October 9th, 2002
~Novastar(D), Blitzwing(D),

Darkmount - Arena

     You believed the barracks to be the largest cavern until you pass into the Decepticon Empire's training arena. The platform stretches before you for only a few more meters before dropping off into the seemingly bottomless cavern. Intensely lighted, the cavern stretches for miles and has been unaltered in appearance. It has a general diamond shape and there are numerous natural formations of rock and outcroppings, ideal for practicing both ground and aerial combat maneuvers.

     The bare rock of the native planetscape is mostly open space except for the huge holoprojection tower in the center of the field. Hordes of combat drones line one wall, ready for one-on-one fighting, or to take you through the rock formations in a test of skill. Above the grounds is devoted to a high-altitude aerial obstacle course that tests the skill and resolve of the Decepticons to the utmost. A small stairway and massive blast door lead to a covered area for safe observation of training exercises.


Novastar [Robot] [D] 
Blitzwing [Robot] [D] 
Health Restorer

Obvious Exits:
 -W- West leads to Darkmount - Tunnel


-Blitzwing is standing over Novastar with his sword drawn.
-Novastar is standing in the middle of floor of the cavern, Blitzwing's sword pointing at him. Novastar doesn't quite seem to be doing well, and if you've got great eyes, you can see heat venting from the exhaust ports on his chest. Someone pushed themselves a little hard...
-Moonlight walks in looking rather grumpy, mostly because her hat is absent and partly because she still looks like she's in need of some repairs. Her arms are folded across her chest and she doesn't look amused.
-Blitzwing roars "Inhibitor field in this arena will keep you alive...but If you betray my trust again...I'll demonstrate. TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT!"
-Novastar blinks in surprise, but optics narrow soon afterwards behind his visor. Blitzwing's always been boastful, but this might be the chance to get out of here alive. Novastar quickly unlimbers his rifle, cranks it to max, and lets loose with a mighty ion burst, bursting into a flat out run as soon as the ions leave his barrel...
-Moonlight moves to a position where both combatants can see her, but aren't /too/ likely to shoot at her. Simulations or not, she isn't in a condition to get physical. Impatiently she taps her foot against the floor. Still she fails to look at all impressed.
-Blitzwing nods to Moonlight, and then laughs at Novastar...he took exactly one sep back when that blast struck him. "Not bad kid...not good enough though. Tag...your It." He attempts to impale Novastar with his sword.
-Novastar is trying to get around Blitzwing, and hears the cocky statements in time to turn his head around. Folding his wings in and rolling into a ball, Novastar narrowly involves being gutted. "You think this is a game?" he says, irritated and worried, while drawing his sword, "Don't you even get it?" Novastar lunges out with the blade, hoping to buy himself some space to get out of here...
-Moonlight isn't feeling eloquent at the moment, so all she says is: "AHEM!"
-Blitzwing is struck with a glancing blow. He pauses "Yes ma'am?" He shoots Novastar casually while not even looking at him.
-Moonlight shakes her head ever so slightly. "I heard there was something going on down here. People kept popping their heads into the repair bay babbling on and on about a fight. Since I obviously wasn't allowed to get any rest, I decided to come down and see what all the commotion was about. So...what /is/ going on?"
-Novastar gets knocked backwards, HARD by the blast, sending him skidding backwards. Novastar manages to retain his wits and sit up, despite the blast mark on his armor from the charge, and not taking the time to charge the rifle's capacitors, launches a quick round of laser fire.
-Novastar says, "I'm a little busy right now Moonlight! Check the comm. logs, I'll talk later!"
-Blitzwing laughs so more "Moonlight, Im just explaining to him why it's not nice to betray your friends." He transforms and fires some death Nova's way.
-Novastar launches himself into flight when the projectiles come his way, but is unable to get clear and he's caught in the blast radius of several, with one actually exploding against his leg. Grimacing in pain, Novastar goes to flight mode. "Blitzwing, as if switching to a land form against an Autobot hunter like me wasn't foolish, you use the word betray when you're DATING an Autobot?" Novastar punctuates the statement by retracting several armor plates, revealing interior missiles that roll out along his wings, before igniting and arrowing for the tank.
