Not-AtLA Mini-Meme

[beckyh2112]

Five slots, two requests per person. They cannot be Avatar: the Last Airbender-related. You are much more likely to get something, mind, if it's actually in a fandom I've written for or have gleed over.

If I filled a request for you on the Ozai AUs meme and you haven't replied, don't request here.

Meme is CLOSED.

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Pee-Dee, There's a new sheriff in town (2/2)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

She found a road before things got too rough, then some market towns and irrigated farmlands. She traded parts and labor for better parts, upgraded her sandskimmer, asked directions, got pointed towards the nearest city.

And what a city it was. She'd loved it. Golden and beautiful, azure and emerald minarets, silver and ruby domes, dazzling textiles, delicious fuels, markets as thick and wicked as anything from the Arabian Nights. But they'd never heard of the Autobots or the Decepticons there nor seen any robots like the ones she had on her pack of cards.

Until Crankcase, Clio, and Counterpunch rolled into town.

The fight had been ugly, and she'd only gotten out of there ahead of them because she fought super-dirty and could make anything into a weapon. She left their engines choking in a sand-grit bomb-cloud and pushed her poor little sandskimmer into the red lines.

Its engine exploded pretty spectacularly after a few days of running flat out, and she rolled until she found another little market town. Several times, she'd had to lie low while Decepticon jets circled overhead, but that had given her time to figure out a disguise.

Which was why she was now on her third sandskimmer and dressed in a yellow jilbab with a sky-blue keffiyeh and gold veil. As an extra bonus, the clothes kept most of the sand out of her joints.

Pee-Dee stood and stretched. Time to get to work. Sandskimmers didn't repair themselves, and she ought to have the necessary parts to get this baby limping along to the caravan route she'd been aiming for. If the locals were right, it'd take her straight to the local capital and she ought to be able to get better directions to the mountains than a vague "thattaway" gesture.

Heck, once she got to the city, she could probably rig a comm-box and just call Skyfire down. All she needed was parts, really.

Assuming the Autobots were still near this planet.

Pee-Dee put that thought out of her mind and started shoving her sandskimmer out of the trench it had dug. It took her three broken shoulders to manage it, and she spent the rest of the afternoon repairing the damaged floats. Coaxing the engine to work again lasted well into the night.

At dawn, it was ready again, and she stepped up to the wheel, kicked the engine on, and pointed her sandskimmer towards where it needed to go. Another day, another dollar.

The sandskimmer rose on its floats, leisurely skimmed forward a few meters, then the engine sputtered and died, and it dropped like a rock.

"Big girls don't cry," Pee-Dee muttered as she pulled out her tools again.

When the bandits attacked her around noon, she lost her temper.

Re: Pee-Dee, There's a new sheriff in town (2/2)

[dragoness-e.livejournal.com]

Cool! Will there be more? This reminded me of Ringo & Weber's March Upcountry, though you're doing more of a "Marooned" adventure than an Xenophon's Anabasis. Also, are there Tusken Riders & Banthas?

Re: Pee-Dee, There's a new sheriff in town (2/2)

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

I enjoy this, how it feels like it could be a 'real' 'episode' from DZ. There is some neat usage of language, too, like 'aft over teakettle'.

I like how you tossed in Crankcase, even though we don't have him... yet. ;D

Also, Not Earth. Bonus points.

Re: Pee-Dee, There's a new sheriff in town (2/2)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

If this became a real episode, I would be deliriously happy. >_> (This is totally a great planet for Xaaron to need Ultra Magnus to be his harem-master!)