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[apprentice_lurk]

*jaw is set and optics steady, though she's starting to feel just a tiny bit sick* So - Roddy, somebody, any chance I can borrow a medic?

And... *attempt at a smile, holding out a smallish-sized box* I tried the cake idea, but I don't know how well it worked. You could always use it as a missile if it didn't...happy birthday, guys.

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[chaos-gunner.livejournal.com]

*with an edge of grim laughter in his voice* One constant across the universes, then - all Sweeps are cowards! *touches Scourge lightly, taking any implied sting out of the words - he's almost joking, if it weren't both serious and the truth*

Well then! *optics spark with menace* Perhaps it's time someone showed Rodimus Void that he can only go so far and no further! *looks at 'Boots* Dreadboots, call our Prime and tell him we're going to need him!

[corruptedhope.livejournal.com]

*clutches at his arm* Please, don't get him angry. Just give him what he wants and he'll leave us alone. *shifts a bit, coming out more into the light. There is a fresh and bleeding wound where his right wing should be, looking as if it was ripped clean off his body* I'd rather lose my wings than my life.

[chaos-gunner.livejournal.com]

Scourge. *and if he doesn't remember that tone of command/love/die-for-me, then there's no hope for the poor alternate* Nobody's going to die here except Void and his twisted slaves! And no Decepticon under my command gives up his wings to anyone!

*runs his fingers down the torn wound on Scourge's back, his energy sparking and burning on the spilled energon and oil - it hurts, but it's a clean pain, almost cleansing*

Trust me.

[corruptedhope.livejournal.com]

*dares to finally look into his bright optics and sees hope there, a chance that the pain will finally stop* I...

What he wants is pain. If he takes me back, he'll torture me to death. *clings to his arm desperatly* My lord, Galvatron...if I'm worth anything to you, don't let him take me back alive.

[chaos-gunner.livejournal.com]

*smiles, cruelly, tenderly, and brings his gun into line until the barrel of the cannon nudges Scourge's forehead - not hard, just... there*

I give you my word of honour that if it comes to it, I'll vaporise you myself!

[corruptedhope.livejournal.com]

*the barest little hint of a smile* Thank you, my lord. *so, if anything else, he at least has an escape route*

Please, don't try to fight him yourself. He'll rip you apart. Just leave him alone. *because I don't want to be taken from you again*

[chaos-gunner.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to fight him alone! *wicked grin* I'm going to have two armies at my back...

...and you, if you can find the courage. *not taunting, but he heard the unspoken as well as the spoken part of Scourge's words, and this little one needs a chance to redeem himself*

[corruptedhope.livejournal.com]

*takes a nervous glance over at his lack-of-wing* I'm not much good to you like this. *turns back around, looking into Galvatron's optics and feeling his will to live and fight begin to return* But...if you'll have me, I'm yours.

[chaos-gunner.livejournal.com]

if you'll have me, I'm yours.

*smiles* Of course you are. And we'll have that mended before we send you into battle, don't worry! *glances round at Ariel, in a kind of "yours!" way*

[paradronmedic.livejournal.com]

*startled... intimidated... then finally resolute*

*edges over to Scourge, approaching him from the front with hands out and obviously empty* *softly* Hello. My name is Ariel, I'm a medtech from Paradron. *kneels beside him*

[apprentice-lurk.livejournal.com]

*sends the message, letting Galvatron deal with keeping Scourge calm* //Rodimus Prime, do you read me? We've got a particularly nasty infestation of Voids we'd like to borrow you about - respond!// *and if she sounds more crisp and snappish than usual - well, can you blame her?*

[giri-guy.livejournal.com]

*the answering transmission is faint, but whole and growing stronger* //I read you, 'Boots. I'm on my way.// *audible wry grin* //Would've been here sooner, but I had to dig myself out of several yards of diplomacy first.//

//What's the situation?//

[apprentice-lurk.livejournal.com]

*sharply, coldly angry* //We've got Void's version of Scourge terrified and bleeding to death on the floor, and he wants mine and Scourge's wings as forfeit for letting him go. Galvatron's not giving him either, and I'm only losing my wings if I can beat Void over the head with them.//

[giri-guy.livejournal.com]

*deep, pregnant pause*

//ETA twelve hundred astroseconds.// *suddenly as businesslike and martial as 'Boots has perhaps ever heard from him*

*Eleven hundred and sixteen astroseconds later, Rodimus comes careening into the room, skidding to a halt like an action hero.*

[corruptedhope.livejournal.com]

Scourge sees him out of the corner of his optics and shrieks, going on his knees and putting his forehead to the floor* My lord, I'm sorry, they didn't tell me what they were doing, just give us a little more time! *flicks a glance at Galvatron's cannon*

[chaos-gunner.livejournal.com]

*grabs Scourge's shoulder and yanks him semi-upright* You kneel to no-one but me! *snarling*

*looks at Rodimus* Prime! I never thought I'd be so pleased to see you. *crooked grin*

[corruptedhope.livejournal.com]

*is yanked up, gasping and staring at Rodimus* ...Rodimus is the Prime? *oh Primus, what has he flown into now?*

[apprentice-lurk.livejournal.com]

*croushes next to him* I promised you were safe here, remember? And Galvatron's here. If you don't trust me, you have to trust him.

[chaos-gunner.livejournal.com]

Our Rodimus was true to his trust! *shoots a quick, teasing glance at Rodimus* Well, mostly, at any rate...

Look at him, Scourge. This is what your Void should have been! *points at Rodimus, who is looking all heroic and fierce and about as far from an evil sadist as one can get*

[giri-guy.livejournal.com]

*returns the grin* Someone's got to clean up your messes. And anyway, anyone who wants to take Dreadboots's wings is going to have to get through me first.

[giri-guy.livejournal.com]

*blinks at the cowering being on the floor - he looks like Scourge, but the Scourge he knows sure wouldn't do that...*

Er... I think we have each other confused with someone else. *cautiously*

[apprentice-lurk.livejournal.com]

*shortly* He thinks you're Void.

[apprentice-lurk.livejournal.com]

*thin smile* Hey. *nods to Galvatron and Scourge over in the corner* You might want to avoid Scourge for a while. You'd scare him silly right now.

[lavender-wings.livejournal.com]

*gracefully steps aside as to not be run over* Welcome, Prime. *she means it too - like her Lord and Emperor, she's more than glad to see him - in a situation like this, it won't hurt to have a Matrix Bearer around*

[giri-guy.livejournal.com]

*breathless grin* Good to see you again, Steadfast. *abbreviated bow*