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Post by Duskwing on Oct 9, 2012 13:45:05 GMT -5
As usual, Guido just stares blankly at Mistwind while the robot speaks. After a few minutes of chewing over what Mistwind had to say, he scowls, and his eyes narrow. He gives Mistwind a cold stare, and one might imagine there are glints of red in his eyes.
"Unless you suddenly switched sides, kid, and I better not be hearing that 'cause I'd have to kill you, I ain't leaking anything I shouldn't ought to," Duskwing growls. He studies the small robot, looking for his Decepticon sigil. "In fact, I am telling you stuff you oughta know."
-- If this is confusing, it's meant to be. Duskwing/Guido has a bad habit of making assumptions about what other people already know.
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Post by Mistwind on Oct 9, 2012 16:08:47 GMT -5
Mistwind tilts his head, looks and pads himself as Guido studies him, "what... what are you looking for--oh!". He raises his arms, showing the empty spots where the Decepticon sigil used to be. "Seriously? You're looking for what's usually here? Well, that is progress" Mistwind just got a DEATH THREAT?! There's the slightest of smiles on his face.
"You think I switched sides? Because I had to remove two layers of paint?" His smile fades quickly, and sheer neutrality takes its place. He summons a datapad from subspace, activates it and switches the screen to Duskwing. It shows a Decepticon sigil. "I'm not the one looking like a squishy human who calls out an alien robot's name in the middle of the street like they are buddies, and then asks why the robot got bigger." He presses the pad and it begins to play an audio-file. Duskwing can hear himself: ["Misty? What is youse doing here? How'd you get so big?"] and the file keeps looping.
"You wanna ask about my sigils? Ask about why there are no Decepticon SOLDIERS to back me up if my sigils bring me into trouble on this planet. LOYALTY is not PAINT, soldier!"
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Post by Duskwing on Oct 9, 2012 16:46:49 GMT -5
Guido scowls some more. "Whaddaya mean, looks like a squish--"
He stares at the hand he was just pointing at Mistwind for a moment with a confused look on his face. He wiggles his fingers experimentally, then turns his head slowly, looking over his arm from wrist to shoulder. Then he looks down at himself. Slowly, he takes off his jacket and hat, and runs his fingers through his hair. Then, he prods his own shoulder with one calloused finger.
"Huh. So that's why I couldn't fly outta that stupid ship. How'd dis happen? Who's Guido and how come I got programmed wit' his memories?" His eyes flick in Mistwind's direction. "Dis some kinda infiltration mission dat went bad, right?"
Guido--Duskwing, really--adds in a worried tone, "Youse here to retrieve me, right? So dey can put me back in my real body, right? Slag, I don't remember volunteerin' for dis. I don't even remember bein' ordered to do dis! I ain't programmed for infiltration, see?"
Then the rest of what Mistwind says gets through. "Whaddaya mean, you got no backup? Dey got you doin' retrieval-like missions solo now?"
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Post by Mistwind on Oct 9, 2012 17:43:23 GMT -5
When Guido stops his sentence and starts actually looking at himself, Mistwind stops the playback, stores the data-pad and paces out his stress. He leans against a support beam, listening to the questions. His aquamarine optics narrow, and he raises a hand, five fingers stretched out, "No units to spare unless it's dire. Better not make things dire."
"You are... who you know you are. Your human body was flickered into life by some supernatural force that saw it fit to take out both the Decepticons and the Autobots." He waves a hand into Duskwing's direction, "there's the method. Memories were altered, some more thorough than others."
He approaches Duskwing, but stays at a safe distance, "This is no retrieval. You were starting to remember. To make sure you didn't slag up your life and cover by remembering half things I decided to speed up what was going to happen anyway." He shrugs, "Command and science is working on a solution, so you'll have to adapt for the time being. Keep working for Lord Slaughter, definitely. Not like you're the only one who changed."
"Do you remember all of your ehm.. well, non-human stuff now?"
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Post by Duskwing on Oct 11, 2012 21:31:14 GMT -5
Guido blinks at Mistwind. "I... got changed into a human?? Me, Duskwing, Hunter-Seeker a' the Decepticons, is squeezed into a fleshy body for real?"
--- My apologies for the delay, it's been a busy day or two in the caretaking department.
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Post by Mistwind on Oct 12, 2012 7:21:02 GMT -5
"...." "Correct."
Taking into account the Duskwing factor in neurological data-processing, Mistwind alerts himself that this might be the moment where the human is going to freak out.
--- OOC: That's ok, don't worry about it.
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Post by Duskwing on Oct 12, 2012 13:15:59 GMT -5
Guido looks oddly relieved. "Oh, good. I thought maybe I was a copy of myself what was gonna get terminated when youse were done. So when are dey gonna fix it?" His tone changes, becoming insistent.
"Okay, I gotta keep my mouth shut about Decepticons. So who do I report to dese days? Who's the Air Command--hey, am I even in Air Command? I got no wings right now. Huh...." Guido frowns thoughtfully.
