Whose Moral Ground

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--< Starscream Posed on Dec 18 09:25PM CST >-- Another typical evening cycle at Maccadams with the usual bustle of mechs of all sizes, shapes, and allegiences. But as usual so far its relatively peaceful. Of course how long it stays like that is anyones guess. And as the door opens and Starscream walks in, the chances of that peace remaining just dwindled.
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The Air Commander and SiC of the Decepticon Empire walks in and after a look around finds a table to his liking near the all and sits down in the chair facing the wall. He lights a highend enercig, and motions for a server as he takes further stock in whos in there and what's going on at the moment. ---< Swindle Posed on Dec 18 09:28PM CST > Boy, Swindle sure could use a drink. Like, majorly. He strolls nonchalantly into the bar, heads for the counter, plunks down some shanix, and asks for his Usual. The barkeep fills his order, a Dark Nebula. The swirling liquid of oils and refined energon looks like a purple-and-black cloud out in space, with hints of light magenta sprinkled within. < Blurr Posed on Dec 18 09:47PM CST >- Blurr sometimes frequents Maccaddam's, though he usually prefers more upscale places like the Circle. Today as per usual he waltzes in amongst a group of his old racing fans, acting fairly oblivious to the other patrons but probably in fact taking note of Starscream and Swindle. ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 18 09:54PM CST >--- "...and then I politely, and indeed tactfully, pointed out the folly of his ways in that he had sorely underestimated my ability to pull a perfectly flawless lag displacement roll and dropped in behind him. Once I had thoroughly intimidated him into surrendering the- Oh... we're here." Sky Lynx glances at Maccaddam's before giving Blurr a nod. "I'll be in shortly. Just have to use the proper entrance. I'll be at the table forthright if you could please tell them I'll have my usual?" --< Starscream Posed on Dec 18 09:56PM CST >-- Starscream takes note of the Combaticon and takes a sip of his own drink as it arrives. And just as he was about to lean back and perhaps relax a bit, Blurr happens. A pained look flashes across the Seeker's face for a brief moment and then he just watches where the wannabe celebrity goes. ---< Swindle Posed on Dec 18 10:07PM CST > Swindle sighs into his drink as he doesn't see any of his combatibros in the bar yet. ---< Swindle Posed on Dec 18 10:08PM CST > Swindle does notice Blurr and Starscream, and of course nobody couldn't not notice Sky Lynx. It's like the entire bar is a TARDIS. < Blurr Posed on Dec 18 10:12PM CST >- Blurr probably hasn't really been listening to Sky Lynx's stories. But he's put on a pretty show of pretending to. So when he pauses, the speedster nods. "Yeah, sure. Have to get the dramatic entrance right of course." he smirks and relays the message to the bartender. He doesn't appear to pay Starscream any mind. At least not yet. ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 18 10:16PM CST >--- Sky Lynx strides through the entrance that bears the markings for mechs his size and settles down, taking stock of the other occupants carefully as he considers just what to say. If anything at all. Of course, there is only one Sky Lynx-sized drinking 'bowl' as well, and it's wheeled out quickly enough. Seems they keep it on standby 'just in case' to avoid draining their tap in one pour. --< Starscream Posed on Dec 18 10:18PM CST >-- Starscream has his attention drawn from the speedster to the autobot shuttle. A wind twitches as he thinks back on their last encounter. The Seeker narrows his optics, "How are the sparks stolen by you and the rest doing?" his voice is rather acidic and he makes no attempt to hide his anger over the last encounter. < Blurr Posed on Dec 18 10:38PM CST >- Blurr chuckles as the large bowl is brought out. Of course they make special accommodations for Sky Lynx. He folds his arms at Starscream's comment turning on his barstool to face the seeker. "Pal I think you've got your facts mixed up. -You're- the ones who stole the sparks. -We- were just transporting them to a more secure location. To keep the -safe- from -you-."

