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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Jul 13, 2011 20:32:09 GMT -5
Starscream can already tell this is going to go poorly, but he gives it one last try for the look of thing, and because like all villains, he loves to hear himself monologue. "You don't have to prove to me that you're a twisted fiend, Gigatron. I've read the reports of what you did in the mess hall. I can tolerate that. I will not tolerate you damaging fellow soldiers and threatening our only means of recruitment. Drop the rocks. Now. Fail to comply and I can have every Decepticon on this ship after your spark." The jetformer's tone brooks no opposition.
However, he doesn't really expect Overlord to comply, which is why he transmits a single command over Wreckage's personal frequency: //Terminate him.//
He also puts in a call for reinforcements over the broadband while opening up on 'Gigatron' with both gatling guns.
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Post by Wreckage on Jul 13, 2011 20:56:56 GMT -5
It is not Wreckage's place to concern himself with recruitment. There are more social, more politic Decepticons for that. Gigatron's thinly veiled threat regarding the rocks falls on deaf receivers. Starscream's order does not. The words ignite a sort of savage joy in the frontliner – one he quashes swiftly, but not before a hint of a grin pulls at his face.
//Acknowledged,// he replies with bloodthirst in his voice. Switching frequencies to Bonecrusher, he adds, //Wait.//
As Starscream fires, Wreckage surges forward and to one side, just barely outside the hail of gatling rounds. He hears the call for reinforcements and that lends further impetus to his charge. He is meant for this, after all, and he welcomes the battle as he makes his first single-bladed thrust for Gigatron's shoulder to limit his attack options. The follow-up slice is aimed to sink in under Gigatron's chin and take off his head.
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Jul 13, 2011 21:44:43 GMT -5
There's a battle going on right in front of Bonecrusher and he can't do anything to affect it except scream obscenities. Truly this is the most terrible of torments.
Maybe if he tries hard enough, he can cuss Overlord into a stupor.
//Slag you!// he replies to Wreckage.
OOC: Skippable due to paralysis, until interacted with.
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Post by Overlord on Jul 16, 2011 7:05:23 GMT -5
OOC: Subspacing of rocks done with permission. Also, Wreckage's player asked for this.
The rocks vanish in Overlord's large hand. He warned them to take good care of the remainder he has left them. If they want to fight where he might easily step on a rock or two and flatten it to dust, that is their choice, not his. He drawls, amused, "I can hear the radio, you know."
Overlord expects that they'll switch to something where he can't hear them call him traitor and insane. It's the logical tactical move in such a circumstance.
Most of the bullets bounce off him. It didn't do much good when the red Autobot sniper tried with his more exotic munitions, and now that this fully armed and operational battle station is completely healed, he's going to be rather difficult to put back down again. A few bullets, which have a very good angle, flatten against his armour and stay there, like cute little rhinestones.
Overlord blocks Wreckage's strikes with a forearm. He judges that Wreckage favours melee combat, and he has leapt into it most readily. Unfortunately for Wreckage, Overlord also favours melee combat. It's up close and personal, it's fantastically theatrical, and it takes a more disturbed mind to kill with bare hands than to retreat behind the comfort of a sights and trigger. The blades leave slices in the paint of his armour, little more than gentle caresses. He snaps out that arm, trying to put a finger through either of Wreckage's optics, wrench Wreckage's body off his feet, and snap him back down into a wall. If Overlord connects, if he manages the snap just so, Wreckage will land hard enough to break his own axles.
That is a suitable torture on such short notice, Overlord thinks. If Wreckage stays in robot mode, he'll be stumbling blind. If Wreckage transforms, he'll be unable to move, forced to do nothing but watch. Such a situation might well be maddening for a front-liner, who wants to matter in the thick of a fight. There's the added icing of beating a melee specialist at his own game.
Of course, this performance with Wreckage is all for Starscream's dubious benefit. Does it rankle, commander, to apparently be dismissed as the lesser threat? To be forced to see one's subordinate mauled while one can do nothing? Overlord murmurs, optics weary, for all that his voice is lively, "Every Decepticon on this ship after my spark? Sweet promises, but Decepticons like you, they tease and tease, and they never follow through."
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Jul 16, 2011 19:02:23 GMT -5
Starscream doesn't respond to Overlord's statement that he can hear the radio. He didn't say anything over the general band that the traitor wouldn't have figured out for himself anyway once reinforcements showed up.
Starscream can't do much other than watch as Overlord dispatches Wreckage, both because his bullets seem to be doing nothing to Overlord, and because he doesn't have a clear shot with him grappling with the Stryker. "And Decepticons like you gloat before they've won."
