Beast Wars and all characters and things related are copyright and trademark of Hasbro and Mainframe Entertainment. This work, however, is the original work of the author.
Note: This story takes place shortly after "Stasis".
A Different War, Chapter 2
By TVfan
New Predicon Base
"You want us to ally with the Maxies?" Quickstrike moaned, "But I ain't killed one yet. That ain't fair."
Megatron slumped back into a chair he had had carved out of the cave wall to Tarantulus's hidden lair and the Predicon's new base of operations. Part of it was because he didn't like the truce with the Maximals anymore then Quickstrike did, but another part was that the Vok were a problem bigger then the Maximals. If they had landed an army on Earth, they had the potential to destroy both factions.
"The Vok are the bigger concern at the moment," Megatron answered, "Their interference will not be tolerated and the only way this faction will survive to conquer Cybertron will be through defeating them. And if we must ally with the Maximals to do it, then so be it."
"You promise that I'll get to kill something?" Rampage asked.
"It is imperative that these invaders be killed," Megatron said firmly, "Especially their leader, a transformer called 'Tigerhawk'."
Rampage answered with triumphant chuckling.
"When do you expect this new alien attack to arrive?" Supplex asked, "Given our current situation, it will take time to gather, steal, or manufacture the supplies we need."
"Unfortunately we can expect the Vok to attack soon," Megatron answered, "And will require you to keep watch in shifts. Inferno, you will command the first team. Scorpinok, you will command the second team. Terrorsaur, you will command the third team."
"And what will you be doing while we're doing all this?" Carpenter questioned.
"I will be planning our defense," Megatron answered, "We must make sure the Maximals take the brunt of the Vok offensive. And those not on the first watch are to continue working to transform this cave into a fitting base of operations."
Carpenter sighed as she moved into the small area that served as Tarantulus's lab inside the now growing underground base. Megatron had assigned her to aide Tarantulus in running the few detection sensors he had to locate any possible attackers.
"So have you found anyone else willing to help fight Megatron?" Carpenter questioned.
"Not as yet," Tarantulus answered, "I asked you because you have been quite critical of Megatron and to his face as well. Not exactly the smartest thing if you wish to have a long life, but it lets me know where you stand. The others are quite closed-lipped about their opinion."
Carpenter only gave a frustrated growl in response, "Bots."
"Look at it this way," Tarantulus commented as he activated a small sensor array that he had set up in his lab, "This will allow us to prepare fully for destroying Megatron."
"How?" Carpenter demanded.
Tarantulus pulled out a small spider-like robot with two arms that held small pincers. Its head appeared to only be a glowing lightbulb.
"With these," Tarantulus cackled, "Transmetal twos and Transmetals do have powerful armor, but they're still vulnerable to the cybervenom inside these drones."
Carpenter snatched it out of his hands and looked at it. The 'arms' didn't appear long enough to puncture a transmetal two's armor.
"You're sure these things can penetrate a transmetal two's armor?" Carpenter questioned.
"Positive," Tarantulus cackled, "It will take more then one to deliver enough cybervenom to bring one down, but they can do the job easily."
"What about those with the regular armor configuration?" Carpenter asked, "Is the cybervenom effective against them?"
"Even more so," Tarantulus answered, "The only difference between those with the original 'Beast Wars' armor, the transmetal model, or the advanced transmetal two is the strength of the armor. The transformer behind that armor is just as vulnerable as any. And since the original armor is not as strong as the transmetals, the drones can drive the delivery arms even deeper then on a transmetal and deliver a larger dose of cybervenom."
"And how will we keep Megatron from realizing this?" Carpenter asked.
"We'll test it," Tarantulus answered, "On Tigerhawk. If it works, then we use him to defeat Megatron."
Outside the Predicon Base
"Man, I still say we should let this Tigerhawk take the Preds out," Rattrap grumbled as he and the rest of the Maximals crouched in the thick foliage of the forest that was directly east of the new Predicon Base.
For many of the Maximals who had known the Predicon Base when it was the crashed Darkside, it was strange to see them living in a cave. Each and every Maximal could see Inferno and a handful of other Predicons guarding the entrance.
"We can't," Optimus sighed, "Mostly because we don't know how powerful Tigerhawk actually is. Suppose he wipes out the entire Predicon force by himself? Then we'd be caught alone against a force that we have no hope of beating alone."
"Not to mention that Tigerhawk was constructed out of Tigatron's body," Airazor added, "We need to actually capture him and remove the alien influence so Tigatron can return to his body."
