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Phase Shift

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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Phaze » Fri May 04, 2012 5:46 am

Motto: ""All's Fair in Life and Death""
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Gifford National Park – Military Base

Crueljaw hated being this close to so many organics after Psychout’s binary conversation with the Facsimile Crueljaw rolled through the military base. Various versions of his own alternate mode just a lot more camouflaged some of the flying crates he’d seen in the woodland where sat idle to one side of the airstrip. As he moved He utilised his avatar to try and spy the communications and intelligence tent but as Crueljaw crawled forward an unfortunate human stepped out in front of the hummer a blast from his horn was enough to cause the human to leak. “These things are small scared all the time and deserving of being ruled” he muttered as he pulled into the secure area.

Crueljaw utilised his avatar in a more hands on approach as it picked Psychout’s portable hard drive form and headed off into the teeming throng of soldiers that where milling around. After a few subtle enquires Crueljaw guided his holo avatar into the communication and information centre and found his way to a bank of servers. Crueljaw knelt down pretending to sort his shoelace out but he placed Psychout in close proximity to the severs and hoped his tiny colleague could get himself jacked in as Crueljaw didn’t want to get discovered messing with the computer banks. “You’re on your own from here Runt I can’t stay here I’ll be found out” with that Crueljaw's holo avatar headed out of the tent and awaited a call to retrieve his friend.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Insidious » Sun May 27, 2012 9:27 am

Motto: "Clarity of thought before rashness of action."
Weapon: Oxidating Laser
Gifford National Forest

Landgrab increased the intensity of his locator signal. He knew from mission logs on the Thanatos that a group of Decepticons had been stationed within this area, but he hadn't encountered any of them directly. This was a pretty delicate intelligence mission, though, and Landgrab was hardly going to be the one to foul up any of Shockwave's plans.

These natives are so...squishy, Landgrab thought as he drove past a pair of them, engaged heavily in their own conversation. Even basic physiological analysis suggested that these creatures would come apart at the slightest application of pressure or tension. And Cybertronians had enough problems with leaking. These things? They were like water balloons. He wasn't going to enjoy it if one of them happened to get underfoot. Stardust would lose a circuit if he ever got assigned to this planet.

C'mon, 'cmon, someone's gotta see me and know where I'm supposed t'go.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Phaze » Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:57 am

Motto: ""All's Fair in Life and Death""
Weapon: Nuclear Charged Fusion Cannon
Gifford National Park Military base

Crueljaw had found a vehicle compound where he could hold up and await Psychout’s retrieval signal. He took the opportunity to enter energon conservation mode to preserve himself for when he was really needed. However he never got the opportunity to do this as a decepticon locator signal burst into his audio receptors. I might very well strip the gears from the transformation cog of whoever this is Crueljaw shunted the thought of mutilating the new arrival to the back of his mind as he opened a secure comm frequency to broadcast to the new comer

>>This is Crueljaw who are ya and why are you here?<< Crueljaw didn’t see the point of being polite curt and to the point would provide him all the information he needed regarding the newcomer. His holo avatar sprung back into life as he prepared to move if needed stretching its holo limbs and pulling a holo paper from the glove box.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Insidious » Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:54 pm

Motto: "Clarity of thought before rashness of action."
Weapon: Oxidating Laser
Gifford National Park Military Base

As Landgrab had received the incoming Decepticon transmission, he also homed in on it. It wasn't long before he found himself within the same vehicle compound and came to a halt, shutting off his engines.

"Landgrab. Uhhhhh...Decepticon operative activated at, uhhmmm...what time is it? A few breems before now. Function:...uhh, well, support and artillery I guess, on behalf of Shockwave for operative Psychout. You?"

Landgrab recognized the callsigns of some of the other Decepticons in the area but little else. It had been...well, slaggin' hell...it'd been an age since he'd since fieldwork. But here it was staring him in the face and he was determined to make the most of it. Otherwise it'd be off to the CR chamber again.

And who knows how long he'd be under next time.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Psychout » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:08 am

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Gifford National Park Military Base, 1 hour ago.

"...SOLDIER, I SAID DO IT NOW!!" Vindicator's rapport with the gate guard was effective, the siege master was a mech of many words when it was needed and he had the most military experience and knew how to get guards active, but this wasnt the time for conversation. The spooked guard panicked at first, but relaxed when the blank-expression of the facsimile staff sergeant relieved the confused grunt from his post and took over the exchange. He waved the tank and prototype military humvee through and watched expressionless as Crueljaw and Vindicator rolled into the compound and pulled up. Psychout, hidden away in his altmode, was handed over to the staff sergeant for upload into the bases dataset to allow him full control of the facility and 'stage one' was officially complete.

He lost sight of his team mates as he was placed roughly into a pocket and passed from personnel to personnel. He made a mental note to make sure these meatsacks knew what it was like to be shoved inside a giant holdall, and eventually - after much persuasion - managed to get himself connected to the central computer system. He began to settle in exploring the data before him and the milliseconds felt like hours as he mined away at the encryption layers like peeling the layers off an over-armoured Autobot onion and set about his task. Most of this shouldn't take long, these fleshbags just aren't prepared for a robotic space alien cyber-attack, heh. Periodically he found files that even he didn't recognise, but as Cybertronians have been here on Sol-3 for a while now it wasn't a surprise, it would just take a while longer to decipher them, the rest was ridiculously easy.

The cassettes triumphant train of thought was disturbed briefly by Landgrabs beacon as the new mech arrived on earth. Odd, I wasn't expecting anyone else he mused, Contemptor and Mal Practice were due to join in time, but that wasn't for a while yet. Lets see who the boss has sent..? but before he could reply Crueljaw had established contact and given Landgrab their location. Excellent, he thought, saves me a job, and he plunged his conciousness back into the computer system, not wanting to waste any more time.

Gifford National Park Military Base. Now.
"Landgrab, this is Psychout, in command of this mission and facility. You will rendezvous with Vindicator who will brief you when you arrive. Ensure your hard-light avatar is active and in the correct military attire, and we commence stage 2 shortly, until then you can stand down, and Crueljaw will establish your security clearance for mission access once you present your orders."

