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Post by Bomblast on Aug 13, 2023 17:24:29 GMT -5
As the ship's engines came to life, Bomblast realised he was going to miss the ramp. Not by much, but enough. Luckily, he was still holding onto Buckshot's grappling hook, something he was thankful for as the ship started to rise.
From inside the cockpit, Roadtrain could see Bomblast outside.
"If he's not inside by the time we clear the hangar door, that's it." He said to everyone that had now made their way to the cockpit.
"We're not fightin' our way outta here, we're flying. Whatever comes through those doors won't make a scratch on this ship, and anything outside won't be ready for us."
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Aug 13, 2023 19:06:15 GMT -5
The after burners kicked in and the ship shot out of the hanger. The Autobots caught in it's thruster fire were blown of their feet and flew backwards, rendering them helpless, only able to watch the ship take off.
As the ship lurched forward, Air Fang was pushed backwards then fell on top of the button he was threatening to push. As he did. a red light began to flash and panel section of the control panel began to open. Out sprang a bunch of robotic toy dinosaurs, spilling all over the controls and into Roadtrain's lap, causing a distraction.
Buckshot was yanked forward from Bomblast's weight but held on. "Hold tight! I'll reel you in!'
Bomblast, lifted off his feet as he was pulled by the ship, swung all over the space behind. He felt himself being pulled in but it was a slow process. And to make matters worse, he thought he saw Autobot Aerialbots flying about the air.
Latyrx7 and Hoist fell as the ship came to life. "We'd better find some where to ride this out. Let's follow Indelible to the cockpit."
Indelible reached the cockpit and saw Roadtrain, Air Fang and what appeared to be toy Dinobots everywhere. Being that he had experience as a pilot, he saw the navigation station and communication stations were empty. Also, Air Fang wasn't doing anything to help Roadtrain fly, almost as if he didn't know what to do.
That's when the early warning alarm began to sound off and the ship shook as something hit it. The radar picked up multiply signals behind the ship.
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Post by Bomblast on Aug 14, 2023 17:56:13 GMT -5
Roadtrain growled as he brushed the toy Dinobots away from the console, causing the ship to lurch violently before he got it back under control. He glanced over his shoulder as Indelible entered the cockpit.
"You've got some flight experience, right? Could use a co-pilot."
He shot a side-long look at Air Fang.
"This is a transport ship. No weapons. Want to make yourself useful? Man the COMM station. See if that big purple moron made it on board."
Outside, being dragged along behind the ship, Bomblast clung onto Buckshot's grappling hook for dear life.
"WHEEEEEEEHEEEEEEHEEEEEE!"
Realising that he wasn't moving towards the ship very fast, Bomblast started pulling himself in as well. As he pulled himself hand-over-hand, he looked back.
"AW FRAG IT! WE GOT COMPANY! FLYERS!" He bellowed, not knowing if Buckshot could hear him.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Aug 15, 2023 1:08:28 GMT -5
As Latyrx7 and Hoist reached the cockpit, the ship jolted again, causing the the two Renegades to stumbled about. "Does this crate have any guns?" Latyrx7's question only received a very angry response from Roadtrain in the form of a shaking head. "What about shields? A Transwarp drive? Can you at east out maneuver them? Hoist, get on the nav computer and see if you can plot a course to get us out of here. And why isn't there a captain's chair in here?"
On the communication station, a transmission came in as the console began beeping. Outside the front viewport, the Renegades could see they were traveling just a few hundred feet above the ground. The ship shook again, clearly they were being fired on.
Buckshot couldn't hear what Bomblast had said, what concerned him more was the Aerialbots chasing them. "AW SLAG IT! YOU GOT COMPANY! FLYERS!" Buckshot went double time of reeling Bomblast in that the purple Renegade could almost touch the ramp.
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Post by Hoist on Aug 16, 2023 14:49:32 GMT -5
Hoist took his place at the navigation course and started plotting a different kind of course. "If there is anything to grab onto I'd do so now if I were you!" Carefully he began plotting a course that would lead them diagonally up, if at a somewhat steep angle. "Let's see how our pursuers can climb!".
"IF out straggler doesn't get on board NOW then that's it" Indelible grilled to the others, "Collateral damage. That may sound cold, but it's them or us!"
