D vs G : Decepticons vs Gremlins

This chapter is dedicated to Ratchetsfangirl, She gave me the awesome idea about the Energon. Her help was invaluable and I thank her from the bottom of my heart!

Chapter 2: A glitch in the system

Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also- Chinese Proverb

The Nemesis

Power down cycles ended as the change of shifts began, for life on the Decepticon warship the days were mainly filled with daily ship maintenance, scheduled Energon refueling, and searching for more Energon and Iacon Relics. There was the occasional skirmish with the Autobots, but they had more than enough numbers to handle the Autobots if needed. Occasionally a Decepticon would go offline due to an incursion with the Autobots, that couldn't be helped, it came with the job.

Still the Decepticons on this ship tried to find comfort in the little things in life, like the daily Energon refueling. The door of the main Energon refueling chamber slid open as two Eradicons arrived from the end of their engine monitoring duties.

"I'm just saying if we appeared to the humans AS their allies, and then win them over it will be easy to subjugate them at a later time…" One purple Eradicon said to the other.

"Your plan sounds well versed but I will NOT be caught dead at one of their human dance functions nor will I walk on parade for them, I am above that thank you!" The other said very haughtily as they reclined in the lounge chairs and the computer slid down a tube to their arms ready to administer the daily dose of Energon.

"You always have to be an elitist!, you can't just –" He stopped as the machine clunked then sputtered and died. He looked up at the machine and tapped it slightly." That's odd it never malfunctions..

"Maybe it broke when it heard your absurd idea to take over the planet." The other Eradicon said as his pump soon clunked, sputtered and died. He sat up and tapped it slightly, and then after a moment hit it with a loud thud.

"Oh that's it you ignoramus!, Hit it some more act like the Neanderthal hairless monkeys you wish to 'get to know…" He berated his co-worker.

"Oh hush!, maybe if you offered some constructive criticism." He said as he looked at the Energon machine dispenser, and in that moment the glass of the machine cracked slightly as blue Energon sprayed out and painted his face with the glowing blue liquid.

"What in the name of Megatron is going on?" He shouted as all the Energon tanks began to shatter and the blue fuel sprayed everywhere. The Eradicon sputtered and tried to wipe the fluid out of their optics, had they not been preoccupied they would have heard the high shrill laughter echoing from the ships vents.

"Hmmmmmm" Knock out pondered as he saw the flabby green slimy husk that was once a full bulbous pod. The only reason he gathered it and took it aboard the Nemesis was it was giving off a strange energy reading. When he left it last night it was reaching a higher peak then when he first found it. But now as he examined it, it read no energy signals and was now deflated and even smelled bad. Still nothing ventured nothing gained as he thought, He didn't tell Megatron about this pod, so there was no harm in not telling him about the failure of the experiment, even though one never got off the ground.

"Knock out!" Megatron screamed through the intercom, it was loud enough to shake Knock out to his very core.

"Ahh yes yes! My league!, What can I do for you?" He stumbled

"There is something wrong with Dreadwing!, I am sending you to him and get him fixed no matter what!" He yelled as he ended the call abruptly.

The doors of Knock-outs med bay slid open and in came the hulking blue Decepticon. He had silver trim and a gold face, with red eyes that were in a constant scowl most of the time Knock out saw him. Only today his scowl was more scowly than usual.

"Yes Dreadwing what's wrong?" he asked his patient

Dreadwing merely scowled and pointed to his throat. Knock out blinked and could only narrow it down to a few ailments but picked the first and obvious one,

"Is there something wrong with your voice box?" Knock out asked as Dreadwing nodded yes.

"What can you not speak is that it?" To which dread shook his head. "So…..you can speak? Well talk let me hear what the problem?"

Dreadwing gritted his teeth and gave a fierce looking scowl as to scream "NO"

"Dreadwing, I need to hear the tone of your voice in order to better diagnose what's wrong, now come on whatever it is can't be that bad."

"EEEt's Bad EEf I Tawwwk wike DIS!" Dreadwing responded in a high pithed squeaky voice that was somewhere in-between dying cat and a Niki minaj if her head was in a vice.

"uhhh um oh! Well it's not THAT bad….." Knock out clearly lied. He turned around to look his Vox tool, any second sooner and he would have noticed a scaly green arm retreating back into the shadows after previously touching the tool.

"Now let's have a look shall we!" Knock out said as he used the tuning tool to regulated the vocal patterns in his voice box. "Just a minor adjustment and voila!, good as new!"

Dreadwing grabbed his throat and spoke "Ah reckon ya didn't do tha job there !" He said in a slow drawl reminiscent of the southern region of the United States. "If ah didn't know betta Ah'd say yew were makin' fun O me!"

Knock out shook his tool vigorously " I- I don't know maybe the timing mechanism is off!" He stumbled back as Dreadwing etched closer and close to him. "M-M- maybe we should just shut off your voice box for a bit while I recalibrate my instruments?"

