Screwdriver
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Post by Screwdriver on Apr 19, 2012 20:20:20 GMT -5
Screwdriver, completely unphased by the prizes in the assorted carnival games she passes on her way to the roller-coaster. Truth be told, some of those look rather like something she'd put together, and she would stop to excitedly coo over them, but... roller-coaster!
She transforms upon arriving and looks up at it, eyes wide. "Oooooooo!" Then she transforms again, driving right onto the track itself. Click-clack-clatter-clatter-clack, her spikes hit the tracks sometimes, other times things line up just so that the spikes go to either side of the tracks.
Hmm, is that someone who's been tied to one up ahead?
Whimpering?
Click-clack-clatter-clatter-clack!
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on Apr 22, 2012 18:48:45 GMT -5
Swoop is gliding unsteadily toward the same roller coaster Screwdriver is currently investigating. As he is a pteranodon and not a Warthog, the prayer he is using to go with his one functional wing is about to run out. He makes an awkward landing on the side of the roller coaster, clinging to the scaffolding like a bat and climbing painfully up onto the top. When he figures out who is at fault for his injured wing, man, is he going to smash them.
He picks at his injured limb with his beak as he reaches the summit of the coaster. Who's that motorcycle there?
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Screwdriver
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The Lady Protector, Her Splendid Primacy, Grand Duchess Screwdriver. The Devout Silencer of Common Sense and Logic
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Post by Screwdriver on Apr 25, 2012 20:39:51 GMT -5
Screwdriver rolls right over the person in her way, and he screams. "He was to travel this path now, for no goblet of life is all bitterness!" she calls out to him. "Let everything be buried and forgotten!" 1 She rolls up towards the summit. Hey, is that a bird? "A little bird? A charming singing bird?" 2 she wonders as she rolls towards him. 1 A Story From the Sand Hills2 The Bird of Popular Song
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 10, 2012 19:13:21 GMT -5
Swoop flinches as Screwdriver rolls over the person tied to the tracks. He usually approves of violence on general principle, but he prefers it to be a little less one-sided.
Swoop is neither a bird, nor charming. He's never tried singing, however. He's also never been called little, though he has enough self-esteem issues that he'd probably react poorly if anyone ever did. He cocks his head to one side as the mad princess approaches.
"Who you?" he asks simply, turning slightly in an attempt to hide his damaged wing from the Junkion, concealing his weakness from an unknown potential enemy.
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Screwdriver
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The Lady Protector, Her Splendid Primacy, Grand Duchess Screwdriver. The Devout Silencer of Common Sense and Logic
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Post by Screwdriver on May 10, 2012 21:11:14 GMT -5
Screwdriver transforms with a flip, touching down on the track not far in front of Swoop, singing, "I’m Hans Christian Andersen, I’ve many a tale to tell, and though I’m a cobbler, I’d say I tell them rather well. I’ll mend your shoes and I’ll fix your boot when I have a moment free!" She grins broadly, then takes a step forward, looking curiously to see what Swoop is hiding.
Of course, the poorly painted Decepticon-symbol on her chest might alert Swoop to the fact that it would be a rather bad idea to let her "help" him...
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 17, 2012 13:57:59 GMT -5
Swoop turns a little more as Screwdriver advances towards him, still attempting to conceal his injury. If this continues, he may end up spinning in place while she circles him. Upon noticing her Decepticon symbol (poorly-painted though it may be) he moves his uninjured wing (in a way he imagines to be nonchalant and non-obvious) to cover his own Autobot symbol. It is the perfect crime.
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Screwdriver
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The Lady Protector, Her Splendid Primacy, Grand Duchess Screwdriver. The Devout Silencer of Common Sense and Logic
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Post by Screwdriver on May 18, 2012 18:29:04 GMT -5
Screwdriver tilts her head as Swoop doesn't reply (it doesn't occur to her that this may be because she's making no sense). She frowns and says, "And was going to the window," she begins, opening a hatch on the side of her leg. She begins to pull out a little toy bird. She continues, "To say: 'How do you dooooooo-!'" This end turns into a startled squeal as the track suddenly yanks to the left, forcing her to drop the bird in order for her to crouch and grab it. The bird, when dropped, falls for a short distance, and then it's wings start to whirr and it begins to hover for a moment before suddenly darting about the area, aiming itself at anything moving that isn't Screwdriver. Should it impact, the target will find its beak surprisingly sharp.
