re_alignment_logs | Fundamental Failure to Fly

WHO: Fracas and YOU! Yes, YOU!
WHERE: All over the Haven
WHEN: Over the course of the next week (7/8 to 7/13)
WHAT: Fracas is practicing flying... unfortunately he's not so good at it yet.
WARNINGS: n/a, to be updated as needed

Fracas had been a car since forever. No, really. It was what he had always been. Wheels were the way he got around; it was why he suggested the roads in the first place. His undercarriage was so sore from rocks and stray junk he had to do something. Besides walking, anyway.

Changing to the body of a flier has... been something of an adjustment.

Okay, it's been a lot of adjustment. One he's still not entirely there with. But practicing combat with Shockwave had helped his fighting abilities. So practicing flying will help with that. At least, he hopes so.

If only it didn't end with him crashing so much.

Wing flaps are more difficult to deal with than he'd expected. If not for those, he'd have the flying part down. The landing not so much. As it is, he's only got down the takeoff. But one out of three ain't bad, right?
... Right?

Beware, Haven. For this week, a certain now-teal Vehicon is going to be in the sky. And nobody will be safe from him unexpectedly dropping out of the sky. Not even if you're in a temple; he might just crash right through your wall, in fact. Hope you were planning some renovations!

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The voice – the identity of the flyer – hits the Seeker hard enough to make his turbines sputter for an instant. "Fracas!? Is that you?" And then a laugh – "Pit, no wonder you're having such a time, you groundpounder!" He's teasing more than being insulting by calling him that. "You should have told me you were finally going through with this! I promised I'd work with you if you did. Hasn't anyone given you any instruction yet? They must not have. You look like you've met the ground one too many times already." Now that he knew who this was, the fact that he was struggling so badly made so much more sense. Honestly? Thundercracker's impressed he's been doing as well has he has!

But now to get him properly trained…

"Y-yeah, it's me." He sounds sheepish about it, but there's still a smile in his voice. Fracas knows it's just teasing - and really, he kind of deserves it. He's pretty awful at this. "Well... Knock Out has a few too many wheels to know flying. And Shockwave spends enough time training me as it is. Besides, I have to learn in the air sometime, right?" He does finally manage to straighten himself out (breathing a sigh of relief over it) and chuckles in embarrassment. "Yeah, well. I guess I miss it." Little joke at his own expense.

"All right, well . . . since you're already in the air, let's start with stabilization and direction."

Thundercracker will prove to be actually a rather patient and thorough teacher, explaining about ailerons, tailfins, axis and tilt and the like. One by one, he'll have Fracas try various simple maneuvers - coasting, banking right and left, climbing and dropping altitude and straightening out at set altitudes . . . always doing the maneuver first and having Fracas watch how he coordinates his various flaps, listen to the whine of his turbines, feel the ping of what sensors he's employing to help. He'll stay out of the way, but flies closely enough that he can either get under Fracas to help nudge him back into position again or transform and catch him if need be.

Fundamental Failure to Fly

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WOW I am so sorry about how late this is

Better late than never? 8D <3