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RiD-'verse. The lab. Talking to Dr. Onishi
Liedherz: *working the psycho probe on Dr. Onishi with the little redhead's help*
Ro-tor: *fiddling with the dials as he knows Mega-Octane does*
Liedherz: *Listening* That's gut. *ear toward the camera* How's that, Megatron?
Megatron: Yes, yes... that's very interesting... *filtering through random images and mental blocks*
Liedherz: *ears flick as she listens, then go back as resistance is hit* Turn it up just a little more, Ro-tor.
Ro-tor: *pushes it up, watching the human curiously*
Liedherz: *goes to crouch next to the good doctor, though out of range of the probe, then starts and grumbles with disappointment as he wakes.*
Onishi: *dazed, mind in turmoil and reeling as his consciousness is torn from the semi-hypnotizing effect of the psycho-probe* No! No, I won't-! *shaking head, wild-eyed and disheveled*
Megatron: Get him back under control!
Ro-tor: *adjusting the settings to try and lull him back*
Liedherz: -Shouting'll only vake him up.- *studies the man in silence for a moment.* -I don't think he can take anymore right now. If you vant more information ve'll need to take a break.-
Onishi: *twitching and gasping* *catches sight of Liedherz and stares* You!
Megatron: I hardly see why.
Liedherz: -Could you read your book after you dropped your drink on it? If you break him you von't be able to read any more.- *calm look to Onishi.*
Megatron: *growl* Very well. You have two hours.
Onishi: *still staring* You-you're here again. *rubbing face* Not another dream...
Ro-tor: *sneaks up and pokes him*
Liedherz: -I have? I thought this vas Sky-bite or Mega-Octane's job.- *ear points to the human.* I'm alvays here, Dr. Onishi.
Onishi: *pokedwhut* *stares at Ro-tor* *stares at Liedherz* But... but you're not dying this time- *poked again* *groans and rolls over*
Liedherz: *reaches out and snags the little redhead, offering him a wing and a snack* Nein, it's been several veeks.
Onishi: I didn't know... *muzzy groan*
Ro-tor: *takes snack, but wants to torment Onishi a little*
Liedherz: *absently rubs Ro-tor's back in the way that knocks him out very quickly* No, you've been sleeping.
Ro-tor: x.x
Liedherz: *gently but absentmindedly folds the little guy in her wing and holds him close and safe as she watches Onishi.*
Onishi: *totally disoriented* What's... who are you? *but trying to get a grip on his situation like the field researcher he's been*
Liedherz: Mien name ist Liedherz. *ears toward faint sounds that only she can hear. Megatron's laughing at something.*
Megatron: *laughing in delight at his newest plan of evil and doom and evil*
Onishi: But... wha... what are you doing here? This is...
Liedherz: *helpfully points out glaring flaw in plan, then relays an Autobot transmission about him* *points ears at the human* Sitting?
Megatron: *ignores that which he doesn't wish to hear*
Onishi: *trying to regain coherence* *shakes head: that's not what he meant*
Liedherz: *offers him a snack cake, knowing that Ro-tor would protest were he awake*
Onishi: *takes it unsteadily and tries to eat*
Liedherz: Do you vant a drink?
Onishi: *throat so dry he can just about nod*
Liedherz: *ducks into the shadow of the pillow, and then returns with a large bottle of water, which she offers one handed despite the weight*
Onishi: *nearly drops it in his fumbling as he opens it*
Liedherz: *rolls eyes and takes the bottle back to do so, Ro-tor held safely in her wing. Then hands it back.* Can you handle it now?
Onishi: *half-nod as he focuses on maneuvering the bottle, spilling plenty as he drinks, and then there's the matter of swallowing, which takes a few tries to get right*
Liedherz: *watching with her ears back*
Onishi: *gets enough down (and down his front) and stops, gasping*
Liedherz: *more ear frowning. Yes, this isn't something she can ignore.* *grumble*
Onishi: *looks at her blankly*
Liedherz: Eat your cake.
Onishi: *tries that again*
Liedherz: *earperk and she suddenly vanishes again, then returns only after several minutes have passed. She's cradling Ro-tor in the crook of one arm when she returns. It's very clear she's no prisoner.*
Onishi: *only half-able to process, and still not sure he's conscious* *blinks as she reappears, then rubs his eyes*
Liedherz: Ja... you need more avake time, or no vone'll get anything from you. How are you feeling? *though she can hear his heart rate and breathing, they don't indicate everything.*
Onishi: *groggy* I... I don't know. What day is it?