So engrossed was he in he in his data mining, Psychout had barely registered Landgrab's arrival at the base and so his welcome speech to the new arrival was briefer than he would have liked. Psychout angled a security camera to take a good look at their new team mate. Nope, definitely don't recognise him, but as its time to report in I can double check. Information operatives liked to know all the facts and Psychout, especially, hated being in the dark. Needless to say, the Decepticon army was huge and without access to the Thanatos' personnel files this Landgrab could be anyone, and he didn't get where he was today by blindly trusting 'anyone'.

He carefully selected a frequency that was least used and as secure as was possible using this cup-and-string level of technology, confident that if Shockwave himself was unable to receive it Soundwave would be able to pick it up and (hopefully) pass it along. Damn he hated that monotone yes-droid.

>>Psychout to Commander Shockwave>>
>>Infiltration of Sol-3 has been achieved with 100% success, Sir. Location is secluded and sparsely populated and fit all criteria for a secure outpost. Insertion team are in position to begin reinforcement of infiltration protocols here and key facsimiles have been activated, ETA's at facility between 26 minutes and and 14 terran days. Will continue to monitor Sol-3 transmissions and broadcast networks for possible protocol breaches before securing facility for re-use and transport to Razorclaws location. Please advise should you require and alteration to the mission brief, and to confirm the ID and designation of the support unit that has just arrived, to enable access to security protocols.<<
>>Out<<

It was nearing nightfall. Darkfire was in position in a hangar. Vindicator and Crueljaw were in position adjacent to the breach in the old collapsed base entrance and Landgrab had just rumbled into place with a few hours to spare. He summoned the Staff Sergeant to come and collect him to return him to Crueljaws cab, but not before accessing the medical journals and sending the information packet over to Darkfire. "Darkfire, this should be what you need on the organics physiognomy, and your facsimile looks like it will be first one to arrive, just prior to nightfall. Upon its arrival, it should report to the gate and be sent directly to you. We move into the ruined base in approximately 85 minutes."

As the facsimile arrived to transport him back to Crueljaw, he established a remote link with the fileserver to allow him to manipulate the system from range. Links like this were never that effective and he know that any major changes would involve a full integration, but it will save time for the mundane tasks. Then removing all traces of his activity within the system, he duplicated a couple of the file blocks he didn't recognise for later decryption and allowed himself to be pocketed once again, only being brought back into the fading evening light as he was handed to Crueljaws avatar and set back down on his partners passenger seat.

"Well 'Jaws, that's the boring part over with, are you ready to see what's in Aladdin's cave?"
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Foximus » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:27 pm

Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
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Gifford National Park Military Base

Kowalski arrived at the front gates of the base, stopping at the front gate. He simply showed the guards on duty his clearance and continued inside. From what he had been told, the Decepticon that he was reporting to was inside the hangar nearest the mountain. The facsimile parked his car and stepped out into the evening air, headed directly for the hangar his superior was residing within.

Darkfire was waiting patiently for the facsimile to arrive after Psychout's notice. She had sent some time learning about these humans' physiognomy. The assassin found it fascinating. She always preferred to know her enemy before engaging the enemy. She now knew how much pressure to apply to snap bone or simply render unconscious. There would be no mistake of accidentally killing one of them. Suddenly, Darkfire became aware of approaching footsteps. No need to send out her avatar. She would simply observe.

As Kowalski entered the hangar, he looked at all of the aircraft within. Spotting the F-22 Raptor that was the assassin's alternate form, Kowalski approached Darkfire. He sent her a short tranmission, identifying him as a facsimile and not another human. Darkfire gazed down at the facsimile charged to her, then opened a brief communique with Psychout.

>>"The facsimile has arrived, Psychout. Ready to move to the old base on your mark."<<
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Phaze » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:57 am

Motto: ""All's Fair in Life and Death""
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Gifford Park National Park Military base

Crueljaw was keeping himself busy his holo avatar checking the underside of his Humvee mode.

He wasn’t registering any damage under there but he preferred to check it with his own optics the sound of an engine brought his attention to the approaching vehicle catching note of the purple symbol branded on the frame. The newcomer identified himself as Landgrab and let out a deep rumbling that was almost a human equivalent to a belly laugh. “No I’m not the runt he’ll be arriving shortly” another snigger emanated from the hummer as he emphasised shortly. The facsimile arrived carrying the tiny Psychout his diminutive colleague started jabbering about some human called Aladdin and his cave as soon as he was placed on the passenger seat in Crueljaws cab.

“did you take a sip of tainted energon or did you get a power spike through your processor units. Who in the name of the pit is Aladdin and why do I want to get into his cave unless it’s to cave his puny skull in? I thought we were grave robbing?”

He then remembered Landgrab “oh yeah this is Landgrab just happened to appear on earth by us apparently sent by Shockers himself” Crueljaw explained with a hint of sarcasm. He started his engine and prepared to move off

“Where we going now boss?”
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Insidious » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:46 pm

Motto: "Clarity of thought before rashness of action."
Weapon: Oxidating Laser
Gifford Park National Park Military base

Psychout was....well, he was little, wasn't he? That was the first sentiment that worked its way through Landgrab's mind. But that fact certainly didn't make him any more inclined to not do what he was told. In his experience, officers generally got put in their jobs for many reasons beyond Landgrab's understanding or care. He just followed orders. It made his life easier. And, he was still alive after all. There were many in the Decepticon ranks since the war first broke out that could no longer make the same claim.

Landrab pulled up a physical scan of the avatar that had been put in place on his behalf and cross-referenced it with the others. Nothing out of place, really, except for that haircut it was sporting. He'd need to get that changed.

