kismet_loop | .01 || accidental video

.01 || accidental video

-- okay, joke's over, guys! Stopped being funny a long time ago! You can come out now!

[Oh dear. Someone's not in Kansas -- er, California -- anymore. Far from it; Hiro has Awakened in the Northwest District, and finds all this nature and trees extremely unusual and disconcerting. He's grimy and confused and irritated and he's trying desperately to orient himself. Where's the city? Where are the buildings or the wind turbines -- you can see those from anywhere.

The little robot following him would be way cooler if it weren't for the aforementioned nature, and the fact that Hiro has to keep shooing it away and interrupting it's welcome message.] I don't need any aid, I need my friends to stop being jerks and cut this out! Can you not-- personal space, buddy!

[He swats at the robot again, muttering dark, age-inappropriate words under his breath and stumbling over the uneven terrain. He's so focused on how irritated he is with his friends, that he almost doesn't see the wild boar snuffling through the underbrush.

...until he trips over it of course.] Hey! Watch where you're--

--o-oh boy.

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[Wing liked the nature. It was nice and peaceful, and he liked seeing new things and creatures.]

[And angry squeal from a boar? That drew him from his meditation and to his feet to go see what was happening. Perhaps the creature was just being...hunted. Now that had taken some getting used to, organic creatures eating other organic creatures, but still, he had to know for sure.]

[Finding a boy trying to not get killed by the pig? Yeah. Wing is stepping in. He tries not to hurt the animal, just sweeping it away with a hand. It tumbles a bit, but isn't injured.]

Are you all right?

[Hiro has resigned himself to being eaten by an irritated squealing creature, which isn't the most dignified way to go out, but it's not like he has any options at the moment -- until what looks to him like a solid wall of metal sweeps down, nudging the angry space pig out of the way as easily and carelessly as one might shoo a mosquito. Hiro's actually genuinely impressed...until he realizes that's a HAND.

Then he's a little more on the side of baffled terror, looking up -- waaaay up -- at his metallic savior.]

...uh. I-I might have to get back to you on that, dude.

[Then perhaps a more pointed question would help.] Are you injured?

[He does seem worried.] I'm not going to hurt you, friend. I'm merely wanting to help.

[Hiro's still suppressing his instinctive urge to turn and run -- probably a result of watching waaaay too many monster movies. But to be fair, he reminds himself, robots are usually the good guys.

So he manages a smile, nervously inching closer.] I-- yeah, no, I'm not hurt. I'm okay. I just. Sorry. I've never seen a robot as big as you.

...i-if that isn't totally rude to say.

[Wing smiles and gives a little shake of his head.]

It's not rude at all. My name is Wing. Did you just arrive here?

Wing. [...well, at least it's easy to remember? Hiro manages a somewhat awkward smile, trying to remember his manners.] Hiro. Uh...yeah, I-I guess I did.

...where is "here"?

You’re on the outskirts of a city called Haven on the planet Cybertron. I imagine that doesn’t really mean much to you, though.

[Give him a second to take this in.]

...so I'm literally in space and that was literally a space pig?

Well... [Wing pulls in a vent.]

...yes.

...I'm pretty sure I'm gonna totally freak out about that later, but right now it just seems cool.

[Wing chuckles softly and then offers his hand.]

I think it may be a good idea to get you to the city. What do you say?

[Hiro breathes a heavy sigh of relief, stepping forward to the offered hand.]

Yes, oh my god, yes.

[Wing smiles and will wait for Hiro to climb into his palm.]

Hang on then. [He'll gently curl his fingers up around Hiro a bit and carefully stand, tucking his hand to his chest.]

[The Knight may have the time to start for the city, but he and his passenger should hear a shout in among the normal forest noises.]

HIRO? HELLO?

[It's a ways off, that voice; far enough to be faint, but near enough there's no guessing as to its owner.]

[Hiro looks mildly alarmed, glancing up at Wing.]

Oh, right. Some lady from Canada said she's coming too.

[Wing smiles.] Sam.

[He'll head her direction.] He's over here, Sam!

[Since she could just catch that, there's an acknowledging]

OKAY!

[and since (with his height) Wing's white armour makes him much easier to find than any treed teen, it isn't long before Sam's pulling up on something which was once a snowmobile. To Hiro it probably looks like a jetski on a tread-track, with two wheels under the engine.]

Guys! Good to see you.

Edited (phone tag html lord give me strength) 2015-03-23 23:27 (UTC)

[Hiro rather recklessly leans over the side of Wing's hand to get a better look at the modified snowmobile.] You two know each other?

[Wing smiles at Sam, and then at Hiro.] We’re friends.

[Pausing to pull off her helmet, Sam stands and grins up at the others.]

Wing's the first I found here. And basically the best Samaritan.

Well, I guess he'd be easy to find.

...how come he's roboty and you're humany?

And to befriend! 'Best Samaritan' isn't overstating.

[That question surprises a huff of laughter out of her.]

Not just humany but wholly human, thanks---and same reason you are humany.

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Best...Samaritan? [What?]

[He just shakes his head.] Because she's human and I'm Cybertronian. [That's way 'humany' and 'roboty', kiddo.]

[Have a comforting pat on the hand, Wing.] It's a Canadian reference. [Hiro wtf.]

...wait, so I'm not the only person to just show up here? This happens often?

['Hiro wtf' is right; that assertion gets a real laugh out of Sam, even as she turns the hand not holding her helmet up in a wordless 'what's with this kid?']

It is a reference, but to a story so wide-spread across Earth 'Samaritan' is often used as a synonym to 'do-gooder'. I'll explain better later, but yeah.

[From that last word on, she's again addressing Hiro.]

You, me, Wing, and others. Maybe not often, but it's not uncommon, either.

[Action okay?]

[action perfect!]

[such action]

[very act much tion]

[perfection]

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o7

/SMUSHES :3

I should totally switch accounts...

character roulette!

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Hey!

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