"Doesn't sound entirely safe either way," Stagstripe commented, "In order to 'save' Tigatron we need to fight Tigerhawk, but we can not kill him."
"But fighting this battle could risk our own destruction," Snowstalker added.
"So what's the plan, Bigbot?" Cheetor asked.
"Right now we can only wait," Optimus sighed, "We've told Megatron that Tigerhawk will attack him first. For now we wait until the Vok attack begins."
"We need to sit here and watch the Pred base?" Rattrap groaned, "Couldn't we do somethin' better? Like watch paint dry?"
"Shut up, Rattrap," Optimus sighed.
"And after Tigerhawk's attack begins?" Dinobot asked, while sharpening his metallic talons on each other.
"Once the Vok attack begins, we are to wait until the Vok forces and Megatron's followers engage in close combat," Optimus answered, "By that time they won't realize that we are here until it's too late."
"Hopefully everything works out according to the plan," Silverbolt spoke, "Especially if we are to save the spark of a fellow Maximal."
"How long will we be waiting for the Vok attack?" Cybershark asked curiously.
"That we do not know," Optimus sighed, "they could attack at any time, though, especially since Tigerhawk has arrived on this planet."
Standing Stones Tower
"My lord," Scavenger spoke as he approached Tigerhawk inside the Vok stronghold.
"Yes?" Tigerhawk replied.
"Our forces are ready to begin the strike on the Predicon base," Scavenger announced.
Tigerhawk stood up from the small throne he had created for himself and began to approach the exit
"Excellent," Tigerhawk said slowly, "Let the attack begin."
Tigerhawk then took to the air. All of the Vok acolytes that could fly soon followed. Those that couldn't fly, ran after them as fast as they could.
Predicon Base
Carpenter was beginning to become bored listening to Tarantulus. The transmetal tarantula could not stop all his scheming. He went from one diabolical scheme to another, thinking each would eventually allow him to get rid of Megatron and his followers. Fortunately, her boredom was soon saved by something she didn't expect. It was a signal on the monitor that indicated that a large number of transformers were in route.
"I believe our alien invaders are arriving," Carpenter spoke up, breaking up Tarantulus's scheming.
The transmetal tarantula quieted down and approached the scanner and looked at it for a few moments.
"I do believe you're right," Tarantulus practically cackled, "Better go tell Megatron."
Tigerhawk was surprised to see the Predicons waiting for him and his soldiers as they arrived at the edge of a clearing that lead toward the Predicon Base. His optics particularly focused on a large red transmetal two dragon transformer that stood in the center of the Predicon lines. Tigerhawk waited for his entire force to arrive before speaking.
"There sure is a lot of 'em," Quickstrike commented as he looked at the opposing line of Vok transformers.
"Their numbers are irrelevant," Inferno answered, "They threaten the colony, and for that they will BURN!"
"I am Tigerhawk," Tigerhawk announced once all his forces were present and the Predicons were all watching him, "Emissary of the Vok."
Tigerhawk then focused particularly on Megatron, "Your form has changed, but I know you, Megatron. The Vok charge you with the willful disruption of time and space. Surrender to my army, immediately. Violence will not be tolerated."
Megatron watched this with a mixture of admiration and rage. Tigerhawk had amassed a powerful army, but there was no way he was about to surrender to anyone, let alone this alien invader.
"Megatrons don't surrender," Megatron answered as he took his robot mode, referring to both himself and historically to his namesake, "They conquer!"
Megatron then fired a blast of fire out of his dragon's head hand, knocking Nightwing out of the air.
"Predicons! Attack!" Megatron ordered.
"Destroy them," Tigerhawk ordered his Vok acolytes.
The two sides rushed toward each other, while Megatron returned to his beast mode and charged toward Tigerhawk. Devil fired a series of laser blasts at a smaller Vok acolyte that looked like his beast mode was that of a poison dart frog. Dart easily avoided these attacks and once he came close he fired two small needle-like darts from a double barreled gun that he had. Devil quickly found himself poisoned by cybervenom and was unable to move, his vital systems slowly going offline, one after another.
"Good bye, Predicon," Dart said triumphantly.
Dart continued on as Devil fell offline. Terrorsaur meanwhile flew at full speed at Prowl as the Great Horned Owl fired his feather missiles at the transmetal two Predicon. The resulting blast threw Terrorsaur back, but didn't do much to really damage his armor.
"You'll pay for that," Terrorsaur growled and fired his optics lasers.
