Answering the Call

Feb 20, 2008 10:18

-Crud. This is really gonna hurt,- Blacktop swore, curling up as tightly as his damaged joints would allow as the planet's surface rushed him ( Read more... )

Leave a comment

fredman71 February 21 2008, 04:31:44 UTC
Fred jumps in the jeep, then pauses and looks down at his cargo pocket where Brea's little head just peeks out next to Gandalf's usual relaxed elbows on the edge pose. "Oh... Brea.... I can't bring you!"

Reply

earthbotsuntd February 21 2008, 04:32:37 UTC
Gandalf peeked out, the patted Brea's head and looked up at the scientist.

"I think he's saying he'll look after her," Mac frowned.

"If not, I can take her back, sir," a soldier offered his hand.

Reply

fredman71 February 21 2008, 04:38:12 UTC
He really doesn't want his sensitive little girl to see someone badly hurt.

"This time I think she'd better stay," he says to Gandalf, putting his hand down. "Brea, I'll be back soon, okay? I love you."

Reply

earthbotsuntd February 21 2008, 04:40:23 UTC
Brea frowned at him, but with the gentle encouraging from Mac and Gandalf she got out and sat on the soldier's hand, looking at him sadly as the young man backed away, holding her carefully.

"Ready to go, sir?" the driver looked at him.

Reply

fredman71 February 21 2008, 04:41:54 UTC
Fred nods and buckles his seatbelt, then waves to Brea and grabs a handhold.

Reply

earthbotsuntd February 21 2008, 04:50:58 UTC
The Jeep lurched forward just as Mac thumped into a seat and grabbed his own seatbelt, then smiled a little shakily at him.

A few minutes later they went over a short patch of dessert, and stopped by the crater.

"Oh @#%&," the young driver exclaimed up seeing the giant, sparking heap of purple and black metal. Arcee was crouched by the head, one hand on the bot's forehead, looking at his wounds and giving Smitty instructions to move him around to ease some of the pressure off the wounds.

"Doc," Finn came over, offering her hand to help him out of the jeep. "Glad you could make it."

Reply

fredman71 February 21 2008, 05:07:14 UTC
Fred gives her a funny look, wondering what she thought would have kept him from coming, but then turns his attention to his patient, checking to see if he's awake.

Reply

earthbotsuntd February 21 2008, 05:14:54 UTC
He wasn't, and Arcee sighed in frustration as she moved down his body, starting to looking him over.

"Dumb#$^ ran through an astroid belt," she said, adding on another couple of lovely words to the end of her sentence.

"How can you be sure?" Mac asked, coming over.

"Show him what you found," Arcee looked at Smitty, who proudly held up a slab of space rock.

"Was under his plates," he said.

"Plus you don't get those kinds of dents just falling over," she said, pointing to the scratched and dented frame.

Reply

fredman71 February 21 2008, 05:30:53 UTC
Fred looks at it distractedly, but he's already pulling out tools and setting to work on the most crucial systems. "We've got someone rerouting air traffic over here, right?"

Reply

earthbotsuntd February 21 2008, 05:35:18 UTC
"Probably. Ron's in charge of that. We have a tarp ready, though, in case one of the lookouts spot something coming," Finn pointed to the soldiers standing by with a blue tarp.

Arcee went over, helping put Mac up on the chest.

"Tell me how I can help," she said, looking at the big wires and twisted metal.

Reply

fredman71 February 22 2008, 02:13:05 UTC
"You've seen the diagrams of the kids' systems." Fred absently twirls a tool through his fingers. "Are you guys pretty well built the same way?"

Reply

earthbotsuntd February 22 2008, 03:25:18 UTC
"I... think so," she frowned. "I don't know, I wasn't a medic."

Reply

fredman71 February 22 2008, 03:53:13 UTC
"Kk." He applies a pain override and waits a moment, then sets to work, visibly slipping away from the world around him as he focuses.

Reply

earthbotsuntd February 22 2008, 04:43:40 UTC
Arcee helped where she could, Mac watching closely and monitoring the big bot's life signs.

"Here comes the transporting copter," Finn looked up, then frowned at Fred. "He ready to move, yet?"

Reply


Leave a comment

Up