by O.G. » Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:59 am
"Must have been," he muttered in almost noncommittal agreement, though he did agree with her. He would have had her information locked away somewhere in his processor had he ever come across her before, though, with his bizarre inclination towards her, he was almost suspicious that they had at least briefly et somewhere. Perhaps not on Velocitron, but somewhere...
Whiteout almost decided to ask for her designation to see if that would somehow ring a bell (though he knew it wouldn't, for he never failed to pull up information on anyone he had ever met before now), but, with all abruptness, the femme's tires were screeching against the asphalt beneath her and she disappeared from beneath him. Whiteout reacted with unparalleled reflexes, pointing his nose straight up into the sky and bolting hundreds of feet into the air in under two seconds. With a flourish, he spun upright, using the advantage of his height to spy the embarrassingly conspicuous trail of dirt the femme left as she barreled off road and towards a nearby human city. Honestly, he was surprised. Had he made such a bad first impression? His nature demanded that she regret her decision to be so needlessly rude to him, that he creep under her plating and vex her until a blaster and her helm would seem a match made in the Allspark. Though he could not deny the way his spark lurched in a slight panic at seeing her vanish from him so quickly. So, he took off after her at top speed, gaining on her swiftly and soon passing overhead. Only once he had a decent lead on her did he suddenly dive straight for the ground. He pulled up with mere feet to spare, proceeding to unleash a torrent of ice which quickly became a wide, horseshoe shaped wall that towered high and stood like a fortress in the speeding femme's path. He sped up high into the air then, arching upside down over his work and behind the femme, where he transformed in midair and landed gracefully on his pedes, hoping to trap the femme between his wall and himself. "What's the rush, Sweetspark?"
Shockwave paid no mind to the human's gasp of pain nor his emboldened glare of hatred and fear. In fact, he made no indication of acknowledging anything about the human, though he heard his huff clearly. He looked away from the human, turning to appraise the gage which he had partially destroyed. He could fix it as easily as he had broken it and intended on doing so. He lumbered over to it and turned it onto its side, where he pressed a pede back down onto it until the force of his weight cause the bars to groan and slowly bend back into their proper place. Then he placed the cage upright and all but flicked the human inside, locking him back to the place where Pharma would want him. It was likely that the mech would return in time, and, for all of his so called "peer's" madness, Shockwave determined that it would be wisest to give him as few reasons as possible to react illogically.
As Shockwave rose to his full height from placing the human back into his cage, he received a communication's link message that was not so kind to his audio receptors. Nightshade, and she was yelling just like her weak and pathetic father. He had never understood their need to roar their every word and command. Shouting was illogical. One need only to speak their words to be heard, to be obeyed.
Not unlike he had treated the human, Shockwave did not acknowledge Nightshade verbally but simply walked back to his computer station, where, with a few commands known only to him, the barriers blocking the entrance to his lab pulled away, a non-verbal acknowledgement that he had received her message. He did not turn away from his station, where he worked to discover Pharma's activities on his computers, to greet her or explain his situation. He was certain that Nightshade's hot head would send her spouting nonsense over his monotone facts so, he would wait for her to senselessly vent over trivialities and surely roar at him for having a human for a captive, though it was not his at all. That was the problem with other bots, one of the endless things which confused him about others. Exceedingly few bots considered every variability but instead jumped to whatever conclusion struck their emotions the most. If science was driven with the same irrational forces, Shockwave doubted that it would ever see a day of progress...Though, reflecting upon his anticipation that Nightshade would castigate him for his "keeping of a human specimen", he supposed there always was the slim possibility that she would think before she spoke. A million other possibilities then followed, filed away from most to least likely. He understood that the only way he would discover the truth was to wait and see.
Hijack waited, waited to be berated, mocked, struck at...but none of those things came from his queen. Rather, she purred his name in the most titillating tone, causing his spark to swell with shock and relief and total enchantment. He did not dare to look up at her even under the shields which hid his glowing optics, never so bold as to even be so secretly disrespectful. He listened to her most intently, his spark racing, flooding with pride and stark incredulity at once. The things he wished to tell her now! Oh, if he could only speak! He would tell his queen, he would show her, everything which he could make for her! His concoctions went so far beyond mere corrosive acids! He could create serums which cause bots to turn on themselves, poisons that paralyze Cybertronian victims, viruses with which he could control minds for her! ...But his magnificent queen would likely never know that, for he did not know how to tell her what he could do for her, how greatly he desired to be her most worthy and valued servant.
He bowed his head most obediently to his queen's wishes, his spark quietly skipping a beat at the prospect of procuring his own lab, a gift from the queen herself. His was beside himself in both glee and humility. "Queen." How bowed once more, deeply and gracefully, to show his compliance to her command. Seeing that her command was also her dismissal of him, Hijack hurried away for a station in which to make his list.
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O.G. on Sat Feb 25, 2017 6:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
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