"Orders. Right. Uh, just support and resource provision, it looks to me. Nothing really specific on my activation readout out here. Just a location and some signature scans that match up with you guys'. So....yeah. Don't think Shockwave hand-picked me or anythin'. Just knowin' how he works, my performance record matched up enough with whatever directive protocols you guys needed to get done down here. And, bam, here I am."
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Psychout » Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:18 pm

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Weapon: Black Magic
Gifford Park National Park Team Midget Military base. Nightfall

After being unceremoniously dumped back into Crueljaws cab by the facsimile taxi-service Psychout took advantage of the tinted windows and reverted back to his robot mode, stretching himself out as he did so. He set the comms to include all 4 of the team. "Well, that's one problem solved. These meatmokeys have no idea of what happened here last time, despite the gigantic mechanical aliens trampling the area flat for 10 square miles. It would appear that whoever we have in the top brass covering this up really knows their job, or the locals have drank the Kool-Aid. There were a few files I still have to work on, but we have plenty of time for that later, but currently these shaved apes are to be considered 'clueless'."

He checked his internal chronometer, and the skies above, then cross referenced it with the shift schedule. It was now dark and the night watch has taken up their posts, they wouldn't be disturbed now. He open Crueljaws drivers door and jumped down to the ground, heading towards the aircraft hangars. If he thought he was small compared to Crueljaw, he was tiny next to the new arrival. Shockwaves humour always was subtle he chuckled.
"You can transform to robot modes now if you want, we're out of sight - but no lights!"

He walked towards his newest soldier on the way to the hangar. "Looks like you arrived just in time then Landgrab." Psych stopped and appraised the large platform. "You're well equipped, I like that. I assume you come with digging and hoisting rigs? Better hope you do, you've got 2 hours to drill us a nice new entrance here, the smallest you can make it so we can all fit inside - and 'Jaws has put on a few tonnes since the old days..." he pointed towards a section of rock Darkfire had identified as a potential entrance on her recon sweeps earlier "I doubt you've been dirtside before but it'll just be some weak carbon-based mineral or other and won't take long to drill. Get on it, and call me when you're done. Darkfire will enter first on point and Vindicator and Crueljaws will back her up and ensure nothing bad is waiting for us in there. Now get moving!"

Psych was on a roll now, he had just had a good few hours to formulate his strategy whilst playing cyber-tetris with the native computer technologies child-like encryption systems. He issued the next round of orders as he walked, keen to get everything done in the narrow window they had before dawn.

"Vindicator, you're the only person who has been here before. I need a schematic of the layout along with the rough location of the CR chambers, command bunkers and armouries and - most importantly - I need an alternate way out in case this place is pulled down on us again. Make sure Darkfire has a copy and then go and help Landgrab shift some rubble." Vin had stopped for a second, unnoticed by Psychout. The last time he had been here he had ended up with his head dipped in lava and he put a hand to his temple and remembered Mal Practice's experimental procedure to fix the damage. He did not want to go over that again, and didn't know if it was that or the makeshift repairs on his neurals but just couldn't quite recall the old layout. Still he had a few moments, if only he still had some of those drugs Mal gave Contemptor, Haxtl-something? He removed the triple grade Energon bottle from an arm cavity and took a swig, which seemed to help. A bit.

Unaware of Vindicators psychological crisis, Psychout moved on. "Darkfire, once Landgrab gets started, I have the first target for your Fleshling. An illegal weapons trader in the deep web is claiming to have discovered an 'alien ray gun' and trying to sell it on to the highest bidder. He is attracting too much attention. From the description its only a crappy mini-bot pistol which must have been lost in the battle here when Megatron collapsed the base. Send Kowalski to make this idiot disappear, retrieve the weapon and get the identity of the bidders - one of them is ours anyway but a most are not, anything on their tech levels that could haver been derived from Cybertronian needs recording. I've traced this guy to a private security compound about 60 miles from here. Brief him quickly though, you're on point when Landgrabs finished digging us an entrance."

Lastly he addressed his old ally, "Crueljaw, whilst they are busy getting us in, I've got something I want you to help me check out over here" as he continued towards the aircraft hangar...
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Phaze » Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:46 pm

Motto: ""All's Fair in Life and Death""
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Migetsville, military base gifford park

As soon as the diminutive Leader of their madcap crew jumped out Crueljaw heard those words he liked he was able to roam around in robot mode. He activated his transformation sequence. He ignored the jibe about gaining a few tons as he stood up right his hydraulics wheezing slightly as he stretched his arms out. This was what he hated about grey ops no fighting just a lot of sitting around in a suitable covert mode watching and utilising the holo avatars.

The servos in his neck groaned in protest as he looked around the prolonged stay in his alternate mode wasn’t great so soon after his defrosting from stasis. His lone red optic narrowed as he heard his diminutive commander ask for his help.

The bodyguard fell into step alongside Psychout he didn’t reduce his steps just slowed his pace. “You want me to do protoforms steps so you can keep up?” Crueljaw enquired making a not so subtle jibe at the miniature cassette. “I mean I could tow one of these trailers if you want to get their quicker or just throw you like a hex nut. So what’s the big deal about this place I mean apart from some cretin blowing it some when into the next millennia?” the aircraft hanger was looming in front of the decepticon who realised that he was going to have to duck to these hangers where for fighters not the huge freight planes. “I really hope you’re not going to try joyriding like on Ryza I remember you jacking that alien fighter took that bunch of seekers 6 breems to get you out of the air”
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Foximus » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:21 pm

Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
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Gifford Park National Park Team Midget Military Base

Darkfire studied her facsimile curiously. Taking what she had learned from Psychout's information packet, the assassin could assess her facsimile and compare it to the average human. However, she did not have the leisure of time for testing her fleshling. "You have an assignment. Approximately 60 miles from our present location is a private security compound where a illegal weapons trader will be residing. He has discovered one of our weapons. Your mission is to recover the weapon and make this human disappear. Obtain the identity of the bidders and record their technology levels. Note anything that could be even slightly perceived as Cybertronian. Lastly, leave no traces. Understood?"

Kowalski nodded to his newest superior.

"Dismissed." As Kowalski left the hangar, Darkfire transformed back into her robot form and followed behind, taking care not to squish the facsimile. Ducking as she exited the hangar, Darkfire looked around. She noted Crueljaw and Psychout's approach and moved aside, keeping near Kowalski. Kowalski soon reached his parked car and got inside, heading off to accomplish his mission. Darkfire looked after her facsimile for a moment then glanced around for the only Decepticon that she did not recognize, Landgrab.

