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The dreadnaught class battle cruiser, the Nemesis XII, shot through the Earth's orbit. Smaller Decepticon battle ships were currently engaged with Autobot Seekers, explosions shot off on all sides of the cruiser as the Autobots attacked. The dreadnaught was plowing through the Autobots ships, its missile cannons blasting the seekers out of the vacuum and back down into the atmosphere. The dreadnaughts destination was the Autobot orbital station, Trypticon. An Autobot dreadnaught came roaring out of the Trypticon station, firing its own cannons at the Nemesis, damaging the right side severely and spreading fires throughout the ship.

Inside of the command bridge of the Nemesis, the Decepticons rushed to keep their ship under control, afraid for their lives, not because of the damage to the ship, but of the intimidating figure sitting in the large chair at the center of the room. He wore a long black cape over his grey, silver, and black armor, excess red and black plates covered his right arm. His chest plate was also red with the mask like symbol of the Decepticons sitting at its center. A tri-pronged helmet covered his head, with a black Oni mask covering his face, its ruby lenses covering the hate filled black eyes that were underneath.

"Lord Megatron!" Exclaimed Barricade, Megatrons most skilled scout and infiltrator, looking a series of monitors through the red T-shaped visor of his purple and black helmet that was covered in small horns. "Forward armor is weakening, and life supports in the red!"

The Decepticon that sat next to him, Brawl, read from a different screen. "Our main guns are gone too!" Standing at twelve feet tall in olive green and black heavy armor, and a black, dual-spiked, head-covering helmet with a purple visor. On his back were two ordnance cannons, a light-machine gun, and a spiked mace, Brawl was easily the second most intimidating figure on that ship.

The Nemesis was hit again rocking the ship. "We just lost radar and communications!" Exclaimed Barricade.

"How are the engines running?" Megatron asked in his powerful voice.

"They're the only things on this ship not damaged!" Yelled Barricade.

"Set for full speed, this ship is lost, ram us into Trypticons Bridge!"

"Are you insane, that's suicide!" A Decepticon engineer yelled.

For a long moment everything in the bridge fell silent. The extra plating on Megatrons arm shifted and unfolded into a fusion powered cannon. His chair swiveled around; he blasted the Decepticon, leaving a gaping hole in his chest and painting the back wall with blood.

"Ask yourself this question! What are you more afraid of, death, or my wrath?" The Decepticon Emperor yelled. The Decepticons didn't need to answer him, Megatron knew that they knew the answer, even through the armor, helmets, and masks, Megatron could see the fear on all of their faces, and that made him smile. "Now, ram that space station!"

The Decepticons put the Nemesis at full speed, heading directly towards Trypticons Command Bridge. The sound of screeching metal filled the ship as it crashed into the Command Bridge, the impact threw the Decepticons from their seats.

Megatron was the first to his feet; he hit the intercom on his chair, calling to the other Decepticons on the ship. "All surviving Decepticons storm the station, take no prisoners!" He switched off the intercom. "Brawl, Barricade, your with me." Megatron blasted the viewport out and jumped out of his ship with Brawl and Barricade following suit.

The Decepticon leader landed with a loud thud on the metal floor of Trypticon, Brawl and Barricade landing behind him a few seconds later. Other Decepticons were pouring out of the ship and into the space station. Autobots came quickly with their guns ready to engage the invaders.

Walking through the hail of bullets and fighting, Megatron headed fast for the doors. An Autobot tried to attack him with an ax, and without even looking at him, Megatron gripped him by the neck and ripped out his throat spilling blood all over the floor.

Walking through the hallways of Trypticon, Brawl and Barricade cut down any Autobots that dared to come near their emperor. Megatron drew his massive mace-staff, letting it unfold in his hands and jamming its spikes into an Autobots chest. Megatron pressed on, and soon the Decepticons found themselves standing in a circular room. The second that Megatron touched the center of the room, the doors slammed shut. The monitors that lined the room flared to life, showing the helmeted figure of the Autobot Air Commander Starscream.

"Well, look at what I have here. The great and powerful Megatron, leader and emperor of the mighty Decepticons. And I thought that you were smart, but walking into an obvious trap like that has dismissed that claim." Suddenly plates on the wall shifted revealing a pair of plasma cannons that trained there laser sights on Megatron, but before the cannons could fire, Brawl destroyed them with the two cannons on his back. Even behind Starscreams mask, Megatron could see the frustration in his face. "Guards!"

The main door to the chamber opened, Autobots guards came rushing in, Megatron killed two of them with a single blast from his fusion cannon, leaving gaping holes where their torsos used to be. Brawl took two of their heads and crushed them in his massive fists, killing them with their own helmets, while Barricade threw a metasteel dagger, which was connected to a metasteel chain, that ripped through the final guard's neck.

