Void saga (hopefully) finale!

[hidden_watcher]

[From Cyclonus's journal here.]

*on the bridge of the Dis, absent-mindedly with an arm around Dreadboots to reassure her* *one optic and audial monitoring the copilot's station, but mostly just watching Galvatron, watching the console lights throw shadows across his proud, fiercely set features, watching those strong fingers move with caressing

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[chaos_gunner]

[clean thread since everything has gotten a bit muddled above]

All right, Cyclonus! Stand by!

*laughs, for no real reason other than sheer relief and delight that things seem to be finally back on track around here!*

*under Galvatron's guiding hands, the Dis emerges from whatever mysterious dimension its drives take it through. There are no wormholes or coloured blurs, Unicron gave it no such petty flash - rather, the giant ship is simply, suddenly there, decelerating to come smoothly alongside the Cocytus, looming like a vast iron ghost above Void's pale mirror-ship*

*looks out at the other vessel* Cyclonus! Can you let us on board or do we have to cut our way in?

[firstlieutenant]

*watching the Cocytus' viewscreens, closes his optics for a moment in relief as the familiar shape of the Dis slides into parallel orbit beside them*

*touches the control panel again, lightly* My friends, Cocytus. May I let them on board? Don't mind Galvatron, he adds with a hint of a smile. Threats are a habit with him.

[blackwingdove]

~~If he damages my mirrors...~~

*The Cocytus rotates slowly, bringing her docking clamps alongside the Dis. She extends them slowly, giving the other ship time to jink back if it so chooses.*

*Jetstorm sits as still as a statue, optics barely lit.*

[firstlieutenant]

*remembering something he heard from one of the ex-human Triad once* Seven years' bad luck, yes?

*over the radio* Initiating docking protocols. Dis, stand by.

[chaos_gunner]

*keeps the Dis steady for the links to connect*

*over ship's intercom* It appears our enemy is letting us walk in there and take over! *laughs*

All of you, be ready to follow me!

[giri_guy]

All of you, be ready to follow me!

*grins and mutters* Okay, but don't get used to it...

*beneath the grin, Rodimus is troubled - is anything ever this easy? His diodes have been buzzing for hours in anticipation of the fight of his life, and now... and now Cyclonus has gone and done all the work for him, and the Prime, unworthy as the emotion is, almost feels resentful.*

*over radio to the Autobots still in the war room* //Don't relax just yet. I don't want any surprises.//

[corruptedhope]

//It won't be that easy.// Scourge moves towards the front of the ship. //Whatever you've done with Void, it won't hold him forever. Be on your guard.// And it's far too much to hope for, but don't let Galvatron take him on alone.

[giri_guy]

*favors him with a grin he hopes is reassuring* //Relax. We're ready for him this time.//

[icemasta]

*hey, who are you calling an Autobot* //We're relaxed enough already, now give us something to shoot!// *He prods Demolishor, who had decided to roll over and take a nap.*

[blazinblackness]

*allows the grin to spread across his face* //Relaxin'? I thought we were just gettin' started.//

[thebasi]

Basi is getting a bad feeling about this. Not so much "it's too easy, must be a trap" as "it's too easy, something's bound to mess this up". She checks sword, sword-belt and Materia band, despite having done so plenty of times already.

Then she resettles her pack on her shoulders, glances down at the unfamiliar spacesuit and leaves with the others.

[lavender_wings]

*casts a brief reassuring smile at Basi, and leaves whenever the others do*

[thebasi]

Basi almost misses the smile, but half-turns to return it (a bit surprised, hers).

[lavender_wings]

*over com* Yes, Mighty Galvatron! *I'd follow you through the Pit and back.... she doesn't voice it out loud, but the thought is there*

*is ready as ever, "in game face" again... expects that this can't be that easy - in fact, hopes that it won't be so easy as to not end with a very dead Void, but for now, will just go and do what needs to be done*

[chaos_gunner]

*is already at the airlock by the time the docking connection seals itself into place, and leads the way across to the Cocytus at a pace that is only just slow enough for the others to keep up*

*crossing a docking connection in deep space is weird to anyone not born a spacer. The clear stuff of the tube gives a nerve-shattering threesixty view of black space and hard-gleaming stars, there's no definitive "up" or "down" except relative to the flanks of the two huge warships arching away on either side, and the minor gravity forces pull and flux strangely as the two ships' artificial grav fields interact. Anyone who has never done this before may find it a bit disturbing.*

*Galvatron, of course, isn't bothered by it in the least, and lands lightly on his feet inside the Cocytus' airlock. He glances around at the ship, senses prickling with an almost-familiar kind of awareness...*

Hmm! Can you tell I am here, ship? *cocks his head, listening for a reply* Do you know who I am?

[thebasi]

When she reaches the airlock, she places a hand on the corner, and for a moment she presses her palm to the metal. She doesn't use words, but sends a brief pulse of wanttosee you soongoodtohavemetyou to the Dis.

And then she gets a good look at the docking connection. The stars are hard and the path clear, and the void fixed, and none of those are what is she is used to. But trusting to strange roads is, and she crosses after a steadying breath.

She hears Galvatron ahead, and pulls her defenses a little tighter to avoid offending the ship ahead.