Jazzerman here, I do not own any of these characters, they are owned by their respected companies, as many as there are. You've heard this crap before. I only own my OCs.
Broken boundaries
Part 10
Abominus howled as his heavy feet clanged on the hull as he charged the Autobots, scattering them and making them targets for Thundercracker who flew above them while firing his weapons and laughing loudly to himself.
"Man this is almost as good as shooting at defenseless little drones." Thundercracker had Jazz pinned down, the white and black Autobot had sought refuge inside the airlock from the native Decepticon who was shooting at him. "I can't wait till we get all this over with and I get my own sector of the universe, I'll get to do whatever I want!"
"This guy seems to like the sound of himself talking a little too much. Kinda reminds me of Bluestreak..." Jazz frowned, nearly hit by a stray shot from the windbag overhead.
Thundercracker smirked, almost giddy to take down an otherworldly Autobot and continued to fire. That was until he noticed the large asteroid that was heading straight for him. Thundercracker transformed into his jet mode and blasted his engines to get out the way only to catch a blast of laser in his left tail fin spinning out of control in mid flight.
Hound grinned, turning off his hologram of the asteroid. He was glad Jazz had noticed the large hunk of rock appear out of nowhere. "Surprising what a little hologram can do."
Hound should have paid more attention as Hound was blindsided by one of Crumplezone's fists, knocking the green Autobot upward into the airlock and into Jazz who hadn't time to warn his friend.
"That was a dirty trick." Crumplezone said, seeing his little companion drive up behind him, transforming into the small Velocitron turned Decepticon.
Ransack nodded at what Crumplezone said, "Yeah it was, wish we could do that kinda trick."
"I think you forgot about us!" Wingsaber said, blasting the area around two Velocitrons with shots over head in his jet fighter mode.
Hotshot then picked off a few easy shots that sent Ransack spinning to the bow of the ship. The free spirited Autobot took some time to revel in his work and did some name calling. Too much time in fact. Abominus loomed overhead from behind Hotshot and was about to smash the Autobot with his open hand like an insect when Leobreaker leapt in, hoping to catch the Gestalt in the face with his bladed whip. Abominus meanly knocked Leobreaker aside with his free fist and grabbed Hotshot. Not satisfied with just one target Abominus grabbed Wingsaber out of the air his other hand and smashed them together, making Hotshot drop his weapon. Both didn't need to say that they would not get out of this without possibly severe damage.
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"Ugh..." Thunderblast grumbled, shaking her head. She didn't know why she was in so much pain but that irritation dissipated as soon as she remembered what had happened. Looking around she was laying in the smoldering crater that she had apparently made upon landing. There was no sign of the insane Autobot but that was only a small compensation for the damage she sustained. There were bits of crystal jammed in what felt like every portion of her body, a large tear in her chest, and her legs refused to move on her command. Despite her condition she felt pretty good. She had survived reentry and a crash landing on a barren rock planet and even taken out an insane Autobot. Thunderblast leaned back, not caring that her energon levels were slowly going down... she knew the boys would come back for her as long as Scourge let them.
Her moment of peace was shattered as she was suddenly shoved from underneath and into the dirt. After wiping the filth off her glorious face to see the very Autobot that brought her down to this boring rock of a planet. His wings were bent and broken, he had only a quarter of the crystals in his armor, one of his optics was shattered, and his left arm was lying on the ground far from where both Autobot and Decepticon were now.
"You survived too?" Thunderblast screamed, reaching for her missile launcher which was no longer within her grasp. To her irritation Thunderblast could see her weapon smashed into pieces from impact outside the crater. The sight of Steelburst's weapon broken in half on a rock not far from it was little compensation.
Steelburst slowly stood, shaking and looking like he would fall to the rocky ground any second. He stood over Thunderblast with one green optic staring at her.
"Like it matters what you do." Thunderblast shook her head. Her internal fuel gauge was alerting her that her energon levels were already dipping down to fifty percent thanks to the crystals imbedded in her chassis. "From the looks of the both of us we'll both be offline soon."
Steelburst looked at her for a second longer before removing his faceplate revealing the face underneath. Thunderblast was surprised that there was anything behind that faceplate but her thoughts lasted only until Steelburst lurched down to reach into the opening in Thunderblast's chest and pull out her main fuel cable and refuel himself with her own energon.
