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Post by Taggon on May 15, 2015 14:04:53 GMT
Bishop Isle is a rather isolated piece of land about 200 miles off the coast of North Carolina, well away from any large body of land, and surrounded by bottomless ocean. Much like an incomplete mountain range, cut off from the other mountains in one small section, the Island resembles a rather remote and distant location. There is still wildlife, overgrowth, but the island lacks any sandy beaches, and is ringed in thick rock. Very very few have ventured here, and very few remain. Not many bother to chart it on most maps since this island is so rarely visited. It is often scathing hot, with little clouds, and much exposure to humidity and heat. Perhaps not the best place to stop by if you were hoping for a more relaxing location. A green warp bridge cam into form, morphng out of what seemed to be nothingness, the green vortex producing a door way from which a mech stepped out of, followed by several other vehicon engineers. Chaff found himself atop a mountain, or the highest point on the Island to be specific, which was fortunate for him since the wind blew, as the sun began to lower its position in the sky. It was late afternoon, and shadows extended over everything like slowly stretched out rubber. Which, in the form of a rubber band, was good for shooting. Chaff had switched from one of his more demo-like personalities to one which could take a job seriously more than his other personalities, and the first thing he set up was an eleven foot pole. The pole had a small red blinking light on it, which flashed ever seventy seconds a dim red. "Alrighty men. That's a signature blocker right there, which means Autobots won't be able to just magically discover our signatures, and pay us a visit. But incase they do boys, let's follow the first protocol of arrival for a mission: Set up defenses." Chaff announced to the other vehicons, who had pushed in large carts of supplies and materials, and portable fold up mechanisms. "That's right boys. I want the heat seeking missiles, the plasma missiles, the smoke bombs, the shield emitters all hidden safely. I'll occupy myself with starting some blue-prints for this freak show of a plan." Chaff said, muttering the last part since it was work. He unfolded a large desk, in which he spread device after device, each producing holo imagery of the Island, its dimensions, and accurate measurements of it's with and height. it was some pretty darn cool technology which Chaff had made up not forty minutes ago, when he had been preparing for the trip. The scan of the island had begun before the bridge had even appeared, or closed for that matter. The engineer and mechanic began to set to work, toying with sketches and ideas and raw imagination on how he could use this Island how Backbeat had instructed him to.
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Post by Taggon on Jun 23, 2015 14:21:41 GMT
Weeks had rolled by like hours, as Chaff found himself making more and more progress on his island. So far, he had established the underground foundations of the to-be-floating fortress. Countless cycles had been invested in creating the underground walls, creating thrusters which could be activated by flipping from under the Island and expanding to the sides and rear of the plot of land. There would be hidden back-up thrusters of course, since destroying the thrusters of any vessel or fortress was practically the first law of shooting giant things out of the sky. First things first though. In order to get the island out of sea, Fire and plasma weren't gonna cut it. So powerful magnetics were going to have to be applied for the task of getting the island unattached from the sea floor. Chaff hand't been a dumb though. He's selected this little spec of dirt and trees because underneath it were several caves. In those caves, he had set up another base of operation especially meant for lifting the island up off the tons of rock it was one with.
Very basically, he was using opposite poles of a magnet to practically shoot the Island into the sky. So how did he get his servos on such powerful tools? He'd been out here for weeks, and after ordering in a few things, and creating a few enhancers here and there, the Engineer Vehicon had made his tools for such the task. Though he had no real promise that they would work. He had about 90% chance of it happening properly however. So, he would just take that risk. As for the outside of the Island, where before it had been but trees, grass, and some rock there was now large guns which were designed for launching large eleven foot bombs at the enemy. These weapons could come out of the ground, or had their own cloaking devices. Because why not? Additionally, this large floating fortress had a command center, a coms place--many other things which where necessities of a fortress. Plenty of weapons and ammunitions.
There was even a large shield which would envelope the Island once it was sky-bound, this field of energy was sound proof, and cloaked the fortress as well, so it could lob it's terrible shells at whatever and any target could be counted as desecrated. The next part about this cruiser was cloaking it's energy and heat signature. It was tricky to do so at first, the heat signature of the whole fortress was entirely hidden but as for a few other things such as the thrusters...well, they would need some work. Everything else? Armories check, weapon systems check, barracks check, training halls check. There was now but one thing Chaff waited for as he sat reclined in a large seat. The vehicon was almost slipping into recharge he was so dead-tired of all the calculations and schematics he had made or dealt with remodeling. He was now simply waiting for his drone brothers to come back from a certain mission--the caves beneath the Island had been loaded with energon, and every last snip of it would be needed for the floating fortress. There're would be enough for the fortress to be air-born for only about two months though, so mining missions would be all the more crucial.
