We are a literate, intermediate to advanced AU Transformers RPG Based off of the first season of TFP with dashes of other incarnations sprinkled here or there. Characters from any continuity are welcome however must be restyled to match the TFPrime universe.
Active, with ongoing plotlines, we are always willing to integrate new characters into storylines once incorporated into the setting.
(( Groundbridge from Cleaver's Ship in the Texan Wastes. ))
Cleaver's ship gave way to a room that seemed far more human military base than it did Cybertronian space ship. Sounds, different sounds flooded her ears-- music somewhere? The familiar but foreign hum of computer systems similar but different from her own, bits of conversation humming through the walls from elsewhere. The scent seemed different-- earthy and cool, with a mixture of metals, and the place, the place itself seemed underground and… small. As if meant for humans.
Slowly she sat up in Cleaver's palm, allowing her arms to drift out of the coolant tray to do so, and for a moment had almost forgotten just why they had come here, or any hurricane emotions felt before. This was the Autobot base… which meant her view of the Cybertronian natives was about to get a whole lot broader. '…Like that guy.' The backflash of the blue and green gave way to the current room inhabitants. That blue and red mech, standing tall and straight, was a mystery… But from the patient, calm air that seemed to fill the space around him she couldn't help but think he was a commander of some kind.
And then there was the woman.
Standing there near his pedes she seemed just as tall, with an air just as thick, dark hair and a look that just-- She inhaled, reminding herself again as she clenched her eyes for a moment to mentally prepare. 'Won't take that long. In, out, eat, sleep.' Her face relaxed slightly on the exhale, opening her eyes to offer a smile. "Hello…! Thanks for… letting us drop by. 'Preciate it."
Last Edit: Mar 13, 2012 11:17:10 GMT -5 by Deleted
"Huh...there's something you don't see every day."
As always League was on base, his optics now turned towards the space bridge docking bay where a rather crusty looking femme stepped out with a little human in the bot's servos. The submarine was sitting in a massive chair which was placed in front of several computer monitors that showed many different views of the base as well as the land surrounding it. He of course knew Cleaver, but only by reputation alone, as League didn't get out enough to run into the medic, though he was seeing a bit more daylight lately then he had in quite some time, it had something to do with his visits to the middle of the desert.
The hulking mech raised an optic and crossed his arms as he saw the odd sort of wide-eyed look on her face, clearly a tad overwhelmed, enough so that she had forgotten the damage done to her form. At least League thought it was damage, he didn't know much about humans, but there was something a tad off about what his scanners were picking up, which most likely meant that it was Ratchet or the human named June Darby, both ad the skills, but June knew the human body better then any of the Cybertronians on base.
Optimus probably had something professional and utterly appropriate to say – the giant blue and red son of a bitch always had something exactly right to say – but June beat him to the punch by marching forward from where she’d been standing at Optimus’s ankles waiting for the ground bridge. She already had a bin of cool water, sterile gauze, and pain killer on a rolling gurney that she’d been keeping on base out of sheer paranoia. Rightful paranoia it seemed.
“I’m Nurse Darby,” she said briskly. “Call me June. This must be Catherine. Cleaver, will you set her down so I can examine her please?”
The kids were still doing homework, or at least Jack and Raf were doing homework while Miko doodled pictures of Bulkhead mulching smaller cars into cubes. She’d checked in on Jack to make sure he’d be here with the Autobots before turning right around to head home for the night and take care of a few things in her bloody shed back at home but then – BAM! Big giant robot emergency. Well more like, human sized emergency caused by giant robots. Good thing she’d purchased all those medical supplies for the base. She was more than equipped to handle minor burns but until she saw the girl for herself, June would not be relying on the medical opinion of the Cybertronian that she did not know.
Even if that Cybertronian was swapping paint with Ironhide. June’s fondness for Hide had no bearing on this Neutral.
June's forthright attitude and clipped commands were of greater reassurance to the medic than the presence of the equipment was. Kneeling with great care, Cleaver set her patient down directly next to the tiny wheeled bed so that Cat could either stand or elect to get on it immediately. As soon as her sneakers had touched the ground, Cleaver withdrew her hands with the coolant tray and stepped back, taking herself completely out of the way. Her scrutinising optics continued to track Cat, correlating the equipment June had to hand with the patient's injuries. Learning.
"Thank you, June," she uttered softly, sparkfelt but cautious that she was out of her domain here. She was still nagged by the thought that Cat's need to see a human medic at all was her fault. Absently, she siphoned out the coolant with a wrist-line and subspaced the tray. No mess. No fuss.
