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*The space bridge opens, revealing a medium-sized chamber with high ceilings. The walls and floor are metal, but have an almost organic quality to them. There are assorted bits of junk and scrap metal on the floor, and a crate full of high grade--amoung other things--in the corner*
*Snowcat indicates the room with a flourish of his hand* Ta da!
August 1 2005, 07:41:30 UTC 6 years ago
What nice... scrap metal.
Do you have a bucket.
I would like a bucket.
Several buckets.
Big buckets.
August 1 2005, 11:15:02 UTC 6 years ago
Um...buckets. Right. I have buckets but*giggle* they've all got energon in them. We'll have to empty them out first.
August 1 2005, 14:36:06 UTC 6 years ago
*Booping stops.* Hey, what's energon? Is... Is it like high-grade? I'll take buckets of energon too. I can carry lots of buckets --
*Stops suddenly short as the supply of high-grade gurgles to a stop. Looks down at the container. Looks at Snowcat, horrified.*
It's... It's all gone! And I'm only 12% full!
S...Snowcat!
August 1 2005, 16:59:55 UTC 6 years ago
*walks over to the crate, rummages around inside, and pulls out another container. He hands it to Deathscythe, popping the lid off with his thumb*
High grade is energon, it's just a special of energon. They process it differently. And this is the good stuff, trust me.
*kicks over a large piece of metal, about waist high to him and probably about up to Deathscythe's knee* Come sit down.
August 2 2005, 00:51:49 UTC 6 years ago
*Explains as he hooks up the container.* There is no energon in my world.
And definitely no high grade.
In fact. I rarely use fuel at all.
This is very new.
August 2 2005, 01:26:48 UTC 6 years ago
See, this is why it's more fun with the Decepticons. Squish--humans don't have this sort of thing, do they?
August 2 2005, 01:29:19 UTC 6 years ago
Humans have alcohol.
It turns them into lunatics.
It doesn't do much for me, though.
*Soft glug-glug-glug noise of the high-grade being sucked up.*
Why do you dislike humans?
August 2 2005, 01:37:15 UTC 6 years ago
Well, it's not so much that I dislike them as I think they're stupid. See, the Autobots--those are the guys we fight--hang out with humans a lot, and I definitely don't like Autobots. So humans are with Autobots, and guilty by association.
And they're fleshie types. You know, organic. And we transformers and other mechs are much better then them in pretty much everything. But they still get underfoot and try to pretend like they can actually do stuff.
*slight slurp noise as the high grade goes into his fuel line, but at a bit slower pace then Deathscythe's*
August 2 2005, 02:01:10 UTC 6 years ago
I never thought of it that way.
Perhaps because my human has always been with me. On my side no matter what.
*Slowly.* There was an incident, once... I was destroyed. My human screamed, but he could do nothing, and the human who destroyed me wept.
All that remained of me was my mainframe. The enemy took me into custody. The enemy also had the engineer who had created me in custody, along with his four fellows. The engineers worked in secret to restore me, waiting for the day my human could return to the battlefield.
When my human came, I was only 80% complete. But my human is a pilot without equal, and with my scythe, he cleared his path to freedom.
And when he had the chance, he completed my upgrades. And he --
*Looks down.* He repainted me. He didn't have to do that. It took days, but he did it. All the small details, the white trim on my helmet. By hand.
He has given up -- much, to pilot me.
*Falls silent, wondering if Snowcat will even care about, or is capable of understanding, the bond between himself and his pilot.*
August 2 2005, 02:14:35 UTC 6 years ago
The human helped you. I know Autobots help humans all the time. I think it's some kind of glitch they all have, that makes them protect fleshies. And sometimes the humans help them find things. But I've never heard of any human doing that sort of thing.
I know the humans love the Autobots to bits. I also know they hate us Decepticons. That's not gonna change anytime soon. Don't see why I should like them.
I still don't get how you can let the human pilot you. I mean, maybe if you really couldn't do it yourself, I guess I could understand. But what's holding you back now?