Just then a news feed comes on the holopanes in the bar, showing an interview about the incident at Toraxxis. He points to it. "See? Check and check, -you- spawns of glitches are the terrorists who are trying to destroy everything everyone knows and loves." ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 18 10:41PM CST >--- Sky Lynx clears his throat as he takes a drink. "Our...compatriots are doing well and are being cared for, Starscream." He gives the Seeker a quick look. "Curiosity compels me to ask the same question of you, however...I doubt I will hear an honest answer. Still... humor me." He gtives Swindle a quick look and offers a nod. It's curt, but polite. At least it's not full of teeth and rancor. Simply...fellow mechs at a bar, right? He takes another drink. < Blurr Posed on Dec 18 10:45PM CST >- "Hah, yeah. How are you keeping them alive, anyway? You don't exactly have the facilities to keep them all preserved." Or do they? "Or are you just going to shove them all into bodies right away and dump them into combat like so much cannon fodder?" --< Starscream Posed on Dec 18 10:47PM CST >-- "Isn't that what your Prime will be doing to the ones you managed to keep?" Starscream asks sarcastically as he looks away from the broadcast screen. "It is frankly none of your business how we are mantaining them --" he continues shifting his gaze at Skylynx, "Suffice it to say, they are being well taken care of." he makes a motioin at the screen. "Where did that idiot come from anyway?" ---< Swindle Posed on Dec 18 10:59PM CST > Swindle nods back to Sky Lynx, though his nod is full of his winning smile. Hey, one attracts more customers with honeygon than vinegargon! ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 18 11:04PM CST >--- Sky Lynx hmms... he takes a drink from his 'bowl' and then frowns. "Not a ... well. Not a 'lie' I'm certain. Still, not the answer I'd have expected from you. Part of me was anticipating some pious remarks about liberation and equality or..." He glances at the screen for a moment, just watching. "Cybertron," he finally remarks. < Blurr Posed on Dec 18 11:13PM CST >- Blurr mocks Starscream. "'None of your business.' Okay I guess I'll take that to mean 'yes, that is what in fact what we're planning on doing.'" He smirks. --< Starscream Posed on Dec 18 11:21PM CST >-- Starscream sneers at Skylynx's reply, "Liberation and equality are meaningless words to an /Autobot/. And do not claim to know me well enough to assume what my reaction will be." This Seeker is predictible only in the fact that he is unpredictible. And that in itself is chaotic at best which is partially what can make him so dangerous. Then his attention turns to the Speedster. "Don't mock me." he warns but decides not to further try and correct these two mechs assumptions on what the Decepticons will do to the sparks they have. It is pointless to try and lie to cover up what is the truth for the most part. ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 18 11:36PM CST >--- Sky Lynx offers a slight grin. "Well, I can at least assume one thing... You're crunchy." He gives the Seeker a toothy grin before the illusion is ruined by him drinking out of the bowl as...well...as Sky Lynx is prone to drinking out of bowls. ...Right. Very menacing indeed. < Blurr Posed on Dec 18 11:47PM CST >- "As if true 'liberation' and 'equality' are actually what you want, Starscream." Blurr remarks. "All you glitches want is to get your 'righteous' revenge on the people you think have done you wrong. You don't want to be -rid- of the old system, you just want it turned the other way around. You just want to do as bad or worse to the people who did it to you, without realizing that'll just end up creating another group just like you right now, and it'll just keep going and going, on and on like an endless cycle of retribution. Great, right? Makes total sense." he says wryly. --< Starscream Posed on Dec 18 11:57PM CST >-- Starscream frowns when Skylynx calls him 'crunchy' and then turns his attention to Blurr, "Don't confuse what /I/ want with what /you/ desire or what Megatron wanted. I personally want all the Autobots destroyed. And all of your philosophy with it. All of you are the problem with this planet and its society and have been since the first Prime took control. What is the reality of all of tihs is all of /you/ want to keep this going as long as possible to try and justify your own twisted sense of 'equality' when all you really wnt to do is control everyone and everything on this planet for your own personal ends." ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 19 12:02AM CST >--- "Destroy them all until all become one, that one being the last mech standing?" Lynx turns to regard Starscream. "That is the ideal your road will end at, Starscream. Megatron was a harbinger of change, absolutely, but a harbinger of change which leads only to the twisted and wrecked hull of existence we would like to liken to outright cataclysm. I find it silly that one talks about us having a 'twisted sense of equality' when, in that same thought, you include erradicating others." ---< Swindle Posed on Dec 19 12:10AM CST > "Oh I'm all for equality," Swindle says. That's right. He loves everybody's money equally. < Blurr Posed on Dec 19 12:13AM CST >- "Exactly, that's exactly what you want." Blurr nods. "You want to take revenge on us for all the 'wrongs' you think we've done. You say we're the problem, and yet you don't want to get rid of our old ways, -you- just want to be the one at the top instead of someone else. You want to turn the tables, you want to do to us exactly what you think we did to you. Give me one fragging reason not to believe that -you'd- brainwash people into being loyal to you, and murder the people who couldn't be brainwashed? That you would torture and invade every corner of everyone's life to make sure they aren't stepping out of -your- line, if you were the one on top?"

