Brawl
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somethingcidal
Heavy Metal Accident
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Post by Brawl on Feb 21, 2012 20:33:15 GMT -5
The explosion cuts off any possibility of Brawl replying to Sentinel Prime's parting taunt, which is just as well, because he is not great at word-play. He was one of the first to take to the air, so he's out of range of the explosion.
//Good one, Onslaught,// he compliments. He can't help but regret that he didn't get to blow more things up personally, though.
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Optimus Prime
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Caution: Hero makes wide right turns.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 21, 2012 20:59:43 GMT -5
Optimus Prime takes his own advice, turning on his heel and taking off at a dead run to gather all the momentum he can before dropping into vehicle mode. He leaves his trailer off to go faster, but he still gets singed, racing just ahead of the fiery blast.
He screeches to a halt and transforms once's he's outside the danger zone, scanning the area. //Is everyone alright?!// So help him, if the Combaticons killed one of his people . . .
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on Feb 22, 2012 16:34:32 GMT -5
“Obviously no-one since you’re the babysitter. Duh.” Only one person with a stick far up enough their exhaust and the high-tech orbital targeting system for that job! And you play Vortex’s games whether you like them or not, Blast Off.
Oh hey, one of his lifters started up. That’s... useful. Just in time for the fireworks to start up behind them too. Dandy!
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 22, 2012 17:25:11 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime doesn't have elbows. She has one elbow. Sentinel Prime tries to pull out a glove and put it on her hand with her teeth, but she nearly falls off in the process, which makes her realise that she does have legs. She uses those.
"What? No!" Sentinel Prime protests as Override carts her away, "Help Jetfire! He's - he's... flying away on his own. Help Optimus, he's... driving off, leaving everyone else to fend for themselves." Her voice is distinctly unimpressed.
Then it hits her that she is riding around on the one of the top three sexiest cars in the Autobot forces here. Why is she complaining about anything? Now is the time for 'whoohoo'! However, any juvenile victory celebrations are drowned out by the sound of everything exploding.
Her radio does not work.
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Override
Minor
The Chancellor, Her Noble Potency, Empress Override. The Glorious Victor over Everyone Else On the Track
Shut up and drive
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Post by Override on Feb 22, 2012 20:02:27 GMT -5
"Everybody's fine," Override assures, and she means it, for a certain value of 'fine.' Then she adds, "Except maybe you."
She rolls to a stop next to Optimus, but does not transform, because she has an Elita on top of her. It is Elita, right? Although she's acting kind of funny. "I'm all right, but Elita's badly damaged."
Well, 'dead' qualifies as 'badly damaged.'
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Feb 24, 2012 19:22:26 GMT -5
Jetfire drops in for a wobbly landing next to the other Autobots. "Um, I am... alive?"
He stares at Elita's battle damage, looking rather disturbed and a bit queasy. He's not in great condition himself, between the metal and the blast wounds, but he's nowhere near that bad.
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Post by Onslaught/Octavian Comstock on Feb 25, 2012 14:58:59 GMT -5
Onslaught is dramatic, but he is not a fool. So the minute that the explosions are triggered he moves, acting on memories of where he placed the explosives and the calculations of their spread, circumventing them perfectly. Then, with a leap he takes off into the air with the aid of his handy anti-gravs.
And since Vortex is being a fool and walking?
Heeeere he comes to save the daaaaaay! Mighty missile truck is on his waaaaaaay!
He swoops in and grabs both helicopter and shuttle, carrying both beneath one arm before escaping under the cover of the dust cloud. //Really, the natural flight disabled have the good sense to fly, while those capable choose to walk?//
//Thank you, Brawl. Now let us retreat to the Spacebridge. We had our jollies. We will kill them another day.// __________________________
OOC: Permission to act like Mighty Mouse and rescue Vortex and Blast Off.
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Blast Off
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I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite.
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Post by Blast Off on Feb 25, 2012 15:13:47 GMT -5
//I do not have anti-gravs, and I am not sure my shuttle mode can even fly right now!// Blast Off says crossly. This is what he genuinely hates about these Combaticons. He's not their Blast Off, but they keep treating him like he was, and then when he fails to live up to their expectations, they take it out on him like it is his fault for not being some other person.
At least Onslaught is carrying him away from the explosion, anyway.
