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Sep 01, 2011 17:21

[The video flickers on... and for several minutes show nothing but pitted and scored ground, along with some red plating. The noise from the vents is slightly irregular though, and then there's the sound of a fist meeting the ground; the camera shudders for a bit, but doesn't fall over.

When it's finally picked up, the feed is shaking just slightly ( Read more... )

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[Locked!Video] ops_meister September 1 2011, 15:36:49 UTC
[When the feed clicks on, Jazz is immediately on alert and a moment later he's heading down the steps of his apartment. He doesn't know where you've been the past few days--Shockwave? Megatron again? It doesn't matter. He's not going to sit it out this time.]

Cliffjumper--it's Jazz. Where are you?

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[Locked!Video] rednotyellow September 1 2011, 16:07:17 UTC
[There's a visisble twitch as Jazz speaks; it's not so much that Cliffjumper forgot he actually had sent a call, more like he was very concentrated on trying to deal with the after-effects and... the voice had been loud. Even if he knows Jazz probably hadn't spoken very loudly at all.]

Jazz?

... uh. Not sure... exactly. Lower zones... [Cliffjumper trails off, optics having slowly switched from overly bright to rather dim.] Seven, eight... maybe?

[The feed does another tremor before there's a snarled grimace and it stills again.]

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[Locked!Video] Permission to join the thread? =3 derpjack_ftw September 1 2011, 16:26:26 UTC
Jazz, I'm on my way too. Where are ya? I'll meet up with ya.

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[Locked!Video] Sure! ops_meister September 1 2011, 16:32:56 UTC
Cliffjumper, can you tell me what happened? Are you still in immediate danger?

[Whether Cliffjumper actually knows the answer to either of the questions, he doesn't know. Jazz hopes keeping him talking will calm him down some and if the red mech can answer, then he'll have some information.

It's more important to actually find him, than to know what's going on right now and since Cliffjumper can't tell him--he'll have to do a little digging of his own.

Wheeljack's help is more than welcome and when the comm comes through he attaches his coordinates and projected path.]

'Jack, I'm in Zone 6, almost down to Zone 7. I'm working on finding Cliffjumper's actual location.

[As Jazz drives to the lower zones, he hacks the signal to see if he can pinpoint the other's actual location.]

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[Video/Locked] derpjack_ftw September 1 2011, 16:25:38 UTC
CJ! Primus...

I'm on my way, pal. Followin' your comm signal. I'll ping again when I get there. Gonna try ta meet up with Jazz. Just . . . just hang in there, okay?

[FRAGGIT it's Ratchet all over again! If he EVER GETS HIS HANDS ON-... Concentrate on what's important right now, what he can do something about. The rest will have to come later. But it still means his engine is snarling roughly as he goes.]

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[Video/Locked] rednotyellow September 1 2011, 16:33:13 UTC
Sure. That'd be... great. [He did try a grin, but it just turned into a wince and then a muttered curse as Cliffjumper grabs the side of his helm/hides his optics.]

An'... better to that, yeah. Sorry. [Not that he sounds particularly sorry, just vaguely angry. But he's just not going to be able to stop himself from shooting if someone decides to approach and he doesn't know who they are and that they're coming.

If he can actually also remember he's asked for help, because he keeps briefly forgetting what he's doing with the comm.]

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[Video/Locked] derpjack_ftw September 1 2011, 16:44:41 UTC
...you're gonna be okay, CJ. I'll do everythin' I can ta make sure of that.

[His voice has dropped, going more calm and sure - not that he's feeling calm or sure of anything right now, but it's what his friend needs to hear.]

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[Video/Locked] rednotyellow September 1 2011, 17:02:23 UTC
When I get... th' slagger's head. Then I'm gonna be okay. [Which was a lie, this would probably take a while and not necessarily need the death of whoever did it, but other things. Cliffjumper's optics are overly bright again, which makes him wince against what little light there is down here.]

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[video locked] swordofpeace September 1 2011, 16:30:32 UTC
Cliffjumper. [Wing is more than a little alarmed.] Coordinates, please? Or landmarks?

[He can fly in faster than a ground vehicle can get there.]

Are you safe where you are? [Relatively speaking--nothing here is 'safe', but hopefully Cliffjumper's not being attacked.]

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[video locked] rednotyellow September 1 2011, 16:40:09 UTC
[It... embarrassingly enough takes a second or so to not just snarl at the jet, because briefly all he gets is "Seeker", but then he recognizes who the jet actually is.]

