Ep. 1.5 - Maintenance Call - Closed
Dec 1, 2012 10:35:06 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2012 10:35:06 GMT -5
<<This is at the VERY END of 1.5, after Metroplex has...uh..."landed" in the Pacific Ocean. Right now he's hanging out in the bottom of said ocean, sucking energon out of a hydrothermal vent and in general trying to fix all the many, many things that are wrong with him. He will be doing much the same through Ep. 2: available for visits and consulting and general fluffery but really unable to move or do much, physically.>>
Metroplex checked and triple-checked.
His internal integrity since the...landing? crash? Crash-landing would probably be accurate...had been surprisingly good. He had been able to control his engines through the atmospheric re-entry enough to cut his acceleration...somewhat. Landing in the middle of a body of liquid dihydrogen monoxide rather than in the Earth's crust had helped as well. As a result, he'd sustained surprisingly little damage from his arrival on Earth.
Damage left over from his time on Cybertron, however, was another matter.
His mysterious benefactor(s) had done an excellent job of repairing his major systems as well as their other modifications. But Metroplex had woken with a mechanomile-long list of errors in everything that was NOT a major system. Structural damage had been likewise repaired: major damage from the final battle at the fall of Cybertron had been repaired, but the accrued damage and erosion of the countless vorn he'd laid in stasis (both before and after that last battle) had not.
Metroplex had also been built as a Cybertronian installation. He had all the usual military cityformer ability to isolate and seal off unused areas, but he was not airtight and thus was not particularly watertight, either. He was working on a plan to make those modifications, but it was slow going.
As a result, he needed...quite a bit of work.
He had been ecstatic when he'd heard that the Prime's group included an engineering team.
Metroplex checked one more time, until he was sure that his visitors would not be bridging into danger in his internals. Then, he sent, ::Metroplex, ready to receive. Engage groundbridge at will, Omega One.::
Metroplex checked and triple-checked.
His internal integrity since the...landing? crash? Crash-landing would probably be accurate...had been surprisingly good. He had been able to control his engines through the atmospheric re-entry enough to cut his acceleration...somewhat. Landing in the middle of a body of liquid dihydrogen monoxide rather than in the Earth's crust had helped as well. As a result, he'd sustained surprisingly little damage from his arrival on Earth.
Damage left over from his time on Cybertron, however, was another matter.
His mysterious benefactor(s) had done an excellent job of repairing his major systems as well as their other modifications. But Metroplex had woken with a mechanomile-long list of errors in everything that was NOT a major system. Structural damage had been likewise repaired: major damage from the final battle at the fall of Cybertron had been repaired, but the accrued damage and erosion of the countless vorn he'd laid in stasis (both before and after that last battle) had not.
Metroplex had also been built as a Cybertronian installation. He had all the usual military cityformer ability to isolate and seal off unused areas, but he was not airtight and thus was not particularly watertight, either. He was working on a plan to make those modifications, but it was slow going.
As a result, he needed...quite a bit of work.
He had been ecstatic when he'd heard that the Prime's group included an engineering team.
Metroplex checked one more time, until he was sure that his visitors would not be bridging into danger in his internals. Then, he sent, ::Metroplex, ready to receive. Engage groundbridge at will, Omega One.::