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Brawl
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somethingcidal
Heavy Metal Accident
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Post by Brawl on Feb 26, 2012 17:50:45 GMT -5
//Aw, but I wanna kill 'em now!// Brawl whines. //You all got to do your psychological torture thing, but I didn't get to kill anybody! That ain't fair!//
The tankformer works off his frustration by firing off his electron gun at random pieces of French countryside as he flies over. Take that, France.
And Blast Off can just suck it. These Combaticons are going to continue adopting him as one of their own and loving him like a brother until all the good feelings cause him to implode. And then they will feed off the collapsed singularity he creates.
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Optimus Prime
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Caution: Hero makes wide right turns.
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Post by Optimus Prime on Feb 26, 2012 18:02:21 GMT -5
"Thank goodness," Optimus says, sagging. And of course he got himself out! Override was carrying Sentinel and Jetfire can fly. Why would he slow down the only person who needed help escaping by offering a bulkier, slower escape vehicle?
"It's not Elita-1, it's Sentinel. . . I'm reasonably sure," he says, shooting Sentinelita-1 a puzzled look before surveying the wreckage of the Arles Amphitheater.
"Alright, Elite Guard, since we're all functioning . . . more or less, Sentinel, we'll call in a space bridge to get you back to the Event Horizon; the rest of us will stay here and assist with cleaning up this mess. The local authorities are going to want to know what happened."
OOC: I suggest the Decepticons move out of thread this round, whilst the Autobots stay another round or two, unless we want to wrap ASAP?
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Post by Vortex/Valerie Wei-Li-Zhao on Feb 27, 2012 16:46:46 GMT -5
The heli yelps when Onslaught swoops in and sweeps them away, grabbing at his commander’s forearm. Then he sighs and swoons, ‘My hero,’ because that’s what you do when a big strong mech swoops in and rescues you, right? Right.
After that though, he adds, sighing the snobby dramatic high-class-flier sigh, //I wouldn’t say ‘choose’ so much as ‘shot repeatedly n’ crashin’’ but we all know you silly wheelers are too dumb be able t’ understand the differences there.//
OOC: Sure thing!
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Feb 27, 2012 17:22:24 GMT -5
"Optimus is right," Sentinel Prime confirms, wincing as if this admission pains her, "I'm Sentinel Prime. Yes, I'm stuck in Elita-1's body. Yes, I am a sparkless abomination. No, I don't know why. No, I don't know where Elita-1 is. Obviously not stuck in my body, since Jetfire set that on fire," she grits her dental plates together, "unless that was a different Sentinel Prime body there."
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Override
Minor
The Chancellor, Her Noble Potency, Empress Override. The Glorious Victor over Everyone Else On the Track
Shut up and drive
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Post by Override on Feb 28, 2012 21:13:42 GMT -5
Override stares from Optimus to Sentinel and back again. Then she considers. She was actually pulled after the sudden spontaneous reformats of several other Autobots, including Hot Shot. She decides that this isn't that much weirder. Is it?
Actually, yeah, it is.
"Right then," is all she says for a moment. Then she frowns at Jetfire before looking back at Optimus.
"Might want to send the kid back with Sentinel. He took some damage, too." Most of it emotional, but he did take a lot more physical damage than she or Optimus did.
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Post by Jetfire (Ani) on Mar 1, 2012 18:19:41 GMT -5
Jetfire's mouth drops open. Then closes. Then opens again. Repeat several more times. Finally he manages, "S-s-sentinel Prime, sir?"
But... he was just accepting the fact that Sentinel was dead... and with the melting body... and- Ow, his brain hurts. Today hurts. He wants to go home and hug his brother and then go to bed and not get up for weeks.
For now he's just going to stand awkwardly and stare slack-faced at Sentinel-in-the-body-of-Elita-1, because he isn't even sure what he's feeling right now.
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Post by Onslaught/Octavian Comstock on Mar 2, 2012 21:05:44 GMT -5
//Why, Blast Off, I knew that you had a glass chin, but I did not realize that you also have a glass armor. You are obviously not even capable of using your anti-gravs, let alone your natural flight! I did not mean to insult you prior.//
//Vortex, on the other hand...// Stern glare. Tremble in fear, Vortex.
//Brawl, there were plenty of targets. You have nothing to blame but your own ineptitude. But do not fret. We will get another chance to viciously maim and murder these fools. Especially this sad excuse for an Optimus Prime.//
And on that ominous note, Team Combaticon blasts off again. Probably to bicker like the dysfunctional family that they are.
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I'm cool with going out of thread on this post!
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