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Heather Mason ([personal profile] foolishwren) wrote2011-06-20 03:24 pm
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70. [DREAM/DREAM/DREAM/DREAM]

[So while the rest of Johto alternately panics, cries, or rushes around trying to capture as many of the soulstealing insects as possible, there are dozens of souls floating around in that dream limbo, drifting in and out of each other's slumbering thoughts and visions. Whether it's nightmarish flashbacks or just those dreams where you're at school taking a really hard test, and then Dracula shows up, and then everybody's naked ... anything is possible when it comes to what people see in their sleep.]

[But what appears in the darkness in this particular spot in the spaceless, shifting mass of dreaming souls... is a door.]

[It's old, and covered with boards and bolts, rusted near-through in some places. The lock is broken-- mangled and half-melted and wrenched out of the keyhole. The only thing on it that doesn't look ancient is a scrap of torn notebook-paper that's taped up on it at roughly eye-level. It reads only a single phrase:]


Fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.


[More importantly, though... the door is ajar. Through the gap come the scents of rust and metal-- and something organic, fleshy-- and a low, deep hum of industrial machinery. It's not a door that anyone in their right mind would want to go through. ... But for anyone who may have stumbled this far into the dreams of their fellow lost souls, either in flight from some other nightmare or just pure, wandering curiosity... there's just no other place to go but through the door.]




[Go on. Open it. After all.... it's only a dream.]







[ooc: SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG, GUYS. Thanks for being patient! If you commented on that planning post, there's something spooky planned for your character to do here so please feel free to tag or not tag as it pleases you!]


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[ooc: This is the IC post for what was announced over here! Even if you didn't comment there, feel free to participate! I'm still happy to whip up Silent Hill scenarios for folks!]
show_my_cannons: (I will not bow.)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-20 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ironhide has gotten sick of roaming this weird landscape. It's annoying, and as much as he likes being himself again, he would much rather stop feeling like he's hallucinating every five minutes.]

[The door is new.]

[He could turn around and walk away, but... having neither blood nor flesh at the moment, what does he have to fear?]

Out of my way.

[The five-ton Autobot snorts, and shoves the door aside, stepping through it with cannons powered and ready.]
show_my_cannons: (We are not amused)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-21 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He was fully determined to march forward through the doorway, and keep stomping his way through whatever was on the other side... but stops. Ironhide may be bull-headed, and may very well launch himself forward without thinking half the time. But even he doesn't want to fall through a metal grate into darkness.]

... Hmnf.

[His scanners come to life, combing the immediate area. But their radius seems dimmed, shortened. Ironhide shakes his head. Must have jammed something.]

[The big Autobot moves slowly, eying his surroundings with his good optic. In a way, he's reminded of the dying days of Cybertron. The rusted metal, the vast emptiness where there should have been life. With another grunt, he kicks at one of the trashcans, out of some odd sort of spite. Stupid world... mocking him.]

[And then he stops -- the low sounds catching his attention before the other unknown noises join in. He draws himself up, bringing his cannons online with a shake of his arms.]


Had enough of this. Show yourself! Get out here!

[... so what if he's barking orders at empty air? It feels productive.]
show_my_cannons: (Hmpf!)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-21 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Ironhide snorts, decisively. That should teach that trash can. Whatever it was the trash can needed to learn. He does step forward, though, to inspect the bits that rolled away, prodding them with a toe.]

[When nothing immediately launches itself at him, he stays put, looking around with an air of near-disappointment. Limping through a glowing forest after Cloud was almost better.]


... cowards.

[He probably should feel more uneasy than he does. But no. Millions of years of battle, violence and hardship sort of put a damper on fear. His scans and good optic continue to flick over the area, seeing nothing.]

[Until the movement registers. He goes still, focusing on its direction. Only when he's sure he has an idea of its location does Ironhide edge forward, picking his route with care.]


You going to come out where I can see you?
show_my_cannons: (Not what Optimus would want.)

... I heard nothing :|a

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-22 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Ironhide studies the rabbit head. Then flicks it with a toe. Not important. It's not going to help him get out, or understand what's going on here. So he keeps on picking his way slowly through the area, stopping when he feels the floor start to give, and edging away.]

[Once he reaches the little square, he stops, sighting the light. His cannons whir to life, and the big Autobot advances, slowly. If it's inside, it's probably not an immediate danger. But it's best to be cautious.]

[At least it's not a very large building. He's big, but not even Prime could have peered through the top of a two-story building. When he's in position, peering through the hole... he flicks on his headlights. The hi-beams stray to his shoulders when he transforms, so he twitches on forward, angling it in.]


Show yourself.
show_my_cannons: (Explain yourself!)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-22 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Being shot at was not what he expected. Neither was hearing that scream -- that... oddly familiar scream.]

[Regular handgun bullets do no more harm to his armored exterior than flies would. Still, they're irritating, and he lifts a hand to shield his face out of reflex, snarling something indignant in Cybertronian -- a language Epps always swore sounded like a whale had mated with a dial-up modem.]


Put that down!

[Because that's totally going to help. Still cursing, the old warrior flicks off the high-beams, letting regular old headlight... light... flood down into the hole.]

Autobot! Ironhide! Put your weapon away, you wretched--eugh!

[The last is an irritated, grumpy huff of a sound. As only Ironhide could ever deliver.]
show_my_cannons: (But why is the energon gone?)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-22 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Ironhide is about to start cursing in English. Although... it probably would help if he just backed off. Left the shouting girl alone and went off to find his own way out of here.]

[But... then he stops. That voice is familiar again.]

[Slowly, he leans forward, rising up on his feet as best he can, in order to see better. He has to angle his head, letting his good optic do most of the viewing. But it's in time to see the figure fall over.]