His bullets aren't doing anything, so he switches to missiles, launching a volley straight over 'Gigatron's' shoulder, attempting to blow a hole in the hull so he can eject him into space. (There seems to be a lot of that going around lately.) "No more mind games, no more witter banter. Die."
//Wreckage, are you operational?// he broadcasts privately.
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Post by Wreckage on Jul 18, 2011 17:46:53 GMT -5
Wreckage is long used to encountering opponents as fond of mêlée as he. He is not accustomed to opponents like Gigatron; the lack of impact in his attacks visibly and palpably shocks him.
Gigatron's counterattack is not nearly so ineffective. One moment, Wreckage glares at him in naked astonishment as the Stryker finds himself thwarted. The next, his head explodes with pain and the world bursts into static before going dark, and then the deck pitches away under his feet. He is being thrown; he tries to dig in one or both feet, to brake his momentum or even reverse the throw, but his spurs and toes scrape uselessly before his fall ends with a slam and sharp cracks in all four limbs. He lunges blindly as he tries to pick himself up.
//Blinded,// he answers with optical circuits spilling from their sockets and sparks guttering from the wounds. The pangs travelling up his legs encourage him to run a quick scan and, scowling bitterly, he adds, //Axles damaged. I will not be able to drive if I transform.// His rage at this thwarting burns hot, shorting out another relay in his head that sets off a violent spasm across his back.
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Post by Counterpunch on Jul 20, 2011 21:02:42 GMT -5
Starscream demanded all available hands? And, well, Counterpunch has been spoiling for a fight. Especially after that unnerving encounter with 'Gigatron' not long before.
He rolls down the hallway where he can, flying in robot mode where he can't drive, but he'd been on cleaning duty (cleaning duty! Bah!) in another section of Ship, and it still took a few moments to transverse the distance.
A lot can happen in battle in a few moments.
He bursts into the room and his optic band widens at what he sees. Without hesitating, without waiting for orders, he lifts his gun and fires off several blasts at Gigatron, hitting the ground with a roll to get out of the way of the door (which is liable to have several more people through it shortly).
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Post by Overlord on Jul 22, 2011 22:05:32 GMT -5
"I've killed planets, but I've never made a star scream. This'll be fun," Overlord announces, ignoring both Starscream's threats and his desire for brevity.
The missiles do whiz over his shoulder and rip open the wall with a whoosh of air. Starscream has made what Overlord perceives to be an error, however. Overlord is, after all, a spacer, and a fabulously fast one, at that. What Decepticon vessel could ever chase him down? What Autobot vessel would have the manifolds to try? That and... what if some of those precious remaining rocks get vented into space, hmm?
Overlord transforms, splitting into a tank and a jet. The tank's treads dig in on the floor for traction, even as the wind howls, and the jet hovers, almost serenely, for all that it strains against the rush of air. The destroyer cannon of the tank starts to level itself at Starscream, but then there's a new target on the scene. Overlord's attention is a fickle, fleeting thing, and so the destroyer cannon unleashes a searing hot blast at Counterpunch.
Poor, ravaged Wreckage is all but forgotten. He might as well be nailed to the wall, like Bonecrusher.
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Post by Hellbender on Jul 23, 2011 16:25:52 GMT -5
"Slaggit, Ah knew you were nothin' but trouble!" comes a basso rumble, rising in pitch and then fading into silence as the air howls away into the void. Hellbender, who has been damnably slow crossing from the other end of Ship, steps through the door. It slides shut, blast door falling into place securing the ship against vacuum just as he enters.
The big worm-former opens fire with his shoulder-mounted heavy laser as he strides forward, cutting wheels spinning on his arms. He crouches, hands open to grab and tear with his own tremendous strength as his laser goes into continuous fire. There's no fear in him, only rage--wasn't he powerful enough to wrestle Lugnut into submission as well as tough enough to take hits from his heavy weapons? Only Unicron has ever been tougher than he.
Hellbender has no idea what he's up against.
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Jul 23, 2011 18:04:18 GMT -5
Fast as Overlord may be, Starscream is confident he can beat any opponent if only he can fight them on the wing. No matter how heavy his armor is, if Starscream can just get on his tail, or in a blind spot, he can take him down. Slowly, painfully. Right?
//If I feed you targeting data, can you use your torso cannon?// This is a clumsy tactic, but Starscream needs all the help he can get right now. It crosses his mind briefly that if Wreckage continues attacking, Overlord may decide he's not satisfied with just incapacitating the Stryker and do something far more permanent. This is a risk he is willing to take.
