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re_alignment2014-02-24 08:16 pm
skidaddle) wrote in re_alignment2014-02-24 08:16 pm
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[Open][Shot like a Micheal Bay movie]
[While Skids might never admit openly that he likes showing off...he likes showing off. He likes the way gravity works, he likes the way you can calculate trajectories using different forces to turn unconventional weapons--such as, say, the dead body of a half-transformed comrade--into deadly flying time-bombs waiting to explode. He likes target practice, and he likes aerial maneuvers. He likes flower arranging, and he likes haberdashery. He likes skills he hasn't learned yet.]
...
[Right now, he likes ramps. While he is positive that this chunk of motor-vehicular-catastrophe fell through the lambda from some sadistic circus, he is not going to look a gift-cart under the axles. It is not his fault that a wicked half-pike with a 360 degree loop now exists on the edge of the junk pile, but it would be sinful not to at least try it once. He has even outfitted the end of the ramp with a pile of logs--though why he has done this will remain a mystery unless you see the video through to its end.]
Just in case this does not go as I expect it to, I have a few announcements to make.
First--I seem to be cured. Most of you know this, but I'm making it official. Pharma got rid of the problematic 'devouring the energon of the living' thing.
[Even if he still had the mandibles. Win some, lose some. He'd win more if he got to torment Prowl with them later.]
Second--since we've had a number of new folks...Hi. I'm Skids. Ex-Diplomat, Autobot, and in charge of the Zoning Commitee. I've seen a number of you talking about feeling marginalized, so I invite you to contact Black Arachnia and join one of our Special Committees.
Making a difference starts here.
[The application is attached.]
Third--Nexus is possibly the best Firstforged, and...
Fourth--I leave my possessions to the Road Crew, Dead End, Chromedome, and Perceptor. Here goes.
[At which point he transforms, and rolls sloooowly to the edge of the concrete jungle with the loop-de-loop at the end. For the rest--]
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[For the rest there is the sound of tires on pavement, an engine roaring, glass breaking, and...just after the sky turns into the ground and the ground turns into the sky, there is an explosion which comes from underneath the logs.
You can see them in the video, flying in the path of Skid's just-launched descent like a game of deadly frogger gone horribly awry. Logs. Everywhere. Falling.
Then, there is the sound of transformation. Just once.
The sea of logs parts, and is followed by a cloud of splinters...and what lands on the ground just beyond is either an attrocity--or the coolest thing ever.]
I did mention that Nexus was the best First-forged, didn't I?
[Meet Skid's second alt-mode--a wood shredder. Also, he may have broken more than one strut trying this, but he is not going to ruin the moment now.]
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[Right now, he likes ramps. While he is positive that this chunk of motor-vehicular-catastrophe fell through the lambda from some sadistic circus, he is not going to look a gift-cart under the axles. It is not his fault that a wicked half-pike with a 360 degree loop now exists on the edge of the junk pile, but it would be sinful not to at least try it once. He has even outfitted the end of the ramp with a pile of logs--though why he has done this will remain a mystery unless you see the video through to its end.]
Just in case this does not go as I expect it to, I have a few announcements to make.
First--I seem to be cured. Most of you know this, but I'm making it official. Pharma got rid of the problematic 'devouring the energon of the living' thing.
[Even if he still had the mandibles. Win some, lose some. He'd win more if he got to torment Prowl with them later.]
Second--since we've had a number of new folks...Hi. I'm Skids. Ex-Diplomat, Autobot, and in charge of the Zoning Commitee. I've seen a number of you talking about feeling marginalized, so I invite you to contact Black Arachnia and join one of our Special Committees.
Making a difference starts here.
[The application is attached.]
Third--Nexus is possibly the best Firstforged, and...
Fourth--I leave my possessions to the Road Crew, Dead End, Chromedome, and Perceptor. Here goes.
[At which point he transforms, and rolls sloooowly to the edge of the concrete jungle with the loop-de-loop at the end. For the rest--]
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[For the rest there is the sound of tires on pavement, an engine roaring, glass breaking, and...just after the sky turns into the ground and the ground turns into the sky, there is an explosion which comes from underneath the logs.
You can see them in the video, flying in the path of Skid's just-launched descent like a game of deadly frogger gone horribly awry. Logs. Everywhere. Falling.
Then, there is the sound of transformation. Just once.
The sea of logs parts, and is followed by a cloud of splinters...and what lands on the ground just beyond is either an attrocity--or the coolest thing ever.]
I did mention that Nexus was the best First-forged, didn't I?
[Meet Skid's second alt-mode--a wood shredder. Also, he may have broken more than one strut trying this, but he is not going to ruin the moment now.]
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We're not in a war.
[Not anymore.]
Actually, I owe you an apology for calling you out about this so suddenly.
Still, I ahve nothing better to do than lie here and wait to be rescued.
[Which made it seem like as good a time as any.]
What about partnerships, then? Temporary ones?
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[People disappearing hurts just as much.]
Oh. Well, that. It's nothing. Forgotten.
[He frowns.]
In what sense?
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And they are. Maybe that is a good reason to move relationships faster than we otherwise would.
[So that they had a chance to share something before one of them as gone.]
We're talking now, so...thanks.
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I mean two mechs who can enjoy each other's company and do relationship-esque activities together but without the permanence.
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[Which is his philosophy, of late.]
Of course.
... Oh. You mean the concept of "friends with benefits", yes? I've considered it.
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Maybe not...as...conjunx, but as that other thing.
The 'friends with benefits' thing.
You said there are people here you are willing to try that with?
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I've no reason to lie about such a thing, after all.
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So maybe give it a try. It'll get you out of your lab more, or...
Or at least give you some very interesting memories of it.
I'm sure Wheeljack would be willing if you asked.
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[Wow he suddenly looks as if the other bot just suggested he go make out with Megatron or something.]
No, that... that isn't a good idea. Even as a suggestion.
[Even being casual with Wheeljack would only make things worse.]
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Isn't?
On your list?
[Confused Skids is confused.]
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So, no.
Because no one is on a "list". There is no list.
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Would he be on it?
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Yes.
Among others.
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[He likes the sound of 'others.']
I could help.
If you ever wanted to try with him, I mean.
Or if you ever need some practice.
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[Plus there's actual feelings there and there shouldn't be.]
... Practice? I don't follow.
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Is it so different from trying a new approach in an experiment?
[Skids only has an inkling of those feelings, or he'd probably be much more annoying right now.]
...
Well, when was the last time you...uh. You know?
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...
This is different.
[He frowns, thinking, then shrugs.]
Mm, likely before the war began. I haven't precisely kept track.
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[He...gets that. There's been a few relationships in the time he can remember which he made the same decision about.]
...
How long has your war been?
[If you say 4 million years then...wow.]
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[He looks away, shrugging.]
Several hundred years thus far. If not more. I was not present for the entirety of it.