nexus, Black Dog, Meetings and Returning to Normal
Blackout: *sitting at the bar in the Black Dog with two little bots chasing each other around on her rotor array*
Eclipse: *happily chattering away as she and WakeJumper enter the Black Dog*
WJ: *on Eclipse's back, looking around to see if he recognizes anyone*
Archiva: Just grab a seat. I'll be right with you.
Eclipse: Okay! ^_^ *happy conversation with WakeJumper continues as she heads for an open stool at the bar*
WJ: *slightly oblivious to mate's rambling, still looking around*
Pink: *is that little flash of pink that just scampered down onto Blackout's shoulder. You might not be able to see her, Wake, but you'll hear the giggling*
WJ: *perks up, and is all but standing on Eclipse's shoulders in an effort to spot the source of the giggles*
Blackout: *notices his interest and turns to lift a browplate at him*
Pink: *down on the bar and shaking her little booty*
WJ: *Slight headtilt, waits till Eclipse is distracted, scoots down towards Pink*
Pink: *pauses and looks at him, her head tilted slightly to one side and her big blue optics quizzical*
WJ: Er... Hi... I'm trying to find some friends of mine... One of 'em said she'd be here today...
Pink: :O What's her name?
WJ: Well, on the game we met on, it's Pink_Beeps_and_Giggles...
Pink: *squeals and tackleglomps!* Desi!
WJ: Ack! *is tackleglomped*
Eclipse: *looks over, about to help her mate, until she realizes he's laughing and not in any danger*
Blackout: *chuckles*
WJ: Lemme up! *laughing* If the real Desi finds out about me using her name, she'll kick my skidplate when I'm big enough for her to do that to!
Pink: *sits up, still hugging him and squealing and giggling*
WJ: *amused grin* I told you I was small... My name's WakeJumper.
Pink: And I'm Pink! Just like in the game!
WJ: I see that. :)
Pink: Oh, I'm not named because I'm pink.
WJ: *blink blink, slight headtilt* Oh?
Pink: *giggles* No! I pink things!
WJ: ... Pink things? *trying to figure this out, is searching the multi-nets*
Pink: *sets him down, bounces to her feet and protrudes two blades from the backs of her wrists* With these.
WJ: Oooh... I get it, kinda... *Small grin*
Pink: *grins* It's old Earth slang.
WJ: *nods* It's also a sewing term, according to some of the stuff I found on the multi-nets.
Pink: *nod nod nod* Named after the flowers. So's the colour.
WJ: Huh... Learn something new every day...
Pink: *giggle* Blackout likes us to do that.
WJ: Blackout? As in the Blackout that combat-kisses mechs? *Mischievious grin*
Pink: *points up at the metallic mountain she'd just been playing on* Like her. My boss.
Blackout: *looking down at the little mech, her gaze slightly over her shoulder because her back's partially turned toward him*
WJ: *snerk* That's the one... The Ultra Magnus where I'm from got kissed by her once...
Blackout: Hrrm. Yeah. He was fun.
Pink: *giggle!*
WJ: *Snickering, even as Eclipse tries to hide her snickerfit*
Pink: Do you want a cookie? Blackout's getting me some!
WJ: *perks* Sure.
Pink: *turns those big blue optics up to her commander*
Blackout: *snorts and orders a plate of cookies*
Nemesis: What flavor?
Pink: *looks at Wake*
WJ: Umm... *tips his head back, thinking* Something with carbon in it? *looks to Pink*
Pink: *gives him a 'you dummy look'* Most cookies're sweet, dippy..
WJ: *small, unintentionally cute pout* Well, other than the pickle-flavored ones Lumen brought home one time, I'm not too familiar with different kinds of cookies.
Nemesis: *sets down a sample box*
Pink: *forgets her Look and pounces on it, pulling up the cover to let out the scents of cinna, ginger, choccy and others*
WJ: *biiig optics as he catches whiff of all the delicious scents*
Pink: *has one of the two cinna cookies stuffed in her mouth even as she picks up the box and offers it to him*
WJ: *thanks Pink as he grabs the other cinnaSeeker and one of the gingerSwindles, then settles down to nom them*
Pink: *chomp chomp chomp* ^_^
WJ: *making happy noises as he noms and gets a taste of different cookies*
Pink: *cinnaSeeker gone, she goes for a choccy sandwich one*
WJ: *still working on the gingerSwindle, will be with you shortly*
Pink: Do you like games?
WJ: *small nod, finishing up his gingerSwindle as he does* Yeah... depends on the game though
Pink: Well have you ever seen WoW?
WJ: *nods* Some of the 'bots back home play it...
Pink: *shows him a data chit* Some of my friends are making something fancier. It's called Multiverse Warcraft.
WJ: ...Multiverse? Is it going to have LOLs in it as a hazard?
Pink: ...I don't think so. It's on the Multinets
WJ: oh... That'd be interesting though... a game version of a LOL...
Eclipse: *pretending not to be listening*
Pink: *giggles* There's going to be fighting and questing, and houses.
WJ: Kinda like AQW?
Pink: Well, they have those things in WoW too, and in lots of rpg quest games. *shows him the nearly lifelike graphic of a black bovine woman* See, this is how the characters are going to look.
WJ: Hmm... all of the characters, or are they going to be customizable?
