((All parties converging from
here and
here.In a brilliant flash of light, Ratchet, Catilla, Moledive, Klank and Steiner all PINpoint into the bear mech's little corner of Nellis Air Force Base. When they arrive, Chainclaw is waiting for them, the Pretender looking worse for the wear, himself
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"Ungh..." Chainclaw is still prone on the floor, shoulder smoking, his shell nosing him with a whimper.
Catilla's shell soon joins the two, licking Chainclaw's shoulder briefly.
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Crawling to the nearest work table, Ratchet struggles to drag himself onto the open surface. He pulls open a section of his chest and grabs up a line from the side table and generator, plugging himself in. "Got to...got to replace lost energy... Primus... I've failed."
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"What's going on?" demands a gruff voice.
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The occupants are another story. All of them have gone into stasis lock where they lay, self repair sequences trying to compensate for massive amounts of external and internal damages.
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PINpoint light flares in the bear mech's area and when it fades, Tracks, Moledive and Steiner are left standing in its wake. Immediately, the Corvette is on the alert.
"Where are Ratchet and the others? We left them here! Primus, don't tell me they tried to follow... They were worse off." His scanners begin sweeping without hesitation. "Moledive, you know this place? If they are not here, where are they?"
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"Yes." The big black mech rumbles and nods, mentally comparing this guy's appearance to the Tracks he knew as his team follows him inside. "I'm supposed to take this slag heap to the lockup."
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Giving himself enough boost to elevate himself to Steiner's near shoulder, Tracks pulls a circular saw blade from it with little reaction from the larger mech. "That other Ratchet will likely want this returned." He subspaces the piece and drops back to the ground to address the situation at hand once more. "To lock up? Do you intend to try him for his crimes here? And while I do realize he a prisoner, some one might want to check him at least briefly to make sure he doesn't leak all his fluids out while being held. It would seem that without Klank to give him orders, he really has no direction. He should not be that hard to contain."
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Then he scowls and scans Steiner. "Sam and Soundwave are meeting us there. They both know feild mechanics. And I have no idea what Prime will want to do with him, right now we just want to make sure we don't get anymore holes in the walls."
"The door's open," says Bee as she and Moledive reach it. "So it should be safe to go in."
Inside, Ratchet is seeing if he can't get his alternate to come back online. He and Endeavour have finished the most pressing repairs on the three mechs, and are now focusing on the smaller stuff, like finding out if that newly installed optic works.
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Even before bearRatchet's silence registers Bee realizes her mistake, and her blue eyes go wide. "You have a Sam... slag... me and my big mouth... should have left the vocalizer offline....Sam grins and applies the painkiller override program, perhaps giving a setting just a bit higher than is really needed because he sees how big his patient is and wants to make sure he gives him enough. Poor Steiner is in danger of being stoned. "There you go, buddy. Hey, what's your name? I'm Sam, and this is Soundwave and Ravage... Ravage, what are you doing? Get off of him! Sheesh, Soundwave, that's not cool, he doesn't want a cat walking on ( ... )
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The bear mech glances at Optimus Prime with an arched ridge. "Who's Charlie?"
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Steiner merely glances at Soundwave, then turns his gaze to the ceiling. He really doesn't have much to say to anyone. He's an empty, broken mech in more ways that one... If he does recover from the loss, it will take some time.
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Then he pauses and looks at his alternate. "He's not going to go dictator on you."
"Honey, you little flirt." Mikaela laughs as she climbs up onto Catilla's table. "Leave the poor guy alone and let him rest."
"Bbbb." The Pretender gets pat patted again.
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Catilla grimaces again and then decides a distraction may be in order. Contacting his shell, he sends the tiger padding around the side of the table to bump Honey's leg with its nose. Pet me!
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"Honey!" Mikaela kneels by Catilla's arm. "That's mid-grade. You know you're not supposed to have it."
"Bbbb!" One rock gets tossed at the tiger, the other is offered to Catilla.
"I'd never dream of doing such a thing," says Ratchet blandly, then rumbles a bit before holding up one hand.
"Right." A replica of Gregory House appears on it, speaking in his voice. "I'll just get some use out of this ridiculous gadget."
Mikaela now has the giggles.
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