Anonymous: It's late, Subi! You said it would be posted by tuesday, not friday!
Subi: I got distracted...
Anonymous: And you complain about me being late! Hippocrite!
Subi: (silently fumes, telling herself its not worth it to flame Anonymous) ... ... ... ...
18. Deaths Bite Back
It was dim, I was unceremoniously tossed onto my bed, and Topspin with the plans were nowhere in sight. Not to mention a major kink in my neck… "Topspin, you are going to be slag when I'm done with you!" I shrieked, making sure that all and any mechs nearby could hear it loud and clear, including said slag. Getting up with an infuriated flourish, and ignoring the urge to rest from my still sore muscles and cuts, I snatched my staff beside me, almost jumping out of the bedding.
"Ah shizlah-!" The impact wasn't the smoothest though, and I slammed my left foot on the ground, resulting in kneeling to look at my already twisted ankle. "Slag him…" I hissed, reconsidering the idea of turning the spherical mech into a scrap heap at this point and time. Of all the times to be injured! Suddenly there was a spike of pain then nothing more, and I was on all fours, once again plated in metal with the inner chime of 'switching to emergency functions' lightly echoing through my mind. I grinned an evil grin, thinking 'Nevermind…I think this will do nicely given the circumstances.' By now, I was at Topspin's door, prepared to give him a little reminder not to interfere again. After the first bang, he emerged, giving a look of confusion as I seethed at him with a death glare. He seemed not to recognize me as he finally realized what had 'knocked' on his door was only half his height.
"Run." Was all I snarled, watching his expression go from pondering curiosity to fearful realization within moments.
"Why're you- Oh… Slag!" He shouted, dodging my claws and bolting in the other direction. I followed easily, swiping at the bulky mech and nearly getting him a few times until he changed to his alt. mode near the main hall. Then the random, odd thought hit me: Ball!
'Mew'-ing somewhat evilly, I pounced directly on him, causing him to shoot away and into mechs that were in the hallway. I cackled and chased after him, following his shout of warning. Whatever he didn't run over got hit by my whipping tail as I flashed past. After a few moments of chasing Topspin through that room, I landed on him again, sending him down the hallway, bouncing off the walls and other mechs, who were unfortunately curious enough to come out and see what the commotion was about. I saw a gray, red, and black mech dodge Topspin easily before he vanished back into his room. A moment later, alarms were going off. Had to be a high officer, great... Hopefully that'll get Soundwave's attention... Mwehehehehe... I pounced on Topspin again...
Of course, my amusing 'toy' eventually ended up stopping, running into a corner in a wide room- I think it might have been what was left of the mission briefing room. I slowly walked towards him from the doorway, trying to decide which way would be the most interesting to make him go next, since he was clearly too dizzy to do anything on his own at this point. My tail swished from side to side as I thought about the possibility of sending him into the ceiling to wreck his own havoc on the floor above...
"What is going on in here?" A deeply irritated, monotone voice demanded from an adjoining room's door. My head turned towards the navy and white mech standing in the doorway. Perfect.
"Hello, mind-reader." Soundwave's yellow-orange optics flashed towards me. I watched as his frame tensed sharply, and I had the feeling that he now remembered me from before.
"Meriz lemanto lovos!" He vanished into the other room, shouting a warning.
"Seriously, Soundwave! Wait..."
"Get out of here, Sixshot!" Soundwave yelled, and I heard a click of some sort. Ohhh Soundwave didn't know how ineffective his rifle was going to be compared to fangs, teeth, tail, and revenge...
"Since all of the Pit is breaking loose now, the plan's starting, Topspin! Mweheheh... Have fun bowling, oh-wonderful-ball-of-amusement."
"Uhhhh..." Was all his answer offered as I bolted into the room Soundwave'd gone into.
There he was, standing near the corner of the room with his rifle out, clearly knowing the advantage of being in the corner compared to out in the open where I could run circles around him; It narrowed my routes of attack. I gave a pained smile and walked over, rage building up and guilt not far behind. Ah, why do you do this to me, Soundwave? Now I have to bother with fools such as yourselves instead of a normal life. But what is normal anyway? I certainly hope not this; that would surely bite. I thought to myself, paying no heed to his abilities as he probably already knew this. Launching myself at him when close enough, I spoke with an air of false calm as I landed where he was just moments ago.