"You sick... monster! How dare... you..." Thunderblast garbled, before edging off into the blackness of stasis lock. Her last sight was Steelburst tossing the power cable aside and reaching into her chest again.
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"Scourge," Soundwave said, "They have effectively pinned the Autobots down, should we join the battle if only to accurate your plan?"
Scourge's affirmative came in the form of roughly grabbing his Targetmaster partner Fracas from where he had been watching the monitors and forcing him into his gun mode despite the Nebulon's loud complaints. After procuring his living weapon Scourge simply stormed out the door, leaving Soundwave and his cassettes alone on the bridge.
Soundwave had to guess this was one of those instances where he had to take some initiative and ordered Rumble and Buzzsaw to transform and enter his chest compartment. Before leaving the bridge he gave the remaining cassettes orders to guard the ship incase the Autobots attempted to board, even though Soundwave knew that was a highly unlikely situation.
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"How are repairs going Coby?" Override asked, doing all she could to weld the larger parts of the ship together that the kids and Minicons could not reach. Being a racer and not a mechanic she was sure she'd hear complaints from Red Alert after the battle.
Coby and the Minicons were doing most of the work repairing the ship's software and more complex parts inside the ship's engines. The damage was enough to keep both humans and Transformers busy for a while. Lori and Bud were sitting on the side lines, not knowing a thing about these things and helping out mostly by retrieving tools and such. All of them were trying to put the incident in the 'Cobybot' out of their minds.
"It'll take a while but it's fixable." Coby said, not stopping his repairs for an instant. "I just hope Optimus and the others are going to make it back okay."
"They'll be fine." Override said sternly. "They can handle these new losers but we'll need the engines repaired if they decide to turn tail and run like Decepticons usually do."
Bud nodded. "Yeah I'm sure Optimus will send those guys packing like they always do!"
"That's the spirit!" Override said, smiling at the young human's cheer. "Now back to work, I want these engines online before they get back!"
The humans and Minicons gave the Velocitron leader a salute before going about their varied tasks.
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Abominus growled, shaking both Autobots in his unbreakable grasp as he began to crush Hotshot and Wingsaber in his massive hands. The strain of metal bending would have made the other Autobots flinch if the vacuum of space permitted such noise. All that came over the open comm. channels was the pained struggles of Hotshot and Wingsaber and the unintelligible snarls that came from Abominus.
Leobreaker snarled his own feral cry and leapt on the Gestalt's back in his lion mode, raking with his claws and biting with his fangs. Abominus felt little pain, but roared his annoyance anyway. He halted his crushing on Wingsaber long enough to allow Wingsaber to see Leobreaker a second before being used like a weapon to knock Leobreaker off Abominus's back and into the ship's communication array. Leobreaker shook his head, willing to return to battle but was stuck in the hole that he had created in the metal device. If Abominus had hit him any harder he could have gone through the hull, causing explosive decompression and destroying the ship.
Jazz, Hound, and Red Alert shot at the Decepticons from whatever cover they could find, neither side doing much impact on the other. Thundercracker had abandoned his jet mode and was now fighting in his robot mode. Crumplezone and Ransack had called on their planet keys to increase their firepower and were doing their best to match the three Autobots left for them to fight.
Optimus was momentarily torn, should he stay and help Hound, Red Alert, and Jazz who were going toe to toe with Crumplezone, Thundercracker, and Ransack to even the sides or brave the odds against Abominus? For Optimus it took only a second to recognize where he was needed more and even less to begin shooting at the much larger composite Decepticon.
Optimus activated his super mode, combining with the rest of his vehicle mode and gaining two large blasters in the process. Calling for his Cyber planet key Optimus activated his weapons and shot at Abominus, who was hit hard enough to throw the Gestalt backward and separate him into the five Terrorcons. The Autobots below were so focused on the small groups they were fighting they did not notice the two newcomers.
"Greetings Optimus Prime." Scourge said over an open comm. channel.
Optimus looked up, there was the bearded blue Decepticon floating above him with his weapon aimed squarely at the Autobot commander's chest. Taking no time for idle banter, Scourge fired his weapon. Optimus was unable to dodge fast enough as the shot hit its target and knocked a hole in the Autobot commander's chest plate.
"Buzzsaw, Rumble, eject. Engage Autobots." Soundwave said, opening his chest compartment and ejecting Rumble and Buzzsaw towards Wingsaber and Hotshot who drifted above the hull of the ship in stasis lock.
