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| - "YEAH! Decepticonz! Kicking Autobutt! Fighting to survive, oh oh, Decepticonz! Never givin' in, we'll never surrender! Ohhh, Decepticonz! Fightin' forever, til the end of time! YEAAAHHHH!" *kabooom!* Soundwave is hunched over a computer console, rubbing his chin thoughtfully as he watches his show unfold online. Scrapper is watching over Soundwave's shoulder. His arms are crossed. "This is so lame," he says openly. Switchblade arrives from the northwest through one of the sliding doors portraying a Decepticon symbol, one that appeared seamless moments before. Switchblade has arrived. Scrapper is watching over Soundwave's shoulder. His arms are crossed. "This is so lame," he says openly. Soundwave looks over at Scrapper briefly. "Perhaps. But we must appeal to the weak and simple minded." Switchblade walks into the room, and looks at Scrapper and Soundwave. "What in Primus are you doing?" He asks aloud. His violet optics look around. Yet, he doesn't get too violent about it, being that they are both higher ranked then he is. Scrapper looks towards Switchblade and motions for him to come on over. "Watching TV," he admits. "Soundwave had us make up an Earthly transmission. So far it's pretty bad, though." Not that Scrapper has any idea what counts as good television programming or anything. Soundwave stares at Switchblade for a moment. "Propaganda effort. Your apparent alarm is unnecessary." "I dont believe the humans will fall for this..." He looks to the screen in which the episode is being played on. "I mean...look at it." Yet, he bites his tongue and thinks. It is true, Earth does indeed have some incredbily -stupid- programming on their airwaves. Some of it does become really popular with the youths. Scrapper watches as his character - a badly formed union of himself and Scavenger - hugs Catechism. "I've never claimed to understand the way humans work, so who knows. Maybe if we just dangled a bunch of shiny things over them we'd be able to get their attention." You say, "Programming of a similar nature routinely achieves high ratings amongst children and mental invalids." You say, "It was an interesting exercise to emulate some of Blaster's mannerisms while portraying myself. Perhaps he will view this program and feel appropriately slighted." Switchblade not actually taking part in the voice acting, takes part into a different way. "Hey Soundwave, you have full control of whats going on in the show, correct?" Soundwave looks up at Switchblade. "The show was animated some time earlier, but I can make alterations in real-time if necessary." Scrapper says, "You know I think my character could use some more development or something. Maybe he could have several episodes devoted to the adventures of the Constructicons. Maybe they could go kill Omega Supreme or something!" "Excellent, thats exactly what I wanted to hear. Don't forget to try and add a scene with the Autobots concieving an 'evil' plot at the same time. Or the terran children won't get the feeling of why they need to fear the bots..." Hopefully Soundwave can accomplish such a thing. "AFFIRMATIVE." "Excellent... Excellent! Hmha, hmhuhahahaha!" The camera switches to an angle of the person speaking. Those antennae are familiar... is that... Optimus Prime? Soundwave finishes typing something at a mind-boggling speed. "There. A short scene portraying Optimus Prime as an evil force. Perhaps I will do more in this regard later." Switchblade nods at Soundwave. "This is perfect, if we can trick these primitive apes, things will be alot easier..." He continues to watch as the epidsode plays out. Scrapper hmmms and rubs his chin with a lime green hand. "I don't know... people seem to be pretty pro-Optimus Prime on this planet as far as I can tell." Scrapper is reserving judgement for after this, however. Soundwave glances around at everyone. "This is my favorite part." Scrapper just shakes his head. "I hate this part." He isn't too enthusiastic about this entire plan. The only reason he went along with it was because he owed Soundwave one for letting him experiment on Magma a while back. "Oh oh," says Scrapenger, looking up at the giant Autobot. "Looks like we need Devastator power!" he shouts. All the Constructicons suddenly whip out their Constructicon Medallions and hold them out in front of them, doing a little bit of choreography along the way. Suddenly the screen shifts to show a close up of the six (they got it right for his) Constructicons, one at a time while anime flash lines blare in the background. Four out of ten kids are now suffering from epileptic seizures. "Payloader!" Scrapper shouts. "Cement Truck!" Mixmaster shouts. "Crane!" Hook shouts. "Bulldozer!" Bonecrusher