Liedherz: *ears back* -Rollbar, vhat day is it?-
Rollbar: *checks with Movor* //Saturday.//
Liedherz: -Vhat number? Und vhut month?-
Rollbar: //...Sixteenth of May.//
Liedherz: It's the sixteenth of May. Saturday.
Onishi: *shaking his head* How long have I been here?
Liedherz: *shrugs with wings.* Longer than I've been here.
Onishi: Ah. *clutching head* Why... why am I seeing you? Is this some new trick...?
Liedherz: Nein, no trick. Sky-bite took a vrong turn somevhere und vasn't here to operate the equipment.
Onishi: *blank* Ah... *mind scrambling to get in gear: he has to get out of here, he has to escape while he can...* *looks back at Liedherz* ...What are you? *he would surely be more tactful in other circumstances*
Liedherz: *very slight ear twitch* Vhat do I look like?
Onishi: ...A humanoid... with wings.
Liedherz: *makes a soft 'huh'* Most see a demon, or en engel
Onishi: I... know too much mythology. *sits back, rubbing legs to try and make them work* Too much choice to be specific.
Liedherz: Knowing mythology, you dismiss me from the ranks of the supernatural. *shakes head and chuckles, then puts her ears back again* If you try to escape you'll be sedated again. Und then Koji's chances of ever seeing you again drop.
Onishi: Demon, angel, harpy, siren... I just think them all at once- *starts* Koji...
Liedherz: *calmly* Ja, your kinder.
Onishi: *silent, wondering where Koji is, totally unaware of what's been going on*
Liedherz: If ve're forced to keep you sedated your brain function vill begin to suffer. If you lose value no vone here vill have any reason to keep you alive any longer.
Onishi: *still silent, trying to weigh up his options* *what she says makes sense but...* 'We'? *...but then she would say that, wouldn't she?*
Liedherz: *ears toward him* Ja. 'Ve'.
Onishi: Who's 'we'? *surely she can't mean...*
Liedherz: Myself und the other Decepticons.
Onishi: *stare* Decepticons? *he's heard the word, but current events aren't something he's familiar with*
Liedherz: Scourge, Mega-Octane, und the others.
Onishi: *rubbing his head* But you're not... one of them. *more names he does and doesn't know*
Liedherz: I belong to them. *she lies so well. Especially when someone's listening in.*
Onishi: *hoarse laugh* I... doubt that.
Liedherz: *her white eyes narrow and her ears go back, stirring the snowy hair that shadows those eyes.* Oh?
Onishi: *too exhausted to explain much* They don't respect other people. Especially people... smaller than they are.
Liedherz: *looks down at the child in her arms, her ears twitching slightly in her alien smile.* Small is not necessarily veak, Professor. But ve veren't talking about myself.
Onishi: *agreeing* No... small doesn't mean weak. But Megatron hasn't learned that yet. *rests his face in one hand as he gathers his thoughts*
Liedherz: *watching him in silence, though she shifts to stop Ro-tor from drooling on her arm.*
Onishi: *roughly* Why are you helping them?
Liedherz: *just gives him an enigmatic stare.* Do you vant to see Koji again?
Onishi: You don't need me to answer that. *doesn't ask how she knows about his son, if she's working with Megatron*
Liedherz: Then vill you agree to stay vhere you're put, so that there might be something to go back to him?
Onishi: *silent, then...* Yes. *his voice cracks as he says it* *he's telling the truth: after all, he will agree to it...*
Liedherz: Und vill you do it?
Onishi: Yes. *and frankly, with that voice, he can't sound honest nor suspicious right now*
Liedherz: *is listening to his pulse for the truth in his words, her ears perked toward him as her eyes seem to gaze through him.*
Onishi: *doesn't seem to have much in the way of physical response to anything around him - either he's a controlled man, or he's too run down to react, even to himself*
*nor does it hurt that he has no idea how honest he's being*
Liedherz: *voice soft and cold as she tests his responses* You vould not vant Koji hurt.
Onishi: *long pause* No. *lifts his head to stare at her, expression hardening slightly as he wonders what exactly she's daring to imply*
Liedherz: Losing you vould hurt him. *listening to Ro-tor has assured her that the little 'Con is indeed deeply asleep, and she knows that no one else is listening for the moment* *drops her voice* Und there is only so much that I may do.
Onishi: *stares at her* *they can't be trying the soft approach on him, can they? But she sounds sincere...* My son isn't the only one at stake.
