Flashback - Shadowplay - Closed
Feb 6, 2013 16:18:49 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 16:18:49 GMT -5
<<Flashback for Jazz and Sounders, set sometime on Cybertron where the factions were still sniping at each other from their respective bases. I'd say that this was a "good while" after Jazz defected, so the 'Cons have been on the receiving end of the Jazzmeister's talents turned against them. Also assuming that Jazz would have worked very closely with Soundwave when he was with the 'Cons and that Soundwave would have crafted and perhaps installed Jazz's first formal spec ops coding defenses. Also also assuming that Jazz flopped himself down in front of Autobot spec ops and said, "Rip it out. All of it. Total makeover, go!">>
Jazz was--he reflected as he raced on four wheels through the remnants of the Transcity Freeway Tunnel--quite disappointed in the results of this battle. It had NOT ended (as Slipgear had insisted it would) with Megatron a gray smear in the Kaonese suburbs, had not brought the war to an abrupt end, and had not been either quick, neat, or decisive. Jazz had been fairly certain that it wouldn't be, but he was still low enough in the hierarchy to know when to keep his vocalizer muted. Especially with anything that involved Kaon. He'd had to look pointedly at his superior officer for quite awhile in a distinctly "Mech, you are STUPID if you keep THE ACTUAL KAON NATIVE out of this MISSION TO KAON" manner just to get an assignment.
Honestly, it was like they thought that he might want to defect to the 'Cons or something.
The battle had turned into a clusterfrag. The Autobots had managed to destroy a large swathe of the 'Con placements in Kaon's southwest suburbs, but intel had been spotty, a rusted overpass had collapsed and dumped several ground units of both factions into the underdepths, and by the time the unaccounted-for Seeker unit had shown up, the entire battleplan was pretty much slagged.
The above-board plan, that was. Jazz's assignment (use the battle-chaos to infiltrate and download what he could from a Decepticon communications station) was still very much on, if he could only get to the communications station. That had been the issue throughout the battle, with Jazz's route blocked by running battles, spontaneously collapsing overpasses, and surprise Seekers. It had left Jazz hopelessly behind schedule and having taken a few hits in the process. Transforming once he'd gotten into the Tunnel had been a slightly painful procedure.
Luckily, the Tunnel had an exit not far from the communications outpost, and when Jazz transformed (ow) and poked his helm out, the coast was clear. The comm station was on the top floor of a mid-size building that was, so his intel went, aiming for security through obscurity and had relatively light security measures.
Jazz stuck to the shadows and advanced on the building on whisper-quiet pedes.
Hopefully completing his mission would be less complicated than the battle had proven to be.
<<I'm envisioning this building as maybe ten stories high, with the comm station on the top near the comm equipment on the roof. Jazz will of course aim for stealth and take out any security measures he sees (or he might just climb the outside of the building, depending), but whether he is completely successful at this is up to us. Which is more fun: Jazz surprising Soundwave, or vice versa?
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Jazz was--he reflected as he raced on four wheels through the remnants of the Transcity Freeway Tunnel--quite disappointed in the results of this battle. It had NOT ended (as Slipgear had insisted it would) with Megatron a gray smear in the Kaonese suburbs, had not brought the war to an abrupt end, and had not been either quick, neat, or decisive. Jazz had been fairly certain that it wouldn't be, but he was still low enough in the hierarchy to know when to keep his vocalizer muted. Especially with anything that involved Kaon. He'd had to look pointedly at his superior officer for quite awhile in a distinctly "Mech, you are STUPID if you keep THE ACTUAL KAON NATIVE out of this MISSION TO KAON" manner just to get an assignment.
Honestly, it was like they thought that he might want to defect to the 'Cons or something.
The battle had turned into a clusterfrag. The Autobots had managed to destroy a large swathe of the 'Con placements in Kaon's southwest suburbs, but intel had been spotty, a rusted overpass had collapsed and dumped several ground units of both factions into the underdepths, and by the time the unaccounted-for Seeker unit had shown up, the entire battleplan was pretty much slagged.
The above-board plan, that was. Jazz's assignment (use the battle-chaos to infiltrate and download what he could from a Decepticon communications station) was still very much on, if he could only get to the communications station. That had been the issue throughout the battle, with Jazz's route blocked by running battles, spontaneously collapsing overpasses, and surprise Seekers. It had left Jazz hopelessly behind schedule and having taken a few hits in the process. Transforming once he'd gotten into the Tunnel had been a slightly painful procedure.
Luckily, the Tunnel had an exit not far from the communications outpost, and when Jazz transformed (ow) and poked his helm out, the coast was clear. The comm station was on the top floor of a mid-size building that was, so his intel went, aiming for security through obscurity and had relatively light security measures.
Jazz stuck to the shadows and advanced on the building on whisper-quiet pedes.
Hopefully completing his mission would be less complicated than the battle had proven to be.
<<I'm envisioning this building as maybe ten stories high, with the comm station on the top near the comm equipment on the roof. Jazz will of course aim for stealth and take out any security measures he sees (or he might just climb the outside of the building, depending), but whether he is completely successful at this is up to us. Which is more fun: Jazz surprising Soundwave, or vice versa?
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