The attack heavily damaged Prowl's wing and the Vok acolyte quickly lost altitude. Terrorsaur followed up on his attack by firing his optics lasers repeatedly at the falling alien invader. Prowl fired on Terrorsaur, but the transmetal two armor kept Terrorsaur safe for a long enough period of time to heavily damage Prowl at close range. Prowl landed hard on the ground and had to time to avoid Terrorsaur as he landed on the attacker's head, crushing it in one fell blow.
Megatron and Tigerhawk closed on each other at high speed. Both collided at high speed and lost altitude as a result. Tigerhawk turned his head and bit into Megatron's shoulder as they began to regain control of their flight pattern, but continued to grapple with one another. Megatron growled in pain as Tigerhawk's teeth pierced his armor and then reached out with his longer neck and bit the back of Tigerhawk's neck. When Tigerhawk roared with pain, Megatron pushed him back.
"This is MY world!" Megatron snarled, "You have no place in it!"
From their position in the forest, the Maximals watched the battle begin. As was thought, the Vok transformers appeared to actually be quite powerful, but against transmetals or transmetal twos, they were outmatched. Still, it looked as if their numbers would win out in the long run though.
"So, do we go now?" Depthcharge asked.
"Yes," Optimus sighed and activated his jets, "Let's go!"
Optimus flew threw the air and landed a punch on Tigerhawk's shoulder, knocking the transmetal two fuzor to the ground.
"Optimus Primal?" Tigerhawk spoke in a startled voice.
"I can't allow your invasion to succeed," Optimus answered.
"You've interrupted our war," Megatron added and launched a fireball at Tigerhawk, "That is why you have no place here!"
Jawbreaker wrestled with a large bison like transformer who was trying to crush him against the side of the cliff that made up the structure that the new Predicon base was built around. Thunderfoot was about to succeed when he was suddenly hit by a barrage of rockets that knocked him to the ground. The Vok acolyte looked up to see a transmetal female raptor walking toward him and his intended victim in her robot mode.
"A Maximal?" Thunderfoot gasped, "But you don't know about our attack!"
Rapther wrapped her tail whip around Thunderfoot's neck and let the energy dispensers in the whip practically electrocute Thunderfoot.
"A good friend of ours warned us that you were coming," Rapther said in a cold voice.
Jawbreaker then took advantage of Thunderfoot's position and fired at him with a missile launcher inside his crocodile's head hand. The resulting explosion ripped Thunderfoot to pieces.
Scorpinok was knocked to the ground by another of Gore's missiles. The triceratops Vok acolyte was a tough opponent merely because of his sheer size. He had already blown up Supplex and crushed Octopix in one attack. The Vok acolyte's beast mode head also served as a hand and shield for him while in robot mode and prevented Scorpinok's missiles from hitting their target. The transmetal two scorpion had, as a result taken much more damage then his opponent. He switched to his beast mode and decided to try a different strategy.
"You're tough, invader," Scorpinok growled, "But not tough enough."
"Funny you say that when I have you on the run!" Gore taunted back and moved forward to crush Scorpinok's head.
Unfortunately for Gore, Scorpinok caught his foot in his pincers and then drove his tail into the Vok acolyte's stomach. Gore screamed with pain as the toxic cybervenom in Scorpinok's stinger slowly paralyzed the alien invader. Scorpinok was soon knocked into unconsciousness by a blast that seemed to also include gasses that were dangerous for even Cybertronians to breathe in. He soon fell into stasis lock.
"Now to destroy you," Stinkbomb said in a threatening voice, only to be hit by powerful lasers that knocked him to the ground.
Dinobot slowly approached the fallen Stinkbomb and waited for the Vok acolyte to get to his feet.
"On your feet," Dinobot ordered.
"You won't kill me while I'm helpless?" Stinkbomb questioned.
"That would be dishonorable," Dinobot answered, "On your feet."
Stinkbomb lunged forward and tackled the transmetal two raptor and began delivering a series of punches to his face.
"You'll regret having that sense of honor," Stinkbomb snarled triumphantly, and prepared to shot Dinobot in the face a pointblank range with his weapon, which lay near the area where he had tackled the male raptor.
Stinkbomb was just about to fire when he felt something tear through his chest and literally rip out his fluid pump. He looked down to see Dinobot's talons imbedded in his chest.
"My honor does not prevent me from killing you," Dinobot growled, "You just can not be helpless."