Both cassettes stopped in front of the two out-of-action Autobots. Rumble smirked, he loved his sort of tactic. "Okay big cheese, surrender or else I put so many holes in this tin-bot he'll look like a colander."
Buzzsaw did not make any threats, the cassette only aimed its weapons at Hotshot's head.
Soundwave landed in front of Leobreaker pointing his blaster and shoulder mounted rail gun at his chest, where he guessed Leobreaker's spark core was located. Somehow the lack of a face made the Decepticon communications officer look all the more sinister. Leobreaker had no choice but to sit back in the hole he had made and watch grudgingly as the Terrorcons encircled Optimus.
"Alright Scourge, what is this all about?" Optimus demanded, surprised and disgusted that Scourge would sink lower than even Megatron by resorting to tactics like this to win. "What are you planning?"
"What this is all about?" Scourge chuckled, smugly pointing his Targetmaster partner at Optimus. "I want the Matrix. I require it. Give it to me or your friends will be terminated."
"Why do you want it? It's no use to a Decepticon." Optimus asked, attempting to stall for time. What for he wasn't sure but time was something that might present him with an edge. "Tell me what you are up to."
Scourge reached up and brushed his mustache with his claws, he saw no reason not to drop hints and revel in this conquest a little. "If you must know... I plan to recreate the Decepticon Empire using old faces."
Optimus was confused, what exactly did Scourge intend to do. "What do you mean? You can't possible bring back the dead. When a spark goes off line-"
"Yes yes spare me your dogma." Scourge interrupted, waving off Prime's lecturing speech. "I know sparks return to the Matrix once a Transformer is terminated. But I don't have time to spare, we have much to do and I can't wait to see some old 'friends' again."
"Sorry Scourge but you aren't getting the Matrix." Optimus said. "What you plan to do would put everyone at risk. I don't know what the details of your plans are but I can't just surrender the Matrix to you."
"Fine. Terrorcons..?" Scourge said looking over at his savage allies. Hun-Grrr wasted no time in putting a blast through Optimus's left leg, then his right. Each Terrorcon transformed to their beast mode and clamped their teeth on the Autobot Commander, holding him in place. Scourge showed a fanged grin as he heard Optimus's loud cry of pain as he stalked over to the Autobot leader, clicking his claws together before he began to tear bits of Optimus's chest away and rummage around inside looking for the Matrix.
"Scourge! Stop!" Optimus pleaded, finding himself unable to move with the Terrorcon's many rows of teeth in his body.
Scourge's smirk only widened as he looked upon the glowing object he ripped from Optimus's chest.
To be continued.
AN: Okay, I think we can all guess that the Transformers would have to use communicators to talk in space since sound cannot exist in an airless vacuum. Oddly, this is only explained/suggested in the comics and is never even mentioned in any of the cartoon series... a little TF nugget for you.
Jferrin- Thanks a lot dude, as for Cy OP and G1 OP teaming up... you'll just have to wait and see.
SpartanCommander - yes, I freely admit that this plan is beyond the minds of the 4 native Decepticons (Especially Crumplezone XP) and Scourge is plotting something really big. As for the power source needed that's why they stole the Cyber planet keys and the Omega Lock. Now as for G1 Megs's title, I guess I was heavily influenced after watching my DVD collection of Beast machines, that Megatron used the title of Lord. If that hurt my standing in the G1 fandom I'm sorry, but again I didn't get a chance to read a lot of the comics. I'll stop using that title from here on.
SpartanCommander - (from chapter 8) Ah the pretender shells... That actually crossed my mind but I decided against it, since at the same time I could have made Soundwave and Jazz Action masters. But I never liked the idea of Transformers not being able to transform. In my opinion the worst idea Hasbro made (yes, even worse than Go-bots). A Pretender may show up later, you'll have to wait and see.
OptimusxElita4ever- Awesome! I can't get hold of the old G1 DVDs... to expensive now that they're in the hands of collectors. I have some on crappy DVRs but most of season 2 is utterly broken. Hope you like the old show, what started the entire TF craze:D
GrimlockX4- Wow... thanks a lot dude. :D I'm very pleased at the reception BB is getting, and I'm glad people aren't bashing it because I added a original fan character in my series. Steelburst is what I want to be if I were a transformer. I look forward to seeing your fic, even though I didn't really care for Energon or Armada all that well. Cybertron was great but those two weren't very good (although FAR superior to RiD) yet pales compared to G1.