The fast movements and kneeling and rising had tugged at the closing wound at her side, and Cleaver rested her arms back into their natural mode as much to brace one against the ground as to keep herself from wringing her hands. On impulse, she raised one optic from Cat to consider Optimus's arm, noting the articulation tension. Still hurting, and the wound was older than hers. He could be experiencing the necrosis as well, perha s unknowingly.
Cleaver pinged him first before opening a comm. line, then asked. ::Prime, was it Megatron who damaged your arm, by any chance?::
Optimus looked mildly surprised by the in-comm tangent, turning to regard the medic with puzzled optics. ::Yes. During my last encounter with Megatron. We injured each other mutually, but toward the end of the fight he did my arm particular damage.:: June was attending to Catherine and did not, at least to Optimus’ finely tuned sensors, appear to want help or company while she did. He gestured that Cleaver join him closer to the monitors, nearer to where League was standing. He nodded briefly at the miner.
When Cleaver was nearer he asked, at conversational tones. “Why do you ask?”
'No, I'm just fine here on my perch, thank you.' She thought, shifting in a way that only Cleaver, and perhaps anyone of height with her palm, might have seen or felt. Catherine was to medical treatment as cats were to water. In a last ditch effort, she barely tilted her head over her shoulder to peer up at Cleaver with an eye, face all but radiating her thoughts: 'There's still time to go back to the ship…! Damn it.'
She sighed to herself, easing of Cleaver's palm to plant her feet firmly (she wasn't going to lay on that gurney, no way in hell) on the ground near June. "Hey, June." She said, smiling somewhat awkwardly as she shifted her still-wrapped arms, stance and tone implying she was ready to comply to get this done as quickly as possible. "What's the drill? Neosporin, gauze, ibuprofen?" Despite her amiable smile, she couldn't help the back thought--'All of which are readily available at CVS!'--that was gone as soon as it came. She bit her tongue. Listen, cooperate, nod. She didn't want to add being back handed to the list of things that sucked tonight.
"If it still hasn't healed, you could be experiencing the same effects as I did," Cleaver replied, tracing her optics critically down the tall mech's arm now that she was both closer and had permission of sorts to. Simultaneously she was keeping her sensors on Cat, monitoring her vitals and recording everything that June was doing. She'd already decided she trusted the human medic, and her scrutiny was now more of a professional interest than of vaguely-suspicious protectiveness.
"Megatron's claws are carrying some kind of contaminant now, and getting it into protoform causes a necrosis like I've never seen before. I've successfully treated myself now, and had a chance to examine it properly." She glanced back to Cat and June, confirming with her optics what her dorsal sensors were recording, before adding: "If it wouldn't be stepping on your medic's pedes, I could take a look for you."
“The drill is take off that wrapping stuff and put your arms in this giant bin of water,” said June, setting the plastic bin on the gurney so Cat could chill her burns a little more. Once she had them submerged, June glanced toward Optimus and Cleaver, the big helicopter bot saying something to Optimus in low tones. Optimus, despite himself, kept glancing their way so she briefly nodded at him to assure, yes, things were fine. Then she took a look at Cat’s arms, gently hanving her lift one out of the water and taking a cool sponge gently to the burns on her upper arms.
“You’re lucky, Catherine. These burns are mild second degree. Like you put your arm in an oven. Keep them in the water while I get gauze and, yes, painkillers if you have not already taken them.” June moved to open up her first aid kit on the gurney, glancing worriedly at the bright red of Cat’s otherwise soft tan skin. “What happened exactly?”
The neural-fiber material had come off easily, soaked in its coolant fluid. She made note to actually look at her arms when the material came off… they looked… Catherine winced despite herself. Areas that were once shadowed or smooth were now developing blisters, if some blisters hadn't burst already. By muscle memory alone she could remember where her arms had touched the sides of Barricade's chest, but now looking at them… She empathized with Cleaver's worry a lot more, and in secret, swallowed her pride and ate her words.
Resting her forehead on the edge of the bin, she busied her mind with other thoughts as June scrubbed, the sensation making her stomach clench. "Nope. Don't have any on the ship." She kept her face down, though, head rested on the edge. She'd been thinking about that in the back of her mind ever since stepping through the ground bridge. That Cleaver knew, she decided, was more than enough. But what could she tell the rest? 'I suck at lying.'
