On the Nemesis
Onslaught was walking through the halls of the ship that was once Trypticon towards the med bay with an energon cube in hand.
After Laserbeak left to find new vehicle forms Megatron distributed the last of the remaining energon. Of course Megatron kept one to himself, naturally, gave one to Soundwave 'Fruits of being second in command' as Megatron described it, the third went to Knockout since they needed their medic at full capacity, the fourth to power up certain parts of the ship such as computer systems and ammo dispensers even if only for a small time, and the last energon cube went to Onslaught.
"Being the leader of the decepticons' most elite strike force deserves such reward." Meagtron said.
However Onslaught had different plans for the energon.
"Hey Onslaught need something?" Blastoff asked/greeted as his leader entered the med-bay.
Currently the flying combaticon was lying and a medical table with the bites from the previous battle still visible.
"Brought you some energon, you lost some from the fight and need to keep your repair systems up." Onslaught said handing the cube to his teammate.
"Frag yeah! Thanks boss." Blastoff said as he happily took the cube.
"Don't mention it. Literally do not mention this at all." Onslaught told him the last thing he needed was the others to think he was going soft. Onslaught, unlike a majority of the decepticons, didn't only look out for himself. Onslaught was the leader of the combaticons and thus his team was his responsibility.
"So what's the plan?" Blastoff asked before consuming the energon.
"Once Laserbeak gets back with our new alt modes most of us will go with Megatron to observe the planet's life." Onslaught explained.
"I don't see why we can't just attack them already." Blastoff said annoyed. Blastoff, like most decepticons, was a natural fighter and all the sitting around was making him uneasy.
With a sigh Onslaugh began listing off reasons. "We're outnumbered one thousand to one, we have limited resources, our 'base' is a crashed warship, we-"
"Okay okay I get it." Blastoff interrupted before Onlsaught could list anymore reasons.
"Why don't you guys believe me?" Jaune asked.
It's been a day since Teams JNPR and RWBY went into Emerald Forrest and since then Jaune has talked nonstop about the robots he saw pleading for anybody to believe him. And currently the two teams were sitting together for breakfast in the cafeteria.
"Gee Jaune, why don't we believe that you saw two giant robots that were digging for dust shards that transformed into futuristic vehicles and drove off? I can't imagine why." Wiess said being overly sarcastic.
"She has a point Jaune it's not exactly the most believable joke." Nora said with a mouthful of pancake.
"It's not a Joke!" Jaune shouted causing a few heads to turn his way.
"Jaune maybe you should lower your voice." Pyrrah suggested.
"Pyrrah you believe me right?" Jaune pleaded as all eyes at the table turn to the Spartan woman.
Pyrrah was conflicted on one hand she wanted to support her leader/friend/crush. But on the other hand…
"Jaune I believe…that you believe what you saw was real." Pyrrah answered choosing her words carefully.
However what was said did not please Jaune in the slightest. Jaune slammed in his hand on the table and shot up.
"Fine! If none of you believe me I'll go back into Emerald Forrest and get proof." The knight said before storming off.
"He's really stuck on this." Ruby said concerned.
"He's delusional." Weiss said in a matter of fact tone.
"You think he's serious about going?" Yang asked.
"Of course not, Jaune's not reckless we just need let him cool down." Pyrrah said.
"So do you guys have any plans today?" Nora said trying to change the subject.
"Yeah Weiss wants to go to the docks and scope out the competition for the vytal festival." Yang said.
"I am not 'scoping' I just want to formally welcome students to Vale." Weiss proclaimed.
"Right." Was the sarcastic collective response.
"I must say while the species in this planet is primitive they have quite the sense of style." Knockout said admiring his new vehicle form as well as getting used to his new Chassis.
Currently all the decepticons were getting used to their new forms. Their robot modes had some subtly changes to compensate for their new vehicle forms, a tire on the leg here a window on the arm there but they all stayed roughly the same as before.
"What's the plan now lord Megatron?" Onslaught asked.
"I want to witness this planet's inhabitants first hand, all will accompany me except Swindle, Vortex, and Blastoff you three will guard the Nemesis from the creatures that we encountered before. We cannot lose our base of operations." Megatron said.
All the decepticons nodded in agreement as Megatron, Barricade, Knockout, Brawl, Onslaught, and Soundwave made their way out of the nemesis and made way through the seemingly endless amount of trees until they found an open enough area to use their new alternate forms.
"Better get comfortable according to Laserbeak's repot Even it'll take several cycles to reach our destination." Knockout.
An audible groan was heard from brawl as the six deceptcons began driving off towards vale.
Jaune was armed with crocea mors along with a backpack filled with miscellaneous items ranging from a compass and a canteen filled with water to a flare gun.
