[ti]Ep 3[/ti]Finders Keepers [Closed]

[Cintra]

Was it MECH?... Cintra didn't think so. They were meant to be this world's version of a 'monster', were they not? While she hadn’t seen them before, she heard that they were butchers who could harm them with ease despite their small stature. While no one around base seemed grotesquely impacted, the only real wound to be seen being Breakdown's missing eye that looked hastily patched, she had heard of someone else who fell before their hand and was never rescued. Alive or dead, it didn't matter, he wasn’t found as of yet, which created an odd 'spooky' element to it all that any one of them could vanish. This human... he really didn't seem much of anything.

"I think MECH is military looking..."

The 'and that doesn't look like it' was left off the end of her statement but was clear enough despite its omission, Cintra seeing his attire as more casual than some armored entity that looked ready to square off with two Cybertronians. They would have to have some heavy-duty weaponry to take them on, and even if he had something like that in his pocket? There were two of them and one of him. Well... one and a half. Who knew what the dog thing was. All she knew was she continued to not fear the human, so much as she feared making the wrong choices around it.

She didn't want to upset Starscream, and CERTAINLY didn't want to upset Megatron. She valued their rules above all else, and she didn't want to break them on her first real outing into the world around them. It was that which kept her from calling for advice, as being put in this situation was bad enough without snitching on the two of them for being so foolish.

"I think it is a dog?"

Putting voice to her earlier thoughts, Cintra said this with a good dose of uncertainty. It looked like a dog, that was simple enough, but the shaggy surface that bloated it all out was weird looking. Part of her wondered what it felt like, though it was but a passing flicker of a thought, and barely lingered but a moment, her finials pulling back some and frame bristling as the human started to speak to them. The greeting seemed to snap her out of her inner thoughts enough to act upon things.

With a scrabbled push, Cintra wrenched up atop Flux's frame once more to get a height advantage, standing upon his shoulder plates with the suction cups enabled so she couldn’t slip should he move to face the human more. It looked so rehearsed and natural, like she had stepped up on a rock rather than a surface that could actively shift beneath her at any given second. It was at this new vantage point her stance went strong and assertive, pointing out at the other entity while speaking loudly enough to be heard far around.

"What do you want!"

A barked out hostile retort, as if the human had hunted them down to corner them and hadn't been simply returning to his camp and his belongings.

[Flux]

Briefly glancing down at Cintra as she replied, Flux nodded. He trusted her judgment here, and if she thought it wasn't MECH? Then it probably wasn't. Though… that didn't mean he wasn't wary of the lone intruder, as even despite the small size of the human, the Triplechanger knew he probably shouldn't be underestimated.

"A dog?"

Huh. How did she even know that? He peered back at the creature in question, narrowing his optics as he watched as it moved. It looked pretty harmless whatever it was, and seemed to want to investigate both himself and the femme if the fact it was tugging at its weird restraint was any indication. Then again, maybe it wanted to kill them and was simply being held back– he didn't know what it was, or how it worked, nor what it could do.

At least the human seemed to have it under control, though.

He wouldn't move as Cintra clambered up him, frame instinctively tensing to further steady himself so he wouldn't be at risk of moving as she settled into place. While he knew the femme would adjust accordingly should he need to move, and as such wasn't worried, it was almost second nature to him to remain as still as possible so she could move as needed without issue.

Easing his weight once he was certain Cintra was up there and in a position that suited her – something he could tell even without looking – he listened to what the human had to say. He seemed nice enough, at least from all the way over there, though no motions were made of going closer.

Letting the femme handle the conversation, something made easier now she was higher up and her voice would carry further, Flux did the dutiful Conjunx thing– standing there quiet and menacingly, staring the human down.

[Flux]

"What do you want!"

Whoa. Okay. Okay. Don't panic. They could understand what he'd said and were now asking him something in return. A million things ran through his mind in that second, though when it came to speaking these thoughts out loud, he found himself lost for words.

"Uhh…"

She sounded pretty hostile, almost like he'd annoyed them somehow by simply being here, which… well… it was his camp, he kind of had to be.

"What do you want?" he yelled this back, holding one hand to the side of his mouth to let his voice carry further.

"Did you need something from my camp? Take whatever you want! Are you lost? What are you?"

Giant alien robots, obviously, though where had they even come from? He'd given his name freely – probably a stupid move in hindsight – though they'd offered nothing in return. What did he even call them? Robot 1 and robot 2? That seemed rude. This place was right in the middle of nowhere, a 'peaceful getaway'... or so he'd thought, though he hadn't even heard them approaching. Had they randomly just appeared? Were there more of them?

He had so many damn questions, though didn't move closer- twisting his wrist to carefully pull in more of the leash, holding it firmly.

Ella, upon hearing her owner's raised words decided to give her own input on the situation, barking twice at the two intruders near their camp– then a third time, just for good measure.

"Ella, no… Not til we know what we're dealing with here." he uttered quietly, even if the dog couldn't understand a damn word he said.

[Cintra]

"Dog?"

"Yeah, I've seen them in movies and such. Weird four-legged thingy. That one just has stuff around it hiding its hinges."

Well... it didn't have hinges as it was no doubt organic in nature, yet it didn’t stop Cintra from saying as much, not really thinking about the logistics behind things made of flesh and bone instead of struts and plating. They were never elements she had to learn about, not visiting other worlds or reading too much about them in her downtime. They were sometimes in shows depending on what types they were, yet she didn't retain much of it beyond the absolute basics. Whatever the case, she had scrabbled up atop Flux, watching the human intently to make sure it didn’t transform its forearm or raise some kind of weapon from who knows where.

Then the human parroted her.

"I asked first!"

Cintra barked this back defiantly as if it contributed at all to the discussion, her orange optics narrowing as she further thought over what he had said.

"We're Cybertronian! What are you?! Human?!"

She wanted confirmation he was what they thought he was, and not some other alien species that happened to be visiting as well. Structurally he seemed right, he was sized like what she thought was fitting for the altmodes they had been tasked to take on for this planet, yet that didn't mean anything for sure. There were plenty of other entities that were large and small, some of which even passable enough as others to a point the line could get blurred enough that mislabeling was a possibility. Which could be insulting to some. Whatever the case, she continued to stand strong, her hands capping over her hips, pointer finger tapping down once upon one of the silver spikes that jutted out from the hinge assembly.

"Don't try anything stupid! We have you outnumbered!"

Added hostility bubbled behind these words, a willingness to throw down backing them up as she was not opposed to teaching him a lesson in crossing them should he show any inkling of aggression, which... he didn't... but the animal thing sure did, barking three times. This made her focus shift down to it, wondering what it was saying if anything to the other thing. Was it talking? It was loud enough it was as if it was trying to yell something at them. This resulted in a low sound slipping forth, an annoyed hum as she was trying to figure it out.

She then passed a question to Flux though comms, though did not look down at him.

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