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capitalh2014-04-29 05:04 pm
thanksoptimus) wrote in capitalh2014-04-29 05:04 pm
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SCARY JAIL PARTY TRUCK
Who: Orion and Arcee, and also anyone who wants to do a scene in the back of the party truck, or otherwise try to chase the party truck.
Where: Desert roads and the streets of Los Angeles
When: March 13th onward
What: Orion is being brain controlled into ferrying stuff between locations for the AI with his turning into a truck powers.
Warnings: Mind control, and everything else this plot is already guilty of.
It's one of the most frustrating and despair inducing experiences Orion has ever had. He's not entirely sure what triggered it - him trying and failing to help people escape and convincing the captor he needed to be separated from the others, or if this was what the AI had always intended to do with him.
His manual controls re-installed after being removed by Knock Out, he's been given a trailer to pull and forced into driving between what he's discovered are multiple locations filled with prisoners such as himself and the others. He's not really sure what he's being loaded with most of the time, not being given the opportunity to look. But he knows that sometimes it's live prisoners.
He take little agency in the physical action of the thing. It's not quite like his body is moving without him, but more like a compulsion that takes priority over all his other actions. It gives him no opportunity to speak, transform, or do anything to draw attention to himself - it's just an exhausting series of roads and he's gradually running lower and lower on energon, as the AI seems to failed to consider that Cybertronians need fuel to run.
To anyone else, he looks just like a normal red and blue truck with a normal trailer. It's been designed to blend in - even if Orion knows that the interior is very much like the prison cells beneath the surface.
[OOC: feel pretty to try to get into his face along the route towards any of the three base locations, if you can think of a reason he would stick out. He radiates high energy signals due to being a robot, and also there is no one in the actual driver seat if you can look close enough. Only restriction is you can't actually catch him for good because that can't happen until phase 2 of the plot.]
Where: Desert roads and the streets of Los Angeles
When: March 13th onward
What: Orion is being brain controlled into ferrying stuff between locations for the AI with his turning into a truck powers.
Warnings: Mind control, and everything else this plot is already guilty of.
It's one of the most frustrating and despair inducing experiences Orion has ever had. He's not entirely sure what triggered it - him trying and failing to help people escape and convincing the captor he needed to be separated from the others, or if this was what the AI had always intended to do with him.
His manual controls re-installed after being removed by Knock Out, he's been given a trailer to pull and forced into driving between what he's discovered are multiple locations filled with prisoners such as himself and the others. He's not really sure what he's being loaded with most of the time, not being given the opportunity to look. But he knows that sometimes it's live prisoners.
He take little agency in the physical action of the thing. It's not quite like his body is moving without him, but more like a compulsion that takes priority over all his other actions. It gives him no opportunity to speak, transform, or do anything to draw attention to himself - it's just an exhausting series of roads and he's gradually running lower and lower on energon, as the AI seems to failed to consider that Cybertronians need fuel to run.
To anyone else, he looks just like a normal red and blue truck with a normal trailer. It's been designed to blend in - even if Orion knows that the interior is very much like the prison cells beneath the surface.
[OOC: feel pretty to try to get into his face along the route towards any of the three base locations, if you can think of a reason he would stick out. He radiates high energy signals due to being a robot, and also there is no one in the actual driver seat if you can look close enough. Only restriction is you can't actually catch him for good because that can't happen until phase 2 of the plot.]
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[He sends the distress signal again, insisting. Then, he carefully follows it with a brief text message:]
Prisoners.
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Their next message, consisting solely of the word Location?, is accompanied by an extraordinarily subtle virus, designed to bury itself deep within lower-order processes responsible for mathematical functions - analogous to an organic's autonomic nervous system. In [HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES UNTIL WE REACH PART TWO OF THIS PLOT], it'll go active, transmitting copies of itself over every open signal and broadcasting its location to the Alpha Force tower and Legion themselves.
The question is, will it stick.]
NICE (we can assume this happens closeish to the 15th)
Primus, he has to. He hopes this entity is friendly, because this could be his only chance.
He sends the approximate locations of the three coordinates.
As for the virus, he doesn't notice it at all.]
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Destination?
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The truck visibly swerves on the highway, and from the inside Orion is finding himself flooded with a sudden, full bodied pain. Panic fills his spark - it caught him. His engine sputters for a moment like a palpitating heart.
The truck's driving goes from steady to utterly reckless, swerving into the ditch to get around a car in front of him. For the moment, Orion can barely focus on what's going on around him.]
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I HOPE THIS IS REASONABLE
He unhitches from the trailer and starts to transform, his pilot forcing his body through the effect just long enough to get out of the field, even as his plating groans under the pressure. He dives into a roll once he's dodged, and brings up his gun hands, immediately taking fire on the source of the effect.]
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They dodge left, then right, relying on the movement of Pax's arms to anticipate where he's aiming, moving back all the while. Once they make it behind the trailer, they drop, keeping it between the hostile and them.
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There's obvious hesitation in firing at the trailer from an angle where it might be damaged. At the same time, Orion can almost feel the reluctance in his own movements - his driver doesn't want to get close to this target, not after getting a taste of that they can do.
He takes a running leap at the trailer, doing the kind of kickflip over it that seems far too graceful for a machine of his size. Landing, he raises his guns again, energon already charging.
But, instead of attacking, Orion feels something even more unsavory - the sensation of his vocalizer being haltingly accessed.
"You are the ter-terminal of geth," he says, his vocalizer glitching uncomfortably. "You read the Sublime Words."
What.
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He flinches, visibly, when Legion threatens to crush the trailer though. It's entirely Orion's reaction and not his pilots, because he knows exactly the kinds of things, and people, that get transported in there.
"That would be incon-con-inconvenient," he says against his will, his voice glitching again like the pilot doesn't fully know how to use it. "But only that. The geth would also be terminating human-oid-oid Unclean, land walkers, technology."
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They keep one hand aimed at the trailer - if they lighten it, snatch it, and fly off, Pax will be unable to follow them at equivalent speeds, and CONDOR might be able to get something from the prisoners.
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The AI riding him reactions before Orion can fully take in the situation, jumping with surprising power, just in time to latch on to the rear of the trailer as Legion pulls it away like nothing more than a cloud.
Certainly nothing could go wrong with this plan.
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The platform supposes Pax's body is doing that instead.
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As much as his pilot wants to hold on, Orion is determined to let go. If whoever the trailer is carrying can be set free, he considers it his responsibility to make happen. Unfortunately, his control over the situation is limited.
Finally, the thing manages to work out how to stop pavement skating, and manages to climb onto the top of the trailer. They raise a hand, swiftly shift it into a gun, and fire another shot at Legion.
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Orion finds himself stabbing one of his hand blades into the metal of the trailer as it flips, just barely latching onto it enough that his pilot's grip isn't dislodged immediately. However, it definitely does mean that they are back to kicking up sparks down the freeway, and this time holding on is a matter of physical improbability.
After colliding with the pavement a few times, his blade finally tears through the soft outer plating of the trailer, and Orion is left skidding down the road on his back while the geth flies away with the trailer.
There are some extremely poorly aimed shots fired into the sky, but ultimately he grinds to a halt, staring up at the sky as the trailer disappears into the distance. Orion is relieved. His captor is, once again, furious.
Already calculating that they won't be able to catch up now, the AI gives up on trying to drive Orion all together for a while, presumably occupying itself with something else.
Orion is frankly just glad for the break, and glad that at least in part, this creature's plans have failed.
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It's a fair amount to process.