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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Jun 2, 2013 21:08:25 GMT -5
Month 12, Week 1, Day 1, aboard Ship, Closed
Starscream ambushes Skywarp in a corridor, coming up on him from behind. The only indicator of his presence the sound of metal footsteps on the deck plating. "Skywarp," he states, by way of announcing himself.
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Post by Skywarp on Jul 20, 2013 15:28:37 GMT -5
The sound of footsteps doesn't bother Skywarp particularly. He's not the only one aboard the ship, after all, and has no real reasons to fear his new crewmates. (He supposes he could be afraid of punishment for his activities prior to joining the crew, but to fear it is folly. If he's punished, it's rightfully so.) After all, he's among Decepticons.
Wind Sheer is understandably somewhat less comfortable; these are not Decepticons he knows, save for Skywarp; from his perch on the jet-former's shoulders, he glances behind when he hears someone approach. He respectfully keeps silent, since he recognises the commander and knows better than to speak out of turn. Therefore, Skywarp gets no warning before he's addressed, but he also has no time to reprimand Wind Sheer for the lapse since he has to abruptly turn – carefully, to avoid hitting Starscream with a wing – and salute.
"Sir," he says at full attention, though the word doesn't come easily. He tries not to think of the Decepticon before him as Starscream. He'd rather his commander were anyone but someone named Starscream.
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Jul 20, 2013 17:47:27 GMT -5
Starscream gives the other jetformer and his little . . . pet(?) an appraising look. One can almost see the mechanisms in his head working if you look into his eyes, weighing Skywarp's fate.1
"Come with me," he says finally, striding off down the corridor, not waiting to see if Skywarp follows.
1. Actually, given that Starscream is Bayverse, you probably can see the mechanisms in his head working.
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Post by Skywarp on Jul 21, 2013 3:14:13 GMT -5
Well. Skywarp both did and didn't expect to hear this sort of request; he's been anticipating a command inquiry, just not quite introduced this way. He actually falters for a second, even glancing aside to Wind Sheer where the Minicon leans forward to look at him, curious and trepidatious at the same time.
He shrugs off whatever impulse led him to seek feedback from a Minicon and follows as directed without a word.
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Jul 27, 2013 11:31:53 GMT -5
The acting Decepticon leader casts a glance toward the Minicon. "What is that thing, exactly?" he asks, tilting his head toward Wind Sheer.
He already has some idea, of course, because Skywarp has had his official interview and Starscream has read his dossier. But he's interested to hear what Skywarp has to say about it.
If Skywarp continues to follow Starscream, they'll eventually arrive at on of Ship's airlocks. Starscream will touch the controls to open the inner door and step inside.
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Post by Skywarp on Aug 7, 2013 18:39:05 GMT -5
An airlock. How… promising. It isn't that Skywarp can't survive outside the hull, but being ejected and left to starve to death seems a cruel way to go about his punishment. Nothing unusually so, at least. He readies himself for the worst.
"Wind Sheer," he answers dutifully, "is… my Mini-Con." He doesn't say partner; that affords the little thing too much importance. He still can't quite bring himself to simply call Wind Sheer a weapon. Servant makes Skywarp sound too lofty. Slave sounds mostly right, but it doesn't roll off the vocal circuits readily. He leaves it at Mini-Con. "He provides secondary weaponry for me." There's a fair pause before he remembers that Wind Sheer is actually much more useful than Thunderclash ever was since Wind Sheer doesn't try to wheel and deal his way into a better outcome for himself. "And can act as a forward scout. He has a knack for going unseen." Wind Sheer certainly blends into Skywarp's fuselage better than Thunderclash ever did – something for which Wind Sheer is most grateful. Cautiously, he salutes Starscream, since he's under discussion at the moment and it seems only proper to do so.
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Aug 11, 2013 15:54:45 GMT -5
"At ease, Wind Sheer," Starscream orders, beckoning Skywarp into the airlock with him. "I wish to speak with you in private, soldier. If I was going to punish you, I'd do it where everyone could see it. I want your account of what happened at Six Lasers Over Scorpio."
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Post by Skywarp on Aug 11, 2013 20:15:48 GMT -5
Frankly, Wind Sheer isn't accustomed to being addressed. Certainly not given orders like he's an actual soldier who merits direct address. With some measure of uncertainty, he obeys and drops out of full attention, but then looks to Skywarp again. Skywarp pointedly does not look back at him.
"Yes, sir," Skywarp answers. He considers telling Wind Sheer to go occupy himself somewhere else, but letting the little plane run around solo went so well at the amusement part – Skywarp suppresses a faint shudder at the memories – and he's counting on people considering the two of them inseparable to discourage attempts to remove the Mini-Con from his care. He values the added firepower and unexpected utility of this actively helpful, if vexingly and inappropriately doting, tiny mechanism more than he wants to be rid of the clingy thing.
