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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 11, 2012 18:39:48 GMT -5
M8W1D6 - - - While Elly and bureaucracy go together like peanut butter and jelly, she is sick, and wifi interfered with a lot of equipment at the hospital. Getting out of the hospital and learning about 555-Bots took some time. So she has finally made it through the stupid tree, and she hopes that she doesn't have to leave a message, because she's feeling light-headed again, and the message she leaves might just be her face falling on the keypad. - - - OOC: If no one wants to RP out this report-in, we can hand wave and assume the contact details and so on are swapped; I just wanted to give folks the option in case someone wanted to RP it out. That, and Sentinel is a stickler for proper reports.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 11, 2012 19:32:19 GMT -5
"Hello. You've reached the Autobots."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 11, 2012 19:42:19 GMT -5
"...uh, hnk," Elly Winston manages to say, which is not articulate at all because her brain just froze at that voice and has probably just convinced Optimus that she is Rorschach and that he should run for the hills.
Why, of all Autobots, did it have to be him? Optimus Prime is the last Autobot in the universe that Elly wants to know about her condition. She doesn't want him to see her like this, and she doesn't even want him thinking about her like this.
Slag it, Elly needs him to not hang up the phone, though. She is not sure that she can survive another battle with the phone-options-tree, which is a wily and vicious beast. Tentatively, Elly says, "Broken lance?"
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 11, 2012 19:52:57 GMT -5
This is the sound of a robot headdesking against a metal console. "Every time I think I have a monopoly on 'worst luck,' something like this happens to you. We might need to think of a new code phrase. 'Bots are going to catch on if we keep using that one."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 11, 2012 19:56:55 GMT -5
"Uhm... broken shield?" Elly suggests. She never was very creative. She explains, sounding very tired, "I kept saying that humans were contagious, but no one ever listened to me. Now I've gone and caught humanity. It's worse than you'd think."
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 12, 2012 15:02:48 GMT -5
". . . Nevermind about the code phrase. And you haven't caught humanity like a disease. Rodimus and his team were messing with some sort of energy-life-well and it turned everyone except me, Nightbeat, and Bluestreak into humans. As well as a bunch of the Decepticons."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 12, 2012 15:23:14 GMT -5
"What? Those jerks! Why would they do that!? It's horrible. It's disgusting. It's..."
A wheezing fit forces her to curtail her rant.
When Elly has recovered, a different sentiment strikes her, and she concludes, "...I'm so glad that you're all right."
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 12, 2012 15:25:53 GMT -5
"They didn't do it on purpose, Sentinel, the Decepticons showed up," Optimus explains patiently.
"Are you okay? You sound terrible." Also, he's apparently concerned about Optimus's well-being, and expressing that concern to Optimus, which is unusual.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 12, 2012 15:41:01 GMT -5
"The Deceptions did it? This is sick even for them. Oil Slick's work?"
Right now, the last thing in the universe that Elly wants is for Optimus to see her like this. There is a long pause. Finally, she admits, "This human body is broken and missing pieces, and the medics - the doctors can't fix it right. This is an okay day for me. Really. So.. Jetfire was on that deep space mission, Jetstorm is back on Gillanan III with Skyfire and Slider... Do you know how Override and Mirage are doing?"
It is not her team anymore. She can still be concerned.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 12, 2012 15:59:46 GMT -5
"I don't think they did it on purpose. We're not entirely clear on all the details right now."
He pauses. "Are they taking good care of you? Do you need a pick-up? And we haven't heard from them yet, but I'd wager energon to scrap metal that Override is probably racing somewhere and Mirage is flirting somewhere."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 12, 2012 16:20:50 GMT -5
"So I'm stuck in this loathsome form for no apparent reason? That might even be worse!" Elly sputters.
Flirting? Racing? Oh, Optimus, he does have a lot of good things going for him, but finding missing people was never his strong suit.
"The Blackrock Industries health care plan is pretty good. Apparently, a few decades back, they had an incident where an employee injured on the job went psycho, so they decided that the best way to avoid lawsuits over that sort of thing was with a really, really good health plan. If Botanica or Perceptor," some of her favorite people, "were around, maybe they could figure out something better than the human doctors. But they're missing too, aren't they? And what about Impactor? And Ultra Magnus - wait, no he's in space, never mind. And Kup? And Rodimus? And Swerve?" She may just be listing random Autobots now in a fit of incoherency. "And slag it, what about my bonsai tree?"
Elly coughs again.
"So uhnm. Unless you can get me turned back into a robot - which would be amazing and I'd have to give you a hug when no one is looking - I should probably stay where I am. I don't think we can manage better medical care than the humans can if all our nerds are missing."
Then Elly does not have to worry about Optimus seeing her.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 12, 2012 18:48:58 GMT -5
"Your bonsai tree is fine. It has not been turned into a human."
Optimus fiddles with some loose copy by the comm station. "Oh, my mistake, there's a list here. . . Nightbeat has horrible handwriting." Optimus proceeds to read off a list of which humanized Autobots the Autobots know about.
"I don't think we can get you turned back into a robot right now. We still don't know where most of the science team is."
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 12, 2012 18:58:47 GMT -5
Elly makes a very relieved sound and says, "You have no idea how glad I am to hear that. Poor little tree."
She listens to the list and tries to jot down notes, though her own handwriting, which is normally immaculate, is not doing too well at the moment.
"Wow, that's... nightmarish. The last three Autobots in the solar system."
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 15, 2012 19:46:21 GMT -5
"The quiet was a nice change of pace at first, but now it's starting to get a little creepy. So what's your location?"
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 15, 2012 20:33:15 GMT -5
"On the one hand, I seriously doubt this line is secure. On the other hand, anyone with half a processor could just trace the call. I probably shouldn't have called from my apartment, but..."
That would have involved effort.
"...whatever. [address]"
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