51st Transmission - Action

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Today, the Elegante will be graced with a roaming, restless Autobot. He starts out up on the top deck, practicing combat drills. There's only so much he can do just hitting bees. Granted, he is working alone, but it's better than nothing. He'll be up there, rolling, running, and punching at the air for several hours before heading out.

Next stop is Deck 12, to gather up more scrap metal. He's there for about half an hour, rooting around, finding things like staples, jewelry and the like.

Lastly, he goes to the bar for a refueling. Which he will sit and drink slowly, scowling at the general area around him. Despite feeling somewhat accomplished, he's also feeling stiff from the workout, and that, inevitably, makes him grouchy.

Approach?]


((ooc: Open to anyone at any point!))

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DDD8

[heavyweaponsbot]

[He doesn't move to follow her, just watches her scoot, his good optic tracking her progress along.]

Only when I feel it would be beneficial.

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[He isn't stalkng. Moonie seizes the opportunity to launch onto the bar, figuring the higher she can get the more of an advantage she has in case he's a hostile.

She's starting to think her station might be safer than the boat.]

Why did your All Spark create you? For what purpose? [she demands.]

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Ironhide watches her jump up, wearing a rather resigned expression. He doesn't make a move to stop her.]

Why did your maker create you? For what purpose?

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[Moonie throws him a filthy look. For a mechanical construct, he's amazingly belligerent. If she had a tail she would flip it at his face.

She settles for spitting, this time to the side.]

Asked you first, metal man.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[He stares right back at her, snorting. What is it with humans and their fluids?]

I am older. I have a right to declare who answers first.

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[Moonie wants to share her fluids with you, Ironhide! CLANG CLANG CLA--- okay yeah.]

And I think your lens must be clouded by horse shit. I will answer if you answer.

wicke that's disgusting

[heavyweaponsbot]

[He shakes his head, and taps the heavy scarring over the right half of his face, obscuring one optic - purposefully taking her statement seriously, if only because it appeared to have annoyed her.]

No. That was a missile detonating at close range.

[A smirk.]

Battle wounds. They happen to soldiers.

i'm sorry 8( ♥?

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

Enjoy your scarring, then! I don't care for soldiers who are stupid and slow enough to...

[The direct approach isn't doing her favors. Moonie drops to a steadier crouch on the bar, rumbling in discontent. Sniffing, she switches tactics.]

I guess you must be ashamed of your All Spark, as you continue to avoid the question.

♥

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Ironhide quirks an optic ridge. He watches her in steady silence for a long moment.]

I answered it. You merely ignored my answer.

[He had, in his... own unique way.]

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[Her knees are low. Moonie lowers her torso further, resting her palms against the cool surface. Internally, she marvels at the almost therapeutic marble texture, and takes care not to drag her claws and ruin it with the screech.]

Fair is fair. I do the hunting you front-line fodder can't.

[Backwards answer for a backwards answer. And he confirmed her suspicion.]

[heavyweaponsbot]

[And an answer that makes utterly no sense to him. He frowns, and makes a scoffing sound.]

What? You hunt Decepticons? I find that unlikely.

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[She gives him a very impatient glare and huffs. The exhale whistles through her teeth more than she'd intended, and Moonie taps the bar.]

Did I say what I hunted? Did you say who you -- you just did, didn't you. I don't know your Decepticons.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[He makes an amused sort of grunt.]

That is what we fight, back home. That is why we have front-liners. Not sure about...

[He gestures in her direction.] Whatever you are.

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[HE JUST GESTURED TO ALL OF HER.

Moonie scowls, blessing him with her middle claw/finger/knuckle protrusion.]

Tracker is the word you're looking for, metal man. Use your imagination for what we track.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[NOT HARD WHEN YOU'RE HUGE LIKE HIM.

He ignores the gesture, regarding her with an even stare.]

How should I know what it is you track? I doubt you come from my world.

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[Moonie hasn't properly digested the 'alternate realities' bit yet, finding it tough meat to swallow. It shows in the deepening frown lines on her brow.]

I'm not ready to believe THAT fairy tale. [muttered.]

No imagination, why aren't I surprised. Which country spawned you? All Spark has to come from someplace!

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Ironhide just folds his arms over his chest, glowering down at her. He's not nearly had enough to drink to deal with this.]

Cybertron. It came from Cybertron. Another planet entirely. In another galaxy. You want coordinates? Digital imaging of the last time I saw my homeworld? A full biography?

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[Moonie is a very nosy, very loud woman, exceptionally so when she's unhappy. She is not happy. Okay, sure, she's not living in a cell anymore, but a boat full of crazy English-speaking people and giant robots.

... Giant. Robots.

Disgruntled, she slaps the bar.]

I see how it is. What's your name, then, hails-from-Cybertron?

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Ironhide can be a very loud, very cranky old mech. He watches her smack the bar, before stomping his foot.

Two can play at this game.]

Ironhide. Your designation, hails-from-wherever?

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[Oh my god they are so mature.

Moonie startles at the picture a foot-stomping robot makes, but smacks the bar AGAIN to hide it, louder than before.]

... Moonie.

[She hates the name. She shoots him a warning leer.]

[heavyweaponsbot]

[And he stomps his foot again. Mostly because hitting things would break things.]

... That it?

[He appears supremely unimpressed.]

ARNhaid

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[Moonie decides to stop this childish banging and stomping and wrinkles her nose, sniffing in a superior sort of way. She sits up in full.]

Brandt, you sack of rusted bolts. Ortrun Brandt.

[Proper German names. Why you gotta call your daughter something so weird and non-Euro, daddy? Why you gotta do that?]

ARNhaid

[heavyweaponsbot]

[He can do that too. Only it's more of a snort and a glower. This has become more of an "anything you can do" situation.]

That name means nothing to me.

[deadtous.livejournal.com]

[Anything she can do, he can do... bigger. There's no getting around that. Moonie is distantly aware of how ridiculous they're being.]

Not as original as yours, no. Your All Spark must be very creative indeed.

[heavyweaponsbot]

[Bigger and louder. While he may be aware of the ridiculousness, he doesn't seem to care.]

You have no idea.