shouts. "Shovel... thingee..." Scavenger stammers. "Dump Truck!" Long Haul shouts. There are suddenly shots of all the Constructicons leaping into the air and doing somersaults for some crazy ass reason. The end result is Devastator, also standing on the refinery that just won't buckle under the weight. Devastator is a good head and shoulders taller than Omega Supreme. You say, "The flashing lights will cause epileptic seizures, generating controversy and increasing attention on the series." Switchblade looks at the screen. "Soundwave, can you stick a fake company on there. We'll promote some kind of merchandise with that name later." Soundwave nods, and begins to type again at an amazing speed. "Very well." Scrapper glances at Soundwave and Switchblade, wondering what the latter has in mind right now. He turns back to the screen in time to see Switchblade appear in cartoon form. "Wow, Ironhide's more of a jerk than I remember," he says with a snicker. Switchblade turns to Scrapper, "Not much a bot can defend against, if he's gone..." A sadistic smile appears behind his mouth piece. "Im sure you can agree with that?" You say, "Additionally, to have them be portrayed in such a manner may undermine the morale of the Autobots who remember them." Scrapper watches this travesty. "This is so bad, Soundwave..." he says in his gruff voice, shifting his weight from one foot to another. "Are humans /really/ this dumb to fall for this sort of thing?" Soundwave's reply is simple and to the point. "Yes." He finishes typing with a final CLACK. Switchblade waves his hand at Scrapper, who's talking as he's trying to speak. "If anything, look at it like this. This makes an excellent diversion, if we wanted to strike..." Scrapper replies to Switchblade, "I don't think I have the mental capacity to do anything after viewing this, let alone go on an attack." You say, "The subject matter is ridiculous, but this is what my procedural software suggested after I inputted data from various children's shows that are popular on this world." "Hmm, we might wanna monitor how many humans are actually watching this..." Switchblade says curiously. Yet he does not mess with the controls, till Soundwave says they can. Soundwave nods, and looks at his screen. "One hundred thousand hits on the Decepticonz website, where this program is primarily being broadcast, thus far." "Hmmm, we could market the things on this..." Switchblade says, and rubs his chin. Scrapper says, "The energon drink or the show itself?" Switchblade says, "The drink, I mean." Scrapper hmmms and thinks about it. "I'm rusty on my human biology, but don't humans explode if they drink energon?" You say, "I would feel sorry for any Decepticons constructed solely from recycled aluminum." Switchblade says, "I agree, I would rather shut myself down for good..." Soundwave swivels in his chair to answer Scrapper's question. "No. The energon rapidly eats through their bodies, dissolving them. I have conducted several tests in this regard." Scrapper says, "Oh right. Well they still probably wouldn't buy something that'll make them dissolve from the inside out either." Switchblade says, "No no, I meant the can itself, we market that and sell some kind of liquid for ingestion. Plus, have you seen what these humans drink anyways, it already dissolves their insides." Scrapper was clearly not designed as a marketing robot. "Well I suppose... if they're dumb enough to watch /this/ drivel," Scrapper gestures at the TV, "Then I guess they'll be dumb enough to do just about anything." Soundwave stands up from his terminal, announcing, "I shall analyze critical reviews of the series as well as reactions from younger aged viewers some time later." Scrapper finally manages to pry his eyes off the TV. "And I'm going to go to the medbay and make sure I haven't suffered brain damage from watching this drivel." Even though the Decepticons aren't supposed to be playful with this situation. "Also, run a review on the most popular character. We can then use that one, as the protagonist of the series. If anything, it'll pull more children to watch." Soundwave nods to the suggestions and continues to make his way out. He also hopes Galvatron decides to ignore this little operation, for various reasons. One of them being that he doesn't want to destabilize his state of mind more than it already has been... Scrapper will let Soundwave deal with the most popular character thing. Being the humble Constructicon, he's cool no matter who gets picked. "Let me know when I'm needed for more voice work, Soundwave," he says. This way he can be far, far away! Bwahahaha! Soundwave will be sure to find Scrapper when he knows that he has absolutely nothing else to do!
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