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Post by Backbeat on Apr 5, 2015 13:54:41 GMT
Backbeat and Nevermore appear just outside the lab... Looking at the locked door.
' Well... That's not a good sign... '
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Post by Kick-Start on Apr 5, 2015 14:14:15 GMT
Kick-Start arrives, still clunking slightly on her crutches, "Problems with the locked door, Captain? It's always locked when Lord Shockwave isn't in there..."
She takes out her override key and, after some fiddling, opens the door. The lab is exactly how she recently left it - as meticulously tidy as it was when she entered. There's no sign she was ever in there.
"But an idea to clone Vehicons? That sounds a little familiar."
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Backbeat
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Post by Backbeat on Apr 5, 2015 15:17:37 GMT
Backbeat shrugs, laughing
' Lost my keys... '
Nevermore sings
" Lost his keys, lost his mind... But he will win the war! "
Backbeat looks around at the lab, to tidy and organized for his liking... But it will do
' Yes, you got me... I'm retelling a joke... But hey, don't fix what is not broke... '
He adds, as Nevermore takes out her datapad, wiring it into the central computer
' Where is Dark Mercy... Still can't stop laughing at that name... I want him to train our new army with awesome Prime killing moves... '
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Post by Kick-Start on Apr 5, 2015 16:43:16 GMT
"He was showing signs of mental degradation due to the programming. Rather than risking further encounters with Autobots who might jog his memories, I sent him out on a prolonged scouting mission..."
Kick-Start checks her holographic notebook, which means that she knows where Dark Mercy is.
"He's in Japan."
One of her skills is mixing lies and the truth until they are undiscernable from each other.
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Backbeat
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Post by Backbeat on Apr 5, 2015 17:24:20 GMT
' Huh... Well scrap... '
He looks around the lab, picking up a half finished weapon
' You know... I warned Shockwave, mind control was unreliable... Given his current situation, I reserve the right to say I told you so... Childish, yes... But it's more fun...'
He adds, as he walks through the lab before finally coming to the cloning equipment
' Kick-Start... You mind booting this thing up? I have a few modification I want to make... '
Meanwhile Nevermore finishes the download, unplugging the datapad she walks towards Backbeat
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Post by Kick-Start on Apr 5, 2015 18:21:30 GMT
"Hmmm... I always did consider that Lord Shockwave should have had more than one person on the job..."
Kick-Start looks at the computer.
"I can't hack Lord Shockwave's personal files. But I can bring up Vehicon specifications..." Kick-Start starts opening up the computer, "As Commander, I've read of some Phase 6 ships that were developing cloning techniques. Some of them experimented in creating robotic lifeforms from organic bodies. I don't think they got it right though..."
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Backbeat
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Post by Backbeat on Apr 5, 2015 18:41:19 GMT
Backbeat shakes his head, putting down the the half finished weapon.
' No... But keep that on the list for later... I just need simple cloning for the vehicons... Make sure they can use a gun and are loyal to the Decepticons... And me... '
He looks at Nevermore, who nods in acknowledgement. Backbeat then looks at Kick-Start...
' Don't worry about the files... Nevermore is looking after that... I just need you to work on filling the ranks... '
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Post by Kick-Start on Apr 5, 2015 19:10:49 GMT
"Cloning... cloning..."
Kick-Start flicks through design schematics. Being loyal to Backbeat isn't her idea of the perfect soldier.
"We'll need an original subject - loyal and healthy..." the doctor continues, "Special programming to their personalities will also be important - alterations so that they think nothing of being clones, so that there is no temptation to rebel."
She keeps typing.
"And once the initial test subject is complete, we'll need growth chanbers on a large scale. A photocopy is never the quality of the original, and a photocopy of a photocopy only results in further degradation, so we will need to keep the initial subject on ice to be copied from."
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Post by Backbeat on Apr 5, 2015 19:35:36 GMT
Backbeat snaps his "fingers" and a vehicon walks into the room, having been called in via the radio
' I leave this in your capible hands... '
Backbeat laughs
' I assume your up to it? '
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Post by Sinn on Apr 5, 2015 19:50:40 GMT
"I knew I wasn't the only one who thought "Dark Mercy" was a fragging ridiculous name,"
Mire stood a little ways behind Backbeat, arms folded over her chest, the hole in her stomach once again scabbed over.
