Chapter Nine: After Optimus

Starscream and Frenzy used the opportunity of the defeated Autobot leader to head back to base where Rumble was waiting with the disk.

"What happened," he asked.

"Big... Tank... Shooting... Whooooh," said Frenzy in between long breaths.

"Damn, man, we only ran like three hundred feet. You are really out of shape," commented Starscream.

"F&k... You..."

"Where's your car," asked Rumble,

"General Jhiaxus here had a great strategy to leave it behind," said Starscream.

"Hey, it would have worked if that tank hadn't shown up," countered Frenzy,

"You lost the jeep? Oh man, Soundwave is going to be pissed. Where is it?"

Just then a big explosion came and the Scorponok flew onto the roof of their base.

"What the hell," thought Frenzy then another explosion came, "Son of a bitch-bot!"

"Holy crap! What the hell is that thing," asked Rumble.

"That's the tank!"

"Hey uh, Frenzy uh, you want to hold the flag for a little bit?"

"No, keep that away from me!"

Jazz watched as Bumblebee kept shooting the car, "Why do you keep firing at the jeep?"

"Because it's locked on!"

"Well unlock it."

"Last time I unlocked it, I KILLED OPTIMUS!"

"Oh, right... keep shooting the jeep then."

Rumble felt that this was the end, "I hate to point this out guys, but I think were screwed."

"Yeah, I have to agree with the proto on this one," said Starscream.

Just then the Decepticons heard a voice coming on their radios, "Blood Gulch Outpost Number One. Come in, Blood Gulch Outpost, come in. Do you read me? This is Megatron,"

"Oh my Primus, Megatron, is that you," asked Frenzy.

"Roger that, Private. I am currently in-bound to your position from the other squad."

"Sir, this is Starscream."

"Hello Starscream. I hope everything's gone alright while I've been gone."

"Actually sir, things are kind of hectic right now. The new proto arrived, and somehow he managed to infiltrate the Autobot base, and now we have their disk, the Scorponok is damaged, one of their guys is dead, and there's this huge f&king tank about to destroy our base."

There was a brief moment of silence. "Am I talking the right base," asked Megatron.

"Megatron, we, are going, to die here," said Frenzy.

"Well then hold tight boys. I think I have a solution to your little 'tank' problem."

Jazz saw a huge ship fly overhead, "Uh-oh," and he turned to Bumblebee, "Hey Bumblebee, you might want to get out of the tank. Like right now."

"I can't figure out how to get this thing open," panicked Bumblebee.

"Night vision engaged."

"Rookie, get out of there now."

Shells began to drop from the sky and slowly move towards the tank.

"Okay, open the duh, okay, I, Joan, will you please open the door," said Bumblebee.

"Driver canopy open," said Joan as Bumblebee ran off, "Thank you for using the M-808-V Ark Battle Ta" a shell hit the tank and blew it on its roof backwards.

Bumblebee screamed as he ran to Jazz, "Man, that was close."

"Look at your tank though."

"I'm scared Dave. Will I dream? Davy... Daaaavvvyyyyyy..."

"Joaaaaaannnnnnn! Noooooo," cried Bumblebee.

"What? No! Joan! Joan! Wait… who's Joan," asked Jazz.

"Joan's the lady in the tank. She was my friend…"

"Oh, dude! I knew you could pick up fembots in a tank!"