Transformers Aero: Episode 7: Tragedy
IAmASonOfPoseidon98, dont give up on that, that is certainly a possiblity. Who else would he join up with anyway? Starscream has pretty much disowned him now, and he knows that Megatron won't forgive him. Thundercracker will be screwed by himself. lol
After Cliff Jumper and Jazz are critically injured on a scouting mission, they need to fight their way back to base before one or both of them is killed. They must escape the watchful eyes of Barricade and Soundwave.
Jazz and Cliff Jumper had just found the energon supply they had been looking for. Jazz was more pleased than Cliff Jumper because this was his first mission with another Autobot for months. Most of his missions had been solo.
"Alright! Great work, Cliff Jumper!" said Jazz, being supportive.
"Coulnd't have done it without you" said Cliff Jumper as he activated his radio. "Ratchet, we have it! We will send you a sample soon."
"Thank you, Cliff and Jazz!" said Ratchet. "Over and out!"
"Alright, let's get more than just a sample before the Decepticons show up!" said Jazz.
"And you know they will!" said Cliff Jumper.
Cliff Jumper and Jazz worked as quickly as they could to get as much engergon transported to base as possible. Their predictions were right on, unfortunately. After they had gotten about three eights of the energon sent to their base, Barricade and Soundwave came out from behind a rock and began using their blasters at Jazz and Cliff Jumper. They were followed by a few Decepticon drones who transformed into cars. The Autobots were able to send a few more pounds of energon safely to base but Ratchet had to close the ground bridge due to the excess of Decepticons.
"Hello, Autobots" thought we would crash the party!" said Barricade. "Time to die Autobots!"
"I don't think so Barricade!" said Cliff Jumper as he transformed into his red Camaro vehicle mode and drove off, Jazz doing the same in his blue Ford Mustang vehicle mode.
"Foolish Autobots!" said Barricade. "I have Soundwave with me! I have the advantage in this chase!" Barricade transformed into his Police car vehicle mode and made chase with Soundwave in the sky.
Cliff Jumper and Jazz hit the gas as hard as they could to evade their persuers, but Soundwave made it almost impossible. Soundwave began to drop missiles and shoot at them. Then the Vehicons, disguised as Black Corvettes, that were with Soundwave and Barricade were starting to catch up to the Autobots. Cliff Jumper then took matters into his own hands and transformed back into robot mode and started jumping on all the Vehicons and ripping them up. While Jazz started to spin the rest out, making them crash into each other at top speed, destroying them. A few of them were able to stay alive and transform back into robot mode and then the fight was on. Both Autobots had already went back to robot mode and they started to slash and punch.
Barricade and Soundwave arrived just as Cliff Jumper and Jazz defeated the last of the Vehicons. Barricade was furious at Jazz and Cliff Jumper.
"I can't believe you killed all my troops!" said Barricade.
"All's fair in war!" said Jazz.
"You are going to wish you never said that!" said Barricade as he shoots Jazz in the chest, causing some major damage.
Cliff Jumper then retaliates by shooting at Barricade several times until he transformed into vehicle mode and drove away... for now. Soundwave also temporarily retreated as well. Cliff Jumper's objective was to get Jazz as far away from the battle scene as possible. Jazz's strength was beginning to go away, so Cliff Jumper had to help him walk half the way.
After an hour of walking, Cliff Jumper and Jazz found a cave to hide in. Cliff had become very worried about Jazz. Jazz's words began to get softer and softer in volume, and he gasped more when he tried to get up.
"Jazz, save your strength!" said Cliff Jumper. "You can't move so much."
"Cliff... I... need energon" said Jazz.
"I had a small sample for Ratchet, but I figure that he has all the energon he needs so here!" said Cliff as he placed the energon on Jazz. The energon helped Jazz, but it wasn't much. He was still weak, but he could walk and talk good now.
"Thanks Cliff" said Jazz.
"Don't thank me yet!" said Cliff Jumper. "We still gotta get out of here and get back to base!"
"Let's go!" said Jazz.
Soundwave and Barricade followed the trail of leaked energon that Jazz's wounded body had left and they were getting close to tracking down the Autobots.
"Ravage, retreive them!" said Soundwave as he shot a pod out of his arm. That pod transformed into a panther like Deceptiocon, named Ravage. Ravage's mission was to track them down and finish them off.
"Why would you send Ravage to do my job?" said Barricade.
"Shut up you fool!" said Soundwave. "Ravage is far more stealthier than you!"
"Whatever!" said Barricade.
Ravage ran for about half an hour before he was finally able to find a new energon trail. But it was cut off when he reached the end. Jazz had apparently patched himself up a little bit. However, the trail showed signs of being very recent. Ravage knew what to do. He turned his eyes to heat mode. Any Autobot or Decepticon alike would be detected by heat detecting goggles or eyes. Ravage climbed up on a huge rock and walked along the rock until he finally found the Autobots still working to keep Jazz patched up. However, they didn't see Ravage coming.
