Cannonball
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Post by Cannonball on May 4, 2009 18:45:31 GMT -5
"I weren't intendin' it t' be public, though Runamuck 'ere changed it. Scrap 'appens, I s'pose. Good company be a nice result, though. 'Opefully that donnae change here soon... An' yeah, I requisitioned 'em jus' fine" he says. That is, if by requisition, he means steal.
Then Hellbender and Runamuck give the pirate info on who Hellbender is, and Cannonball does a double-take. "Bloody 'ell, you're that worm? 'Bout time you got yeself a robot mode."
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Hellbender
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Post by Hellbender on May 4, 2009 19:47:42 GMT -5
"Hell, yes! That's whut Ah been sayin' for months," Hellbender agrees as he helps himself to a cube. "Ah had a perfectly good robot mode before Unicron done melted it down; still cain't fly with mah own wings yet. Boss is workin' on that."
The blue-black shell-former nods after tasting the energon. "Good stuff." Hellbender leans forward slightly to look past Cannonball at the still. "How much did you manage to enrich it? Enough for a real performance boost?"
He glances back at Cannonball. "See, here's your problem: if ole Ratbat don't remember pre-approving this here requisitioned energon, you might want to have a good justification handy for that there requisition. 'Cause Ah guarantee that Warlord Straxus's former Fuel Auditor and successor--that is to say, Ratbat-- will know exactly how much extra energon you've been drinkin', and where it came from. He's kinda specialized that way, with the sensors and annoying personality and all."
"Just a friendly heads-up. Personally, Ah like a good brew, and kickin' up the grade is good for engine performance--'specially for them fine-tolerance, high-speed fighter jets. Leastaways here, Ratbat ain't got the authority to have nobody shot and tossed in the Smelting Pools right off. Bet he can still be a right pain in the tail fins, though."
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Runamuck
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Post by Runamuck on May 5, 2009 8:13:22 GMT -5
"If you didn't want people finding you, ya probably should've locked the doors," Runamuck points out. "I've bounced off that one a few times before and never went through."
He peers at Hellbender's talk of consequences, sipping his cup as he does and thinking back to Megatron's classic answer for insubordination. "Well, at least they can't do much worse than a point-blank fusion cannon to the torso, right? Seen that first hand, it ain't pretty."
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Cannonball
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Post by Cannonball on May 5, 2009 11:07:09 GMT -5
Cannonball would raise an eyebrow at Hellbender, if he had eyebrows to raise. "I don't enrich fer performance, lad. I add to it fer buzz. Ah'm a pirate, not a scientist. Wanna make it make me fergit about this blasted 'ell 'ole."
Cannonball leans back against another crate behind the one he's sitting on, grumbling a bit. "If'n Ratbat donnae like it, 'e kin kiss the shiniest part o' me skidplate. I'm just workin' for the energon 'ere, not part o' the "empire" or wotever you blokes call it these days."
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Hellbender
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Post by Hellbender on May 5, 2009 19:10:54 GMT -5
"Well, don't say Ah didn't warn you," Hellbender says, shaking his head skeptically. "For meself, Ah'm just testing this here brew to see if you came up with any interestin' enhancements. Boss might want to know that some time, so now Ah know if he asks."
He slugs back his cube with relish. "Ah can definitely state it's got some kick to it, whoooeeee! That'sa mighty fine brew you made, Cannonball. Wish my boys had someone could make a brew this good..." Hellbender shakes his head, this time sadly.
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Runamuck
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Post by Runamuck on May 7, 2009 20:26:21 GMT -5
"Eh, if we wanted enhancements, we'd bug the engineers," Runamuck asserts. "That half-scrambled mixer could probably whip something up."
He chuckles at the thought of an empire. "Like half of us even mean the same thing when we talk about the 'glorious Decepticon empire', anyway," he says, sipping his drink. "Aside from 'we don't like Autobots', we don't all seem to have that much going together."