"You insult me Starscream, you think a couple of low level grunts can stand up to me. I am Megatron! You want me dead, then try it for yourself! Face me in mortal combat!"

Megatron could see Starscreams eyes widen through his visor. "Very well then, I'll happily accept your challenge!"

"I'll hold you to it." Megatron said as the screen went black. As Megatron continued through the halls, Autobots were being cut down by Decepticons like trees. When the three Decepticons reached a service elevator, Megatron received a transmission over the personal intercom inside of his helmet.

"What is it Shockwave?" He said slightly annoyed.

{Lord Megatron, I'm pleased to tell you that my strike team and I have taken control of the communications tower and have direct access to the chamber.}
Shockwave said over the intercom.

"Perfect, no one enters the chamber until I arrive."

The elevator stopped, not at Megatrons desired location, but a similar room as to the one before, but that this one had single Autobot standing in the center, the Air-commander Starscream, who stood erect in posture inside his red, black, and white armor. His Seeker thruster pack held a vicious looking scimitar sword, the Autobot symbol on the thruster pack's stabilizer wings was printed upside down. Attached to each of his arms were weapons that Megatron didn't recognize.

"Starscream." Megatron greeted.

"Megatron." Starscream greeted back, taking his fighting stance.

"Right to the point, I admire that." Megatron stepped forward and took his stance.

The two stood in silence, staring at each. "The guest usually make's the first move, Megatron."

Megatron smirked under his mask, and lunged forward with snap kick, Starscream ducked under the massive leg's arc, but it was only a feint as Megatrons other leg kicked Starscreams feet from under him. Megatron prepared to stomp Starscreams head into the floor, but Starscream rolled just as his armored-boot hit the floor leaving a huge dent mark. Starscream retaliated with a punch to Megatrons side, but the thickness of his armor blocked it. Megatron quickly turned and grabbed Starscream by his neck. He slammed the air commander on the floor then threw him into the wall.

Starscream slammed in to the wall behind him, he quickly recovered and aimed the weapons on his arms. He fired the weapons sending two beams of heated plasma at the Decepticon leader, on anyone else the plasma would have burned through their armor, but this was Megatron, he is as paranoid as he is powerful. The plasma beams merely refracted off of Megatrons personal kinetic barrier. With the beams still firing on him, Megatron walked forward, he reached Starscream and gripped his arms and with his massive hands and crushed Starscream weapons.

Starscream yelled out in pain as Megatron crushed his wrists, the air commander hopped up, planting his feet on Megatrons chest and fired his boot thrusters. The force of the thrusters forced Megatron to let go of him. Starscream drew his scimitar, he swung it at the Decepticon, but Megatron grabbed it. "What are you?" Starscream asked in frustration.

"I am Megatron." Megatron slammed his foot onto Starscreams knee, causing it to break. Starscream shouted as he dropped onto one knee. "I am the Decepticon, and all who wear the symbol Autobot shall fall before my might! You are no different."

Starscream managed to stand on his good leg. "I'm very different Megatron." He drew a small knife from his belt and threw it at a panel on the wall, it was a control panel to the view-port. The view-port blew open sucking out the air in the room and pulling Starscream out into space. Brawl gripped the side of the elevator to keep himself from being blasted into space. Barricade, however, wasn't having the same luck, he was pulled by the vacuum, but he stopped moving when he slammed into Megatron, who was still rooted to the spot he was in.

The safety shields activated, sealing the room again. "Starscream." Megatron said. "Not even the endless void of space can protect you from me."

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Starscream locked his armor for space survival. He hit the thrusters on his boots and seeker-pack, his broken knee slowed him down a little but he managed to make it back to his control center back in Trypticon. He opened the airlock and floated inside, when the airlock opened he was greeted by his one his personal bodyguards, Slipstream, who wore purple, black, and blue light seeker armor with a black hood over her seeker helmet. He pushed her out his way. "Thundercracker!"He yelled as he threw himself out to his medic's medical table.

"What is it sir?" Thundercracker asked with minor annoyance. Thundercracker was Starscreams medic and scientist, and was the twin brother of Slipstream. His blue and black seeker armor held an assault rifle on its back.

"That damn Decepticon broke my knee."

Thundercracker went over Starscreams knee with a hand held scanner. "And I see that he crushed my null rays." He said noticing Starscreams crushed weapons.

Starscream threw off the broken plasma rays. "Can you fix them?"

Thundercracker went over Starscreams knee with an Energon gun. "They're not kneecaps Starscream, you can't just slap some Energon on it and it becomes fixed, those were highly advanced pieces of technology, and we don't have the time or the resources to fix them..." He paused. "Move you leg."

Starscream moved his leg, his knee had healed completely. "Starscream!" A white and red seeker called out. "The Decepticons have set up a command center in the communication tower."

"Patch me through to the communication tower."

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