1247/Mithril Madness

Cast of Characters: | Blurr, Starscream, Nightlash, Megatron, 139

**Starscream has posed:**
     Starscream was walking around the area, normally he'd be enjoying being at the Mithril sea, the scenery and the quite nature of the place buuut that wasn't today. He'd let out an irritated huff as he glanced around. "Well seems clear of any autobot rabel for the moment." He'd state dryly as he looked over to his lord.

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron lands near Starscream, checking out the area for himself. He scowls. "For the moment, yes. Witth luck, our presence will keep them from the neutral areas."

**Nightlash has posed:**
Rather unfortunate for Megatoon and Starscorn, they're not as 'alone' as they'd probably like to be. Basking in her cloak (as she naturally tends to) and looming overhead in her own sort of daze.

Well, less a daze and more working on building familiarity with the new drone she's been outfitted with, because let's face it, she had a lifetime to 'learn' how to work with her old one... the new one's just a splash in her existence at this point.

And, so, it's with a bit of glee that she spies the two Decepticon command figures below and almost instantly turns her focus, sensors, cameras, and all kinds of dangly probes their way out of curiosity and...no, well, it's pure curiosity.

And she's not smart enough to stay away.

**Starscream has posed:**
     Starscream rolls his optic,s he thinks the total /opposite/ will happen, but ah, what could he do, but listen? "Pherhap." He'd huff, his wing elevations twitching upward, he was glad to get out of the command center for a while, even if the big brute was near him.

      "Hmmm from the past reports I reviewed, the Autobot's seem to congregate to this area from time to time." He'd muse, getting out a datapad.

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron nods "They do. Perhaps we can surprise a few of them." he chuckles. "Let them know there is no safe palce to hide from our domination."

**Nightlash has posed:**
Nightlash sighs inwardly, primarily at what's happening over comms, but at the same time keeps her weapon systems in check and focuses her drone on what's going on below her.

Though, there's some amusement at the notion of nowhere to hide...and she giggles softly over the commlink.

**Starscream has posed:**
     Starscream just lifts a ridge. "well I do mean my battle prowess is top of the line." He'd preen as he placed a hand on his chassis. "But I would rather not having to get into any... Undue, combat." He'd muse... He'd glance up at his leader and hems though, that familiar scowl on his face turning.

      "I do think it should go without saying, you should not also push yourself too far my lord, after all, you did recently fall at the hands of that annoying police bot." He'd say cooly, trying to hide his normal smugness.

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron pauses. "That was a fluke. It will not happen again, Starscream." he snarls. "It would be wise not to address it any further." he looks to the horizon, scanning for Autobot activity.

**Nightlash has posed:**
Nightlash continues her recordings, casually drifting about overhead out of...well, boredom, really. Honestly, she can't sit still at all. Though... she does let her drone be, at the very least, a /little/ bit...naughty and entertains some of the targetting telemetry that gets sent up her way. Because of course she does.

**Starscream has posed:**
     Starscream flinches, line crossed! Line crossed! Abort! Abort! Abort!

      He'd clear his voice box. "Yes, yes... but of course." He'd nod stiffly, just walking forward, coughing into his fist. "...Hmph.. I do think this maybe bit of a waste.. Not that anything you do is a waste of course.. But I do feel we could be better of continuing to prep our soldiers for the next sieges." He'd say carefully, wondering anyone was truly around.

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron shakes his head. "Perhaps you are right. This area seems to be clear. We should patrol different areas where the Autobots frequent. But for now...maybe it is time to prepare our warriors. There wil be stronger strikes and more frequent."

**Nightlash has posed:**
Nightlash ho-hums a bit and turns her attention to Starscream, pondering...something, but, eh, it's just a ponderance, and she moves on from it, instead working on entertaining her hypothetical 'if I were to blow this one up...how would I do it?' fancies...

**Starscream has posed:**
     Starscream nods. "Yes..." He'd hem and then look at his datapad. "I have data from where Onslaught, Sixshot and the b-- Goth.. Scouted the polar rig for a possible defense post... Perhaps we could look into setting something up there as well." He'd nod, completely oblivious to Nightlash!

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron nods "Yes. Perhaps that would also be a good output, free from Autobot activity."