Chaff sighed. Being away from people other than his silent drones was a bit depressing, and he found in hindsight the only person he'd discuss anything with was himself, in small mumbles. Oh, a trip to the bar sounded great. At last, the call came in that Chaff had been waiting for;
::Sir. We have retrieved all the energon in the mine, and prepping the Fortress for lift-off.::
Great. Just great. Chaff almost thought slowly. He heaved inward, before com-linking to Backbeat his commander,
::Sir. The weapon you requested is ready to go Air-born. Everything's online--I'm being a bit not so detailed here in case anyone's listening in on this com-link. Do I have a green flag on allowing our little Butterfly come out of her ca-coon High-Lord Backbeat?::
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Post by Backbeat on Jun 28, 2015 22:24:40 GMT
Weeks had rolled by like hours, as Chaff found himself making more and more progress on his island. So far, he had established the underground foundations of the to-be-floating fortress. Countless cycles had been invested in creating the underground walls, creating thrusters which could be activated by flipping from under the Island and expanding to the sides and rear of the plot of land. There would be hidden back-up thrusters of course, since destroying the thrusters of any vessel or fortress was practically the first law of shooting giant things out of the sky. First things first though. In order to get the island out of sea, Fire and plasma weren't gonna cut it. So powerful magnetics were going to have to be applied for the task of getting the island unattached from the sea floor. Chaff hand't been a dumb though. He's selected this little spec of dirt and trees because underneath it were several caves. In those caves, he had set up another base of operation especially meant for lifting the island up off the tons of rock it was one with. Very basically, he was using opposite poles of a magnet to practically shoot the Island into the sky. So how did he get his servos on such powerful tools? He'd been out here for weeks, and after ordering in a few things, and creating a few enhancers here and there, the Engineer Vehicon had made his tools for such the task. Though he had no real promise that they would work. He had about 90% chance of it happening properly however. So, he would just take that risk. As for the outside of the Island, where before it had been but trees, grass, and some rock there was now large guns which were designed for launching large eleven foot bombs at the enemy. These weapons could come out of the ground, or had their own cloaking devices. Because why not? Additionally, this large floating fortress had a command center, a coms place--many other things which where necessities of a fortress. Plenty of weapons and ammunitions. There was even a large shield which would envelope the Island once it was sky-bound, this field of energy was sound proof, and cloaked the fortress as well, so it could lob it's terrible shells at whatever and any target could be counted as desecrated. The next part about this cruiser was cloaking it's energy and heat signature. It was tricky to do so at first, the heat signature of the whole fortress was entirely hidden but as for a few other things such as the thrusters...well, they would need some work. Everything else? Armories check, weapon systems check, barracks check, training halls check. There was now but one thing Chaff waited for as he sat reclined in a large seat. The vehicon was almost slipping into recharge he was so dead-tired of all the calculations and schematics he had made or dealt with remodeling. He was now simply waiting for his drone brothers to come back from a certain mission--the caves beneath the Island had been loaded with energon, and every last snip of it would be needed for the floating fortress. There're would be enough for the fortress to be air-born for only about two months though, so mining missions would be all the more crucial. Chaff sighed. Being away from people other than his silent drones was a bit depressing, and he found in hindsight the only person he'd discuss anything with was himself, in small mumbles. Oh, a trip to the bar sounded great. At last, the call came in that Chaff had been waiting for; ::Sir. We have retrieved all the energon in the mine, and prepping the Fortress for lift-off.::Great. Just great. Chaff almost thought slowly. He heaved inward, before com-linking to Backbeat his commander,
::Sir. The weapon you requested is ready to go Air-born. Everything's online--I'm being a bit not so detailed here in case anyone's listening in on this com-link. Do I have a green flag on allowing our little Butterfly come out of her ca-coon High-Lord Backbeat?::Backbeat comms back
' Not yet... I still have one minor annoyance to deal with... '
He adds ' But I will deal with that soon... In the mean time... Others shall survey my new weapon for me... '
A few moments later a groundbridge opens up and a group of Decepticons walk out. A one eyed Vehicon walks up to Chaff, followed by Nevermore who was carrying her datapad. The one eyed Vehicon speaks
One eyed Vehicon: Lord Backbeat sent us to inspect the island... Our commander said he was busy dealing with the one person with the power to complicate the plan
Nevermore sings
"There was a faction, had a Prime,
and a trap they walked into.
