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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 16, 2017 12:31:00 GMT
This is Kick-Start's Iacon Lab, and Kick-Start is now standing in front of you, having gone through the Bridge first.
The first thing that strikes you is the stench of rotting Energon that assaults your senses. It's enough to make you gag in disgust.
"What smell?" Kick-Start asks.
Then the flash from travel fades and you can see the room more clearly. It's both gruesome and blasphemous in its activities. While the area around the Bridge is clean, directly opposite is an area where several Cybertronians are about half-way through being dissected. Most are Neutral but one is an Autobot. Several forms of Energon are pumping into them, and only one is on regular Energon. Perhaps worst of all is that they are all alive. There are Nibblets scurrying around to replace and rearrange several boxes filled with vital organs on other tables.
There are about a dozen Vehicons staggering around, and all of them have been experimented on. One of them has undergone a lobotomy. None of them seem to be sane enough to fully grasp what they're doing or what's been done to them; they work as much on auto-pilot as the Nibblets who are scurrying everywhere, doing small jobs.
In another part of the lab, there are four huge cages, and the last one is just being closed now, since the Nibblets inside have just been brought here. Or they would be Nibblets, but they're fifty feet tall. If their signals are detected, lots of people will be oon their way... but being distractions, that's the point.
Each and every one of these experiments has a vital purpose, but since there is a huge body being patched together on one wall, it's not a comforting thought to wonder why.
Besides, you can hear one of the Vehicons who had accompanied you is being sick.
"Actually, this lab hasn't been open that long," Kick-Start tells you, "I haven't even had time to hook up and start sucking Energon from Iacon's main power grid yet. she sighs, "I suppose I shall have to dismantle it and move it elsewhere..."
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Backbeat
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Post by Backbeat on Oct 16, 2017 20:52:25 GMT
Backbeat chuckles as he follows Kick-Start further into the lab. He was bored if anything, as he had gotten used to horrific sights and he couldn't find anything particularity amusing about the vehicon's suffering.
' Quite the set up... Shockwave would be proud... Now then? where are the Autobots? '
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 16, 2017 21:34:18 GMT
"Let me see..."
Kick-Start plugs her remote into a computer.
"Too many Sparks in the city to scan in the normal way, and that's where Nibblets come in handy," she tapped a few buttons, "But it takes practice. So... bring up all the Nibblets in the city..." about 100,000 screens came up, "Narrow it down... and... Here's the largest group of Autobots, right here," she freeze-framed the convoy being led by Vatimus Prime, "That's who we want to keep occupied. I'll just set the kiddies to keep an optic on him..."
The Nibblet at her feet chittered as a large number of the Nibblets in the general area of the convoy turned their attention to the convoy.
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Post by Tarnation on Oct 17, 2017 20:40:28 GMT
After a short amount of time, Tarn exited the bridge after the two previous cons. The 35ft mech looked around slightly before moving into the centre of the room, resting his balde on the ground. This was a place he hadn't been at before, and he could with confidence say he'd never return unless it was absolutely necessary. After a closer inspection of the room they were in, it became appearant that things were out of order. Very out of order. Without saying a single word, Tarn began to inspect the bodies of the tortured mechs being experimented upon, begging to be killed rather than to suffer like this. Their treatment was sickening, this was not what the decepticons stood for. Without asking for permission, he didn't need one, he began cutting down the wounded bots, slicing them apart, finally ending their miserable lives.
Some of the nibblets might have gotten in the way, but those were the least of his concerns right now. He kept killing all the experiments that Kick-Start had created, because what she had done was not in accordace to the Cause, far from. He was enraged, that a cybertronian who dared call herself a decepticon did something like this was just wrong! Once he was done with that, he was covered in the energon of the dead bodies, and parts were scattered everywhere. Now he switched his focus to Kick-Start the culprit behind all of this. His blade-arm was pointed straight at her and there was no misinterpreting his words. "If you do something like this ever again, you will be prosecuted, and killed. Your actions have no place within the decepticon cause. Do not tempt fate, Kick-Start."
He wasn't going to calm down anytime soon, that much was clear. He was furious, but passive. He had given her a final warning, hopefully she had common sense and would heed his advice. Now they had to focus, focus on the mission and completing it. Tarn lowered his sword and walked towards the rest, taking in the information that was displayed on the screen. He now had a location, then it was time to act. He scanned the area for the exit, and nodded towards the rest. "Well then, seems like I know what to do. I'll see the rest of you out there." And with that he left. His own private comm was a secret one, meaning they wouldn't be able to reach him without using the open ones. It was time. Time to hunt.
~~5~~
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 17, 2017 21:58:35 GMT
"HEY! Hey, you can't do that!" Kick-Start shouted at Tarn, "How dare you interrupt my experiments!" she yelled at him, "This is SCIENCE! This is MY lab! You, Tarn, are my guest! And you have abused my hospitality!" She ran over to the bodies. "Look what you've done!" she raged, pointing at one, "He was on the LINE! The very LINE! It took over a decade to get him there! And you blew it!" The very fact that he was making threats enraged her. Who did he think he was, to be shocked by blood and guts? "I was working on artificially constructed combiners in here!"
