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Post by Backbeat on Sept 15, 2017 6:44:37 GMT
Backbeat pauses... He's realized that due to his contingent's time away from the main force, he may have missed changes to the ranks. But he also didn't want Soundwave thinking Backbeat was below him. ' I presume my self above Primus... It's how I don't have to deal with pesky things like morality. Besides... You are on my ship... Be it ever so humble... ' He adds. ' We both know Livewire would have had you do it anyway later... This just saves us time... ' "The bird made your opinions of me perfectly clear."Soundwave replied as he turned his attention to the progressing scan. "The ship belongs to the Decepticon cause."He added offhand. Backbeat chuckles as if Soundwave had just complemented the weather. A banal kind of chuckle one would expect around the water cooler. ' Really? Cause I could have sworn I've got a big pile of paperwork that say I own this damn space boat... NeVor usually handles that stuff. ' He adds. His voice grown more cold and menacing. His mind, if it could be heard, sounded like a radio playing four or five stations at the same time. ' And don't take it personally... You have a reputation for blackmail... And I just don't care for spoilers getting out. Starscream's obnoxiousness has already caused our leader to question my loyalty... Thinking I actually want to be leader... HA! Like I actually want that... Oh sure the title's nice and all but who wants all that work. All the knives in your back... I'm perfectly happy where I am. I can step in and out of the spotlight when I want. It's far more entertaining... ' He looks at the focused Soundwave. ' Besides... We all know you people want to see what I do next... Which brings me to your current task... The Autobots. I've got a little scheme. Do you want to hear it? '
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Post by Soundwave on Sept 15, 2017 19:36:39 GMT
"The bird made your opinions of me perfectly clear."Soundwave replied as he turned his attention to the progressing scan. "The ship belongs to the Decepticon cause."He added offhand. Backbeat chuckles as if Soundwave had just complemented the weather. A banal kind of chuckle one would expect around the water cooler. ' Really? Cause I could have sworn I've got a big pile of paperwork that say I own this damn space boat... NeVor usually handles that stuff. ' He adds. His voice grown more cold and menacing. His mind, if it could be heard, sounded like a radio playing four or five stations at the same time. ' And don't take it personally... You have a reputation for blackmail... And I just don't care for spoilers getting out. Starscream's obnoxiousness has already caused our leader to question my loyalty... Thinking I actually want to be leader... HA! Like I actually want that... Oh sure the title's nice and all but who wants all that work. All the knives in your back... I'm perfectly happy where I am. I can step in and out of the spotlight when I want. It's far more entertaining... ' He looks at the focused Soundwave. ' Besides... We all know you people want to see what I do next... Which brings me to your current task... The Autobots. I've got a little scheme. Do you want to hear it? '
"By all means, share."
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Post by Backbeat on Sept 16, 2017 22:11:36 GMT
' A surgical strike... Masking the installation of a surveillance device... I'll leave the specifics of that device to your expertise. '
He chucckles
'True... It's small scale, but we don't have the time or resources to do anything large... But being able too peek at the opponents hand once in a while is always good. '
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Post by Soundwave on Sept 22, 2017 15:22:21 GMT
' A surgical strike... Masking the installation of a surveillance device... I'll leave the specifics of that device to your expertise. ' He chucckles 'True... It's small scale, but we don't have the time or resources to do anything large... But being able too peek at the opponents hand once in a while is always good. ' Soundwave thought over his proposal for a moment. "Has potential, but it would require precise coordination fro m everyone involved."
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Post by Backbeat on Sept 24, 2017 8:06:51 GMT
' A surgical strike... Masking the installation of a surveillance device... I'll leave the specifics of that device to your expertise. ' He chuckles 'True... It's small scale, but we don't have the time or resources to do anything large... But being able too peek at the opponents hand once in a while is always good. ' Soundwave thought over his proposal for a moment. "Has potential, but it would require precise coordination from everyone involved."
Where it possible, Backbeat would grin. But only his optics could convey his smug satisfaction. ' Then it seems I will have to attend to this operation... Personally. ' His tone of voice suggesting exasperation at being forced to work. But his optics betrayed him. He was looking forward to the bloodshed to come. ' We need troops suited to hit and run... The seekers I think would do nicely... '
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Post by Soundwave on Oct 3, 2017 15:10:00 GMT
Soundwave thought over his proposal for a moment. "Has potential, but it would require precise coordination from everyone involved."
