Autobot Ship (Nevada/California)

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(LOL Let me guess; If you are on the Hardest difficulty then its gotta be the Leapers. But if not then it what is difficult about that level?)

Turbojet worked as fast as he could but, was careful about it. Given a few minutes Turbo had finally finished. "well that's all there is to it. How do you feel?" He was only asking to make a record if anything happened after he finished tending to her wounds.

[ᴵᵗ'ᶳ ᴸᵉ' ᴹᵉᵎ Asᴛʀɪɴᴀʟ]

((The Problem? It's simple: I suck at video games at general! XD I'm stuck on the first wave of enemies you've gotta fight And it's on easy XD Yup, total NEWB alert!))

Astrinal moved her shoulders around, then stretched her back a bit. Much better, indeed! "Better than before." she said. Opening her optics, her red optics looked into Turbo's. "Thanks." she said.

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(Oooooh lol. I remember when I had that newb moment. It happened to a lot of FOC players I know even some that are in the high ranking clans. Well regardless of your skill playing video games I am sure you will get it eventually. I think that they attack in patterns on the first wave then just swarm in on the other ones. Nothing a Fully Powered Riot Cannon can't fix . But if you want you can PM me and, I can give you some tips on that level and any other levels. I beat the whole game on Hard so I am used to all the BS XD.)

Astrinal managed to make Turbojet smile just a little again. He was always glad to help out others in anyway that he can. So the positive reaction from Astrinal made him feel a little better about himself. "Your welcome, I will be here for you when ever you need me ok? Not only because I choose to but, also for the sake of all the other good cybertronians who died before us."

[ᴵᵗ'ᶳ ᴸᵉ' ᴹᵉᵎ Asᴛʀɪɴᴀʟ]

Astrinal would nod in agreement. It was sad how many, or most, had died during the exodus and fall of cybertron. Hell, she didn't even remember the gap between leaving Cybertron and waking up on this planet. That when something crossed her mind: "Where the hell are we?" she then asked. It was full of curiosity and a pinch of humor. She honestly had no clue where she was, possibly a planet of desert.. "I mean, I know where in a cave. But what planet?"

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Turbojet laughed from Astrinal's sudden question about what planet they are on. It was an understandable question however so Turbo had no problem answering it. "I would have asked the same thing if I was getting shot at on a planet other than Cybertron. So far what I know is that we are on some planet named Earth. If that isn't crazy enough it also turns out this planet is inhabited by some organisms called "Humans" that the Decepticons might have manipulated to attack you earlier. We had to scan a few of their transportation vehicles so we wouldn't be seen that easy if any of us were outside the base. Kind of explains why they tried to frag you right away now that I think about it." Turbojet gave a small smile trying to soften up how screwed up that may have sounded.

[ᴵᵗ'ᶳ ᴸᵉ' ᴹᵉᵎ Asᴛʀɪɴᴀʟ]

"Well that's just plain wrong. I wouldn't have hesitated to shoot down that bomber plane if I was in good shape!" Astrinal said, attempting to get up. She pressed her servos against the cavern wall and pulled herself up. It was slow at first, but eventually she stood with a wobble. "But man! How much I'm gonna love bashing Volume's face in when I get the chance.."

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Turbojet listened to Astrinal speak without interfering to add anything. She was a little slow on getting back on her feet but, did manage to do so. After she did that Astrinal had suddenly mentioned wanting to pound someone named Volume who Turbojet recognized all too well. Now he HAD to jump in on this one. "Trust me I have been itching to put some new air holes in anyone who dares to shoot at me for the longest. I almost feel bad for you. There was a big battle that had occurred earlier today. It ended a few moments before you showed up. However I remember that name Volume almost anywhere." Turbojet suddenly paused for a short moment now that he realized what he just got himself into. Eventually he ignored his clouded thoughts and resumed talking. Soon a few flashbacks of the battle popped into Turbojet's mind as he spoke. "Volume arrived at the ship with this Elite Brute class soldier named RoadBurn. Now I never even knew there was such thing as an "Elite" Brute. Most of the time when I witness a brute I only see them running around with those shields and hammers until they get shot in the back and blow up like usual. Anyway those two were the first to show up. Volume didn't start causing trouble immediately so it was mostly her partner RoadBurn who was going around smashing things. This one guy; Towreck had confronted him but, I wanted to take him on myself because believe it or not me and him fought before.

