Builder's Block

[Swoop]

Swoop leans down to get a closer look when Twin Twist starts building. Surely if the super-genius fancy talking car robot is making something, it will be awesome.

The little not-Lego tire bounces off the side of Swoop's head! If this was a comic, the sound effect would be "bink" in little tiny letters. Swoop blinks and looks at the tire as it bounces a couple times on the floor and then comes to rest. He scowls at Scrapper and draws his flail from subspace. If this was a comic, the sound effect it would make as it dragged along the ground would be "Screeeeee." In deference to the fact that it's all in good fun, however, there is no "fwoosh" of it catching on fire.

[Scrapper]

"Yeah, see?!" Scrapper asks Twin Twist as he begins to join in on the building fun! "Like I said, s'fun!" And just as this is stated, Swoop draws his flail. Scrapper optics pop open a bit and he waves his hands rapidly in front of his face. "Ya know I'm just playin' around, right pal?" Scrapper asks a bit nervously, moving one of the hands to rub the back of his head.

"Uh, here! I'll even let ya have my brick launchin' thing," Scrapper says, carefully placing the catapult near Swoop and quickly retreating back to spot in the room. Turning to look at Twin Twist again, he asks, "So, wuzzat s'posed ta be?"

[Tessan Toov]

Twin Twist sets down what he's working on and transforms in a flash, drills rotating slowly, when Swoop draws his weapon. Show a Wrecker a weapon, and he'll show his. This could get... bad, given that Twin Twist has low impulse control.

The mess he was building shakes, a little bit. Quivering seems to be all it does. However, things around it start shaking a little, too. Maybe some of the more loosely attached bricks start coming apart.

Twin Twist is momentarily snapped back to attention by Scrapper's obvious fear and his question. His drills stop moving, and he answers, "That's an, uh... lockstep. It's like... you march across a bridge in lockstep, and the bridge might fall apart? Yeah. That does that."

In other words, it breaks things.

[Swoop]

Swoop blinks when Scrapper backs down, and lets his flail sag, the links on the chain tingling as they pool on the ground. How strange that everyone else is making a threat display and the Constructibot isn't! Then his eyes go wide as he remembers he was specifically told he wasn't supposed to smash people. He stows his weapon back in subspace, looking around guiltily to make sure the Old Green Car Robot isn't there.

He squats down again when Twin Twist's construction does its thing. "How you do that?"

[Scrapper]

"Hey, hey, dat's pretty cool!" Scrapper nods at Twin Twist's invention. Good that he told him what it was too, 'cause he had no idea what the pit a lockstep was. Ah, the things ya learn on this ship. Speakin' of learning things, Scrapper wonders what was with Twin Twist sudden reaction to Swoop's drawing of his flail. Hmm...Well, it doesn't hurt to ask, right?

"So what's wit da drills??" Scrapper asks. "Ya said you break stuff, right? Like demolitions or somethin'?"

[Tessan Toov]

There are Dinobots, there are Wreckers, and then there are Constructicons. Two of these things are more like each other than the third. Grudgingly, Twin Twist flips back into robot mode, and he snaps, "What's with the drills? Pal, if a Dinobot pulls a flail, I'm going for my drills. 600 RPM, diamond-tipped, and they'll go through fortifications three yards thick."

Then he looks over at the lockstep, which is... probably being a minor nuisance, and he shrugs. "I dunno how it works. I just know how to make one. They're fun to stick on Decepticon bridges when you know they're sending a supply convoy through. This one's not very good, though."

Twin Twist nods. "Yeah. I'm a demolitionist. Mostly just undermine things, but I'm handy with some of the other stuff, if I have to. You guys?"

[Swoop]

Swoop pokes the lockstep gingerly, as though it might bite him. It does weird things, even though it's just made out of space not-lego!

"Me Swoop smash things with fire. Also me Swoop fly."

[Scrapper]

"Me? I build stuff and...Yeah that's pretty much it?" Scrapper adds, doing just that as he gathers some of the space bricks and begins to construct some kind of wall. He then pauses and reaches his arm back, grabbing a can of oil and chugging it down. "Say, you bots want any oil? I can go back and get a few cans."

[Tessan Toov]

The lockstep just vibrates at Swoop.

Twin Twist can appreciate what Swoop does. "That sounds good."

Then Scrapper says the magic words, and Twin Twist's optics light up. He choruses, "Do I want oil? Do you even have to ask?"

[Swoop]

Swoop looks up from prodding the lockstep and watching it jiggle to nod at Scrapper. Yes, he wants oil.

"You turn into weird car," he comments to Twin Twist, idly scratching his nose with a claw.

[Scrapper]

Clearly Scrapper needs to hang out with these bots more often! He quickly leaves to retrieve an armful of cans filled with the good stuff, seeing as he had quickly downed most of the cans he had brought in the room before.

When he returns and sets the new cans down, before passing some Swoop's way, some Twin Twists', and leaving some for himself. Scrapper then takes a hold of a can in one hand and continues building with his blocks in the other. Lifting the can slightly, he says, "Bottoms up!" and quickly chugs the oil, crushes the can on his head and tosses it behind him.

[Tessan Toov]

"What!" Twin Twist protests and flips into drill tank mode. "I'm not a car! I'm a drill tank! See? I have drills and treads?"

Then he transforms back and snags a can of oil. Mmm, that hits the spot. Twin Twist does not think about where it came from or anything. If building random junk will get him oil, it's all good. He says appreciatively, "Sure goes down easy."

So he tries to build a tunnel. Twin Twist starts by making a huge block, and then he tries to remove pieces from the middle to make it into a tunnel. This does not work very well.

[Swoop]

Swoop pops open the can of oil and sniffs it cautiously. Deciding it's good, he has a swig, then quickly downs the whole thing. He looks at Scrapper curiously when the Constructibot crushes his can on his head before discarding it. He respects the smashing, but that is a weird way to do it.

"Okay," is the pterodactyl's only response to Twin Twist's statement. He has never heard of drill tanks before, but there are lots of things he has never heard of.

[Scrapper]

"Sure does!" Scrapper says, nodding at Twin Twist's comment on the oil. "And there's more where dat came from! Ya just gotta ask Percy and he'll set'cha up wit da good stuff. Real fancy high class oil with about, uh..." Scrapper pauses, calculating in his head. "About a whole buncha different types. Course I just end up mixin' 'em all together anyway," Scrapper says, before downing another can and once again crushing it on his cranium, possibly baffling Swoop over the act once more.

Scrapper then takes a look at...whatever Twin Twist is trying to do. "Um, need any help?" the Constructibot asks.

[Tessan Toov]

"I'm making a tunnel," Twin Twist says, continuing and failing to try to play Jenga with LEGO.

He looks surprised when Scrapper says that the good booze came from Perceptor. Tactless, Twin Twist opines, "Perceptor made this? I thought it'd be... sciencier. Maybe have little lightning arcs in it or something. I dunno."