dens_tf_den | Random 'Verse, Frag It, Pets

Spazz: *sitting in the ship's kitchen with her feet on the table as she tinkers away at game coding. She's very aware of the silence that most of the halls have fallen into, and of the little battle royal that's happening over in the holodeck a few levels down*

Wake: *RUUUUUUNNNING past, laughing* SHE'S GONNA EAT MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eclipse: *The 'She' in question, has no intention of eating Wake, just wants to BEAT HIS HEAD IN WITH HIS STUPID LED RIG*

Kriti: *is that scrabbling sound in one of the vents, which stops when she sees Wake. Then she's cackling and shouting encouragements to Eclipse*

shipSpazz: You dorks take your mating rituals out of my hallways. I'm trying to sleep here.

Spazz: *snorting sound* You don't sleep, you dork.

shipSpazz: You really get a kick out of insulting yourself, don't you?

Spazz: *doesn't look up* Thrrpt.

Kriti: *Cackling even more as Eclipse skids to a halt to sputter and stammer* That shut 'em up real quick!!!

shipSpazz: Of course it did. *snerk* Oh, alphaSpazz wants to talk to you.

Spazz: Alpha my aft.

Kriti: ... If this is about Showtime being duct taped upside down to that one door, it wasn't me. *gonna go Spazz-hunting now*

shipSpazz: Oh, I saw exactly who did that. I also know all about Mutt's little peekhole into Eclipse's quarters.

Eclipse: *loud, indignant SHRIEK, and then she's taking off after Wake again*

Kriti: *Snickering, will check in the kitchen first, and maybe steal a cookie to gnaw on for the next couple of days or so*

Spazz: *looks up as she comes in* Grab a seat.

Kriti: *scrabbling out of the vent cover, will dangle from the opening for a few nanoseconds before dropping to the table that was put under the vent opening*

Spazz: *back to her datapad as she waits for the tiny femme to make her way over to the eating table, which holds a plate of energon cookies and organic cookies*

Kriti: *jumps the distance, landing and rolling a bit* Ten points! *laughs*

Spazz: *chuckle*

Kriti: *gonna grab one of the energon cookies and nibble on it*

Spazz: So you're Kriti, huh?

Kriti: *nods, has mouth full of cookie currently*

Spazz: What do you think of the Frag It so far?

Kriti: *after swallowing the bite she was nomming* It's not bad. A lot more lively than the Ark, but that's okay. ^_^

Spazz: Ark. Optimus Prime's ship, right?

Kriti: *nods*

Spazz: Yeah, it would be. *looks up with a grin on her strange bayformer face as she sets her datapad aside* Is there anything you need?

Kriti: *serious for a moment* It's not a 'thing'... but I know it's not likely... Show and I have a sister back home... Show misses her more than I do, but I do miss her...

Spazz: You want me to contact her?

Kriti: *headshake* She probably went nuts after Show arrived here... It's not like she was exactly 'sane' when I knew her...

Spazz: *frowning a bit now* Check on her?

Kriti: *Quieter* I'd like her here, if only to make sure she's not hurting herself or anyone else... but I don't wanna put anyone here in danger of being mauled by her...

Spazz: *clues in* I think we can keep a Desinex penned up.

Kriti: ... *giving Spazz a slightly wary look now* How'd you know her name?

Spazz: I hack. Besides. If Showtime's your sister in your reality... there's only one other femme that's usually connected with you guys in most.

Kriti: ... Waitaclick... there's more than one me?

Spazz: Yup. You're not a Lonestar.

Kriti: ... *small shrug* So what're the other me's like? *chompacookie*

Spazz: The only one I've seen was a sparklet. Little clicky thing sticking close to a bayformer Perceptor, even though she wasn't bay tech herself.

Kriti: Bayformer? *Snerks at the idea of a version of Perceptor being a dad*

Spazz: Like me. It's something humans from realities where Transformers don't exist call this kind of tech.

Kriti: Oh... *comparing her tech to Spazz's now. Aside from size, she's actually really close in tech to the sparklet Kriti*

Spazz: You look more like the kid than like me. I haven't seen a fan name for that tech though yet. *reaches over for an energon cookie herself, but just pretends to make it walk on the table*

Kriti: Huh... *stretches a bit*

Spazz: Have you seen Rat's racing jelly?

Kriti: That thing that's the same color as Scatters?

Spazz: *chuckles* Yeah, the little pink goo thing.

Kriti: It's cute and all... but it's all jiggly and squishy and stuff... *giggle*

Spazz: *laughs* Yeah. He's got a great big tank in his living room for it. And now a family of pretty little mice live in the tank next to it.