Liedherz: Vone starfish at a time, Doctor.
Onishi: *smiles very slightly, but shakes his head* Tell that to Megatron. I'll take that advice the day he does.
Liedherz: You'll base your actions on those of an alien megalomaniac?
Onishi: *looking down as he speaks, voice low* To stop him? Yes. As long as he's threatening every human on this planet... I can't afford to think of only one. Besides... if he gets what he wants, Koji will be in as much danger as all the others.
Liedherz: *shakes her head* If you do your part others may do theirs, und less lives vill be lost or misplaced. *her grip on Ro-tor goes protective*
Onishi: I'll do my part. And that can't include helping Megatron.
Liedherz: Just don't try to escape. *points her ears upward* Do you vant more vater?
Onishi: *hesitates, then gives a nod*
Liedherz: *gives it to him, then calls to Movor to stop hovering out there and come turn the psycho-prob back on*
Movor: *occupied in skewing the results of a phone-in radio poll* *grumbles and trudges in to glare at them all*
Liedherz: *shifts her wing so that he can see how deeply crashed Ro-tor is.* -Vant me to move und make him cry again?-
Movor: He wouldn't. *glares and moves over to the psycho-probe*
Onishi: *lowers his water, tense and wary*
Liedherz: Finish drinking before the probe comes on, Doctor. *there is just the barest trace of sympathy in her hard voice, but no apology.*
Onishi: *can't run with a stomach full of water* *throw the rest in her face and run? But where to?* *debates - take this chance, or not? And then he hears the machine powering up and the sound decides it for him*
*Onishi bolts, throwing himself up and away and onto his feet, the water launched haphazardly in Liedherz's direction...*
Liedherz: *and a hand of iron closes around his wrist, that hand connected to a snow white wing*
Liedherz: *holds him down under the probe's beam, her face and ears expressionless and hard*
Onishi: *stills and goes limp as the probe's hypnosis takes effect, lulling him into a usable state of consciousness*
Movor: *watching the two organics with alternating bemusement and suspicion, ready to move if he has to*
*And meanwhile, over near the main entrance....*
Ro-tor: *fiddling with the dials as he knows Mega-Octane does*
Liedherz: *Listening* That's gut. *ear toward the camera* How's that, Megatron?
Megatron: Yes, yes... that's very interesting... *filtering through random images and mental blocks*
Liedherz: *ears flick as she listens, then go back as resistance is hit* Turn it up just a little more, Ro-tor.
Ro-tor: *pushes it up, watching the human curiously*
Liedherz: *goes to crouch next to the good doctor, though out of range of the probe, then starts and grumbles with disappointment as he wakes.*
Onishi: *dazed, mind in turmoil and reeling as his consciousness is torn from the semi-hypnotizing effect of the psycho-probe* No! No, I won't-! *shaking head, wild-eyed and disheveled*
Megatron: Get him back under control!
Ro-tor: *adjusting the settings to try and lull him back*
Liedherz: -Shouting'll only vake him up.- *studies the man in silence for a moment.* -I don't think he can take anymore right now. If you vant more information ve'll need to take a break.-
Onishi: *twitching and gasping* *catches sight of Liedherz and stares* You!
Megatron: I hardly see why.
Liedherz: -Could you read your book after you dropped your drink on it? If you break him you von't be able to read any more.- *calm look to Onishi.*
Megatron: *growl* Very well. You have two hours.
Onishi: *still staring* You-you're here again. *rubbing face* Not another dream...
Ro-tor: *sneaks up and pokes him*
Liedherz: -I have? I thought this vas Sky-bite or Mega-Octane's job.- *ear points to the human.* I'm alvays here, Dr. Onishi.
Onishi: *pokedwhut* *stares at Ro-tor* *stares at Liedherz* But... but you're not dying this time- *poked again* *groans and rolls over*
Liedherz: *reaches out and snags the little redhead, offering him a wing and a snack* Nein, it's been several veeks.
Onishi: I didn't know... *muzzy groan*
Ro-tor: *takes snack, but wants to torment Onishi a little*
Liedherz: *absently rubs Ro-tor's back in the way that knocks him out very quickly* No, you've been sleeping.
Ro-tor: x.x
Liedherz: *gently but absentmindedly folds the little guy in her wing and holds him close and safe as she watches Onishi.*
Onishi: *totally disoriented* What's... who are you? *but trying to get a grip on his situation like the field researcher he's been*
Liedherz: Mien name ist Liedherz. *ears toward faint sounds that only she can hear. Megatron's laughing at something.*
Megatron: *laughing in delight at his newest plan of evil and doom and evil*
Onishi: But... wha... what are you doing here? This is...
