Confrontation On Cybertron
It had been almost a week now since information on the impending attack had been received. Galvatron and Decellion had made a bold move by coming all the way out to Cybertron to start a fight.
It was this that confused Ella, having known Decellion's M.O from previous fights under the Alliance banner against her. It was unusual to attack this way, there had to be something else she was after, something she was desperately after.
She was standing all alone on a balcony overlooking the launch bay area at Iacon. "What is it I wonder?" she murmured to herself, "Something we're not seeing that she's after that would make her take second place to Galvatron?"
She knew in the past Decellion was a tricky character. It was not like her to take a submissive role to anyone unless she intended to use Galvatron to serve her whims and save her time and resources for some other project. "That's it!" she paced back and forth on the balcony. "That's what she's doing! But what exactly? What is it she's after?" Then it occurs to her. Perhaps her old enemy has started up her hunting again for something she had no right to. Ella stops pacing around and races off to find Sound Track for a discussion.
On a ship headed for Cybertron, Decellion sits quietly in the quarters that had been provided for her at Galvatron's request.
She is thinking about her private project. She has agents out searching for artefacts. Lost relics of the time when she was still mortal. Artefacts that would help her secure a strong and lasting power base, just like it had when she had taken over the Alliance the first time.
'I've done it once before with them, and I can do it again!' she thought. She was sitting back on her lounge where she was accompanied by Ravage. She had noticed the mech-cat had taken an apparent liking to her company. Though she figured the panther mechanoid was under orders from either Galvatron or Soundwave to spy on her and see what she was up to.
She smiled devilishly as this was something she would not allow these Cybertronians to become involved in. She wanted the power of these artefacts all to herself, and Cybertron was as good a place for her to do some searching of her own to find them. She knew this was a place where it had been last time.
The Bioroids may have moved it by now but she was willing to take that chance to find it and allow Galvatron to be engrossed in fighting his enemies to even bother about her whereabouts and use the fight with the Autobots to cover her tracks. The only thing that stood in her way was the Autobots protecting the planet. She would have to find a way to have her Destrons and Necromancers distract them along with the Decepticons during the fight.
At the moment she was using one of her techno-morphs. Before, just after she had escaped from her prison, she would cringe from the pain it took to keep her matter coalesced in any shape. But since she had reacquired her faithful old mechanoid, Death Strike, she had fused the old battle mechanoid into her system and made use of its physical form and manipulated it with her powers to look like anything she wanted, even a female Decepticon. This was what she was using now, quite often distracting the other Decepticons with her appearance, deliberately flaunting her form in front of the ones who noticed, this was a source of amusement to her.
At this moment, Optimus Prime was at Iacon briefing his soldiers; his own teams from here on Cybertron, and also some other Autobots Jazz had brought back with him from Earth when he went back to re-supply for the upcoming fight.
Ella's own soldiers were inside one of the nearby star ship hangars, relaxing or training nearby before the fight, as she had asked them to do of their own accord.
Galvatron and his space Armada had been spotted some distance away, so they thought that they were going to get the drop on Cybertron; however they didn't know that the Cybertronians and their guests already knew they were coming, and would be here in a solar cycle.
'Still another 20 Earth hours,' Ella thought. Almost everyone was in position for the attack on Cybertron, except for Ella and her crew and some Autobots.
Ella had gone to Earth with Jazz and had brought back her personal team from Earth, the Roughnecks, as well as some others whom she knew would be of help if they were needed. She had sent back Henry, but had kept Peter here with his mechanoid vehicle. One of the strongest amongst the new faces was Peter's eldest mechanthropoid daughter named Heather, who was part human, part cyborg.
Since the death of her only love, Orion, Heather had avoided any kind of fighting because her husband had died in the service of his occupation, a military.
On Earth he had been a high ranking security officer within the ranks of the US military and he had died protecting her and her friends from the people he worked for, back in the early 1950s. That was not the only reason she shunned her responsibilities, however. After the funeral, she had taken to working exclusively off world to get away from the pain of Orion's loss and to find solitude and to get away from the US military who had been responsible for Orion's death.
She also had the added burden of her daughter, Lita, whom she was raising at the time. She had been the result of a brief tryst with Orion.
She had returned to Earth some time ago when she felt ready to face the world again and to rejoin company with her daughter, who had come back to Earth before her and her friends on the Dragon Valley base.
After the events of 1947 and the following years she wanted nothing to do with the US military, as she had been subject to experiments of all kinds. She and her companions of the time had crash landed in the US due to a malfunction in their ship. They were taken in as aliens, their technology was stripped from their ship, and they were used and abused by the US military for quite some time before they had been able to get away with help from one of the military soldiers.
This was managed due to Heather's involvement with one of the special agents, Orion, who helped them all escape. He was a guest at the base at the time, helping with their secret project, and he developed a liking for the alien guests and helped them escape, after seeing how they were really treated by his own. He however was gunned down and killed subsequently by his own people as he helped them escape.
She and her companions had been in the company of the US military, secretly hidden from the public for over five years and this soldier couldn't take the inhuman treatment the supposed aliens were getting. He had helped them escape and realising that he would be in more than just a small amount of trouble if he returned himself, tried to go with them, but didn't make it. He had told them of Dragon Valley Base, of which they already knew about, but couldn't tell him that. And that was what led them into Ella's company.
