Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on May 6, 2008 18:38:04 GMT -5
Well Optimus is safe then, because he doesn't even know anything about anyone else called Bambi. "I don't know what that is, Bambi. But..."
Prime's face hardens. "...have you ever heard of a 'Decepticon'? In the Cybertronian Academy, you have to take a vow to protect Cybertron from them. From what I have heard, they're here. That's what that battle is. My fellow Autobots are fighting them. I might not have graduated from the academy, but I'm not going to let this planet suffer the same fate as Cybertron nearly did."
At this, Prime's axe extends into a two-handed weapon, with an energy blade at the end. "I am going to do all I can to defend this planet and its inhabitants against the Decepticon scourge. It's possible that some greater power has chosen me.. us.. and put us here to do just that." You are fierce, Bambi, but your concern for your fellow Dinobot tells me that you value life too. Will you fight with me?"
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Hellbender
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Post by Hellbender on May 6, 2008 18:41:56 GMT -5
Right about here should be that other power plant, the hydro plant near the city arrival point. And... Hellbender's cutters thrummed with anticipation--Omega Supreme. The Autobot all the other Decepticons feared; they one they said no one could defeat.
They had no idea just how powerful their faithful excavating worm was.
If a tiny voice in the back of Hellbender's mind suggested that he was just stunting around the Smelting Pools again, and who did he think he had to prove anything to, anyway--he ignored it. Hellbender's cutters snarled viciously as they bit into the ceramacrete and rebar of the sewer ceiling.
The ground near Optimus and Bambi's cage began to shake and then heave upward amid deep, subterranean rumbling. There was a momentary pause, then the bulging earth broke open as a huge, blue-black thing burst out of the earth, four gleaming toothed cutting wheels snarling as they spun, shaking off fragments of earth and 'crete. A low rumble came from the four hungry mouths between the cutter.
The huge blue-black worm raised its head out of the earth and swung it around, hungry mouths pointing towards the two Autobots. If one could view the thing from above, a certain purple sigil might be seen, painted across the top of its 'head'.
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Omega Supreme
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Post by Omega Supreme on May 6, 2008 19:06:38 GMT -5
Someone can view the worm from above, in addition to the new Prime and Dinobot. There is a loud sounds of gears meshing. Omega Supreme has waited quite long enough to get into this fight, trying to decide where he will be the most needed. The giant worm is a threat scaled appropriately for him to handle and perhaps Omega Supreme alone, and it is in the zoo that he watches over.
Pistons pump, and servos whine. Track flies through the air. Finally, the titan stands. He looks down upon the fray, and he is not pleased. Omega Supreme does not take aim upon the worm, not when a single blast from his cannon could vapourise the two new Autobots if he missed Hellbender.
Instead he walks closer, trying to avoid the poor, innocent buildings in the way, and reaches down to try to grab the worm by the neck with his talons. Disapproving, he intones, "Presence: unwelcome."
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on May 6, 2008 19:29:50 GMT -5
"Not Churchill, but not bad," Bambi comments first in response to the speech. Then she replies, "Them Decepticons on news sometimes. Cause trouble for you Autobots," she adds reassuringly, at his mention that he failed in the Academy, "It okay. Me still need to work on thesis."
She'll be the only Dinobot with an advanced scholastic degree. Fear.
Bambi is considering her response to whether or not she will fight with Optimus Prime. This is not her war. She's not really sure why she should care. Bambi has her own interests and concerns. She's still sore at the Autobots for making her an only child the hard way.
Then a humongous worm breaks out from the ground. Bambi's crest lays back flat, and she hisses before exclaiming, "That big!"
Her attention is ripped away from the massive worm to the rocket tower, which is moving. Her optics widen, and her head tilts to the side, before she looks up at Optimus speculatively, and inquires, "So, what not huge here?"
Even he's bigger than her, after all.
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Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on May 6, 2008 22:43:00 GMT -5
Optimus gets knocked over by the shockwave of the emerging worm creature. He is about to raise his axe, but when he sees the other gargantuan robot--which thankfully is bearing an Autobot crest--enter the fray he can see that his presence is superfluous. It might be the worm's presence that is unwelcome, but Prime thinks that it applies just as much to him.
To Bambi, he intones, "I'm not sure. Let's go see what we can find, we'll only get in the big one's way, here." He holds his hand to his Helmet. "...Bambi? Apparently you are not the only Dinobot here." Optimus hands her his private frequency. "If you do not want to join me now, contact me later. I promise I'll do everything I can to reunite you."
Optimus transforms into something vaguely resembling a red semi-cab. "But this fight is being taken to us whether we want it or not. I cannot sit by anymore."
He starts his engine.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on May 6, 2008 23:29:44 GMT -5
Some distance away, another engine is already fully engaged. A different Prime continues to take absurdly sharp turns in an effort to shake black and white pursuit. The road he had planned on had been blocked by some other piece of destruction, and now Rodimus is left to lose his tail the old fashioned way. He thinks he's shaken the Decepticon, but he's not positive.
This used to be so much easier before he was a Winnebago.
Unfortunately, time is running out, and more than Rodimus needs to shake his pursuit, Rodimus needs to get down to the Zoo. The Zoo has the new arrivals. The Zoo has the power plant that's about to be taken out. And it is near the Zoo that Perceptor's lab, so full of valuable equipment, is. Fetching the new arrivals takes priority - they don't know the escape routes.
If this means he leads the cop car along with him, so be it. Rodimus thinks he's gone, but if not, he'll deal with Barricade, he'll get this She-Dinobot and green Optimus to safety, he'll...
Blast it, but they're about to loose the city, aren't they?
