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Post by Counterpunch on Jan 22, 2008 7:48:26 GMT -5
"Hey!" Counterpunch exclaims as Hellbender bursts on the scene. He scrambles back, even as Hellbender stops short of crashing down on him.
"Call him off, Hook!" Counterpunch rasps, and though his fists are clenched angrily, there's a note of fear in his voice. "Call him off!"
Hellbender. Lovely. On the one hand, if Counterpunch makes it through the next few minutes, Hook and the worm should both be distracted sufficiently for him to sneak off and head for the flag. But on the downside, this will make getting back out of here all the more difficult.
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Post by Hook on Jan 22, 2008 11:53:07 GMT -5
"Settle down, Counterpunch, settle down." Hook's amusement at the warrior's expense is supplemented by an audible hint of superiority. So easily frightened by something so unworthy of it. (Never mind that Hook would probably be in a similar state if it was Omega Supreme threatening to squash him.)
"You as well, Hellbender."
Hook turns and walks back to his toolbox. The flag goes in and the welding visor comes out and goes over Hook's face. As the visor connects with his optic-band, the lurid yellow optical-band flares to life.
And yes, he has left Counterpunch's gun unattended.
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Hellbender
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Post by Hellbender on Jan 22, 2008 16:03:34 GMT -5
"Ah'm settled. Ah'm just keeping a sensor on this here scurvy fellow," Hellbender said. Apparently he's been hanging around Cannonball, or at least eavesdropping on him.
He let his borers spin down to standby, but no further; they whirred softly as they rotated. The worm's head stayed pointed at Counterpunch, shifting slightly at each movement from the other warrior.
Private to Hook: // Hook, sir, you probably already know this, but if that there is supposed to be his flag, it's got to be a fake. Once you took it, it's captured by us, so wouldn't there be some kind of notice that'd he'd lost and you'd won it? //
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Counterpunch
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Post by Counterpunch on Jan 22, 2008 18:58:53 GMT -5
Counterpunch balls his fists as Hook tells him to settle down, but holds himself still. He then goes to watch Hellbender warily, suspiciously. He doesn't even seem to have noticed that Hook is no longer standing on his weapon, but he is watching Hellbender quite warily.
Truth be told, he's watching them both, and is well aware both that his weapon is free, and that it's only a matter of time before someone realizes that they should probably have gotten an alert of some sort when they received the flag, and they did not. At present, the plan is that the slighest hesitation on Hook's part or forward movement on Hellbender's will lead to Counterpunch diving for his gun, then making a beeline towards the exit Hook had been nearest.
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Post by Hook on Jan 23, 2008 21:29:29 GMT -5
Private to Hellbender: //Whatever makes you think I wanted a flag out of him?//
All things considered, Hook has already won the game in his estimation. Anything else that might happen can be brushed aside in favor of his new toy.
With a lifter-assisted leap, Hook puts himself in reach of Hellbender's opened battery compartment and examines it in the peculiar vision his welding visor is capable of producing. Lovely, it looked like someone had just started yanking things indiscriminately.
Private to Hellbender: //Keep an eye on him, but if he feels like running off down that tunnel {a mental impression of exactly which one}, let him. Heh.//
"I'm surprised you didn't bring Eye-fire along, Counterpunch. He would have been useful."
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Post by Hellbender on Jan 23, 2008 22:34:56 GMT -5
To Hook: // Well, he gave you a flag, and his side's flag would have some relationship to our victory conditions in this here scenario... // Hellbender drawled. // You're up to something, aren't you? //
"Useful for whom, is the question..." Hellbender said, watching Counterpunch carefully.
// Ah got some damage in my teeth, too. That yellow bird got a missile into one of my intakes; broke the grinders and jammed one of the cutters. //
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Counterpunch
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Post by Counterpunch on Jan 24, 2008 8:42:11 GMT -5
Counterpunch seems to keep his view on Hellbender, but really, with that optic band it's hard to say exactly what's being watched. He doesn't break for it just yet, and instead casually answers Hook, "I don't rank him." That should be answer enough. Counterpunch couldn't order him to betray the others, or to go in with this little scheme.
Looking down Hellbender's maw like he is, however, he certainly wouldn't mind having Eye-fire's firepower available.
And his gun is laying right over there...
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Post by Hook on Jan 24, 2008 11:55:10 GMT -5
Private to Hellbender: //Sometimes the objectives one aims for is not complete victory when a loss lets you walk away with another objective they will never know about.//
Hook draws out a pair of pliers and goes to work on reconnecting Hellbender's wires. Hopefully the mining worm will feel power returning to his systems very soon.