Where it possible, Backbeat would grin. But only his optics could convey his smug satisfaction. ' Then it seems I will have to attend to this operation... Personally. ' His tone of voice suggesting exasperation at being forced to work. But his optics betrayed him. He was looking forward to the bloodshed to come. ' We need troops suited to hit and run... The seekers I think would do nicely... '
"Agreed. I will begin drafting plans for surveillance device. You will handle crew assignments."
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Post by Backbeat on Oct 4, 2017 6:06:32 GMT
Backbeat hits a button on a nearby console. He speaks into a nearby microphone.
'Now hear this! I want all you trigger happy psychopaths who fancy a bit of battle to assemble in the Faithless Looter's bridge for a mission ASAP! We're going to WAR! '
He shuts off the mic and looks at Soundwave.
' The key is motivation... Wouldn't you agree? '
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Post by Soundwave on Oct 4, 2017 16:14:29 GMT
Backbeat hits a button on a nearby console. He speaks into a nearby microphone. 'Now hear this! I want all you trigger happy psychopaths who fancy a bit of battle to assemble in the Faithless Looter's bridge for a mission ASAP! We're going to WAR! ' He shuts off the mic and looks at Soundwave. ' The key is motivation... Wouldn't you agree? ' "Correct." Soundwave replied off hand before going back to his diagrams.
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 5, 2017 1:24:35 GMT
The first one to arrive on the bridge - mostly because she had been summoned about an hour ago - is Kick-Start. The femme scientist and doctor, known to be a protoge of Shockwave, is terribly short - half of Backbeat's height, in fact. Her heels snap against the ground as she walks. There's a groomed, tame Nibblet - commonly classed as vermin on Cybertron - scuttling next to her like a pet would. She's said to be the most intelligent Cybertronian ever created. She's also said to be the most unethical one. Certainly nobody's challenged her for the title yet. "This had better be important, Commander Backbeat," she tells him, irritated, "I was close to uncovering secrets of the universe the likes of which no scientist has yet witnessed. I'm working on discovering where the Spark actually goes when it fades and I don't want any of my test subjects to offline while I'm outside my lab. And something I call a 'Ground-To-Space-Bridge."
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Post by Backbeat on Oct 5, 2017 4:06:16 GMT
Backbeat rolls his optics as Kick-Start enters the room.
' Spare me your the lecture. I have a new project for you Kick-Start... One I'm sure will turn that frown... Upside down... '
As he spoke he leaned down to be at optic level.
' I need one of your special order items... I've got a party planned at Autobot central. And I need something to steal the show. '
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 7, 2017 14:32:03 GMT
"Cut the euphemisms, Commander," Kick-Start replies, "The Decepticons have been away from Cybertron for a long time, and I've had plenty of time to create new tools and weapons. They're all distracting. What kind of distraction do you need? I may already have something in stock."
By her feet, the Nibblet chittered in a kind of agreement.
"I certainly never ask why and for what... but I do need to know how."
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Post by Backbeat on Oct 8, 2017 1:51:15 GMT
Backbeat chuckles darkly.
' Very well... '
He hits button on a nearby console as he moves forward. Rising to his full height.
' I require a distraction to allow Soundwave a chance to bug their systems. It will need to be something big enough to convince the Autobots that it's my main objective... Without being too expensive to waste on a distraction... I would prefer... Ah. '
He turns as a vehicon enters carrying a serving plate of drinks. He picks one off the plate.
' Do help your selves... Stanixian energon wine is quite difficult to come by unless you know someone. Now where was I? Ah yes... I don't want to sacrifice a bishop when a pawn could suffice.'
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Post by Tarnation on Oct 8, 2017 19:43:25 GMT
There was suddenly loud footsteps that could be heard down the hallways. They kept going for a short while before stopping right outside the door. Then there was a pause, with a small cranking sound before the door opened and he stepped in. There was something eerie about the newcomer. He was taller than the rest with his 35ft, and blended into the shadows as he was mostly black. Not that there were any shadows there, but if there had been, he would have blended in. His lower right arm ended in a long blade, almost reaching down to the floor. He held it by his side for now, as he scanned the area for any possible targets. His purple optics swept across the room and all in it, but found nothing of interest.