OOC : Still another round away. Will be actually arriving next post.
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Barricade
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Post by Barricade on May 7, 2008 14:34:52 GMT -5
No, not totally shaken. Far back, and revving hard to catch back up after having gotten separated during the chase through the alien city, but still hot on Rodimus Prime's trail. And none too pleased at having been outraced by the flaming gaudy hulk of an RV, either. Unfortunately, Barricade is still too far back to do anything about it.
Yet.
ooc: Like Roddy, still another round or two away, but inbound.
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Hellbender
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Post by Hellbender on May 7, 2008 19:15:44 GMT -5
Hellbender's head and forebody slew around face Omega Supreme. The Guardian robot is... big. Really big, even by Hellbender's standards. The new arrivals are... not forgotten, but dismissed as irrelevant.
"That's a matter of opinion," Hellbender says, spinning his cutters up to full and twisting toward Omega's reaching claw, like a moray eel turning razor-toothed jaws toward a carelessly reaching diver's hand...
"Ah think you're quite welcome!"
The rest of Hellbender comes surging out of the ground, coil after endless, rolling coil as he lunges toward Omega Supreme. Even if the Guardian dodges his bite, he tries to coil around the huge robot like some monstrous anaconda.
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Omega Supreme
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Post by Omega Supreme on May 7, 2008 19:56:00 GMT -5
There is a lot on the battlefield to register. He has faith that Rodimus Prime can bust a bad cop. The new Optimus Prime and his Dinobot seems to be off to attempt something productive. He momentarily turns his head to seek out Perceptor's laboratory.
Omega Supreme is old and a veteran. He knows what Emirate Xaaron's orders mean, and destroying sensitive hardware, such as Perceptor's work, would be soon in coming, with orders like those.
Omega Supreme does not have a hand, proper. He has three talons arrayed around a circle at equidistant points. When Hellbender's drill bites into one of his talons, for Omega Supreme is nearly incapable of dodging, his talons attempt to close reflexively on the mining worm's head and crush it, flat. If that doesn't deter him from biting, Omega Supreme is not sure what will.
Then, grimacing from the pain of a drilled talon, he attempts to give Hellbender's midsection a savage kick.
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on May 7, 2008 20:03:24 GMT -5
Bambi hears the flaming Winnebago and the police car coming before she sights them, although she couldn't identify what they are just by sound. She doesn't make a habit of listening to police cars or flaming Winnebagos.
Meanwhile, Optimus Prime has said the magic words, and he has her attention again. She exclaims, "Dinobots? Me need to see this. Wait, me coming!"
Running dinosaurs have a debatable top speed, but one thing is true: it is slower than the top speed of a speeding alien semi-truck-thing. Bambi attempts to jump onto the back of Optimus Prime and hold on, because it strikes her as the easiest solution to the problem of her being slower than him.
If she succeeds, there will be a dromaeosurid, colloquially know as a 'raptor, riding someone who has a habit of dying and coming back to life. There's a bad joke in there somewhere, isn't there?
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Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on May 7, 2008 20:14:54 GMT -5
If there is a joke, Optimus wouldn't know it. Prime figured if he waited around Bambi would hop on, and decided to just let her do so rather than offer it, since she hasn't entirely been co-operative. He takes off, mindful of the fact that he has a passenger, and makes his way towards Rodimus, now that he's identified him over radio. "This is Rodimus Prime up ahead." He's not aware of anyone else pursuing him, yet.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on May 7, 2008 21:05:04 GMT -5
Rodimus finally spots the fire engine and confirms its identity over the radio. Then, before the two can pass each other, he suddenly slams on his breaks, swings his back-end into a wide swerve, and then is rolling again, so that by the time Optimus catches up with him (assuming the other Prime didn't slow down thanks to Rodimus's maneuvering), they're both going in the same direction.
By this time they should be clear of the zoo and back out in the town.
"Right," he says once they are rolling side-by-side. "Next on the agenda, we had better... ah, didn't lose my tail, after all. That cop car's not ours, by the way. So that's next on the agenda. Left here," and then Rodimus takes the indicated left, turning sharply and just assuming both fire truck and cop car will follow.
OOC: Out of thread and into, "Fireblade: Red Trucks, Sirens, and a Dinosaur"
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Barricade
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Post by Barricade on May 7, 2008 21:42:08 GMT -5
And now there are two gaudy red RVs running from him? Like an Innuit dog frothing at the haunches of the forever retreating lead dog, Barricade punches his throttle, surging forward to follow.
ooc: out of thread and following everyone over to "Fireblade: Red Trucks, Sirens, and a Dinosaur"
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Optimus Prime
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Post by Optimus Prime on May 7, 2008 22:20:42 GMT -5
Optimus is a half-a-firetruck, thank you very much! "Uh, right. Just show me where the battle is, Rodimus. I might be inexperienced against Decepticons but I won't let anyone down." He also turns left, not quite as swiftly as Rodimus, but then again he has a passenger to worry about.
OOC: The Prime Convoy continues to Red Trucks!
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on May 7, 2008 22:28:54 GMT -5
Bambi has ridden in the back of plenty of pick-up trucks, so this isn't too terribly bad. She hunkers down into a sitting posture, tail swishing thoughtfully.
She comments, "Impersonating officer of law? That a crime."
Then Bambi giggles, a weird little sound like a growl crossed with a trill. She tilts her head to the side, considering the flame patterns on the new Prime curiously. Bambi inquires, "What flames mean?"
Culturally, flames can symbolise many things. Hers just symbolise that she wants to set someone on fire, but they're more practical that way.
OOC: I'm with him.
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