"You know…" I slashed at him, leaving only a scratch as he backed away towards another corner, steadying his rifle. "You caused me many pains and sleepless nights." I dodged the shot, whipping into his side with my tail. In turn I was met with a shot to my rear leg. This slowed me, but I still went on to spin around and knock his weapon out of reach. "So tell me, however may I pay you back the same?" Leaping back at him once again, I managed to put a deep gash in one of his knees, effectively stopping most movement. "There's no loved ones in sight-" a clawing to the right shoulder, "-trust to shatter,-" my tail snapped a deep gash into his chest "-or way to give you mental pain that I know of."
He managed a kick that sent me crashing into the opposite wall, shards of metal and some kind of black, glassy rock falling around me. I looked up to find another mech was in the room, and more could be heard coming by the heavy footsteps. Looks like this will be shorter than planned…But I supposed I wouldn't have lasted this long with how I'm going. I inwardly winced, getting up to the other door. "I shall leave you to your comrades' woes instead, fair deal?" The footfall was getting nearer, and I turned one last time to Soundwave. "May you one day be plagued with what you have given me, my 'friend'." Others came into to see his damaged form on the floor, and I sprinted out with sparks showering out of a damaged panel in my side...
"If you're such a tough 'Con then why don'cha come down here and beat the slag outta me? I'm just a heavily armored ball... with spikes... that likes to bowl into mechs..."
"I'll pass if you don't mind," I replied, staying out of Topspin's reach by standing high above him at an edge he wouldn't be able to come up in his alt. mode. Wham! The ground underneath shook slightly as the mercenary tried to get to me anyway. I laughed at him, throughly amused. "That supposed to misbalance me and make me fall off?"
"No," He said, ramming into the base of the edge again. "Just working at-" He ran into the edge again, "-the most effective way -" He crashed into it another time, "- to get you down!" And with one last slam, the face gave way. Topspin shot off, using his weight and momentum to avoid the debris. At first, I started to slide with it, before I switched my form and jumping from piece to piece with ease out of the way. Needless to say, he seemed very confused when my 'Con signature disappeared.
"Hey... where'dja go, 'Connie? You can't have simply vanished into thin air..."
"Indeed not."
"What the-?" Topspin transformed and looked up at me in the air wonderingly.
"The two of you are idiots," Came a feminine voice. Topspin looked behind him sharply.
"Idiots?... Okay, where are you hiding?" He growled. I merely snickered, my own sensors having already picked up on the 'mercenary' cat. Topspin shot a glare up at me.
"So, you're using droids or some sort of projection to try to trick me now?"
"Topspin, you're a slagging, virus-addled CPU!" A semi-large rock hit him in the back of the head, sending him stumbling. "Star Convoy, get your aft down here before I send a barrage at you too."
"You're like Shiori, Karahrr... Just as authoritative and commanding..."
"Don't you even dare to compare me to her!" The black cat-mech stormed, her sapphire blue optics flashing angrily. "You haven't seen me kick some real 'Cons' aft! And lets not make you the first, or Shiori'll kick both of ours, shall we?" I flinched slightly at the thought of Shiori coming after me on the battlefield. "Agreed..."
"Uhhhh... Karahrr, the next time you're gonna throw a rock, will you kindly avoid my head?"
"Mwhehehe... I'll think about it..." She paused, then said, "No." Topspin groaned.
"You'll be the end of all of us..."
"Thank you!" She chirped, then grew serious. "I didn't do too much damage to you, did I?"
"Not much, thanks to my reinforced armor..."
"Slag... I mean, that's good." She tried to look innocent. "Um... Is there a reason you're staring at me?"
"..." Topspin shook his head. I tried to restrain my laughter. Karahrr bounced to her feet and ran a circle around Topspin and myself.
"What are we standing around for, a buncha 'Cons to come kick our afts? Lets go already!" With that said, she started to chase Topspin and myself away from the base...
Subi: I love plotting... n-n
Anonymous: Indeed, we are plotting a sequel to "Moments of an Ancient"- not that we want to sound like advertisers... D:
Subi: nn nope, we'd just like to thank Ina for the 'color' idea... as for everyone else, you'll see what we mean by that later... Muahahahahahaha...