-Blitzwing watches the shot miss narrowly "If you shot as good as you talked youd be incredible!" Another barrage of death for Mosieur Nova.
-Moonlight looks at the ceiling in a moment of exasperation. "Next time you want to fight do it somewhere where I won't get reports on it every few minutes."
-Novastar roars in pain as the artillery bursts right in front of him. Airframe cracking under the strain, Novastar tries desperately to avoid it, but ends up going into the explosion, body riddled by shrapnel. Figuring he's not going to be around much longer anyway, Novastar lines himself up and launches from his main gun in this mode, a storm of energy playing out to rain down, hopefully, on Blitzwing.
-Blitzwing transforms into aerial mode, and goes Kamakazee. Bigger is better afterall.
-Moonlight bahs to herself and pulls out her blaster, firing a warning shot towards, but not at, the two combatants. After all, if you want to get through to someone, speak their language. It makes all the difference.
-Novastar pulls himself from his dive, as Blitzwing takes to the air, and almost casually barrel rolls out of the way, with a quick touch of afterburner. "Subtlety, obviously, is something you lack, Blitzwing!" Novastar called, pulling up and around. With Blitzwing darting around in the air, most of his attacks are too slow, but Novastar suddenly spins off the attack path when Moonlight's warning shot goes by, losing the opportunity to have Blitzwing in his sights as he responds.
-Blitzwing transmits: 'Dont interfere....We can spar...Noone's dying!'.
-Moonlight puts away her blaster, but doesn't appear mollified yet.
-Blitzwing hovers momentarily, explaining the situation to Moonlight, attention diverted from Novastar.
-You transmit 'That's not the point. You guys are being noisy and I'm not going to get any peace and quiet until you stop.' to Blitzwing.
-Novastar transmits: 'I said I didn't really have time. Blitzwing was in Bot territory... and when I pressed him for why, as he's been acting strange, I mention I'm worried as he allowed an Autobot Scout, Swivel, I think Enfilade said, to escape recently. when I mentioned this, he attacked me, claiming he loved her, and dragged me down here as sort of a warning, and I'm a little worried to leave the simulated combat zone until he snaps out of it.'.
-Moonlight puts her hands on her hips. "Well boo-hoo to both of you. I want you to sit down and behave for five minutes...is that /really/ too much to ask?"
-Blitzwing transmits: 'You can have your five minutes in five minutes.'.
-Novastar transmits: 'Um, you do know this is Blitzwing in here with me, right?'.
-Moonlight makes a face. "Oh quit with the radios you two. What you want to say can be heard by the other mech. I don't want you all tip-toeing around all hush-hush like. Obviously you aren't happy with each other right now, and I don't think it can get much worse."
-Novastar pulls out, on Moonlight's suggestion, and able to talk and shoot at the same time, pulls in behind the slower Blitzwing. "Well, he COULD turn off the simulated aspect of combat here, Moonlight," he states. Most of his weapons are too slow tracking for flight, but he can, and does, unleash his flechette guns against the powerful jet.
-Blitzwing umms "Was that supposed to damage me?" He responds with a missile, then transforms and stands there wating for retaliation.
-Moonlight frowns. "Now why would he do that?"
-Blitzwing says, "Kid has a death wish?"
-Novastar spins around in the air, creating a ring of heat that causes the missile to lose lock. "If only it were that simple. Love tends to make things messy, though." Novastar punctuates his statement by unleashing some heavy ordinance of his own against the slower target.
-Blitzwing ducks and fires once with his blastrer "Bring it down here kid, Come on! I wont bite!"
-Moonlight hmphs. "At least Novastar is right about one thing." She shakes her head. "Does fighting really make you both feel so much better?"
-Blitzwing says, "He sold me out...he's lucky its simmed. He betrayed my trust Moonlight. I dont take kindly to that! So actually yes."
-Moonlight leans against a handy rock. She looks rather tired despite her irritation. "What does it accomplish? You'll beat him up, the sim will end, and he'll be fine again. There will still be a problem and you might balk at helping him when it matters. I don't see how this charade is helping any."
