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Post by festum on Jun 18, 2009 14:24:14 GMT -5
Ballad's wings tightened around herself. From under her cover, her optics clamped shut, and her claws did there best to block off noise from her audio receptors. She toyed with the idea of ripping the offending sensors out so that she could blind and deafen herself to the unwanted stimuli.
That, and the pain would distract her from thinking about this horrible place.
"Staining/red draining/formation's light."
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Post by hare on Jun 18, 2009 23:39:10 GMT -5
Deadend was absolutely lost. He was summoned from his post by his nephew for some reason and has yet to figure out what it is and why was he called. Than he sees Ballad hurdled in the corner. For some reason, he's starting to feel something towards her.
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Post by Akitsu on Jun 19, 2009 19:08:27 GMT -5
Galvatron sighed, "Well it's obvious that she's not happy here... poor thing looks like she wants to go into stasis lock or something." He considered picking her up and depositing her outside, but thought better of it. "Someone go get a mag-lev lifter... there should be one around here somewhere. We'll move her that way... " He mumbled under his breath, "... probably rend us to shreds if we did it any other way. She doesn't look like she's in the mood for walkies..."
He opened the discussion to the floor, "... unless anyone else has an idea?"
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Post by smokedtoast on Jun 22, 2009 13:09:58 GMT -5
There's the sound of the front doors opening as Slingshot enters the building quickly. He didn't expect to be so late in these matters... but he had to be sure Scarabus would be alright with the others. "I'm a bit late, I know..." He responds as he enters the room the others are in, nodding in Deadend's direction. "Personal matters. I'm sure you've taken care of thi-" He pauses for a moment as he spots Ballad's position, before rubbing his face dispondently and walking over. "Knew I should have left directions. Galvy, how bad is she?" He responds lightly, walking over to Ballad calmly before kneeling before her. "Hello Ballad..." He responds calmly, looking towards her.
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Post by Akitsu on Jun 23, 2009 18:41:51 GMT -5
"Bad, good... who can say. It's kind of hard to gauge such things with no frame of reference. She's mumbling poetry... what did she say? Stained red formation's draining light or something to that effect..." He signed, "Good thing you showed up... we were about to try getting her outside to see if a change of scenery might help... this place is rather depressing. Knew we should have gone to the hall of weapons..."
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Post by festum on Jun 25, 2009 0:09:57 GMT -5
Ballad cracked her wings apart, just enough so she could peek out and stare at Slingshot. A moment later she pulled into herself again and muttered;
"Brittle breaking/rotting feathers falling/naked stars a'singing."
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Post by smokedtoast on Jun 27, 2009 10:59:13 GMT -5
Slingshot nods to Galvy for a moment before turning towards Ballad and listening. "Mm... as good as she can be. She's not entirely used to these new bodies of ours. Old project of a ..." He pauses for a moment before adding bitterly. "Collegue of mine. One of the overtly emotional types though he'd slit your throat for saying so. Claimed himself logical yet most of what he designed burnt out one way or another. Should see the other creation that's still running around." He stands for a moment before offering his hand down to ballad. "Would you like to see your room Ballad? it's nice and quiet in there..."
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Post by Akitsu on Jun 27, 2009 15:32:27 GMT -5
Galvatron sighed heavily, wondering if he was going to have to call a medic for Slingshot. He folded his arms and waited, trying his best not to make any more stimuli that Ballad might respond badly to. Unfortunately the lack of sleep just made him look like he was glaring as he looked down at her.
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Post by festum on Jun 30, 2009 2:23:00 GMT -5
Ballad's wings slowly spread apart and she looked up at Slingshot critically. Her red optics narrowed in concentration, trying to summon the will to piece together the kaleidoscopic world around her into something coherent. She knew him from somewhere, or maybe she just thought so...
Slowly, she edged a glistening talon towards Slingshot's waiting hand. But right before their fingers touched, she looked over and noticed Galvatron's glare.