Dreadwing stopped and glared at him "Eeyup"

Knock feverously attempted to fix his instrument, taking it apart and inspecting each piece as if it were a precious specimen. He could see tiny teeth marks and rips in the delicate microchips inside. "Hmm , that's odd" He said as he held it up to the light" If I didn't know any better I'd say a scraplet got a hold of it"

"What d'you reckon they got here then?" Dreadwing asked in a slow drawl.

"It was just one Scraptlett , I made sure of it!" Knock out snapped "And I personally executed it myself!"

Then throughout the ship alarms began to blare out, Every Decepticon raised their heads and looked around amidst the siren blares and red light flashing. Suddenly the ships computer came on the loud speaker.

"WARNING!, WARNING!, FIRE IN ENERGON BAY 32! FIRE IN ENERGON BAY 32!"

Knock Out looked at Dreadwing as the sudden realization that they were on floor 33 sank in. Fire is an element that consumes and tends move upwards. They realized also that Energon is highly combustible and it really doesn't agree with fire.

"I'm thinking we should maybe pay attention to this problem now!" Knock out said he and Dreadwing made their way down to the 32nd level. The fires had knocked out most of the lift systems as Knock out and Dread wing took the emergency lift one floor below. Thick smoke greeted them as they emerged into the hallway. The smell of burning particles of Energon hung in the air; it was the only warning a Energon explosion gave before it cause unimaginable damage.

"Why aren't the fire alarms going off!?," Knock out yelled as Eradicons franticly tried to evacuate the burning floor. "We have to get to the main override controls and activate the fire system!"

"Tell me sumtin ah don't know!" Dreadwing said his voice box still malfunctioning.

Knock out got to the override control and feverously began to work at the controls above him he heard Megatron's booming voice.

"WHAT IS GOING ON IN MY SHIP?!" He shouted.

"In a minuet my lord!, I have to get the fire control system online!" Knock out yelled as the regular override codes were not working "It keeps locking me out of the system!" he said as he looked at the Energon storage bay, he could see the doors wide open and a large pool of spilt Energon on the floor burning, it had already reached the storage bay where the containers of Energon were stored. He knew he had seconds to get that fire out or else Deck 32 was about to get a new entry way.

"Knock out!, get the fire out now!" Megatron ordered as a very sinister and high pitch laughed echoed over the comms. It was almost a mocking laugh as the intercoms soon carried it all over the ship.

Knock out didn't pay much attention to it, he couldn't he tried every code he thought of before a well of frustration mounted inside of him and finally burst forth like a volcano. He screamed in frustration as he slammed his metal fist against the control. Soon the red lights of the alarms turned blue as the ships fire control system sprayed light blue foam all over the 32nd floor. The thick blue foam covered everywhere until it snuffed out the fire. Any and all decepticons caught in the blast radius soon found they were covered head to toe in blue sticky foam, which smelled of blueberries.

"It's all right Lord Megatron I have the fire extinguished, and from the looks of it the Energons storage was spared. " Knock out reported.

"What was the cause of the fire?" Megatron bellowed

Knockout noticed on the floor lying in the singed aftermath of burnt Energon was the husk of a Decepticon worker class. He was singed from head to toe and there was a large gaping wound coming from his upper back. He could see the trail of burned Energon leading from him to out of the storage bay. Knock out and Dreadwing followed the trail to just down the hall to the refueling junction. There they saw four to five Eradicons dead on the ground in various states of distress. Two suffered from the same type of open gash as the first victim and the other three were shot full of holes.

"Megatron we may have a problem, " Knock out said as he noticed all victims shared the same type of wound, dozens of three pronged claw marks all over their face and chest.

Nemesis Bridge

The footage from the 32nd floor was pulled up as Megatron and Knock out reviewed the footage of the accident. The ship was placed on high alert and orders were to shoot anything strange on sight. Knock out was ordered by Megatron to find the problem of the ships malfunction with the Energon bay and the fire controls, so Dreadwing would have to wait for now. It wasn't really a problem, considering Megatron gave Dreadwing strict orders not to talk as eve h found his voice annoying. For now Dreadwing had to wear a flat board around his neck, the board contained a Polly urethane chemical that he could write messages on with his fingers, anything so he wouldn't talk.

"There!, " Knock out pointed out at the screen " It happens when the Energon pump malfunctions and sprays Energon all over the room. Do you see it?" He pointed out to Megatron.

Megatron growled as he narrowed his optics "Where?, Show me!" He demanded as Knock out quickly enhanced the image to the lower left of the screen. As he did the fuzzy image soon became clear as it appeared to be an organic of some sort. It stood on two legs and appeared to be very small. It was green and scaly as it had a large head with two large ears. The creature also had a wide brimmed mouth with rows of sharp teeth.

"What is it and what is it doing on my ship!?" Megatron roared, He didn't need to look any further than Knock out to see who was the cause of the trouble.

Knock out instantly backed away as Megatron moved dangerously close inside Knock out's "personal space" Knock out knew that look in Megatron's optics and the tone in his voice. He thought fast an excuse to save his hide.

"I-I-I didn't know what it was Lord Megatron! All I knew is it was giving off a strange energy reading I felt with proper research that we could maybe harness!" He said quickly as he felt some transmission fluid leak from himself.

