((RP Thread, Waspinator's Cave))

[bw_waspy]

*It's autumn here now, and the large rose garden is still stubbornly in bloom even though the leaves have changed color. The weather is clear and the sky blue with only a few wispy white clouds. Sometimes prehistoric Earth can be simply beautiful. But who has time to stop and look some days?*

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[rmmayhem]

*Quick jumps up on the now vacated chair to get access to the keyboard. He is a bit hesitant to just jump right into this, but he can at least figure out where all the chip's wiring is extended to.*

*nods, looking at Elec* I'll tell him.

*quietly* When did he even get the time to do all this. had to have been a good bit of work to put in...

(( Kinda figured that. Was assuming the display would be at least visible, even if the keyboard wasn't accessible. If this was an incorrect assumption, I could redo the post. ;) I'm going to need to remind myself that assuming is a bad thing in these situations. Moved this post cuz I noticed Elec's. :) ))

[feathers_in_wax]

*Elec waves bye and then warps out*

[bw_waspy]

((Works just fine :) The shortest member of the crew was Quickstrike, who by this Waspy's timeline has been dead for three years or so now. Average Pred height is 8-10 ft at a guess (scale was not always the most constant thing on the show), and Waspy would have things in the cave at a comfortable height for him. Company's still a new thing, tho not so new he hasn't found/made lots of little step-stools. :) ))

[pogo_boy]

*Quint sighs once Elec is gone, looking both a little relieved and a little sad. Elec might be nice, but it still wouldn't be safe to say some things where he might hear.*

*he looks up at the scans* That thing's wired in about as bad as the choke chips that are used where I'm from. The CR didn't have any trouble removing mine or Ballade's though.

*He couldn't have mentioned that about Ballade in the Nexus, where anyone could overhear, or with someone who still had to obey Dr. Wily present. But it was safe here*

[rmmayhem]

*sighs* Wind may be psychotic, but he knows how to do good work with these things. I think it was meant to be permanent, with the way that chip is placed. The wiring isn't too bad, really, but the chip is the worst part. I'm not even sure how Wind attached it.

*blinks, a little surprised as his mind comprehends Quint's comment* Wily put things like that in you guys? All the fail-safes in us were simple enough. That's why I wasn't so concerned at the mess in Air earlier. Some of that was the remains of Air's.

*Quick shakes his head as he continues to cautiously check over what the scan picked up as damaged.*

[pogo_boy]

The CR can remove it even if it's supposed to be permanant. The choke chips are supposed to be a part of our design. They're not meant to ever be removed. Same with the tracking device, but that one was easier to get rid of.

The fail-safes we had aren't anything that we could remove on our own. Some of it's in our programming. Hardcoded Laws, and other things that will activate the choke chip if you even think about disobeying.

And if you do manage to disobey, if you break the Laws, then you mindfreeze. Just lock up, and he'll catch you then. And then he'll mindwipe or reprogram you. There's no escape. None of us have ever really gotten away on our own, like you did. Ballade came the closest.

I was found in the Nexus in a pile of garbage after he threw me out. What was left of me, anyway. He'd spent years stripping me for parts while I was in the Gallery. And I was repaired after that.

I'm not sure how Ice managed. I just know that he mindfroze, so he must have broken one of the Laws, and then the CPS people had the programming failsafes removed and sent him somewhere Dr. Wily couldn't find him. I'm kind of worried he might still have the choke chip and tracker though.

And Ballade... Ballade's special. He broke the laws all on his own. And we used the CR to keep rebooting his systems until he beat the lockup too. But.. don't say anything in the Nexus about him, ok? You never know who might overhear there, and Dr. Wily doesn't know that Ballade won't have to obey him anymore.

[rmmayhem]

*shakes his head* We were only able to get away due to luck. *quietly* Crash and me were likely to become Wily's next examples of why it is a bad idea to fail him, and as for Air, with Wind putting out the effort to put that chip in... *cuts off that thought, trying to not think about it*

*frowns* I'm not sure which Wily is worse, they both are awful in their own ways it seems like.

*Quick works at the keyboard, going through the list of damaged parts, telling it what to not repair. He seems to pause at one part, the one that the chip is attached to, almost as though he's not sure if it should be fixed.*

[pogo_boy]

*quiet, and a bit flatly* Our Wily's idea of punishing failure was to beat you so bad the others would have to carry you to your room, and it might be a week before self-repair fixed enough to let you try to crawl to him and beg for repairs and hope he didn't beat you again for bothering him.

Or if he was busy, just using the remote for the choke chip and ordering you not to scream so he could get back to work without the noise to disrupt him.

*shivers* He left Ballade like that for a couple days after Ballade lost to Megaman the first time.

I think ours didn't scrap most of us, because then he wouldn't have us to hurt any more. *shakes head slightly* Yours is still worse, so far. It might be more of a tie soon, though.

*shakes his head a bit again and looks at the screen* You should be able to zoom in and you can tell it to just fix some parts of things if there's a problem with fixing the whole componant.