Liedherz: *helpfully points out glaring flaw in plan, then relays an Autobot transmission about him* *points ears at the human* Sitting?
Megatron: *ignores that which he doesn't wish to hear*
Onishi: *trying to regain coherence* *shakes head: that's not what he meant*
Liedherz: *offers him a snack cake, knowing that Ro-tor would protest were he awake*
Onishi: *takes it unsteadily and tries to eat*
Liedherz: Do you vant a drink?
Onishi: *throat so dry he can just about nod*
Liedherz: *ducks into the shadow of the pillow, and then returns with a large bottle of water, which she offers one handed despite the weight*
Onishi: *nearly drops it in his fumbling as he opens it*
Liedherz: *rolls eyes and takes the bottle back to do so, Ro-tor held safely in her wing. Then hands it back.* Can you handle it now?
Onishi: *half-nod as he focuses on maneuvering the bottle, spilling plenty as he drinks, and then there's the matter of swallowing, which takes a few tries to get right*
Liedherz: *watching with her ears back*
Onishi: *gets enough down (and down his front) and stops, gasping*
Liedherz: *more ear frowning. Yes, this isn't something she can ignore.* *grumble*
Onishi: *looks at her blankly*
Liedherz: Eat your cake.
Onishi: *tries that again*
Liedherz: *earperk and she suddenly vanishes again, then returns only after several minutes have passed. She's cradling Ro-tor in the crook of one arm when she returns. It's very clear she's no prisoner.*
Onishi: *only half-able to process, and still not sure he's conscious* *blinks as she reappears, then rubs his eyes*
Liedherz: Ja... you need more avake time, or no vone'll get anything from you. How are you feeling? *though she can hear his heart rate and breathing, they don't indicate everything.*
Onishi: *groggy* I... I don't know. What day is it?
Liedherz: *ears back* -Rollbar, vhat day is it?-
Rollbar: *checks with Movor* //Saturday.//
Liedherz: -Vhat number? Und vhut month?-
Rollbar: //...Sixteenth of May.//
Liedherz: It's the sixteenth of May. Saturday.
Onishi: *shaking his head* How long have I been here?
Liedherz: *shrugs with wings.* Longer than I've been here.
Onishi: Ah. *clutching head* Why... why am I seeing you? Is this some new trick...?
Liedherz: Nein, no trick. Sky-bite took a vrong turn somevhere und vasn't here to operate the equipment.
Onishi: *blank* Ah... *mind scrambling to get in gear: he has to get out of here, he has to escape while he can...* *looks back at Liedherz* ...What are you? *he would surely be more tactful in other circumstances*
Liedherz: *very slight ear twitch* Vhat do I look like?
Onishi: ...A humanoid... with wings.
Liedherz: *makes a soft 'huh'* Most see a demon, or en engel
Onishi: I... know too much mythology. *sits back, rubbing legs to try and make them work* Too much choice to be specific.
Liedherz: Knowing mythology, you dismiss me from the ranks of the supernatural. *shakes head and chuckles, then puts her ears back again* If you try to escape you'll be sedated again. Und then Koji's chances of ever seeing you again drop.
Onishi: Demon, angel, harpy, siren... I just think them all at once- *starts* Koji...
Liedherz: *calmly* Ja, your kinder.
Onishi: *silent, wondering where Koji is, totally unaware of what's been going on*
Liedherz: If ve're forced to keep you sedated your brain function vill begin to suffer. If you lose value no vone here vill have any reason to keep you alive any longer.
Onishi: *still silent, trying to weigh up his options* *what she says makes sense but...* 'We'? *...but then she would say that, wouldn't she?*
Liedherz: *ears toward him* Ja. 'Ve'.
Onishi: Who's 'we'? *surely she can't mean...*
Liedherz: Myself und the other Decepticons.
Onishi: *stare* Decepticons? *he's heard the word, but current events aren't something he's familiar with*
Liedherz: Scourge, Mega-Octane, und the others.
Onishi: *rubbing his head* But you're not... one of them. *more names he does and doesn't know*
Liedherz: I belong to them. *she lies so well. Especially when someone's listening in.*
Onishi: *hoarse laugh* I... doubt that.
Liedherz: *her white eyes narrow and her ears go back, stirring the snowy hair that shadows those eyes.* Oh?
