Name: The Road of Life is not Always Easy

Plot: Just when Ultra Magnus thought he had gotten used to Earth, a freak accident in one of Shockwave's labs causes his life to take a turn for weird. The REALLY weird.

Characters: Ultra Magnus mainly.

Pairings: None

World: Prime/Beast Hunters

Disclaimer: I do not own TF. Obviously. '

*Com Link*

{Telepathic Speech}

"Normal Speech"

Hello!

Another one of my stories! I know I have a tendency to start stories, and write about 20 million others at the same time, but hey, blame the plot bunnies!

Oh, I am looking for a Beta Reader for this story, one that has a Google Docs account, patience for terrible writers, and can deal with a lot of laziness.

Hope you enjoy!

A large explosion sent Ultra Magnus flying in to the wall, his back stinging from the impact.

They were battling in one of Shockwave's laboratories, far underground. The place was beginning to look like a disaster area, objects, tools and anything that was breakable was laying broken on the ground.

Scorch marks and bullet holes littered any objects that were still in one piece, while Autobots and Decepticons alike used any available objects as cover. Well, actually, only the lucky ones.

And today, Ultra Magnus was far from lucky.

A bullet from somewhere to his right ricocheted off the wall, behind him, glanced off of a box of tools, and hit him in an area between two plates of armor on his leg. It had almost nothing to stop it, so it passed right through and imbedded itself in the cables of his leg.

He wince in pain, before using the wall to pull himself to his feet.

A large blast of Plasma incarcerated the toolbox. Shockwave was advancing towards him, gun basting.

Ultra Magnus dropped to the ground to avoid another bast, and swung his damaged leg behind him.

When his enemy was in range, Magnus pushed himself to his feet, and swung with the Forge. The ancient hammer deflected a shot, and landed a blow to the Decepticon Scientist's shoulder.

In return, he blasted a shot of plasma in Magus' chest. Although the bullet didn't do much damage, it burned part of blue mech's collar, causing some drops of superheated armor plating to spray against his unprotected neck cables.

Ultra Magnus gasped in pain, and staggered back. The pain was incredible, and the Autobot wondered how such tiny little droplets could cause so much pain...

A punch to the face pulled him out of his thoughts. He swung the Forge, just to have Shockwave dogge, and knock one of the last upright remaining shelves on to him.

The shelf wasn't heavy, but several containers of a strange sticky orange liquid broke open upon contact with the Autobot.

When the liquid hit Ultra Magnus' armor plates, or wiring it began to get thicker, making it increasingly hard for him to move.

A blow to knee sent him to the ground.

Shockwave to menacingly over him, gun pointed at chest. From this distance survival was near impossible. Even if his chest plating stopped the blast, the heat would melt the rest, causing his sparkchamber to collapse in on itself. He would join the allspark before they could even get him to Ratchet.

The tip of the gun began to glow, preparing to fire...

Ultra Magnus struggle against the orange, now gluelike substance...

The gun began to glow brighter...
The trapped autobot sent a silent prayer to Primus.

The gun went off.

But, just in time, a blue and yellow blur pushed Shockwave out of the way. The blast hit Magnus' shoulder instead, destroying the plating and most of the wiring and hydraulics.

Somewhere behind him he could hear Smokescreen fighting of Shockwave, but the leakage of energon from his damaged shoulder was causing the world to spin around him, somewhere in his leg, the orange substance found it's way into the bullet hole...

The substance made it's way into his energon lines, causing his entire frame to shake, and his prosseros to malfunction.

He heard Optimus yell his name from somewhere, just in time to have one of the glass tube containing the one of the other predacons explode nearby.

Another explosion sent the roof crashing down.

That's when Ultra Magnus lost consciousness...

*Mini Spoiler* I just noticed the episode "Evolution" has the Autobots head to Shockwave's Laboratory too. (It also get's blown up/trashed in the Episode too XD ) In this story Predaking is just a normal like he was before he transformed. He's still super smart, and is still fierce, he just doesn't talk or Transform.

If you want to be my Beta Reader, let me know. The next chapter I will make a notice If I found myself a Beta.

Also, I say "laboratories" because I have 2 others in this story.