... Wing. [His optics flicker, clearly not actually meant to be doing so as Cliffjumper just shakes his helm.] Hard enough to remember I'm sittin' down.

It's... Seven or Eight. Not sure. Ask Jazz? [There's another slight tremor and a glare at the offending arm; of course, his other hand's doing its own shaking, but he can just ignore that in favour of at least trying to appear a little better than he feels on the feed.]

Maybe. Think so? He's not here. [A twitch and Cliffjumper's helm jerks around, as if the mention just reminded him and made him look, even though he doesn't even know what or who he's looking for.]

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Re: [video locked] swordofpeace September 1 2011, 16:48:20 UTC
Yes. I'm sorry. I should have identified myself. It's Wing. [Cliffjumper's hesitation is alarming.]

How is Jazz tracking you? [And why didn't they track Wheeljack that way? As far as Wing knows, he has Magnum's device. There must be another. He really doesn't want to talk to Jazz, though. The mech's treatment of him on his arrival had been...hostile.]

Who is he? [A bit of an edge, because Wing might be a pacifist, but that doesn't mean he suffers his friends being attacked.] Shockwave?

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[video locked] rednotyellow September 1 2011, 16:58:32 UTC
[Not so much hesitation as all the lingering side/after-effects making it hard to deal with reality right now. Sorry, Wing.]

Nah don't... worry 'bout it. [Look, he even tries to do a dismissive little wave, but that's way too much movement right now so instead he kind of slumps up against the wall he has behind him instead.]

... Comm. signal? [He may have offered something more, but Wing's question of who distracts him, bringing disjointed flashes of images.]

Tall. [But, who the slag isn't tall among Cybertronians (except a small subset of the population) when compared to a mini-bot?] Too dark. [But if that was "too dark to see" or "his colouring was" Cliffjumper can't remember at all.] Maybe it was. [There's a brief tremor and a snarl.] Slaggin' hand gonna shoot it off. [Even if he doesn't remember who it belonged to.]

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[Voice] show_my_cannons September 1 2011, 19:03:33 UTC
Where are you?

[Hopefully, there's little mistaking that particular growl.]

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[Voice] rednotyellow September 1 2011, 19:27:16 UTC
[Not really, no, but it still throws him - he hadn't turned on/used voice had he?! Wait, others could use that if they wanted to - so it takes him a few moments to reply.]

Zone... Seven. Or Eight. I think... [Since you've decided on voice, Ironhide, and thus would be unable to concentrate, or pick up on the visual cues, instead the slight, momentary glitching may be quite obvious to you. This one thing Cliffjumper hasn't even picked up on, but even if he did... what does it matter there's so much other scrap in side-effects to deal with.]

I think it's eight? Jazz an' 'Jack're lookin'. Could... ask Jazz. Ought to know.

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[Voice] show_my_cannons September 1 2011, 19:29:22 UTC
[Subtle cues are about as obvious to Ironhide as the meaning behind interpretive dances.]

[Still, the other 'bot asked for help. He won't deny him that just because he doesn't know what's wrong.]

Got it. I will assist.

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[Voice] rednotyellow September 1 2011, 19:35:37 UTC
... Thanks. Got no one 'round to shoot, though... [Cliffjumper even manages a brief chuckle, before it gets interrupted by a snarl, and, despite what he just said, there's the sound of a single shot being fired.]

... Slag. Should just... put it away.

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redmuchnicer September 2 2011, 12:01:20 UTC
Cliffjumper? What happened?

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rednotyellow September 2 2011, 13:59:08 UTC
...

[Frag his life. Should have remembered to take out Slugfest's ID too within the lock, not just Rapunzel's.]

It's... [he can't say "don't worry" or "it's gonna be okay" because it sure as slag doesn't feel like that. He does his outmost best to not have the video feed shake. No need to make things worse.]

I don't... remember, Slugfest. [Which was both truth and lie.]

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redmuchnicer October 15 2011, 00:55:14 UTC
Why no remember? You try and remember, then I help.

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rednotyellow October 15 2011, 19:02:12 UTC
I... dunno. [Despite everything, Slugfest's simple and earnest wish to help drags a lopsided grin out of him.]

Yeah. I'll... do that, an' you can be backup. [Cliffjumper quickly rests his hand down on a leg, to minimize the obvious trembling. Trying to make any too obvious problems less so.]

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