Skywarp
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May 22, 2012 21:03:34 GMT -5
Post by Skywarp on May 22, 2012 21:03:34 GMT -5
There are several bumper cars still thumping around, but the one Knock Out fires on goes up easily. Unexpectedly soon for Skywarp, who is trying to track the cars by sound; he jumps to avoid the blast and slams into the electrified ceiling – which is humming with far more power than needed to simply run the cars. Enough to wrench a scream from the jet as he crashes to the deck, shuddering and spasming.
That was not supposed to happen.
"Skywarp!" Wind Sheer howls, verging on panic. He forgets about his pursuers and launches himself at the cage, rolling onto a wingtip to slip between the bars. "Skywarp! Get up!" The other cars are still moving, and they're moving faster than Skywarp, who groans and pushes himself shakily onto his hands and knees.
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Blast Off
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May 23, 2012 20:24:15 GMT -5
Post by Blast Off on May 23, 2012 20:24:15 GMT -5
//Killer bumper cars?// Blast Off says questioningly. He has vague, horrible flashbacks to being enslaved by Blaster and forced to provide rides to human children. Never again!
He touches down in what is actually a graceful landing this time to allow Knock Out and Frenzy to depart.
//You may as well keep that Skywarp alive, if you can. Maybe he will be more forthcoming if you dope him up?//
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Frenzy
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May 25, 2012 15:23:07 GMT -5
Post by Frenzy on May 25, 2012 15:23:07 GMT -5
Frenzy clambers down from Blast Off, eye-stalks swiveling. There, on the far side of the electric cagey death-trap, is a control booth. Well, a thing that looks like a control booth. It could be rigged to explode too. Or throw rubbery alligators at him.
Man, he hates this place.
He darts off in a flash of silver, circling the cage.
He'll get to the control booth in a few rounds. Skippable until then, unless something 'fun' decides to happen to him.
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Knock Out
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May 25, 2012 20:39:53 GMT -5
Post by Knock Out on May 25, 2012 20:39:53 GMT -5
//Yes, Killer Bumper Cars. And ohhh, I nailed it right in the fender! I wonder if I've won a teddy bear!// Knock Out is actually starting to feel a bit giddy! Though part of his fun is spoiled when he realizes that there is what appears to be a Decepticon in the range. And several other cars.
//Spiking a jet? How droll, but *sigh*, very well.// As soon as Blast Off touches down Knock Out jumps off and transforms, racing towards Skywarp, guns popping out of his bonnet and opening fire on the other cars, trying to make them go kaboom before they can reach the other Decepticon. //Blast Off, take care of the stragglers, if you'd be so kind!//
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Skywarp
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May 26, 2012 16:35:58 GMT -5
Post by Skywarp on May 26, 2012 16:35:58 GMT -5
The bumper cars careen about with no real direction or intent; they've simply been left running on automatic, and Knock Out knocks out a second car as it skates toward Skywarp at an angle. The control booth Frenzy spotted sits empty. Wind Sheer, through the smoke and noise, continues urging Skywarp to his feet.
"I found help," he says, resting his hand on Skywarp's forearm. "Other Decepticons." He flinches when Skywarp recoils from him with a scowl.
"Spare me your theatrics," the larger jet mutters as he gets one foot under himself. Wind Sheer visibly deflates a little, drawing his hands toward his chest.
"…I wasn't–"
"You want to make yourself useful," Skywarp goes on, "be my eyes." He doesn't wait for Wind Sheer to say yea or nay, but grabs the Mini-Con and sets him down on the span behind his head. Wind Sheer accepts this without a peep, tentatively grabbing hold of a ridge in Skywarp's panels to secure himself as his partner stands. "Tell me where I am," he barks. "How far to the walls? That blasted ceiling?" Another car explodes under fire to Skywarp's left while Wind Sheer obediently rattles off the numbers, adding without being asked the locations of the remaining cars. Skywarp nods, then bellows to the Decepticons outside, "Get me out of this thing!"
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Blast Off
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May 26, 2012 19:39:08 GMT -5
Post by Blast Off on May 26, 2012 19:39:08 GMT -5
Look. Knock Out is named 'knock out'. He is a doctor. He is a Decepticon. If he did not want people to ask him to make horrible breaches of medical ethics, maybe he should have been named something else. And not been a Decepticon.
Blast Off rises up and transforms back to robot mode, drawing his ionic blaster. He carefully sights a bumper car and shoots at it, trying to get rid of one between Knock Out and Skywarp.
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Skywarp
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Post by Skywarp on Jun 4, 2012 7:37:01 GMT -5
OOC: Skipping Knock Out due to timeout.
Blast Off successfully detonates the bumper car. These things aren't terribly durable, but they throw off plenty of shrapnel with dire-looking jagged edges. Wind Sheer ducks to avoid a rather ugly bit that sails just to one side of Skywarp's horn.
"Is there anywhere I can go?" Skywarp demands, shielding his face with one forearm. Wind Sheer makes an unhappy noise, for no direction is all that clear for Skywarp to fly.
"You could warp to–"
"No," Skywarp snaps, eyeless face grim with the terror that suggestion inspires.
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Blast Off
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Jun 9, 2012 20:02:47 GMT -5
Post by Blast Off on Jun 9, 2012 20:02:47 GMT -5
There is the loud groan of gears grinding under the ground. Beneath the floor, something very large is moving and changing.