T-R-A-P T-R-A-P T-R-R-P And a TRAP they walked into. "
A group of V-2 troopers exit the groundbridge as well...
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Post by Taggon on Jul 2, 2015 13:06:47 GMT
Chaff leaned back in his chair,
::Yes Lord Backbeat.::
He replied, before hanging up on the com-line. He was beginning to make his way for a small energon tap to hook himself up to when Nevermore and a few vehicons came through a ground bridge. As usual, the crazy femme rattled on about a silly song that had to do with someone dying. Maybe it was a nice song that way, maybe it wasn't. Chaff honestly didn't care. He simply found a small needle connected to a tube, then shoved it into his side so he could refuel. Ah, a wave of refreshment washed over him. It felt good to get some new energy.
"Hey Nevermore. Nice to see ya. The armories down the hall to the left if you want to check it out. The command center is--well, you're standing in it." Chaff gestured to the ground. He was unaware of the new breed of vehicon, since he had been stuck on this little island for weeks to months. Really, he hadn't been keeping himself updated. Genuinely, he missed some of High Command. IN his conscious, he knew he had been a bit harsh on little Kick-start. He would have to ask for forgiveness, or something. That really wasn't the deception code, but honestly, something was beginning to tell Chaff that he wasn't going to be around much longer. It was a voice in the back of his head, and that voice had usually been right, though it hadn't piped up eversincme his days in the vehicon academy. So if he was going to be checking out, he might as well go clean.
Then again, he could just be so darn tired...
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Post by Backbeat on Jul 2, 2015 16:37:13 GMT
Nevermore looks around
" Backbeat should arrive shortly, if the Prime doesn't play chicken. "
The one eyed vehicon adds in
Vehicon: That is a big "if"...
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Post by Taggon on Jul 3, 2015 14:26:27 GMT
Chaff remained seated, relaxing some so that he could continue to refuel without too much action. Chaff did turn around so he faced Nevermore and her vehicon company in his chair. The vehicon with eh vertical visor laced his fingers together and tucked them behind his helm, as he stalled some ventilation from behind his mask, as to let cool air enter his systems. His vents hissed as they released the hot air within him, as to grant the cooler air to replace it. Chaff's seeker wings sagged some, as the mech continued to make it clear he was quite at ease for now.
"Yeah, with Backbeat fighting Feenxifire and all, I wouldn't expect him to show up anytime soon. She has her own little doo-hickies to attend to, like making sure her feathers are polished nicely, and her family members get enough hugs and whatnot."
Chaff rolled his shoulders in agreement.
"In the meantime, any of you fellows been experiencing any good fights? I sure haven't." The vehicon engineer stated from his seat, applying Breakdown's voice. The guy was good t taking things easy, so Chaff would use him. Simple as that.
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Post by Backbeat on Jul 3, 2015 18:13:06 GMT
Nevermore puts away her datapad
" Saw Backbeat kill a clown. "
She starts tossing a knife up and down... The one eye vehicon adds
Vehicon: And I have been stuck babysitting the new V2s... Damn knockoffs...
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Post by Taggon on Jul 5, 2015 2:52:19 GMT
Chaff tilted his helm once more, listening to the two give him some words to chew on. it was interesting, what these guys were talking about. Backbeat killed a clown huh? For an insane pun-master, apparently someone taking the controls with humor wasn't what Backbeat wanted. Which was perfectly understandable, since it was only fair for backbeat to have all the one-liners. And Chaff too, once the creativity struck him again.
"Vee-twos?
Chaff said with genuine curiosity. He had yet to hear this Vee-two talk. The vehicon had said that they were 'rip-offs'. So what were they? A new breed of drone? Pah. Like that could happen. Vehicons were the stuff of drone-occupation, plus the word 'vehicon' sounded way cooler than 'Vee-two'. At least whoever had named these 'Vee-Twos' had been decent enough not to add 'con' on the end of the words. But whatever, he'd know soon enough.
