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Post by Elita-1 on Oct 31, 2009 12:19:14 GMT -5
Elita turns as Prowl does, trying to keep an optic on the cyber-ninja.
"You know, I keep hearing that from people. 'Oh, I was fighting Megatron. Oh, we were in the middle of X,Y,Z battle. Oh, I come from a time where it was awful and war was everywhere' and blah, blah, blah."
"It's like you people think it's some measuring stick of worth, how much and who you've fought."
Elita darts forward, feinting left, and as she nears Prowl the hologram version of her vanishes. At the same time, the "real" Elita drops low from the back right to see if she can kick a leg out from under Prowl.
She doesn't expect to. She's just trying the waters right now.
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Post by Long Haul on Oct 31, 2009 19:22:36 GMT -5
Long Haul continues to barrel after Emirate Xaaron. After all, he was told to attack the Autobot leader, right?
He does not corner very well, as it turns out.
When Emirate Xaaron switches back, following through with his plan, Long Haul doesn't have the time to change directions, and instead crashes headlong into the corner of the room! The training room is built a bit tougher than the rest of the ship, luckily, because of what tends to happen in it, but on the downside this means that Long Haul himself is hurt (fortunately, it is simulated damage). He transforms in a heap and rubs his head. "Ow!" he complains.
It would seem that Long Haul has been defeated!
OOC: Emirate Xaaron posed with permission.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Oct 31, 2009 19:42:13 GMT -5
Is Emirate Xaaron going to stick around to gloat over his fallen enemy?
Pit no!
He runs away, trying to hide behind Elita-1 and Prowl, though those two are in motion and probably not where they appear to be, anyway.
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Post by Prowl on Nov 1, 2009 12:32:42 GMT -5
"It's best not to lie about what you've done, I've found," Prowl declares as he flips backwards, hearing Elita-1 behind him and then using his jump jets expertly to land behind her and lays a hand against her neck.
"Excellent use of holograms, though you're a bit loud in motion," he says softly, and then pats her on the shoulder.
ooc: owning done with permsission, and I guess I'm posting after Xaaron now?
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Post by Elita-1 on Nov 1, 2009 19:47:42 GMT -5
As mentioned, Elita wasn't really expecting to get a hit in on Prowl. With him knowing that she copies abilities, it was only to be expected that she'd use the most unique first.
She shrugs off his hand and smiles back at him over her shoulder, "Stealth moves weren't a big part of my training. So long as I didn't sound like a train rushing forward, I'm happy."
Long Haul's crash and Emirate Xarron's subsequent dash behind them distracts Elita, and she frowns.
"Not meaning to question authority here but...if you and I are the more experienced, maybe we should be either teaming up on them or swap partners? Because, um, running and chasing, while effective, isn't always the best answer."
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Post by Long Haul on Nov 2, 2009 10:12:56 GMT -5
Long Haul finally shakes himself out of his daze from the crash and pulls himself to his feet, looking around. "HEY!" he exclaims, then runs right towards Emirate Xaaron, sprinting as fast as his ungraceful legs will take him.
While Long Haul is no bulldozer, when he's focused on something, he's not apt to worry about such niceties like 'going around.' It comes of being an oversized dump truck. People go around you. And so he takes the most direct route towards Emirate Xaaron, and if that means going through Prowl and Elita's fight (or their holograms' fight), so be it!
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Nov 3, 2009 22:13:29 GMT -5
OOC: Whoops! Sorry! I was so twitchy about being late to post, I messed up. Thank you for being understanding.
Emirate Xaaron points out, "Now, now, Long Haul, if this was a real fight, would just bowl right through an ally? Because if so, your allies might swiftly not be so any more."
He also protests, "My dear, running is a fine answer in most combat situations. Running and screaming, mind you, is even better. But failing that..."
Emirate Xaaron turns to directly face Long Haul. he winds his arm back and tries to smash his elbow into Long Haul's faceplate. He's telegraphing the move more than he should, and his aim is frankly horrible. However, he's following the principle 'if you can't run, disable, then run'.
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Post by Prowl on Nov 8, 2009 14:09:12 GMT -5
"I was... Curious," Prowl admitted, glancing away in response to why he paired himself up with Elita-1. "Your power is interesting. I wanted to see it for myself." He cocks his head to the side, "This is a non combat situation, permitted myself a bit of curiosity." He pauses, and then goes on about a basic explanation of how to be lighter on ones feet in a stealth situation, and is about to demonstrate...
He jumps, however, when Xaaron and Long Haul decide to go through them, rather than around. He clenches his fist and then takes a calming cycle of air and then pushes Elita-1 out of the way, "Do not make me chase you two..." he says threateningly.
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Post by Elita-1 on Nov 9, 2009 11:40:43 GMT -5
"Gah!"