"Kickstart. How's the leg?"
Mire eyed her own handiwork with some degree of satisfaction, then continued.
""I don't suppose you have a replacement visor?"
The femme looked odd with her optics exposed, especially with one being scarred and dead....
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Post by Kick-Start on Apr 5, 2015 19:59:39 GMT
"I am perfectly capable. Of course... my presence in the main Med-Bay would be diminished."
Kick-Start turns to Mire.
"Of course there are other replacement visors. But just what are you doing in here?"
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Post by Sinn on Apr 5, 2015 20:06:46 GMT
Mire shrugged.
"I..... Just watching. I think I was into science at one point."
Mire's tone was uncertain, and her broken eyes blinked a few times.
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Post by Backbeat on Apr 5, 2015 20:09:40 GMT
Backbeat looks at Mire
' Who said Shockwave wasn't funny...? '
He then looks at Kick-Start
' I invited her here... I know you too don't see eye to eye... But we have work to do... '
He looks at Mire
' I have a job for you... And any troops you can gather... We need to replenish our Energon stocks... '
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Post by Sinn on Apr 5, 2015 20:19:46 GMT
Mire snapped out of the fog she seemed to be in, straightening to her full 34 feet.
"Yessir,"
She rubbed her servos together.
"I'll gather my personal troops for this, sir. The six of them are worth sixty ordinary Vehicons."
Mire tipped her head and pressed a finger to a small button on the inside of her helmet's cheek-guard, activating her comm and speaking very quietly to someone on the other end, presumably one of the small squadron of soldiers she'd brought in with her on the ship she had docked in the Nemesis' medical bay.
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Post by Kick-Start on Apr 5, 2015 20:31:31 GMT
Kick-Start fishes in her sub-space sphere and brings out a replacement visor for Mire, holding it out to her.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to set up a workshop in the Med-Bay."
She clunks out of the Lab.
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Post by Backbeat on Apr 5, 2015 21:01:19 GMT
Backbeat laughs
' Good... '
He looks at Nevermore
' I see you have got your reading material... '
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Post by Sinn on Apr 5, 2015 21:48:49 GMT
Mire inspects the visor.
"It'll do, I guess. Good think I backed up the old one's specs...."
Mire plucked the last few broken shards of her old visor out, flicking them carelessly onto the lab's floor, then carefully slid the new visor on. For a moment, it was dark, then it flickered with red light and morphed slightly, as Mire's systems meshed with it and reconfigured it to the specifications of her previous visor.
"So, Commander Backbeat.... Where exactly is this energon recovery mission to be carried out? Should I bring additional reinforcements?"
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Post by Backbeat on Apr 5, 2015 22:15:50 GMT
' How does the African Savanna sound? '
He looks around at lab
' I'm going to be gone for a few days, going Nevermore and I have to go over all of Shockwave's experiments... And come up with a new plan to attack the Autobots... So I'm giving everyone tasks to complete while I'm busy... '
He looks at the vehicon guard
' Lock this place down... '
Backbeat and Nevermore walk out of the room, there was much to be done...
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Post by Sinn on Apr 5, 2015 22:48:15 GMT
Mire follows after him. As she walks, five large shapes move to flank her, keeping pace with the Seeker. Mire and five of her six Vehicon troopers make their way towards the ship's command post.
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Post by Backbeat on Apr 9, 2015 20:07:52 GMT
Nevermore walks into the lab, only stopping to show the vehicons guarding the open door her security clearance...
Nevermore continues inside, having finished unlocking some of the less secure files of the former leader's treasure trove of information, Nevermore now had a shopping list of failed experiments. Backbeat had once said that Shockwave was like an artist... And even an artist's mistakes could be art themselves...
There it was, the Negavator (Return of an old G1 weapon... ). It was half completed, as it's only problem was the amount of energy needed to fire it... Nevermore pulls out her data pad and sends Backbeat a picture of it.
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