A second short, this time exploring Cloudquake's power, often being misconstrued as being similar Thundercracker's you'll find yourself proved quite wrong. ;3

Disclaimer: Transformers does not in anyway belong to me but Cloudquake and Skyburst are characters of my creation. Any mistakes in the following text are mine as it's un beta'd.


Cloudquake touched down onto the ground with a surprising gentleness for a mech of his stature and weight, toes kissing the earth as he dropped down onto the soles of his feet and then his haunches. Normally he would have announced his entrance with a more necessary grandeur but this time, in the heat of the battle, he was hoping to not be noticed. He hunched over and ghosted his fingers across the top layer of dusty soil; finding a particularly soft spot he gently begun to dig the tips of his fingers into the ground, planting the roots of his hands into the soil he reached out searchingly for weakness, for fault lines. He looked up nervously keeping an eye on the battlefield to make sure no one disturbed him or disrupted his search he could not afford to mess up his part in the great Lord Megatron's plan. He pushed his fingers down deeper and deeper into the ground and when he reached rock hard enough that he needed to apply force to push through he stopped, he off-lined his optics and focused simply on the feel, he needed to find that fault line. A few bullets hit him in the shoulder, then in the side, at first they appeared to be strays but after another few came in quick succession he on-lined his optics to find to Praxxians firing on him, he believed they were called Bluestreak and.. Prowl? They were trying to knock him out of the ground, he quickly pushed his other hand deep into the soil and called out for guidance, the planet called back. They always did. Cybertron led him astray and deceived him but this planet led him willingly to what he needed. There. They were there, hairline thin cracks; he thrust his hands violently down into the ground and began to pull at the fractures lifting and destabilising. Somewhere distant he heard the Autobot's crying for more assistance, they were still firing on him but Skyburst had begun to give him cover fire and Megatron and the others were keeping the main force preoccupied. Somewhere else far more distant, deep beneath the sea a conjoining plate began to shift down as he pulled up, the sea sank above it and a tiny ripple spread out from the epicentre heading towards the shore. Back on mainland the ground began to crack and split, soil began to tremble and the earth began to rise. Cloudquake gritted his denta, ground his jaw and strained the earth rumbled with him and together they begun to rise, cracks spider webbed out around him violent quakes began to shake the ground. He hadn't got his name for nothing. Autobot's and Decepticon's began to stumble and fall to the ground, Optimus Prime called out only just realising the danger and Megatron called for his troops to head for the sky. Cloudquake strained harder, great pieces of rock flew from the ground knocking down his enemies, particulates of sand sprayed into the air blinding all those around him, great crevasses opened in the ground swallowing mechs who were unlucky enough to be in reach of their cavernous maws. Cloudquake tensed every fibre of his being and stretched himself out taking control of the chaos, roping the great power and moulding it too his will. He whipped out tendrils of raw planetary power splitting the ground, it raced out wards below the Prowl and Bluestreak who tried to flee but were too slow and were thrown high into the air. High above in the heavens Starscream looked down upon him with disdain; he ground his denta and breathed out heavily through his olfactory sensors with constrained rage. Quite aware of his fellow Seekers displeasure at his success Cloudquake allowed himself a small rare, pleased smile.

Sometimes there was a good day, and throwing you enemies seventy foot in the air, maddening you arrogant pretentious air commander, impressing your imperial leader and getting enough energon for a full meal was, to Cloudquake, definitely a good day.


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Next I might write about Skyburst's ability or about them meeting for the first time.