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Kowalski settled in his seat for a long drive. He looked over to the passenger seat, where the case holding his sniper rifle rested. He carried his pistol equipped with a silencer on his person at all time. In the trunk of the car, hidden under a false panel, were a number of other arms and devices necessary for any contract killer. Tearing down the dark road, Kowalski felt a ghost of a smile touch his lips. He loved his job.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Insidious » Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:37 pm

Motto: "Clarity of thought before rashness of action."
Weapon: Oxidating Laser
Gifford National Park Military base

Landgrab listened to the little one speak. Unlike most other Decepticons, however, Landgrab's face did not betray any sort of embarrassment that one might feel by being ordered around by someone of such physically inferior stature. He took the orders with the same level of acceptance as if he were being addressed by Megatron himself. Or some other similarly-sized Decepticon.

Of course, they wouldn't be getting orders from Megatron from here on out, would they? Landgrab was still having a tough time adjusting to that. He wasn't "warborn". He could still remember a time in their species before Megatron had risen to the position he had. Even so, that had been a slaggin' long time ago. Going forward, things could never hope to be the same. Time would tell if that would be better for Landgrab's ongoing survival odds, or worse.

"Drillin'. Easy 'nough," Landgrab said, reversing his vehicle mode some before heading off to the area that Psychout had indicated. He wasn't an all-purpose and adaptive Constructicon or anything, but he could carry out basic jobs like this without any problem. His equipment wasn't the most up-to-date, either, but he'd make due. Retrieving the necessary drilling attachment, Landgrab began to plow forward in to the terran minerals.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Insidious » Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:14 am

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Priority-4 transmission from Shockwave to Psychout

>>"Satisfactory. Imperative: identify any human personnel present that are ideally positioned for facsimile replacement process and initiate process on-site. Declarative: terran natives are operating too close to the remnants of a full-scale Decepticon fortress. Any breach of the infiltration protocols is not to be allowed at this stage. All present Decepticon operatives--confirmed. Advise further upon objective completion. End transmission."<<
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Psychout » Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:23 am

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Inside the Military base, foot of Mt. St Helens.

Psychout chuckled at Crueljaws mention of Ryza, he'd almost forgotten how much fun the real adventures we're after being couped up for so long and despite himself, he was even starting to enjoy it here. "Heh, bet that's the biggest repair bill Starscream's had to pay off so far..." He looked around at the tiny human structures as he walked towards the Hangar Darkfire had just exited and stopped as the three of them met.

"Ok, Darkfire, as I said earlier, you'll be the lead. It is highly suspected that humans have been in here in some form or another, they wouldn't have just left it - especially with seismic activity like this - however nothing has been discovered over their global network that would indicate they found anything of value yet. My current guess is that haven't been able to get the machinery in to enter the underground sections or they are too stupid to know what they have got. It's also possible that they already have a position set up underground and will be expecting us, but it's as unlikely as a Prime not dying every 5 years. If you do encounter anything, bring up CJ who will be behind you and deal with it however you see fit. Landgrab and myself are your backup, just remember we need a route big enough for 'grab to follow. Oh, hang on..."

Psychout was in mid briefing when Shockwave's reply arrived. He looked up at Crueljaw. "Looks like we may as well get used to the coffee here, we're going to be here for a while."
"Shockwave has ordered us to swap out the personnel we need to establish a staging post, assume control of maintaining the Infiltration Protocols and clear the humans out of the immediate area. That makes the Facsimile-pods our priority once we get inside and I'll see what I can do about getting them fixed up and reactivated. Vindicator will have to remain outside on the base to oversee operations until the rest of the Facsimiles arrive then, probably for the best considering..."

He motioned to both his troops and then towards the mountain. "Any human teams you find in there is fair game for a stompin', but if you can try and avoid squashing a couple so I can interrogate them afterwards it would be helpful. I've not detected any broadcasts from inside, but I'll be monitoring and anything that does will scramble pretty easily."

He looked over towards Landgrab who had already made a massive dent in the mountainside in the short time he had been working, and was nearly done. Impressive stuff. "Arm up, we move out presently. 'Grab and I will follow you in when you give the all clear." Then, without another word be took off and began to fly towards the nearly completed dig site - Darkfire and Crueljaw could easily keep up and it was time to get moving, he had wasted enough on these humans as it was.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Phaze » Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:49 am

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Midgetsville Gifford Park National Park Military base

Crueljaw’s attempts to stifle his chuckles it made him sound like a constipated bull as he heard Psychout’s mention of Starscream’s Seeker repair bill. He’d seen that bill and it was considerable “could be worse you could be paying for the Predacons lunch” Crueljaw’s switched his view to image intensifier mode that improved his vision considerably as he turned slightly to Darkfire “you made it in one piece then...” the surly Decepticon was interrupted by the jabbering of Psychout who started outlining the next part of their operation. Crueljaw took the time to look up and the blue sky with the white fluffy things had turned various shades from dark blue to black with twinkling stars that made him long to be somewhere other than the mud ball he was currently stuck on.

His attention was turned back to Psychout as he was mentioned as being the back up for Darkfire as she explored the interior of the ruined base but something made Psychout pause the bodyguard looked at Darkfire. “Yeah cause we’re gonna find Necrobots running around in there trying to eat your central processors or a spark eater just too keep it interesting” it was then that his right hip locker opened from this the bodyguard retrieved his shotgun from it. The locker hissed as it slid shut again “I like to keep this handy for those close encounters” as he spoke he patted his shotgun.

He then heard Psychout start jabbering on about the mission and something about getting used to the coffee. Then some more about the mission and the fact any humans inside the base where fair game but a couple had to be left alive for interrogation. As Psychout floated off towards the mountainside where Landgrab was digging the lumbering Crueljaw followed as swiftly as he could “so do the live ones have to have all their appendages still attached? Would you accept mildly squashed ones also what if we find the tunnels within the new entrance collapsed you want us to excavate or alternate our route?”
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Insidious » Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:19 pm

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Gifford National Park Military base

Landgrab was making decent enough progress. He'd be able to call in to Psychout and let him know that the entrance was dug in here in a bit. At the same time, he was being careful not to make too big of an opening--also as ordered. It was tempting to simply plow through, caution be slagged. But it was a temptation that was easy to resist for the likes of Landgrab. Never stray too far from an officer's orders, if you were going to stray at all. Not in the ranks of the Decepticons. No sir.

