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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Apr 4, 2012 18:05:05 GMT -5
Month 9, Week 1, Day 2, a public beach in Monaco, open
Stella has her hair pulled down in a set of braids today. Sure, she likes the Mohawk look, but she's going swimming! A Mohawk is just not practical for the water. Why is Stella out for a swim on a sunny beach, green swimsuit and all? She's not an intelligence specialist, that's why. Stella is not going to be out looking for Slaughter herself. Carolyn or someone else can find him. Stella is called in when it's time to show up and shoot - or, of course, when someone needs an attack helicopter in the air, for whatever reason. (The reason usually also involves shooting.)
She spent her first day here bumming around the private airport where they arrived and where she'll be taking off if she's needed in the air, familiarising herself with it. Now, though, Stella is just itching to get in some activities while she waits for Carolyn or Control to call. So she has hit the beach, where she is going to swim the heck out of the water until it is time to go parasailing.
What Stella does not know is that Control sent her to mind Carolyn because Stella is, to Control, amazingly predictable. Now, Control often disagrees with Stella's judgement, but she is by no means a wildcard to them. Stella is considered one of the least likely members of the team to go rogue, even lower than many of the custom-designed members, given her past history with vigilantes. Voted likeliest to surf an asteroid if given the opportunity? Yes. Go rogue? No.
Now she rises from the water, shakes herself, and stalks off to a drink stand to go buy herself a pop. Man, Europeans even do their pops differently! Stella adds herself to the end of the line, deciding that she'll go for whatever they have in lemon-lime. They have to do lemon-lime, right?
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Apr 4, 2012 21:03:36 GMT -5
A man with bright red hair and green eyes stands in line in front of Stella. He seems... generally on the young side, but a bit of premature gray is starting to paint his temples. And there is definitely something about him that makes that gray seem out of place, too. He wears a wetsuit, one that leaves his forearms and legs below the knees uncovered, and has red stripes running up and down on either side of the torso. If someone looks very closely at his chest, they might notice that there's something hard and, well, not quite chest-like underneath there. The outline of a necklace, perhaps?
He glances towards the green haired woman who comes to stand behind him and gives her a winning smile. And why not? She's certainly a striking figure! "Hey!" he greets, then frowns and jerks his head towards the line. "I'm afraid the line's been moving kind of slow," he warns.
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Apr 4, 2012 21:11:56 GMT -5
"Every line's slow around here. You'd think this was Disneyland, but if you say as much, the locals will string you up," Stella replies easily enough. She doesn't seem particularly bothered; the complaint is more reflex than anything else.
She gives him a quick look-over, and she files the chest away as 'low profile armour?'. Why not? Probably American. Something funny going on with his hair, not that she's one to talk. Scuba? Surfer? Maybe armed, though he can't have anything too heavy on him.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Apr 5, 2012 20:58:59 GMT -5
Rodney grins. "I'll keep that in mind, although I wouldn't be able to make the comparison." He's pretty sure his "drop-in history" doesn't include a previous trip to Disneyland. It seems pretty bare-bones, but sometimes he's blindsided (as with Kate's discovery that he was on the crew for MLP2). Besides, what are the odds that some random stranger is going to check his background for inconsistencies?
"So how long've you been here?" Because it's been long enough to compare lines and make that observation about the locals. "Got any suggestions on 'must sees' while I'm here?"
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Apr 5, 2012 21:34:56 GMT -5
This guy is pretty chatty, which sets off some warning bells, though her natural inclination towards danger is to tread into it. Stella isn't really one for small talk, but this is a slow line, so she admits, "Second day. Swimming, parasailing, surfing, and I'm gonna check out that Exhibition of the Prince of Monaco’s Vintage Car Collection and the Naval Museum, but that's me. Don't know what floats your boat. You?"
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Apr 7, 2012 22:19:42 GMT -5
Rodney is just friendly!