//I want him out that airlock, and all guns on that side of the ship charged and prepared to fire,// Screamer orders over the old command frequency Hellbender opened up, even as he fires off some missiles at Overlord's face. That's got to do something. Overlord isn't Superman, bullets shouldn't bounce harmlessly off his eyeballs.
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Post by Counterpunch on Jul 26, 2011 21:19:27 GMT -5
OOC: Skipping Wreckage due to time-out.
The blast from Overlord goes clear through Counterpunch's lower torso, leaving him just barely in one piece and missing his laser core by micrometers. He's slammed against the wall by the force of the blast, and as he hits, his wound (and the wall, where the blast that had gone through him hit) is still molten enough that he... sticks before it re-hardens again, leaving him trapped. Not that it matters, as the shock of the damage plunges him into unconsciousness and leaves his visor unlit, but at least this means he's not flying off into space as the air is sucked out. On the other hand, he will not be moving until he can be removed from the wall, either.
OOC: Skippable due to unconsciousness.
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Post by Wreckage on Jul 27, 2011 18:49:34 GMT -5
//Affirmative,// Wreckage snarls back to Starscream as he lumbers upright, unsteady, using the bulkhead as a guide. His fingers leave scores in the metal where pain or anger makes his hands spasm and there is true, pure, white-hot rage in his voice. He would accept targeting data from Frenzy by this point if it means he remains in the fight. As punctuation, he spins up the cannon.
He can hear the battle going on around him. He can feel the vibrations, the radiated heat, can smell the scorched metal and cooked fluids. And he is all but helpless while still largely intact. It is maddening.
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Post by Overlord on Aug 3, 2011 21:13:41 GMT -5
Overlord had transformed, but one of Starscream's missiles made it in time and took out his right optic, his left optic to anyone looking at him. Ho hum, he's worn this look before! Did not Odin pluck out an eye for knowledge? Does a pirate not wear an eyepatch?
The jet and the tank come back together, a bit blackened and scored by Hellbender's fire, and Overlord makes a grab for Hellbender, trying to fling him out the hole in the hull. There are a few things that could happen there, if he does make the toss. Hellbender could just end up floating helplessly. Hellbender could smack into the hull, possibly hard enough to end up inside... oh, Fleetwind's room, maybe? Hellbender could be flung into the engine's main plume and be instantly immolated.
Overlord's actually aiming for the railing near the engines, however. If Hellbender manages to grab the railing, he'll likely survive... but be horribly melted and possibly blinded by the plume. Some, in that situation, would just let go and let the engine finish the job. Some cling tightly to life. Such choices are always telling.
But all of that depends on whether or not the throw even connects.
"Starscream, I have a gift for you! I expect it will arrive shortly," Overlord calls out.
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Post by Hellbender on Aug 4, 2011 11:05:25 GMT -5
Overlord moves with a speed that shocks Hellbender; even more shocking is his sheer strength. He grabs Hellbender by a shoulder flange and flings him forcefully out the gaping hole in Ship's hull. One of Hellbender's armor-wings catches on the edge, dinging it and tearing the hole still wider. It deflects him from the intended trajectory, and adds even more spin than Overlord's initial throw did.
Hook built Ship in the shape of a Star Wars Imperial-class Star Destroyer, for reasons known only to Hook. There are three drive plumes, and Hellbender passes between two of them in his arc around the stern of the ship. The flare burns out his optics and external sensors; Hellbender's armor is seared and half-melted by the brief explosure.
He grabs frantically for purchase, before the cooling slag that used to be his outer armor fuses his joints solid, but there's nothing to grab onto. He's adrift in space, tumbling helplessly, hopelessly blind. One spec in the infinite abyss, falling forever.
---- OOC: skippable, or probably out-of-thread
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Aug 5, 2011 17:43:41 GMT -5
As previously mentioned, Starscream is not in the mood to engage in witty banter with 'Gigatron.' Witty banter is for when one is toying with tiny squishy adolescents. But internally, the jetformer is keeping score. Every disfiguring injury, every Decepticon death, all will be repaid a hundredfold in the traitor's oil.
//Hold still. This is going to hurt,// he transmits to Wreckage, hopping backward away from Overlord and grabbing the Stryker's face in his claws, interfacing with his systems to feed him the planet-killer's location. Accepting the data from Frenzy probably would have been less painful, actually.
//Counterpunch, Hellbender, sound off!// he radios as the two Decepticons are dispatched.
OOC: Wreckage handled with permission.
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