Kriti: ... Relatives of the Boss? *no, she's not being serious*

Spazz: He says so. *amused*

Kriti: *Snicker* *More snickering as Wake is heard yelping just down the hall*

Spazz: He even says the little goldy one with red eyes looks like he used to.

Kriti: Heh.... *looks up* Incoming... *and then there's a bitty sparklet landing on the table with a squeak* Lu, what'd I tell you about following me in the vents?

Lumen: *clicks and holds the datapad he was reading close to his chest* Is quieter there!

Spazz: *blinking and then reaching for the little guy* So that's the LOL shipSpazz was cackling about. You know you're not the only LOL kid on board?

Lumen: *headtilt, clicks. Is it cuddles? Cuddles are okay!*

Spazz: *feet up on the table again as she holds him expertly* But yeah, there's the little goldy mouse, and a silver one with red eyes. One that's just mouse colour, and a little black and white pinto... he's the boy. And then I paid extra and got him one that's pink with purple polka dots.

Kriti: Like Boss's coat?

Lumen: *happy snuggles, focuses on reading the lesson Mama gave him*

Spazz: *chuckles* Not quite that bright. And mouse fur's a lot shorter and softer.

Kriti: Ah-ha... *stashes her cookie in subspace for now*

Spazz: And then he's got that security ball that follows him around. Did you take a swing at it the other day, Kriti?

Kriti: ... No comment.

Lumen: *Giggle* Kriti tried playing rodeo.

Kriti: ... *Razzes Lumen*

Spazz: *chuckles* I've got a pet.

Kriti: Oh?

Spazz: *nods* It's a robot rabbit that checks my emails and everything. Rat hates it.

Kriti: *Snerk*

Spazz: Really! He tried going psycho on the poor little guy once!

Kriti: *giggling now*

Lumen: *engrossed in the lesson Eclipse gave him, and oblivious to the conversation. Can has a warm to cuddle, so he's content to just study and learn*

Spazz: And all Fluffy was doing was reading a stock market report. *snerk*

Kriti: *Rolls optics*

Spazz: ...In Rat's voice.

Kriti: ... *Cackling*

Spazz: *ditto*

shipSpazz: You guys are all dorks. *snerk*

Spazz: Thrrpt.

Kriti: THRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPT!

Spazz: Anyway. I was wondering if you guys would like some kind of pets.

Kriti: *Blink blink* Um... Well... *hadn't thought about it*

Spazz: There are all kinds, from electronic to computer software to live and organic.

shipSpazz: Just no cats.

Spazz: *snerk* No. No cats.

Kriti: *headtilt, thinking* Not anything that could step on me...

Spazz: Well no. Pets are supposed to lower your stress level, or help you out in some way. Like Fluffy. I can do all the stuff he does, but it cracks me up to let him do it.

Kriti: I just don't want anything big enough to step on me. >.>;; *slight intake hitch*

Spazz: *reaches over and hauls the tiny femme into her arms beside Lumen*

Kriti: Ack! Hey!!!! *Squirms*

Spazz: Shut up and take a hug.

Kriti: *Squirm, acks when Lumen baps her for dislodging his datapad and making him lose his place*

Spazz: *lets her go* Anyway. What do you like to do? What's fun for you? Other than taping people to things and spying on guys you don't like?

Kriti: You mean besides being a pest to Manny and the other Divas? *blink blink*

Spazz: Yup.

Kriti: ... I... I don't know...

Spazz: Do you need something to watch your back? Do you like playing games? Snuggling?

Kriti: Well... I like sparring with Dinobot and Panzer.... Show doesn't like that sorta thing though... She never spars with me. *Slight sulk*

Spazz: Would you mind having to feed something?

Kriti: Naw... *shrug*

Spazz: Or having it poop?

Kriti: *shrug* Depends on how much... I'm not exactly the biggest femme around here...

Spazz: They make things for them to poop in. And drones to clean it up. *scratches her nose* I think I know what would be best for you.

Kriti: *headtilt*

Spazz: Here, Lu. Sit on the table for a minute. You have any money, Kriti?

Lumen: *frowns and clicks, before nudging Spazz and pointing to a word he's not familiar with*

Spazz: *looks and tells*

Kriti: I've got some... *will dig through her subspace for a bit, before pulling out a credit chit*

Spazz: *reads the chit*

chit: *has several thousand credits on it. Apparently, Kriti did fairly well when the crew was at that last casino*

Spazz: *chuckles* I'll bring back the change. It's okay if I get the pet and all its stuff?

Kriti: *nods* Go ahead...

