Ep. 1 - Harbinger of Bad News - (Closed)
Aug 14, 2014 23:53:36 GMT -5
Post by Dart on Aug 14, 2014 23:53:36 GMT -5
Dart listened. She nodded quietly at his comments.
"All right. I mean, yes- yes sir--"
By then though, he had already kicked off the ground. Easy grace in that action as he rose. His shift was smooth and effortless. A flash of engine roared bright, swallowing the starlit sky for a moment.
Then Starscream was gone.
The courier was still. She'd started to lift a foot, as if to paw, to move, and then she simply settled it to the ground. Silently, she stared up into the sky- out here, so many stars. The ambient light of the cities did not hide them, and they dotted the bowl overhead, thick and bright.
In the silence of this place, with a dead ship under her feet-- she just- stood, and her spoiler pricked up over her shoulders, mirroring the incredulous look that had drifted across her features.
Dart couldn't have hid it. Maybe it was a good thing she was alone.
Had - had he just - he did. Oh, he had. Dart was stunned. It had caught her utterly off guard, not what she was expecting at all. Period. She'd expected to be told go back and wait, yes. That made sense, but... no need to rush back to Pyrotech? If she was asked, oh, Starscream had given her the orders. A- a replacement for her if he- wait, a replacement for her? So, that meant- it meant, oh it meant---
Dart winced.
It meant someone else had really messed up.
Her fingers lifted to the ragged edges of the burn marks in her chest. Gingerly, she touched them, and her fingertip smoothed over a rough spot in the metal.
She dropped her hand back down quickly to her side and looked up again.
Why now?
Why after...
Dart looked around at this place, and then her optics flicked to the yawning black hole behind her in the earth. No. No, don't. Don't ask why. Don't dwell on it. Not now. Just- just go. Go and run and enjoy it, take the time to just- to see a few things. Visit a few places.
To- to perhaps stop at a Starbucks early in the morning and buy a coffee she couldn't drink, just to watch the people. Or maybe park outside of a movie theater and go see a film- oh wait, nope, not enough money for that. Maybe if it wasn't 3D. Those were expensive and uh, well, erk, no better not. She had no idea if the avatar would stay sturdy enough to keep the glasses on the whole time. Wait, would that even work with the avatar? Who knew. Probably best not to chance it.
A quick, full body shake. Her plating rattled. Dart looked up at the sky one more time. Stars and the dark and nothing more. Silence.
Then she turned and bounded swiftly into the darkness, leaving the ship's graveyard behind.