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Post by Override on Jul 22, 2009 23:22:51 GMT -5
Override shrugs, giving Arcee a slight smile.
"Really, most notable thing about this is that it fits properly on my vehicle mode, too," she notes, lowering the weapon. Then she barks a laugh of fond amusement over Clipper's enthusiasm. "And I'm really more racer than warrior. This whole 'playing soldier' thing is pretty new to me, but..."
Another shrug, and she shifts weight, her free hand going to her waist. "First, the races got a bit... violent, sometimes, so I do still know to fight a bit, and second, well... my people like to do things fast. In my case, that means adapting fast, too."
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Post by Clipper on Jul 25, 2009 17:34:04 GMT -5
"But you both can hold your own, right?" Clipper asks, excitedly. They're definitely more than gophers and paper pushers, that's for sure!
"I want to be able to do that, too!" Just like them!
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Post by Arcee on Jul 25, 2009 21:42:27 GMT -5
"Seems like just about the only thing I can remember being is a soldier," Arcee says. "Or a babysitter," she reflects, after a moment, remembering all the times she was tasked with taking care of Daniel.
"Being a warrior, Clipper... once you make that choice, there's no going back. You understand that, right?"
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Post by Override on Jul 26, 2009 0:59:12 GMT -5
"Hey, she's here, she's with us," Override answers Arcee's concerns dismissively. "She should be allowed to learn what she needs to know to roll on her own tires, you know?"
"Besides, what do you mean, no going back?" Override shakes her head. "I know it hasn't happened in your reality, but wars have been known to end from time to time."
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Post by Clipper on Jul 26, 2009 14:02:32 GMT -5
A babysitter? Well, no one is going to have to babysit her! Especially not Holi. That's the plan at least. She hopes. Not that she doesn't want Holi to look out for her, she just doesn't want him to have to. She doesn't mind that he's protective and all, but she doesn't want him getting hurt because he was watching after her.
Except that he'll probably do that whether she can take care of herself or not. Especially if he starts feeling superfluous. Will being able to look out for herself well enough upset him? Hmm... This is more complicated than she thought. She just doesn't want to be... useless, is all, just like Override says.
"No, I... I don't understand," she answers Arcee, her gaze bouncing back and forth between the two larger bots.
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Post by Arcee on Jul 26, 2009 19:48:52 GMT -5
Arcee shakes her head. "I've been fighting a long time. Probably longer than either of you. Millions of years. It's one thing to learn how to fight. But once you really start, once you've really been in a war, where your teammates are being slaughtered around you, where your friends are dying, where it's kill or be killed..."
She looks down. "Once you've killed another, you're not the same. Not ever again."
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Post by Override on Jul 26, 2009 23:34:42 GMT -5
"I dare say you're a lot less changed than if you're the one who's been killed!" Override answers, almost too cheerful.
"Besides," Override strides back into place to line up another shot, "what makes you think I've never caused someone's death? Granted, it doesn't happen on the surface as much as it does the Underground races, but it still happens."
She fires several quick blasts, her accuracy more or less the same as it was before.
"And I've been racing a loooooooooong time now."
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Post by Clipper on Jul 28, 2009 6:04:00 GMT -5
Arcee has a good point, though, where Clipper is concerned. She's never even given thought, really, to the thought about killing someone. Even shooting back at the Breast Force when they'd been trying to kill Holi and her had been... well... different.
She isn't really sure that she could kill someone, unless it was her or them, and in a real and direct way, not an abstract, it's-a-big-battlefield-and-someone-out-there-is-probably-gunning-for-her kinda way.
"Did you do it on purpose?" she asks Override.
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Post by Arcee on Jul 28, 2009 14:22:25 GMT -5
Arcee nods in Overrides direction. "I assumed too much. I'm sorry."
She shakes her head. "Just seems like all I can remember some days is fighting."
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Post by Override on Jul 28, 2009 18:52:56 GMT -5
Override shakes her head as Clipper ask the question she did. "No." She pauses a moment in her firing. "I was just more concerned with winning than with their safety, or my own. I mean, I still followed the rules and all, but sometimes on the racetrack, these things just happen." She gives a shrug. "I... know you Autobots have different sensibilities, and I'm... starting to understand them. It's why I don't expect you to really get it. It's just part of my culture."
She then glances over at Arcee, and one corner of her mouth pulls back, not in a grin, but in a half frown. "Man, are you always this grim?" she asks.
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Post by Clipper on Jul 30, 2009 20:37:56 GMT -5
Clipper is quiet for a bit while they talk and answer her questions; she's busy getting some more answers from Holi, privately. Fortunately, she apparently hears what she needs to hear.
"I understand. We all come from different places," she says thoughtfully. "And I think I know what you're saying, Miss Arcee. I... I don't know if I really could kill someone, and I guess I won't know for sure until I'm there and I have to make that decision."
"But that doesn't change the fact that I need to learn how to fight. I can't expect everyone to take care of me all the time; it's not fair to them, and it's not fair to everyone else. Does that make sense?" she asks them both.
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Post by Arcee on Jul 31, 2009 14:56:43 GMT -5
Arcee actually manages a chuckle and a smile. "No," she says to Override. "Not usually, anyway. Sorry."
She nods in response to Clipper's question. "You're right, though. Clipper. And that makes perfect sense."
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Post by Override on Jul 31, 2009 22:48:49 GMT -5
Override shakes her head, shrugs, and looks towards the ceiling as Arcee tells Clipper that that makes sense. That's what Override's been saying the whole time! She finishes another round of shots, then lowers her weapon and looks towards the others.
"You want to take lead on the training, Arcee? My weapon's pretty non-standard. Not the best choice for someone just learning, and I'm not sure anyone else could use it, anyway."
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Post by Clipper on Aug 1, 2009 14:53:45 GMT -5
"Your weapon might be non-standard, but so is your offensive driving," Clipper replies, and she seems to have regained her excitement now that she's rationalized everything and Arcee and Override are still interested in helping her out. "And in a really good way."
"I'm not very fast, but I bet you know all sorts of ways to defend yourself while youre driving, right? Could you teach me that? I mean, even I know that sometimes, the best thing to do is to run, but running doesn't do me any good if what I'm running from is faster than I am, unless I learn how to take care of myself on four wheels, too, right?"
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Post by Arcee on Aug 1, 2009 21:44:11 GMT -5
Arcee knows a whole heck of a lot of ways to take another driver off the road, but most of those require her specialized equipment. So she's more than happy to let Override take the lead on that. Especially since, if what she remembers from the files is correct, Override could drive circles around her even on her worst day.
"Well, how about I take the lead for teaching you how to shoot... and Override can take the lead when teaching you how to drive?" She looks over to Override. "And we can mix it up on everything in-between."
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