Long Haul's dogged determination to catch the Emirate, coupled with Prowl's concern and subsequent shove of Elita-1 causes her to lose her footing and tumble backwards. She saves herself from an embarrassing fall by turning the move into a backwards somersault. Adding a couple more tumbles takes her (hopefully) out of immediate chance of getting ran over.
She shakes her head and mumbles, "It's like training with Optimus and Sentinel all over again."
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Post by Long Haul on Nov 9, 2009 12:22:57 GMT -5
"If this was a real fight, my allies wouldn't be fightin' each other!" Long Haul protests in response to Emirate Xaaron's teasing. At least, Long Haul assumes this to be true - most of the fights he's been in before arriving in this new universe tended to involve excessive energization levels, to the point where it usully got hard to tell ally from... that dude what needs a pounding.
Emirate Xaaron's elbow, perhaps to Emirate Xaaron's surprise, lands true, right in Long Haul's faceplate, delivering a dent that causes him to stumble back slightly. His stance suggests that he was ready for it, however, and he didn't move back near as far as he would have if he hadn't been. For all Long Haul's naivety in battle, he is an experienced barroom brawler, one who knows his own strengths and weaknesses, and he has a fighting style that caters to it: stand there, take hit after hit while watching for an opening, and once that opening presents itself, pound the living scrap out of the other side. It's right after the elbow lands that Long Haul that he spots his opening, and the Constructibot's right fist immediately flies for that opening, straight and direct.
It's only after the punch is thrown (hit or miss), that Prowl's words register on Long Haul, and he turns to face the ninja, optic band flickering in vague bafflement. "Huh? You want to chase us? But I thought I was chasin' him!"
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Nov 9, 2009 13:59:26 GMT -5
Emirate Xaaron is intrigued by the fact that Elita-1 would compare training with a ninja, a construction worker, and an old buzzard to training with two Primes.
But they wouldn't have been Primes then, would they?
And this Sentinel is much unlike his own, more unlike this Optimus and his own Optimus, who are hardly similar.
In name only, perhaps.
Emirate Xaaron is indeed surprised, but he doesn't spend long on it. Hit or (the more likely) miss, he's thrown both hands up to either side of his head right after.
He's too slow.
The hit knocks Emirate Xaaron off-balance. Intellectually, he knows balance is important, but from a physical standpoint, he's never really learned it into his servos. It also really hurts! So there he is, staggering and stinging, and he finds time to chatter, "See? Long Haul is a much superior melee combatant to me. In my situation, the best I can do is keep my distance."
But as he's talking, he throws another elbow, this time at Long Haul's midsection, under the truck front overhang.
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Post by Prowl on Nov 9, 2009 19:48:02 GMT -5
"Hm," Prowl says, a bit approvingly at the hit that lands on Xaaron. It's not him being happy at the fact that he was struck, it's him being happy at the fact that Long Haul seems to be getting a hang of being on the offensive. "Ignore my outburst, Long Haul, you're doing quite well," he calls out.
But he's curious once again, "You trained with Optimus?" he turns to her, walking over and offering his hand to help her back up, "Let's try to practice a bit again, you can tell me more later."
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Post by Elita-1 on Nov 10, 2009 12:35:35 GMT -5
Elita takes that offered hand, though she was already well on her way to getting up on her own.
"I did. We're- we were cadets together," she shrugs, "They had a habit of forgetting about others in training, because they were attempting to out do each other." At least Sentinel did, and Optimus would get caught up in it.
"I got knocked around a bit, sometimes. Used to it."
She backs off a bit and again assumes a defensive stance. She's more interested in seeing what Prowl can do at the moment, really.
"Oh, can that holo tech of yours impersonate, or just copy yourself? I'm having trouble sorting the particulars out because of all your other bells and whistles."
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Post by Long Haul on Nov 10, 2009 14:27:29 GMT -5
Long Haul can be quite offensive when he wants to!
The elbow from Emirate Xaaron does land, causing Long Haul to make a soft noise that suggests the exhalation of air (an odd thing, that, since he has neither nose nor mouth). He hunches over, but quickly straightens.
"Hnh. You're stronger and tougher - specially tougher - then you look," he observes of Emirate Xaaron as he rushes forward, attempting to shoulder-check the Autobot leader. "Don't seem to know how t'use that, though," he adds.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Nov 12, 2009 15:05:51 GMT -5
Emirate Xaaron is pretty easily bowled over by Long Haul, going down in a flail of arms and legs. He doesn't know how to fall. (Yes, falling itself is an art that bears training.)
From the floor, he agrees weakly, "I suppose so. Especially on the last count."
Getting strangled by Galvatron while spouting pithy comebacks is at least mildly heroic. Getting blasted by a mad Autobot necromechanic to buy time could be justifiable.
Getting beaten up by Long Haul is not unexpected but is still kind of embarrassing.
With a grinding, whining sound of meshing gears, Emirate Xaaron forces himself into his alternate mode, bringing his turret around to the vague direction of Long Haul, then up and closer, as if he intends to shoot down the ceiling above them.
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