Audio --> Video

[buildsfriends]

I AM ON THE RADIO

Deet deet deet, boop boop beep boop. But-tons but-tons...

[The video comes on but it's just a shot of the top half of his helmet and the sky above because he's holding his comm like a walkie-talkie.

He puts on a 'authoritative' voice.] Hello. Yes. This is Captain General Fourth Class Caboose. I need you to deliver to me at least fourteen new friends, stat. ASAP, and...BYOB. NASDAQ. Over and out and in, amen.








[...the video continues with just a shot of his armored foot on a grubby sidewalk and his voice further off.]

OH MY GOD FRECKLES LOOK! An outside party!

[A grating mechanical voice answers:] Hostiles detected.

Comments

[worstever]

Robotics, primarily.

... That, and he's insanely strong.

[darwinatrix]

Dumb muscle, hm? How do you keep him under control?

[worstever]

Mostly? I just don't bank on him doing anything that needs finesse.

We're with a pretty ragtag outfit back home. They need every warm body they can get.

[bestsword]

[somewhere in the distance:] I KNOW A WARM BODY SHE CAN GET! BOW CHICKA BOW WOW.

[darwinatrix]

Amusing. I'll let you have that one.

And no more.

[darwinatrix]

[She snorts.] If I'd been your CO, he'd never be allowed to hold a gun.

Just keep him in line.

[fuckai]

Tell the idiot to help anyone you need dead. That usually does it.

[A+ contribution, Church.]

[darwinatrix]

Not exactly giving me a good opinion of your prior outfit, soldier.

[fuckai]

[Enjoy a bitter laugh there, Armstrong]

Yeah, our prior outfit consisted of being stuck in a canyon with a bunch of morons guarding flags and getting used as target practice by Mercs and Freelancers. You can't exactly get anything good out of that bullshit.

[darwinatrix]

So your army regularly used its own troops as literal target practice?

I've seen corrupt military leadership, but that's too far even for Central.

[fuckai]

No, you can blame the Freelancers for that one. They're the assholes with state names and armor.

[He lets out another huffed laugh.] We were military. At least, we went through basic or some shit like that. But Freelancer's more on the experimental special task force side of things.

[Church really hates Freelancers]