Sprocket nods.
“Definitely,” he agrees. “Too bad we haven’t been able to contact her back since then.”
Beneath Salvation was the blue sea of Planet Omega, which went down for who-knows how many fathoms. Shadows of strange, gigantic mechanimals could be seen swimming beneath the surface.
He was as awestruck by it’s beauty as he always was.
Hopefully Gatecrasher wasn’t too awestruck, for the water suddenly erupts as one of these giants- a biped with black armor, dark-grey biomechanical flesh, and an overall appearance of a fearsome hybrid of Godzilla and an Evangelion erupts from the water, roaring and trying to swallow the bot in one bite.
He Pulled up quick, pushing his engines to the limit. He then dropped a couple of JDAM’s (Joint Direct Attack Munitions) into the creature’s maw.
OOC: These bombs each have a yield equivalent to 2000lbs of TNT
The bombs explode in the creature’s mouth, sending plumes of fire and smoke rising from between its jaws. The monster groans in pain and falls back into the water with a splash.
OOC:
That’s… pretty powerful. Mind if Gatecrasher inconveniently uses up his supply here for the sake of game balancing?
“whew. That was close” thought Gatecrasher. and he continued on his way.
OOC; an A10 thunderbolt has 11 hard points. I thought of him equipped with 4 of these with 2000, 2 with only a 500lb yield, 2 AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, and 5 AGM-65 laser guided missiles which have a 300lb yield.
Other than the strange lights of Omega’s canyons and the oceans’ bizarre mechanimal life, there wasn’t much to see or do.
He flew until he saw the Savant’s tell-tale silhouette.
Daria sighs with a sad looks,
“I hope she’s alright.”
The Savant was still docked in hangar thirty-one, looking to be in very good shape. Likely, this was the best it had looked since its construction almost 100 million years ago.
“Yeah, me too,” Sprocket says.
“I’m wondering how she’s even here, too,” he adds after a pause.
“I mean, aren’t we supposed to be the first cybertronians here? Or at least, the first in a very long time?”
he landed next to her and transformed. He walked inside. “So, how goes the download?” he asked the Savant.
Daria looks at Sprocket with a question floating in her head. Her holographic face forms a question mark.
“Didn’t you already answer you’re own question? I may not fully know our history, but I if someone came before us, doesn’t this mean a colony could have formed? That would easily explain what she is doing here.”
Surprisingly, a hologram materializes in front of Gatecrasher- a protoform of about average height, with gold-colored optics.
“Download is 98 percent complete, Gatecrasher,” the Savant’s AI says, its voice bearing a faint accent (of what kind, it was hard to tell) and neither distinctly male or female.
Sprocket nods, an impassioned look in his optics. Now Daria was speaking his language.
“But all the colonies are accounted for,” he says quickly, excitedly. “I mean, we know the Knights were planning another colonization program before the War of the Primes, but then, y’know, the War of the Primes happened, and they-…”
Sprocket stops talking as he works things out in his head.
“…A lost colony would explain some things about this planet…” he says- slowly, at first, his cadence gaining speed again as he continued to think through this puzzle.
“Well, Hello There old girl. How have you been doing?” he asked.
“I’m doing quite well, thank you,” the AI replies, nodding their head.
“Better than I have in a long while, thanks to you and your friends.”
Pixel frowns at it. “No,” he says and turns away.
I"It was no problem. Any decent person would have done the same." He said.
“I see you can have an opinion now?”
The AI nods.
“Most of my AI core seems to be working now,” the say. “My memory systems seem to have some irreparable damage, though, unfortunately.”
Zepar was sitting by the hanger door in hanger 31, still writing down notes for his draft of the funeral services.
“well that’s good. What do you remember.” he said then he suddenly had a look of realization. “Zepar might want to hear this.” H
He then opened his comm-link. Zepar’s comm-link started to ring.