Spazz: Okay. One last question. Girl or boy?

Kriti: ... Boy.

Spazz: Okay. *grins at Lumen and PINpoints away*

Lumen: *oblivious, is reading again*

Hrafni: *wanders in and looks in the pantry after nodding to the two small bots*

Kriti: *nods back, before folding into alt-mode for a bit*

Spazz: *back, with a soft sided pet carrier in one hand and a small pile of boxes sitting next to her. Takes her other hand off the boxes and looks around with a grin*

Lumen: *looks up from his datapad when he catches a new scent* ?

carrier: *making small complaining sounds*

Kriti: *transforms as Lumen puts his datapad aside to climb off the table*

Spazz: *plops down on her butt on the floor and unzips the carrier, then holds it open as a tiny reddish and black animal comes trotting out*

Lumen: *chirps and transforms to alt-mode, is about the same size as the carrier. Will sniff at the newcomer curiously*

Kriti: *and now she's getting down to the floor so she can see what came out of the carrier*

puppy: *looks at Lumen and Kriti with bright black button eyes. He looks like a baby ewok*

Lumen: *Gets into a 'play bow', wiggling his butt a bit* *Yips!*

Kriti: Awwww! C'mere, sweetie! *will coo and fuss over the puppy now*

puppy: *tail just agoing as he yips back at Lumen, and then he's turning and looking toward the friendly soft words and sounds. They smell odd, but they talk like puppies and people! Waggatail so hard his butt wiggles*

Kriti: *holds her hand out to the puppy, clicking a bit*

puppy: *and over he comes to sniff the hand. But he's too much a little gentleman to lick or jump on her. Instead he just keeps on wagging*

Kriti: *will move to pick the puppy up carefully, still clicking*

puppy: *wiggle wiggle snuggle wiggle, little yip. Much hellos!*

Kriti: *Loving upon the puppy now*

Spazz: *chuckling* You want to set up his place to sleep and potty?

Kriti: *looks up at Spazz* Huh?

Spazz: *more chuckle* His bathroom? He needs to know where it is so there aren't any accidents.

Kriti: Oh... yeah... *small frown* He won't fit in my room though...

Spazz: We can make him a room near it.

Kriti: *nod*

Lumen: *Yips and prances around, isn't quite as poofball as he would be if he were more like his dad, but is still poofy*

puppy: *yips back, but then snuggles his little face against Kriti*

Spazz: *chuckles and takes a box out of the pile, then offers it to the Maximal puppy* Here, I got you this.

Lumen: *headtilt, sniffs at the box curiously*

box: *doesn't smell like anything, but has pictures of a little robot bird on it*

Lumen: *Headtilts again, before transforming and plopping on his butt while he holds out his hands for the box*

Spazz: *gives it to him, and then picks up the puppy carrier and the other box and turns to head for the door*

Lumen: *Clicks to himself as he works on figuring out how to get the box open*

Kriti: *cradling the puppy, will follow after you, Spazz... and stick close to your feet, but not enough to be in the way or get accidentally kicked*

Spazz: *heading for the rec room, which is easy, since it's across the hall from the kitchen*

Rhinox: *sleeping on the rec room couch with Lucky sleeping on his chest*

Kriti: *ignores Rhinox and Lucky for now, is talking to the puppy in sparklet clicks and chirps*

puppy: *making tiny little squeaks in reply. One of the traits that made Spazz choose him is that he's a talker*

Spazz: *grabs a couple concrete blocks that Dinobaby plays with and uses them to block off a corner near the shelves, then sets the puppy carrier in it with the door pinned back* Sleeping place. And we can put a water dish for him here. They're in the other box with his bathroom.

Kriti: *nods, will gently set the puppy on his feet before reaching for the box with the water dish in it*

puppy: *sits down and watches her. He can sense that she's someone he needs to pay attention to. And he's also fascinated by how not-big she is*

Kriti: *Scrabbling up the side of the box, glad for her retractable claws... and then she's squeaking as she topples into the box on accident*

Spazz: Yipe! Do you need a hand?

Kriti: That'd be great.

Spazz: *isn't very tall herself, but she can reach Kriti and get her out. Sets the smaller femme on the floor, and then gets out one of the dishes and a rubber mat to put it on*

water dish: *is tip proof, pale blue, and bone shaped*

Kriti: Thanks... *is a bit embarrased*

puppy: *gentle kiss for Kriti's leg when she's set on the floor*

Spazz: No problem. *getting out the automated puppy potty now, after putting three more dishes and another mat on the floor, along with some other puppy stuff*

Kriti: *Gently scritching between the puppy's ears*

puppy: *waggatail*

Spazz: Water's even more important than food for a squishy. You have to make sure he's always got some in one of his dishes. *taking the potty and putting it on the other side of the blocks from his sleeping place, then getting it all set up. It looks something like a small plastic dog house*

Kriti: *nods* Spike said something like that once... *and then she's a bit sad as she thinks of the human*

Spazz: You guys had one of those, huh? *gets the cleaning system up and running*

Kriti: *nod* Yeah...

