http://vehicon-thrust.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] vehicon-thrust.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] shatterverse2008-02-06 08:23 pm

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So, Thrust thinks, this is a farm. Well, it's flat.

It's actually not impossible to keep a low profile if you're a big pink robot motorcycle, it's just tricky. It's particularly difficult when you're working on getting your refuelling station set up semi-permanently (Oliver had helped him move it somewhere out of the way, but Thrust is doing fiddly work, now, that he wouldn't trust to anyone else) and reliably running the way you want it to.

Really, being somewhere out of the way on the Cooper farm (at least Thrust hopes it's still the Cooper farm; he doesn't know where the territory ends) is only a marginal help. He is, after all, seven or eight feet of brightly-colored robot fiddling with a machine made out of part of a light pole with four rather small solar power panels, a pressure cooker, a toaster oven, and many other less recognizable small appliances securely welded to it. Further welded sections of light pole make up a sturdy square base. There are symbols carefully painted onto the pressure cooker-- one is pretty self-explanatory, even without the dialogue, but the other is a little more unusual. (Hey, it's technically a Vehicon refuelling station, even if it's a refuelling station in the same way a vending machine is a restaurant.)

Thrust fiddles with tubing and wiring and connections, now and then tossing a manipulatory-appendage full of organic matter (mostly grass, although with the occasional dirt clod) into the pressure cooker, then peering at the toaster oven before continuing to make adjustments.

He really wants just a vending machine, see, not a still.

The whole thing might look a little bit odd, to a passing human.
alwaysroomforhope: (chin on hand)

[personal profile] alwaysroomforhope 2008-02-07 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
It looks, Steph thinks, like something Sokka is going to go absolutely nuts for. Machinery and tubing and stuff! Cool.

She slows to a halt and swings herself off her bike to come over and investigate. Waiting for invitations is something Steph has never found particularly useful.

Also.

Robot.

"Hi!"
alwaysroomforhope: (excited!)

[personal profile] alwaysroomforhope 2008-02-07 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Totally dumb question," Steph says, grinning, "but ... are you a robot?"

She has to ask.
alwaysroomforhope: (grinning nosewrinkle)

[personal profile] alwaysroomforhope 2008-02-07 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Steph grins, considering this.

"Well, what would be the answer that I don't like? I mean, I think I like robots. Probably. As long as you're not a killer robot. But if you were a guy in a robot suit, that would be ... okay, I couldn't say weird, I dress up in a cape and mask for kicks. But I'd probably give you a totally funny look."
alwaysroomforhope: (excited!)

[personal profile] alwaysroomforhope 2008-02-07 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Cool," is the verdict on that.

"Wait. Transform?"

[identity profile] transbender.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Thomas can't help himself. He let's his muscles stretch, letting his body bend upwards, so he's on the same height as the weird robot thing. "Is that a still?"

[identity profile] transbender.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Thomas lets a grin spread across his face. "Gee thanks, I like it. Refueling for you?"
alwaysroomforhope: (oh i c wat u did thar)

[personal profile] alwaysroomforhope 2008-02-07 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
"...dude."

PINK MOTORCYCLE.

Steph's bike is way too clearly a farm bike -- rusty, muddy, but serviceable. But oooh -- gleaming pink! SO COOL.

"If I knew you a little better," she says, giggling, "this would be my cue to make jokes about riding you."

[identity profile] transbender.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Ener-" Thomas shakes his head. Oh god, you gotta be kidding. "So, what are you filtering into it?"

[identity profile] transbender.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Thomas makes a face that agrees with that. And then he offers the robot his hand. "I'm Thomas, and I'm a Joker. don't worry if it doesn't mean anything to you."
alwaysroomforhope: (cheers mate)

[personal profile] alwaysroomforhope 2008-02-07 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Steph is impressed anyway, applauding when the transformation is done.

Her laugh indicates that, being seventeen-or-so, she does get the humour. But she's not going to make an issue of it. "I'm Steph -- Stephanie Brown. Nice to meetcha!"

[identity profile] transbender.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Thomas is a lot less delicate then most humans. He's squishy. "Anything like a decpticon?" Some terms, Thomas picks up.

[identity profile] transbender.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Thomas grins, giving thrust a friendly slap on the back. "Transformers. They, uh, tell stories about you guys in my universe, right?"
alwaysroomforhope: (cartwheel of joy)

[personal profile] alwaysroomforhope 2008-02-07 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
Steph beams. "Really? That's totally me! Who was it, did you get to meet Mel or Socks?"

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