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| - "...so then Megatron says, 'wait, that's not my trigger!' Ahhhh ha ha ha ha ha!" Needlenose laughs and laughs as he soars over the massive sprawling series of canyons that make up the Valles Marineris along with Avarice. Ostensibly he's here to help find the secret rebel base, but it's more likely he's just dicking around and wasting time. His two Targetmaster partners are in their positions under his wing, being as useful as Needlenose is right now. Hubcap comes in from the rock above you, from the northwest.Hubcap has arrived. Amber MacKenzie explores this canyon, its every twist, turn, and crevice. She lithely climbs sheer rock faces (gotta love the low gravity), pokes into more crevices 50 feet off the ground, and sometimes vanishes inside said crevices. Maybe this is a good time for her to stay vanished. Sweepcraft is flying along side Needlenose wondering why he agreed to let the targetmaster come with him on this mission. Galvatron ordered him to find the Autobot base, which would have probably been easier without someone laughing that loud. The sweep does his best to keep his attention on the surrounding but he keeps getting distracted. <> "Oh please, if the Autobots spot us, you know what'll happen?" Needlenose asks, "They'll try attacking us. More specifically, since you're a Sweep, they'll blast you out of the sky first. Then I'll know where they are. Mission accomplished, yo!" The F-16 does a barrel roll, cuz, why not? The pair are now screaming past Amber's position, but Needlenose and his partners certainly don't seem to notice her. Blaster has arrived.Landmine has arrived. Amber MacKenzie was about to reappear from her crevice, excited at finding a fairly sizeable cavern, when swoooooooooosh, a Decepticon passes by her. Normally, she wouldn't know him so quickly, but she's heard that voice before. Bloody hell. "Incoming," she radios, barely above a whisper. Like a smart girl, she stays put and stays quiet. Sweepcraft spents so little time on Earth than he is not looking for any humans! It is true that he's not the best tracker among the sweeps... He passes over Amber without noticing her. <> Viator has arrived. Space-Buggy was built for this.Inhospitable, rugged, frozen, and otherwise unpleasant terrain? No problem! His shocks and tires put even the likes of Trailbreaker and Hound to shame, really. At Amber's radio signal, he hmms, and revs his engine! The space-buggy takes off, and gives a 'hmm.'"I read you, Amber. I'll see what I can do to lead them away!" Velum has arrived. F-16XL Fighting Falcon on the other hand spends tons of time on Earth, and thinks humans are super keen. He still doesn't notice Amber, though. <> Awkward pause. <<...their silence means 'yes'.>> But per request, Needlenose refocuses his attention on the ground. It's an awful lot of red canyons. Finally, he can't stand just flying without talking. <> Is that red space dust being kicked up in the distance? <> "Two bogeys," Amber adds succinctly, not knowing if they can trace her radio. "I'm currently secure." She listens intently, in case any more of them show up and reminds herself that she doesn't fall apart until *after* the emergency is over. Glancing around her personal cave for anything useful, she sees nothing more than rocks, and not very big ones. Bugger. Slugfest comes in from the rock above you, from the northwest.Slugfest has arrived. Hubcap is... here, and he makes no pretense at being not here. He's just trying to get home. Dimensional mechanics may be required.Viator somewhere nearby, Viator finally blasts himself out of the giant pile of martian rock that buried him after Grimlock threw him into a mountain. "FREE!" He shouts, and shakes his fists at no one in particular. The old Seeker pulls himself out of the rubble and spots the Sweep and Needlenose in the distance. Viator leaps into the air and transforms to join them in formation. Viator lifts into the sky, and transforms into an old Cybertronian classic with a terrible color scheme: a brown, yellow, and white pyramid jet. If it weren't for the Decepticon insignia, he'd look like he flew for UPS. Polarity comes in from the rock above you, from the northwest.Polarity has arrived. Hardhead is standing off deep in the Canyon. He does not seem particularly hidden, but isn't in broad daylight. He stares in the vague direction where the Decepticons are coming from, he pulls out an ener-cigar and lights it, waiting for his oppressors to make themselves known. Hubcap does actually have a gun somewhere. He nearly found it the other night. With a slight frown he rummages about his person, not being possessed of a Subspace pocket. At least officially. /Unofficially/ he can do many things he's not allowed to. In this case it involves shooting at Decepticons. But only the small ones. Combat: Hubcap strikes Slugfest with his Laser attack! Amber MacKenzie creeps to the small opening of her cave and peers out. The Decepticons have passed her by, thank heavens, and headed further into the canyon and out of her sight. She fidgets nervously but still remains where she is. Being in a common, lowly space suit and not an exo, she is definitely not a combatant. She frowns and suddenly recalls the pistol Briar gave her. It's better than nothing, so she retrieves her from her backpack and waits. From Exo-Suit ARES , Well, it was a good thing she had her exo shipped up to Mars with her. Safely inside her newly appointed suit, Velum takes patrol point far outside the base. "Ehh.. I hate fresh off the line exos. Gotta mod them all over again." The woman grumbles a little at the lack of weaponry on this rig compaired to her last one, but she'll just have to deal with it. She gives pause when her comm lights up with Landmine and Amber's chatter. Velum rolls her eyes, wondering why that human girl is even outside the base without an escort in the first place. <> While radioing she steers her suit around in Amber and the Con's direction, not easy to miss as the ARES begins to sprint off across the rusty Mars terrain. As luck would have it, Blaster's found an unknowingly horrible time to work on setting up a small and concealed radio transmitter for the Autobots' secret underground base (that everyone knows about). With the Martian rocks causing interference, there was pretty much no way around it. The base needed a dish above ground. "Yo Eject, hand me that electro-torque wrench! I'm tryin' to set this up so Jazz can check in with his Saturday mornin' cartoons! Ow! And of course we can't forget about my music television!" Carefully, but quickly Blaster has setup most of the radio dish under a Martian red canopy that should offer some good camouflage. Picking up a few radio signals bouncing off his internal receiver, Blaster's optics brighten up a bit as he taps his helm to respond. "Wait a minute?! We've got enemies at the gates?! If ya'll give me a minute, I'll have us in it to win it!""Oh no!" Landmine says, very loudly (over several frequencies). "Autobots, attention! This is Landmine- I'm trying to get to our SECRET BASE, but two Decepticons have stopped me! My slow engine may not be able to get me there in time!"Landmine cuts off the broadcast before he breaks down snickering- and then he speeds off across the Martian plain...in, of course, the exact opposite direction of the hidden base! Sweepcraft has good sensors and they pick on Landmine's track a split second before Needlenose warn him, <> Avarice changes his path to intercept this new target, <>
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