Airazor turns and lets rip at the Astrotech vehemently, gesturing to her screens as she invites him to have a look for himself. Then she waves her arms and curses her frustration, earning an impressed look from Murphy, who is sitting at the next console.
"Is this what you were talking about?" murmurs Scavenger, his frown deepening. "A whole planet? How...?"
"The asteroids," says Kia suddenly, her soft voice barely audible over the din of upset Minicon.
"All right, all right!" he says defensively once he's taken a look. "Stop with the cussing already!"
Random turns first to Scavenger, and then moves over to Kia, wrapping his arms around her. "Kia? . . . Yeah, it's strange that they're out there. The charts didn't say anything about them."
She turns and hugs him hard, shaking. "Random.... No planet and lots of little rocks. Ohhhh...."
Murphy stops watching Airazor and turns to give Kia a spooked look, then turns back to his console and starts typing rapidly. The typing stops abruptly as he gives vent to a whistle of shock.
He promptly does so before moving to sit down beside Kia.
I guess talking's not a smart option either, he thinks to himself once the panel is shut and he has his arms around Kia, rubbing her back briefly and resisting the temptation to rock her back and forth.
She continues to shake for some time, but then the darkness and closeness, and her trust in Random overcome her fear of the moving of the ship and the slight jostlings. She doesn't even wake up when heavy feet tread overhead.
As she drifts off, Random once again realizes that he is going to be the one whose going to be worried about what's going on around him, and he finds that he is a bit jealous of her even though he finds that her presence gives him comfort, more than he would have been able to give himself if he were alone.
At the heavy steps, he tenses, trying as hard as he can not to make noise and fearing that the mech above will hear either the beating of his spark, the rumble of his engine or the air moving into his intakes or perhaps all of the above.
A Couple Hours Later and HE'S STILL THERE!astrotechmechJune 19 2009, 18:32:08 UTC
Random isn't sure how much more of this he could take! Seriously! How long can a 'bot just stand there!
At this rate by the time he got back to the Rebel Base, he'd be thrown into solitary confinement in order to protect the public from his newly twisted mind!
He is having to tell himself NOT to flinch, NOT to speak, NOT to scream, NOT to move, and NOT to do anything that could give away his, Kia's and Murphy's hidding spot. It did NOT help that Murphy was continually making 'shhh' signs at him and HE CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! He wants to just bang his head against the wall to put an end to it, but he can't because that would be making NOISE! If she was here and if she wasn't dead, he'd be giving Arcee a piece of his mind!
It was amazing how Kia was just sleeping through all this. Surely, his worries would carry through his systems despite his attempts at remaining silent?
At one point in the agonizing wait it had seemed that footsteps had walked away softly, but still the Minicon at his side had signaled him for silence.
Finally, however, more footsteps approach, and Murphy suddenly starts beeping softly and excitedly as he pats Random's knee in earnest.
And Kia wakes and blinks and looks around disorientedly.
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"Is this what you were talking about?" murmurs Scavenger, his frown deepening. "A whole planet? How...?"
"The asteroids," says Kia suddenly, her soft voice barely audible over the din of upset Minicon.
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Random turns first to Scavenger, and then moves over to Kia, wrapping his arms around her. "Kia? . . . Yeah, it's strange that they're out there. The charts didn't say anything about them."
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Murphy stops watching Airazor and turns to give Kia a spooked look, then turns back to his console and starts typing rapidly. The typing stops abruptly as he gives vent to a whistle of shock.
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Then there's nothing but darkness and silence and a little femme clinging to her mentor and hiding her face on him.
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I guess talking's not a smart option either, he thinks to himself once the panel is shut and he has his arms around Kia, rubbing her back briefly and resisting the temptation to rock her back and forth.
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At the heavy steps, he tenses, trying as hard as he can not to make noise and fearing that the mech above will hear either the beating of his spark, the rumble of his engine or the air moving into his intakes or perhaps all of the above.
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And then finally, what seems like several hours since they sounded last, footsteps walk away.
And Murphy once more goes 'shhh'.
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Random catches Murphy's sign again, and he isn't sure how much more of this he can take!
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At this rate by the time he got back to the Rebel Base, he'd be thrown into solitary confinement in order to protect the public from his newly twisted mind!
He is having to tell himself NOT to flinch, NOT to speak, NOT to scream, NOT to move, and NOT to do anything that could give away his, Kia's and Murphy's hidding spot. It did NOT help that Murphy was continually making 'shhh' signs at him and HE CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! He wants to just bang his head against the wall to put an end to it, but he can't because that would be making NOISE! If she was here and if she wasn't dead, he'd be giving Arcee a piece of his mind!
It was amazing how Kia was just sleeping through all this. Surely, his worries would carry through his systems despite his attempts at remaining silent?
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Finally, however, more footsteps approach, and Murphy suddenly starts beeping softly and excitedly as he pats Random's knee in earnest.
And Kia wakes and blinks and looks around disorientedly.
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Random looks down at Kia. "Good morning."
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"You're feeling the dark side," says Scavenger quietly as he too walks in.
Kia's optics go nearly white with alarm.
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And then.
" . . . I think I liked it better when I thought everything was a legend."
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"It can mean a lot of things. Including maybe that Nemesis Prime is on this ship."
"Nemesis Prime? The guy that killed Optimus???" Hot Shot is suddenly all interest.
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