Meanwhile, elsewhere...

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*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

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*Some time later, we find Echoshift in the command center of the underwater base. A number of the panels have been removed from the various consoles, and if you looked carefully enough you'd see that the electronics on the inside have been recently messed around with. The room's main console is the only workstation to have its monitor switched on at present. The panel which covers its base has been removed and propped up against a nearby console, while Echoshift himself has crawled partway inside to poke about and tinker with the electronics. A variety of tools are scattered across the floor nearby.*

*Truth be told, he doesn't actually have all that clear an idea as to what he's doing. He just knows he wants to reset the computer system and everything connected to it, making the methods of doing so up as he goes along, and... well, hoping for the best, really. It's an approach he adopts reasonably regularly, with mixed results. As it is right now, he's managed to get quite far without setting off any tripwires or security measures

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*Demolishor's currently engaged in a bit of redecorating. He's knocking out the wall between this room and the next one, in order to make one large room for him to share with Snowcat*

*Oh, all right. And Snowkitty too*

*He looks up as the power goes off* The heck? *the power returns, and Demolishor continues demolishing*

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[stupidityinblue]

(( Using THNMY, because Duskwing is bored where he is. ))

Duskwing drops by the old base every so often out of habit. It's the last place he lived on Earth. Sometimes he absent-mindedly forgets he doesn't live there anymore--or anywhere else, for that matter.

Someone has moved into his old room--someone with quite a pile of stuff. Duskwing looks it over, trying to puzzle something about his new roommate. Finally he shrugs; his roommate, whoever he is, has stuff. Lots of it. He picks up what looks like a ruby crystal cylinder and looks it over, noting the hairline flaw near one end.

Why would someone keep a busted pulse laser module around? Duskwing sets it back down again, somewhere else in the pile of stuff.

The power flickers and then goes dark suddenly; Duskwing looks up with a puzzled scowl. About that time, it goes back on.

What the slag is going on here? This place spring a leak in the main generator?

He drifts up through the ceiling, intangible and invisible.

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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 ))

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*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]

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."

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*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.

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((Continued from here, in this thread.))

*The door to the command center swooshes open and Echoshift steps back into the room, allowing himself a sigh as the door whispers closed again behind him. He remains by the doorway for a moment longer before wandering further into the room, the datapad he picked up earlier still held in one hand. He gets to about the center before pausing and looking around the room and idly wondering where to start work on next. There was still a lot to do, and it was starting to become rather tedious. And then after he was done with sorting out everything here, he'd have to start thinking about work on the rest of the base*

*Yeah. This was going to take a while*

*Oh well. Now is break time. He could work out what to fix next after he'd dawdled for a bit and gotten a rest from having to fix any more things...*

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About the time Echoshift has gotten himself a cube and is just about to sit down and put his feet up--

Duskwing appears behind him and asks, "Hey, how'd you do that invisibility thing?"

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*Echoshift whirls on the spot for the third time today and ends up throwing the datapad at Duskwing*

Quit doing that already!

[stupidityinblue]

The datapad doesn't exactly hit Duskwing--true, it intersects his semi-transparent body--and keeps on going, right through the dark blue and purple Seeker.

Duskwing looks at Echoshift, clearly puzzled.

"Huh? Quit doing what?"

The brightly-lit Command Center is surprisingly gloomy. And dank.

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((As a note, Echoshift has now taken a break from trying to sort out the base and has gone out flying with Duskwing for a while instead. There will be an update whenever he gets back.))

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((...And thar we go.))