[Ironhide... blinks.]


... Heather?

[He thought she said she was familiar with guns. What in the world was she just trying to do?]
show_my_cannons: (Hmpf!)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-22 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
[If her confusion had gone on any longer, Ironhide would have been tempted to jerk a thumb toward the massive scarring over his right optic. That, at least, tended to travel back and forth between forms well enough.]

[Fortunately, his estimate of her intelligence was right. She catches on quick enough... and he just waits, watching with a neutral expression. Hopefully it doesn't look too much like a scowl, but with his face? Who knows.]


Yeah. Me.

[He tilts his head at her when she rolls over. Was... that a normal reaction? Or was she having some sort of muscle spasm? All Spark, how was he supposed to know? Where was Ratchet when you needed his unnecessary explanations?]

[Then she's berating him. Good -- she's coherent enough to yell at him. Ironhide huffs out a wash of vaguely mechanical-scented air through his vents.]


How was I supposed to know it was you? Hmn? Just saw the light.

[There's a quiet whir of components as he allows the cannons to power down. But not fold away. Not yet.]
show_my_cannons: (Stubborn mode engaged.)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-22 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He keeps watching her, partially concerned by what he's seeing, and partially confused. It's been a long, long time since he actually felt that kind of fear. He can't even remember it -- probably a facet of spending your whole life in combat, seeing the horrors of a brutal war firsthand. Or... maybe he's just too old and cranky to be scared anymore.]

[His head cants to one side, scanning through databanks. Then he looks around, taking in the sight of the decimated, rusting amusement park. The lifeless structures. And back to Heather.]


Yeah. This looks deadly.

[Your sarcasm is unhelpful, old man. He shifts in place, part of him wanting to reach down and offer her one huge, scarred hand, and the other part informing him that even if he was big enough to reach all the way in, his joints probably wouldn't let him bend that way.]

Was one. At one point. Landed in a pool. Hmn.

[He gives the area another wary look around. Despite his earlier words, he is still clearly on guard.]

What is all this?
show_my_cannons: (Soldier // Stand or Die)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-22 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Watching her pick the contents of her pockets is like watching Ratchet at his specimen tables. How can one person possibly need such an eclectic collection of... junk? The bullets made sense. Nothing else did.]

[Though, had he been more in-tune with his human comrades, he probably would have known what exactly he was looking at. And then understood.]


Watch it. This 'walking junkyard' can still take a few faceplates.

[Yes, that's right. Take a few faces. Optimus had to learn it from somewhere -- although Ironhide hasn't seen that part of his timeline, yet. He doesn't sound angry, though. He's too used to dealing with attitude. His most recent student was practically made of it. And so was Cliffjumper.]

Noticed that. A theme park where?
show_my_cannons: (Not what Optimus would want.)

djfkds I'm sorry for this

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-22 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
[But why so many keys? He will admit, he eyes them. They look more like scrap metal, and it's been a while since he had the chance to restock his ammunition supply. Not to mention... heal up the gaping hole in his chest armor.]

[The name earns a blink, and a scowl. It's not in his databanks, and, if it was in rural Maine, it should be. Unless the maps he'd downloaded had been completely off.]


Yeah... never heard of it. Not in any of my databases.

[Her hometown? Her 'bad neighborhood'? Another slow look around -- and she really wasn't kidding. Their new prison was a true improvement, as far as he could tell.]

[Unfortunately, tact isn't something he has to spare. When he speaks again, it's direct, and blunt as a rusty spoon. As usual, pretty much.]


... Your hometown looks worse than mine.

[And Megatron had worked Metrotitan over good. Corpses hanging from the buildings and everything.]
show_my_cannons: (Attention)

For the cranky bluntness |D

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-23 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Hmnf. Probably.

[Especially if the Autobots and Decepticons aren't brawling across Egypt in her world. Someone had to have heard about that little escapade, after all.]

[He frowns at her comment, looking around again. Personally, he doesn't see anything important. Unless the girl has a secret passion for rust that she never let on about. If that was so, he'd have to show her his right foot. That canine and its lubricants... eugh.]


What is so important about this place? Hmn?

[An empty desert was more important than this place, it seemed like. But at her request, he nods, and turns his attention back to their surroundings. Empty as it looked, he didn't want to let his guard down too much.]
show_my_cannons: (It's over there I think)

VERY WELL

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-23 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
[And by then, Ironhide has crouched down, kneeling by the stairs, despite protesting joints. The squeak and grind of them was probably audible for a good distance around them. He'd get them looked at... if there were anyone around to actually do that.]

[But it doesn't seem like she's fairing all that well either. He studies her, one knee to the ground, his elbow resting on the other. Both cannons are still unfolded, clearly on display.]


Stories from 'bad neighborhoods' rarely are. Probably heard a lot worse.

[He waves a hand toward her.]

What happened to you?
show_my_cannons: (Let's do this thing.)

[personal profile] show_my_cannons 2011-06-24 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
[If she thinks he's huge, she should see some of the others. Decepticons especially tended to be massive. Then again... maybe he is a little big by some standards. At least, with his battle mask retracted, he just looks grumpy, rather than set-to-kill.]

[One of those heavy hands lowers, hanging around her height, in case the girl needs something to hold onto.]


... Remind me to tell you what Megatron's favorite thing to do to prisoners was. Cybertron was a planet of rust and death after he began the war.

[It's said with no small amount of bitterness, or anger. He rolls his shoulders, looking at her again, and nodding. It must not be that bad, if she's walking around -- but he's no doctor. He has no idea.]

[The mention of cannons though... that makes his optics light up. He straightens, holding up one arm and flexing his hand. Molten blue light flickers to life in the barrel of the massive gun.]


Yeah. I do. Shall I show you them?

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