Hm hm hm...workin', workin', woooooorkin'. Fire the irons, band the saws, workin' workin' woooooooorkin', the large, bulky Decepticon hummed internally.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Foximus » Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:44 pm

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Weapon: Laser Rifle
Midgetsville Military Base

The assassin listened as Psychout outlined the plan and possible threats and concerns. It certainly would not be a good idea to have the bulkier Decepticons stumbling along in the darkness only to alert any possible humans to their presence. Darkfire smirked slightly at Crueljaw's mention of Necrobots and spark eaters.

"Well, if there are any spark eaters or Necrobots, things will get very fun, very fast," she said to Crueljaw.

Fun being a relative word, of course. Life and death meant little to the assassin, obviously. Her very function called for the utter disregard of sentient life. After a while, sparks only seemed like paychecks. A bleak philosophy, to be sure. Still, while she did not value most sentient life, Darkfire could be convinced to value a precious few sparks. However, her own spark was not among their number.

The assassin grew curious about the state of Vindicator. He was going to remain outside to manage the facsimiles, was he? But why was it for the best? She would find that out eventually one way or another. For now, she opened a private communique to Vindicator. There was a hint of a teasing tone to her words that replaced the normal irritable edge.

>>"You better hold down the fort out here, Vin. I don't want to have to come back out here and take care of your mess if you slip up."<<

Darkfire walked over to the entrance Landgrab had created. Tapping the excavator on the shoulder to grab his attention, the assassin observed the new arrival. He seemed rather...simple. And, he was from Shockwave, which led to the assumption that he could be trusted. She didn't trust Landgrab. Moreover, the assassin just did not allow herself to assume anything.

"Cleared a path large enough for me to fit through yet?" she asked with a hint of derision.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Baneblade » Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:48 am

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Decepticon Earthbase - Going Spelunking

Vindicator stood tapping the side of his head thoughtfully, trying to conjure up the previous map details of the layout of the now ruined base. It was one thing to remember everything and have your head immersed in superheated magma, then go to have your head operated on and your full faculties are back in order - except for your memory. Yeah that had been a problematic part - remembering key or important things. Especially when they really mattered. Like now.

You know...

...Cave diving...

...banging around in the dark...

...on an alien world...

...that sort of thing.

Somehow, Vindicator - through the continual tapping on the side of his head, managed to jog his internal memory circuits into life - this time without the use of some of the triple distilled that was squirelled away in a compartment in Vindicator's torso. Another good thing, especially as the contents of the bottle were getting low. The comm-link suddenly crackled into life as Vindicator picked up the silky tones of Darkfire humming in his audio receptors.

>>"You better hold down the fort out here, Vin. I don't want to have to come back out here and take care of your mess if you slip up."<<

The seige expert laughed darkly and returned the remark with a riposte of his own.

>>"Hah...amusing 'Fiery..."<< he paused and looked down at the fleshling that he had control over. An idea popped up in his head. >>"...well if you think that, then I'm going to have to put another measure in place...after all, we can't have your pretty little aft stumbling around blind in the dark..."<<

Vindicator let that one hang in the air before he turned and looked down at his own personal puppet, a knowing smile creeping over his faceplate. He spoke to the general in a hushed manner - well as hushed as a towering 35 foot tall walking, talking, war machine of a robot could be! But in this case, this was going to be the fun part.

"Now General..." Vindicator began "...No one is allowed past the perimiter of this entrance. If they are, shoot them on sight! This mission is already compromised in other factors, and all above your understanding, so...no one gets in here...no one!"

The hulking decepicon grinned at the blank, yet taking in stare of the facsimile. No response came from the fake human that his orders were cut and dry, untill Vindicator was out of sight inside the darkness of the cave. The General turned and saluted to the inky blackness - actually to no one in particular, before he turned around swiftly and returned to the actual makeshift base at the foot of the mountain as one of the grunts questioned where he had been. A fine way to volunteer for a very, VERY mundane task.

"Sir...where have.."

"Silence private!" came the stiff bark "You've just volunteered yourself for guard duty, so take your boney little arse up to the cave entrance along with a jeep so you can keep any unwanted people out...and that includes our lot who get with the nosey nosey!" The general straightened up.

There was a chuckle from behind him as the other soldier found the entire tirade amusing.

"I suppose you'd like to join him up there then, eh Private Bloomberg?"

There was an audible groan as the realisation of 'you've been caught out now deal with it' sunk in with the soldier. And the facsimile pointed at two other soldiers and told them to hoof it up to the cave entrance to stand guard. He would join them later on - to make sure that nothing went wrong.

Vindicator, on the other hand, made his way into the cavern to meet with the rest of his fellow con's, and as gloomy as it was in the cavern, Vindicator's own shoulder mounted lamps, lit the dank hole with a cold, wet light as he picked his way through the stalagtites and stalagmites of the cavern, all the while, letting his holomap guide him towards one of the service shafts that was installed in the base. It was where the rest of the group had already assembled.

"Heads up you slaggers...I'm coming in..."
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Phaze » Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:24 am

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Team Midget Cave Entrance
Crueljaw was growing impatient he was watching Landgrab slowly moving through the earth. Pacing wasn’t helping but he’d given the digger enough time. “Alright I’ve had enough of this slag are we going in or sitting out here waiting to rust” Crueljaw reached into one of his leg lockers and pulled from it a shaped thermo charge that he’d obtained from the Thanatos armoury. Striding past Darkfire, Crueljaw quipped “he’s never gonna make a entrance wide enough for that skid plating of yours”

The decepticon fixed the charge to the wall that Landgrab had been working on “I really hope you can back up” the bodyguards optic flared with amusement as he finished synching the detonator and moved away.