After going to Professor Port and asking for 'extra credit' and volunteering to go grimm hunting in the Emerald was about to deny the request but agreed after Jaune said he was wanting to be more courageous and adventures like the teacher himself. If there was one thing Jaune could rely on it was the ego of his grimm studies teacher. Thus the huntsman arranged for a pilot to transport the young man to the forest.
"Okay Jaune you got this. You just need to go into the forest get a picture, prove you not crazy, be praised for getting proof of aliens, and impress Weiss. Should be easy." Jaune said trying to build his own confidence up.
"Sounds like quite the plan." Pyrrah said.
Jaune turned to see his team with their weapons.
"What are you guys doing here?" Jaune asked.
"Well, we felt bad about earlier so we decided to come with you." Pyrrah explained.
"Besides what kind of team would we be if we let our leader die in the middle of the woods?" Nora chimed.
"This also would be a good opportunity to hone our combat skills." Ren added.
Jaune was almost brought to tears by this.
"Thanks guys I promise you won't regret this." Jaune said.
It had been a long and uneventful journey for the decepticons. But now the group of robots in disguise were driving through the streets of vale drawing many eyes towards the out of place vehicles.
"Why do they keep staring at us?" Brawl asked through his commlink.
"Perhaps it's not customary for a group of vehicles to be this large." Knockout suggested.
"Interesting observation, Decepticons split up but remain on the comm channel and remember we're here to observe engage as a last resort." Megatron commanded.
All decepticons separated at a four-way stop and driving deeper into the city.
However all eyes were focused on brawl, much to his chagrin. To the people's credit it wasn't everyday they saw an armored tank casually drive down the street.
Soundwave set out on his own personal mission. To fully understand the position the decepticons were in they need to know their enemies inside and out.
Soundwave drove around the city before finding a large official looking building. Driving into the alleyway behind the building, and making sure no potential witnesses were around Soundwave opened his rear passenger door that Laserbeak flew out of.
"Laserbeak: Operation information accumulation." Soundwave said earning an affirmative chirp from the minicon.
Laserbeak flew up to the roof of the building and infiltrated the air vents by cutting an opening with his laser. After crawling through the narrow vents the decepticon found a small opening leading inside the building. Peeking through the grate Laserbeak saw that there were many life forms in the room along with shelves filled with books.
After looking around Laserbeak spotted a small area with computers. Making sure the coast was clear Laserbeak broke the grate open, scanned the computer tower and flew down to where the computers were and transformed into an identical copy. Checking to make sure no one took notice of his action Laserbeak, in his computer form, extended several tendrils and pierced the adjacent computer tower to download whatever network this foreign device was connected to. Laserbeak was downloading the internet.
Knockout was enjoying his leisurely drive through the city nothing really caught his optic until he saw a car dealership. The custom paint jobs alone were enough to draw him in but the models the styles made him hit the brakes and pull into the parking lot.
"Nowhere near as impressive as myself but these life forms do have a sense finesse." Knockout said.
Knockout stopped talking as two humans came into his peripheral vision. One had bright green hair as the taller one had grey hair.
"This is seriously how you want to spend our day off?" The green haired girl asked.
"What can I say I got a thing for cars." The grey hared boy said nonchalantly.
The boy with grey hair then made his way to Knockout running his hands over the top of his vehicle form.
"Like this one, it's awesome." The boy said.
"Mercury this is NOT how I wanted to spend my day." The green haired girl said the boy, now known as Mercury.
"Alright fine we'll go I just wanna do something first." Mercury said as he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a pocket knife.
Mercury proceeded to press the blade against the car and made a long scratch from bumper to bumper.
"Why?" Emerald simply asked.
"Because it's nice and it's not mine duh." Mercury said as it was obvious.
While the two were conversing one thought ran through Knockouts head.
"MY PAINT JOB!" Knockout thought.
The decepticon medic was going to transform and rip this skin bag limb from limb.
"Don't even think about it Knockout." A voice said over the commlink.
Adjusting his mirrors Knockout saw Barricade's alt form peeking from around the corner of the street.
"What do you propose I do? Continue letting these degenerates deface my perfect paint." Knockout said.
"Just hold on." Barricade said.
Soon enough Barricade came rolling around the corner making a chirp sound with the police siren causing the two teens to give a deer in headlights look.
"Real smooth Merc now we have THIS to deal with." Emerald said backing up before taking off into a sprint with Mercury following her.
Barricade then drove up next to Knockout.
"How'd you do that?" Knockout asked.
"Apparently the vehicle Laserbeak scanned for me is used by this planet's law enforcement." Barricade explained.
"Funny considering that was your job back in kaon." Knockout said amused earning a grunt from Barricade.
Swindle was currently staring at the monitor screen looking for something, ANYTHING to keep him from dying of boredom.
Vortex was deep in the ship compiling a manifest of all deceased decepticons and Blastoff was looking over weapons in the same room as the decepticon merchant.