Scavenger, himself, winced in pain as he felt two sets of dart-like projectiles hit him as well as a weak laser blast as he dropped the offline remains of the Predicon Pestilence. He turned to see Airazor and Flutter charging toward him. Airazor hit him again with darts, but the chief acolyte shrugged it off, despite that he was taking damaged and fired two shots and then knocked Airazor out as she dodged the attack. Flutter, however, was not as fortunate. As she dodged the first blast, she was hit by the second and allowed Scavenger to hit her again. He was about to finish her off when he was hit by fire coming from the ground.
"Oh, no ya don't!" Rattrap growled and fired on the diving acolyte.
His shots successfully knocked Scavenger away and he and Squeak rushed to check on Airazor and Flutter. Squeak came across Airazor first. The Maximal falcon seemed to be fine, but was still in stasis lock. Flutter was not so well. The butterfly transformer was heavily damaged and lay on the ground with bits and pieces broken off.
"I'm sorry," Flutter managed weakly and then fell offline.
Rattrap was unable to say anything.
"Is she?" Squeak asked.
"We gotta get 'em out of here," Rattrap said weakly.
Rampage was meanwhile enjoying every minute of the battle. He had so far torn Chatter and Optimus Minor to pieces with his pincers and had blown Dart to pieces with his missile launcher. He had taken serious damage in the process, but the transmetal crab wasn't about to worry about that.
"Ha, ha, ha," Rampage said triumphantly, "This is the most fun I've had since I destroyed your colony!"
Depthcharge then shot Rampage in the foot with his shark blaster. The transmetal manta had taken more damage then Rampage so far, and was in no mood to listen to the Predicon gloat over his past victories. Especially since he had to work with him for the time being.
"I'm not in the mood for your taunts, X," Depthcharge growled.
"I dare you to shoot me again," Rampage snarled, "See how long your truce lasts?"
"Don't tempt me," Depthcharge growled back.
Cybershark and Whaler were knocked to the ground by a powerful laser blast from Whiteout. The Vok acolyte was very powerful given its size and had already inflicted heavy damage on both of the two Maximals.
"Disrupt the Vok's order, will you?" Whiteout snarled and blasted Whaler in the face at close range.
"NO!" Cybershark screamed as he watched Whaler fall back, offline.
Cybershark then spun the fins that made one of his hand so that they would act like a grinder and lunged at Whiteout. He managed to tear off the arm that was holding the blaster, but Whiteout was otherwise fine and knocked Cybershark out with his other arm. The acolyte was about to pick up his blaster again when he was knocked into stasis lock by powerful laser blast from behind.
"There's got to be a way to put an end to this," Cheetor sighed as he rushed to get Cybershark out of the battle area.
Toxin tried in vain to try and escape a massive cobweb that he had been caught in. He had put the Predicon femmebot, Redback, offline, but had then gotten caught in the web. Unfortunately, the more he struggled, the more he became entangled in the web.
"Caught?" a voice asked from above him.
Toxin looked up to see transmetal two spider femmebot sitting in another section of the web, in its beast mode. Blackarachnia slowly approached the trapped robot, chuckling as she did so.
"You will never defeat Tigerhawk!" Toxin said urgently as Blackarachnia settled onto his back.
"Then I guess I'll have to settle for beating you," Blackarachnia answered back as she drove her fangs into Toxin and began injecting cybervenom.
Quickstrike ducked under a laser blast that was fired at him and returned fire with a blast of his own. This did little to slow either Wolffang or Trickster down. Both Vok acolytes continued to fire on him and both continued to advance. The Predicon fuzor ducked behind a rock that had fallen off of the cliff that the Predicon base was built into, as the impact of laser weapons against it was blowing large parts of the cliff up.
"This ain't the way I envisioned this," Quickstrike grumbled.
Quickstrike then leaned out from behind the rock and fired a blast that hit Trickster in the knee. Wolffang consequently then hit Quickstrike in the shoulder with a blast from his own gun, which threw Quickstrike into the side of the cliff that the Predicon base was built into. He looked up in horror as the two Vok acolytes approached. They were about to raise their weapons to fire when the sound of something that sounded like swords cutting through metal.
Quickstrike then looked up to see Stagstripe standing over him, using what where his beast mode's antlers as swords. The hands that Trickster and Wolffang were using to hold their blasters had been completely cut off. Stagstripe then kicked Wolffang back and brought his 'antler-swords' down on Trickster. The Vok acolyte then fell, offline.
"Come on," Stagstripe spoke to Quickstrike, "There are still a lot more out there."