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 18, 2012 20:19:22 GMT -5
Don't take it personally, Screwdriver. Swoop just doesn't talk much. He does let out a startled squawk and flap his wings in a frantic attempt to regain his balance when the roller-coaster shifts.
Screwdriver's toy bird whirs toward the Dinobot, dive-bombing him and pecking a series of pinholes in his armor. The pteranodon takes a snap with his beak at the little nuisance, more annoyed than angry at the moment, though he's feeling increasingly threatened by this whole situation.
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Screwdriver
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Post by Screwdriver on May 20, 2012 20:12:48 GMT -5
The tracks begin to move back in place, and as they do, the sound of screaming can be heard. A clikkety-clack heralds the sound of a roller-coaster train heading their way, and the screaming seems to be coming from that, but if the two look, they'll see that there's no one actually in the carts to do that screaming.
This doesn't particularly bother Screwdriver so much as the fact that she's currently in the train's way. The dives into motorcycle mode and starts rolling, calling out, "Okay, I love you, buh-bye!"
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 21, 2012 20:51:17 GMT -5
The empty, screaming roller-coaster train sends a chill down Swoop's support struts for reasons he doesn't quite have the mental capacity to put a finger on.
He's also on the tracks, so he takes steps to rectify this, clambering down onto the side of the track and hanging on the latticework, still snapping his beak at the little toy bird attacking him. "You Decepticon take your bird with you!" he squawks after Screwdriver as she rolls away.
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Screwdriver
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The Lady Protector, Her Splendid Primacy, Grand Duchess Screwdriver. The Devout Silencer of Common Sense and Logic
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Post by Screwdriver on May 23, 2012 18:41:40 GMT -5
"You have only to fly out of the window if you want to!" Screwdriver answers, creating a jarring clatter-crash as she rolls over the tracks with her spiked tires. The screaming coaster train, however, is gaining on her.
And then the track drops out beneath her, lowering itself quickly, and she squeaks. The train continues on, and from the looks of things, she'll end up falling right into the thing.
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 27, 2012 18:54:36 GMT -5
A jet of fire emerges from Swoop's mouth, aimed at the little clockwork bird. He's gotten annoyed with it. However, the roller-coaster is made of old dry wood, which makes indiscriminately spewing napalm around a bad idea. It's not that Swoop is flammable. Far from it. It's that he's clinging to the side of the rickety thing and it's a long way down.
This is why Dinobots can't have nice things.
Swoop creeps sideways, toward Screwdriver, along the scaffolding as it burns around him, the flames outpacing him. A section of track collapses behind him, scattering flaming wreckage over the ground.
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Screwdriver
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The Lady Protector, Her Splendid Primacy, Grand Duchess Screwdriver. The Devout Silencer of Common Sense and Logic
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Post by Screwdriver on May 28, 2012 17:18:31 GMT -5
As the tracks catch fire, the screaming rises in pitch and volume, and it's at this point the observant might realize that the screaming had never come from the train at all, but from the tracks directly beneath the train. As the fire spreads, the whole track trembles and begins to creak before some bits start to pull apart, as though trying to draw away from the fire.
Screwdriver lands in the train car with a "Wumph!" and then looks around at the burning roller coaster in wonder. She looks at Swoop, who's creeping towards her, and even offers a hand to him - he's liable to go faster in the carts than out! "Who speaks for the trees?" she asks him, adding, "Which you seem to be burning as fast as you please!"
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 29, 2012 18:29:36 GMT -5
Swoop takes a long moment to ponder Screwdriver's outstretched hand. On the one hand, Decepticons Are Bad, and The Higher-Ups will be Angry if he teams up with one. On the other hand, falling from this height with a busted wing sure would suck.
It's a piece of burning scaffolding crumbling away under his foot that makes the decision for him as he leaps for the Junkion's outstretched hand, grabbing it in one of his own little wing-hands as he scrambles onto the coaster train.
"Her plant-bot," he replies distractedly, looking over his shoulder at the advancing flames.
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Screwdriver
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Post by Screwdriver on May 31, 2012 20:40:51 GMT -5
"And if all the trees were one tree, what a great tree that would b-eeeeeee!" Screwdriver's sing-song poem is interrupted with a squeal as the trembling, shaking track suddenly jerks to the right, taking the cart with it. The fire continues chasing the train, and the shaking gets worse. Up ahead, the cross-bars begin to pull away from the track, the bars ends splitting into smaller strips.
They start to look like arms, and the ends, like hands.
One grabs for those in the cart as the train rolls past.
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