The TransTechs are coming

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Insert TransTechs Here((( This is a quicklog: If you want your characters to interact with some TransTechs as they search the Zones level-by-level, start a thread. (Also, include where they are: are we finding him on the street, or is she answering the door politely and offering energon cookies

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[panphobiac]

[Skywarp is more than freaked out; he's been literally hiding under whatever forniture he could find in the run-down apartment ever since the chaos started, clicking in fear and too shocked to even contemplate warping somewhere safer.]

[He's only answering the door because TC rudely ordered him to, and he seems to be acting on auto-pilot, pathetic trembling aside.]

Who...

[his voice dies in a strangled squeak when he sees the TransTechs]

[axiom_npc]

[Poor Skywarp. Have two of the meanest looking Transtechs available...a matched set of Black and Gold twins just littered with bits of spiky-ness.]

Oi, Brother...lookit this. Innit one 'o those Malgian Screamer clones?

Heh. Does look like it, mate. Poor lil' bugger. [This is not said in a friendly tone.] Best not be causin' us any trouble, Screamer. We're comin in, see, and takin' a look around...

[Oh, and they advance upon him~]

[panphobiac]

[Staggers back and clasps his hands together, optics squinting in fright]

S-screamer? I-I'm not... w-who are you? P-please don't hurt m-me-
[shakes his head, voice coming out in feeble static-y bouts]

[he looks like he's barely able to stand on his own, knee guards clacking together fitfully, and pushes himself closer to the wall to make way to the scary spiky bots]

[axiom_npc]

Oi, we ain't here to hurt you. [The first one grins.]

[Before the second one finishes.] Much.

Right, mate. Not so long as your tellin' us what we're wantin' to know, Screamer.

Like just what else is living in this dump?
[The second one backs Skywarp all the way up to the wall, and sneers, reaching out to grab the jet's arm and scan his ID bolt.] Fraggin' lowtechs.

Seen any Megatron's about?

Oi! If he's to be seein' em, he's probably to be stabbin' em and savin' us the trouble.

Nah, nah, your track's all wrong, mate. This one ain't got the bearings for it. [The first one starts looking around and rifling through anything he can get his servos on.]

[robotic_adonis]

[Drawn towards the noise in the adjacent room (more underlings to worship him at his feet perhaps? Hopefully.), Thundercracker enters to see the Transtechs roughing up his clone-brother, as well as his meager possessions.]

[Completely ignoring the former, he scowls in affront at the clear disrespect to his personal belongings. As an afterthought, Skywarp can partially be considered thus, so some amount of scowling is spared for that as well.]

Just what is going on here? Do you have any idea who you are trifling with?

[Of course, sparing no attention to those who aren't him, he has a poor grasp of who they are, or what is currently going on.]

Leave at once, or I will spare you no amount of mercy!

[panphobiac]

[still glued to the wall where the TransTech has backed him, Skywarp gapes and whimpers a little; it doesn't that his phenomenal cowardice to realize angering these guys is a terrible idea]

T-thundercracker... [tries to gain his attention with a feeble whine, and when that fails waves one hand lightly, fearfully, all the while looking around for an escape route.]

I... I don't think it's a good i-idea to threaten them...

[robotic_adonis]

[Ignores]

[axiom_npc]

Oi! Lookit! It's anothern of 'em. [The one drops Skywarp's arm, having scanned the bolt, and is staring at TC.] And it ain't got any respect...

[The second...just smirks to TC.] Nah. Haven't got a clue. Who we dealin' with, mate?

Screw messin' with 'im, Brother. Just scan 'im, already. [He returns his attention to Skywarp, just to glower threateningly in general. He is liking this part of the job...the part where people are cowering.]

...heh. Guess I get 't be scannin' you, then. Care 't show me some a that mercy, hm?

(TC isn't very smart)

[robotic_adonis]

[Bristles at the smirking, (how DARE they smirk at him? The glorious Thundercracker!) clenching his teeth in agitation.]

You...The nerve! Get away from me with that thing. [He makes a disgusted expression at the scanner.] You'll rue the day you dared invade MY territory!

[When the Transtech approaches, he lashes out at him, smacking him on the side of the faceplates. Ignoring that there are two of them, and oblivious that he'd be sorely over-matched with just one, he adopts an aggressive posture while the target quickly recovers from the rather pitiful hit.]

[panphobiac]

[Skywarp shrieks, half in warning and half in pure terror- When they'll be done with TC, they'll scrap HIM.- but can't move from his corner, not yet, even if his frame seems to be getting charged with odd energy the more he falls into panic, his energy field more and more agitated and a different kind of trembling adding to his ever-present frightened one.]

T-TC-! D-don't attack them, are you insane? T-they'll scrap us so fast- w-we need to get away...

[axiom_npc]

[OH, that seems to make the assaulted Transtech mad...but with a certain sort of glee.] You're dangerous close to gettin' yourself arrested, mate. Care to give it another try?

Yeah, you should be more like your brother, 'ere. [Skywarp is now being poked at with a clawed black Transtech toe.] Nice and pleasant an' then nobody gets hurt.

[robotic_adonis]

[Enraged beyond logic (not that he ever had much), he addresses the Transtech he hit]

More like the sniveling coward? I think not. I believe it's time for you to leave, if you want nobody getting hurt.

[After saying this, he begins to lift a laser cannon towards the nearest offender.]