounds hit him right in an optic. "FRAG!" He keeps firing while using his other hand to cover it, smoke pouring from in between his fingers, trying to quickly get to another piece of cover.
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Dinobot
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Post by Dinobot on Dec 12, 2010 19:41:38 GMT -5
Dinobot reflexively closes his eyes when Needlenose fires up Sunbeam, but it's already too late. He blinks, blinded, digging his claws into the pillar he's clinging to as he tries to get his bearings. Not an easy task in the confusion of battle. Well, he's been blind before. At least this time he doesn't have to navigate back to base while he can't see. Hopefully.
"Dinobot, maximize!" he shouts, loosing his grip on the pillar he'd been climbing and falling. He lands on his right foot and his left knee. The knee sends unhappy pain signals to his processor, but the raptor pushes the sensation to the back of his mind as he draws his sword and spinning blade. Taking a look around with his functioning robot mode optics, he notices Elita-1 and Blackarachnia aren't up near the ceiling anymore, thus rendering what he was doing before mostly pointless. The Maximal circles around behind the spider, looking for an opening.
"You have excellent taste in armaments, Elita-1."
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Glyph
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Enjoys rock watch a little too much.
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Post by Glyph on Dec 14, 2010 10:54:39 GMT -5
Glyph has the misfortune of looking around her cover when Sunbeam goes off, and she lets out a wail as her optic sensors are overloaded, hiding back behind the wall again. Not like her cover fire was doing much good anyway!
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OOC: Glyph's going skippable. Feel free to assume she takes up cover fire again in a round or so after recovering from Sunbeam's blast. Will post her back in if anything really big happens, or once the fight's over, since repeatedly posting her giving cover fire will be repetitive.
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Post by Jetstorm (Ani) on Dec 14, 2010 11:37:45 GMT -5
Jetstorm's optic band takes a hit from Sunbeam's flash as well, and given his previous heading, the jetboy ...crashes smooth into a pillar, and tumbles to the floor like a ragdoll. He recovers from the fall fairly quickly - scuffed and dented, but that's about it. He turns...back to where he thinks Needlenose was, and with a swing of each arm, sends small blasts of circling wind out.
He's facing an empty area of the room, though, and is only accomplishing one thing - stirring up dust.
He calls Jetfire! //Brother! I am not being able to see! Are you?//
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Dec 14, 2010 13:23:53 GMT -5
Jetfire yelps and throws an arm over his optics as blinding light momentarily fills the room. Having been hovering in place, he doesn't go crashing into anything as he finds himself suddenly blind, however, he doesn't like the fact that he's just become a flying target in mid-air.
Sending another sweep of flame in the direction he was pointing - and hoping nobody good ended up in-between - he flings himself in the general direction of where he thought there might be a pillar. At least as a moving target he'll be harder to hit!
//I am not being able to see, either, Brother!// He can certainly feel the wind picking up in the chamber, however, even as he knocks into a wall.
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Tasha Walker
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Post by Tasha Walker on Dec 14, 2010 23:58:05 GMT -5
Blackarachnia is not blinded. She was fully expecting Needlenose to use Sunbeam and so was ready for that frequency to come across. She was not expecting a drill-sword through the leg. Blast, that leg had just started to heal up properly after the mess with Nightbeat! Now she'll have to start all over!
She shoots her grapple line (remember, she does have that, you know- just like her toy) toward a column and manages to jerk herself to a stop before she hits the ground. A wrenched shoulder is much better than the possible alternatives. Truthfully, though, she barely notices the pain, swinging to pounce on Elita-1 wherever the other bot might have fallen.
"What if I become you instead?" she snarls, her stingers darting toward Elita's shoulders.
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Post by Needlenose on Dec 15, 2010 8:20:45 GMT -5
Needlenose's optics widen at Guzzle's battle cry. "A Wrecker!" he exclaims, intensely interested and disturbingly delighted. "How fascinating." As much as he'd love to focus on the diminutive tankformer, however, he's not so foolhardy as to realize the current odds aren't good.
"Daaaarling," he shouts to Blackarachnia, "I realize how much you're enjoying playing with yourself," Needlenose got her background during the security interview, he can hear what they're snarling at each other, and he's pretty decent at math, "But may I point out that numbers don't exactly favor us? Do keep in mind that not every reality builds their Autobots as deficiently as yours doe-argh!!" The shout comes as a wild shot from the Judge takes off the end of a wing, and he ducks back behind the column for a moment.
Fortunately, Sunbeam gave him a moment of relative reprieve, as most of the shots aren't being sent anywhere near his direction, but deciding he can't afford to stay pinned down, he darts from his current hiding place to a second column, one nearer the exit that the Decepticons had taken into the room, directing a blast from Zigzag towards the Wrecker while he does. Zigzag, of course, has accuracy issues, but in an environment this target-rich, Needlenose has some hope that even if he misses Guzzle, he'll manage to blast someone. Given the number, the odds of that someone not being a Decepticon are... within acceptable limits.
