Soundwave dove to the right dodging the Insecticons lunge, the Insecticon continued to fly through the air and slammed into its counterpart. Leaping to his pedes the spy twisted slamming the flat of his shield like arm into the sole Eradicon causing it to stumble back, a follow up blow to its side caused it to crash into the recovering Insecticons. With his attackers stunned, Soundwave quickly retrieved the Resonance Blaster from his subspace and strapped it onto his arm.
The spy never got a chance to use it, as the Eradicon leapt at him proboscis extending. Neatly sidestepping, the spook extended his tentacles, one proved with electricity the other spinning into a drill. As the Eradicon twisted and lunged at the spy once more it was met with thousands of volts of electricity sending it's frame into convulsions, the second tentacle slammed into the Terrorcon's chest quickly drilling through armor and destroying the mech's spark, though just for good measure the spook direct his de-facto drill upwards into the Eradicon's helm destroy his central processor.
While he was murdering the Terrorcon, Soundwave had turned to watch the Insecticons (perks of having a secondary processor), surprisingly the pair was still on the ground stunned. So, Eradicon dead, the former TIC turned towards the pair and raised the Resonance Blaster, firing it in short order. The pair screeched as the weapons sonic waves slammed into them, noticing that the Insecticons were no where near death the spook promptly upped the weapon's power output. A wave of five sonic blasts hit the mecha sprawled in the dirt, a quick scan proved that their sparks had stopped beating, and with their deaths confirmed the spy stepped forward crushing their helms to make sure they wouldn't get back up.
Attackers dead the spook turned to continue his exploration only to freeze as he saw the darkness was lit up with a total of fourteen gleaming red optic bands. The mechs they belonged to stood in staggered circles, the outer made up of Eradicons, and the inner made of Insecticons. With an exasperated huff, Soundwave started searching the human's internet looking for coordinates that would allow him to drop the Terrorcons in a volcano. Soundwave was forced to slow that project down as the Eradicons shifted their arms into cannons and the Insecticons lunged with a screech.
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The first of the Autobots to arrive at Bumblebee's location was Jazz who also (somehow) missed the differences in the walls, "What's up, 'Bee?"
"Well, as you can see this wall is for one thing made of metal and for another has no Energon growing out of it. You'll also notice the Decepticon symbol in the top left corner. Considering the keypad and seams that most definitely belong to a hatch I guessing this is a door. Do you think you can hack it?" The Camaro asked with a quirked optic ridge.
Blinking slowly Jazz turned to the wall for a moment before responding, "Oh, yeah, how did I miss that?"
"I missed it too, Mikaela had to point it out to me."
"Huh, well then let me work my magic," Jazz said starting forwards only to paused servo going to his shoulder, "Can ya hold Epps for a minute?"
"Yeah, no problem." Bumblebee agreed accepting the Ranger from the Autobot's spymaster.
"Talk about me like I'm not here, thanks" Epps snarked from where he was being held in 'Bee's servo. The Cybertronians chuckled at the mans offense and went back to watching for the others in Bumblebee's case, and starting to hack the door in Jazz's case.
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To a normal mech being surrounded on all sides was a death sentence, to Soundwave it was a mere inconvenience, especially when the mechs surrounding him had horrible aim. The two Insecticons on his left where dragged together forming a body shield that Soundwave used to both block one Eradicon's blaster fire and as a platform to escape the circle he was trapped in.
As he landed outside the circle the spook dodged to the right and lunged forward aiming the sharp edge of his arm at the Eradicon's neck joint. Moments later the Terrorcon crumpled to the ground, spinning around the spy headed back towards the the main circle, crushing the Eradicon's spark chamber as he went. One down, thirteen to go. Oh, look he'd finally found coordinates to a volcano's caldera, how... exciting. Now, who to test it on?
The spook's gaze flicked from mech to mech until it settled on the two Insecticons he had smacked together earlier. The pair had climbed back to their pedes and were buzzing angrily. Before they had a chance to move a ground-bridge appeared beneath them and they fell to their deaths. With the portal still open, Soundwave grabbed two Eradicons and tossed them into the vortex, right as it closed.
Seven of the nine remaining Terrorcons threw caution to the wind and charged. However Soundwave was expecting this and promptly took a few steps back to avoid the flailing claws of an Insecticon. Pausing for a brief moment the spy deployed his razor edged dagger, sensing incoming blaster fire the spook's attention settled on nearby Eradicon. Spinning out of the way of another Insecticon's claws the spy lunged for th eEradicon and slammed his dagger into it's chest. Picking the terror on up, Soundwave promptly used it as a shield and then threw it's lifeless shell at one of the other Eradicons knocking to down.