“I’d seek cover Team Midget Fire in the hole”

Crueljaw hit the switch the charge fired it sounded like a small rumble all the energy was directed into the remaining cave wall in a wall of rock incinerating flame.

he looked back at Psychout his optic glowing brightly

“Open Says me”
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Foximus » Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:11 pm

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Decepticon Earthbase - Team Midget Entrance

Darkfire scowled irately at Crueljaw. She still had half a mind to pull his vocal processors out through his chest cavity, though she would never bother to do such a thing. It would be wasteful...and she was beginning to grow fond of her team, not that she would ever admit it out loud. Or even to herself for that matter. She had about to fire back a retort at Crueljaw when the comm link crackled with an incoming transmission.

>>"Hah...amusing 'Fiery...well if you think that, then I'm going to have to put another measure in place...after all, we can't have your pretty little aft stumbling around blind in the dark..."<<

Darkfire hid a smirk as she sent Vin a response.

>>"What, me? Stumbling in the dark? You must have me confused for someone else. Maybe someone...like...yourself?"<<

With that playful jibe delivered, Darkfire focused on the matter at hand.

Standing back from the entrance slightly, the assassin watched as the charge blew away the remaining blockage, revealing the metallic interior of the Decepticon Earthbase. She smirked a little. So much for subtle. She ought to send her holomatter avatar in ahead now. In case of any little humans that may be scurrying about.

The avatar formed beside Darkfire. The assassin picked it up and moved into the darkness of the base. This was her element. Darkness. She always felt more relaxed within the shadows. After all, she was the thing that went "bump" in the night. She allowed a slight smirk to touch her lips. As soon as she had made decent headway into the old base, she noticed two specks of light ahead. Moving slowly.

Darkfire moved off to one side, taking cover, and set her avatar down on the ground. She offlined her optics and let her avatar be the sole source of visual feedback. The avatar remained behind cover while adjusting her clothing. Pitiful armor these humans wore, but some articles still had their functions. Darkfire had chosen an attire of camouflage. It came in assorted hues of dark grey. It would break up the avatar's shape and make her harder to see amongst the shadows.

The avatar crouched down and stuck her head out. They were coming. She moved, staying close to the walls, approaching them. Watching them. Hunting them.

"You sure you heard something?"

"Yes, I told you! It was like this...deep booming sound."

"And you're sure it came from this direction?"

"Yes! Why don't you believe me?!"

"This volcano just exploded. Did it ever occur to you that it could just be the rock settling?"

"No, this didn't sound like that. It was an explosion! I'm sure of it."

"Whatever you say..."

Silently, the assassin's avatar appeared behind one of the humans. They had not noticed her approach. From the information packet Psychout had sent her, the humans relied on sight above all other senses. She struck suddenly and silently. The avatar's hand clamped over the human's mouth, the other wrapping itself around the human's head. With a sharp jerk, the avatar snapped the human's neck with the precise amount of force needed. The avatar was already retreating back into the shadows as the body began falling to the floor. The flashlight landed with a light thump.

The other human turned with a frown etched on his pink, fleshy countenance.

"Did you hear that, at lea-"

The avatar clamped her hand over the remaining human's mouth and repeated the same procedure. He fell with a thud. The assassin's avatar glanced down the the corridor for signs of other humans. Satisfied that there were none, the avatar began moving the bodies. Darkfire's optics blinked to life again as she sent a transmission out to Psychout and the rest of their little team.

>>"Clear. Just watch your step near the right wall. You might squish a certain breach of infiltration protocol that would be unpleasant to pick from your gears."<<
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Phaze » Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:55 am

Motto: ""All's Fair in Life and Death""
Weapon: Nuclear Charged Fusion Cannon
Team Midget Decepticon Earthbase

As the smoke cleared Darkfire sauntered past Crueljaw the bodyguard studied her body language and could tell that she was about a cycle away from going completely Battynuggets on him. She however restrained as she smirked the explosive had done its work creating a suitable entrance to the base. He looked up at the roof of the improvised entrance it seemed to be holding he opened a inter con comm link <Landgrab you might want to check the stability of this entrance it was a bit hasty>

“Hi Ho Hi Ho its off to work I go with a bucket and spade and a hand grenade” the tune was out of tune and completely wrong but Crueljaw had no care about that as he stepped through the makeshift entrance.

Turning to the darkness of the earth-base his enhanced vision picking out Darkfire who was hidden in the shadows and the victims of her handy work her avatar moving the bodies around. “Hold up” Crueljaw knelt next to one of the human corpses and nudged it with his finger “strange they look no bigger than the midget” the avatar of Crueljaw appeared still in its military disguise the avatar moved to one of the dead humans and lifted the body up and hauled it to Crueljaw’s left leg locker which slid open and was releasing cold air as he activated his inter con comms not wanting to risk being heard by any other humans >>anyone know how long these things take to decay? Cause this little thing will be used as what is it the humans call it a black kipper, Yellow Tuna, Red Snapper?<< the locker slid closed and the avatar vanished. Crueljaw lifted his shotgun and peered into the darkness before looking back at Darkfire <so where we going command centre or the power plant<<

>>I mean I like a fumble in the dark as much as the next con but some power to get some of base systems up and running<<
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Baneblade » Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:53 am

Motto: "Scream....it only make it more fun"
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Team Midget - Underground Rumble/Joining the Party

Vindicator was halfway through the already dug entrance by Landgrab, the clanging and banging echos of his excavation echoing around the cavern. Thankfully there would be no snooping from unwanteds thanks to the military guard posted outside the entrance to the cavern. Inside however, would be a different matter, for the base could already be crawling with military and government goobers at every turn.

Vindicator, checked his holomap, and was releived that he was almost on top of the others. It would be just around the corner and they then would be their complete unit again, and then he could get to...

...the explosion ripped through the cavern, rattling around the dark expanse. Loud enough to deafen and incapacitate most lifeforms, but as for Vindicator, the explosion rattled around inside his head, then it fell out, his internal dampers minimizing the impact of the concussive blast.

A stalagtite broke loose and crashed into the ground near his foot.

