"Okay so what is Megatron planning?" Ultra Magnus asked observing the dome prisons throughout the city of Pendragon "I don't know, that Decepticon bastard is playing thing too close to his torso for us not to be worried" Downshift said "I agree, however there is something here that is troubling me" Ultra Magnus said "That hangar, so you guys saw it too" Mirage said "Yes I want to know what was stored in it and why" The Wrecker's leader said "Yes sir" Mirage said as he and Topspin left to check the hangar "Nightbeat, any word on where Team Optimus is?" Ultra Magnus asked his scout "Negative sir those cons are tricky bastards" Nightbeat responded. "I want to know what the frag is going on here!" Ultra Magnus said "Could it do with the readings of Tox-En?" Swoop asked from his perch "It could be" Windcharger said "Until we have some absolute proof we need to be careful" Ultra Magnus said. "Understood" the others said.
"Man that felt great" Shirley said pulling on a blue sleeveless dusters. "I almost forgot the feeling of hot water" he sighed. "Good thing too, because we're about to hit something heavy out there in the city" Smokescreen said "I just hope the others are okay" Shirley said "They will be, hey I've been meaning to ask you about something I saw in the datalog, a project Apollo" Smokescreen asked "Yeah that project, man that is a special one" Shirley said "What is it?" Smokescreen asked.
"During the Battle with the Fallen; Jetfire was heavily damaged, he had overwritten all safety protocols just so he could fight on and win the battle against Starscream. After his shut down, he fused with Optimus to become Jet Optimus; this new combiner actually won us the battle" Shirley said "After the battle we discovered that combining with Optimus jump started some kind of healing matrix command, and so Project Apollo is a way of speeding up that command code" Shirley said "Wow, back during the fall. Jetfire was an ace for the Autobots air force. He led a squadron known as the Knights of Superior an all jet combiner squad. They had victories all over Cybertron; but their most famous was the downfall of the Skybase Umbra; I was only a cadet at the academy back then. But I was there when they descended into that Decepticon fortress.
The cons had dozens of Jet drones on the exhaust ports but somehow they managed it. In a blaze of blue and crimson the base exploded. It was like the fireworks of Earth all across the Autobot hemisphere as just a glow with their victory. Any that escaped or was missed quickly lined up for a revenge attack the odds were five to one in the cons favour they still managed to win, and with that victory the cons were one step closer to losing the war for Cybertron. It still remains the greatest victory besides Optimus' victory of the Siege of Iacon.
"Wow" Shirley said as they walked into an armoury. She walked over and grabbed a pair of handguns and a rifle "Come on we need to rescue the others" Shirley said "We don't knbow where they are" Smokescreen said "Send Mirage out and scout the area" Shirley said "Didn't think of that" Smokescreen said "Well I did" a voice said "Oh hey Mirage" Smokescreen said "Anything?" Shirley asked. "Yeah, a ton of dome prisons holding the human while the Cons have surrounded the Autobots and are using some sort of disruption devices to disable them" Mirage reported. "Understood" the other two said, "Now I'll inform Ultra Magnus about what was in the hangar" Mirage said "What was it?" Shirley asked. "An old friend" Mirage said as he left "Come one Smokescreen" Shirley said as Smokescreen transformed.
Britannia
On a rooftop Shirley had set up her rifle to scout for the humans "I see them" she said "Where?" Smokescreen asked via comm. "In my sights there guarded by two cons, a bulky one and his partner" Shirley said "Knockout and Breakdown; man I wasn't expecting those two" Smokescreen said "Yeah, but this is the NEST prison there" Shirley said "So what should we do?" Smokescreen asked "create a diversion" Shirley said loading her rifle "I'll blow the doors lock" she said aiming at the lock.
Josh was sitting quietly amongst the hostages who included: Simmons, Epps, Euphie, Witwicky, a couple of civilian engineers and Dr Kozuki. He sighed deeply knowing he was not going to see Shirley again "Cheer up Soldier" Euphie said "Thank you ma'am but I don't think I can" Josh said sadly "Pipe down human" Knockout said, suddenly an engine was head "Hey polish freak" a voice said before a car did donuts at Knockout "You dare scratch my finish!" Knockout said horrified "That was your finish, I thought that it was a dumpster" the car said laughing "Wait a second you're an Autobot!" Breakdown said "You got me" the Autobots said "What, an Autobot that functions?" Josh asked. "Impossible, they were disabled by that weird gas" Epps said "Then how is there one?" Josh asked "And is there just one?" Euphie asked as something exploded "What was that?" Sam asked as the dor swayed opened "I think that there is someone else helping us" Spike said as he looked for anything "There!" Sam said noticing a glint on a rooftop "A sniper?" Sam asked. "Who cares we're free and about to bring the hurt" Josh said as he rushed out with the other NEST warriors. "NETWORK ELEMENTS!" Josh shouted "SOLDIERS TRANSFORMERS!" the others shouted "NEST deploy" Euphie said "YES MA'AM!" the soldiers shouted "First things first, we need armament and Knightmares, we'll hike back to base and arm ourselves before taking to the streets to liberate the others" Josh said "Good idea, let's roll" Euphie said as they began to run. Above them Shirley activated her comm. "Ultra Magnus, a wave of NEST soldiers are returning to base, help them out" Shirley said before running to the next location.