And because he'd ruined a bunch of her experiments, she'd have to start these ones all over again and kidnap a few people. She looked at the mess.
"Nibblets? I suppose we're going to have to clean up the mess that Mister Tarn made, kiddies," she spat. The Nibblets crawling around the room were already eating the organs newly spread around. They were scavengers; they were a danger only to that which was already beyond help.
"How dare he?!" she snarled as Tarn left, "Telling me what to do? In my own laboratory! And giving me some kind of... final notice because he's bigger than me! What am I, if I'm not a scientist?"
"Okay boys!" she clapped her hands sharply and the Vehicons looked over at her slowly, "The Nibzillas are going on up, so this lab is moving on out! Pack it up!" The experimented-upon Vehicons started to pack up experiments, putting things into boxes monotonously and moving them to the gate. Some of those things were moving. The laboratory was being packed up. She wasn't moving this stuff out because of him. Releasing the Nibzillas would draw huge attention to the area they originated from and she didn't want anything left behind for the Autobots to use, or catch her with.
She picked something up from a table and turned to Backbeat, "You seem worried. No, that's just a regular Portal," she held up something that was about the size of her hand and looked like a calculator-watch, "This is my big ticket item. It can take you anywhere, if you only know the co-ordinates. You don't need to build a portal. But like I said, it's still glitchy. I'm trying to iron the glitches out before I send it out for mass distribution."
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Post by Backbeat on Oct 18, 2017 3:27:04 GMT
Backbeat watches Tarn's freak out with disappointment. This new Tarn seems unpredictable, which meant he now had to adjust his plans. He turns to face Kick-Start.
' I'm not worried... I'm disappointing you didn't send Tarn through it. '
He adds, with a friendly tone in his voice.
' I'm technically not leader... Yet.... Ha ha ha... But trust me, Tarn is a bit player at best. Now then... Get your lab packed up and the monsters off their leash, the return to my ship... I have further work for you... '
He waves his hand in front of them. Creating a warp to the Autobots location. He walks through.
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 19, 2017 18:08:05 GMT
"And here... we... go!"
As the Vehicons carried more boxes through the portal, Kick-Start pulled a huge lever. All four cages opened, and all four Nibzillas scuttled forward towards her.
"Aw, my babies! Aren't we cute? Aren't we just so cute?" she cooed at them, actually petting them. They chittered adoringly, "I know, he called you monsters, but I still love you, right? And we're going to go up top and have some fun, aren't we? Aw, my babies... Your mommy loves you, you know that, right?"
They chittered again. Their shells were currently being stuffed with high explosives by the remaining Vehicons, so that they would blow up pretty much everything in a two-block radius on destruction.
"Now..." she pulled another lever, "You're gonna make mommy proud!"
The lever shook a large lift, which the Nibzillas crowded onto. It strained and then lifted them to the surface... to Iacon above...
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 20, 2017 1:44:02 GMT
Now that the Nibzillas were top-side and the experiments were packed, Kick-Start began to multi-task.
"Okay. You're going to take it all through to Tyger Pax for now... You," she pointed at another Vehicon, "I'm going to need explosives st up..." she pointed at the 'portal' and its base, the computers that couldn't be removed, and the door, "Set up the computers; prep them for a full-data wipe."
Shuddering, the Vehicon did as ordered. Kick-Start never left abandoned labs with more than a few stains on the ceiling. It wouldn't be the first base she'd evacuated and nothing would be left.
Kick-Start switched on her tablet/notepad. If she could control specific Nibblets through the remote, she could certainly control the Nibzillas that she had created herself. Four screens came up. It would be stupid to not be able to control them! Time to take them in the direction that the Autobots had headed to set up base.
On the remote, she adjusted another button a fraction. Tens of thousands of Nibblets started following the Nibzillas. And anybody who entered the lab in that time would probably be blown up with it.
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Post by Kick-Start on Oct 24, 2017 0:03:25 GMT
The four Nibzillas had exploded. Kick-Start had manouvered one so that it exploded close over her underground lab, shaking the foundations and destroying the entrance. Finally, Kick-Start checked over the lab again to make sure there was nothing incriminating left. The only minor issue was the portal-bridge-thing. And that was a minor issue. Bombs with timers didn't need to have any kind of signal. Sure, that suggested there was something there worth blowing up, but she wasn't the only scientist on Cybertron.
One was directly under the portal, so it would even destroy that entry point. There was no point taking chances with Quantum.
"Okay boys, I'm setting it for thirty seconds. Plenty of time, but don't waste it."
The final vehicon took the portal to Tyger Pax. Then Kick-Start set the portal back to the Looter, and Nibbles ran through at her command. Finally, she pressed the button for the bomb's timer, and jumped through to Backbeat's ship herself.
In thirty seconds there would be nothing left of her Iacon Laboratory but rubble.
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