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[DESPITE THE FACT he should be on break:] Do you think it is worth trying to refine holoform activity to treat those smaller mechs quicker with the human sized tools or am I over complicating things for myself again?

Going to do something very stupid in a few weeks, I would care to book in your attendance in advance to nip any unnecessary complications in the bud.

[ In the aftermath of the incident with the Slavers at the volcano, Velocity is definitely one of the most worse for wear of them. She had taken critical amounts of damage, both from the direct injuries to the lava, to being injected with the virulent poison.

On the trip back to the R2, Velocity would wake to find her head resting in Quintessa's lap as the Prime danced fingers along her extremities, coaxing the poison out from each system. Every tube and line, every circuit where it had burned within, carefully and methodically being restored. It's slow work, but good magic takes time, and her domain of Creation cannot be rushed.

Once the poison is brought to heel, she begins to work on the frame damages. First she begins underneath with Velocity's protoform, carefully weaving delicate strands of the precious metal taken from her own body to act as guides where Velocity's natural healing would follow. As she works, she hums something quietly and wordlessly, but it seems a tune she knows well. ]

Let me know when you're up and about, Velocity.

[ It's been a few days since the whole... volcano thing. Cal's gotten himself mostly patched up, though he still has to poke his heavily bandaged ear every so often to make sure it's Still there. After sleeping for like... twenty hours... there's something else that's been bothering him aside from the holes. He frowns and stares at his communicator for a moment before reaching over and tapping out a message. ]

Hi Velocity! This is Cal, we just met before the whole volcano thing. I was wondering if you had a minute or two to talk?

[having sent velocity a message requesting she look at some nebulous hacking locales for their upcoming trip, and receiving no answer, megatron immediately remembers how much he hates being left on read. her not being in the medibay annoys him slightly, because she doesn't even have the excuse of working!!

so, slightly later, she gets him thumping on her door.]

Are you in? This isn't something that can be neglected until the last minute, Velocity!

[you know. megatron is usually unconscious for his time in the medibay, but not now. what happened wasn't enough to put him out long and all he can do is wait around for his leg to get glued back on. he's so bored.]

I got blown up yesterday, I can't say I enjoyed it, as I haven't enjoyed any other time. Have delivered Matrix to rightful owner. How long does it take to put a leg back on, by your professional estimation? This is taking too long I feel.

[Even if their brief criminal adventure had ended badly for one or both of them, Mass-Byte is bold enough to call up Velocity a while later with a cheery greeting.]

Hi Hi! I don't know if you've heard, but there's a ball in a few days, and I'd love to have the most beautiful date to go with! Will you do me the honour?

Hey, Lottie! You wanna hang out or anything? It's been a while since we had a chinwag and I didn't have much to do in maintenance today so I'm free earlier than usual!

[ While you were away someone has been in your room.

It doesn't look like this someone has really rifled that much through your possessions. Or stolen anything.

How do you know someone was here? There is a tiny plastic human toy baby sitting on a medical datapad on your desk. It has been wrapped up in an absurd amount of bandages. ]

[It hasn't even been a week since her last crash.]

So like, on a scale of one to ten, how bad is it if I died in a crash?

No fire this time!

[Yeah she knows her file is kinda. getting ridic given what she is.]

Hey beautiful, I found something that might interest you. I've been keeping an ear to the ground, so to speak, on any activity regarding that new slaverlord, Writhe, and I think I caught something. You'll need to go check it out yourself to know for sure though.

[At some point when she's out of her office, Lottie's desk gains a visitor. A cute push that makes a squeaking noise if squeezed. It's adorably small for a mech, but probably on the large size for something human-sized.

How it got there is a mystery. As to who did it.]

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[ Recently Bass requested some important information. Who... is the strongest Cybertronian on this ship. He received a hot tip that it was 'Shockwave' but also 'not the Senator one'. There were a few thoughts that went through his processor. One... it was really dumb that there were two people here with the SAME NAME. It must get confusing! Two, while he does (surprisingly) know what a Senator is, he has no idea what a Senator looks like. Do they wear signs? Bass guesses probably not.

This leads him to one conclusion: He has to fight BOTH of them to make sure he's actually fighting the strong one.

