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Meanwhile, elsewhere...

Nov 29, 2006 21:32

*The Decepticons' old underwater base had been rather quiet as of late. With the truce in place, everyone seemed to prefer hanging around in Autobot City or some other such location. For his part, Echoshift saw no reason to leave behind a perfectly good set of personal quarters and go through the bother of moving all his assorted belongings to an ( Read more... )

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stupidityinblue December 10 2006, 02:12:33 UTC

Duskwing wanders back into Command Central, remembering just before he enters to look presentable--that is, non-transparent. He has a notion stuck in his head, about his quarters--forgetting that (a) he's dead, and doesn't need quarters, (b) he was transferred off-base nearly 20 years ago, and isn't assigned quarters here anymore, and (c) he's dead, and really, really isn't assigned quarters anywhere anymore.

...which is to say, he's haunting the base in his own unique way.

"Hey! Echoshift! Snowcat says you're in charge here, and that I'm not assigned a berth at all if I've been away. So I should talk to you about my quarters. I want my old quarters back."

(( looped from down here ))

0ut_of_sight December 10 2006, 02:28:38 UTC

*still at work on the main console, he glances behind him over the top edge of one wing* Guess I pretty much am now, yep. When did you get back from being away? *because I could swear you weren't here when I got back, so I'm presuming you must've turned up between then and when I locked the elevator* Your old quarters've been empty for a while. That's why all that stuff's there that you were complaining about earlier. *pointed look* That stuff's mine. My own quarters were getting a bit... erm... full, so I picked an empty room to shove some of the excess into. Your room hasn't been occupied for ages, Duskwing. I made sure before I picked it. *and I can't be bothered to move it all back out again now that it's there*

*note that Echoshift is still at the main console. He hasn't had a chance to connect the other base unit up yet, like he'd been planning to do, and so hasn't yet gotten round to reading through Duskwing's file. Else he'd probably have reacted quite differently when Duskwing came back into the room*

stupidityinblue December 10 2006, 04:29:41 UTC

Duskwing folds his arms and frowns at Echoshift.

"I was out. An' I always use that room when I'm back on Earth." He looks at Echoshift, less angry than puzzled. "Last time I came back was just after Galvatron left. I think. My--my--what's the word? My chronometer, yeah, that's it, hasn't been so good for a while."

He shrugs. "So assign me some other room. Though I dunno if that'll work; I'm pretty used to C-134."

0ut_of_sight December 10 2006, 04:36:43 UTC

*returns the puzzled look with one of his own* Just after Galvatron left where? I've been here since before Unicron came along and Galvatron even existed. *technically, a least* And I still don't remember seeing you around. *the puzzled expression turns slightly suspicious*

*shrugs* You can have the room next door. C-135. That one's not being used.

stupidityinblue December 10 2006, 05:07:33 UTC

Duskwing does not actually have a trademark registered on blank stares. He just does it a lot.

"I don't remember seeing you, either," he finally says. "An' I've been away. Been like twenty years since I was regularly stationed here. I came on the Nemesis!" He says the last bit proudly, his wings lining up parade-ground straight.

"I just got back around the time Galvatron left this last time," he explains again.

0ut_of_sight December 10 2006, 05:27:06 UTC

*resists the urge to allow himself an opticroll at the Nemesis comment*

You've been away for a while then. *shrugs* That probably explains why I haven't come across you before. I got here a few years ago.

stupidityinblue December 10 2006, 07:13:52 UTC

Duskwing looks at Echoshift oddly.

"I think you said that last time. C-135, huh? I'm gonna get my stuff out of your stuff and settle in--at least while I'm on Earth."

Duskwing saunters off, moving very quietly for a mech his size. After he leaves, the heating comes on and the room warms up.

0ut_of_sight December 10 2006, 07:55:44 UTC

Just don't touch my stuff. *raises an optic ridge as the heating system suddenly comes back on* ...huh. Weird.

*attention then goes back to the console. This fiddling with the computer system was becoming tedious. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to take a break soon...*

*allowing himself a sigh, he gets to work on the last of what needs sorting out with the main console for now. Then he could get to work on reconnecting that other memory bank unit where the personnel files were stored, and dig through the files to see if he could find Duskwing's. There was something about the dark blue and purple Seeker that bugged him, and he figured that skim-reading through a personnel file for curiosity's sake couldn't hurt*

stupidityinblue December 10 2006, 17:04:57 UTC

Duskwing considers this last directive as he drifts through the base, then dismisses it with a shrug. He can't pick up his own stuff without touching Echoshift's stuff.

