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re_alignment2013-10-27 09:56 am
notyourblueangel) wrote in re_alignment2013-10-27 09:56 am
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[Accidental Video]
[The feed comes on with a clatter and a shaking of the video until the device settles - apparently, it had been dropped or tossed aside? Thundercracker is in the field of vision, and it looks like he's in the Junkpile somewhere. He looks like he's . . . not quite himself, too.]
[The first thing people would likely note? His right wing isn't the customary blue with red stripe like his left one is. It's black with a purple stripe. Wait a minute . . . isn't that Skywarp's color scheme?? There's a tight-fitting collar around his throat too, segmented metal with a few active indicator lights blinking or glowing softly, and some small receptors and access ports as well. He looks like he's been in hard battle for a month straight with no reprieve, too - he's scuffed and dirty, his paint badly worn, his body gouged and dented. His shoulder rifles are gone, open holes left in his upper arms where the couplings would hook in. The Decepticon brands are missing from his wings - not as if removed but as if they were never there. About the ONLY things that look "normal" on him are the Glyph on his left shoulder and the sheriff badge mounted on his right. He's worn it proudly since McCrane gave it to him a few months ago, but now he plucks it off and looks at it, turning it over in his hands as if he's never seen it before and has no idea what it is or what it does. He starts to toss it away as well, but . . . something stops him. He regards it for another instant, then remounts it on his shoulder with a shrug before looking around as if to assess his situation.]
[Those who have known Thundercracker since he first arrived might remember how guarded and stoic he'd been - he's actually come a long way! The look in his optics now, however? Makes that Thundercracker seem like he'd been a warm and outgoing guy from the start. There's a chill in this mech's demeanor, a wounded and angry, closed guardedness far beyond even what he'd been before.]
Hmn. Should find some fuel, I guess. And a weapon. That was too easy, getting out of there. Has to be a trap of some kind. [He scowls darkly.] If Master's playing games again...
[With a rough snort, he turns to head deeper into the Junkpile, inadvertently giving the camera a good view of his back . . . which from his shoulders vents down over his pelvic unit and across both wings is covered in long, scorched furrows from electro-whips.]
((ooc: Uh, TC MAYYYYYYY or may not come back to answer comm responses. Actionspam, OTOH, is totally welcome! Initially, TC will try to run - he thinks you're there to recapture him =[ - but he can't fly, he has no weapons, his mods are disabled, and he's injured, so it'll be pretty easy to catch up and corner him if need be.))
[The first thing people would likely note? His right wing isn't the customary blue with red stripe like his left one is. It's black with a purple stripe. Wait a minute . . . isn't that Skywarp's color scheme?? There's a tight-fitting collar around his throat too, segmented metal with a few active indicator lights blinking or glowing softly, and some small receptors and access ports as well. He looks like he's been in hard battle for a month straight with no reprieve, too - he's scuffed and dirty, his paint badly worn, his body gouged and dented. His shoulder rifles are gone, open holes left in his upper arms where the couplings would hook in. The Decepticon brands are missing from his wings - not as if removed but as if they were never there. About the ONLY things that look "normal" on him are the Glyph on his left shoulder and the sheriff badge mounted on his right. He's worn it proudly since McCrane gave it to him a few months ago, but now he plucks it off and looks at it, turning it over in his hands as if he's never seen it before and has no idea what it is or what it does. He starts to toss it away as well, but . . . something stops him. He regards it for another instant, then remounts it on his shoulder with a shrug before looking around as if to assess his situation.]
[Those who have known Thundercracker since he first arrived might remember how guarded and stoic he'd been - he's actually come a long way! The look in his optics now, however? Makes that Thundercracker seem like he'd been a warm and outgoing guy from the start. There's a chill in this mech's demeanor, a wounded and angry, closed guardedness far beyond even what he'd been before.]
Hmn. Should find some fuel, I guess. And a weapon. That was too easy, getting out of there. Has to be a trap of some kind. [He scowls darkly.] If Master's playing games again...
[With a rough snort, he turns to head deeper into the Junkpile, inadvertently giving the camera a good view of his back . . . which from his shoulders vents down over his pelvic unit and across both wings is covered in long, scorched furrows from electro-whips.]
((ooc: Uh, TC MAYYYYYYY or may not come back to answer comm responses. Actionspam, OTOH, is totally welcome! Initially, TC will try to run - he thinks you're there to recapture him =[ - but he can't fly, he has no weapons, his mods are disabled, and he's injured, so it'll be pretty easy to catch up and corner him if need be.))
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What the slag did I say 'bout gettin' trashed again? Also, you were the one who got all uptight about the wing-throne.
[And it was far stranger (creepier) to see his own colour scheme on a wing on Thundercracker than disembodied and incorporated in a throne, for some reason.]
Do I have to come get you or something?