An Insecticon took it's chance and leapt at the spy, who slid to the right and planted one of his tentacles on it's shoulder and promptly electrocuted it, an improvised drill finished the job. Gazing at his remaining five opponents stoically, Soundwave deployed Lazerbeak, who shot into the air and blasted the two reamaining Eradcions who were attempting to shoot her master. This barrage of blasted fire killed one Eradicon and seriously injured the other.
Meanwhile Soundwave has gotten into a grappling match with one of the Insecticon's. See this match would only be ended if one of the other Insecticons, which wouldn't happen as Lazerbeak and distracting them, the spy disengaged and opened a ground-bridge beneath the Insecticon's pedes. The Insecticon promptly fell to his fiery doom.
Attention settling on his three remains opponents the spy silently ordered Lazerbeak to finish off the Eradicon. The remaining two Insecticons lunged forwards and the spy charged and slammed the Resonance Blaster into the dirt. Son I wave promptly tore into the ground setting off localized tremors and causing the Insecticons to slam into the ground. Ceasing his ground pulverizing attack the spy stood and, after briefly glancing at the pair, opened a ground-bridge beneath them. Once more mechs fell to their fiery grave.
Giving a tired huff the spy turned to continue his exploration. But, as he started to walk away blaster fire sounded directly behind him. Unprepared and unexpected Soundwave had no time to dodge and the shots dug into the spy's back plating. Lazerbeak dropped from his chest with an enrage screech and efficiently destroy the Terrorcon that had snuck up on her master.
Straightening up the spy started to continue again only for an Insecticonto slam into him side, claws tore armor from protoform and drew dangerous amounts of Energon. Hearing the Terrorcon give a quiet hiss the spy attempted to thrash only to be held in place by the creature's immense strength. But as the Terrorcon deployed it's probiscus the spy finally got just enough space to slam his dagger into the Insecticon's face. The Terrorcon attempted to screech in pain only to freeze as the dagger implanted in it's face was dragged down slicing it's throat open and piercing it's spark.
Vents giving a wheeze Soundwave managed to shrug th enormous corpse off of his frame and stumbled towards the door. Lazerbeak hovered overhead chirping worriedly, as Soundwave crossed the threshold he ordered Lazerbeak to retrieve the Autobots medic. When she gave a worried click he stared up at her, and repeated his request as he attempted to slow his wounds bleeding. Finally the symbiote conceded chirping quietly before taking off down the tunnel. Leaning up against the wall Soundwave plodded on tiredly but refusing to rest. Though as he slid along the wall suddenly vanished and he fell into a hidden cavity which was filled with stasis pods.
As his vision dimmed the spy sent activation codes to one of the pods. Soundwave lost consciousness as the pod door swung open.
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Above the Autobots had all gathered at the door. The last one to arrive at the rendezvous point was Optimus. Immediately after the Prime arrived the group had hunkered down as tremors rocked the area. After the tremors settled the group had turned to Bumblebee for an explanation. He had started in on the small story when the door behind them slid open.
"Nice work." Epps said with a grin.
"That wasn't me..." Jazz replied standing slowly weapons systems coming online with a barely audible hum. The group froze collectively as a minicon flyer swooped out with a chirp and circled Ratchet making more vocalizations all the while. The Autobots noted, with concern, that it was impatient and distressed.
"What," Ratchet asked, "Do you want me to follow?"
The minicon clicked in an pleased manner and swooped down the tunnel. Seeing no one was following it gave an impatient buzz. Ratchet started down the tunnel and stopped almost directly under it. With another pleased click the minicon continued and the medic waved for his team to follow.
"Well, the minicon definitely looks similar to Soundwave's chest decoration. Think it is?" Ironhide commented quietly.
"It's entirely possible, but if it is, where's Soundwave, and what happened to him?" Jazz responded, the light behind his visor shifting slightly.
The group continued to follow the minicon and as Will stated to ask a question the group halted as a purple and silver mech stood in their path. The mech had a cannon raised pointed at their chests, but the second he saw Lazerbeak he lowered his cannon and waved for them to follow.
Glancing at each other slowly the Autobots refocused their attention on the mech. He stood about twenty feet tall and his silver face was marked with two red optic bands. They were unsure why he had two, but they got the feeling that if they asked he wouldnt respond so, they stayed silent.
The mech led them through a wall and beyond it was a room filled with stasis pods and several mechs identical to their guide, there was also multiple drones with only one optic band.
But, the room's most noticeable feature was the unconscious and bleeding form of Soundwave. Ratchet frozen before darting to the spy's aide snapping orders at his teammates. The medic halted for a moment and turned to one of the drones after cursing under his breath, "He's going to need Energon. Can you harvest and refine it?"
The drones glanced at each other and nodded before scurrying out. Ratchet returned his attention to the spy and set to work. The Autobots barely noticed the remaining quartet of drones watching over the spy.
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