SOLLUX FLIES AROUND WITH CORPSES

[nitrodamus]

Who: Sollux and Breakdown MEGATRON IS HERE TOO
Where: Mojave party desert
When: March 13th I guess
What: Sollux finds some corpses and flies around with them. Also, he hooks up with Breakdown and finds out Knock Out has been captured.
Warnings: You can probably guess what might go wrong here. It begins with the base premise.

This isn't something Sollux can just ignored. Whether he intends on keeping his powers secret or not, he's not going to leave anyone to any fate even resembling the one that he personally suffered, not if he has the power to stop it.

And fuck if he ever has power. He'd almost forgotten, after long months imprisoned and even more kept on CONDOR's leash. But out here, in the desert, where he can fly free with minimal fear of repercussion and exploit his abilities to actually make a difference...

Well, he actually feels kind of good about himself, for the first time in a while.

He senses deaths nearby, and he has for a while. But it takes a lot of searching to finally find any evidence. He finds the animal corpses - ones he's heard similar reports of, appearing in the night. Earth mammals with limbs and facial features hideously cut from their bodies. They are pretty gross to look at, like someone's butchered lusus, but he figured that someone out there has to have some use for them.

He picks a few of them up with him, and casually takes them along. Their weight means pretty much nothing, even if the sight is kind of a spectacle.

Comments

[bigfuckinggun]

Megatron nods. "Any information you can offer is greatly appreciated," he tells the Alternian – and then adds, with a knowing smile, "As, of course, is your firepower."

He turns to Breakdown, although the vast expanse of sand is where most of his attention ends up. "And if his contact cannot –? Is this where you last saw Knock Out?"

[nitrodamus]

Sollux looks fairly pleased with this outcome, at least as much as he can be before they have any actual results. He starts typing away at his phone, sending the message to Legion. He suspects the answer will be pretty prompt, regardless of the answer.

"There's been all kinds of sightings out here lately," he says, intended as an addition to Breakdown's insight and not a replacement.

[buffedthat]

He nods, the last of his unease dissipating into grim solemnity. "Five miles north of here. I've been — " Madly driving around in ever-widening circles, but also— "Searching."

[bigfuckinggun]

Megatron gives Breakdown a considering look, his optics narrowed in faint contempt. "I shouldn't need to remind you that in circumstances like these I expect to be informed immediately. Our troops are too few to risk losing a single Decepticon."

Some of the harshness in his expression subsides as he turns to the troll – Gemini, apparently – but not all of it. "Sightings of what, exactly?"

[nitrodamus]

"Earth beasts with cyborg parts, mostly. Swarms of them." He hesitates for a moment before reaching over to pick up the corpses he'd been carrying around, body and etched with metal. He raises them in way of example. "These fuckers."