The Worst Field Trip of All Time

[megatronicpolarity]

WHO: Megatronus & the Badlands volunteers
WHERE: At the edge of Haven, then onwards to the center of the Badlands offshoot.
WHEN: Sunday/Monday
WHAT: Now that they have their assault team, it's time to put an end to the recent influx of monsters.
WARNINGS: Violence against robotic centipedes.

Whether they hear it from Megatronus himself or through one of his Acolytes, all of the volunteer fighters are offered the same information: a time, a place, and instructions on what to expect from the Badlands. More of the monsters, surely, and the Call of the darkness is an ever-present threat. Stay within sight of the group at all times or risk being lost forever.

The only thing left to do now is make it to the rendez-vous point.

[[OOC note: tag in under the two sub-threads already provided: a more relaxed one for pre-fight chatter, and the actual fight thread. You can participate in both, or just do one and handwave your character's involvement in the other.]]

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[treacherous_widow]

The voice change doesn't escape her. However, at the mentioning of her name, the she-spider stops. "You know, it's not polite to call a lady by her name and not introduce yourself."

Her optics are watching him warily as one of her claws drifts to the compartment she keeps her gun. Yes, she was aware there were other Blackarachnia's out there. She's just never met them. "So spill it you flying tin can."

[thermosomatic]

Blitzwing slows down as she stops, and then something rather odd happens.

The jet, still a few feet above ground, transforms into a tank and touches down with a giant crash, completely stopped. "Zhe name is Blitzving," an angry voice says defensively. "Und I vas merely asking! You bare a resemblance to someone of zhe same name vhere I come from."

And it seems like they had history.

[treacherous_widow]

Just great. Someone with a history involving a bot she shares a name with. Blackarachnia rolls her optics and instead of going for her gun just places her claws on her hips.

Now that she's seen that this bot is also a slagging tank, she doubts her explosives or venom will work. Of course, she could experiment on that theory once the fighting started.

"Blitzwing. Whatever. You aren't the first one to mention I resemble someone else. I'm just getting sick of bots comparing me to them and already knowing my name before I can even get theirs."

[thermosomatic]

"Vell, pardon me for simply asking!" The tank snaps back. "It's not like spider-y looking femmes are commonplace!"

With that last little comment, he flips back into his jet mode, the cold voice returning after a pause; he sloooooowly veers to the left before straightening out again with his next words. "By all accounts, I could not easily mistake you for zhe one I know."

[treacherous_widow]

"Oh yeah? It sounds like every place has a she-spider causing issues." She frowns as he switches back to jet. Slagging flyers. "Good to know. Just how different from me is this other widow?"

[thermosomatic]

He does that. A lot.

"Mm... She vas more purple. Und had more eyes."

And that's about it. Sorry, Blackarachnia.

[treacherous_widow]

She makes a face at the thought of someone like her being.. purple. "Ick. I think I'll stick to my own design. I look much better in black and gold anyway."

Now it was time to change the subject. "So what's your deal? Why the two vehicle modes?"

[thermosomatic]

"Mm. You do not look nearly as unpleasant as she does, yes."

What a charmer. He makes a sound of curiosity. "You've never seen a triple-changer before?"

[treacherous_widow]

"Good to know."

Yeah, real charmer.

"The closest I've seen are the transmetals back home. I guess you could say they're like you. They have their regular form, a beast mode and what could pass for a vehicle mode. But, I know how they happen. Not how you happened."

[thermosomatic]

An inquisitive 'hum' from the jet.

"Sounds similar, yes. For me, you'd haff to ask zhe version of you from my universe, zhe details are a bit muddled on my end."

[treacherous_widow]

"Great. I'll add it to my list of things to talk about if I ever meet this double of mine."

[thermosomatic]

"Hmm. I wonder how enlightening a conversation vizh an alternate self vould be," he muses, swerving over to cruise above Blackarachnia.

[treacherous_widow]

She glances up at the jet as he moves to cruise above her. There's a faint roll of her optics before she starts walking again, figuring he would follow. "I've been wondering that myself. So far, I've heard there are at least two other she-spiders that I remind people of. It's a little annoying."

[thermosomatic]

"Vell, you can hardly blame anyone for zhe mix-up, can you?" he replies dismissively. "You are remarkably similiar -- at least to zhe one I know."

[treacherous_widow]

"I suppose not, but that doesn't mean I have to like it." She frowns a little and just keeps walking. "Oh yeah? Exactly how are we similar? I get the colors are different, but we can't be that simialr."

[thermosomatic]

The voice changes yet again, back to the giggly first voice.

"I zhink it's the legs. Zhey're razher unique, vouldn't you say?"

There's a little shift in his voice yet again.

"Alzhough... hmm. In retrospect, zhat might be it -- zhat I can see so far."

[treacherous_widow]

"The legs huh? I shouldn't be surprised. After all, a spider has a lot of them to contend with."

It was still annoying though.

"So that's it. The legs. So, are her legs weapons to or just decoration?"

[thermosomatic]

"I don't know!"

Aaaand shift back into a tank -- but not before swerving over mid-flight so that he doesn't outright land on her.

"Zome kind of effect for a hideous mutation or somezhing. I nevah got zhe details, und she doesn't like to talk about it."

[treacherous_widow]

"...A mutation? Huh. Well, if she ever shows up here, I'll have to get it out of her."

Color Blackarachnia curious. Now she really wanted to know more about this other spider.

"What else can you tell me about her?"

[thermosomatic]

Aaaaaand back to jet. Getting sick of this yet?

"Admittedly, not much. Except zhat she seemed to haff at least some scientific ability."

[treacherous_widow]

Almost. He's still not as annoying as some of the bots back home. Yet.

"Well, at least we have that in common then."

[thermosomatic]

"Vonderful."

He says it in a deadpan way -- then again, pretty much everything Icy says is in deadpan, so who knows if he actually means it.