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SKYWARP!? Pit, I thought you were dead! Where are you?
[Yeah, he did but didn't really hear anything you said. Shock factor, man. Give him a minute and he'll realize you're also not beaten to slag like he is...or wearing a Pit-spawned collar...or even acting like you were the last time he saw you (which was a great deal more pathetically than you'd want to know...but he also had good reason...)]
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Sure, people disappear here all the slagging time, but I ain't done anythin' recently to end up dead.
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[Is none of this ringing any bells!?]
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[His wings twitch and then flare up in unconcious offense over the mention of "slavery" - the only ones who ever had the unfortune to have that happen to them were the Autobots, too bad, so sad.]
Your cerebro-circuits glitching or something? That's never happened to me, and you never said anything 'bout that before either.
[Video] Uh...s-sorry...9,9 This is TC being difficult
Right. I don't know who you really are or what game you're playing, but this conversation is over.
[Because this obviously isn't Skywarp. The only thing Thundercracker can think of is that this mech is impersonating his wingmate, trying to confuse and keep him talking, keep him in place, until the signal can be tracked down and he can be found. NOPE not happening!]
[He clicks off the device and starts making a run for it, to get himself deeper into this landfill he's hiding in. If he wants, though, it'd be easy enough for Skywarp to teleport out to the location the signal had been coming from, then do an aerial sweep from there. Short of burying INTO the piles of trash, there's no much in the way of hiding places for a mech being sought from above.]
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Thundercracker? What happened to you?
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[He holds the comm close, hoping to fill the video with his face and keep this person from seeing /where/ he is. With any luck
right, when's he ever had THAT, this device doesn't have a tracker on it . . . because if it gives away his position, he's not sure he'll be able to get out of the area fast enough to not be recaptured.]...I'm Thundercracker. And I'd imagine it's obvious, master. [Yeah, that was about as caustic and defiant as it comes.] Should I know you? Sir.
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Master? Why are you calling me that? I'm Blurr, you don't remember me?
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[He gets pulled away from the device by other things, but later finally comes back to this transmission –he's learned a few things since then. He's…a little less hostile, at least?]
 Blurr. No. You must know the . . . the other me . . . whatever, however that works. Who is he to you?
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He's a friend to me. A good one. [There's only sincerity in his voice.]
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It looks like it would be a good idea for you to come there regardless...I'd like a report on your situation.
[Because something is wrong.]
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[He quirks a faint grin, devoid of humor, his optics cold and guarded.]
Is this a groundpounder offering to help a Seeker?
[The mech's either a sympathizer - and there are those, he's aware - or it's a trap.]
What kind of headquarters, and what do you want for the energon?
[He frowns.]
Wait . . . what do you mean, report of my "situation"? Master. [tacking that on the end because, well, he's supposed to, like it or not
he loathes it, and if this mech /IS/ a sympathizer, might be good to buck up to him some.][video]
[They've gone over this before, haven't they?]
Police Headquarters. [He sends the coordinates.] And I don't want anything other than an explanation...
What happened? Why are you wearing Skywarp's wing? Why...
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Why are you calling me Master?
[video] Heh, poor McCrane...
Police headquarters? What kind of idiot do you take me for? If you think I'd just turn myself in for a few pints of energon, you're glitched. Sir.
[He'd respond to the other questions, but the last makes him pause, optics narrowing.]
...why wouldn't I? Proper address of a Seeker to any "superior" and all that?
[video] He is so confused. x-x
[McCrane shakes his head.] That is our badge you're wearing. Your badge. You can get energon whenever you want, here...there is no shortage.
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You've never called me Master before. I'm not even entirely comfortable with Commander, to be honest.
[video] They can be confused together. Because so's TC
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It would seem I happen to possess a stockpile of energon now.
Who is 'master'?
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Who is this? And what do you want for the energon?
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[In truth this is very much a matter of convenience for him. If he can get the information he wants without forcing his way into someone's mind, so much the better. It's faster and guarantees compliance, and that's all that matters. The quicker he can get the information he's looking for, the quicker he can get back to other things.]
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That's what Skywarp used to call him, but his wingmate is DEAD- but once he gets the comm open to snap at whoever has contacted him, he . . . pauses, staring.]Who the Pit are you?
[He's seen four-legged (read: "animal") type mechs before, though rarely, and none of them ever spoke to him with such familiarity.]
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Are you playing a game??? I'm Ravage!
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I'm not the one who plays games.
[Then again, "games" in his experience have come to mean something FAR different.]
[He considers the mech a moment longer. He's not anyone Thundercracker knows, but he's not threatening him either. This could be useful.]
My name is Thundercracker. Where are you?
[He wouldn't mind trying to get some answers from the mech, but he's not going to do it over a traceable communication.]
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I'm at teh Hub!
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