This leads him to a second conclusion: He has no idea where Shockwave lives. He could ask for direction, ask if anyone knows... but that begs the question... If they know how strong Bass is will they even tell the truth?

There is now one solution: He has to canvas the ship himself and check every inhabited room he comes across.

So there's the backstory. And that's why Bass, armored up in his winged Treble armor (being able to fly covers ground quicker!) is pounding aggressively at your door.

Sorry. ]

Hey beautiful You doing okay? You seem to have had it a bit rough. It's okay if a mission fails you know it happens and sometimes that's just how it is I'm sorry that you're hurting you wanna talk about it?

Link to the message for future Velocity to read

Nickel stares at the communicator for a long moment. It hasn't responded again. Somehow that makes her feel uneasy.

She's still in the Medbay and Velocity has only just left. It takes hardly any time at all to bound back to the doors and Lottie's long gazelle legs.

"Lottie get back here!" he pokes her helm out the door.

[once they've all had a chance to get back and swap and settle back into their own bodies and such, as weird a sensation as it is, and after optimus gets a nice big zap from his matrix for some goddamn reason, he decides to hit velocity up, as he had decided to while on visio.]

Velocity! [he sounds cheerful, at least.] Have you settled back in? Let me know if I can bring you anything.

[after, you know, All That.]

i want to talk where are you

[ laying on Velocity’s night stand is a yellow beaded rubber ducky bracelet. Looking at it just makes you kind of happy and reminds you of friends who have your back. ]

(( The rubber duck bracelet is useable once during an event to reroll a social crit fail by reminding you that there are friends who have your back. ))

Hey beautiful! Want to go to the ball with me? Make me the luckiest insect on the ship?

H-Hello? I-Is this thing on? A-Ah OK, cool! Nice nice nice. Alrighty —

Hello, Velocity!! I would like to say thank you for giving me a part of your blood to me from a few nights ago! I know you were asleep at the time, but I still wanted to give thanks to you since getting to become you was really great! On a side note, maybe I should've asked you first . . . but that aside —

I usually don't get that many chances to become a huge robot like you, but with your blood, now I can grow closer to the other guys on board . . . and especially you!

A-And again, thank you so much for the blood! It was a little bitter at first, but at least I didn't gag too much on it like I used to. If you want to talk to me . . . just go to Room 231 and I'll be waiting there! I don't have my phone with me right now, so I can't wait to see you in person again!

Byeeeee ~ !

[now, like some of the others, primal is prone to avoiding the medibay. too long spent working on the bare minimum and having no choice but to just walk off any injury or discomfort makes it difficult for him to accept that help is readily available. he's getting better at it, but he's not great. so it's kind of an indication at how much what he is contacting velocity - the medic he usually sees - is bothering him when he does go and do it. whatever it is that was wrapped around his spark chamber doesn't hurt, but it feels wrong at the same time it feels right, enought that his entire frame has been extremely tense since he returned from his mission with the others. his HUD is very displeased with him, and so are all his joints.]

Doctor Velocity, when you next have a free appointment I would be grateful to have it.

Not long after returning from the Cathedral of Mirrors, Velocity finds herself floating in darkness. Is she floating, actually? Or is she falling very, very slowly. Her thoughts float gently from one idea to the next before her one last peaceful moment is broken when a white chain suddenly clamps around her right wrist. Then her left one. Then, lastly, her neck. She's yanked in all directions, her arms pulled into a t-pose as she's forced to look up into the darkness.

He descends, his hands outstretched, reaching and holding her face tenderly with both hands. His silver-blue tentacles float behind him as though he's swimming through water, his face pulled back into a malicious grin.

"Mine again, just as you were meant to be." He whispers, leaning in until their faces are uncomfortably close. "Such a pity your teammates didn't consider you worth sacrificing for. Your life and safety is never anyone's top priority, is it? I know your worth though, Velocity. I would have given the world to you."

He laughs, cold and mocking.

"You will be useful to me again soon enough.

Sleep well, my dear. Until our next reunion."

Abruptly, the dream ends.

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Before the Dylan Event

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[Anon] During the Bodyswap event

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