Nexus. Blue's Bar. First meeting with someone you know.

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Blackout looks around the little hole in the wall bar as she leads Skywarp in, ignoring Blue's warning look from where the femme was talking to a table full of Minibots. Said Minibots are the only other customers right now except for that crazy girl that hangs out with the crazy little Decepticon that turns into a boat with wheels.

"Booth in the back?" she asks her companion, turning to look down at him.

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[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

Skywarp nods, giving the room a good long scan. "So, how'd you know this other Skywarp?" he asks, trying to probe what he's dealing with as he follows Blackout.

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She thinks how to reply as she slides into her seat and sets Scorponok free on the table. Blue passes by and leaves two cubes of high-grade, and the black femme takes one and sips at it, waiting till Skywarp's drunk a bit before she replies.

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She considers just showing the dark jet-former everything that the dream had held as she sets the cube down with her hand tilted against it for a scorpion ramp. But that would probably scare him off.

"The sword. Your favorite flavor of energon. Thunderclash...."

-Stuff that makes my face overheat,- she adds to herself, remembering that last kiss before she'd come online.

[bitty-blender.livejournal.com]

Scorponok is up her hand in a second, tail coiling slightly as he dips into her cube.

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"No." She settles Scorponok on her shoulder and stands, arms crossed over her chest as her mouth twitches at the mockery. "I know that."

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

"You shouldn't jump to conclusions about your opponent." Skywarp gets up in an easy motion, then moves past her. His turn to pick a battlefield.

Now, the question is just how accurate her information might be...

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Blackout follows, pacing herself a little so as to ensure she has enough of a charge to put up a decent show when they get down to the actual nitty gritty of fighting, but not holding back too much. She loves these twisting passageways herself. It's part of why she chose to live here.

That, and nothing else was really sturdy enough for a 48 foot femme who isn't really housebroken.

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

Skywarp may be pacing himself to ensure he doesn't smear on anything, but it's hard to tell. He's tearing through the canyons in a roar of engines, twisting and banking to follow their course.

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She lets him go, wincing as she realizes what she said. -Slag.-

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

He rolls to his feet, glaring down at her in suspicion. "So you have some hallucination about me being your 'mate', and you decide you'd like to do it over again for real. Did I miss anything?" Skywarp shakes his head. "This is three degrees too far past insane for me."

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Hormah is silent as she works to repair her boss and the stranger, though that stranger is the subject of great watchfulness on the young hybrid's part. She recognizes his tech as from the same sort of reality as Snowcat and the zambonis hail from, and some of the warnings from Iceberg's disks have been tripped by the dark mech's appearance. So her customary beeping is absent she glances at Scorponok before resuming her careful wielding of a plate on the stranger's arm. Or as much of it as she can reach past Blackout's protective arm, anyway. Getting the pair of them up here with the PINpoint had been only the start of what Hormah suspects is a very weird repair job.

[bitty-blender.livejournal.com]

Scorponok is directing repairs, lack of knowledge being made up for by sheer gusto. He chitters and waves a claw from his perch halfway up the wall. That part goes on top of that part!

Though he's not sure which way round.

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She rumbles. "Cybertron's been dead for vorns. Prime and his lackeys are supposedly trying to fix it, but I don't see how they hope to do anything."

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

"Dead." His voice is flat. "How dead?"

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"No. I'm going to rest and build up strength." Her touch is light but sure as she works. "Gain more allies. Take plenty of baths and run the canyons at least three times a week."

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

"And how long will that keep you busy?" He frowns, though she can't see it. "Why did you say you had everything you needed before? It looks to me like you're a short step from having nothing."

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"Never had that happen before," she mutters, looking at Scorponok.

Kissed, yes. Been kissed? No.

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

"What, no-one's ever turned it back on you?" He sounds mildly surprised, but not overly interested. No mocking disbelief this time, it seems. He's surveying the room again.

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"Could make more Autobots with it, too." She rumbles and puts a hand on his wing, gently but relentlessly steering him onto the couch. "Lay down, you're leaking again."

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

Not wanting to go offline from an unseen leak, he takes her word for it and lowers himself onto the sentient couch, prodding it with absent curiosity. "How many of them are left in your world?"

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"Yes." She urges him to lay on his front again so that she can finish his back. It seems that Hormah got the frontal damage while they were offline. "I won't make those mistakes."

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

"Mmhm." Skywarp twists and slumps over obligingly. "What was that about human fans?"

Hah, and you thought he'd forgotten.

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She frowns at him absently, still rumbling angrily, but then lightens up very slightly and reaches over to wipe a bit of energon off one of his edges. "You did it."

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

"Huh?" Skywarp turns, peering at the edge, then looks back up at her with a smirk. "I guess I did. Oops."

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"He's content with anything, so long as I'm with him." She kisses the chibi, then drains half her cube before tipping it and offering him another sip.

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm." Skywarp watches them for another second. "Limited processors." He turns away, frowning at the expanse of Nexus as he scans it. Now that he's outside, the thoughts of getting home to a mess he's used to are getting stronger.

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She glances upward, still rubbing Scorponok's back. "It's very close to Earth sunlight."

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

Skywarp didn't know that. "Out of all the suns it has to choose from, and the Nexus picks that one?" He's bemused.

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She thinks about her former teammates, hand closing around Scorponok.

"...Yug. I'd rather kiss an Autobot. Especially if it's Jazz."

Memory of the silver mech's panic attacks at the sight of her results in laughter.

[agent-skywarp.livejournal.com]

Scorponok picks up on some of the memory and gives a mocking hiss.

Not knowing even an alternate of Jazz, Skywarp just tilts his head with a chuckle. "Who?"