"Then you had better find it and get it off my ship before I throw YOU off with it!" Megatron roared as the Nemesis soon stopped. The entire ship shook as it suddenly was frozen in place high above the Earth's orbit.

Every Decepticon on the bridge stopped in place and looked around, The ship just didn't stop moving until it was ordered not to, And no order was given to stop, at least not by Megatron. Megtraon rushed to the comm controls and screamed into the microphone.

"WHY DID YOU STOP?, I GAVE NO ORDER!" He shouted.

"Sir! We can't explain it the engines just went offline!" He heard the frighten voice of a Decepticon engineer say.

"Well you better find out or you will ejected into space!" Megatron threatened.

Megatron turned to Knock out, and gave him the most unflattering look "Knock out you will find that organism now and destroy it NOW!"

Before Knock could whimper an affirmative, everyone on the bridge heard the sinister high pitched laugh echo through the air. Knock out could swear he heard a furious scraping inside the controls. Knock out raised a metal finger to his lips as in to motion for everyone to keep quiet. As he etched towards the console, the ships monitor came alive with various Earth TV channels. Each of the many screens were playing some kind of television programme. Some played Bollywood, some played The Jersey Shore, and Most were playing old cartoons. With they all shared in common was they were all excruciatingly annoying.

"Soundwave! Do something about this!" Megatron yelled as he turned to his communications officer he was busy hooked up to his post with his back turned to Megatron, Soundwave slowly began to face his leader . Megatron's angry look turned to a stun look when he was Soundwaves face plate was now showing the image of a singing frog with a top hat.

"HELLO MY HONEY ! HELLO MY BABY! HELLO, MY RAGTIME GAL!" Soundwave began to sing.

Knock too was dumbfounded at Soundwave choice of entertainment, still he never got the chance to say anything when the console behind him exploded and from within popped out the green scaled Gremlin. It laughed manically as it attached itself to knock-out's face and began to claw at him furiously.

"Get it off of me! Get it off of me!" He whined.

The gremlin then leapt off of Knock out and found another target as he latched on to one of the Bridge controllers, He thrashed around as the tiny monster clawed at him and the found a soft spot to burrow inside of him. The purple Eradicon then shook and trembled as it stopped and then began firing wildly and anything and everyone, and raced out of the bridge room still continuing to fire wildly.

"That thing can take control of us!?" Knock out deduced in horror.

"Go! Get rid of that thing now!" Megatron roared as Knock out and a squad of six Eradicons followed him out the hall.

"Wait, wait! " Knock ordered as his squad stopped, " I have an idea, make sure you corner that creature in a hallway he can't get out of , Lead him to Deck G, I'll meet you there with my secret new weapon!" He hummed as he raced to his lab.

The Eradicons honed their trackers to track organic life; they followed the Gremlin who was still wearing a Decepticon for a suit down the hallways. They split apart in two bot teams to try and drive the gremlin down the hallway of Deck G. It was a cautious game of cat and mouse and they fired warning shots to maneuver the Gremlin down the hallway that Knock out wanted. Soon the Gremlin found he was trapped in a dead end hallway with not exits or even any metal grates to climb through the venting system. He turned to see through his hostage optics that he was cornered. The Gremlins growled as he popped out of his Decepticon hostage. Sparks flew from the Eradicons neck as it collapsed to the ground, dead. The gremlin then paced the hallway on two legs growling and spitting at the 6 Decepticons. It spoke in a garbled mess of a language, It shook it's claw at them in a defiant show that yelled "I'm not afraid of you."

Knock out soon arrived with a huge metal cylinder strapped to his wrists. He had the same smug confident look on his freshly scarred up face. "Ok, Watch this! I have got a little surprise for our unwelcomed guest!" He announced as he was ready, eager even to test out this new Anti Scraplet weapon.

He fired as streams of water shot forth and flooded the hallway the gremlin was in, The Gremlin howled and screamed as the water engulfed him and soaked him. Knock out grinned as the cries of the little monster sounded like music to him. Knock out enjoyed his moment of victory for exactly one earth minuet, as the cries soon turned into hideous laughter. They all stopped and focused their optics as a green fog soon filled the hallway. The Gremlin shook and trembled as bulbs of its flesh began to appear all over it. Then the unthinkable happened as the green bulbs shot little green balls everywhere, and it didn't stop at a dozen. Soon the balls multiplied into other green balls, and then the green balls began to grow rapidly into more green scaled Gremlins. Knock out and the Decepticons back away slowly as the hallway soon filled to the brim with hundreds of Gremlins!

"Megatron!," Knock out said over his comm link " I regret to inform you that we have made the situation, much, much more worse…." He said as he transformed into his car mode and outraced his squad that were soon overtaken and dismantled by dozens of Gremlins, As bad as things were, they just got worse.

NEXT TIME: Autobots, Scraplets, Unicron?, They are nothing compared to the hell that has just been unleashed on the Decepticons. Megatron and his Decepticons find themselves in a fight for their continued existence against an enemy they never could imagine. It's the Decepticons vs an entire horde of Gremlins with the Nemesis at stake ,Megatron resorts to desperate measures.