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Post by Elita-1 on Dec 16, 2010 10:32:54 GMT -5
"Not gonna happen!" Elita-1 snaps back as she's knocked back to the ground by Blackarachnia. The spider has the advantage of strength and size; Elita struggles, but can't throw off her attacker before those wicked stingers are incoming.
Her hands clamped on Blackarachnia's shoulders, Elita makes a split second decision to fight back in the only way available. Matching stingers deploy from Elita's shoulders and jab into the Blackarachnia just as the other's stinger jab into Elita.
"Let's see if you're the type of spider who's immune to your own venom- AHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Not my best idea, Elita-1 thinks as her world goes from white blazing pain to black.
Skippable.
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Dec 17, 2010 8:56:29 GMT -5
Guzzle presses up further against his valuable piece of cover, still clutching his damaged optic, but at least the smoking has stopped. When he keeps getting static from it he decides to shut it down altogether, leaving him with only one visible blue orb, but that doesn't bother him too much; he only needs one to look down the sights of his gun.
"I'M GONNA MAKE YA PAY FOR THAT ONE, CON-GLITCH!" He snaps out before jumping from his hiding spot, the shots that Needlenose fires missing him, before quickly taking aim and shooting at the column. It will blow a few holes in it, but not enough to reach Needlenose; but if he hits just the right spots, he can perhaps send it crashing down right on top of him!
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Dinobot
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Post by Dinobot on Dec 17, 2010 19:29:42 GMT -5
Elita-1 goes down and Dinobot lunges at the distracted Blackarachnia with a snarl, leaping up to try and slice off a stinger or two. "Hands off the Autobot, spider!"
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Post by Jetstorm (Ani) on Dec 19, 2010 1:07:14 GMT -5
Jetstorm looks up at where Needlenose's words came from. His optic band is rebooting, and he can see splotches of color. Needlenose's white, blue, and purple stands out! "Deficient? We are not being deficient! We are up to task of floor-mopping with you badness bots!"
Jetstorm draws a hand back, then swings it at Needlenose, "throwing" a tornado at him much like one would throw a discus.
However, his vision isn't restored enough yet to see the shot from Zig-Zag, and catches it in his chest. He's knocked back with a yelp, skidding across the ground. When he stops, he twitches as the electricity surges through his body.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Dec 20, 2010 15:41:12 GMT -5
"Yes!" Jetfire adds, settling to the ground with his back against the wall. His vision is slowly returning and his head swings back and forth rapidly as he tries to figure out where exactly he ended up and where everyone else it in relation to him. "He are much efficient at butt-kicking for goodness!"
He can hear Elita-1 screaming, and that makes his temperature jolt. That 'Con already hurt Sentinel, he doesn't want her hurting anyone else! But Dinobot is still on that. The yelling blob over there must be Guzzle, and the blue one over there is Jetstorm-!
"Brother!" he shouts as the figure he just identified yelps and goes flying. Blasting away from the wall, he skids over to his fallen brother, keeping low to the ground. He hovers over him protectively, watching helplessly with still-blurry vision as his twin jerks and twitches. He wants to drag Jetstorm to cover, but he's not sure if it's safe to touch him. "Brother, are you being okay?"
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Tasha Walker
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Post by Tasha Walker on Dec 23, 2010 1:06:19 GMT -5
Elita's scream is echoed in mere seconds by Blackarachnia's own scream. The spider is knocked back, not by Dinobot's sword but by the sudden shock of feedback and current racing between her and Elita. Luck sends her rolling near to where Needlenose is hiding. It's a good thing, given that Blackarachnia is currently comatose, though her body twitches periodically still. Whatever happened, it probably wasn't good for either mech. Skippable. Needlenose, you have full permission to do what's needed to get BA out of there- if you feel like it, that is.
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Post by Needlenose on Dec 23, 2010 12:36:23 GMT -5
"Of all the stupid-!" Needlenose starts, frustrated, as Blackarachnia's unconscious body rolls near him. He leaps from behind his column, diving for the other Decepticon - which proves to be a fortunate thing as it goes crashing down behind him. Even so, a few of the chunks slam into them as they tumble, denting his wings. As he dives he lets go of Sunbeam, who transforms and grabs hold of a shoulder, struggling not to get lost in the wild mvements.
Unfortunately, just as he reaches the spider, he's hit by a tornado which throws him, his guns, and his fellow Decepticon against the wall next to the remaining exit. "I do believe the odds have just gone from bad to very, very bad," he mutters, grabbing up BA once more. Now Zigzag transforms, and both he and Sunbeam scramble for handholds as he turns and bolts down the tunnel, running at first before he remembers to use his anti-gravs.
Such a shame... it would have been nice to at least kill the Wrecker. Ah, well... if things go as planned, he should have the chance with Springer soon enough.
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Dec 23, 2010 13:00:20 GMT -5
Guzzle rarely ever leaves a job half-finished, so he fires off a few more shots into the dust cloud of the toppled column. But when he spots Elita lying on the floor, he instead moves to her while shouting "AUTOBOT DOWN!". He quickly makes his way over to her, keeping an (well, only one he has right now) optic on the direction in which the Decepticons retreated, standing guard once he's near. "Do we have a medic?"
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