It was a tough battle and RoadBurn got a few good hits on me. Heck the guy improved a lot since I last fought him and, when I thought I had him beat he countered me at the last second. Burn blasted my abdomen three times and, I will be the first to admit it wasn't fun laying on the floor in a puddle of my own energon.

I was lucky that my emergency repair systems kicked in when they did or I might not have made it. So to be honest I was knocked out for who knows who long so I might have missed a few good things. However when I did wake up I saw Volume and Towreck fighting each other and RoadBurn was distracted during that time. I was kind of pissed off when I saw him so let's just say I wasn't going around greeting neighbors. Anyway me and RoadBurn fought again and I somehow managed to get the upper hand at some point. So I took the chance and sent a large blast right in his chest plate. RoadBurn flew a good distance until I saw him explode right afterwards. The only thing left of him was just a flaming wreck and some pieces of his armor raining down from the sky."

Turbojet took another pause until he spoke again but, his voice had changed in tone. Turbo had a hard time explaining things but, to him he supposed it was worth the story. "See it was difficult for me to pull that trigger and, even harder for me to watch RoadBurn die so brutally; especially by my own hands. Lots of crazy things happened during that battle Astrinal and, I know for a fact that for me it wasn't very easy to do the things I did. RoadBurn was a good friend. A friend I had a long time before we had split because we ended up fighting on different sides for the war. My brothers and I tried to get him to change his mind about joining the Decepticons but, he didn't want to listen. Back then my 2 brothers were still...well...alive. As a matter of fact me, RoadBurn, and my two brothers were all in the same IS7 data squad back on Cybertron. We all had many good times but,...something caused that to...end.

Eventually RoadBurn decided to fight for the Decepticons and, became a well known brute that terrorized whatever Autobot he saw. He was dangerous Astrinal and full of bad intentions. I don't know if you remember but, back when the Decepticons attacked Iacon there was a lot of crazy stuff going on at that time. Me and my two older brothers AfterShock and ProtoHype where in the communications tower helping direct the remaining Autobot forces trying to defend Iacon as usual...I remember it all...there was a lot of rumbling and, random bots yelling trying to get messages through to ground or air forces. Suddenly a large explosion happened out of know where and the whole tower fell over. When I woke up my oldest brother ProtoHype was standing near me and AfterShock trying to gather a scouting team. I remember the comm that came through the communication system shortly after that. It was a lot of static and background explosions until the Autobot who patched through announced a squad of Decepticons were attacking the defense tower which is where me and my brothers were at.

Proto was the first to leave and he had AfterShock watch over me as he and a team of Autobots went to go attack the Decepticons in the lower quarters. It was a very long time in that broken tower chamber And Proto didn't come back at all. So me and Aftershock disobeyed orders and went to go check things out. Once we arrived everyone was mostly dead and two people where fighting it out on their own: ProtoHype and RoadBurn. Proto didn't look to good either when we saw him so it was clear who was winning. AfterShock decided to jump in leaving me in a safe spot away from the action. Heh...those two always were over protective towards me. RoadBurn was just too much to handle even with both of them combined. The next thing I knew there was a misdirected blast that hit a fuel tank which exploded around my location and, a bit of the rubble had knocked me out for while. When I woke up I saw AfterShock on the ground holding on to his chest leaking a little energon. RoadBurn had ProtoHype by the neck and before I could do anything."

Turbojet paused one last time. This one being the longest and, his words becoming hard to say at first. He was looking at the ground because it was impossible to look at Astrinal during all of this. "Before I could do anything...RoadBurn...killed him. I saw Proto die with my very own eyes right in front of me Astrinal. His lifeless body was just...hanging there with a sword in his chest...just poof and out like a light...Then AfterShock...he tried to tell me to run but...I was too afraid...I couldn't move...I just sat there and, watched the whole time in fear...then right before I could snap back to reality...before I could save them both...RoadBurn killed AfterShock too. And the worst part was that when RoadBurn saw me...he walked up to me with that sword in his hand...the sword stained in both my brother's blood...it was ProtoHype's sword too. When RoadBurn walked up to me...I looked him in his cold eyes. I was ready to die. But instead RoadBurn killed me only on the inside and dropped Proto's sword right in front of me out of disrespect...then he just left me there.....left me there crying near both of the dead bodies that belonged to my brothers...the brothers I failed to save.......I don't have anything left. What is there left for me to fight for?...I lost my own family and killed my own best friend out of hatred and revenge.....Astrinal....I should have died that day...RoadBurn should have killed me too. But he didn't because he felt that I wasn't worth dieing...and because of that I lost everything...all because I was too afraid to stand up for myself when I had the chance." Turbojet didn't speak after that. He kept his head lowered trying hard to hide the very few painful tears that manage to escape and drizzle down his face. He didn't mean to tell his dark back story. Yet...sometimes painful history likes to show up on its own at the worst of times.