August 2 2005, 02:38:02 UTC 6 years ago
*Ponders Snowcat's question.*
Now?
Well, there is no war now. I have nothing to do.
*Dark chuckle.*
Neither does my human. He is as much a creature of war as I am. We are both searching for purpose, and we both have yet to find it.
*Eyes Snowcat.* He is the only human I will allow in my cockpit now, I can tell you that much. I do not love all humans, I have seen far too much of their stupid wars for that. I do not mean to come across as a... fleshie-lover.
But there are some humans... some, rarely... who command my respect.
August 2 2005, 02:46:06 UTC 6 years ago
Now there I do kinda see where you're coming from, about not having any war. We had peace for about...oh, ten Earth years after Megatron disappeared. I hated it.
All us Decepticons hated it. We're supposed to fight, not go strolling la de da hand in hand with the Autobots. Do you have any idea what it's like to see the people you're supposed to be fighting every day and you have work with them? And be nice to them?
I'm the last person who wants to get shot at, but if I had to go through all that again, I'd go nuts. Humans or no humans.
August 2 2005, 02:58:07 UTC 6 years ago
*Deathscythe is a superior mobile suit in every way, audio pickups being the least of it.*
Starscream?
August 2 2005, 03:12:25 UTC 6 years ago
See, Starscream was this really annoying flyer who was also the second-in-command of the Decepticons. He and Megatron fought all the time, and sometimes Megatron had to give him the smackdown to make him stop, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, I guess getting beat up all the time must have messed with his circuits, because one day he threw this big tantrum and joined the Autobots. He was there with them for a while before Thrust talked him into coming back, and that's when we headed back to Cybertron.
I don't know what those Autobots did to him, but it was so...freaky. The Autobots had these five kids who hung out with them, and one of them--the femme--somehow got real close to him. From what I heard later, he actually saved her life at some point later on. And Decepticons never do that, not for any Autobot ally. It's real sick, you know?
I blame the Autobots and the humans for him killing himself like that. *is quiet a moment, thinking*
August 2 2005, 03:31:07 UTC 6 years ago
Starscream must not have understood war. In war there is yourself and there is the enemy. Two sides. Black. White. Mission parameters defined.
If you begin to blur the lines, you run into trouble. Might as well not be a warrior if you're going to run about saving the enemy.
So he is dead now?
August 2 2005, 03:46:34 UTC 6 years ago
He died, but Unicron brought him back to life. But only part way, so he's a bit ghosty still. And then he tried to kill Megatron so Megatron did that thing with his sword and reprogrammed him and now he's...well, he's not trying to pick fights with anyone anymore. But he's sort of boring.
August 2 2005, 04:31:14 UTC 6 years ago
*Stops again to ponder, the glug-glug slowing down.*
Am I boring?
*Deathscythe doesn't think so, but then, it's not like he has any objective criteria to measure himself against.*
August 2 2005, 04:32:32 UTC 6 years ago
August 2 2005, 04:36:00 UTC 6 years ago
August 2 2005, 04:39:47 UTC 6 years ago
*very casually traces a finger over the white lines on Deathscythe's "helmet"*
August 2 2005, 04:59:04 UTC 6 years ago
*Deathscythe has no concept of personal space and therefore no idea that Snowcat is infringing upon it. Green optics zoom up to try to see what Snowcat is doing. Glug-glug.*
I'd offer to do one on you, but... *Spreads blunt mechanical fingers.* These were made for wielding weapons, not paintbrushes. And you look fine as you are.
August 2 2005, 05:08:00 UTC 6 years ago
Could have gotten a flyspy, take your pictures for you. And nothing wrong with my paint job. It's white, helps me blend in in the snow.
*rests a hand on Deathscythe's wing, a rather goofy grin hidden under his mask*
I like white. And green. Green's a nice color too.
August 2 2005, 05:38:12 UTC 6 years ago
Hmm. *Goes through the 28 million colors stored in his database, which takes about a second. Decides,* I like black and blue. Good cloaking colors.
*Perks up.* I have green optics.