Having enough Swindle stood up. "Frag this." Swindle said as he grabbed Knockout's scanner and started making his way to the exit.
"Where do you think you're going?" Blastoff asked.
"I'm going stir-crazy in here, I'm going to go test out my new vehicle form and with any luck find more of those crystal shards and get some overdue energon." Swindle explained while loading his path blaster.
"Fine but be careful out there those beasts can really bring the hurt." Blastoff said returning his attention to his own weaponry.
Soon Swindle, in his new vehicle form, was driving through the forest in search of more crystal shards.
Picking up a faint signal Swindle came to a halt, still in his jeep form, began trying to pinpoint the signal.
Team JNPR was traversing through the forest just as they had done before the only difference being Jaune was the only one with his weapon drawn.
While the rest of his team came with Jaune they were still unconvinced of the danger Jaune told them about.
The party continued on until Pyrrah spoke up.
"Hey do you guys see that?" Pyrrah said pointing to the last thing anyone of team JNPR expected to see in Emerald Forest, a military jeep with a mounted machine gun.
"What's one of those doing out here?" Nora asked.
"More importantly why isn't anybody with it?" Ren added.
The vehicle couldn't have been abandoned, or if it was it hasn't been long there was no vegetation on it, no rust, no dust, nothing.
"Guys let's check it out but be careful." Jaune Said.
Team JNPR, with weapons drawn, began closing in on the military vehicle slowly.
They stopped behind the cover of bushes and trees waiting and looking for any trace of another living being around before standing up from their position. However as the went to make the final few steps towards the jeep Jaune stepped on a fallen tree branch making a Loud audible snap sound.
As soon as that sound was heard the jeep sprung to life and rotated the mounted turret towards the origin of the sound and began unloading as many bullets as possible.
Because of Laserbeak Soundwave now had access to the internet.
Thanks to his advanced processor and superior intellect Soundwave memorized the basics of this world's history, laws, and cultures perfectly it only took him two minutes to do so.
Currently all Decepticons had met up in a parking area near vale's docks.
Soundwave had just given a brief history lesson to his lord and companions.
"So these 'humans' and 'faunus' use dust to power weapons and vehicles." Onslaught summarized.
"Excellent work Soundwave, knowing this we can assume that these creatures have a surplus and distribution points of dust hidden somewhere." Megatron said.
"While driving around I saw some stores that seemed to sell the stuff we could easily transform and take it." Knockout suggested.
"No I want to remain in cover as long as possible." Megatron said as an idea came to mind. "We need to return to base soon Soundwave you have the most knowledge of this planet I want you to stay here and find a large enough supply of dust that warrants our reveal however if you can retrieve some without showing yourself do so instead." Megatron ordered.
"As you command Lord Megatron." Soundwave replied.
After that the rest of the decepticons departed and begun their way back to the nemesis laving Soundwave in this foreign territory.
Soundwave began driving until he was forced to slam on his breaks to avoid hitting a blond monkey faunus.
"Sorry!" The faunus boy yelled as he ran off.
Checking his mirrors Soundwave also took notice of four human girls varying in colors come around the corner.
All Soundwave could think was how strange this new planet was.
He didn't know how but Jaune managed to react just before the turret opened fire managing to tackle Pyrrah to the ground landing on top of her.
Luckily Ren grabbed Nora and pulled her to the ground along with him.
If it wasn't for the seemingly endless amount of bullets firing at her and her teammates Pyrrah would have swooned from Jaune saving her.
All the students could here was the loud bangs coming from each round from the gun and all they could see was bark flying off the nearby tree and leaves being blasted off from their branches.
For what seemed like forever the machine gun kept rotating back and forth spraying bullets. Eventually it ended either because there was no ammo left or because whatever was firing determined that there was nothing there the JNPR team didn't know.
Peering through the bush team JNPR saw something that they would remember for the rest of their lives. The jeep that had only seconds ago had been firing on its own began to change its entire structure as it transformed into a humanoid shaped robot.
Nora was about to scream but Ren's hand quickly clamped over her mouth. Swindle slowly walked over to where he thought that snapping sound came from slowly using his path blaster to move the vegetation. It took all of Jaune's self-control not to freak out from the giant futuristic gun inches away from his face.
Before Swindle could investigate anymore Blastoff's voice rang through his commlink. "Hey swindle have you found any more of those shards yet?"
"No not yet I thought I picked up a trace but the data pad must be faulty or something." Swindle said as he turned to walk away.
As the decepticon was walking away Pyrrah whispered to Jaune. "Take. A. Picture."
Nodding Jaune pulled out his scroll with shaking hands and held it up at the metal titan.
However with all the shock going through his head Jaune forgot to turn off the scroll's flash. The flash was not unnoticed by swindle who turned around and saw the young beacon student peaking over the bushes.
The next thing anyone heard were loud blasts and bangs.