[ᴵᵗ'ᶳ ᴸᵉ' ᴹᵉᵎ Asᴛʀɪɴᴀʟ]

((About the Megatron Level, It would be nice to have a good list of tips. I tried the level again today, failure! XD))


-Cave:

Astrinal didn't speak, only listened to every word this mech said. It was heartbreaking, horrifying, so many words that she wanted to say. But she felt that it would make the situation worse. But she reacted, turning to Turbo and putting a servo on his shoulder plate. She was tall for femme, around 23ft. But she was still shorter then the mech in front of her. "I'm sorry I made you go threw thinking about past things." she apologized. She didn't know exactly why she was doing this, but something told her she should..

"I have some pretty horrifying memories of my own. Many things I saw as a Decepticon changed my view on the war. I then realized that there ways.. what they did.. wasn't right. At first I hung around and tried to stop them from the inside. I gave intel secretly to the Autobots, and did things unimaginable for the Autobots. A spy. Eventually I was caught, tortured and left to rust. But I managed to make a difference in the war." A shadow of pain would cross her faceplate. Like something she'd just remembered. "I raised hell.. with a cost. I caused who knew how many prison breaks, and sacrificed my freedom every time. Rather then running away, I stayed and provided cover fire. I did things that I even regret doing.

Eventually I had been classifed as 'dangerous' and put under heavy lockdown. Many more interrogations, and who the hell knows what they did. They did things that I would never forget. Eventually they gave up, saying that I was so called 'unbreakable'... They put me on death row. But I got away after a security slip up and ran away alone. I caused a prison break, and one of the last to. Had my head hammered in by an Insecticon, but I got away before it could kill me.

Another break, which she removed her servo from turbo's shoulder and turned around, pacing as best as she could. "But I still try to think back, why I was so unbreakable. But then I figured it out. Right as I was leaving Cybertron. It was something I never thought about. The reason i'm unbreakable...."

She turned back around and looked Turbo dead in the eye. "I'm already broken." She didn't know exactly why she was telling this mech about her past. Infact, nobody knew much about her. But this little story.. "With whatever freedom I had, I infiltrated the Decepticon claimed Iacon and salvaged some autobot artifacts. I faced Volume and Defeated her. We had a large throwdown, god I think we destroyed the lower levels of the Arieal Hanger. But I got away with the artifacts and defeated Volume... What a minute-"

Astrinal would pause, stopping in mid-sentence. Like she remembered something. Oh shit, the artifact is still on me! She started patting herself down, like she was looking for something.

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(I will PM you and, we can talk more about it there)

Turbojet mind was too clouded to have the courage even look at Astrinal. He was in a dark trance of reliving his darkest hours. It wasn't until Astrinal had put a gentle hand on his shoulder plate that managed to bring him out of the past. She apologized to Turbo for making him think of such a painful topic but, he couldn't let her take the blame. It was just an unfortunately turn of events really. Turbojet looked at Astrinal as trying to hold a reassuring smile as best as he could before he actual responded. "You don't have to apologize. This kind of thing happens during times of war. The best you can do is try to find a reason to keep fighting."

As if it was some kind of disease Astrinal soon found herself telling a painful back story of her own. Turbojet gave her his full attention since she was so generous in doing so for him. Her story was no darker than Turbo's and played on his heartstrings just as much. He was at a loss for words during all of this. It didn't take long for a personal admiration to spark within Turbojet for Astrinal who seemed to have gone through just as much terror as he did; if not more. War caused lots of harm for anyone how participated in it. However Turbojet was more concerned about Astrinal since this was the current story he was being involved in.

Suddenly Astrinal had paused in the middle of her story and started patting around herself as if to search for something. It didn't take Turbojet long to jump up from his seat wondering what had caused her to react so quickly.

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Long Shot went and found Towreck, and approached him. "Hey, has anyone heard anything from Turbojet? It's been a while since we've heard anything."