"Why else would you be with Megatron, if you didn't agree with what he wants? Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe you're planning on taking over and deposing whoever happens to be in charge. You think you're better than we are? Ha!" --< Starscream Posed on Dec 19 12:23AM CST >-- Starscream smirks coldly. "I am better then you and I always will be. And answer this -- either of you, if you can, Everything you have described of me and the Decepticons can also be turned around on any of you and all of you. What makes us so much worse then any of you?" he takes a slow sip of his drink and waits for the reply. ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 19 12:32AM CST >--- Sky Lynx thinks for a bit, glancing at Swindle, then Blurr, and then back to Starscream. It's a moment when he truly does have to take his time and collect his thoughts, and he manages to do so without resorting to taking a drink to buy time. "If I were told the fight was done, that there was no reason to carry on with this silly spat, I'd be content with that and move on." He looks at Starscream. "Would you?" --< Starscream Posed on Dec 19 12:39AM CST >-- "As long as I was your leader -- as long as you acknowledge that I am your superior." Starscream says matter of factly. "I know what my destiny is, you are but a stepping stone on my way there." ---< Swindle Posed on Dec 19 12:44AM CST > Swindle watches this bickering with interest, as he sips at his drink. Some of the magenta has swirled out, leaving a mostly dark beverage. It's mildly entertaining, but Swindle feels like he's been sitting here for hours. ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 19 12:51AM CST >--- Sky Lynx scoffs. "You, lead me? Please, even the Senate did not 'lead' me, even if they thought I was being kept on a proper leash. I performed my duties as they should have been performed, for the betterment of all regardless of circumstance. You might think I am being 'led' now, even, but I am simply supporting the side that I've not known to subvert who, or what, I am to their own whims and fancies. You couldn't lead your way out of a comet's tail with the sun at your back." < Blurr Posed on Dec 19 12:56AM CST >- Blurr doesn't make any reply before he walks over to Starscream, glares at him, and then simply punches him in the face. "You're better than us how? Because you -wouldn't- do any of those things? You -wouldn't- force other people to swear loyalty to you? Yeah -right-!"

With that, he starts to stalk out of the bar, his admirers following him. Of course, he's confident that even if Starscream tries to retaliate, he can dodge it whatever it is, so he doesn't really seem to stay on guard much. --< Starscream Posed on Dec 19 01:07AM CST >-- The Seeker's optics flare when Skylynx insults his ability to lead but before he can reply, Blurr comes up and sucker punches him straight in the nose! Holy Primus he just got punched in, his, face! For a brief moment static dances across Starscream's internal optic display and his head snaps back. Then with an instant rage he stands up fast enough to know his chair back, "How dare you hit me, moron!" he takes a swing of his own aiming for the Autobot's face if he can hit him before he turns around. If not then the back of the head will do. ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 19 01:11AM CST >--- There's something to be said about the brass nuts Starscream probably thinks he has to start a barroom brawl with an Autobot. Especially when Sky Lynx is in the very same bar, and there's limited room to even fly. That's...probably on Misfire levels of 'well thought out plans' to be quite honest. Lynx is quick to interpose himself between Blurr, even if the speedster doesn't really need help in the way of avoiding retaliations. "Starscream, this is not the place." He turns. "Blurr! You know better as well. This is not the place!" < Blurr Posed on Dec 19 01:34AM CST >- Starscream probably would've been able to sock him in the back of the head, but Sky Lynx gets between them. "Ha," Blurr scoffs. "Just look at you, getting all riled up because of a single punch. I think you're forgetting we're at -war-. I'm -supposed- to hit you, and you can bet I'll be hitting you a lot more and a lot harder another day. Heh."

With that, he heads out, ignoring Lynx's rebuke for now. ---< Sky Lynx Posed on Dec 19 01:37AM CST >--- Sky Lynx exhales and just turns, finishing his drink before a proper payment for the chair, drinks, and anything else that might come up is left behind and he leaves. --< Starscream Posed on Dec 19 01:40AM CST >-- Starscream huff, "Yea just walk out like a coward." he sits back down and looks at Skylynx. "Any place is the place when it comes to that glitchhead..." he choses to ignore anything else that was said and motions for another refill, though it takes a moment before anyone notices since many mechs, patrons and workers alike, took cover then the blows were exchanged. Of course now there are a couple of huge mechs with laserifles there prepared to break it up but they stand down as they realize it has difused itself.

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