NEST base BETA
"Roger that; alright men we've got incoming humans, so prepare to rollout to save our comrades from the Decepticons" Ultra Magnus said "Sir, I'm picking up a massive energon signature" Swerve said "Where?" Ultra Magnus asked. "Fifty clicks west of here sir" Swerve said "That can't be there's nothing but sand and stone out there" Windcharger said "What better place to hide him" Ultra Magus chuckled. "Him sir?" Mirage asked. "An old friend of ours from the Fall" Ultra Magnus said "You don't mean" Nightbeat said making Ultra Magus smile. "By the light of Primus; he's here on Earth!" Leadpipe said. "Yes indeed and judging by the energon level, he's half way to joining us" Ultra Magnus said
"Go to the armoury, I'll talk to our new Autobot allies" Euphie ordered as a blue and white Autobot walked out "You must be Brigadier Britannia, I am Ultra Magnus, leader of the Wrecker squadron of Autobots" he said looking down at the Britannian princess "Nice to meet, now to debrief you and your forces, approximately at 0900 hrs the Decepticons awaked NEST bases Beta and Omega, they started by using their human allies to disable all systems before using a gefjun disturber net to knock out all Knightmare frames." Euphie said before "Then why didn't you use other vehicles like Tanks?" Roadbuster asked "Because they have proven to be heavy and less agile then frames, plus they would be sitting ducks for the cons to attack" Euphie explained. "Understandable" Ultra Magnus nodded. "Then they use a type of energon gas to stun the Autobots" Euphie said "Why didn't it affect them?" Swerve asked. "I can answer that" an upper class voice said "Perceptor?" Ultra Magnus asked as he heard a transformation activation.
"It's because they have a special coating developed by Shockwave before he's offlining at the hands of our allies, you see this was one of the experiments he was doing to see if he could create a failsafe, I believe you know of one of his other experiments" Perceptor said "The Dinobots?" Euphie asked "Yes, but somehow they managed to escape, so now thanks to Shockwave we have had the upper hand for ages, but then their combiners attacked the recharge stations, medical centres and armouries. Soon they had the upper hand: Dark Energon" Perceptor said "Dark Energon?" Euphie asked. "The life blood of the dark one Unicron" Ultra Magnus said. "Unicron? You mean the evil version of your creator Primus?" Epps asked showing up "Is everything online?" Euphie asked. "Nearly, we've got to get the satellite data back so we can get a scope of the terrain" Epps said "Excellent, and how long will that take?" Euphie asked. "Five minutes" Epps said.
Streets
"Okay so there is the one holding Lelouch and the Britannian NEST division is being held" Shirley said looking down the barrel through her scope. "And there is the lock" Shirley stated aiming for it, "But wait who is guarding them?" Shirley said "OH SHIT ITS STARSCREAM!" Smokescreen said "Frag" Shirley cursed "I don't think I'm going to be enough to distract him" Smokescreen said "COMMANDER STARSCREAM!" Knockout said "Now what?" Starscream said "The humans from Japan got out" Knockout said "What?" Starscream cried. "I'm taking it" Shirley said firing. She squeezed the trigger firing off a round. "Bullseye" she cheered as the door opened "Ah Starscream?" Knockout said "WHAT!" Starscream barked before being thrown aside "The humans are lose; Stop them!" he ordered before Lelouch used his prime powers again "FOR BRITANNIA" the emperor shouted rallying his forces "We've got to get to Bas Omega!" Suzaku said "This way!" Tohdoh said spotting an open portal "Do not let them get through!" Starscream screamed as several drones opened fire.
Suddenly a roar sounded frightening everyone "That noise" Starscream whimpered. "What is it?" Knockout asked. "Them" Starscream said as four large beast appeared "The Lightning Collation as they were known, by today they are known simply as the Dinobots" Starscream said "THOSE Things Shockwave experimented with, which ultimately rebelled and took down several Decepticon labs?" Knockout said now scared of what will happen to them "Dinobots transform" Swoop cried as the shifting of metal and gears were heard. "Incredible" Suzaku gasped as they stayed to let the NEST troops through.
AUtobot prison area
"Get them online" Ultra Magnus said as Outback and Nightbeat removed the chains before Mirage and Drift re-energized them "Start with Optimus and then move onto the rest" Ultra Magnus said as he pulled out his Mini-gun "Incoming drones!" Powerglide said "Understood; Leadfoot, we need you three here" The Wrecker's commander said as the three pulled up in their battle forms "Lets do this" Ultra Magus said as the first of Team Prime was booting up "Magnus?" Optimus asked "Welcome back to the land of the functioning" Magnus said helping Optimus up "Then we have not lose this conflict yet" Optimus said "Never as long as we are online then freedom is continues to be the right of all sentient beings, and Megatron can suck exhaust" Ultra Magnus said.