Incensed at the sudden explosion, Vindicator sent out a communication to the entire group on their own private channell, the venom exploding from his vocalizer at almost being hit by falling rubble. It happened before, and he didnt want it to happen again.

>>"SLAG DAMMIT 'JAWS!"..."<< he began >>"...YOU TRYIN TO BURY US ALL IN HERE YOU MANIAC?!..."<< he paused and composed himself. >>"...Some of us have been down here before already, and buried here too, and that's the last thing that I would like to have happen again!"<< He cut the transmission and growled to himself in cybertronian before breathing aloud.

"...Slaggin' bent-arsed dipstick..." He crunched on through the tunnell, his shoulder lamps lighting the way in the gloom as he crushed a few smaller boulders underfoot before coming to a boulder that was sizes with him. Looking up at the roof of the tunnel and his optics narrowed. It had obviously broken loose when Jaws set off the explosive charge, and was now blocking the way to the rest of the team.

"Hah...an obstacle easy removed..."

Vindicator moved his hand behind him and pulled out his Thunder Hammer, gripping the crushing weapon with both hands, he took up the all too familliar stance as the head of the weapon started to crackle with the energy inside. The hammer began to glow the sickeningly evil red as the energon built up inside the weapon, crackling in hunger as Vindicator swung it with purpose, impacting the rock and obliterating it with a boom as shards of rubble littered the floor. Vindicator - ever the stoic when it came to fighting - took stride and walked through the raining rubble towards the entrance to the maintenance shaft of the Decepticon base. Up ahead he heard some very, very bad singing.

“Hi Ho Hi Ho its off to work I go with a bucket and spade and a hand grenade” the tune was out of tune and completely wrong but Crueljaw had no care about that as he stepped through the makeshift entrance.

"...Tuneless as well as bolt-nut-crazy..." Vindicator continued on as he cut his shoulder lamps, relying on his enhanced optics for navigating in the dark, the holo-map of the base casting a melancolic blue glow as Vindicator stepped forwards and past Crueljaw, his hammer carried over his shoulder.

"Thanks for waiting bolt-nuts..." He cuffed the back of Jaws head with his hand, the clang echoing dully in the corridor.

There was a wet crunch.

Vindicator looked down with a look of disgust. What had he stepped on? There should be no living...oh for slag...

"Yuck.. I stepped in a fleshbag......" he lifted his foot and looked at the dripping red mess. Oh chem burn was needed now to get the remains of the human removed from his foot, and the smeared streak off the metallic floor of the base, dulled by the dust and scrapes of falling rubble. Taking out the canister of the organic burning material, Vindicator sprayed the ground where the human had been, the agent turning into a burning foam before evaporating into steam, taking the splattered remains with it, and next, he sprayed the underside of his foot, the similar effect happening.

With the clean up finally finished, he opened a comm to the rest of the group.

>>"If the power is out, and the fact that it's blacker than the inside of a drive-shaft, in order to get anywhere, the central breakers need to be reinstated..."<< he looked back at the floor where the body had been and then up and down the hallway as a frown covered his face. How had the humans managed to get inside the base already? Had his Facsimile failed already or was this something else? Never mind, it was something he could and would address later...but now their primary mission was paramount.

He looked at Crueljaw, Landgrab, Psychout, and lastly - and longer than normal - Darkfire. >>"...It would be advisable to split up into two teams..."<< he paused and considered the options before he finished >>"...One team to the main circuit breakers, and one to the command center. The questions are who, and how many of the meatsacks are actually in here crawling all over our technology!"<<
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Foximus » Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:38 pm

Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
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Team Midget - Let's Split Up Gang

Darkfire couldn't help but roll her optics and chuckle darkly as Vindicator stepped on one of the humans' corpses. Her avatar has disintegrated thankfully, so she had no need to fear the sensation of being crushed under someone's foot. The vast majority of her little team seemed the type to accidentally...stumble into and onto things they were not supposed to. She let out a sigh from her intakes and folded her arms across her chest as Vindicator took care of the little mess on his foot.

The assassin glanced over to Crueljaw as he continued his assault on her audio receptors. Tone deaf too? Fantastic. This was going to be so much fun. She had a feeling that she'd be constantly resisting the urge the rip out the large con's vocal processors. The price of teamwork.

>>"If the power is out, and the fact that it's blacker than the inside of a drive-shaft, in order to get anywhere, the central breakers need to be reinstated....It would be advisable to split up into two teams...One team to the main circuit breakers, and one to the command center. The questions are who, and how many of the meatsacks are actually in here crawling all over our technology!"<<

Darkfire opened a comm link to the group to respond.

>>"It seems like we have a mystery on our actuators,"<< she said with a bit of a smirk before continuing, >>"Well, if we're splitting up and I'm paired with the virtuoso over there, I can hold no responsibility for the state of his vocal processors at the end of this little venture."<<

Darkfire sent a pointed stare at Crueljaw.

>>"Anyway, I shall deal with the central circuit breakers and whoever wishes to join me,"<< she glanced first and longest at Vindicator, then Psychout and Landgrab, finally sending a distasteful look at Crueljaw, >>"...is welcome to join me. And for those of us who like to make a grand theatrical entrance, I would suggest trying not to draw any unwanted attention. Like Vindicator said, we don't know how many humans are crawling around our technology. They could touch something they aren't supposed to in a panic. Hopefully, we'll be able to secure the base with minimal contact."<<

The assassin looked over to Vindicator once more.

>>"The each of the two teams will need a copy of the holo map to navigate around this place."<<

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The target site was located. Kowalski had a sniper's nest set up on a hill adjacent to the target's compound. He didn't actually plan to shoot anyone - yet. He was scouting the area, looking through the scope of his rifle. Hit and run assignments were so much simpler than infiltration, but less interesting. A chain link fence outlined the border of the property with security cameras stationed at equidistant intervals along the top. At the center, a rather expansive estate sprawled over the green, manicured hills. Rather luxurious for a high security compound.