He took a few more steps into the room, so that none could have missed his entrance. His face was covered with a mask, like one that the previous Tarn had had, but this one was all black. "I hope you have a good reason for bringing me here, Backbeat. What is going on?" His mask didn't move as he spoke, but that didn't stop the sound from coming out. He could see Backbeat, Soundwave and a very small femme. He could easily have stepped on her, felt her frame being crushed under his weight, felt the rush of another spark being vanquished... He mentally slaped himself. He couldn't kill like that, he had to remember that. He had a job to do, and nothing could come in its way.
He now remembered that he still had to replenish his energon, he felt how his power was growing weaker. With his free hand, he opened up a compartment on his side and took out an energon injector. In this injector was more enrgon, and he inserted the injector in his right shoulder. The liquid energon was pumped into him, and he felt hs power returning, small biolghts on his frame lit up in dark red, before going black once more. He put the injector back in the compartment and closed it up before turning his attention back to the others around him, waiting for a response.
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Post by Backbeat on Oct 8, 2017 23:22:20 GMT
Backbeat looks at Tarn's entrance. Snapping his fingers and pointing to direct the vehicon to bring the drink tray over to Tarn.
' Do you consider the destruction of Autobots important? '
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 10, 2017 10:12:03 GMT
Tarn was probably not any more immoral than Kick-Start. She raised one eyebrow as his look flitted over her, then went back to musing.
"A distraction. Well, everything I have is distracting, obviously... but something small that looks big..."
The Nibblet beside her, about the size of a large dog, chittered and purred a little.
"No, Nibbles, you're not a distraction. Besides, I haven't finished it yet..." a sadistic grin slowly spread across her face, "Ah, I think I know what will work. First we'll need a living Autobot... don't you worry, gentlemen, I've got a few piles of them lying around my lab..." She pulled out a pen and touch-pad and started writing on it in an almost illegible doctor's scrawl, "Of course they will leave people behind, so I must see to it that only the warriors leave..."
She took out her remote, plugged it into a port on the control, and started to fiddle with it in a practised way.
Back down on Cybretron, in Kick-Start's lab - or one of them - about 500 nearby Nibblets paused in their tasks and scuttled towards it. While there, they split into groups of 100 each and started gathering about 5 boxes, one of which had an Autobot symbol on the side, and standing ready for further orders.
"Autobots have such a strong tendency to come back for their wounded. Their ship crashed. The distraction is quite simple: We give them wounded to come back for. It's a good thing I had an Autobot lying around my laboratory."
"You have Autobots in your lab?" somebody asked.
"Indeed! A good-sized pile of healthy organs attached to a Spark in a box. I have several. Yet still so useful! The one thing he seems incapable of doing is ceasing to beg for death. I'm working on compaction, you see."
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Post by Tarnation on Oct 10, 2017 12:05:55 GMT
Tarn looked at the vehicon who brought him a drink, but he dismissed it. He did not want a drink, he had no way of drinking either if he didn't remove his mask, but that was something he would not do. Tarn then shifted his attention back to Backbeat when the con talked about the destruction of the autobots. "Mindless destruction of autobots isn't important, no. That isn't what the decepticons stand for." Tarn said with force behind his words. He wasn't going to let some destrucion pass by that wasn't part of the goal to bring Cybertron back to its former self. His cold gaze then focused on the small femme who now piped up. What she said was sickening, he was not impressed.
He bent down so that he could get a better look at the femme. She was tiny, lightly armored, no weapons visible. Her profession.. unclear. He was looking her up in the files as time went by. He was growing more and more concerned by the minute. Tarn finally decided to do something, and that something was to reach out his hand towards Kick-start. "Your suggesstion is flawed and highly questionable. I will only ask you once to cease those experiments. Now. Your work is also useless right now, my sources say that they are as far back as we are, and don't have the means necessary for longer transportation. Closer, small scale operations are better." One could tell that Tarn wasn't joking around, and with the massive blade he sported, one probably shuold take him seriously. They also didn't know what he could do, he was not in any register, and there were no witnesses who had seen him. Alive, that was.
His track record wasn't empty, far from. He had gone to extreme lengths to pursue his targets, and not yet failed. He growled silently at Kick-start before rising up again and looking at backbeat, Soundwave and the vehicons. "Anyone else interested in putting forward ideas, maybe one that can actually work and won't make you end up on The List?"
