Ep0.5 – “Slow to Rise” - Open
Apr 12, 2012 12:29:49 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2012 12:29:49 GMT -5
The iron giant currently occupying a great majority of their central control room was, Optimus had been assured, ancient. A medical scan and cross-reference for his proto-skeletal base-structure had yielded a match from a pre-Golden Era labor model. Refitted for war like all of them had been, Piston Gasket was a living piece of history in so much as any of Cybertron’s history still lived in the wake of its annihilation. Gargantuan, cast-iron plating, dense-mass and dark-plated – the new comer had clearly been in state of low-fuel induced stasis for decades here on earth, half a century according to Ratchet, and after burning through League’s high grade infusion and the firing of what had been described as a ‘truly massive fragging cannon’, the giant had wound down like clockwork and upon coming through the groundbridge slowly taken a knee... and promptly shut down.
Optimus had taken the opportunity to have the Bot’s credentials re-checked via Blaster while Ratchet did a medical examination and came to the conclusion that another energon transfusion would bring the clockwork giant back to full steam so to speak. There had been some discussion about the safety of bringing the big Bot online again, but it was ultimately decided that regardless of safety, Gasket had proved himself an Autobot in the fight against Armadura and he’d clearly been on his own on this world, long enough in fact that Optimus suspected he had stopped – at least for a while – being Cybertronian at all. In his shut-down state, Gasket had apparently been operating as a functional Baldwin 4-8-4 Steam Locomotive if the train yard he’d been found in was any indication.
The Autobots had given the older mechanoid some time to cycle down before giving him a second, more slowly administered, energon infusion, via an intravenous injection into one of the mech’s distal fuel lines. The diffusion of energon moved through the massive Cybertronian slowly, cycling the mech up like the slow start of an older model flux capacitor, humming and occasionally grinding as Optimus took a step back, stood directly before the seated the giant who, even kneeling down, came nearly to the middle of the Prime’s chest. Standing up, he would be at least a head and shoulders taller. Optimus waited patiently, but readily, for the mech to wake.
Hopefully he would recall where he was and what had happened to bring him here.
((OOC: any bots interested in the new guy who are not on patrol are welcome to drop in and out.))
Optimus had taken the opportunity to have the Bot’s credentials re-checked via Blaster while Ratchet did a medical examination and came to the conclusion that another energon transfusion would bring the clockwork giant back to full steam so to speak. There had been some discussion about the safety of bringing the big Bot online again, but it was ultimately decided that regardless of safety, Gasket had proved himself an Autobot in the fight against Armadura and he’d clearly been on his own on this world, long enough in fact that Optimus suspected he had stopped – at least for a while – being Cybertronian at all. In his shut-down state, Gasket had apparently been operating as a functional Baldwin 4-8-4 Steam Locomotive if the train yard he’d been found in was any indication.
The Autobots had given the older mechanoid some time to cycle down before giving him a second, more slowly administered, energon infusion, via an intravenous injection into one of the mech’s distal fuel lines. The diffusion of energon moved through the massive Cybertronian slowly, cycling the mech up like the slow start of an older model flux capacitor, humming and occasionally grinding as Optimus took a step back, stood directly before the seated the giant who, even kneeling down, came nearly to the middle of the Prime’s chest. Standing up, he would be at least a head and shoulders taller. Optimus waited patiently, but readily, for the mech to wake.
Hopefully he would recall where he was and what had happened to bring him here.
((OOC: any bots interested in the new guy who are not on patrol are welcome to drop in and out.))