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Post by reddtherage on Aug 18, 2023 14:25:59 GMT -5
As Air-Fang wiped some of the toy dinosaur off of him, and Idea, came to his head, “at this point we should pick up some cargo up, in the cargo bay and just toss it at our incoming” he was in the middle of saying before he saw the that other, were in the figuring out a better plan. "One of those objects back there has have something explosive enough, that if we shot it at the right time, it could cause a explosion that could stun the flyers for a bit. Or we could ask bombast as he gets up the ramp to shot some grenades at them as a improvised proxy fuse before he closes the door.”
Mean while Air-fang did not want to move form his spot as he so far did not like space travel, wondering if it was possible to have transformer equivalent of air sickness, but in space. Not that he knew what the symptoms were but he new he did not like the ship shaking.
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Post by Bomblast on Aug 20, 2023 17:05:34 GMT -5
Bomblast gave one last pull and his right hand grabbed onto the ship's ramp. As he started to haul himself aboard, he could see Buckshot saying something, but couldn't hear him over the wind noise.
"WHAT? YOU SAY SOMETHING? NEVER MIND, WE GOT COMPANY!" He shouted.
In the cockpit, Roadtrain looked at the course that Hoist had plotted, then glance over at the Nav console.
"I like the way you think. Might buy us enough time to make a jump."
He looked over his shoulder at Air-Fang.
"Non-guided ordinance against flyers, we'd probably be better off throwing Bomblast himself at them..."
Roadtrain pondered for a moment.
"Would anyone actually be against that?"
He then pulled back on the controls and the ship started to climb.
Back down in the cargo hold, Bomblast almost lost his footing and fell back out of the ship, but he was able to grab hold of one of the storage containers and quickly slap the controls for the cargo bay doors.
"Primus! Is the pilot trying to kill me!" He growled. "Wait, isn't Big Blue piloting? Hmm, he might actually be trying to kill me."
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Aug 20, 2023 22:23:12 GMT -5
The ship shook as it took another violent hit from the Aerialbots. The ship's flight console lite up and damage reports began to come in.... ----------- SHIELDS DOWN TO 32% ----------- TRANSWARP DRIVE OFFLINE ----------- POWER LEVELS DOWN 45% ----------- FUEL SUPPLY AT 23% ----------- ARTIFICAL GRAVITY OFFLINEBut as the ship followed the route the nav computer found, the long range scanners picked something up. Somewhere between the moon and Cybertron, was a large object floating in space.
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Post by Hoist on Aug 25, 2023 9:09:55 GMT -5
"Sir, I'm detecting an object..."
"I see it, I see it!", snapped Hoist and started entering a trajectory course toward the object. There were ways out and ways OUT, but it was worth a shot, "Whatdya think Roadtrain, can we make it?"
"You're not actually thinkinbg of going into that thing?!" Indelible spluttered.
"They'd be crazy to follow us"
"May I remind you about the shields - what's left of them, the power levels, fuel.."
"I'm well aware I don't need a citation by a walking computer!!" the bot continued to snap back, "Someone shut him down or shut him up!"
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Post by Bomblast on Aug 25, 2023 17:24:32 GMT -5
Roadtrain looked at the trajectory that Hoist had sent him and began piloting the ship towards the object. He looked over and grinned at Indelible.
"Oh, I'm not thinking about it. I'm doing it." He said as the ship was rocked by another strike. "Whatever that is, can't be worse that getting blown up."
Down in the cargo hold, Bomblast stumbled around as the ship took each hit. He inspected the containers, trying to get an idea of what might be inside.
"What do you reckon they got in these things?" He asked Buckshot. "Two Shanix says it's Engex. No, wait, it's definitely experimental prison...tech..type...stuff. No! They're full of Earthlings that they're going to experiment on! Who are 'they' you ask? I have absolutely no clue!"