"I t'ink Slaughter's got an air wing. Gonna try out for it." A sharp glance at Mistwing. "Hey, do you s'pose Brawl and Vortex are... Brawl and Vortex?"
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Post by Mistwind on Oct 15, 2012 16:58:34 GMT -5
Mistwind listens to Guido admit that he thought the kid was going to kill him. He stares, shock evident on his features. But Duskwing often called Mistwind his combat partner! Did the little one ever fail the seeker and made himself untrustworthy? Are they still partners? For a moment, the mech's confidence shatters and that's where the sharp glance Guido sends him has an impact; The mech instinctively steps back and averts his gaze to the ground like he would when glanced at by a superior.
A pretty silly move because the human isn't a superior and even asked the mech to acknowledge his allies as being humans. Realizing this, Mistwind's initial shock transcends into rage. Fury in his tone, he states, "Negative. This one can't see any of you as them; It feels like an insult to identify war machines as weak humans. I won't do that." He emphasizes, "Example: You're not a mech and you don't have wings; You are not the Seeker Duskwing. This one doesn't have enough experience to completely understand the situation but it will call you all walking back-ups. You have a boss who is allied... other than him, you will report to me daily."
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Post by Duskwing on Oct 19, 2012 18:54:54 GMT -5
It's Guido's turn to step back, looking baffled... and hurt. "Huh? Whaddya mean? If I'm not Duskwing, who am I? And who is dis allied boss?"
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Post by Mistwind on Oct 20, 2012 17:41:36 GMT -5
"The Seeker Duskwing, the war machine, the Cybertron-forged sky fighter?" Mistwind answers, forcing himself to calm down, "You contain him, but how does that make you him, completely? You can access his memories and you wield his personality but most of that was buried under a fake identity. Guido, your body is the greatest lie of all; it was made to contain the killer force of power that is the purple and grey Seeker. It's not a disguise but a prison. You are not the monster... you are the closet."
The little mech tilts his head and he grins playfully, "One day, you will be restored. Then you will be Duskwing. It will be awesome!" He shrugs, "but... you signed on with Slaughter in the mean time, right? That makes him one of your bosses!"
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Post by Duskwing on Oct 22, 2012 21:41:35 GMT -5
Guido's shoulder slump; he sits abruptly on the nearest object. He looks thoroughly miserable. "I.. remember." He looks quickly up at Mistwind. "I want my body back. I want to fly!"
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Post by Mistwind on Oct 23, 2012 16:31:06 GMT -5
"...! You want to-" Mistwind repeats, voice trailing off into a silence wrought from confusion. He stares at the human, optics wide with apparant surprise. He wavers, then approaches. The mech halts in front of the human with a questioning stare "fly?"
Sitting down on the ground, Mistwind states carefully; "You can't fly." he looks up at the ceiling, "It's not the weaponry, nor the steel structure and neither the ability to transform... none of that. You want to fly above anything else?" Drawing his knees to his chest and resting his chin on them, Mistwind stares, gaze still asking, "This one is confused. Why do you want that?"
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Post by Duskwing on Oct 23, 2012 18:42:00 GMT -5
Blank stare, puzzled frown. "Kid, you flew wit' me. Don't you know? Don't you feel it? Kid, I'm a Seeker!"
Guido shakes his head. "Flyin' is the second greatest thing ever. It's..." he waves his hand around as he gropes for the words. "It's speed, and it's power and it's freedom! It's part of what I was made for."
He grins evilly. "The greatest thing ever, is fighting in the air! That's power, and skill, and just following your instincts and then making things blow up! That's what we're made for!"
The grin disappears, and he slumps again. "Only I'm stuck in this... prison. Yeah, you called dat right. It's like getting my brain module interned, only I get a little bit of light and movement. What'd they do it to me for? I hadn't even attacked nobody here yet!"
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Post by Mistwind on Oct 24, 2012 15:30:44 GMT -5
As Mistwind watches and listens to the fiery talk, he is rather awestruck and whispers, “This one knows Duskwing loves flying…. But I thought it would be silly to think that seekers feel as strong as I do. Seekers are experts after all, and they were built with real engines.” He rubs his neck bashfully, “They’re just really cool.”
When Duskwing speaks out on having done nothing wrong, Mistwind stares at the ground, “It’s not you or what you did. It’s what you are.” He hugs his knees a bit tighter, “You’re all still alive. Just made tiny and weak and weaponless. That’s not a personal attack…. That’s prevention… a precautionary downgrade. Whoever did this allowed you all to exist, just not with the power to harm. Not as a force.”
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Post by Duskwing on Oct 28, 2012 18:48:55 GMT -5
Guido once again looks at Mistwind like he's shy a few processors. "'Course we do. It's what we were built for," he repeats. "Even the Air Commander--uh, the old one."
Guido's eyes narrow, and he looks truly angry now. "It locked me up in dis prison, and didn't respect us enough to fight us. Just treated us like nuisance Empties! I find out who done dis, I'm gonna hurt them, hurt them as bad as I can."
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