http://oftemptation.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] oftemptation.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2009-05-11 09:30 am

Day 41: Breakfast

Endrance turned his head to look at the intercom, giving it a look that would wither an entire rose garden in an instant. He would never get used to ending up in his room again from somewhere else in the Institute.

He brushed his bangs out of his eyes, not sitting up just yet. He could tell already that his torso had been heavily bandaged, even more so than it had been the night before. The cuts on his arms were covered with fresh bandages, and the one on his cheek seemed to no longer be there at all.

Endrance had been expecting to wake up in a lot of pain, but even that seemed numbed. "They must have given me something," he murmured quietly, as he slowly sat up.

At that moment, his nurse came to get him, pushing a wheelchair along with her. "Peyton, dear, good morning. I've come to take you to breakfast, so..." He shook his head. "I'm fine. There's no need for that...I can walk perfectly well."

She sighed. Well, if he insisted, she wasn't going to stop him. She motioned for an orderly to take the chair away, and walked him to the cafeteria. Once they had gotten there, she pointed him toward a seat, then set a full tray of pancakes covered with syrup, a bowl of fruit, and a glass of orange juice in front of him. "Now eat all of that, Peyton, or else you won't be strong enough to keep walking like that."

He glared at her back as she walked away, then stopped suddenly. There was that faint pulse he'd felt the night before...it was exactly the same.

And so he completely ignored his food in favor of staring at the cafeteria doors, looking at every patient that came in.

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[identity profile] haplesstracker.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Scourge detected the capitalization on Hero, and instantly commiserated. Right, he wanted to keep it quiet. Scourge could handle missions behind people's backs, he'd done plenty for Cyclonus when Galvatron didn't need to be bothered about paltry matters that would have just gotten him upset and violent again.

"Better the weapon, the better the chemicals. Like I said, you won't get anything in return if I don't live to bring them back."

[identity profile] tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"I make excellent weapons. I do not produce anything of lower quality." And blades had always been a specialty. He was exactingly precise in sharpening them. "As long as you are capable of using them, they will do their job." Just as with people.

[identity profile] haplesstracker.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know a few tricks." Scourge tried to pass off casual mastery as 'having watched people with swords use them to good effect'. Still, it couldn't be that hard.

[identity profile] tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then you will get a weapon. I need to know your cell number or where I can find you tonight to give it to you." And he would have to be quick about it. Marcus had the sense not to tell Recluse which cell he was in, but it never took him long to show up.

[identity profile] haplesstracker.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"M32. My roommate's some guy named Waxer, but I doubt he'll give you any trouble just for showing up. I'll wait for you." Because the less time he spends alone without a weapon outside his room, the better.

[identity profile] tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Recluse mentally filed away the cell number, not bothering to write it down. "I'll be there." He already knew what type of blade would probably be best, especially with that... rather unconvincing line pertaining to personal skill. He wouldn't waste too much metal this way if things went bad.

[identity profile] haplesstracker.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Just don't mention it was me. My teammates get a bit tetchy when they think I'm going behind their backs." Still needed to find Kon before Blitzwing did, or things would really get messy. They seriously needed a Megatron around here.

A new, more manic voice rang out across the cafeteria (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/623376.html?thread=51660304#t51660304), and Scourge jerked up so fast he sent a bit of pancake flying off his fork and halfway to the next table. "Oh. Great. Another table crazy. Do people always do this in the mornings?"

[identity profile] tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"But of course." Recluse wouldn't even dream of it. Not as long as he was satisfied with the results he was getting, of course.

He barely reacted when the idiot started yelling, not turning to look, rather deciding this would be a better moment to start picking at his breakfast. "It sounds almost like one of the people employed by my government." It certainly had the utter incomprehensibility and mania to it that was often heard in the classic Mad Scientist.

"The sort that might stumble upon a brilliant idea every so often, but mostly just creates impractical doomsday devices that contains some easily exploitable flaw the Heroes will instantly find." It was why Arachnos had a specific training and oversight program for those ones. He liked keeping worries over nation-destroying explosives, zombie invasions, and plant-zombie invasions to a minimum within the Rogue Isles.

[identity profile] haplesstracker.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"He sounds like an overenergized Perceptor. Or possibly the Constructicons after they've been spending too much time with Mixmaster's chemistry set." Devastator's lack of intellect did get a bit frustrating when you wanted to make sure he only knocked over a specific electrical tower, but having a giant condensed engineer would probably be worse.

[identity profile] tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mad scientists can be valuable assets, as long as you can direct their tendency towards self-destruction away from your own interests." Always a difficult balance, with so many other things to manage at any given time, but if one couldn't handle that, they weren't cut out for the job of leading a Villain group.

[identity profile] haplesstracker.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, that'd be why we killed Wheeljack." Actually, as Scourge very vaguely recalls, they only did that because he was there. But in hindsight it was very clever!

The nurse seems to already be moving in to handle the table-related nonsense, and Scourge once again digs into his sugary eggs.

[identity profile] tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"They can become impossible to manage, especially if they begin to think they can really get away with their schemes to take over or destroy everything in sight. Which seem to be a required component of their personality." Recluse was still very slowly picking at his breakfast. Nothing about it was at all interesting or really necessary, so it wasn't holding his attention.

[identity profile] haplesstracker.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Uninteresting? Unnecessary? How dare he slander the wonder and glory that was maple syrup on savory buttermilk pancakes, gifts from the gods themselves to provide sweet bliss in this wretched place! If Scourge was psychic, he'd be offended.

"We keep our engineers on a pretty tight leash. After all, we're the ones that created them...or brainwashed them...or they were there before..." Scourge trailed off, folding one clawed hand over his face and sighing. "Actually, forget I said anything. I'm not getting into that debate."

[identity profile] tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
They weren't holding his attention, and he didn't feel the need to explain himself to anyone. If Recluse had any of his psychics with him, he would have replied as such.

"We've tried doing that before. It doesn't seem to produce such high-quality results. It does work quite well for elite soldiers, however." Provided they had the prerequisites for the Bane Spider program. Then, if they were within the Rogue Isles, nothing could save them from their fate.

[identity profile] haplesstracker.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Tried giving them three recorded origins? I've been trying to figure out how to stop them from doing that. Messes with the records a lot."

Then he should totally not give it to Scourge, because the poor tracker would wind up making himself sick again.

[identity profile] tartaros-avatar.livejournal.com 2009-05-12 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not deliberately, I think." He'd been in command of Arachnos for over 60 years now. Quite a lot of impossible things had happened, and he couldn't be bothered to remember all of it. "Others have used such techniques fairly recently." Nemesis, of course. Everything would have been so much more simple if Marcus could have just acted as he was supposed to and killed Nemesis back in 1932.
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[personal profile] dualistic 2009-05-12 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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