by The J Writer » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:30 am
Shockwave's Tower - Launch Bay
As the Seekers loaded the last two boxes into his train mode, Astrotrain closed his armored doors behind them. "All aboard," he boomed. He was tempted to say 'Full steam ahead!' for some reason, but that made no sense - who would use so piteously unsophisticated an energy technology to power one's self? Instead he simply said, somewhat optimistically, "Next stop, Cluster 1499!"
With a dull hum his mag-lev engines came online and he hovered a few centimeters above the rails that led into the Launch Bay. Installed long ago to allow Shockwave's main base to take advantage of Polyhex's transit and transport systems, the rails still were in good enough condition for Astrotrain to utilize.
He waited a moment to make sure everyone was aboard, and then began his slow descent down the sloping rails into Polyhex proper.
Leaving the Killzone
Rolling along as gently as he could with his injured passenger, Kup made his response to Prowl's query.
>>"We're inbound now, Prowl, with more wounded than I'd care to count," he reported to the strategist. "I ain't Ratchet, but judgin' from what I've seen we've got some serious medical work to get done before we try pushin' on anything tougher than a piece of dollhouse-grade sheet plastic."<<