Private to Hellbender: //Not that I have any intention of losing.//
"You could have lied to him," Hook points out. "What do you know of yours and the other team's movements?"
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Post by Hellbender on Jan 24, 2008 14:06:18 GMT -5
Not only that, Hellbender has a sore maw. Don't make him bite you, Counterpunch, because it'll hurt and he'll be really cranky.
// Ah'm glad you qualified that, sir, // was all Hellbender said in response.
"Ah can tell you that Cannonball, Fleetwind and Barricade all seem to be working together, sir. Didn't see Counterpunch here on the field." Hellbender's echoing voice was heavy with suspicion.
He added private to Hook, // Ah think Ah immobilized Barricade in the tunnels. Maybe Ah crushed him, but Ah couldn't stick around to confirm it. //
The yellow power loss lights did indeed start turning off...
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Counterpunch
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Post by Counterpunch on Jan 24, 2008 15:48:19 GMT -5
Counterpunch will probably never have a better chance. Hook is in the middle of working on Hellbender, and for Hellbender to pull away, he risks undoing Hook's work. Engaging in further inane 'chit-chat' is pointless.
The spy reaches down and snaps up his gun, then fires two quick shots towards as close to Hellbender's maw as he can get from this angle before aiming another two towards Hook. Then he turns and attempts to dart out of the room, down the tunnel Hook had been standing nearest when Counterpunch had arrived.
It's an ill-thought-out plan, he knows. He's completely winging it, and has no idea to actually get back out of the situation he got himself into. Considering even getting into this situation is closer than anyone else has gotten, however, he'll take what he can get.
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Post by Hook on Jan 24, 2008 16:14:13 GMT -5
Hook ducks behind Hellbender when the shots start flying and stays there until he hears Counterpunch running off down the tunnels.
Then he does his level-best not to bury his face in his arms and giggle maniacally. No, no channeling Mixmaster for him. Besides, it might alert the warrior.
"Exciting." There's a far too obvious trace of a chuckle in that single word for Hook's tastes, but he really needs to get his mining worm fixed. Back to making connections and possibly slapping something over the gaping hole in Hellbender's side. "I don't expect I can do much about your intakes right now without taking up an undue amount of time. Now, where did you find Cannonball and his lot?"
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Post by Hellbender on Jan 24, 2008 16:30:36 GMT -5
Counterpunch's quick shots had the usual effect of quick shots; they glanced off of the hard cover provided by Hellbender's armor.
"Hook, just drop the tools and let me after him! Ah can catch him!" Hellbender roars, though he dares not so much as twitch while Hook has his hands in his circuitry. // Think that'll convince him? That is the tunnel you wanted him to run down, right? //
"Can you pull the broken crap so my intake cover isn't jammed open, sir? Ah'd like the option of NOT giving Fleetwind a hole in my armor to shoot at," Hellbender rumbled, then sent grid coordinates to Hook of where he fought Fleetwind and company. "Barricade followed me a good way into the subway system before Ah could set him up. Ah figure he reported back some."
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Counterpunch
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Post by Counterpunch on Jan 24, 2008 19:12:12 GMT -5
Counterpunch runs hard for a few moments, but quickly slows and then stops. He looks back. They aren't following. This is good, in that it means he doesn't have to deal with a giant Decepticon mining worm. This is, however, also bad, in that they're already pretty confident in whatever traps they have down here.
Instead of running, now, he hunches over and creeps rather silently the rest of the way, hidden optics scanning the walls, floor, ceiling, and area in front of him carefully. He takes quite a bit longer in traveling this way than he'd prefer, but eventually he reaches the room with the flag without serious incident.
He looks in the room, looks up at the ceiling, and sighs. So that's where all the blasted traps are.
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Post by Hook on Jan 25, 2008 12:28:40 GMT -5
"As long as you don't eat my hands, I can do that," Hook makes the last connection of Hellbender's disabled wires, then tears off a chunk of the wall. He shapes it into the precise form necessary to fit neatly over Hellbender's broken-into compartment, then begins to weld it into place.
As you can imagine, this takes some time. Hellbender may need to chivvy the surgeon to work faster.
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Post by Hellbender on Jan 25, 2008 14:45:42 GMT -5
"Why would Ah do that?" Hellbender asked, sounding baffled at the odd caveat. After Hook connected the last of the torn-out wires, he added, "Power's in the green, now!"
After Hook had been welding for a few minutes, Hellbender asked, "Ah, Hook, sir, what about that there Counterpunch fella? He just supposed to wander around unattended? And will you be done with me right soon?"
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