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Cannonball
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Post by Cannonball on May 8, 2009 4:41:08 GMT -5
Cannonball smirks a bit at Hellbender's praise of his mixing, and chuckles. "Thankye, lad. Might even be so good that none o' us remember this lil' meetup..." he says, half mumbling as his head wobbles slightly.
His attention then goes to Runamuck, shrugging slightly. "I figger I don't dislike 'em to th' degree everyone else does. I just steal from 'em. At least, I did..."
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Hellbender
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Post by Hellbender on May 9, 2009 22:08:53 GMT -5
"The way Ah heard it from the older 'Cons, we didn't even have Megatron for nigh on four million years! He'd been gone so long, everybody figured he was a long-dead legend. Was just the warlords like Straxus that kept us goin'. 'Course, the 'Bots didn't have no Optimus Prime fer the same reason... but they had Emirate Xaaron. He was much nastier," Hellbender replies.
"Only Decepticon warlord missin' longer than Megatron was Shockwave," he adds. "Ah hear he was a real shock to Prime and his 'Bots when he turned up."
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Runamuck
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Post by Runamuck on May 12, 2009 9:23:04 GMT -5
"Where I'm from, Megatron came in green as a Constructicon, learnin' the hard way in the gladiator circuit. Ended up taking leadership when he gutted Clench, got us all arrested, and busted us all out again."
Runamuck takes a drink from his cup. "Never went missing, though. Just kinda distanced himself from the front lines after the big mess at Thunderhead Pass finished off Cybertron and we had to abandon it. When he shows up now, it means somebody screwed up good, which usually means we're getting a new unit commander."
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Cannonball
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Post by Cannonball on May 13, 2009 16:37:29 GMT -5
"I don' think the Megatron o' my universe e'er went missing..." Cannonball muses. "I jus' know he's obscenely powerful. Made a deal wit' 'im to let me an' me crew run free all over space, long as we didnae raid any Decepticon ships." He chuckles. "Guess that makes me more of a privateer than a pirate, but wot kin ye do..."
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Hellbender
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Post by Hellbender on May 13, 2009 19:07:23 GMT -5
"Is everyone from one o' them different realities, then? Sheesh! How many Megatrons do you need?" Hellbender asks, knocking back the rest of his cube.
"Course, Straxus thought one was too many. His mistake. My Shockwave did a lot better--though wasn't so good for us Decepticons, having the three biggest bosses fightin' a 3-way civil war while the Autobots run amuck. Or woulda, 'cept they were havin' there own problems. Damn fool Optimus Prime kilt himself and the fools elected Grimlock as their next leader, I hear. Mah memory's a bit fuzzy on things that happened back then, on account of Shockwave workin' on me when he came back."
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Cannonball
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Post by Cannonball on May 22, 2009 22:34:52 GMT -5
"Ain't 'eard o any Straxus or Shockwave where I be comin' from. Or Grimlock..." Cannonball answers, shrugging.
However, he does make a point of taking what little of his brew is left, and filling a few flasks with it, three total, and storing them in subspace. "An I 'ate tae be a buzzkill, but I be closin' the bar, so tae speak. Gotta keep some o' this around for when this place causes me another 'eadache. Or when I get stuck with Wreckage again." Cannonball grumbles a bit, figuring that it'd be gone in a few days. Bloody silent bugger.
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Hellbender
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Post by Hellbender on May 24, 2009 19:28:35 GMT -5
"Ayep. Much obliged for your generosity, Cannonball. Good brew.. keep that recipe on file. Might need to make some more high-grade some time for... morale purposes," Hellbender grins and rises to his feet.
He leans forward a bit and adds, "Just watch yer aft. You're a free spirit an' all, but some o' these fellas just ain't go no patience with that, and no sense of humor, neither. Ah'd be mighty sad if Ah got orders to come after you."
---- skipping Runamuck due to notified absence
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