Unleash the Podlings!

[cityship]

||Pod Release Protocols Initiating,|| Stacy announced to the denizens of the upper levels. Down the the Pod Caverns, familiar sounds made themselves known:

Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

Mist sprayed from the cracks in the pods before the new crew members were summarily ejected from warm, comfortable stasis to their new chilly, damp reality. They'd either meet each other in the Caverns or in the upper levels, where the previously popped crew would also be waiting for them, if Stacy had anything to say about it.

This time, there were two pods spitting mechanical beings out of a more oily mixture, and one podling who was significantly smaller than most of the others.

Pop. Poppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiissss.

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[cityship]

A voice, female from the sound of it comes from...well...nowhere.

||You are in the Pod Caverns.||

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

The Pod Caverns. Ah.
...
It still didn't make any sense, even after Blitzwing ran it through all three sections of his processor.

"Uh...clarify...moreso?" he ventured to ask. "Und...who are you?" His optics scanned the vast cavern, and found it mind-bogglingly big. Even the Nemesis wasn't as big as this.

[cityship]

||Information classified. I am STA'C K'LTRRB'TXFT...|| the name seems to be accompanied by a psychic flood of emotions, which seemed to be a mix of honor, duty, and motherly love. ||...but you may call me Stacy.||

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

"Ah. I see. Vell...uh...nice to meet you, Stacy. Um..."

Blitzwing looked down at himself.

"...how do I get zis off? And how did I arrive here, at all? I thought I vas on Earth still..."

[cityship]

A path of lighted pustules lit up along the ground.

||Please follow this path if you wish to be cleaned. Information classified. You are here.||

Cheerful, isn't she?

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

By Decepticon standards? Certainly.
By normal standards? Not so much.

Nevertheless, Blitzwing thought it best to obey, and obediently followed the path of the lights until he came to a small room containing several greenish-black vines dangling down.

He supposed he had to step into it. He did so.

[cityship]

And immediately thereafter said vines descend upon him, wrapping around him for a few moments before letting him go, all sparkly and clean now.

No uniform though. Bad Decepticon, no plantsuit!

||Is there anything else I can help you with?||

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

Well, Blitzwing very much wants to know how he got here, but he already asked and didn't get a satisfactory answer.

Also, Random is napping at the moment, which is why Blitzwing is not bugging Stacy with constant questions like some extraterrestrial alien robot puppy.

...Vait. Vhy am I short?
Indeed, the Decepticon is a lot shorter than he is comfortable with. He's about human-sized now.

But that's a problem for later. Blitzwing keeps his thoughts to himself.
"...Vhere do I go now?" he asks, still quite confused.

[cityship]

||I can direct you to the Living Area, if you wish.||

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

...well, that seemed the place to go.
It wasn't like he knew his way around..wherever this was, anyway.

"...I do vish to be directed to zis 'living area', yes..."

[cityship]

||This way, please.||

Yet another path of pustules lit up along the ground, leading out of the room to a fleshy opening at the base of a truly massive spire, which reached from the floor all the way to the rather impossibly high ceiling.

||Please step inside.||

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

Blitzwing dutifully followed the lights again. Random stirred in the back of his mind long enough to comment on how pretty the little shiny lights were, then resumed his nap.

The Decepticon looked up at the spire, craning his neck, but even then he couldn't see how far it went.

He stepped into the opening, after some hesitation, and waited.

[cityship]

Almost immediately after he was in, he was shot upwards through a cramped tube by an unseen force. The whole thing seemed to go on for miles, though the trip only took a couple seconds. Thankfully, though, he was let out at the living area at the end.

||This is the Living Area. You may move about freely anywhere on this level unless otherwise noted.||

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

Blitzwing staggered and almost fell, having found the experience slightly dizzying.
Scratch that. Very dizzying. The Decepticon quickly regained his wits and realigned his sense of balance, and walked off to the obs deck.

((Jumping to the obs deck post to meet everyone else :D))