Venom and Slither both faced off against each other slowly. Their battle had gone back and forth, each trying to use Cybervenom to destroy the other. Both had taken serious damage as a result of their battling, and Slither was not about to last much longer.
"Why don't you give up," Venom taunted, "I swear to make it quick."
"Never!" Slither snarled and lunged forward to strike Venom.
Venom lunged at the same time, their right hands, which were their beast mode heads, bit into the others opposite shoulder. Both screamed as cybervenom began to corrupt and destroy their systems. Both screamed in pain as they fell offline.
Fang grunted in pain as he fell to the ground and took a series of blasts from his opponent, the Maximal, Snowstalker. He finished rolling, only to be kicked by another transformer who Snowstalker had come to aid.
"You burn for your aggression," Inferno said triumphantly as he aimed his flame throwers at the fallen acolyte.
Fang raised his blaster and shot Inferno's arm, causing his aim to be off, and the Predicon ant's shot went wide. This didn't win Fang much time, however, as Snowstalker hit him with two more blasts from her blaster, knocking acolyte into stasis lock, while Inferno lunged forward and finished Fang of with the drills in his other hand.
"You have the Queen's respect for helping in the defense of the Colony," Inferno spoke slowly.
"Uh, okay," Snowstalker answered, not sure of what to say.
Silverbolt and Nightscream, meanwhile, were having all they could do to deal with Speed, who would fly between them and blast them at close range. The smaller acolyte was also able to avoid most of their fire and what few hits they did score, did little damage. Silverbolt tried to fire his feather missiles at Speed, but the acolyte only pivoted, and pulled Nightscream into his line of fire.
"Coward!" Silverbolt growled and charged intending to use his feather swords to slice the smaller Vok invader to pieces.
"Coward?" Speed asked, as she finished of the helpless Nightscream, "I'm just smarter then you that's all."
Silverbolt slashed at the acolyte's wings, intending to knock her back to the ground. He missed, but before he could turn around, he heard a scream come from where Speed had moved to. He turned to see Terrorsaur there with his hands around her neck. The transmetal two Predicon then literally ripped the smaller robot's head off.
"You just need to be faster," Terrorsaur chuckled as he dropped the now offline body of Speed back to the ground.
"This fight is not going well," Silverbolt grumbled, "They've killed several members of your faction and a far number that are still alive won't last much longer."
"And they've driven several of your comrades from the field, and killed a handful," Terrorsaur added, "but Tigerhawk has committed his entire army in this attack. It is a tough fight, but one that we will not lose."
"I think the opposite will happen!" came Scavenger's voice as the chief acolyte swooped between the Maximal and Predicon.
"Ohhh, Black Birdbot aggravate Waspinator by not holding still!" Waspinator groaned as he tried to blast Nightwing, but the Vok acolyte refused to surrender any ground.
"And why do you speak in third person?" Nightwing taunted and fired back at Waspinator, knocking him back a few feet.
Waspinator gave a buzzing growl and lunged toward the raven transformer, firing a wide barrage of darts at his attacker as he went. Several of his shots hit home, but Nightwing managed to get one shot off before he fell into stasis lock. Unfortunately for Waspinator, that shot took out his wings.
"Why meeeeeeeeeeee!" Waspinator wailed as he fell down to Earth.
Spine and Stingfin, meanwhile, were facing a much tougher situation. While the two had destroyed Saber, Polar Claw, and Ice Hoof had both of them cornered, and both had already taken heavy damage.
"I don't think I'll last much longer," Stingfin said in a frustrated voice as she fired a cybervenom dart at Ice Hoof.
The dart hit the acolyte, but it barely slowed down. Spine looked down toward the smaller Predicon. She had taken serious damage, and was leaking mechfluid. He fired a laser blast from what was his beast mode's head, which managed to bring Ice Hoof to a knee. Unfortunately that allowed Polar Claw to get a shot in at Spine, which threw him back several feet. Stingfin looked back to see that the larger dinosaur transformer was in stasis lock.
"If Megatron thought he was going to conquer the planet with this bunch of losers, then he was sorely mistaken," Polar Claw commented.
"It was too easy!" Ice Hoof added, "The femmebot's cybervenom is too weak. It took twelve hits on Saber just to make him weak enough for the dinosaur's lasers to do any work."
The two didn't advance any further as three missiles suddenly exploded in the area. Ice Hoof was thrown into the air while Polar Claw was knocked down. Both acolytes were surprised by this and began looking around to spot their new opponent. Stingfin looked up from her position behind a boulder to see two more missiles come flying through the air. One hit Ice Hoof before she could hit the ground and the other hit Polar Claw while he was down. Both acolytes exploded with the missiles. It was then that Scorpinok came into view.