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 10, 2017 13:21:53 GMT
Kick-Start glared back, "Tarn, the pursuit of knowledge is impossible without sacrifice, much of which has been my own. I have been advancing technology and medical science for four-million years. Many of my projects are continuations of Shockwave's greatest triumphs. While the war has been going on, I have set up 15 secret laboratories all over Cybertron. While I've been making leaps and bounds in the pursuit of the creation of weaponry, the improvement of the Cybertronian body, and vital space-time manipulation, you've spent your time gallivanting all over the galaxy, torturing traitors to death. So in short..." she drew herself up, "You're not the boss of me."
She turned her back on him, scribbling in her notebook.
"The only person with the authority to order the ceasation of my vitally important advances towards the future is Shockwave himself. And you know what?" she turned back with a cold expression, "He authorised them."
At her feet, Nibbles gave a chittering agreement.
She continued to scribble her notes, "Destroy four-million years of technological and medical triumphs? You're kidding me..."
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Post by Backbeat on Oct 10, 2017 15:10:29 GMT
Backbeat's friendly demeanor stopped. Replaced by a a cold rage.
' Ladies ladies your both idiots... But perhaps I need to explain this further. We're striking now because it's far easier to sneak a bug into their systems NOW than it is to wait for them to finish constructing their defenses... And while I agree that Kick-Start wastes funds like it's going out of style, but we still still need her... Well for now anyway. And I'm thinking something more... Weapony... '
He adds. As he looks around the room.
' You see... We've got opportunity to gain the advantage over the Autobots... Thanks to Soundwave, we'll be able to gain a backdoor into their communications systems. But if they know why we attacked then it's pointless... That's where you two come in. Kick-Start providing special effects and Tarn providing star power to direct attention away from Soundwave... '
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 10, 2017 15:32:35 GMT
"Wasting funds?" Kick-Start looked hurt, "Does this look like it's wasting funds to you?" she asked Backbeat. She pressed a button on her pad and an image flashed up. It looked like a Nibblet, except for the abrupt realisation that it was being attended to by several Vehicons - who didn't look in the most well-kept of states themselves. It was also chewing on a Vehicon. From this angle, you couldn't actually see this particular lab, which was something of a blessing.
"I call them Nib-zillas," she continued, "There are just four in existence. I built them over the course of a decade. Each one is 50' tall and really good at causing collateral damage. Or at least they should be; I haven't actually tested them yet. So they're probably really hungry."
There was a brief silence while everybody tried to work out if this was real and from the look on Kick-Start's face deduced that it was.
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Post by Tarnation on Oct 10, 2017 17:40:51 GMT
"You don't know what I have been doing, little one. But as you say, I've tortured others to death, traitors, those who stray from the cause. You are on the current line of that. Don't tempt fate. Do also note that I never said to cease with everything, just that little project. I am sure there are other, more important tasks you can be doing. Shockwave was known to stray from the cause for his own motives too, you are not helping your case by referring to him. Also, Backbeat. Did I forget to mention that I already have bugs on ther comm lines? Of course, they are my private ones, but they weren't too hard to get. I'm willing to draw attention to myself, don't worry about that. I can help you with whatever you need, just don't ever question my authority again. My loyalty is to the Cause, not to a specific person." Tarn said now that the rest had voiced their opinions on the attack. It was true, he did have his own personal ways into their comms, but those were ways that he could not share.
He raised his blade and held it in his hand, inspecting it, cleaning off some dust from the earlier fall. His engine revved quietly as the rest did their thngs around him, they weren't bothering him the slightest. They didn't have to like him too much, his job wasn't to be liked but to keep order. He wasn't afraid to be attacked either. Any physical contact woud be met with a lot of pain, which made it very unwise to try such a thing. Using guns would be dangerous in a room like this, with sensitive equipment and that made it virtually impossible for any harm to be made now either way. Again, he didn't want anyone in here to be harmed, but if one of them attacked someone else, then that was an act of treason and that was punishable by death. Everyone knew that.
"Are we leaving soon? The faster we can get this over with, the faster we can start rebuilding what is destroyed. Because there is energon on this planet, right? If not, then we better find energon, a lot of it, and fast. We will need energon if we are to win the war." His cold, purple optics now focused on Backbeat, as this was his ship and thus he was in charge, for now. Thier leader hadn't given any orders at all, and that fact alone was troubling. A leader crisis at this point in time could cost them the war if handled incorrectly. He let go of the blade and moved it down to its regular position, the light reflecting off of the sharp edges on it.
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