[rmmayhem]

*snorts* Ours knew that if he did something like that, the vultures among us would have picked off the injured one long before our slow self-repair systems worked.

*sighs before speaking softly* Well, at least with ours, the pain of punishments never lasted too long. I know. He usually made sure we saw the whole thing.

*Quick chuckles softly, trying to lighten things up a little, as he looks at the zoomed in image.* It's what the chip was actually fixing on its own. Fixing the flaws in it will more than likely restore some of Air's older memories, but I'm not so sure that it's a good idea...

[pogo_boy]

*frowns, thoughtful* I don't know either. When I saw him before all this, when it seemed like he was remembering things, it.. upset him. But he was upset too that he hadn't been told.

If he'll remember anyway, maybe it's better because he'll be somewhere safe when he does? I really don't know, Quick.

There are things I don't remember, but that just didn't record right to start with, so I never will. My brothers always told me after, though. Punk used to think it was funny. *shivers slightly*

Maybe you could ask him when he's awake and if he wants it fixed you could use the CR again to fix it.

[rmmayhem]

*shakes his head* He'll get them back eventually over time. *looking a bit guilty* But maybe he needs to be told the whole truth first. Not the edited version I gave before to protect him...

*Since that was the last of the stuff for the normal repairs, Quick changed his focus over to the removal of the chip and wiring Wind put in. He notes a few tiny chips connected into the wiring, nothing nearly the size of the main one. The hard part, however, seems to be making sure that none of the part that the chip is attached to gets removed with it.*

*dryly* Someone was trying to be clever, I think. Wind doesn't usually use more than a main chip for these things.

[pogo_boy]

Wind deserves to have his AI downloaded into a metool and turned over to my brothers for a game of Met-Soccer.

[rmmayhem]

*sounding unusually bloodthirsty* Honestly, I'd like to see him dead by my hands. For this, and for the others he has hurt since Wily activated him, I'd like to see him suffer the fate that he's caused others to receive.

*Quick does his best to try to calm himself down, before finishing setting the CR on what stuff needs to be removed. It was a bit hard for the chip, but he's fairly sure he got it right. He starts to double check everything else that he's done carefully.*

[pogo_boy]

*Quint doesn't seem troubled by this, and sounds unusually calm when he replies* He'd deserve it. Like Dr. Wily. Or Kurama. Some people just hurt too many other people. And at least if they're dead, they can't hurt anyone else.

((Just now noticed LJ ate my reply >.< ))

[bw_waspy]

((Yay. Silverrose at the Padded Cell TF board made a screencap for me of Meggy using the spare CR as a 'hot tub'. So, there's a pic. Megatron, btw, is on the large end of the BW scale and probably has the grating in there jammed at least half raised. Any time I recall seeing someone in it for repairs, they were completely submerged))

[rmmayhem]

*Quick is a bit puzzled at the second name but doesn't ask, figuring it better that way. He nods to himself as he finishes checking his work.*

*sounding a bit nervous* I think I got everything, Quint.

[bw_waspy]

*the display for the CR control switches to a list of assigned tasks with progress bars next to each, and asks for confirmation before beginning*

((the grating would have lowered Air into it before the CR did the scans))

[rmmayhem]

*Quick looks a little nervous, but he's checked and double-checked everything. No point in holding off any longer. He confirms that everything is correct.*

*sighs* Now we wait.

*softly mumbling to himself in an attempt to remind himself to control some of the anger he's been holding back* I cannot go after Wind. My brothers need me intact more than I need revenge.

(( Figured that. :) ))

[pogo_boy]

*didn't hear the mumbling as he was still looking for another chair or makeshift stepstool. He finally pulls one over and hops onto it to hug Quick* It won't take long.

[rmmayhem]

*shakes his head* I'm worried though. These things have had 'side effects' before. *shudders slightly, though he tries not to*

*thinking back to the pleading from earlier* Air sounded really bad, if that was real...

[pogo_boy]

*Quint looks concerned. He wants to ask what kind of side effects, but given Quick's reaction to thinking of them, he's not sure he wants to know*

[bw_waspy]

*The progress bars continue to show how much of the repairs are completed. Although CR works quickly, it will still take a few minutes*

[rmmayhem]

*sounding a little nervous* I know what to expect though. I've just never dealt with any who've had a chip in for more than a day or two. This one had a week or so to do its damage...

*softly* Not going to lose another sibling that way. Not going to let that happen again.

*Quick watches the display as the CR works away.*

[pogo_boy]

*quietly* You think he might try to hurt himself, because of what it made him do..?

*shivers* That won't happen. If.. if nothing changes, there won't be many of us left. I don't want to lose anyone else.

[terrorsaur]

*a slightly scorched and smoking dead goose falls to the ground with a 'plop' just outside the cave entrance. It's followed by Terrorsaur, who makes a much better landing, holding a small gun which he sends to subspace in order to pick the bird up by the feet.*

Hey, Waspy. Goose for dinner again. *he tosses the bird to the other Predacon* How's the xeno doing?