NOT looking for trouble this time...honest!
((From here...Klank PINpoints into a secluded area of the nexus hub he and others have simply come to know as "the dressing room." Not much activity on this end, but this was the usual place he and his comrades would use to enter and exit without being noticed by the majority of the hub populace. The surrounding walls are a lined with very large
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"Hey, what'd you expect? I needed a body and First Gunner was a pushover!" Moledive manages to shoot back before the medic glances back over one shoulder to silence him.
Despite his aggravation with 'Dive and Catilla, however, they've managed to give him an idea. With a soft hiss, the holsters on his outer lower legs open to expose his photon pistols. He reaches for the one on the right, drawing it and whirling it up in his hand like an Old West cowboy before leveling it at Klank's face. As close as they are standing to one another, it would be little more than an arm's length, point blank shot.
But the barrel is pointing at Ratchet, not at Klank ( ... )
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She blinks in surprise as she sees how the mech is presenting his gun to Klank.
Her optics brighten in intensity, as he challenges the Decepticon. How... utterly mad, and she's sure that she doesn't like the thought of either outcome that Ratchet has speculated.
Auspex is rather sure Klank won't shoot him. She knows he is shocked, he has been insulted... and he has been given a chance to do something that was a goal of his for vorns, that he no longer wantsShe sees what Ratchet is doing, and his apparent faith in the outcome startles her. He... believes Klank. But, he's not going to let it be an easy decision for the dying mech. His ill-will is still present en force: this looks to be a revenge, ( ... )
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Jet watched impassively as Catilla and Moledive continued to banter, seemingly oblivious to their company. It did not bother him as it was bothering Auspex; in life, he was well used to being ignored. The words were callous. Cutting. The way two Decepticons would casually discuss the fate of an Autobot prisoner bound and helpless before them - that’s what it reminded him of.
This Ratchet however - he wielded his words like a scalpel. Cruelty and he seemed to be old friends; this one was well practiced in verbally slicing ugly wounds. Wounds that could fester and sicken the patient as time went on as well as any cyberplague. A shattered glass version of the kindly mech Jet had briefly met.
Jet knew this was a test. That, somewhere inside, the mech believed Klank when he pulled that gun and turned it on himself. Didn’t stop it from being a… fraggit all… an absolutely insane test and revenge to boot ( ... )
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There is no smug sense of self satisfaction. Only relief. As he picks up the pistol in one hand, bending his arm at the elbow joint and pointing the weapon barrel up, Ratchet pulls the trigger.
...only a harmless click follows. Certain, Ratchet was not.
"YOU VALVEHOLE!" Moledive shouts from across the way, half in rage and half in relief. "You could have at least secure comm'ed to tell us you disabled that fragging thing before you gave it to him ( ... )
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Jet tensed, optics flaring bloody scarlet in horror - Moledive was moving and it was all going to Unicron gift-wrapped and he needed to act! - and then in muted relief as Catilla and his shell tackled his companion to the ground. He held himself in check, rigid, resisting the impulse to act, to do something and focused on the Allspark singing in the back of his spark and mind to cue him in on that right moment to intercede.
Because… aw Primus, this was no time for acting stupid and impulsive.
He watched the confrontation between Ratchet and Klank, and the struggle between the two on the side with equal tight-coiled attention. Things built, reached a crescendo, and then the gun went off.
Thank the Allspark, Primus, and Cybertron itself! DisabledBut, lugnuts, how ( ... )
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“… not too many things can pull a spark from the Allspark by force. Usually the spark in question decides to come back itself on its own - happens… uh, often enough in my home universe. Or is sent out, like me.” The Commander, Blackstar, Duskwing… This was not even to speak of the mechs completely returning from the Dead. He frowned, nodding, consulting the Allspark. Yeah, that made sense. Reality flux. Unusual, depended on the right conditions - but yeeeeah. “Dark Science is the usual way sparks are yanked out, but… um… if the barriers between the Well and the Living World are weakened enough… yeah… that would have done it ( ... )
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*she considers further, recalling other conversations, now that she's focusing on the subject* In another incident, I encountered a remnant of a Rampage's spark in a strange... conglomerate mech. That one was mean-spirited. If that is how most people know him, and if he has... some sort of hold on sparks... the individual I know best, is obviously not the norm for him ( ... )
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But… yeah, what little the Allspark had said… Primus, creepy, creepy. This X… Rampage… what he did to mechs was uncomfortably similar to the manner in which Jet had been snuffed.
It was war, and he was the enemy - Jet knew the sword swung both ways in regards to that saying. But Baklava Pax had been…
… yeah.
“The reality flux could be the thing that weakened the walls…” a thoughtful pause as something occurred to him, “though if someone had been yanking out sparks in your universe somewhere, the walls between the Allspark and the Living World would have been weakened for … uh, some time after the breach. No telling how long; the Well exists outside normal time and space… so, in some realities where the walls meet, things heal up quick like… other places, um, not so quick. Could’ve helped things along in this case.” Ailerons twitched again. “But there’s really no telling. These things are tricky at ( ... )
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Ohh. You're from the destroyed reality... *she nods slowly, now having a group to associate them with* But... multiple Unicrons...? *her optics brighten, but flicker as she tries to get her mind around that* Generally, only one manifestation at a time will be in a single reality, as with Primus. That... is not supposed to happen. It sounds as though things were quite messy... *she winces*
*she frowns in concern as Klank admits the beginnings of difficulty with identity* Reminding you of your life, should help, though there may be things you do not wish to remember... well, there must be some memories that still bring comfort ( ... )
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