Spazz: Where I came from they called him Sam. And he was a dork. There we go, you wanna put him in here and tell him //pee//?

Kriti: *nods, moving to carry the puppy to the potty* *clicks as she puts him in there and tells him 'pee'*

puppy: *perks ears and tilts his head at her, but obediently tries his darndest. Sniffs around after the try, and then looks at her hopefully. Is he good boy?*

Kriti: *clicks and smiles, offering scritches between the ears again*

puppy: *out of the potty and wagging up a storm. Yay! He did good!*

Spazz: *chuckles and goes to put two more dishes in the kitchen. Fills one with water, and leaves the other one open for puppy food. Has gotten a lot of that, because she knows very well that a certain wigglebutt chibi will be eating some*

Lumen: *clicking and talking to the robot bird that was in the box, packing peanuts and the rest of the box's contents scattered everywhere*

Spazz: *chuckles as she works* He can't do too much yet. Can you read his instruction book?

bird: *flapping his wings and singing a soft little squeaky budgie song to Lumen*

Lumen: *clicks and tilts his head, and it's hard to believe that he's related to Wake, isn't it?*

Spazz: *grins at him and comes over to hunker by him, leaving Kriti to bond with her new friend and maybe find his toys and the puppy care book in the pile of stuff she left*

Lumen: *clicking up a storm now!*

Spazz: *chuckles* //Hey, Mutt and Eclipse, do you two wanna stop flirting long enough to come help your son bond with his first pet?//

Eclipse: //Wake's not available right now.// *tone is smug*

Spazz: //Thought I heard the me in his head laughing. You wanna come help Lumen with this?//

Eclipse: //Sure... Where are you?//

Spazz: //In the kitchen, on the floor by the table.//

Eclipse: //'Kay!// *and then she's there a few moments later* What'd Lu get? *moves to crouch by her son*

bird: *opens and closes his little beak and flutters his wings as he chirps*

Spazz: *offers Eclipse the instruction book*

Eclipse: *scanning the book quickly, will sit down next to Lumen*

Spazz: *watching, once more feeling a bit weirded out to think that she's a mother too*

Eclipse: *slightly distant look as she sends the bird data for Lumen to learn. It's general history stuff, mixed in with a bit of culture tidbits*

bird: *standing very still with his head slightly tilted in an attentive pose as he receives the programming*

Lumen: *Clicking and moving to snuggle against his Mama*

Spazz: If he needs any tweaking to make him more interesting I can do that.

Eclipse: *small grin for Lumen as she finishes sending the bird the history programming* *nods to Spazz* We'll see how quickly Lu gets bored...

Lumen: *blink blink. Isn't going to be bored any time soon. He likes learning*

bird: *chirps and flaps his wings! Then flies up to sit on Lumen's shoulder and sing his little squeaky song*

Lumen: *clicking up a storm again*

Spazz: *picks up the little perch that came with the bird* He needs to sit on this at night to recharge.

bird: *chirping right back at Lumen, the way he was programmed to*

Eclipse: *nods* Since Lu recharges in my quarters, we'll put the stand there.

Spazz: *grins and then looks through everything on the floor till she finds a little fake flower leaf, which she offers to the bird*

bird: *takes it and nibbles it. It's his 'treat'*

Lumen: *clicks about this for a little while*

bird: *drops his treat and tilts his head at Lumen, waiting to see what the sparklet wants to do now*

Lumen: *moves to climb back up to the table so he can get his datapad and read to the bird*

bird: *flies after him and sits on the table after Spazz has stood to give Lumen a little boost*

Lumen: *plops on his butt after grabbing his datapad, will read one of the stories to the bird now*

bird: *sitting on his shoulder and listening, offers the right word when he stumbles*

Eclipse: *Quiet chuckle as she moves to get to her feet*

Spazz: What do you think? *grin* Oh, and I'm Spazz.

Eclipse: Not bad... It's nice to finally have a face to put to a name... ^_^ *yes, she's smaller than you, Spazz, but she's definitely a Maximal, albeit one of slightly older tech than WakeJumper*

Spazz: *snerk* Well, technically the ship is also me. And so's that little bitty femme you might have seen following Boxcutter around.

