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Post by Hellbender on Dec 28, 2010 23:23:14 GMT -5
"Well, we got a Swindle, sort of. Dunno for sure if he's a Combaticon; he ain't mentioned it where I could hear," Hellbender says slowly. "He sure does the wheel and deal thing like the Swindle back home, though."
"Not a Seeker. Used to be a heavy air attack unit; now Ah'm a heavy underground attack unit. Go figure," Hellbender said, finally answering Brawl's question.
"Waspinator, this here is Brawl. Back home--and Ah dunno if this is the same one, but he sure looks like it--he's part of a combiner team called the Combaticons. Brawl's thing is being really tough and blowing things up good. He's got a sonic weapon, Ah think, so that's probably why he's here. Did Ah remember that right, Brawl?" Hellbender asked.
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 29, 2010 13:11:33 GMT -5
Waspinator would have offered a hand to shake but firstly, it was holding up his guitar and secondly, he wasn’t quite that friendly yet with the other Cybertronian faction that up until two days ago had also been the enemy. And Brawl certainly fit the description of ‘the enemy’ uploaded to his hard drive since he came online. Quite frankly, he was still surprised at how well he had been treated in general. ‘Cons like Hellbender and Needlenose were really quite friendly though he got the distinct impression that aggravating either would be paramount to suicide. But then he also figured he was being monitored.
“What izz thiz ‘combiner team’? Wazzpinator have seen the term somewhere before”. He did want to get back to playing, or rather learning to, he had to talk to Hook again, see about borrowing the instrument and finding a Helpme file.
OOC: Combiner technology might be in the Decepticon files but Waspinator hasn’t read all of them yet.
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Post by Brawl on Dec 30, 2010 19:33:55 GMT -5
"Nah, he ain't. I went and looked him up as soon as I got here. I think he was hittin' on me or something though, so I slugged him. And yeah, that's me! I was testin' my sonic cannon in the firing range, but everyone told me to come in here instead." Brawl pauses and gives Hellbender another look. "You must be from one of those alternate realities. I think I woulda remembered meetin' you."
"Oh, hey, bein' a combiner is great!" he exclaims, turning to face Waspinator. "Me and the other Combaticons come together to form this huge robot called Bruticus and smash the ever-livin' slag out of anyone who crosses us! I mean, really huge. You met Shockwave here yet? Well, one time back on Cybertron, we turned into Bruticus and we picked him up in his gun mode and used him to shoot his own troops! Blam!" The tankformer pounds a fist into his open palm for emphasis. "Hehaha! I turn into a leg." There's another pause. "Um, it was a different Shockwave, though, I think. I wouldn't do that to the Shockwave here." That's a pretty good save, he thinks.
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Post by Hellbender on Dec 30, 2010 22:42:54 GMT -5
"Ah think Brawl 'bout covered it," Hellbender told Waspinator.
"Aw, you didn't need to go and do that! Swindle's just tryin' to sell you stuff, not hit on you. He's an arms dealer on a ship full of Decepticons--he thinks everyone's a customer, near as Ah can figure." Hellbender nodded. "Likely. There's two or three realities what are really close alike, the way Ah hear it. We all sort of look like we're from the same place, but Ah got a brain module, guys like Dead End got those laser core things, and then some guys got sparks. Then there's the weird looking guys from really different universes, like the other Starscream."
Hellbender's optics narrow at the Shockwave comments and he growls, "Yeah, you don't want to do that here. Lot of us like Shockwave as boss--Starscream--your Starscream, Ah think, was the last boss here."
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 31, 2010 4:03:53 GMT -5
For his part, Waspinator was more than happy if he never met Shockwave or anyone else in high command for that matter. He had acquired certain distaste for leaders in general and it would be awhile if ever that he came to trust anyone let alone a commander completely. So the idea of turning Shockwave against his own had a certain appeal that he couldn’t quite hide from his face.
