On FRIENDSHIP

[goingdownfighting]

Look, I appreciate the the enthusiasm, and I know it became the 'thing' back at base after I...well, you know--but there is no way I'm taking in a human.

Especially one who keeps calling me a cow.

Are you sure I can't get a cage or something for her? Now there would be a conversation starter.

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[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Laughing. That sinister sort of Muttley laugh. From, uh, the 'lamp'.]

...cow.

[goingdownfighting]

[And, of course, he's just going to take that in strive.]

Yes, that is exactly what she called me. Glad to see your hearing is functional, now we don't have to schedule a checkup.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Wait. Wait. I don't speak cow that good. What'd you say?

Ooomay? Ooomay? Mooo?

[With friends like these, Cliffjumper...?]

[goingdownfighting]

Hey, watch it. Those are some pretty vulgar moos you're spewing out there. Insulting me in my own native language, have you no shame?

[littlecrowgirl]

Well you do look like one...



Cowjumper.

[goingdownfighting]

[Of course you'd show up.]

Please don't make that a thing. I'm asking nicely here.

[See? He said please!]

[littlecrowgirl]

Well maybe if you don't make the cage a thing.

We'll see.

[goingdownfighting]

Hey now, I was just joking. I'm not the type to actually go out and do something like that.

[...No, he'd save it for the day she got really obnoxious. I MEAN, NO, JOKING.]

Besides, I'm pretty sure I'd end up breaking it somehow, anyway.

[littlecrowgirl]

Wow. You must be like...super strong if you can break a cage that can hold ME.

[goingdownfighting]

You have no idea, short stuff.

[Okay, she might get some points for ego boosting. But don't think that means anything.

Because it doesn't.]

[littlecrowgirl]

Oh, I think I do. I have lots of robot friends now.

[goingdownfighting]

So why don't you go pal around them? I'm sure you can come up with a whole bunch of cute little nicknames for 'em. Make a book or something.

[littlecrowgirl]

Because you're the one who needs help the most!

Like your attitude. Be a Positive Peggy, not a Negative Nelson.

[aerospacecommander]

Hey!

The girl is my lackey, not yours.

[goingdownfighting]

Good! You can have her. Take her as far away from me as you possibly can. You won't hear me complain.

I'll even wrap her up in a nice little box for you.

[pectoralmutt]

I don't know man, you look pretty bull to me.

[goingdownfighting]

[OH SWEET PRIMUS, THIS ANIMAL IS CLEARLY VERY ILL.]

Woo, you are one ugly looking critter. Just when you think you've seen everything...

[Should he... should he put it out of its misery?]

[pectoralmutt]

[HE'S FINE OKAY?]

I'm a chihuahua, Mister Hamburger! Why don't you get your facts straight, you and your invisible nose?!

[destroyallhumans]

YES-BROTHER!CAGE-THE-HUMANS-OR-TOSS-THEM-INTO-THE-GUTTER-TO-DIE!

[goingdownfighting]

That was not what I was implying.

[destroyallhumans]

NO? BUT-IT-IS-WHAT-YOU-SAID. PERHAPS-WHAT-YOU-WOULD-PREFER!

[goingdownfighting]

Sounds like someone doesn't have a sense of humor. Look, I'm not about to go and hurt a human, no matter how annoying they are.

[destroyallhumans]

THEN-YOU-ARE-A-TRAITOR-TO-YOUR-KIND! IT-IS-YOUR-DUTY-TO-DESTROY-ALL-HUMANS!

[ex_dishonestly997]

Is this human companion thing the latest trend, or what? All the ones I know are taken.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

...there's always the bear. [Go for it, Starscream. You know you and Teddie would be awesome.]

[ex_dishonestly997]

The bear's cute, but higher maintenance than you. And that takes doing.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

I'mma tell him you said that.

[The cute part.]

I'm plenty low maintenance. Just keep me away from idiots with guns.

[ex_dishonestly997]

I was actually planning on throwing you right at them. Solves two problems in one. You and Vandal share that them-over-me suicidal programming.

[goingdownfighting]

Seems to be that way, doesn't it? I think it's just a fad, I'll wait for the next new craze. You know what needs to come back? Pet rocks. I hear humans were all over those long time ago.

[ex_dishonestly997]

You sound like you know a lot about human culture.

[pause]

That could be useful information. --not the...pet rock thing, I mean.

[goingdownfighting]

A lot? I doubt that. Just the little things they like to talk about over the radio. Sorry to say, but that's my information and mine alone. Only I'm allowed to know where the local pawn store is.

My apologizes if you 'need cash now', I hear they have a sweet deal going on.

[ex_dishonestly997]

...You're mocking me, aren't you?

[goingdownfighting]

[Whoops, that should have been apologies]

Who? Me? Mock you? Never.

[ex_dishonestly997]

[Didn't read it any other way bb]

You're nothing like the Cliff I know.

--That was a compliment.