Ep1 - 'Heads Up' - Closed | Transformers Prime RP

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Ep1 - 'Heads Up' - Closed Aug 16, 2012 17:19:32 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 17:19:32 GMT -5

It was purely by chance that Fairwinds came within range of the unofficially elected leader of the awakened Eradicons. Returning from seeing Arma, the cassette had been on her way back towards the vent space above Megatron's quarters to recharge. The most direct route had been helplessly obstructed halfway there, however - the vent littered with both claw and blaster marks that spoke of quite a serious scrap in a very confined space.

Then the floor had been missing and Acid Storm's lab had been underneath. And no way was Fairwinds showing her plates there.

The alternative route was lengthy in avoiding areas of the ship still being actively welded or held under quarantine whilst leaking power lines were resealed and volatile materials used in repairs. It took her towards the engine rooms, where she had last seen Barricade and where the majority of the Eradicons were still toiling.

She'd paused at a vent to rest her hydraulics a moment and watch, trying to ascertain how the repairs to the Nemesis were going. The ship was no longer listing, but its state was far from acceptable.

Steve was currently on his own and positioned partway under a console. Her comm.s were still missing vital components, and likely she wouldn't get a better opportunity to speak to him without being overheard. Spontaneous decision made, Fairwinds slid out of the open vent and glided down to land on the deckplates at the Eradicon's hip.

She shuffled into the distorting light of his lamp, ducking her helm under the exposed and drooping guts of the console. "Hey Steve. How's it going?"

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Ep1 - 'Heads Up' - Closed Aug 16, 2012 18:32:33 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 18:32:33 GMT -5

“Oh, you know,” said Steve, still beneath the console. “Massive casualty list, at least three confirmed deaths, the ship is still falling apart, and Starscream brigged one of our only Nemesis-specific engineers so Shockwave (who is still injured) is now the authority on all the ship repairs while Ratbat screams at us and births paperwork to make himself feel better. Otherwise? Fine. Doing grand.”

The Vehicon pushed himself out from beneath the console and stared dourly up at the chirpy little minicon. Her little optics were already shiny with extra super-duper charm and helpnessness, perhaps even slightly larger than usual. But that just might have been because she looked like slag someone repaired with duct tape and crazy glue. He seemed to recall that she’d been blown up in the whole fiasco with the fragging war ship that the Autobots had sabotaged at Chernobyl. However, today had been a day for dead mechs walking so he didn’t much have it in him to be phased. He ex-vented heavily, engine noise kicking grumpily in his chest.

“What is it you want, Fairwinds?”

Last Edit: Aug 16, 2012 20:40:15 GMT -5 by Deleted

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Ep1 - 'Heads Up' - Closed Aug 18, 2012 17:07:50 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2012 17:07:50 GMT -5

Fairwinds had not missed the number of injured Eradicon and dismembered/blown off parts during her travels of the ship, and she chirred a low note at the senior-in-spark mecha.

Steve had been one of the first to awaken, before she'd managed to catch up with Megatron's flagship orbiting this planet, and though she didn't understand the process, she adored the sentient Eradicons. They were young, restless with a want for knowledge and experience, and always fun.

In the underbelly of the ship, they were their own cohort and always first to get slagged. That they remained cheery, generally upbeat and playing with human media (which was an interest Fairwinds had very few others she could share with) made them extra special in the cassette's mind.

Unaffected by his entirely understandable mood, Fairwinds ex-vented overly heated air from her frontal vents. Recharge was going to feel so good in a few kliks. "Just wanted to give you a heads-up about a ruckus that you should try'n' keep your guys away from. Thirty-five breems, the corridors within three across, up and down from the brig. You know the one." She angled her head to fix one large optic onto him, the other making a quick scan of the other Eradicons in the room. "Hold off on repairs far away from there for an orbital cycle. Make sense?"

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Ep1 - 'Heads Up' - Closed Aug 27, 2012 20:16:59 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2012 20:16:59 GMT -5

Steve leveled a long, very long look at the little cassette. He laid there on his back staring at her for a phenomenally long time while he contemplated the implications of simply asking no questions and doing as she said. There were things going on, political gambits and power plays just now. The ship was rife with rumor and the lingering cloud of panic and settling dust. Megatron was missing, Soundwave was injured, the Nemesis was limping, Barricade was brigged, Starscream was taking over, and ever there was Shockwave who was to never ever be forgot in the scope of Decepticon machinations.

Fairwinds was not one to throw in her lot with Starscream; she was Megatron’s bit-bot and that meant she was conspiring to put their mad revolutionary back on his throne. The red optical visor glowed dull in the shadow below the console space as he continued to look up at her and in that moment thought: I could tell Starscream that she’s planning something. I could choose right now to think a change of command is a good thing.

“You heard what Megatron’s been like since you been gone?” asked Steve, not giving her a definitive ‘yes’ or ‘no’ indicator for his cooperation. His tone was rather menacing.