“Zonic canon? Soundz like a blast” but Hellbender was here second so he had room rights ahead of Tank Boy right? “What was Hellbender going to do if Wazzpinator not here?” he asked of Was-a-Jet, fair was fair, he had helped Waspinator with the tuning of the guitar. Unlike many others, the waspy one didn’t betray others so readily.
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Post by Brawl on Dec 31, 2010 18:34:33 GMT -5
"He's a pushy salesman, then. That's just as bad as hittin' on me. I woulda punched him anyway." The truth is, Brawl was already predisposed to violence toward Swindle, on account of him not being the correct Swindle. "You mean not everyone has a laser core? Huh. They've got personality components though, right?" The tankformer ponders the implications of this for a few seconds. "If you take out someone's spark or brain module or whatever, they still die, don't they?"
"Don't get me started on Starscream! Connivin' wuss sprang us from detention and thought that meant he owned us! He was gonna starve us to make us fight for him! Me and the other Combaticons, I mean. Then we got kicked off Earth alongside him. Blast Off was towing the asteroid we were on to Cybertron," because that is totally feasible, "but Starscream flew away after I shot him for being an annoying glitch."
"The sonic cannon's good for blowing stuff up, but it's a lot of work messin' with the frequencies and stuff. Like, if you're vibratin' apart circuits, you can't vibrate apart armor at the same time. Better to just turn up the volume."
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Post by Hellbender on Jan 6, 2011 14:17:08 GMT -5
"Pretty much," Hellbender says. "Turns out some bots are gimpier than others, too. Lotta guys can't survive having their heads taken off, even with warning, and some do it everyday for fun. Go figure."
He turned his head toward Waspinator. "Ah'm going to tune mah audio filters a bit. Traffic on Pz-Zazz is plum noisy, keeps interferin' with mah seismic sensors. Keep having to refine the filters; Ah swear they keep comin' up with new ways to make funny, loud sounds."
"Yeah, that sounds like our Starscream, too. And the guy what thought he was in charge here. Egotistical idjit who was bigger on pattin' himself on the back for bein' in charge than for actually doing anything to lead. Trust me, Lord Shockwave is a million times better," Hellbender replied to Brawl.
"'S'pose you could copy me the frequencies and waveforms you use, so Ah can filter 'em out when you use your cannon against the Autobots? It'd be embarassing to be blinded by my own side in a battle--kinda like when one of the Mayhems cuts loose with his Sunbeam."
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Post by Waspinator on Jan 7, 2011 1:37:58 GMT -5
Thankfully for Waspinator he was one of the sort who could be decapitated and still survive – like yesterday for instance. In fact after his rebuild, he was confident he could rip his own head off with little to no negative effects, it wasn’t something that he was going to test in a hurry however. He suspected that the weird by his own standards junkion femme probably was the sort to dismember herself for fun.
Most of what the other two were talking about went right over his happily attached head, past history and references to this Starscream, not the current one, a different one; it was all a little confusing. He put the guitar back on the rack and let the two get on with what they wanted and started to rummage through the data tracks on the terminal looking for a guitar training program.
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Post by Brawl on Jan 7, 2011 13:14:39 GMT -5
"I usually just stick with torso shots anyway. There's usually something vital in there." Brawl ponders Hellbender's words for a moment before replying. "Shockwave back home always seemed like a bit of a pansy, and he kept us locked up. I haven't met the one here yet, he could be alright. Long as he lets me blast 'bots, it's fine by me."
"Frequencies and waveforms? For my sonic cannon, right. Well, like I said, I usually just crank it up and use it to blow out audios. The settings for that are [somewhat imprecise, rounded numbers.]"
Clearly Brawl switched places in line with one of the more intelligent Combaticons when they were handing out weapons.
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Post by Hellbender on Jan 19, 2011 18:37:21 GMT -5
"Huh. This here Shockwave united his Cybertron and ended the war, Ah hear. Mine back home took out the entire Autobot command in one afternoon after he got loose from the trap the Dinobots had him stuck in for a few million years. Almost won the Decepticon Civil War, too, only Megatron finally got loose and got rid of Straxus' puppet that was pretendin' to be him," Hellbender said as he hooked up a O-scope to one of his access ports and studied the wave-forms that started dancing across it. The sound of Pzz-Zazz street noises filled the room.