Suddenly and without warning, all twelve of Ballad's raven drones materialized out of the air around her and with a maddening scream, the oscillation motors in her hands roared to life, blurring her claws into sonic blades.
With a scream she rushed towards Galvatron, her optics blazing trails.
"Firefly/night from flower/withers in the light!"
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Post by Akitsu on Jun 30, 2009 13:12:51 GMT -5
At this point, one would expect an understanding and sympathetic bot to simply stand there, arms outstretched, and hope that their lack of response might cause the attacker to stop. Galvatron on the other hand, tired as he was, was still a soldier.. and his responses were hard wired. He'd learned the hard way about trying to talk reason to crazies in the heat of the moment. Almost without thinking he found himself throwing a punch in the direction of Ballad's jaw...
(ooc: This is pretty much an automatic response... grin. I'll leave it up to you to see what happens.)
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Post by smokedtoast on Jul 8, 2009 19:19:37 GMT -5
Slingshot grimaced as he saw the two's reactions before slapping his hand to his face as he darted forward between the two. "Ballad! He's an experiment too... albeit one that was done by a more compassionate scientist then your old master." He calls out even as he takes the brunt of both hits, cringing to himself as the sonic drill tears its way into his armor and galvy's own blow forcing it further in. Inside his head, he's cursing this compassionate streak he's gained since becoming a council member... but it's now his job to look beyond his former self and rise up. Spinout looks on in shock, before running off towards the med-bay located in the facility. He has a very bad feeling he's going to need some of it's supplies in a few moments... which leaves him with a solemn idea of why they wanted him here.
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Post by festum on Jul 12, 2009 3:40:58 GMT -5
Ballad continued to shriek with horrifying rage as her talons bore through the metal in front of her. Grinning as much as she could without a proper mouth, she looked up expecting to see Galvatron's pain-filled optics.
When she saw Slingshot's instead, her harsh reality dawned on her. With a cry, she tore her hands free and hugged her arms around her chest, taking several stumbling steps backwards. Her claws dug deep gauges into the technorganic metal of her upper arms.
After managing some distance from everyone, she spoke out in a whimper, "Chains pulled down/ creaking gates/ breach the gap..."
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Post by Akitsu on Jul 12, 2009 10:43:22 GMT -5
Galvatron managed to keep Slingshot upright, despite the sudden weight his form had aquired... the kind of slack one normally would attribute to a dead body. "You should have let me drop her... it would have been better for all parties involved..." It was a harsh whisper, but it held more self contempt than anything else.
Doing his best to gently lower Slingshot to the floor he turned his head to Ballad and said, "It wasn't your fault... he'll be fine." He knew she wouldn't hear it, even if he were to shout it in her ear... but it brought a small bit of comfort to himself to utter the words. If only Slingshot had let him handle it... he might have gotten a bit of damage, but his blow surely would have knocked the rampaging bot out with the force he had put into it. Ballad would be blissfully unaware, if a bit sore... and after twenty minutes in the med station he'd have been fine as well.
"Somebody get a medic..." It was a meek request. In the back of his mind he thought he remembered someone going off in that direction... but everything was flowing together in a haze.
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Post by smokedtoast on Jul 14, 2009 17:13:20 GMT -5
Spinout came running back with a number of medical supplies, still mentally cringing at the sight as he kneels down next to Slingshot and starts to treat his wounds. "What the slag did he take before getting here?" He manages to mutter as he glances over to Galvy. "This isn't like him at all, any of it. Slingshot's always been more of the sly one waiting behind the scenes. What would make someone like that do this Galvy? It doesn't make sense."
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Post by Akitsu on Jul 14, 2009 19:48:01 GMT -5
Galvatron sighed, "You can't predict people... they tend to go left just when you're sure they'll go right. I don't think there were external influences here..." <Well, maybe one... but she's in just as bad shape....> He made sure to hold the prone bot still, "As for his mental state... what do I look like, his shrink? You can ask him when you get him all patched up... even ask him about his motherboard and all that stuff..."
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