Does he actually have any stuff here? It had been a while since he's been stationed here, after all. Duskwing isn't sure how long; time is a little fuzzy for him.

Oh well, it wouldn't hurt to check. Back in C-section, he takes a look at C-135. As quarters went, it's nothing special; identical in layout to C-134, and as dank and dark and empty as the rest of the base. Duskwing instantly dislikes it; it feels like the Crypt, only without the friendly company.

His wings twitch; he wants to go out and fly, but things aren't settled here, yet. Duskwing badly needs a place to be, the right kind of place, with the right kind of company. And he isn't going to find it flying in circles teasing the locals, even if it is fun ( ... )

icemasta December 10 2006, 17:12:51 UTC

*And if anyone's curious at all, the porn has relocated itself to Snowcat's quarters. Crowbars may be needed to take it back.*

0ut_of_sight December 11 2006, 06:16:30 UTC

*back in the command center, Echoshift finishes up checking off the last item on his List Of Things To Do For Now as far as the main console is concerned. He leans back and narrows his optics slightly at the screen, as if examining his work critically, then sighs tiredly. Reconnect that memory bank now, or reconnect it later? Later sounded very tempting-- he'd been here too long already and he wanted a break --but he was still curious about Duskwing, and leaving it until later would probably therefore mean it would bug him until he came back to it. Which would only be annoying ( ... )

Reading can be illuminating stupidityinblue December 11 2006, 15:55:01 UTC

Meanwhile, Duskwing was happily catching up on the gossip and popular entertainment he'd missed over the last twenty years. At least, the first twelve years or so of it, because somewhere in the late 1990s, the first of the Stunticon art reviews caught his eye. They were reviewing Slog's art!

"Stupidity in Blue", by Slog. Unlike most of Slog's pieces, this particular slogism was created from a Decepticon Seeker jet....

Memory flung Duskwing back nearly twenty years to Cybertron, to a very bad night in 1987--

Diamond-steel chisel claws tearing through his canopy, into his chest--

Realizing he'd made a horrible mistake as his nosecone explodes in a spray of metal, energon and pain--

Fuel pump ripped free, energon spraying through the air, nosecone hanging in abstract shreds of metal--

The blow he'd missed in his pain and shock and horror, the single cold punch through his lasercore, that should have ended it all, but instead started his sojourn in hell--

--IT'S OVER, I'M DEAD, IT'S BEEN SLAGGING OVER FOR TWENTY YEARS!Duskwing ( ... )

Re: Reading can be illuminating 0ut_of_sight December 12 2006, 02:13:34 UTC

*Echoshift makes his way down the corridor towards the room which he recently assigned to Duskwing, walking past the door to his own 'storage room' before stopping outside the door to C-135. He glances down at the datapad in his hand one more time, and then raises his free hand to rap on the door ( ... )

Re: Reading can be illuminating 0ut_of_sight December 12 2006, 02:15:31 UTC

*Echoshift stares wide-opticed at the screen in front of him, and does the Transformer equivalent of swallowing. He eventually pulls his optics away from the actual images and lets his gaze be drawn to the text of the review instead ( ... )

You forget to pay the light bill? stupidityinblue December 12 2006, 04:10:52 UTC

The lights flicker for a moment, and come back up dimmer than before. Perhaps one of the circuits has failed.

The chill of the deep sea seems to permeate the abandoned base, as does the damp. A light mist seems to rise from the deck.

"Yeah, whadda ya want?" Duskwing asks from right behind Echoshift.

Re: You forget to pay the light bill? 0ut_of_sight December 12 2006, 04:36:47 UTC

*Echoshift whirls on the spot and clamps down on the instinct to raise a weapon. That's the second time Duskwing's sneaked up on him today, and the only reason he's not immediately flailing around and looking scared out of his wits is because... well, when you've lived on the same base as Skywarp for any particular amount of time, you get a bit more used to people appearing out of nowhere right next to you without warning. Not that this means Duskwing's manner of reappearance doesn't bug or mystify Echoshift at all, of course. Because while Skywarp might be a known teleporter, Duskwing isn't Skywarp. And after leaving the creepiness of Duskwing's room in C-135... well, did the corridor have to take a leaf from the book of that room? Especially when Echoshift had thought solving this weird little mystery would be easier in the warmer, better-lit and more familiar area of the corridor ( ... )

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