Ravage lunged from the rock and landed right in front of Cliff Jumper and Jazz. The Decepticon readied his weapons and began firing! Cliff Jumper deflected his bullets and proceded to defend Jazz.
"Come on you little creap!" said Cliff. "Show me what you got!"
Ravage jumped at Cliff Jumper and started to tear metal off of his back. Cliff then grabbed Ravage and slammed him against the wall, temporarily knocking him out.
"Come on Jazz, we need to..." said Cliff as he and Jazz were fired upon by Soundwave, sending both Autobots flying backwards.
To make matters worse, Ravage regained consciousness and began to attack the already weak Jazz. Before Cliff Jumper got back up he shot Ravage off of Jazz.
"Piece of scrap!" said Cliff Jumper.
"You will not live to see your leader again!" said Soundwave.
"Go back to where you came from!" said Cliff Jumper.
"You are outnumbered!" said Barricade. "You will be wise to just let us put an end to your pathetic lives!"
"That's why I hate Decepticons!" said Jazz, getting a sudden burst of strength. "You will regret your crimes against Cybertr..." Jazz was then cheap shotted by Ravage, then Barricade took out the Autobot with a few punches and slices.
"Nooooooooooooooooo!" said Cliff Jumper as he saw his friend fall at the hands of the Decepticons. "Prepare to die!" said Cliff Jumper as he lunged at Barricade full force! He grabbed his arm and broke it in several places, until it finally ripped off.
"Aaaaaaaaargh!" said Barricade, studying his excruciating new injury. "Die!" Barricade shot at Cliff Jumper, knocking him back into a large rock.
Back in the Autobot base, Ratchet had finally found where Cliff Jumper and Jazz were, or at least Cliff Jumper anyway.
"Optimus!" said Ratchet. "I am only seeing Cliff Jumper's life signal. Could that mean that Jazz is..."
"I don't know" said Optimus. "Bridge me there, now! I will bring back our comrades!"
"Locking on to coordinates...NOW!" said Ratchet.
"I will return shortly!" said Optimus as he entered the bridge.
Ravage had had enough exitement for one day. He was summoned back to Soundwave's arm and dispensed into his weapons' chamber. Soundwave was about to take out Cliff Jumper while he was busy getting revenge on Barricade, who was in pretty bad shape. However a large blast to the back stopped Soundwave from achieving his small task. Optimus Prime had stepped in to intervien. Soundwave decided that it wasn't worth it and transfromed back into jet mode and flew back to base.
"Darn Prime!" said Soundwave.
Cliff Jumper had just finished off Barricade in revenge for killing Jazz. Optimus Prime walked over to Jazz to see nothing but a lifeless metal body laying on the ground. Optimus was grieved by this loss.
"Optimus, I am sorry I resorted to revenge, but Barricade killed Jazz!" said Cliff Jumper.
"I know, Cliff Jumper" said Optimus. "I understand. Sometimes it is necessary to take action. However, we cannot allow this to happen again!"
"Understood, Optimus!" said Cliff Jumper as he grabed the remains of Jazz to take back to base with them.
Both Autobots returned to base with heavy hearts for their friend, Jazz.
Soundwave made it back to the Decepticon base to tell Megatron the bittersweet news.
"One Autobot down!" said Soundwave.
"Excellent!" said Megatron. "Where is Barricade?"
"One Decepticon down, also!" said Soundwave.
"An uncharacteristic failure for Soundwave!" said Starscream in the back ground. Starscream loved to get under Soundwave's skin.
"You still have yet to tell me how your own brother, who isn't near as much in stature as you managed to betray us all under your watchful eye!" said Megatron.
"Why do you always defend Soundwave?" said Starscream.
"Quit whining and get back to work!" said Megatron. "I have no favorites! I hate you all equally!"
Starscream rolled his eyes and went back to work. Soundwave returned to his work station as well. How was Soundwave gonna tell Megatron that Barricade did all the work and took the fall? Despite the orders to Ravage helping them find them, it was mostly Barricade who engaged the enemy. Starscream had a point. It was an uncharacteristic failure.
Optimus and all the other Autobots along with their five human allies gathered around a large pile of rocks, under which they burried Jazz, and had a funeral for their fallen comrade.
"Jazz will not die in vain!" said Optimus.
"We will fight for Jazz!" said Bumblebee.
"We will fight for Cybertron!" said Ironhide.
"We will fight for honor!" said Cliff Jumper. "It's what Jazz would have wanted."
"Agreed" said the other Autobots in unison with the humans.
Let me know what you thought. I will reveal that episode 8 will focus a little on Thundercracker and how Starscream, Skywarp and Megatron are reacting to it.
Let me know if you have any of your favorite Bots or Cons that you would like to add.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter,
Sincerely,
SuperMarioKyle
