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Post by smokedtoast on Jan 4, 2015 23:54:11 GMT -5
"We shouldn't be here!" Snarled the white and brown mosntrosity of a bot known as Hungurr. He continued to pace around the room as his fellow gestault leader Liostriker sat calmly in the interogation room. "We did our 'part', we gave them what they want and now they demand more of us? Threaten our home, threaten our troops!" He continued to rant as Liostriker brought a hand up to his head, sighing in response. It was times like this that made him wish Ridley took a more direct leadership of the team. Unlike his grandson, he could be...calm if need be. "They did no -such- thing Hungurr. The detective wanted to find out if we could tell them anymore of our time... on the other side. Considering the fact you and your team enhancered up a bunch of old school veterans into your own little version of the terran 'Coyote Ugly', people like -Chromia- to name just one... Are you surprised they were a little gruff with you?" Liostriker responded in a polite but affirmative tone. "She was flirting with me the last time I stopped by, for primus's sake! What all did they do?" Hungurr slammed his fist on the table before flipping his chair around and sitting. "We didn't 'enhancer' them... we don't touch that slag. Couldn't even if we want to at this point. You know that. Sinnertwin used some of that primus-damned energy of hers from the ninja clan days. Supercharged what -deva- already did to her. Hell, one of hers even followed us home, little cyberjunkie of a seeker. Can't blame us for any unique interactions." He responded with a grumble. "How long's it going to take for someone to show up?" Liostriker quirked his eye at this. "Maybe if you'd calm the slag down and be quite for a bit? you've been acting like Blot with a toothache for the last few hours..." "Well maybe if they didn't interrupt my time with Vindy... we have busy schedules you know. Not everyone gets to move in with their girlfriend." Hungurr responds lightly, looking a little jealous of the other. Liostriker just shrugs lightly in response. "I can't deny that." ********* Fangry rolled his eyes at the arguing going on in the next room. More whiny teenager emotional troubles then he needed to deal with. He was getting too old for this kind of thing. He takes a moment to open up a comm channel over to Howlback now that the two have calmed down. ~Hey Sarge, the Runabout and Runamuck wannabees have finally calmed down. Probably in a good position for you to talk to them, best we're probably going to get.~
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Post by Cryptic on Jan 22, 2015 10:38:17 GMT -5
"Well maybe if they didn't interrupt my time with Vindy... we have busy schedules you know. Not everyone gets to move in with their girlfriend." Hungurr responds lightly, looking a little jealous of the other. Liostriker just shrugs lightly in response. "I can't deny that."
If that wasn't a cue, Howl's didn't know what was, even with Fangy in her ear. So she bumped the door open and padded in doing her best to look like the tired cop she was. "I'm not any more thrilled to be here then you are, and want to get this done just as quickly." she said waving them to seats as she dropped into one herself. Damn pregnancy was really starting to grind her gears.
"For the record I am Officer Howlback," she said, choosing to play down her rank. She'd found some preferred to talk to the rank and file more then they did the higher ups. "And you are not under arrest. We just want information on what happened at a certain warehouse."
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Post by smokedtoast on Mar 8, 2015 22:29:00 GMT -5
Hungurr raised an eyebrow with a frown as he listened. The mention of warehouses causes a slight twitch of his eyes, as if reminded of painful memories. Considering all things this is a noticable change in his expression due to his bluster earlier. "A certain warehouse? Hellscream kept a lot of secrets in a lot of places Miss Howlback, you're going to need to be more specific." His tone is defensive, even more so as he omissions her title. Liostriker rubbed his face for a moment before adding his two cents. Unsurprisingly of the two he seems to be the calmer. "You're talking about the place over in Polyhex, right? The one they keep putting under extreme lockdown the last few cycles?" He asks, keeping his tone calm and measured. "I'm guessing you've found Hellscream's... studio... at least that's what he called it." Hungurr's eyes narrowed at this as he adjusts his position in his chair. It might be an act of defiance waiting to happen.... or the poor bastard trying to hide a twinge of fear.
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Post by Cryptic on Jul 21, 2015 13:00:25 GMT -5
"We found something in Polyhex. Barely got out of there with our hides intact." Howls told them up front as she projected a few choice frames from her recording units show casing the creatures that they had run into and how the tunnels had begun behaving. She was well aware of Hungerr's squirming, and she'd focus her interrogation on him when the time was right.
"Thankfully I was with something scarier then those things." She let them see a blurry still of X-23 lurking in the shadows.