Eclipse: ... *blink blink* Seriously?

Spazz: *nods* I'm also the voice in Rat's head that he argues with.

Eclipse: ... Which one? *optics sparkling with mischief*

Spazz: *snerk* The intelligent one.

Eclipse: Heh...

Spazz: Have you met Rhinox yet?

Eclipse: Briefly.... When Wake took me on a tour of the ship...

Spazz: *chuckles and moves to head out of the room and across the hall*

Hrafni: *comes out of the pantry then and goes to sit by Lumen as she absently munches the last of the cockroaches she found in there*

Eclipse: *Headtilt, curious, will follow Spazz*

Spazz: *into the rec room and over to the couch, where she puts a hand on the arm of the sleeping green giant*

Lucky: *making little sparklet purrs in his sleep as he lays on Daddy's chest all wrapped in his blankie*

Eclipse: *D'awws softly*

Kriti: *is clicking quietly and loving upon her puppy*

Spazz: Hard as it is for me to believe it, this is my husband. And that's our son that was created from us when we sat on the wrong couch in the Nexus.

Eclipse: *quiet for a few moments, before she's nodding* Wake and I learned first-hand about LOLs.... That's how we got Lu....

Spazz: Yeah?

Eclipse: *nod* I was still with the Divas at the time, so I couldn't stay... and then Rat decided to kidnap me... before I finally decided to join everyone here... *chuckles a bit*

Spazz: *chuckles too* What kind of LOL was it?

Eclipse: Some kind of gas bomb... *shrug*

Spazz: *shakes her head* Hormah still wants to know who was throwing those things. It wasn't Littlefoot.

Eclipse: *blink blink* ... *another shrug*

Spazz: Hormah keeps the sanctuary of Primus in the Nexus. Littlefoot is the femme who turns into the couch that gives off that gas.

Eclipse: Oh.... okay. *another shrug, glances over at Kriti* ... The little anklebiter's got a pet now?

Kriti: *Razzes Eclipse and makes a rude hand gesture*

Spazz: I figured if Rat could add to his zoo then a few other people could get something to lower their stress and cheer them up. *shrug*

Eclipse: *soft snerk, nods* Makes sense...

Spazz: Pets can be pretty fun sometimes. *sniggers as she once more thinks of the time she had Fluffy talking in Rattrap's voice*

Eclipse: ... I'm not even gonna ask. ^_^

Spazz: I told Kriti the story. *looks over at the tiny femme, reminded of smaller sisters that she'll never see again* Do you know what his name is?

Kriti: *blink blink, headshake*

Spazz: That's okay. Sometimes it takes time for you to figure out who somebody is.

Kriti: *nod, snuggles her puppy gently*

Spazz: *grins and looks up toward the shelves, her scanners on high as she seeks to find out if the sister is up there*

Showtime: *curled up under the blankets that Scatters gave her the last time he was around, is in recharge*

Spazz: *absently moves to sit on her husband, turning her head back to look at Eclipse again as she does so* So yeah. If the bird ever needs some custom programming, I can do it. And if you ever feel like playing a game let me know and I'll show you a good one.

Eclipse: It's not Zaptrivia, is it? *Yes, she's heard about that from Wake*

Spazz: *snrrrrk* No. This is a MMORPG I'm developing with a friend. We used to call it Multiverse Warcraft, but I think it needs a different name.

Eclipse: *Headtilt* Huh...

Spazz: I think it's lots of fun. *looks down, her expression pensive for a moment, but then grins a bit* But I guess right now I better get these guys to bed.

Eclipse: *nods* I should probably get Lu to bed as well...

Kriti: *telling her puppy to stay, will scrabble up to her little apartment and disappear inside it for a few moments*

Spazz: *chuckle as she jumps down and pokes Rhinox in the side* Was nice meeting you guys.

Eclipse: ^_^ It was nice meeting you as well. *will go and get Lumen and his pet bird*

Kriti: *Dropping blankets out of her apartment, will jump down after them*

Spazz: *chuckles at Kriti, once more reminded of little sisters, and then steers her sleepy and mildly grumpy husband to their hammock down in the garden*

Kriti: *Will get her puppy situated in his carrier and make herself a nest of blankets next to the carrier*

puppy: *laying in the carrier, sleepy but a bit lonely and scared*

Kriti: *clicks soothingly. Is right here, isn't going anywhere*

puppy: *little squeaky whimpers as he snuggles a stuffed octopus and settles to sleep*

Kriti: *will keep watch over her puppy. Woe unto anyone who disturbs him!*

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