Onishi: *too exhausted to explain much* They don't respect other people. Especially people... smaller than they are.
Liedherz: *looks down at the child in her arms, her ears twitching slightly in her alien smile.* Small is not necessarily veak, Professor. But ve veren't talking about myself.
Onishi: *agreeing* No... small doesn't mean weak. But Megatron hasn't learned that yet. *rests his face in one hand as he gathers his thoughts*
Liedherz: *watching him in silence, though she shifts to stop Ro-tor from drooling on her arm.*
Onishi: *roughly* Why are you helping them?
Liedherz: *just gives him an enigmatic stare.* Do you vant to see Koji again?
Onishi: You don't need me to answer that. *doesn't ask how she knows about his son, if she's working with Megatron*
Liedherz: Then vill you agree to stay vhere you're put, so that there might be something to go back to him?
Onishi: *silent, then...* Yes. *his voice cracks as he says it* *he's telling the truth: after all, he will agree to it...*
Liedherz: Und vill you do it?
Onishi: Yes. *and frankly, with that voice, he can't sound honest nor suspicious right now*
Liedherz: *is listening to his pulse for the truth in his words, her ears perked toward him as her eyes seem to gaze through him.*
Onishi: *doesn't seem to have much in the way of physical response to anything around him - either he's a controlled man, or he's too run down to react, even to himself*
*nor does it hurt that he has no idea how honest he's being*
Liedherz: *voice soft and cold as she tests his responses* You vould not vant Koji hurt.
Onishi: *long pause* No. *lifts his head to stare at her, expression hardening slightly as he wonders what exactly she's daring to imply*
Liedherz: Losing you vould hurt him. *listening to Ro-tor has assured her that the little 'Con is indeed deeply asleep, and she knows that no one else is listening for the moment* *drops her voice* Und there is only so much that I may do.
Onishi: *stares at her* *they can't be trying the soft approach on him, can they? But she sounds sincere...* My son isn't the only one at stake.
Liedherz: Vone starfish at a time, Doctor.
Onishi: *smiles very slightly, but shakes his head* Tell that to Megatron. I'll take that advice the day he does.
Liedherz: You'll base your actions on those of an alien megalomaniac?
Onishi: *looking down as he speaks, voice low* To stop him? Yes. As long as he's threatening every human on this planet... I can't afford to think of only one. Besides... if he gets what he wants, Koji will be in as much danger as all the others.
Liedherz: *shakes her head* If you do your part others may do theirs, und less lives vill be lost or misplaced. *her grip on Ro-tor goes protective*
Onishi: I'll do my part. And that can't include helping Megatron.
Liedherz: Just don't try to escape. *points her ears upward* Do you vant more vater?
Onishi: *hesitates, then gives a nod*
Liedherz: *gives it to him, then calls to Movor to stop hovering out there and come turn the psycho-prob back on*
Movor: *occupied in skewing the results of a phone-in radio poll* *grumbles and trudges in to glare at them all*
Liedherz: *shifts her wing so that he can see how deeply crashed Ro-tor is.* -Vant me to move und make him cry again?-
Movor: He wouldn't. *glares and moves over to the psycho-probe*
Onishi: *lowers his water, tense and wary*
Liedherz: Finish drinking before the probe comes on, Doctor. *there is just the barest trace of sympathy in her hard voice, but no apology.*
Onishi: *can't run with a stomach full of water* *throw the rest in her face and run? But where to?* *debates - take this chance, or not? And then he hears the machine powering up and the sound decides it for him*
*Onishi bolts, throwing himself up and away and onto his feet, the water launched haphazardly in Liedherz's direction...*
Liedherz: *and a hand of iron closes around his wrist, that hand connected to a snow white wing*
Liedherz: *holds him down under the probe's beam, her face and ears expressionless and hard*
Onishi: *stills and goes limp as the probe's hypnosis takes effect, lulling him into a usable state of consciousness*
Movor: *watching the two organics with alternating bemusement and suspicion, ready to move if he has to*
*And meanwhile, over near the main entrance....*
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"Boss?" She scans her, then turns to look at Scorponok for orders or instructions.
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Rollbar moves up and leans over the unconscious 'bot as Mega-Octane runs his own scan.
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And Scorponok clicks discontentedly and settles down on his partner.
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Rollbar nods agreement, moving out as the lift reaches their level and the door opens.
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"Who are you, anyway?" Rollbar asks Hormah.