After of hours driving and by the time it had gone dark the trio arrived at what appeared an abandoned power station. Hound began to indicate into the power plant, he quickly disappeared from sight, Optimus, and Wheeljack stopped and turned,
"What is he doing?" Wheeljack asked,
"Not sure," replied Optimus, "However I think we should follow him." Optimus began to follow Hound into the plant quickly followed by Wheeljack, they descended the road into the plant until they found Hound who was scanning the building incredibly thoroughly. The others two transformed, "What are you doing," asked Wheeljack. Hound stopped scanning but did not answer the question "Someone's here," he whispered,
"Who?" asked Wheeljack.
"Not sure, scan didn't say."
Optimus nodded, "Alright," he whispered, "we'll have to split up."
The others nodded and began to walk in different directions, Optimus headed for the upper levels, Hound for the furnaces on the lower level and Wheeljack walked through a maze of pipes until he entered the generator room. Wheeljack turned on his headlamps and examined the room; it was very bare and untidy. Around the wall was computer consoles and screens, none were working except the main screen in the centre which was showing several map locations. The only other object in the room was the huge generator tower which as Wheeljack expected was silent, "Might nick a few pieces that might come in handy," he mumbled to himself. He removed the hatch and looked, all the chips were in place wires were in place, "Hmm" he thought to himself. Suddenly something dawned on him and he stood bolt upright, it was not possible but the generator was still operational.
"HA! HA!" the laughed echoed throughout the room.
Wheeljack drew his gun, "Who are you!" he asked.
"HA! HA!" came the laugh again.
Wheeljack spoke into his com-link, "Wheeljack to Optimus," he waited, "Come in Optimus."
There was nothing but static, "There's no way of contacting your friends there is a dampening field around this room," the voice was closer now.
"Where are you?" Wheeljack asked again.
There was no reply this time instead Wheeljack looked up to the balcony where a figure had appeared, "who are you?" Wheeljack asked again. The huge figure moved out of the shadows, he was huge, gigantic and seemingly overpowering. His dark blue painted body seemed to camouflage him in the light coming in from the holes in the roof. He loomed over Wheeljack and stared at him with his one large yellow eye. Wheeljack was frozen with fear and was temporarily speechless unsure what to say. The anonymous transformer raised his right hand towards in what Wheeljack assumed was a handshake and in response raised his right hand.
"I…I'm Wheeljack," he said nervously,
"Shockwave, the doombringer."
Wheeljack looked down at Shockwave's right arm, his hand was gone and had been replaced with a large cannon which was raised at Wheeljack's chest, suddenly Shockwave fired the cannon at point blank range sending Wheeljack straight through the air crashing into the wall 50 metres away. Wheeljack looked down; he had severe damage to his lower left chest. Shockwave began to approach Wheeljack each step crashing his foot to the floor. Wheeljack tried to move but he couldn't his circuits were fried, the blue, one-eyed giant was getting closer and closer with his cannon raised ready to deliver the fatal shot. Suddenly the roar of engines sounded as a red and blue truck, green jeep jumped of the balcony, transformed, and both landed swiftly on their feet, It was Optimus. "Get up my friend," he said, "we must get out of here now."
"I can't move" Wheeljack replied.
Optimus heard noises coming to from the hole, Shockwave he was getting back up. Optimus threw Wheeljack over his shoulder and ran from the room pursued by their enemy. "Hound Evacuate!" he screamed into his com-link as he ran towards the location of his trailer, by this time they were near and Optimus could see Hound in the fury of bullets standing with his gun drawn ready to fire on his leaders order.
"FIRE!"
Suddenly bullets were firing in every direction making vision almost impossible, as soon as they reached Hound; Wheeljack was thrown roughly into the trailer. Optimus transformed and linked up behind the cover of Hound before he also transformed and they hit the road as fast as they possibly could. They drove as fast they could; it was not the factory was long gone from sight that anyone dared to speak.
"Do you think we lost him Boss-Bot?" Hound asked, but the Optimus could not hear him over a loud noise of a jet which had appeared in their rear mirrors. "Who's that boss?"
"Shockwave transform!" side the jet and with one motion, the jet became the equally dangerous assassin. "Time to die Autobots!" he bellowed and with a one shot he blasted them all from the ground and over the cliff edge.
Shockwave landed next to the cliff and watched as his enemies fell further until he could no longer see them laughing at them all the way.
Shockwave looked to the sky, "the Autobots are all but gone, next step: Megatron" and with another quick flash he transformed and flew through the air towards Iacon.