"Quick question," Starscream piped up as the autobots continued marching forward.

"Yes," Grimlock grunted.

"After we're done deal with Shockwave, what do we do? We certainly can't stay here."

"One thing after another."

"ONE THING AFTER A- what the frag!? We need to have SOME sort of idea!"

"If you have any suggestions, we'd happily consider them," growled Skar.

Starscream shut up.

"I have a question," said Arcee.

"Yes?" Grimlock said more politely. He seemed to respect Arcee more. Probably because she was never a Decepticon.

"How do we know where we're going?"

"Me Grimlock see it when me dragged in by Insecticons. Shockwave's lair very cl-"

A blast shot towards the autobots from the hall in front of them. It hit Grimlock, who...fell backwards onto Starscream.

"HEY!" the former 'con yelled. "GET OFF!"

"Can't."

"Why the frag can't you?"

"State-of-the-art null ray," a yellow Decepticon said, coming into view. "You should really try one of these, Screamer."

"Oh, Swindle, nice, that's just great, I've missed you so much," muttered Starscream sarcastically as he tried to push Grimlock off of him. "I suppose you brought the other Combaticons with you? Well, sorry to say, I've got some pals of my own with me. In case you didn't notice."

"Yes," said a larger faded blue Combaticon walking up behind Swindle, followed by an equally large green warrior and two smaller winged Decepticons, one brown and one a more yellowish color. "Your mighty 'Dinobots'. I'm not impressed. Oh, and you brought the sweet little femme and some minions. You can't go anywhere without multiple well-armed guards, can you, coward?"

"I didn't drag those Autobots here, Onslaught! I just...ran into them...when the ugly Dinobot was holding me captive."

Skar looked incredibly offended by this. Of course, everyone was offended by some part in that conversation.

"Look, can we just get to the part where we beat you senseless?" asked Swoop.

In response, Onslaught changed into a giant artillery vehicle, firing powerful blasts at Swoop from his mounted cannons. The flier easily dodged and fired some missiles in retaliation. They exploded on impact, but appeared to have no effect as Onslaught changed back to his humanoid form and charged at the autobots.

He might have done some damage if a glowing lash of energy hadn't attached to his arm, pulling him into the wall.

"Hey, Onslaught!" said Jazz happily, the lash extending from a device on his arm. "How 'bout those minions we 'bots got today? Tougher than you'd think!"

The Combaticon leader rose as the lash shrunk back into Jazz's arm. "You have just made a deadly mistake, autobot. I have destroyed armies!"

"Good thing we didn't bring an army, then," said Mirage, stepping up with Jetfire to stand by their leader.

Swindle aimed his null ray at Jazz, but Snarl pulled out his own blaster and expertly shot the weapon out of his hand. The yellow 'con smiled, ready for a challenge.

"Blastoff, Brawl, Vortex!" he called, "apparently the autobots want to play rough."

As the autobots engaged the enemy, Grimlock pulled himself up and yanked Starscream into a standing position.

"AUTOBOTS, FORWARD!" he yelled triumphantly, transforming and barreling past the enemy.

Starscream transformed and flew after him. Swoop joined him. The two fliers (Blastoff and Vortex) attempted to go after them, but Skar transformed and made an incredible leap, landing on Vortex's back and pulling him into his comrade. Arcee transformed and drove over to join them.

"We got these bozos!" shouted Jazz. "Get dat frag-faced creep Shockwave!"

"No need to tell me Grimlock twice."