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Open! Visit shiny Cybertron, now with 100% less death and destruction!

Sep 23, 2010 22:13

With everything that had happened recently, and especially after GLaDoS and his chat with the Prince, Ratchet had been feeling... well, he supposed 'homesick' wasn't a very good word and 'lonely' just seemed too morose. Restless was probably better, so he'd made his way out to the Sensoriums. He'd been avoiding them for the most part simply because ( Read more... )

ratchet_idw, !status: open, lord zetta, pepper potts

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i_am_the_bafo September 24 2010, 02:47:56 UTC

Bored and frustrated, Zetta had picked up his habit of butting his head into the sensoriums to harass the people within.

Now he'd ended up surrounded by giant robots. This really ought to make him reconsider his habits. It probably will not.

"Dammit," Zetta snarled as his minion hauled him, and ass, through the massive illusion of a robot city, furiously avoiding the obstacles both stationary and mobile that threatened, "this is probably going to be another bad day."

talks2stoplight September 24 2010, 03:05:57 UTC

It wasn't difficult to pick out organics in a sea of metal, so to say that Zetta's minion stood out like a sore servo was putting it lightly. Nevermind that Zetta himself was a giant book.

A book that Ratchet vaguely remembered having seen in passing around the ship before; especially around the City. Pausing, he watched the human and the book barrel through the crowd, waiting until they were close before sticking a foot out into the human's path.

Then, just to be fair, he shouted "hey!" at the last minute.

i_am_the_bafo September 24 2010, 13:27:51 UTC

The minion stopped on an impressively small dime, maintaining an iron grip on the Overlord. Said Overlord quickly checked the status screens. Not a sensorium construction? Good.

(Robot? Eh, he's a book, who's he to judge?)

"This place is pretty damn unique," he blustered, as if everything were perfectly normal. 'Scared' wasn't the right word anyway. Nothing scared Zetta, because nothing could withstand his badass power. But this place sure caught him off guard. "What happened here anyway? Four million years of naturally-occurring levers and pulleys getting out of hand?"

talks2stoplight September 24 2010, 19:04:26 UTC

That was impressive. He kept forgetting how nimble humans were.

The book's comment got a short laugh from Ratchet, the medic setting his hands on his hips. "Hey, I haven't insulted your ancestors. I happen to come from a very distinguished line of creaky hinges. Care to explain why you're running around in here?" He looked between the book and the human carrying it, not quite sure who he should be talking to.

i_am_the_bafo September 24 2010, 19:11:43 UTC

The human (actually, demon, to judge by her pointer ears and fangs) simply smiled vapidly, though cheerful. The book, on the other hand, looked mighty damn cranky. "Hey, I didn't see an 'occupied' sign on this one," Zetta said, avoiding the full and absolute truth pretty much entirely. "And so far all the robots I've seen that I know about were giant ones down in the docks. Didn't know we had any live ones around."

At least Zetta's willing to extend an absolute presumption of sentience and life to a robot; that's gotta be worth something, right?

talks2stoplight September 25 2010, 03:00:26 UTC

Oh yes, he's very courteous. Ratchet gave the human--he really has nothing else to compare her against, so human she stays--a curious look before focusing on the.. book. "Well, I didn't know we had any live tomes around here either, so I guess we're even. Is your name written on your spine?" He leaned over to try and get a look. "Do you have a home address in the Dewey Decimal System?"

i_am_the_bafo September 25 2010, 03:05:15 UTC

"I'm Overlord Zetta!" the book proclaimed. "The most badass freakin' Overlord in the cosmos! This is just a temp-- hey!" Zetta attempted to turn out of this humilaiting attempt to read him. (Nothing was written on the spine, by the way." "Damn you, Dewey!" he snarled. "Your decimal system's on the list!"

talks2stoplight September 25 2010, 03:31:05 UTC

"Overlord of what? The fiction section?" He didn't seem terribly dissuaded by the lack of any writing or the protests; curiosity was taking over. "Is everyone a book where you come from? Do you rule over the paperbacks?"

At least he's not trying to pry Zetta's cover open.

i_am_the_bafo September 25 2010, 13:58:29 UTC

"No!" Zetta's opinion of robots was falling faster by the moment. "The Sacred Tome is the keystone of my Netherworld. The Ohm sabotaged it to destroy me, I had to bind my soul to the damn book to save it." How he said all this quite clearly through clenched teeth was a mystery.

talks2stoplight September 28 2010, 01:20:28 UTC

Well, no one would ever say that Ratchet was the best ambassador of his kind and the notion wouldn't have bothered him anyway. "Oh, that's unfortunate," he said, leaning back finally and crossing his arms. And really, what more was there to say about such a situation?

"...Can't say it looks like you got much out of the exchange."

i_am_the_bafo September 28 2010, 01:26:59 UTC

"I saved my life, my mana power, and my Netherworld," Zetta said with a shrug in his voice, if not a physical one. "I can fix the Netherworld, and get my body back. Just means we have to kick the Ohm's asses. I can live with that."

talks2stoplight September 28 2010, 01:47:00 UTC

At that, Ratchet's smile turned from joking to friendly. "I stand corrected, then. I think that's something we can all live with." And from that into a grin. "Don't think you're gonna find anyone around here that's gonna argue too hard with you about it, anyway."

i_am_the_bafo September 28 2010, 01:58:41 UTC

"You'd be surprise," Zetta said, somewhere between irritated and disgusted. "I've met a few people who just wanted to sit and mope and do nothing. And have everyone fix it for them, I guess. Feh!"

But he brightened back up quickly enough. "Still, there are a lot of promising people too. They're not all bad."

talks2stoplight September 28 2010, 02:58:58 UTC

Ratchet didn't really have a reply to Zetta's observation. Mostly because a part of him could still conjure up reasons someone might decide to be like that, but that also didn't mean he really understood it either. He just sighed and shifted his weight anxiously.

At least Zetta didn't plan to be a complete downer. "That's worth hearing, I guess... and I agree with you. I'm Ratchet, by the way." He almost extended a hand on reflex, but, well... the whole book thing. "As the only moderately intelligent mech around this place, guess I should, uh, belatedly welcome you to my old stomping grounds, as it were. You never really did tell me what you were doing here."

i_am_the_bafo September 28 2010, 03:29:29 UTC

"I gotta say... I've seen some pretty weird things in my time, but never anything quite like this. Is it... all technology? No... I don't want to say 'living' here, but I'm not sure what word I want." Probably 'organic', Zetta.

"And frankly? I make a habit of hanging around these places. I'm still trying to get this damn ship at least somewhat organized to fight the Ohm, and these things are one of the best places to meet people."

talks2stoplight September 28 2010, 18:58:46 UTC

"Organic? Carbon based?" He filled the words in well enough, getting the drift of what Zetta was trying to articulate. "No, none of that here. Cybertron as a planet is metallic to the core; not exactly hospitable to organic life. Although these days, it's not hospitable to any life, even if the Ohm didn't destroy it. This is an old memory."

He shrugged a little. "Organized, huh? I was kinda under the impression that that's why we're all here in the first place: to fight the Ohm."

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