Flashback – “The Vent Plan” – Closed
Jan 11, 2012 2:27:53 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2012 2:27:53 GMT -5
Arcee was giving him some flak about his plan. Barricade was giving her flak back about not liking his plan. This was pretty normal behavior really, between a pair of law-bots on mission. Professional sarcasm and backhanded insults were a well traded commodity and the social currency of their function class and for team Maverick it wasn't a conversation until someone got their plates in a jam.
It might have just been a question of opposiitional function - between Arcee and her Six that is. Barricade’s design was a technical offshoot for the enforcer cohorts and not a design that had caught on for later generations, but he did was he did very well even if there was not a particular high demand for what he did and what he did… was infiltration. Therein, laid the problem. Barricade did infiltration whereas Arcee did knockdown drag-out beat downs punctuated by scout work and field reconnaissance.
Barricade operated well in the knockdown drag-out beat downs sector of enforcer work (he was deep cover operative in the Kaon criminal underground for frag’s sake) but he preferred to leave that until he’d exhausted his other sneakier options. Arcee was built for sneaky. But she didn’t have a sneaky personality… or at least she didn’t like the vent idea.
It was mostly she didn’t’ like the vent idea.
“Look, there only three points of entry into the complex and all of them involve killing or disabling a guard or taking a thirty kilk round about of hacking that I’m not particularly swift at.” He was drawling. He drawled when he was feeling smug, or annoyed, or amused, or all of those things. “Yeah we can be idiots. Or,” he said loudly, when she glared, “or we can just do the smart thing. You know, where you just open the door for me, instead of the other plan where we beat people up and unnecessarily risk out objective because you turned prissy plate on me and won’t use basic geometry to figure out you won’t get stuck.” Probably.
She still didn’t like the vent idea. He could see it in the way she was thinking about punching him.
It might have just been a question of opposiitional function - between Arcee and her Six that is. Barricade’s design was a technical offshoot for the enforcer cohorts and not a design that had caught on for later generations, but he did was he did very well even if there was not a particular high demand for what he did and what he did… was infiltration. Therein, laid the problem. Barricade did infiltration whereas Arcee did knockdown drag-out beat downs punctuated by scout work and field reconnaissance.
Barricade operated well in the knockdown drag-out beat downs sector of enforcer work (he was deep cover operative in the Kaon criminal underground for frag’s sake) but he preferred to leave that until he’d exhausted his other sneakier options. Arcee was built for sneaky. But she didn’t have a sneaky personality… or at least she didn’t like the vent idea.
It was mostly she didn’t’ like the vent idea.
“Look, there only three points of entry into the complex and all of them involve killing or disabling a guard or taking a thirty kilk round about of hacking that I’m not particularly swift at.” He was drawling. He drawled when he was feeling smug, or annoyed, or amused, or all of those things. “Yeah we can be idiots. Or,” he said loudly, when she glared, “or we can just do the smart thing. You know, where you just open the door for me, instead of the other plan where we beat people up and unnecessarily risk out objective because you turned prissy plate on me and won’t use basic geometry to figure out you won’t get stuck.” Probably.
She still didn’t like the vent idea. He could see it in the way she was thinking about punching him.