"Perhaps it is you who thought foolishly," Scorpinok growled as the destroyed pieces of Ice Hoof hit the ground.
Tusk lunged at his opponent, intending to slice him open with his swords, which in his beast mode were his tusks. Dinobot caught the blow with his talons and then slammed the larger acolyte to the ground. Tusk growled, rolled over and threw his sword at Dinobot. The weapon slammed through Dinobot's right shoulder and forced the transmetal two raptor down to a knee.
"Now I have you," Tusk said triumphantly as he walked forward and prepared to slice open Dinobot's head with his other sword.
Unfortunately, Dinobot was far from being out and fired his optics laser at full power into Tusk's midsection. The blast threw Tusk back several feet until he landed in Rampage's pincers.
"Why thank you Dinobot," Rampage said triumphantly, "I would like to kill something."
Dinobot remained silent as Rampage tore the acolyte apart.
Meanwhile, Snapper spit out the small parts of Boxcon as the large snapping turtle transformer advanced on the Predicon base's entrance, intending to plant a charge inside it. Unfortunately, she only made it a few steps before she was hit by a powerful rocket barrage, which flipped her over. The acolyte transformed to her robot mode and found Rapther standing close to the exit.
"You won't be blowing anything up," Rapther swore and fired another rocket barrage at her.
Rapther's second volley threw her back along the ground. Snapper was slow getting up, as his armor had taken several key hits in both rocket barrages. She was about to advance again when a series of drills came through a boulder behind her and heavily damaging her legs. Inferno appeared shortly after Snapper fell to the ground again. Rapther noticed that like herself, Inferno had taken heavy damage, but the ant transformer was not about to give up.
"Burn, Invader, BURN!" Inferno screamed and blasted Snapper at close range with his flame throwers.
Meanwhile in a hidden area, under one of the many boulders that littered the battlefield, Tarantulus and Carpenter watched the devastating battle carry on. Tarantulus laughed as he watched both factions lose most if not all of the protoforms they had spent the better part of a week hunting down.
"So what now?" Carpenter asked.
"Now?" Tarantulus asked back with a chuckle, and pulled out a small remote, "Now we act!"
Megatron ducked under a tazer charge that Tigerhawk fired from one of the gauntlets on his hands. He then watched as Optimus hit Tigerhawk with a blast from his own weaponry.
"You'd best surrender," Megatron urged, "You can not defeat both the Predicons and the Maximals at once."
"You've done little to damage me," Tigerhawk growled and then turned to face Optimus.
The transmetal two fuzor then fired a massive missile from under its wing and hit Optimus directly in the chest with it. Tigerhawk didn't know where Optimus eventually landed, but he did know that that Maximal commander was in stasis lock. Tigerhawk then turned back to Megatron, who had fired a fire blast at him while he was firing at Optimus.
Tigerhawk used one of his wings to block Megatron's attack and easily shrugged it off.
"Your violence will not be tolerated!" Tigerhawk swore and charged toward Megatron.
When Megatron attempted to use his weapons against Tigerhawk again, the Vok Emissary flipped over and fired both his heavy Gatling guns, which were mounted under his wings, into Megatron's chest. This sent the Predicon tyrant spiraling down to the earth, falling into stasis lock the instant he hit the ground. Tigerhawk landed beside the body of the fallen dragon-like transformer.
"Now, to end this," Tigerhawk spoke, mostly to himself, and raised his hand to finish off Megatron with a tazer blast.
Tigerhawk never had the chance to do so, however, as a small insect-like robot landed on his raised hand and then slammed two raised arms into his hand. Tigerhawk immediately felt intense pain and moved his other hand to try and tear the robot off of him, only to be met by another robot hitting him, and then another, and then another. He roared with pain as the robots began to inject some kind of cybervenom into him. He looked around to see all the transformers who were still online had fallen victim to the same attack as he was.
"No!" Tigerhawk exclaimed, "No! How is this… happening… to… m-…"
Tigerhawk said no more as he fell to the ground in stasis lock. As the sound of silence now carried over the area, Tarantulus and Carpenter emerged from inside their hidden cave. Tarantulus walked up to the stasis locked Tigerhawk with a triumphant look on his face. He then spoke calmly and slowly, betraying his jubilant feelings.
"Now, you're mine!" Tarantulus exclaimed triumphantly with a maniacal laughter following.
To Be Continued…