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TEST DRIVE MEME #1

No gimmicky dinosaur setup this time round, since the game is actually rolling now! If you've got a character you want to try out in this setting, make a thread with them on here, and if you don't, see if you can tag other people with your characters.

Test drive threads can be anything you like, in-person or online, just make it clear which one your thread is when you start it. Make sure to put the name of the character and what canon they're from in the subject, so people know who they are and where they come from.

Can I use test drive threads as samples for my app?
Indeed you may, fair stranger

Can I decide a test drive thread is game canon?
Heck yeah you can, provided the person you threaded it with is cool with that too!

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"HMMMM?" Grimlock grunts, tiny little optics coming to focus on the human hovering in front of him. "Human? Fly...?" Humans aren't supposed to fly, except... he remembers some of his programming from TRIDENT, protocol for dealing with super humans, which he had been assured that he would inevitably come across and that they would very likely try to kill him.

Remembering that, his uneven optics go wide, and he snorts a puff of air in Rex's direction. "Hmm! Flying human bad! Me Grimlock DESTROY!!!"

And then he proceeds to take a snap at him.

Rex easily managed to evade the giant fangs, he'd expected something like that to happen. He hadn't really expected the thing to talk back to him, but hey, why not? He darted out of the attack before coming in closer.

"Yeah well, this flying human's going to kick your butt if you don't give it a rest." He shot forward through the air, swinging his arm in an uppercut aimed at Grimlock's jaw.

Grimlock had been charging up a nice 'lil flamethrower for him when that uppercut catches him square. He goes flying back, spitting flames in an arc as he goes. He rolls back onto his feet and charges forward with a horrible screeching roar at full tilt, aiming to catch Rex with a vicious headbutt.

Turns out Rex's reflexes aren't exactly faster than a rampaging t-rex, just barely managing to throw up his arms in defense before Grimlock hits him like a train. His metal gauntlets take most of the impact, the metal groaning and some of the more fragile pieces breaking off.

A little dazed from the force of the hit, Rex scrambles to keep a hold on Grimlock's forehead before he slid into his mouth or something equally dumb. He recalls the nanites from the jetpack build before that gets snapped off and to shed the extra weight. Not exactly how he had planned on this fight starting out.

The dinobot skids to a stop and goes cross-eyed, trying to comprehend that his target is now attached to his face and not being thrown across the forest with the force of his mighty headbutt like he had been expecting.

He tosses his head and waves his stubby little arms in a useless attempt to dislodge him, letting out a frustrated roar. "Boy let go! Let go and face me Grimlock like DINOBOT!!!"

And then he angrily smashed his head into a tree.

Edited 2014-09-11 02:21 (UTC)

"WOOOOAAAHH!"

Rex can barely keep his grip as Grimlock starts shaking his head around, and his arms as aching as he keeps flopping against Grimlock's metal plating. He doesn't even notice the tree until he is crashing into it. The damaged builds on his arms finally fracture, leaving him tumbling through the air before landing on the ground. Hard.

He gets up with a groan, wincing as he turns back to face Grimlock. So maybe fighting this thing wasn't going to be as easy as he thought. He builds out his jetpack again, taking to the air to try and maintain the higher ground, so to speak.

"Alright, big guy, if you're not going to go down, maybe I can shut you down." If he could get in close enough to touch this guy, his nanites might be able to override the robot to shut down, though with something this size there was the possibility it wouldn't work. And he'd have to get near with out being swatted out of the air or burned to a crisp.

Grimlock doesn't understand any of that. All he sees is prey trying to make it's escape. As Rex takes to the air, he leaps up and down, snapping after him and shooting flames this way and that, causing the earth to shake and dirt to fly under his claws and bulk.

Rex grimaced as he dodged the incoming flames, waiting for Grimlock to pause to charge his flame thrower. Once there was finally an opening he dived, recalling the jetpack just before he crashed onto Grimlock's back, hanging onto the edge of the one of the plates. He reached out a hand, laying his palm flat against the paneling. The metal started glowing with a blue circuit pattern as his nanites infiltrated the machine, accompanied by an increasingly loud thrumming hum. Once he'd made contact, he willed the nanites to shut down the robot.

Come on Come on Come on. WORK. Something was blocking him from getting complete control, but maybe he could at least get him to stop rampaging. Rex changed the command, completely focused on getting something through before he got thrown off again. At least he was pretty sure the dinobot couldn't take a bite out of him from here.

Grimlock bucks and roars wordlessly, furious that he cannot reach his target, when the nanites hit home. Its pure confusion, attacking and trying to control and calm the animal instincts of his brain, and he lets out a bellow that sounds more human than t rex.

He crashes to the forest floor, belly down, and whines miserably, suddenly exhausted. "What flying boy do to me Grimlock? Flying boy not fight fair!!"

The sound shakes Rex to the core, and he immediately has a pang of regret. Fighting mindless monsters was one thing, but he hated causing people pain. Now he wasn't sure that even if this was a machine it couldn't think and feel. After Grimlock crashes to the floor, Rex recalls the nanites, getting the feedback of what exactly wound up happening. Temporary loss of power, nothing bad.

He gives a small sigh of relief, walking across Grimlock's back to slid onto the ground. He walked around to Grimlock's head, giving the robot a hesitant but friendly pat.
"It's ok, big guy, you'll be fine," he says reassuringly, trying to hide the twinge of uncertainty, and after a pause, "Besides it wasn't really a fair fight to begin with, you're, like, three times taller than me."

"Me Grimlock... confused, why flying boy pick fight with me Grimlock in first place if not think fair?" Grimlock snorts again and thrums his tail a bit, frowning deeply. He sounds curious, on top of being a little bit whiny still.

"Well you were kind of destroying the forest. Which is bad," Rex replied, pointing over his shoulder at the worst of the destruction, including a few small pockets of fire still burning away.

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