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Disaster area

Chapter 1

Ultra Magnus was walking through the destruction that was left after the disaster a few hours earlier.

A entire town district had been completely wiped out. What was left of it was only a burned out field of rubble. The houses, the streets, the people, all that was leveled down to nothing.

And that had only been the area in the closest range of the impact. The places that had been completely and instantly destroyed.

The rest of the city was still burning. Entire blocks had gone up in flames.

They air around Autobots and humans was filled with smoke and small, flying splitters of debris.

Magnus stood at the edge of the burning ruins. In some distance he saw Spike. As human ambassador to Cybertron, he was overseeing the damage.

The streets before them was crowded with ambulances and fire trucks. Wounded and dieing people were lying at the sidewalks and on the grass fields.

And it was all caused by the Transformers, by their war. The same war that had just started again.

Something like this here, he thought, should have never happened.

xxxxxxx

2 hours and 15 minutes earlier

Sometimes he was asking himself what he was doing here.

A small Decepticon ship had just entered the atmosphere of the planet earth. On board was a group of four seekers. They all shared the typical built of the former air commander Starscream and his wing-mates Skywarp and Thundercracker.

Skywing, was their group leader, his armor was colored mostly in purple, Phantom was dark blue and Counterstrike in a so dark, military green, that he looked nearly black at the first look.

Havok, the last member of their small group was was not really a part of their team. The most seekers operated in groups of three, also called trines. Skywing, Phantom and Counterstrike had been one since the Unicron war, Havok on the other hands was working with them only for this single mission.

His coloring was similar to the Decepticon Dirge, that meant his wings were brown and his body mostly blue, his face was in a dark color instead of the metallic white of the others. He was simply the guy who stood out everywhere.

They all shared the same design as the famous seeker trio.

Some said could even mistake Phantom and Counterstrike for Thundercracker and Skywarp, at least from the distance.

What they lacked however was their reputation and fame. Good, admittedly maybe also their skill and power.

While Skywing had been a veteran warrior, who had crash landed with Megatron on earth years ago, Counterstrike and Phantom had originally only been simple guards from Cybertron. After Unicron´s attack and the entire Decepticon army falling into chaos for one year, he had been teamed up with the two rookies.

For all three of them, not much had changed under the new leadership of the Decepticons. They had been second line warriors under Megatron and they were second line warriors now.

Skywing and even his old group, the one he had for a million years before their crash on earth, had always been out-shadowed by the elite seekers, by Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker and even by the damned coneheads, a thought that made him cringe sometimes.

And now the "elite" of the Decepticon air force were Cyclonus, Scourge and the Sweeps, Galvatron´s guard. They were said to be Decepticons rebuilt by Unicron along with Galvatron into their current forms.

And Skywing and his trine were background warriors once more.

There were rumors going on that Cyclonus and Scourge were actually Skywarp and Thundercracker. That would basically mean that they were standing in the shadow of the same people as before.

He had seen Cyclonus fight. This guy had in the air the skill of a elite seeker of the highest level, plus more firepower than an entire air group combined. Enough to single handily shoot an Autobot ship out of the sky.

And on the ground he was able to match warriors like Ultra Magnus or Rodimus Prime of all people.

The Sweeps, a army of replicated clones, but from their technology miles ahead of the regularly seekers. Faster, stronger, more durable and obviously with a complex combat programming that gave them a certain level of skill despite having few front line experience.

Yes, they were still second liners and the gap in power was larger than ever before.

And of course the blasted coneheads were also still around and still higher valued than his group.

A bunch of dumb brutes if someone asked him.

He had heard stories that their entire trine had once flew directly into a mountain wall and taken themselves out during a battle on earth.

Hell, he had heard that this idiot Dirge had once managed to crash-land directly into a swamp together with a secret weapon and needed to be rescued and that without the Autobots even doing anything.

And despite all that this fools were still higher in the ranks than him. They were still a part of, first Megatron´s and now Galvatron´s main force, while he was the most time put on guard duty.

He really didn´t understand why.

Even if he was no match for Cyclonus and Scourge. Skywing was at least better than this three fools. He was a elite warrior himself. His scores had only been two points behind Thundercracker´s in their latest matches. So he had to ask himself what exactly he was doing here.

He and his small team had the task of flying a shuttle to earth, holding over the place where Metroplex was currently stationed, shooting a few laser blasts at the city robot, flying around a little bit and leave.

They had called it a diversionary attack.

Yes, he thought, they had been send here to distract the Autobots a little bit, while Galvatron´s main force started the real attack somewhere else. They hadn´t fought against the Autobots for some time now. It was going to be the first larger offensive for years and he and his group weren´t part of it.

They weren´t used as warriors here, he thought bitterly, but only as a little distraction for the Autobots, while the real army fought the real battle somewhere else.

Good, they could also get over with it, he thought.

"Counterstrike, charge our weapons", he ordered. "Phantom, lock our guns at target and fire."

"Okay boss", Phantom replied and dropped a bottom at the console before him.

The blasts stroke down on their target. Of course they didn´t cause real damage to the giant city.

"Good, now change our course a few degrees and fire a few salves more", Skywing said.

That was it, he thought, they had done their duty, fired a few shots and were now ready to leave.

Skywing was ready to give the order to retreat. This mission was as boring and meaningless as he thought it would be.

"Okay…", he said, but than broke up in mid sentence.

Something unexpected was happening.

He saw that Metroplex was transforming. The giant Autobot changed in his robot form.

What they saw then was that he looked up to them and that he aimed his weapons at their ship.

"Target lock on us", Counterstrike shouted.

Metroplex fired. The first two giant blasts missed, the third gazed their shuttle, but that was already more than enough. One side of the ship was completely ripped open and the engine was damaged.

The shuttle went completely out of control and was spinning wildly around over the landscape.

"We are going to crash", Havok called out.

"Get out of here", Skywing ordered.

All four of them transformed and were flying out of the open side of the ship.

Below them they saw a human settlement, a small peaceful town, close to the atlantic coast.

And they saw the burning ship that was descending down to it.

xxxxxxx

2 hours and 17 minutes later

Amy was walking along the burning houses.

She was looking for her parents, who was with her earlier. They had been going to the park and they promised her that they would go to the cinema later.

That was before the large explosion.

But then all people had been looking up in the sky. They had seen the space ship.

Amy knew that it belonged to the robots, the ones who had been on earth for many years and had been fighting each other. She thought that was really cool and had always wanted to see them.

But then the people had seen that the ship was falling down on them and they had started to scream and run.

She had lost her parents then. From one moment to the next she could no longer see them. Then everything was burning.

Now she was walking through the town and hoping to find someone.


The two instances with the conehead seekers that Skywing had mentioned.

This happened in the episodes "The key to vector sigma part 1" and "Hoist goes to Hollywood."

If there are any fans of this three reading this. Skywing´s bashing of them is only the personal opinion of this character.