**Fireflight (139) has posed:**
Fireflight comes roaring recklessly into the scene, too busy with enjoying the scenery to really be watching where he's going. Look at that Mithral Sea! See how the light shines across the surface! It's really quite beautiful, after all, and... Huh? He doesn't know Nightlash is there but his sensors do detect the presence of two... frag, they're Decepticons. Fraggity frag, they're... "<< Woah! >>" The Aerialbot gets a fright when he suddenly realizes he's zoomed overhead of both Starscream and MEGATRON HIMSELF. That's... not great. The jet wobbles as he tries to reverse course quickly, but is again paying too much attention to what's below him and not what's right in front of him and-

CRASH!! Fireflight crashes right into a huge boulder he hadn't noticed, then careens down into another BOOM!... "<< Ow! >>" Then another, and another, until the hapless Autobot has landed at the ground not too far away from the Cons, transforming to sit there and hold his head. "Oww..."

He then blinks and stares over at the TWO TOP CONS and ....grins sheepishly- and a bit nervously. "Uh.... hi?"

**Nightlash has posed:**
Nightlash was being stupidly lazy. Like...just gonna drone here and let the drone do all the drone work... but NOPE, there's suddenly a Fireflight on the scene and all of her alert systems go straight to red.

She is suddenly very much on the move, keeping her systems running overtime to pull up all of that earlier scan and targeting work from before as she routes power to weapon systems.

**Starscream has posed:**
     "Given how inactive that place has been since the fires, it would make for a good place to set up some sort of research facility--" He'd idly muse, only to stop short and let out a startled screech as Fireflight suddenly appears! Were in the frag did he come from?! He'd glare down at the little seeker.

      "...Well now, what do we have here..." She'd say in a familiar, weasley tone.

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron looks up as he sees an Autobot fly into view.. and promtly crash at their feet. "See this is waht happens when they try to fly. What do you think we should do, Starscream?" he asks in a teasing tone. "Do you think we should teach teach him how a real flier handles this area? I will allow you the honor of destroying this Autobot. He is an affront to your skies." oh dear.

**Fireflight (139) has posed:**
Fireflight stares up at the two Cons, mouth agape. "Uhhh..." Oh dear, this isn't looking good. He starts getting up... hopefully the ground will stop spinning soon. Fortunately for him, he's pretty resilient and already getting back on his feet.

"Oh. Oh! Heyyy..." He starts backing away, glancing around nervously, hand flexing like he's thinking of trying to arm himself but... nah, flight might be better here. He knows he can't take these two on at once. He looks back at Megs and Screamer. "Hey, why fight? There's enough skies to share, right?" He follows that with a little nervous laugh.

**Starscream has posed:**
     "Why yes my lord, should honestly teach those autobots not to let their protoforms stray." He'd sneer, a bit irritated about how Fireflight had kicked up the sand onto his frame.. (That and startling him)

      Fireflight better start moving as Starscream reaches for that null ray gun of his!

**Nightlash has posed:**
Nightlash sighs...whelp, here goes the neighborhood, as it is. Still, she's not about to be the first one to open fire... and as soon as Starscream starts it all, she's coming around for a strafing run to counter in kind. <<SHOTS FIRED IT WASN'T ME FOR ONCE!>> That's all she offers over the comms as she drops a nice 'hey how are you' on the Decepticon pair.

And while she's at it, she rockets right over her head. "HEY HOW ARE YOU DON'T MIND ME I'M JUST MOVING MYSELF RIGHT ALONG NOW ENJOY THE GIFT!"

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron takes the strike, looking to the sky. The warlord chuckles. "Finally. Our presence alone draws them out." he says, as he transforms. "Greetings, Nightlash. Its time to return the favor." with that hte tanklord unleashes his fury on the now visible Nightlash!

**Fireflight (139) has posed:**
Fireflight keeps backing away as the Decepticon jet advances on him. Glancing nervously from megs to Screamer... yeaaah it's time to go. Fortunately, he's focused enough this time that when Starscream aims his gun, the Aerialbot is able to lunge to the side, the shot barely scraping against a shoulder with no real damage. "Yowch! Ok, guess you don't wanna share the skies then..."

As Nightlash appears and really gets the party started, Fireflight flashes a smile his fellow Autobot's way. "They ya are! Thanks!" he offers a thumbsup, then gets Nightlash's message over the radio. "Oh. Oh, right. Er... yeah, sounds good." Right, time to go! He waves at the two Cons, "Hopefully \*don't\* see you later, byyye!" Then transforms and starts heading skyward. But then the Cons start attacking Nightlash. Welp. "<< Don't worry, I'll get em with my firefog missiles! >>" He veers around, barely avoiding the same boulder, and lets loose two missiles. "<< Well, we COULD have shared the skies, but if you wanna hog them all we'll have to agree to disagree, I guess! >>"

**Blurr has posed:**
    After the noise on the comms earlier, Blurr has been sent to investigate the situation and potentially get people out of trouble if necessary. He is, after all, the one who can get out here the fastest. There is a sonic boom as he zooms across the landscape toward the Mithril Sea, coming to sudden halt near where the altercation has just begun.