"What, these guys a new kind of rookie drone? A new Legion? What? Speak dude!" Chaff said, shuffling restlessly in his chair as his yellow visor faced the one-eyed vehicon who had been speaking.
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Post by Backbeat on Jul 5, 2015 4:51:09 GMT
Vehicon: Backbeat let Kick-start play with tech in Shockwave's lab... She seems to have created a new form of vehicon. No real personality. No real identity. Replaced it with an extra mode an greater loyalty. Backbeat mentioned us real vehicons are getting promotions.
Nevermore adds singing
" I hate them. I hate them. I hate the Vee-Twos so much... "
She shrugs
" But I can't kill them, I have a report to hand in. The Decepticons and the red tape. Tale as old as time."
A groundbridge opens and Nevermore leaves
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Post by Taggon on Jul 6, 2015 4:29:32 GMT
Chaff furrowed his brow behind his helmet. So Kick-Start was making replacements for vehicons? She was being authorization from Backbeat to make a bunch of one-track minded clones who had absolutely no chance of ever having the slightest fringe of creativity or chances of thought-pattern improvement? Chaff thought for one moment that they were over doing it, then he thought about vehicons like him and Taggon. Okay, so somewhere along the line of thousands of years there were two or three mistakes. No biggy. Just small mistakes. Or were they scared to see more vehicons start having the same realizations, and start to have their own thoughts and plans?
The vehicon to his right had said that Backbeat was promoting the other vehicons, but what did that matter? Vehicons were an endangered species now. And since the Autobots went through most vehicons like a hot-knife through butter, that meant the he and a handful of other vehicons who actually knew what they were doing would be left for dead!
Chaff really didn't like the thought of that. His species was in danger now. Just great. maybe that wasn't all that bad of the DHC, but it was for him. Oh yeah, he was a part of that. maybe he could fix that? Maybe he could start having vehicons become their own wave of elite commandos to back-up the Vee-twos? That way the vehicons wouldn't become extinct. It wasn't like that mattered to anyone, but heck, it mattered to Chaff. Or maybe that was what Backbeat was doing by giving every vehicon a higher rank--Chaff didn't know for sure.
"Yeah, I can see why you'd hate them. Um, see ya Nevermore. Say hello to another insane person for me will ya?"
Chaff chuckled nervously.
"So, um, fellow vehicon. What else seems to be in store for the other vehicons?"
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Post by Backbeat on Jul 6, 2015 5:25:52 GMT
The one eyed vehicon looks at him
One eyed vehicon: Backbeat's planning on making... What was it? " If it quacks like a duck and floats like a duck... It's a duck" He then said that applied to Vehicons and Decepticons... Some how. I still want to know what the scrap a "Duck" is?
The vehicon adds
One eyed vehicon: Anyway... We are going to get better supplies and more respect. He made a joke about job safety and then told me to take a batch of these junkyard rejects here...
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Post by Taggon on Jul 11, 2015 1:58:13 GMT
Chaff nodded at the vehicon, thinking about what he had to say. So backbeat was giving the vehicons the role of commando-like commanders after all. or something like that. Chaff hummed to himself,
"Well, I always thought 'duck' was what you did when you dodged an object or punch in the sense that you'd lower yourself so that the said object would fly over your head." Chaff said, shrugging to the other vehicon. He honestly had no idea what a duck was, aside from what he had just stated, despite the fact that he surfed the human internet. Why? Because sometimes, he had nothing better to do.
Chaff cleared his throat as he detached the energon tap from his body,
"Welp, I'm going to check up on what's going on in my workshop, and a few other areas. If you'd be so kind as to pardon me, it'd be appreciated..." Chaff said. though really, he was the Decepticon Head of Engineering, so he really had to say pardon to no one save the SiC and Lord Backbeat himself. With that, a ground bridge opened up, granted Chaff access to the particular place he had in mind. The mostly black vehicon strolled through before the vortex closed behind him.