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Post by smokedtoast on Jul 26, 2015 21:27:54 GMT -5
Liostriker looked over the frames carefully, frowning in response. "Sharkticons.... at least what hellscream felt they should be. We've been trying to clear them out bu-" He grew silent at the additional frames showing the tunnels shifting. "Damn... I thought we helped your precinct find all the labs. There was only so many we knew about after all." He added with a nod. "He didn't want to let his pet projects get too much information. All too many of his army was experiments." Hungurr spoke up at the last few frames. "That looks like the chick who helped us with hunting those Legion things. Though some of those walls... I think that's where Hellscream worked on conditioning a lot of us. He never let us see the way, not all of it. But he could only restrain us so much. Probably the place where he modified Blots Brain module so no one saw him as anything but a brute." He seems to growl at the thought. "The shame of the whole thing, he'd know more then either of us...but he can barely say anything but 'smashy' these days. Stuck in a large enough shell even typing's a problem."
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Post by Cryptic on Sept 14, 2015 19:42:38 GMT -5
Howls rubbed her chin. "How does Blot react to enhancers? Could we regress him some or maybe transfer him into a smaller frame? And yes, that is the one who was hunting with you. She's currently investigating another lab at the moment." She frowned and checked her crono. "She should have checked in by now actually."
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Post by smokedtoast on Oct 11, 2015 22:08:43 GMT -5
Hungurr sighed in frustration. "Oh, we have considered that. Even Sinnertwin's given her cyber-ninjitu a try... but Hellscream's got him wired hard. His Nannites are cyber-locked hard and he barely survived putting the spark back in when we tried to remove it." He rubs the back of his head, looking all like he'd love something to punch right now. "With the limited access we have due to our parole, we haven't had many more radical options on hand." He paused for a second, as if registering Howl's previous statement. "No word back yet? Could be jammed." His defiance doesn't seem to hide the fact he's looking concerned now. Liostriker rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Could be... but that's not the concerning thing that comes to mind Officer. We didn't know all of Hellscream's projects and I've heard your friend has had some... " He gestures his hand in a circle as if trying to find the right word. "Memory problems. If there's anyone there with her I would check with them as well. There's no guarantee she's not another one of us and that means there's no guarantee that lab might have just the right protocol to contain her. Part of the problems with dealing with a megalomaniac that makes the Council Member Screamer look sane."
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Post by Cryptic on Oct 11, 2015 23:41:56 GMT -5
"What resources do you think would be needed to get him back in some form of accessible? Even if he's just hooked up to a dumb machine and we access things that way?" Howls asked. "I might be able to wrangle some options as part of the investigation."
"No, still getting her signal, so it isn't jammed, though I suppose the signal could be being spoofed..." Howls touched a button. "Gar, seek out X in the field and get me a status report."
"Her memory problems, as best we can tell, come from something that happened to her progenitor. You lot ever hear of Icebird? She's an organic-former who used to have two beasts forms and no bot form. X is a descendent of one of her fellows."
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Post by smokedtoast on Oct 12, 2015 0:08:09 GMT -5
Liostriker nodded in response, thinking over her question. "Might be able to work something with a neural interface, if anyone has any of the headmaster tech still around on cybertron. Nothing too invasive though, otherwise it'll activate his repair subroutines." He explained lightly, thinking it over. "There's enough left over to combine so he'd have the right subroutines to interface with something." Hungurr raised an eyebrow at the explanation. "Wait, you mean the temple folk? X-23's connected to those guys? I thought they were all peaceful and the like, she didn't seem the type..."
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Post by Cryptic on Oct 12, 2015 7:55:52 GMT -5
"I'll see what I can locate." Howls said making a note on a pad.
"She is, more or less. Razor Claw wasn't the most peaceful of the lot, and X is worse because of what ever was done to her. We think they some how gave her an enhanced spark. Not quite immortal like Starscream and..." she shivered not saying the worst offender's name. She'd lost friends to the Beast. "But she heals fast, and has taken hits that would kill a normal bot."
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Post by smokedtoast on Oct 14, 2015 20:43:43 GMT -5
Liostriker and Hungurr both exchange a look as Howlback explained X-23's origins. Something about it sounded familiar... Liostriker is the first to speak up. "That... might actually suggest that Hellscream was the one to experiment on her Officer. He made experimented a lot on altering sparks. One of Hungurr's team members originated as a shell spark around another person's... Another member was an artificially created superspark like Magmatron's." He explained, thinking about the situation. Hungurr frowned in response. "Cutthroat was forcibly spark-linked to his brother... Rippersnapper's spark is positively toxic and over-reactive. He has to dump the excess energy, that's where his outlier power comes from. Me... He just unlocked what I inherited from my grandfather, his Predaking spark." He added, rubbing his head. "Prydefire also dabbled in sparks, but nowhere near as dangerously as Hellscream. He still had some sanity."
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