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Aug 25, 2023 23:04:23 GMT -5
As Bomblast looked about the containers, he felt himself begin to float. He saw the containers and Buckshot do the same. "Oi? What's this now? Oh this is gonna hurt if we get blasted again!"And sure enough, the ship took another hit. All items and members of the ship floating about slammed into the wall or whatever is closest to them. Buckshot bounced off the wall and into a group of containers. In the cockpit, mostly everyone had a seat except Latyrx7, who found himself bounce off the ceiling. "Ow! Considering we're on the dodge, you have my vote to go though that terrifying energy hole!"As Roadtrain made for the object in the sky, the Autobots behind them intensified their firepower. The ship shook and sounded as if it would fall about any any second. And as the ship made contact with the strange energy of the circular object, those in the cockpit were blinded for a moment as they tumbled into the unknown.
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Post by reddtherage on Aug 27, 2023 15:56:07 GMT -5
with nothing to do Air-Fang took his seat belts and tried to make them tighter, in truth the only two options were either the ship gets destroyed everyone was dead or fly through the strange worm hole and take a chance. since everybody had made a choice including him for the latter option. Air-fang was working on an option to slow down the flyers or at least buy a second or two of time. a light bulb idea came to his dead in the brief moment he was thinking.
"We may have one weapon; this ship has outboard loudspeakers? if we send out a loud noise though them and I do mean Loud, like skull splitting, might be, able to overwhelm there hearing and buy some time, some sort of audio wave to stuns them, any way to make that work?" he asked. in truth he was not sure if it would work but it was worth a try. "We could use the radar in the ship to direct the wave if we throw some ship power behind it from reactor like a submarine sonar ping but able to damage robots instead of organics. "
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Post by Bomblast on Sept 3, 2023 17:57:29 GMT -5
As his optics cleared after piloting the ship into the strange object, Roadtrain checked some of the readouts.
"So, the good news is we're not dead. Bad news, we might as well be. We're low on fuel, shields are gone, TransWarp drive is offline, Anti-Grav is fried. We've got sub-light engines and that's about it. And even then, they're running at about 40% efficiency." Roadtrain reported.
In the cargo hold, Bomblast swore loudly as seemingly every item that wasn't bolted down hit him in the head. He managed to push himself off the wall and out of the path of one of the loose containers, which, like everything else in the cargo hold, was on a collision course with his head.
"What the frak! Why has everything got it in for my head today?!"
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Sept 4, 2023 22:29:35 GMT -5
With the ship now out of the space bridge, the crew soon found they were no longer being fired upon. The Aerialbots, who were just a few meters away from the ship, were no where on radar. The scanners began to inform all on board that they were in a completely different galactic system, with far more planets in the area, one being directly ahead of them. Floating about in the cockpit, Latyrx7 looked through the main view port. "That ain't Cybertron. Anyone have a clue as to where we are?"Down in the hanger bay, Buckshot wasn't having much luck with the containers the same as Bomblast. "Hey, watch it! Stop shoving those containers my way before I rearrange the circuits in your dome, point blank and personal!" Buckshot kicked a loose containers in Bomblast's direction.
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Post by Hoist on Sept 5, 2023 3:54:37 GMT -5
Although you wouldn't know it behind the faceplate, Hoist was gasping at what he saw ahead, he knew exactly where they were.. behind his faceplate"No...." Suddenly the horrors of a past life-time began to catch up with him. Not that it was all bad, at least not the original time, but past events and messing with the timelines, helping to break into a high security arera to sieze and make active the banned cybertron technology enableing him, the wreckers and anyone to time jump to any moment, any period in time.. Risking everything
It was so long ago from the original crash on Earth that it might as well be another life-time or albeit an alternate timeline.. "This my fiends, is Earth..."
"Earth?!" Indelible spluttered, "If I know my Cybertronian history, isn't this wereOptimus Prime and the original crew of the Ark crashed many millions of years ago when they first left Cybertron?"
Hoist didn't answer however and was left in his own thoughts of past betrayals and how it could've gone so wrong, betraying Optimus; leaving the Autobots to join a rogue splinter faction group of Wreckers only to capture the time equipment and use it to their own advantage. He still work the alternate identity he scanned whilst mainipulating the time-lines, the dark black armor of his alter puesudo - Hook. Subconciously he grabbed his other arm...
Starscream, the Underbase. So very long ago, He wasn't going to be cannon fodder but help save the Autobots... But would he try and save them once more? Save them from themselves.
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