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Post by Backbeat on Jul 14, 2015 1:57:31 GMT
A groundbridge opens up and Backbeat walks through
' Now this a vacation spot! '
He looks around as Nevermore walks through the groundbridge
' Shame that were going to have to move it... Ah well, I'll get over it... '
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Post by Backbeat on Jul 15, 2015 6:34:23 GMT
Vehicons and Vee-Twos flood through the groundbridge carrying weapons and supplies
Backbeat watches
' This is going to be the most fun I have had since Praxus was burned... '
He adds, as Nevermore laughs to herself
' Didn't take much gasoline surprisingly... '
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Post by Orthodox on Jul 15, 2015 17:14:23 GMT
Orthodox came in through a separate ground bridge some time later, looking around the place and spotting Backbeat. So this is the island, humph. Not what I expected out of it. Then she called over, Ey, when do you supposed the 'bots are arriving?! Then she walked over, leaving large trod-prints in the dirt.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2015 17:48:39 GMT
The femme came from the GB that Deathwish has opened. With her two colored optics, she looks around. Trees, plants. Per pedes get dirty in every steps he does. A shadow moves behind her. Scary quickly moved her swords to the unknown object. A bird. She cut the bird in half without any problem, For a moment she felt sorry as she removed the feathers of her sword, but the blade and her claw have some blood drops. For a moment she thought that the shadow was a threat.
Will they come....?
After the success of the feathered animal, she'd get around to the rest of the Vehicons and waits silently, without saying anything unless needed.
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Post by Ulti on Jul 15, 2015 18:04:12 GMT
((Just like to say, I have admin permission to do this))
A large blue and red vortex erupted over the Skies and clouds of Bishop Isle, as a drop pod fell through it, the portal it entered via closing behind it. The pod would make a loud whistling sound as it quickly descended and it could probably be picked up on both long range radar and energon signature scanners. As it continued to plummet at accelerating speed, the door slid open, revealing a femme behind them.
Blue light from her T-shaped visor illuminated the darkness of the drop pod, revealing the large pistols she held in each servo. She moved close towards the edge, looking down below her, she had just passed through the cloud layer. Stepping back a few paces followed by a big gulp, she burst into a sprint, out of the drop pod. The femme moved her body into a more streamlined position, causing her to shoot down towards the ground, but almost seconds after she went to a position that spread her out, creating a wider surface area for the air to hit and slow her down. Now she started to move horizontally, as far away from the pod as possible, causing it to plummet down behind her, hitting the ground below it with a loud and deafening crack, giving away it's location. She continued to soar a bit more, before landing herself in the deep vegetation to disguise herself. The pod itself still emitted a spark signature, because a recently deceased autotrooper had been sharing the pod with her, and his faint life-signs would continue on only a little longer, but it was distraction to draw attention away from herself as she moved into the vast forests.
This mission was recon, find the con activity. Well okay they already knew it was there since the satellite had picked up multiple bursts of Groundbridge radiation, but the mission was to find out what they were doing here.
She may no longer have the element of surprise, but she had the element of stealth on her side.
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Post by Kick-Start on Jul 15, 2015 18:30:02 GMT
Another Ground Bridge opens, and this time Commander Kick-Start drives through.
She is followed by multiple squads of her Vee-Twos, rolling along at a suitable pace behind her.
She then transforms.
"Gentlemen, prepare yourselves! While this is technically a trap, the likelyhood of the actual Prime showing is low. However, these squads aren't here for the Prime. These squads are here to take on any Wreckers who may come."
She paces back and forth.
"I won't lie to you, my babies. Many of you will not be returning to the Nemesis. But you will know this with the fact that we have proven how completely insatiable and moronic Wreckers are. And know always, that no matter how you fare, I am proud of you!"
"All glory to the Decepticons!" the Vee-Twos agreed.
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Post by Backbeat on Jul 15, 2015 19:03:14 GMT
Backbeat looks at Orthadox shaking his head.
' They are not arriving here you fool... We are going to them! '
He notices Kick-Start arrive
' Ah yes now arrives my army... Once the Quaketread and Deathwish's forces show up we can finally fire up the engines and move the damn island to DC! '
Nevermore looks at the Vee-Twos and smirks, singing
"That going to be enough? This fight will be tough. "
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Post by Black Sun on Jul 15, 2015 19:06:14 GMT
Black Sun arrived upon Bishop Isle through a groundbridge, the green vortex opening and closing swiftly. The black femme didn't say to much upon her arrival, perhaps a smart comment or chuckle. nstead, The second in command approached Backbeat, obviously to make her presence known.
"I'd assume our signals on the island remain nonexistent to the autobots?" Black Sun asked. Black Sun wasn't to up to date with the plan, but she did know to meet at the island. Black Sun didn't pay to much attention to the Vee-Twos, not that they were her business.
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