by Insidious » Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:45 pm
- Motto: "Clarity of thought before rashness of action."
- Weapon: Oxidating Laser
Bottom of the Yellow Sea
"You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky...we're all lucky hahahahahah!" Mixmaster cackled at Bonecrusher's tidbit of encouragement as he continued to blast his way in to the mountainside with his molten concoction.
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How about that? He'd been right. If he were back on Cybertron right now, and the planet were even remotely livable, he'd take his good odds and go spend them at the arena, see if he could multiply his good fortune betting in the Pits. Unfortunately, there were a lot of "ifs" in that line of wishful thinking, and the triple-changer wasn't sure if they would ever get back to those days. Or something better? At the end of all this conquering, that's what they were supposed to be rewarded with for having been loyal to Megatron's ruling army.
Right?
Astrotrain looked over at the area that Long Haul had indicated, pondering what Scrapper had wanted them to do. This was manual labor of the worst kind, but Astrotrain didn't mind too much. Both of his alternate modes, like Long Haul's were designed for getting things from one place to another--regardless of whether the resources were personnel or freight. He supposed he sympathized, even if only a little, with the Constructicon hauler in that regard.
Astrotrain looked over at Blitzwing, wondering for a moment if the fellow triple-changer might suffer a full-on circuit meltdown for a second. Astrotrain might sympathize with Long Haul a little, but he knew Blitzwing sure wouldn't. He was a warrior, through and through. In the end, though, he agreed, if only to save himself from the boredom, most likely. Astrotrain could sympathize with that sentiment too.
"Yeah, let's do it," Astrotrain said, producing his rifle and adjusting the settings so that it would emit a constant, drilling stream. He looked over at the cackling nutjob Constructicon for a second before pointing his own digging tool in a different direction. "Away from that one."