Instead, she'd be as vague as possible, sprinkle with sarcasm. She counted herself lucky that any unsteadiness or tightness in her tone could be attributed to the physical damage. "It was cold and the oven was warm." She began, lifting her face up finally enough so that June could see she was joking. "I was working in the lab, got comfortable and careless." She shrugged a shoulder slightly. "Needless to say I'll be getting some protective gear after this…"
Cleaver's optics snapped back to the gurney, brow twitching at the evasion whilst her body remained turned to Prime. She couldn't see why Cat would elect to lie about the cause of her burns. Indeed, she had received them as part of a noble (not to mention misguided and outright stupid) effort to aid a Cybertronian. Dismissing it as a result of carelessness implied an ineptitude that Cleaver wouldn't have tolerated in the delicate human.
She would query it later. She saw no point in disturbing June's treatment of Cat's injuries, and anything she said or did at this point would only delay that. Cat was classified as an adult amongst her species, and had always seemed to know her mind.
Twisting the tip of the blade she was using as a crutch against the deck, thoughtful, Cleaver cast her optics about the atrium to take stock of the Autobots present. No Ironhide (for which she was grateful, given the state of things right now), and she only recognized Optimus.
“I will contact Ratchet so he can consult with you. I do not know if any of the other medical procedures he has tried might conflict with yours.” He glanced again at June, who had an uncanny ability to sense when he needed a cue from her because she looked up and nodded again in a way that was somehow dismissive without being an iota different from her previous nod. He looked back to Cleaver. “We can move this to med bay if you prefer.”
"Please. If we can operate tonight, all the better," Cleaver replied, not hesitating with the thought of the black mess in her side contaminating the Prime's protoform. As Optimus's had, her optics also turned to June, and her young patient specifically. "And, it'd be good for her to spend some time with other humans who're... familiar with our kind." That she wanted Cat to stay under June's medical scrutinty as long as permitted was a given.
Optimus and Cleaver seemed to be taking their conversation elsewhere and likewise June diverted her attention from them to her patient. She wasn’t sure she bought Cat’s explanation. A: because Cat was wearing this kind of ‘oh god please don’t cross examine me’ face and B: because the burns were inconsistent with any lab work that June could think of. The contact burns on her forearms and fingers and biceps looked to her like a consequence of reaching into a hot oven and trying to grab a cookie sheet too far back on the rack… then trying for it again… maybe several times in fact.
“Whatever you say,” said June in a tone that suggested that means of stupidity did not particularly concern her. She shook several pills from a bottle and handed them to Catherine with a water bottle. “Take those and I’ll wrap your arms. I’ve got Polysporin at the ready. You’re lucky none of the blisters are broken. These are massive. What exactly were you doing in the lab?”
Her excuses were going over about as well as a lead balloon, and she could feel it. Glancing from the top of her glasses at June's expression (which had slid to the bridge of her nose) she took the pills, awkwardly knocking them back with the water. She was in the medical field, and looked old enough to be a mother, so as if her maternal and medical experience combined weren't enough to detect bullshit, Cat's delivery sucked.
Quietly she wished she were Tony, or Jack. To be able to weave little stories face to face rather than just behind a screen. She hoped, as she set down the water bottle and positioned her arms for June, that the questions were done as soon as she slipped in that 'whatever you say'. That usually ended these types of conversations, but.. 'O Dio, fuck, dammit just leave it, augh!' Out of some misplaced sense of God only knows what… why was she continuing to keep Barricade's wishes again?
She inhaled, and let it out with a puff of air that conveniently blew a rebellious lock from her face. 'Fuck it.' "Look, can we just leave this as an 'I'm stupid in my youth' type situation, and assume I'll learn from this experience like a semi-responsible young adult?" She could hear Tony laugh clear across the world. Semi-responsible, he would say, would be too generous.
“Youth and its correlation to stupidity holds only so much weight with me when summarily attached to giant transforming robots,” said June Darby, utterly flatly. She was washing and sterilizing her hands thoroughly before she uncapped the Polysporin and squeezed the cool ointment onto her fingers. She nodded for Cat to extend her right arm and gently took her wrist to steady her while she very lightly applied the anti-biotic. She did this in silence for a moment. Then:
“I’ve known about the Cybertronians here on the planet for less than a year. I’m still getting used to the dangers and how to rethink everything I’ve ever thought.” A pause. “My son, Jack, got caught up with the Autobots before I did. He never got hurt, thank God, while they looked after him but I worry still. So, when you say youthful stupidity that relates bit too closely to my son.” She looked at Cat. “I just want to know it’s not likely he’d ever encounter this kind of thing while with the Autobots.” Because, for all that they are nice, are good, are guardians… they are dangerous and soldiers and war beget them.