Pink: There's going to be ten races, two sexes, and all kinds of different body types and colours
WJ: *interest piqued* Ooo... what classes?
Pink: Uh... *looks at the thing in her hand* Mage, Warrior, Rogue, Pirate, Paladin, Knight, Berserker....
WJ: Healer? *hopeful look, not that he doesn't mind playing as a Warrior in the other game*
Pink: I don't know. I'll have to ask 'em.
WJ: *small pout, nods* Okay
Pink: They're just getting everything started. *pause* Wait. Paladins are healers.
WJ: *perk* oooo, I didn't know that...
Pink: *nod nod* They're knights and healers.
WJ: Cool... *small frown as he thinks of something* I won't be able to play it when they get it done, unless I'm in a full protoform by that time...
Pink: *head tilt* Why not?
WJ: Remember how often I crash while playing AQW?
Pink: Ohhhh. Right.
WJ: *nod, grumbles about rotten luck*
Pink: *pat pat pats him*
WJ: *small smile* Wonder if Star'll show up here?
Pink: *giggle* He's just over in Hormah's sanctuary.
WJ: Oh... Huh... *glances to Eclipse, who is still sulking over having the cookie taken right out of her hand*
Pink: He and his daddy and Spazz and Nightwish are working on game code.
WJ: The game you showed me?
Pink: *nod nod nod* *munch munch munch*
Nemesis: *puts another cookie sample box where they can reach it*
WJ: *thanks Nemesis, and helps himself to a different kind of cookie than the ones he's already tried*
Pink: I bet Scattor could fix you. He upgraded Nightwish.
WJ: Scattor? *remembers something* He helped Desinex one time...
Pink: He's that big blue guy over there. He grants wishes.
WJ: *looks in the direction Pink indicates, and tries not to boggle*
Pink: ...What? *head tilty and beeps quizzically*
WJ: he's... really, REALLY big...
Pink: Blackout's bigger.
WJ: ... good point...
Pink: Besides. He's Guardian Fae. *shrug*
WJ: Guardian Fae?
Pink: Yup. *nods as though that explains everything*
WJ: ... *blink blink, small shrug, moves to climb down off of the bar*
Pink: Where are you going? Can I help? *cookie stuffed in mouth*
WJ: I'm going to go talk to Scattor.
Pink: Ohhhh! *grabs him and takes off*
WJ: *Acks and clings to Pink as well as he's able*
Pink: *over they go! And then make a few orbits of Scattor's head till it's clear he's not going to try and catch them. She settles them both to the table then*
WJ: *A bit unsettled by the mode of transportation*
Scattor: *offers Wake a big hand for support* *looking totally unsurprised by having two small bots dumped in front of him*
WJ: *blink* er.. Hi....
Scattor: Hi.
Pink: *sits and grins and holds onto her toes*
WJ: I've got a couple of questions I'd like to ask you.... Are you the one who helped a femme by the name of Desinex when she was LOL'd?
Scattor: *nods his head, those calm crimson optics trained thoughtfully on the little mech*
WJ: *starting to feel a bit uncertain all of a sudden* *Quietly* Would it be possible for you to help... *trails off, feeling a bit like he's being selfish, and feeling guilty for that*
Scattor: *deep deep rumble* Don't feel bad.
WJ: Sorry... It's just... *trying to find words, failing epicly, decides to explain why he's asking for help* Awhile back... I was helping friends in a sibling reality to my own... Nobody was expecting hostile Decepticons to have already arrived in the area I was going to... needless to say... things kinda went south quickly... *is just glad the bot he was with didn't get hurt*
Scattor: *nods and says the name of the big 'Con who did it*
WJ: *sharp intake of air, nods*
Scattor: Wish.
WJ: *small nod* *quietly* I wish that I was the way I'm supposed to be.
Scattor: *holds up one hand as cobalt sparkles envelope WakeJumper*
Eclipse: *looks up in time to see that, microwings UP in alarm*
Scattor: *and then it's done and the sparkles die away*
table: *creeeeek*
WJ: *Acks and gets off the table, lest it collapse under his much more significant weight* *looking himself over, grins when sawblades slide out of hidden compartments on his arms*
Eclipse: ... *Falls off the bar stool*
Pink: *squeals and glomps him*
WJ: *small grin, looks to Scattor* Thank you.
Scattor: *shrug* My job.
WJ: *About to say something, when he's tackleglomped by Eclipse* Ack!!!
Pink: *epic giggle fit as she clings to him through the tackleglomp*
WJ: *clicks and puts an arm around Eclipse's shoulders, holding the now much-smaller femme close*
Pink: *starts and looks up at Blackout, who is heading for the door* Oh, I have to go! Bye bye, WakeJumper!
WJ: See ya on the game, Pink. *smile*
Pink: *giggles and waves, then flies away after her boss*
WJ: *focuses on calming his mate down enough that she's not rambling and spazzing while trying to talk*
Scattor: *makes sparkles appear in the mech's hand. When they die away WJ will be holding a dozen orange roses*
WJ: *amused laughter, shows Eclipse, who has managed to calm down enough to give Scattor a small smile*
Scattor: *just smiles back and munches his energon stick*
WJ: *still being clung to, but has succeeded, with Scattor's help, in soothing mate's frazzled nerves* *Gently ushers Eclipse back to the bar so the tab can be paid, and they can get home to surprise the heck out of everyone else*
((co-written with random_xtras))