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#0, Four million years ago,
Posted by Gryphon on Jul-22-10 at 02:28 AM
a crack Decepticon special forces team was sent to prison for a crime they most assuredly committed. These bots promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade into the Cybertron underground. Today, still wanted by the Autobots, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, you will almost certainly make the situation even worse if you hire... the Combaticons.

--G.
I know I've done this joke before, but somehow it fails to get old, particularly when I'm trying to revive my inner TFs. The Combaticons map even better to the A-Team archetypes than the Dinobots, anyway. Particularly Brawl, who ain't gettin' on no Blast-Off, and Howlin' Mad Vortex.
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#1, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by Barricade on Jul-22-10 at 05:55 AM
In response to message #0
*tries to imagine Brawl turning into The Van, with the B.A accent, and my brain melts from the image*

Yes, I can see how that doesn't get old.


#2, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by CdrMike on Jul-22-10 at 11:27 AM
In response to message #0
Brawl: We're flying this time, aren't we?
Onslaught: Yes, we are.
Brawl: You're not going to drug me this time. I'm going to keep my eye on you.
Onslaught: In that case, do you want the last swallow of your energon?
*Brawl realizes he's been had, raises his fist and then collapses*
Onslaught: Guess not.

#4, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by Gryphon on Jul-23-10 at 03:31 PM
In response to message #2
>Brawl: We're flying this time, aren't we?
>Onslaught: Yes, we are.
>Brawl: You're not going to drug me this time. I'm going to keep my eye
>on you.
>Onslaught: In that case, do you want the last swallow of your energon?
>*Brawl realizes he's been had, raises his fist and then collapses*
>Onslaught: Guess not.

I fully believe that that's how Bruticus came to be: the Combaticons were on a job, they got captured and their opponents locked them in a machine shop, the theme music played over a montage of fiddling and welding, and then Bruticus came crashing through the rolling metal door and trashed the joint.

--G.
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#5, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by SliderDaFeral on Jul-25-10 at 04:27 AM
In response to message #4
You do realize that you've just produced enough fodder for a spamfic, if nothing else.

-- Slider Da Feral (NYAR!)


#6, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by mdg1 on Jul-28-10 at 12:48 PM
In response to message #4
Puts an entirely new spin on "I love it when a plan comes together"...

#7, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by Silversword on Jul-28-10 at 05:48 PM
In response to message #6
>Puts an entirely new spin on "I love it when a plan comes together"...

...well played, sir.


#8, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by Prince Charon on Jul-29-10 at 09:07 PM
In response to message #4
Y'know, its amazing (or would be if it weren't fiction) how many idiots lock the A-Team or MacGyver in a machine shop, tool room, or other place that anyone with a little technical skill, and some creativity, would find massively advantageous.

Locking the A-Team and MacGyver in one would have been even worse.

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington


#11, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by Arashi on Jul-30-10 at 10:16 PM
In response to message #8
>Y'know, its amazing (or would be if it weren't fiction) how many
>idiots lock the A-Team or MacGyver in a machine shop, tool room, or
>other place that anyone with a little technical skill, and some
>creativity, would find massively advantageous.
>
>Locking the A-Team and MacGyver in one would have been even
>worse.

"Okay, someone please explain how they managed to make a pinpoint defense missile system out of a shed of garden tools!"


#3, RE: Four million years ago,
Posted by Peter Eng on Jul-22-10 at 06:56 PM
In response to message #0
>The
>Combaticons map even better to the A-Team archetypes than the
>Dinobots, anyway. Particularly Brawl, who ain't gettin' on no
>Blast-Off, and Howlin' Mad Vortex.

>

Swindle as Faceman is another nice match-up, although I think Face was more classy than Swindle any day of the week.

Peter Eng
--
("He's at an energon tasting, disguised as Hound?")


#9, Sticking my neck out a little...
Posted by fb111a on Jul-30-10 at 10:41 AM
In response to message #0
But from what I remember of the A-Team, someone was constantly out-witted by the A-Team - specifically, the guy sent to catch them. So... I have to ask a potentially inconvenient question: Which Autobot (or Autobots) are Decker, Lynch, and the other hapless guys trying to CATCH the Combaticons?

*ducks*


#10, RE: Sticking my neck out a little...
Posted by mdg1 on Jul-30-10 at 12:44 PM
In response to message #9
I'm thinking Ultra Magnus. Ever since he was passed up for promotion....

#12, RE: Sticking my neck out a little...
Posted by Peter Eng on Aug-03-10 at 01:43 PM
In response to message #9
>Which Autobot
>(or Autobots) are Decker, Lynch, and the other hapless guys trying to
>CATCH the Combaticons?
>
>*ducks*

I always wondered how Huffer got his pessimistic view of life...

Peter Eng
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