Kolwaski rubbed his chin as he thought. The easiest - and best really - way to get in would be to mascarade as one of the buyers. Easy access into the estate itself without having to worry about outside security. He would need an alternate plan if things went south though. A smile touched the facsimile's lips. This would be a challenging venture.
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Phaze » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:38 am

Motto: ""All's Fair in Life and Death""
Weapon: Nuclear Charged Fusion Cannon
Team Midget - Eathbase
Crueljaw looked at Vindicator with irritation after the large con had clapped him around the back of the head >>if we weren’t infiltrating I’d slice your wrists off you 30ft slag bather<< in response his right wrist locker opened and he barely resisted launching his plasma sword. His mood was slightly brightened as he watched Vindicator step on the remaining human corpse >>nice one Vin what a time to step in it<<

Standing upright in a whir of gears wheeze of hydraulics and he headed for the side of the cavern his shotgun held at the ready. Crueljaw heard the quip about his vocal processors from Darkfire >> if little miss Massacre tries it I might have a game of assassin hot dip with the nearest lava pit<< he growled in response as he thought of a reason why the human might be in the base. >> these things like the corpse in my leg locker appear to be a curious race more questions than answers if they found a way in and noted the metal they would be all over it like Vindicator’s optics are all over Darkfire and vice versa<< the bodyguard had noted the dark looks he was getting from Darkfire and really didn’t care assassins liked sneaky not up front fights. Rather steal your spark in your sleep than punch you in the face.

The bodyguard look at Darkfire as she mentioned the humans touching something in a panic >>Please from what I’ve seen of these creatures anything they touch goes to slag in a paper hat in seconds accidentally or not. Like driving Psychout here some human decided to launch his transport capsule off a ramp and ended up in a hole or the others that thought trying to run me off the road was fun<< Crueljaw didn’t mention he’d been pressurising the vehicle in question or that he’d been driving the wrong side of the road.

Crueljaw swapped his optic view to thermal vision and looked around pipe’s above heat signature was being given off by the pipes >> was this place powered by a geothermal power plant cause there is a pipe above us which is registering as red hot<< the decepticon then switched his optics back to image intensifier vision mode. >>unlike vindicator who seems to be one step short of having a fully blown panic attack <<
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Re: Phase Shift

Postby Baneblade » Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:58 am

Motto: "Scream....it only make it more fun"
Weapon: Plasma Cannon
Team Midget - Power up, Split up

>>"...unlike vindicator who seems to be one step short of having a fully blown panic attack!"<<

>>"...When you're aft is buried under several tonnes of rock and your head soaked in lava for longer than it should be, then you can start to realise what panic is Jabberjaw!"<<
Said Vindicator looked at Crueljaw with one optic wider than the other. Sure the surly mechanoid had a temper, and at the best of times was barely tolerable. Yes Vindicator had thought that Crueljaw an ass of the worse kind, but in retrospect Vindicator knew that Crueljaw was their jackass. He noted the sliding click of Jaws blade enclosure, but filed it away for some other time. He got to him, pysically if not verbally. Now he knew what made shortarse's surly bodyguard tick, and he smiled all the better for it.

Although stepping in the human wasn't the most flavourful part of the day so far.

>>"Anyway, I shall deal with the central circuit breakers and whoever wishes to join me,"<< Darkfire said as she glanced first, and longest, at Vindicator, then Psychout and Landgrab, finally sending a distasteful look at Crueljaw, >>"...is welcome to join me. And for those of us who like to make a grand theatrical entrance, I would suggest trying not to draw any unwanted attention. Like Vindicator said, we don't know how many humans are crawling around our technology. They could touch something they aren't supposed to in a panic. Hopefully, we'll be able to secure the base with minimal contact."<<

The assassin looked in Vindicator's direction once more before finally adding about the holo-map of the base.

>>"The each of the two teams will need a copy of the holo map to navigate around this place."<<

The lingering gaze wasn't lost on Vindicator, and the large mechanoid felt his fuel pump surge slightly, but in composing himself, the siege master studied his holomap then began a download process, effectively duplicating the map and then saving it into a memory chip, ejecting the small card from a slot in his chest-plate, and, gently - well as gently as the massive seige maker could manage - picked the chip up from the tray and handed it over to Jaws.

>>"So you don't get your aft lost in here..."<< He paused and then looked up with his vision altered to check for thermal sources >>"...and to answer your question Jaws, yes the main source of siphoning energy into this place was to tap the earth's thermal underground. Quite a feat considering that all it took was a little natural power, a weakness in the crust of this planet, and the siphoning and building skills of the Decepticon's resident builders..."<< of course he was talking about the Constructicons, but also took in the majesty of it all before continuing on >>"....when you think about it, it is impressive, considering that it was also designed to keep us off the Autobot's radar - no energon output, no daring raids to keep the base powered...."<< he gave a sniff and hen returned his vision to normal before playing with a few switches in a compartment on his forearm, adusting the settings for his optics to pick up human bio-metrics, and in testing, his vision switched from green, to red, to yellow and finally to blue, where picking up the biological sources of human's would be most gratifying - and make them easier to locate.

He broke the radio-chatter and spoke hushedly, his voice lightly echoing off the walls of the corridor.

"That duplicate map will help you get to the main command center and databanks of the base, and it will also help you spot any annoying human set-ups..." He paused as he finalised the dial in of the settings for his optics. "...I'd recommend dialling in your optics to Bio-metric read out so that any humans can be picked up near by, but hopefully we won't have any problems with these fleshlings in here...."

Vindicator turned and looked sideways at Darkfire, a smile crossing his faceplate.

"I guess then that leaves it to you and I Darkfire, to get this base powered back up in some core locations..." He looked back at Jaws and winked at the surly mechanoid "... If I go with Jaws, we'll end up in a scrap, and if Jaws goes with you Darkfire, I have a feeling that all that will come back of him is his head...."

Vindicator called up the holo-map and keyed the coordinates for the generator compound of the base, the blue and green wire-mesh casting a soft glow over his hard edges as the indicator arrow slowly flashed in the correct direction. He indicated with his right hand in the direction to go as he moved next to Darkfire.

"...Fem-con's first..." he said politely.
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