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WHO: Zer0 and Hot Rod
WHERE: Prima's Quadrant - the foot of the cliff where Prima's temple is
WHEN: After this log
WHAT: Zer0 and Hot Rod have agreed to spar.
WARNINGS: Violence, bad haiku

Zer0 had not, in fact, known where 'Prima's Quadrant' was, or how to get there. Neither of these facts were insurmountable, though transportation had proven slightly more difficult. There had been... a few communication difficulties between himself and the 'Acolyte' figures.

Nonetheless, he arrived in good time. Enough time, in fact, to eschew the paths and take to rougher terrain. Recognizing the brightly-colored figure from the video, Zer0 slipped around the architectural features until he was behind his new sparring partner.

Only then did he step into plain view. "Greetings."

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Zer0 flashed a smiley-face in front of his helmet in answer. His impression that there were no equivalents to surveyors or hypos was confirmed, and the potency of his weapons acknowledged. He refused to be underestimated by anyone, regardless of size or equipment. "It was a good fight. I'd welcome a rematch soon, to test improvements."

If he'd had eyebrows, one of them would have twitched at that response. He was pretty sure it'd look bad for him if he was caught trying to punch an organic in the face. Hot Rod didn't look particularly thrilled by that proposition either. "Um. Yeah. Suuuure...." he said carefully.

Yeah, that was a no. Well, he'd imparted a valuable lesson to the Cybertronian, and that was even better than the prospect of another spar with him.

Zer0 switched topics with no conversational transition. "The term 'Autobot -' what does that contraction mean? Some kind of faction?"

Hot Rod was only thankful that no one was around to see him nearly get beat by an organic.

"Yeah, that's right. There's Autobots, and then there's Decepticons. The latter are usually making a mess of things, but around here I guess there's some kind of truce going on." He shrugged.

Wow, not helpful. Still, 'truce' implies 'war,' and for somewhere with no bandit cannibals, the Cybertronians were remarkably well-armed. "Conflict is between - corporations or other? Ideology?"

"...ideology, I guess. They act mainly by force, and they don't care much about others when it comes to means in finding and gathering energy sources." So far Hot Rod hadn't seen them causing any real problems presently, but just because a few might keep an agreement, did it mean everyone would?

"...as opposed to what?" The behavior didn't sound at all unusual to Zer0; a certain amount of brutality was intrinsic to a planet where the most powerful political entities were weapons manufacturers.

The Autobot tilted his head. "As opposed to having a little more concern for the world and the people that might suffer for it? Guess it all boils down to power, and Decepticons figure if they got it, why not flaunt it?" He really wasn't much in the mood for talking about history and power struggles though.

"I think there's a healer for organics around, so if you're injured, you might want to get yourself checked out."

"Appreciated," Zer0 said stiffly, brushing rock dust off his legs as if to point out how undamaged he was. It didn't really work that well. "Nothing a hypo won't fix. Superficial."

It was just a suggestion, but Hot Rod only shrugged. He managed not to wince with the gesture. Speaking of getting checked out, he probably ought to do the same.

"Well, all right then." He wasn't exactly an expert to say otherwise, and Zer0 seemed perfectly capable of handling himself anyway. "If we're done here, then I guess I'll get going..."

Zer0 nodded, and flashed a smiley face again. Apparently that was about all Hot Rod was going to get in terms of a farewell.

He was really beginning to hate that smiley. Still, Hot Rod forced a pleasant-enough expression on his own face, reciprocating with a nod of his own before he turned to leave. After everything else, he wasn't expecting much of a good-bye from the guy either.

...he wasn't about to embarrass himself further by limping away, and he had some distance to travel anyway, so taking two steps, the Autobot dropped down, shifting into his alt-form before speeding away. Oops. Maybe he should of offered Zer0 a ride? Well darn.

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Hot Rod doesn't deserve this.

Pffffff

god he's such a jerkbag.

xD

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He can't handle Rod being polite. XD What is this phenomenon.

ahahah xD

oh god, this thread, it has killed me the whole time XD

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