"Thanks." He might as well be polite to the Combaticon, even though the information wasn't precise enough to build a filter from. Perhaps he'd get the chance to record Brawl's sonic blast and analyze it, like he was the Pz-Zazz noises. He hooked up a second jack to another port, and the jittering, staticky lines on the O-scope changed; one by one, car sounds disappeared from the sounds playing in the room.
"Now if Ah could just figure out how to get the people to shut up. They're so slagging random!" Hellbender growled in frustration.
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Post by Brawl on Jan 24, 2011 18:00:48 GMT -5
OOC: Skipping Waspinator due to time-out.
"Stop listin' off different Shockwaves, yer givin' me a headache. The one back home just got stuck guardin' the home front while Megatron took his crew and followed the Autobots. From what I hear he never even complained about the bum posting." If someone stuck Brawl with guard duty when other people were out fighting, you can bet he'd raise a stink.
"Hittin' people shuts 'em up, in my experience," Brawl says helpfully. "Well, eventually. They get real noisy first." The tankformer laughs, amused by his own cleverness.
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Post by Hellbender on Jan 24, 2011 21:12:57 GMT -5
Hellbender shook his head. "A caretaker Shockwave? That's a weird one. Lots of weird people here, like that greenhorn Optimus Prime the 'Bots have. Maybe we'll get a competent, bold Starscream next. Seriously."
"Yeah, well, can't do that when Ah'm doing a stealthy recon, or when Ah got orders to play nice with the locals so's we can blame the Autobots for everything," Hellbender said, tweaking a few more settings. "Ah think that's about as good as Ah'm going to get it today." He started unplugging wires. "Either one of you want to use this here thing before Ah put it away?"
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Post by Waspinator on Jan 26, 2011 22:38:54 GMT -5
“Greenhorn Optimuz?” Suddenly Hellbender has Waspinator's full attention, he knew an Optimus, to him the name was nothing special but his head wasn’t yet fully around the idea of the same name and basic identities getting recycled across realities. So when he heard the name, he only thought of the one he had come across from his reality.
“Pleazz tell more.”
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Post by Brawl on Jan 28, 2011 20:27:31 GMT -5
Brawl eyes the oscilloscope like it might bite him. "It's for calibrating your audios or something, right?" he asks.
"He liked to say he was the Guardian of Cybertron, like he was someone big and important, but really he just got left home to hold down the fort with a bunch of drones and a few Seekers while everyone else went chasing off after the Autobots." The Combaticon pauses, then tilts his head at an angle that suggests an angry scowl due to how the light hits it. "I guess he made a decent prison warden, too."
"Yeah, what's this about a green Optimus Prime? You take him on?" Hearing about fighting is the next best thing to doing it.
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Post by Hellbender on Feb 1, 2011 17:08:21 GMT -5
Hellbender shrugs. "It was back when those crazy mirror-reality guys turned up--weird pacifist Decepticons and violent Autobots, and us and the violent Bots were fighting the coalition of saps. Misfire got himself beat up by this here Optimus Prime, and Ah got sent to retrieve Misfire. Went a few passes with that Prime when he got in my way, then he took the hint and got out of there while Ah picked up Misfire. Fella was purty handy with a fire axe, but really green compared to the Optimus Prime Ah remember. Not near as strong, neither."
"Ah probably could have turned him into scrap metal, but my mission was to retrieve Misfire, not waste time chasin' green Primes around. You know how it goes--sometimes the mission doesn't leave you room for doin' everything you want." By the standards of some Decepticons, Hellbender might be a bit too obedient to orders. The truth is, that depends on who is giving the orders.
"Yeah, it is," he told Brawl. "Let's you see the shape of the different sound waves."
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