It's time for a new Leader Axiom. [OPEN]
Who: G1 Megatron, open to anyone who wants in on the action.
What:Malcolm attacks Axiom with The Fortress aka. The Giant Purple Griffin which has been slightly 'improved' from the G1 Version. It's a building sized, semi-sentient machine that breathes fire and has prehensile tentacles for hair. His goal is, of course, to take over.
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What:Malcolm attacks Axiom with The Fortress aka. The Giant Purple Griffin which has been slightly 'improved' from the G1 Version. It's a building sized, semi-sentient machine that breathes fire and has prehensile tentacles for hair. His goal is, of course, to take over.
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What... Wait, wait, wait. No... Just... Skywarp was thoroughly distracted, but that didn't stop him from shooting off a few blasts from his arm cannons at the two Autobots he could see, but it was half-sparkedly at best; his processor was quite busy trying to make sense of this.
A giant... purple... thing. He thought it was some sort of human mythological creature, but he wasn't sure. Why had Starscream decided this Megatron was suitable to even vaugely follow, again? ... Thinking of Starscream, Skywarp immediately disappeared from the rooftop, warped until he could find the Air Commander, and the brought both of them back to the rooftop.
"Look at that!" Skywarp pointed and, frankly, that was still all he could do. But he would probably start harassing the Autobots as soon as he got over this first.
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She arrived on the scene, girly cocktail still in hand, and hovered in a high spot, where a few others were pointing or gawking. It wasn't like she'd expect Airazor to bother arresting her for some kind of unauthorized in-flight refueling, when the Offworlder Zones were under attack.
And the scene was...like some late night Sci-fi movie from Earth.
"It's no batch of Lugnut Supremes," she said, then took a sip from her drink.
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"Skywarp! How many times have I told you not to do that?! I don't have time for your -- wait. What the slag is that?" The Seeker just stared at the thing. He knew what it resembled, but still.
"Why is he standing on top of a giant, fire-breathing, purple griffin?" Did all Megatrons just go insane after awhile? Who builds a purple griffin as a weapon of choice?
"... I guess this isn't as bad as when our Megatron tried to turn Earth into metal. Anyway. So, wanna make a bet on how long before someone shoots him off there?"
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"No bet, look-- he's alerady taken off for the Prime over there. And shots glancing off his armour wouldn't count as you winning the bet." Skywarp felt it best to point this out, lest Starscream make some silly pronouncement over having won a bet that hadn't even been agreed upon.
"And no way! Sure, trying to turn Earth into metal and make it the new Cybertron was impressively overblown, but, look. At least it didn't involve giant... is it supposed to be a battle station? Like Trypticon? Anyway, it's purple. And in shape of a griffin. How's that useful?" Since Starscream had so nicely given the name of the creature, Skywarp pretended he'd known it.
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"I don't know which sounds like the most spectacular failure! Cloning Omega Sentinels and putting them in control of a dim-processor, this monster, or turning Earth metal? I mean- that had to what? Not only freeze up potential sources of energy, but destroy the planet's magnetic field and turn everything to slag?!"
Not that she knew about science, just human-made Sci-fi movies, which were sometimes less than accurate.
She shrugged. "At least he's got the Decepticon branding down. Purple's not a bad color."
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He shrugged at the two of them. "Worst happens is that he gets deported and comes back all ticked off and takes it out on me. I don't see what you'd have to worry about Skywarp. But you could run off and play with the other one if you'd like. The one who's working with Shockwave."
He did smirk at Slipstream though. "No, not a bad choice. But I wonder why that creature?"
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"You could just hide until he calms down if he comes back, right?" Skywarp'd never cared much (except when Starscream got really injured, or the punishments were over the top) when Megatron had punished Starscream deservedly. But there were loads of times when their Megatron had just... lashed out. Even if/when what had been said had been legitimate. Even if Starscream was abrasive about it. And those times... well, he'd never said anything, but that didn't mean he liked them.
"Maybe he likes wings. I mean, isn't the lion supposed to be the king of all animals or something, and then you add wings, and it'd be superior both on land and in the air?" Skywarp shrugged. It made as much sense as anything else.
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"Maybe things that don't exist are scarier," She says. Slipstream looks at Skywarp. "When you first saw this thing, did you think about symbolism?"
She'd reacted with shock and surprise; processor working to classify a ridiculous monstrosity. So...maybe the goal was to exploit that initial reaction and attack.
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He slid over where he was standing so that he was closer to Slipstream and smiled -- well smirked really. "Skywarp wouldn't know symbolism if it bit him in the face." Slight pause as he glanced at the griffin. "Or in this case breathed fire onto his face. I'm surprised he even knew what it was."
He shrugged and straightened back up. Poking fun at Skywarp was overly easy at times.
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"Hey--!" The protest slipped out and Skywarp scowled, even if it was kind of true. He only knew about the lion thing due to some random bits of human culture caught... at some point. Twenty five years on Earth was twenty five years on Earth, after all.
"And I dunno," he said and looked over to Slipstream, shrugging. "I think it looks ridiculous. It surprised the frag out of me when I came here first."
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"You can't give your wing-mate a little more credit?" She asked.
She glanced side-long at Skywarp, then. "Knowledge of alien cultures could be useful. It might be used against them. Like surprise."
Slipstream looked off to where Malcolm and his griffin were causing destruction. Her tone became bitter, "It's still a stupid plan! He has to know the TransTechs will take notice. Did this place break him?"
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"Oh, I give him credit when it's due." Shooting a minor glance at Skywarp, he smirked. "Which unfortunately doesn't happen very often in his case."
He folded his arms across his chest and looked off in the direction of the griffin.
"I think he was always like this. But if the TransTechs focus on him then they'll stay away from us." Which was a much better thing.
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"Uh-huh. You just don't think anyone ever does anythin' impressive, and if you do, you try to claim it as your idea," Skywarp said with a snort, briefly looking away. This was unfortunately one of things you had to live with, if you were going to associate with Starscream and didn't have the knowledge and skills to not just keep up with him, but keep ahead of him.
Skywarp may not be some sort of scientist, and would never be so, but he certainly knew Starscream.
"... Yeah, don't want 'em to know I was even remotely involved with that, the way it's trashin' things." Despite the wary words, Skywarp sounded cheerful enough when it came to said destruction, and was amused at how much the griffin was destroying trying to get rid of the Autobots attacking/climbing over/tearing at it.
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She focused on the destruction at hand, and Starscream's slightly more informed assessment of Malcolm. "In that case, I might just admire Malcolm for his brilliant diversionary tactics."
"Not that I'm saying I have a plan that I need attention drawn from."
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