The Shadow Killer Series

Final Conflict part 1

by Sam Ford

Transformers (R) are legal property of Hasbro/Takara Inc. and all that other legal junk.

Starsweeper, Shadow Killer, Hydrosting and the TM2 Dinobot "post BW theory", belong to me.

Chapter One

Dusk. Dinobot slowly emerged out of the Sidewinder in beast mode. Tonight, he was not hunting. He stepped of the gang plank of the ship, and onto the soft ground of the moon of an un-marked system. The ship was docked on a flat area of ground. The vegetation felt lush under his talons. The air was cool and sweet. The native animals where screaming at each other. And the crew of the Sidewinder, where the only ones who knew of, not only the moon, but of the entire system. The cyber raptor walked a few paces, then let out a soft tongue trill and started running. Dinobot hit the plain, and mustered up every bit of speed he could. Faster. Faster. He needed to feel free. He needed to feel the wind on his face. He needed to think. He knew of a place that would suite to do just that. And getting there was half the fun.
The plain was interrupted by a sharp canyon cutting right down through the middle. The canyon stretched for a good hundred feet. The plain then proceeded to continue on the other side, beginning again just as sharply as it had stopped. Dinobot approached the canyon with out slowing down. If he misjudged, it would be a one thousand foot drop to the bottom. Deadly even to a Cybertronian. The cyber raptor was now very close to the edge. At the last possible moment, he planted his front feet in the ground, and pushed off with them, transforming at the same time. It was an impossible leap. A hundred foot span, a thousand feet up in the air. The transformation causing him to do a back flip at the same time. He planted his legs on the other side of the canyon with a good three feet to spare.
Dinobot continued on his way, pushing past boulders and over hills till at last he reached the spot. A tropical lagoon. There was a water fall and rocks and plants and wild flowers. Every thing that a paradise was. He reverted back to beast mode. Dinobot slid into the water, just his head and tail showing. Just like a croc. Now he could think. Yet, he already knew what he had to do. There was no thinking about it. The pressure had reached the boiling point. His anger was eating him whole. He had to take on Shadow Killer. He had to do it. And he had to win. It was as though, when he thought this, that things got stormy. The sky grew over cast. He was beginning to be consumed with hatred. Thunder rumbled in the distance. Dinobot's power level shot through the roof. The storm made every thing pitch black....

And the only thing shining through the black, where two blood red optics.

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"I wonder where Dinobot is." stated Starsweeper, staring at a monitor in the Sidewinder's control room.
"I'm sure he okay," Hydrosting said in reply. She looked at him. He was right in the middle of playing a checkers game with the computer. Starsweeper rolled her eyes as she got up and went over to Hydrosting's monitor. She punched a button on the keyboard and the game shut off.
"HEY!" Hydrosting exclaimed. "I was right in the middle of that!" Starsweeper just shook her head.
"Keep an optic on the monitors," she said as she sat back down at her consoled.

Shadow Killer was sitting at his desk in his quarters, when he got a sensation. A strange one that he had not felt in awhile. He suddenly remembered what it was. The sensation of being hunted. He got up and walked out the door, picking up his sword as he went.
"Where are you going?" asked Starsweeper skeptically
"Out." Shadow Killer answered.
"What for?" asked Hydrosting. Shadow Killer ignored his question.
"Not with out me, you're not." Starsweeper stated as she got up and followed him to the door. He put a hand on her cheek.
"Not this time." Shadow Killer said rubbing her cheek. He opened the outer door and walked out. Starsweeper followed him. Shadow Killer stopped half way down the gang plank. Looking out over his shoulder, she saw Dinobot standing in robot mode on a slight rise in the plain. He look ominous. His optics glowed even more red than normal. The wind wiped his tail wildly around. He looked ready for a fight. Every one could sense the tension in the air. Shadow Killer looked much the same way.

He walked off the gang plank, sword in one hand. The other hand was clasped into a fist. He looked straight ahead, void of expression. When he was about half way there, Dinobot called out from the rise.
"Killer! I, Dinobot am challenging you to a one on one fight. The winner will get the Sidewinder and commanding rights over Starsweeper and Hydrosting—"
"—HEY!—" Starsweeper shouted. Dinobot gave her a deterred look.
"—and for the looser, DEATH!" Shadow Killer looked hard at Dinobot for about five clicks. He than clasped his other hand around the sword and pulled it up in front of his face.
"Bring, it, ON!"