He also perks up at the mention of the car museum. "Vintage car collection?" he asks, immediately interested. This probably seems suspicious, too, but really, Rodney's love of cars is real! At the question, he grins, shrugs, and runs his hands through his hair. "Just got here yesterday myself, but I haven't had much chance to look around." He nods his head towards the beach. "Just thought I'd check out the beach first, really." Well, that, and there's a pretty significant energon vein running beneath the area and he needs to see if there's any risk of bleed-through, but he's not going to mention that.
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Apr 7, 2012 22:35:07 GMT -5
"Oh yeah, and hiking, if I can fit it in," Stella adds, absentmindedly. She doesn't find his interest in the car collection suspicious, because hey, lots of guys like vintage cars. Her eyes light up, and she says, "There's some really neat old models in there, like a De Dion Bouton 1903. I'm sure glad we make 'em faster these days, though."
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Apr 7, 2012 23:24:33 GMT -5
"Sounds great! I'll have to look into it!" Rodney answers brightly. That is, assuming Rodney finds time for actual sight-seeing, and not just, 'Checking out areas where the energon is particularly close to the surface' sight-seeing. Then he nods. "It's cool to see where we come from and all, but the newer cars are pretty exciting, too. You hear any of the rumors about that one they tried to base off the alien?" Rodney, of course, has personal experience with that particular car (and the theft, and the ensuing fight, likely made the news), but there's also been plenty of online speculation that's public knowledge.
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Apr 7, 2012 23:43:39 GMT -5
"Heard some rumours," Stella admits. "Vaguely reminds me of the Blue Flame." So she has a certain fondness for rocket cars. "Wonder if they're gonna require a different license for hover cars like that? Not that their 'hovering' is anything to write home about."
She smirks and puts on hand on her hip, her whole bearing screaming 'cocky' and just a bit of 'challenging'.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Apr 8, 2012 18:13:55 GMT -5
Rodney snorts. "Why's that?" he asks. He's pretty sure hover cars, particularly ones as fast as that one, are pretty new. Sure, the humans have other hovering vehicles, but this is the speediest one they've built yet!
It's possible, too, that he's just a little bit defensive, since this car was inspired by a friend of his.
(The rational might be somewhat silly.)
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Apr 8, 2012 18:21:00 GMT -5
In another life, in a few more years, Springer might have been friendly with Blurr. However, this one doesn't even remember being Springer, so it doesn't matter.
Her smirk slowly spreads into a wide grin, and Stella says, matter of fact, "Hovering's not much if you can't do it at 21,000 feet in the sky."
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Apr 8, 2012 19:56:15 GMT -5
Rodney quirks an eyebrow and leaps to a conclusion, one that would explain the woman's cocky attitude and apparent bragging. "Helicopter pilot?" he asks. It's either that or meta-flier, and pilot is still a lot more likely. Then the right corner of his lips pulls up into a faint smirk. "But those things can't break sound."
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Apr 8, 2012 20:29:48 GMT -5
"Helicopter pilot," Stella confirms proudly, "And who cares about breaking sound when you can fire a Hellfire through a window from four miles away at night? That's plenty fine breaking right there. What do you do, aside from get stuck in slow>donkey<1 drink lines on the beach?"
1 Must be daytime television.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Apr 8, 2012 20:38:30 GMT -5
Rodney tilts his head. "So not just helicopters, but combat helicopters?" This might seem too probing, but really... Stella's comment pretty much invited the question.
Then he shrugs. "Rig explosions for movies about talking magic ponies, lately, though that just wrapped up," he answers.
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Apr 8, 2012 20:54:03 GMT -5
Stella can talk about her history with the US Army, and to be honest, it would be hard for her not to. The mess in Japan made it to the news. Stella just can't talk about what she's done since she left the US Army. She says, "I'm a civilian pilot now," which is a lie, "but I was in the US Army. Flew Apaches. I loved those machines."
When he says he works on movies, she snaps her fingers and asks, "Michael Bay? Did you do any work on Explosion II: Explode Harder? I loved that one!"
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