He doesn't think there's no chance this could still end with punishment of some form, but Skywarp steps into the airlock after Starscream all the same. Maybe if he just keeps thinking of the commander as sir in his head and ignores the name….
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Aug 18, 2013 17:03:59 GMT -5
Starscream begins cycling the airlock as soon as Skywarp is inside, and soon the outer door opens, Ship's hull stretching out in front of them with the Earth spinning by overhead. He steps out, talons gripping the hull, footfalls silent in the vacuum.
//Start with how you arrived there,// he transmits over a tight beam. He absolutely does not want this conversation overheard.
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Post by Skywarp on Aug 19, 2013 19:27:39 GMT -5
Skywarp lacks feet that can hold but he doesn't want to hover over a superior officer, either. Too disrespectful. He does his best to stay on Starscream's eye level.
//I woke in a unfamiliar room,// he answers on that same beam. Wind Sheer, not privy to the conversation – Skywarp wouldn't deign to share a frequency with him – decides the quiet and the view aren't so bad and while the guzzlers chat, he simply basks in it. Skywarp goes on, //It was jarring. I'd been on Cybertron; we were under attack at the time, by… by Unicron.// The pause is tinged with a mix of disbelief and horror. Imagining a being that huge, that implacable, was difficult enough. Seeing such a thing with his own two eyes made it somehow more unreal. //My unit was trapped inside a collapsing structure. I thought I was dead, sir, and then I was in the park. I'm not entirely sure how, sir.// The details of how he thought he'd come to be dead seem superfluous to the conversation. There's no information on the park or the madman running it to be had in the way Skywarp, in a blind panic, tried to teleport free of being crushed and passed out from the pain of what he thought was surely a botched transition.
It doesn't look particularly good on him, either.
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Aug 26, 2013 19:44:38 GMT -5
//We all arrived here that way. Forces we don't yet understand are drawing members of our race to this dimension, and those forces are concentrated in certain stones. Overlord made off with some of ours when he escaped us,// Starscream explains. He grimaces as he thinks back on that battle. Nothing they did so much as scratched that monster . . .
//Continue,// he prompts, stalking along the hull, pausing to watch a tropical storm on the planet above.
OOC: I'm assuming that at some point in the aftermath of The Merry-Go-Round To Hell, the 'Cons learned Overlord's real name. If this is incorrect I can edit later.
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Post by Skywarp on Nov 2, 2013 7:36:24 GMT -5
There was an awful lot of crumbled rock in the area where Skywarp woke. He peers at Starscream from the corners of his eyes for a moment as the other jet looks up, then focuses his gaze elsewhere.
//He was in control of the entire installation,// Skywarp says of the titan giving orders on the asteroid. //Ruled with terror and an iron fist… nothing out of the ordinary.// But such is Decepticon leadership, really. When they aren't mercilessly beating the soldiers under their command, it's usually the threat of a beating keeping the subordinates in line. //A great deal of it was framed as a sort of game. Honestly… I think we weren't much more than entertainment, sir.// It certainly felt less like a military post and more like a circus at times. A few more vivisections and it would've been rather homey.
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Nov 9, 2013 15:51:01 GMT -5
//That fits with his behavior when he was here. Sadistic glitch.// Starscream rubs his jaw where Overlord injured him.
//Continue. You were forced into service? How many others were there?//
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Post by Skywarp on Dec 21, 2013 10:07:19 GMT -5
//The numbers varied… quite a lot.// Skywarp makes no attempt to hide his grimace as he mentally recounts the faces he saw during his tenure. //Death was almost as frequent as the new arrivals. The fewest I ever saw at one time was a half-dozen, mostly Decepticons, but that was early on.// There had been an Autobot or two, he thinks, but either they barely qualified as Autobots to begin with or their time on the asteroid had broken them beyond repair. One of them was more twisted than any Decepticon he'd personally met.
He puts that out of mind. It's unsettling to think about the ways people change. Moreso to think that he, too, might have changed in similar ways if he'd spent much longer in Overlord's service.
//I was the twelfth or fifteenth to wake there, depending on how you count those who died after appearing.// And failing to include Wind Sheer because it doesn't occur to him that the Mini-Con even counts. //As far as I know, sir,// and here Skywarp finally turns to look at Starscream directly, //we peaked at around thirty, but I wasn't privy to everything and I don't want to give a false account.//
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Post by Starscream (Movie) on Dec 22, 2013 13:44:51 GMT -5
Starscream grimaces, clenching a fist and then absently trailing his claws over one of Ship's protruding sensor clusters as he paces. A force of thirty, more terrified of Overlord than anything the enemy might do to them, would be more than a match for the current Decepticon forces.
The air commander's eyes bore into Skywarp. //You say you peaked around thirty. What was the average number? Did Overlord seem to have any long-term ambitions beyond his own entertainment?//
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