Blast Off continues to try to clear a path with his superior shooting skills.
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Knock Out
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Jun 9, 2012 20:33:41 GMT -5
Post by Knock Out on Jun 9, 2012 20:33:41 GMT -5
Oh, goodie, the killer bumper cars any kind of intelligence! That makes his life so much easier.
Or not, since he sees why Skywarp did not simply walk out of here if they were not actively gunning for him. Ugh. Does he even have any new optics on him? When he comes close he transforms, keeping one gunhand ready just in case. An opportunity to use it comes as quick as a flying piece of shrapnel, the doctor yelping as he turns to quickly shoot it out of the sky. He takes a moment to smile at his one in a million shot, before turning to snarl at Blast Off. "OY! Be careful, man! My paintjob is ruined enough as it is! I do NOT need more scrapes, let alone cuts in the actual body!"
Then he can hear something starting to move, feel the ground tremble. It makes his optic twitch a little. "Okay, I have had quite enough of this death trap. Not as much as you did, so let's get going, yes?" Quickly he runs up to Skywarp, pulling out his spear, and pokes the non-sharp end in the general direction of the Seeker's hand. Once he has a good grip, Knockout will start dragging him out of there. He will dope him up later, when it doesn't feel like a boss tune is about to start playing.
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Skywarp
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Jun 15, 2012 11:46:46 GMT -5
Post by Skywarp on Jun 15, 2012 11:46:46 GMT -5
As the ground begins to quake underfoot, Skywarp scowls and turns his head as if to look at Wind Sheer.
"What did they do?" he growls very, very softly, hardly audible over the raucous mess going on around them. Wind Sheer shrugs meekly, and his answer is even quieter.
"Shot some cars. I do not see the smallest one any more. He–" but the little jet stifles himself when Knock Out approaches, reflexively tucking himself down a little behind Skywarp's head. Skywarp frowns in the direction of Knock Out's voice, tilting his head down. The other Decepticon sounds so much larger. He doesn't answer the painfully obvious question right away, not with sensors pinging about something waving close to his hand. Wind Sheer confirms, voice low in his receivers, that Knock Out is extending a guide object, and warns that it's the butt-end of a weapon.
"If you please," Skywarp answers gruffly and seizes the spear. He has to moderate his stride to avoid trampling Knock Out in his haste, but hasty he is, for the rumbling of the earth and metal under their feet has pitched upward. It sounds like hissing.
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Frenzy
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Jun 15, 2012 13:30:48 GMT -5
Post by Frenzy on Jun 15, 2012 13:30:48 GMT -5
Frenzy spits invective against your mother, the carnival-builder's designers, their mothers, their mothers' pets, and their pets' mothers. Toes dig into a join between ceramic tiles, fingers scrabble to get enough hold of another join to climb up...
And the ground is closing over his head.
He hates you all.
Still skippable.
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Blast Off
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Jun 21, 2012 19:42:20 GMT -5
Post by Blast Off on Jun 21, 2012 19:42:20 GMT -5
The ground starts to open up, splitting into toothed plates. Down below is blackness and the sound of hissing and rattling and dripping.
Blast Off missteps and falls.
Then he transforms and flies.
It's before the commercial break. He'll stop remembering that he can fly after the commercial break.
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Knock Out
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Jul 1, 2012 12:30:30 GMT -5
Post by Knock Out on Jul 1, 2012 12:30:30 GMT -5
The nervous little Minicon just gets a brilliant smile from the doctor and a wave from those spindly claw tipped fingers. He waits impatiently for Skywarp to get over himself and grab his stick already, and once the seeker has a good grip, he eagerly starts guiding him out of the ring.
Just in time, too, judging from the sounds that are picking up and making Knock Out very nervous. Especially when Blast Off almost falls into it, the medic leaning forward with wide open eyes and ready to shout a dramatic NO, but it looks like he doesn't have to lament the loss of his ride.
Relieved, he turns to Skywarp and pal, clapping his hands together and rubbing them eagerly. "So! Now that we are out of the ring of death, let us go someplace where we won't be mauled by whatever death machine is about to emerge from it, yes? Now, please?"
He completely fails to realize (or care) that Frenzy is missing.
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Skywarp
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Jul 3, 2012 16:35:26 GMT -5
Post by Skywarp on Jul 3, 2012 16:35:26 GMT -5
"Agreed," Skywarp says. "Wind Sheer," he adds as he wraps his arms around Knock Out's midsection, "eyes. Now." Wind Sheer confirms the air overhead is clear and Skywarp lifts off, clumsily heading straight upward. It's better than staying on the ground, at least. They're doomed if he has to actually fly.
This is not how he expected things would go.
"What's happening?" he asks Knock Out, leaving Wind Sheer to watch out for all three of them.
OOC: Knock Out grabbed with permission.
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Blast Off
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Jul 11, 2012 21:26:58 GMT -5
Post by Blast Off on Jul 11, 2012 21:26:58 GMT -5
"We seem to have misplaced Frenzy," Blast Off observes, as the plates continues to open up.
He thinks he can see chutes in the darkness, perhaps some ladders.
But he cannot see the source of the serpentine hissing and the drip-drip-dripping.
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