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Ep1 - 'Heads Up' - Closed Aug 28, 2012 4:41:00 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2012 4:41:00 GMT -5

That... hadn't been what she'd been expecting. And Steve's vocaliser...

Fairwinds flattened her plates a little, rocking a little as she brought her pedes together into a primly anxious posture. She glanced around the room again, not expecting anything to have changed - just wanted a klik of not looking at Steve's visor. Not that she needed to look at him to feel uncomfortable. His field was ugly.

"No," she finally muttered, optics on the floor before she looked at the Eradicon again.

Fairwinds had been actively gathering what intel she could since getting back, but most of it had been centered on wild speculations about Megatron's deactivations, how the Autobots had bridged in for an attack, and whether mini-scraplets were real and if their old turncoat was insane enough to bring them to a raid. There had been nothing about what things had been like during her absence stuffed in June Derby's safebox.

She had enough processor power to speculate, though.

Megatron had been... unwell for the short time before the attack at Chernobyl because of whatever had happened to Barricade. Quicker to violence, more irrational, more primal. The cassette had to assume that the longer Barricade had been doing... whatever planetside whilst she was getting duct-taped back together, the worse her Master had become. And apparently it had involved the Eradicons, if Steve's response now was anything to go by.

But that didn't matter, she decided with a flick of her helm plates. Megatron was her Master, and Steve's Commander, and he should be in Command of the Decepticons, and Barricade was going to be out soon and then things would get back to normal and everyone would be happy again.

Bolstered by the thought, Fairwinds burst a tiny shock of power through her thrusters to hop up onto Steve's slim chassis. His support was severely wavering, and by extension so was the Eradicon's. The drones tended to drift with the sentients, and the sentients followed Steve. Though weak, they were numerous and important to the running of the Nemesis. If they abandoned Megatron...

Steve needed to know a little about what was really going on (though by Primus not everything or Megatron would have her for scrap) - whether or not she could rely on him to keep that information to himself was another matter.

Fairwinds angled her head to present one massive optic and fixed it on Steve's visor. She frowned with intense scrutiny. "But I can guess. Can I rely on you to keep it to yourself, if I tell you some of what's going on? 'Cause I know that whatever's happened was pretty horrible, but there's an explanation, and it's gonna get fixed. Gotta trust me on this one, Steve."

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Ep1 - 'Heads Up' - Closed Aug 28, 2012 9:59:07 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2012 9:59:07 GMT -5

There was another really long pause, Steve glaring at the little cassette an physically aware of the heat of his own anger in the kilk of his laser core… but (and there was indeed a ‘but’) for all that he was angry there was the core of the Eradicons’ loyalty to Megatron. However hot his anger, it wasn’t the heat of the smelting pit, it wasn’t watching mechs disassembled screaming, it wasn’t being dragged begging to a legally sanctioned euthanasia and there was the matter of Megatron having given them all a chance at survival. There was the matter of ‘owing’ ever after millions of years.

And that meant something to Steve. It wasn’t about Megatron even, it was about that idea of loyalty. Of proving he had it, that they all had it to some degree. Sure, some of the Eradicons weren’t pulled from the crèche halls like he’d been so they didn’t know, weren’t as bound to it as he was. But it was the idea of fealty and the history there - the idea that they'd said, once upon a time, that mechs like him weren't capable of it.

“For the sake,” said Steve quietly, “of Megatron’s history. And the fact that I think Barricade is right: it takes a cataclysm to kill Megatron. I don’t think we’ve had one yet.” He looked back to the wiring he was fixing. “Do what you’re going to do, cassette. But don’t make me regret it.” He looked at her one last time. “My opinion though: If you can’t bring back the old Megatron then it’s better to just not bring him back. Think about that while you do what you do, okay?”

Last Edit: Aug 28, 2012 10:00:54 GMT -5 by Deleted

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Ep1 - 'Heads Up' - Closed Aug 28, 2012 15:26:35 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2012 15:26:35 GMT -5

Still watching Steve in profile, Fairwinds grinned along the entire length of her beak. "Whole plan is centered around bringing back Lord Megatron well and truly. No more crayfish. Back to how Master should be." She leaned her optic in closer for emphasis. "Back to the commander who keeps the awakened out of Shockwave's servos and the drones repaired rather than recycled for parts just in case they come-to themselves."

That he hadn't taken the offer of an explanation was reassuring - there was still enough of the bedrock loyalty left uncracked to keep the faith. She respected that, and pulsed as much alongside gratitude.

Straightening up, she gave the Eradicon's chassis a quick double-tap with one pede. "Good talk, Steve. 'm gonna go pass out and try not to get dead by Starscream. Later." And then, with a little hop and twist so that her thrusters wouldn't fire at the mech, she took off back to the open vent.

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