-Novastar screams and is unable to maintain his transformation from the pain. Antigrave working fitfully he manages to come to a halt on a high ledge. Groaning, he pulls himself to his knees. "Blitzwing... what are you talking about? Your actions could lead to the deaths of who knows how many Decepticons! And you're talking about betrayal!" Novastar sounds hurt, in more than just the massive physical damage. Arcs of electricity are mere extensions of his anger as Novastar's rifle fires a lower powered burst...
-Blitzwing staggers back writhing in pain anger and even hate. He just suddenly charges at Novastar. "Betrayl you fool!?! I battla the Autobots greatest warriors for this empire, never once retreating, never was abandoning a commrade...and for my acceptance of a femme who isnt a warrior and sometimes not a bot, Im hated for it?"
-Novastar finally collapses, the simulated damage too much for his systems, and so doesn't reply, as the arena locks him out.
-Moonlight sighs. The situation isn't as strange to her as it would be to others. She's kept a secret for a long time now, a secret that's given her a bit of wisdom. Too bad she's too busy being grumpy right now to use it. She turns to Blitzwing. "Okay, you've got him flat out on the floor now, you happy?"
-Blitzwing sheaths his sword, and puts his blaster away, he shuts down the sim restoring himself, saying nothing to Moonlight, but offering Novastar a hand off the floor.
-Novastar finds the damage gone, and groggily accepts Blitzwing's hand, wondering what's going to happen to him now.
-Moonlight waits somewhat patiently.
-Blitzwing helps him up, and just pats him on the shoulder no further violence. "Good fight." he turns to Moonlight "I feel better getting that out actually. better then letting it linger." He then returns his gaze to Nova. "Please refute me. I've laid everything on the line for this cause, and you question my loyalty, Why? In turn I have to question your frienship, because you could even consider seeing me betray this Empire. " He speaks with relief but at the same time anguish.
-Novastar sighs, "I know you're one of our best warriors, Blitzwing, and that's never been in question." Novastar rubs his chestplate for a moment before continuing, "But I'm not sure you've considered this thouroughly. There's records of both sides using relationships at an attempt to get sensitive information, and we're seriously off balance with our morale low, all the better time to seek comfort."
-Moonlight shrugs. "Relationships across factions aren't so impossible as you might think Novastar..." Her voice is very quiet, very thoughtful.
-Blitzwing responds calmly "She's never wanted to know anything about the decepticons, The fact is she's a bot only cause she thinks we glorify violence. She just wants away from the war...I swear. I never meant to cause harm to any of my friends, but seemingly everyone loathes me for having someone's companionship. I sidnt know a warrior wasnt allowed happiness... "
-Novastar covers his face with one of his hands for a moment, struggling with something. "Warriors are allowed happiness, Blitzwing... but her function, according to our files, is a scout. Now, I don't know everything that's going on, but what happens if you give Swivel access across our border, and while she may mean well, she could be recording all sorts of information! What happens if you break up? She could get her revenge against the entire Empire!"
-Moonlight drops her hands to her side. "This place give me the creeps. Why don't we all go someplace and try to sort this out?"
-Blitzwing shakes his head. "It's not like I go there for strictly pleasure! I kick every other bot's teeth in I pass! Sides she doesnt come here. And I wouldn't tell her anything pertenent to the Empire anyway!"
-Novastar cocks his head to the side. Blitzwing's has only even tried to misdirect once in Novastar's memory, and Novastar drops that particular point. "All right, I'll give you that. Just my suggestion, talk to Intel and see if there's anything you can do to obscure yourself a little, if nothing else it'll protect Swivel.. I mean," and Novastar looks hurt, "I was looking for you, and you were gone, despite your care for that rat... You claimed to be smoking an enercig, when you had vanished right after we found something potentially useful, and you'd been having contact with an Autobot in the past. You lied, directly to me after that, and there were plenty of things you could have said that would make me drop it, you're too valuable to the Decepticons, and too nice a person for this.. Please remember that," he finished softly, starting to walk out. Novastar suddenly turned, "I'll sit on this for the time being, Blitzwing. Don't make me have to regret it someday..."
-Blitzwing pats Nova on the shoulder, and Pats Moonlight on the head, fore saying "Thank you" to both, and catching some shut eye on one of the benchs.