    << I thought Prowl told you guys to spy, not attack. Or try to commit suicide by crashing. >> he remarks wryly, that last part aimed at Fireflight. << Anyway, I'll cover your retreat. >> He darts behind Megatron, attempting to stun him before he can even see who just rushed onto the scene.

**Starscream has posed:**
     Aaand Starscream /misses/ now, THAT is embarrassing, he doesn't have much time to try again as he's /blasted/ by Nightlash and set a blaze, he lets out a snarl, spotting the femme in the sky "YOU!" He'd snap. Was it because he knew her? Or because he was mad he got made of a fool?...Probably the fool part.

      Blurr then strides in like he owns the damn place, yep, they've kicked the Autobot hornets nest! He'd snarl and transform into his alt mode and take aim at all the little pests running about, running his day! "You all shall pay for that!"

**Nightlash has posed:**
Nightlash gets shot at! HA! She throttles her engines to dodge which, unfortunately, puts Starscream in the way. Okay, not so unfortunate, what is unfortunate is that Megatron doesn't hit the Decepticon Second In Command... so, hey! Small victories.

But not really.

She huffs and then promptly takes a hit from Starscream, which is a big pain in the aft, and moves to get her own systems targeting the other air superiority figure.

<<Sooooo...we're getting out of here, right? Yeah? I can totally deal with that.>> She takes aim...and...oh, wait, no. Systems jammed.

...when did that happen? Huh. Oh well. Good a time as any to book it out.

**Nightlash has posed:**
Nightlash even goes so far as to give her rudder a nice back-and-forth, waggling her aft at the Decepticons. Because she totally can.

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron murmurs. "Consider that a warning shot." sure. thats why he missed. "Run while you can, Autobots. And tell the others we are...looking for them." he chuckles, just...letting them go .

**Fireflight (139) has posed:**
Fireflight gets a transmission from Blurr and panics a bit. "<< He DID? >>" Apparently the Aerialbot was too busy daydreaming to notice any orders. "<< Sorry! >>" The jet wobbles dangerously as both his missiles go wild and manage to strike sections of the huge boulders, spraying forth debris that strikes HIM, not his targets. "<< Ow- OW! Ok, maybe that was a bad idea? >>"

Then Starscream's attack strikes home, tearing further into the Aerialbot's fuselage. "<< Ok! OK! I get it, you Cons don't know how to share!! >>" He jets off, replaying to Nightlash, "<< Yeah. Sorry, didn't mean to stir up the turbo-hornet's nest! Thanks for the help, guys! >>" He takes off for friendlier skies.

**Blurr has posed:**
    Blurr smirks as his shot connects and immobilizes the Decepticon leader. He stands in front of Megatron for a moment, taunting. "Sure, but I can -always- run." he points out, tapping the former gladiator on the nose. "You know, maybe you should go back to writing poetry. At least it wasn't half-bad. Sure beats getting your aft kicked and stuff."

    Then Starscream shoots at him, but he somersaults backward, the missiles just exploding against the ground and falling into the sea instead. "Wow, am I the only one who can actually shoot today? Primus smelt it all!" he laughs. As soon as the others are clear, he rushes off as well.

**Starscream has posed:**
     "Barbarians the lot of them!" Starscream snarls, as he flies back down to the ground and beside their lord as they all retreat and scoffs. "THE NERVE!" he'd yell... Mostly in response to Nightlash and grumbled, he'd then look to their lord, and.. grumbled. "Just had myself repaired too... Going to need to return to the medical bay." He'd gurse before he looked to Megatron.

      "....Are you oppratinal?" He'd question, his way of asking if their lord was too badly hurt.

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron transforms and gives Starscram a snort. "Fully. Nothing my self repair cannot take care of." he snarls to Blurr. "That one is on my list."

**Starscream has posed:**
     "I'm sure /that one/ is on everyone's list." He'd say dryly. "Should return for repairs." He'd grumble at the fire still plaguing his frame. "Stupid, little pest..." He'd grumble as he attempted to put out the flames from Nightlash. "I'd advise not staying out alone my lord, as I'm sure they would be waiting to pounce on such an opportunity."

**Megatron has posed:**
Megatron pauses. "You would need an escort back, Im sure." he says. "Let us return to base."

**Starscream has posed:**
     Starscream scoffs at the notion /HE/ needs an escort, but he bites his tongue, and gives Megatron a dirty look before he just starts marching ahead, transforming and heading back for Kaon.