How Orion had known about Ella's base was another matter entirely at the time.
Heather stood on her own looking out over the vast expanse that was Cybertron. She admitted to herself that this place was somewhat familiar; it reminded her of the apartment on Delta Four and the view from the balcony of that old apartment. She also thought of her daughter. She had joined her here today with Heather's old mechanoid partner. The mechanoid, Lady One, had been given a new shell, a pink, gold and white, long nosed Semi truck with a trailer, laden with ammunition and weapons to be used by the transformers during the upcoming battle. She beamed at the fact Lita had gotten herself a very well paying job, but grimaced at the fact she transported arms for contractors and the US military back on Earth. She was just not into wars and fighting anymore. And she wanted nothing to do with the US military or the EDC on Earth at all but she made an exception for Ella.
Ella showed up from where she had come from and had a little giggle as she felt what Heather was thinking. "You'll change your mind when you see who is here!"
Heather cocked an eyebrow at Ella when she said it, but then got what she was talking about a minute later, "Oh yeah!" she sighed; "I'd forgotten this is his place!" she kind of smiled. Optimus Prime was her favourite out of all the Autobots. Not only because she liked how he looked, but also his whole persona.
"Sure you did! You know its ok to have a little crush on someone!" Ella is still lightly giggling.
"Yeah I suppose it is!" muses Heather, "Guess I've been single for far too long that's all."
Heather was also a fervent believer of what Optimus Prime and the Autobots stood for and believed in.
Ella knew that Heather didn't originally want to come today and get involved, but since Optimus would be here on Cybertron, that part of her that was still young at heart wanted to meet and greet with her hero, albeit without coming across to Optimus as a silly little school girl with a crush.
Heather was on guard duty outside the hangar in her armoured mech mode with another. This was Rayleigh, Laura's aunt, as well as Heather's younger sister Hailey, Heather's daughter Lita, another female named 'Stretch', and her Autobot partner Stronghold, who was a friend of Steamrail's and also ex Deltronian military personnel.
Ella looked around inside the hangar for her intended target. Sound Track was leaning up against a wall watching the entire goings on inside the room. Her twin sister Flashdance was in her car mode, beating out some tunes from her immaculate vehicle sound stereo system from the far end of the hangar.
Outside, Optimus Prime and some other Autobots had shown up to see what Ella and her soldiers were doing to prepare. Upon hearing the music, Jazz and Blaster happily went inside the hangar on Prime's leave and joined the others in their fun.
"Those are some real groovy tunes you're beating out, Flash'! Can you play it any louder?" asked Blaster.
"This level is fahne for now, otherwahse ah'd be bringin' tha roof down around us! Just enjoy it, won't y'all?" she replied.
Optimus had found Ella inside the hangar door on her way to see Sound Track, and motioned for her to go outside to talk. Hailey and Lita went inside to join the others, leaving Heather, Stretch and Stronghold outside in the peace and quiet of the landing area of Iacon.
"I thought you would be briefing your soldiers for a battle strategy, as I have just finished doing with mine?" Optimus told Ella.
"I was just about to discuss something with Sound Track actually." She paused for a moment outside, to see several of Prime's soldiers around the area. "Don't worry, we have something in mind, and will back you and your soldiers up as you need it." She looks into the hangar, "I'm just letting them relaxed before the battle."
"As if they haven't had enough of a time out already," said Sunstreaker, from a vantage point above them. He jumps down and took a stance next to his twin, Sideswipe, who was close by.
"You're just upset Sunny, 'cause Burnout beat you in a drinking contest, that's all. Besides, you didn't even join us during the last few solar cycles." replied Sideswipe.
"I don't think he can hold his fuel very well either!" Mused Ella.
"How'd you know about that!" fumes Sunstreaker.
"Word gets around, especially between my gossipy girls!" she replies.
Sideswipe was snickering uncontrollably and got a punch in the arm from Sunstreaker. Sideswipe would've retaliated if Optimus hadn't been looking dead at his optics and shook his head as a 'no' to caution him first. He rubs his arm scowling, turns to Ella and says, "Those femmes of yours sure know how to have fun!" Optimus laughed, as he knew exactly what they had all been up to during the last week especially in regards to Sunstreaker challenging Burnout to a fuel drinking contest that resulted in Sunstreaker needing to have his fuel tanks pumped from over consumption. Sideswipe still wouldn't let his twin live it down though, he noticed, even though the event had made him lose most of credits to Smokescreen and Mirage.
Optimus had allowed his soldiers to relax too, but the last few days had had them busy with battle preparations at Iacon, getting everything in order.
Ella joined in with the laughter also, before saying, "Why don't you go and have some more fun, Sideswipe?" as she motioned towards the hangar. She looked over to Optimus, "That is if it's ok with you?"
Optimus nodded. "It will be a long cycle when the Decepticon's get here; they still need some relaxation time."
He shrugged his shoulders. "Hey, sure, why not?" He turned to Sunstreaker. "You comin', bro'?"
Sunstreaker looked at Sideswipe. "Some of us actually have work to do." Sunstreaker was thinking about finding a quiet isolated spot for some private martial arts training.
Sideswipe waved him off, and then left. Tracks, Hound and Bluestreak, however, stay with Optimus and return to Iacon with him.
Ella watched them transform and drive off towards Iacon. She had only just turned to find Sound Track inside the hangar again, only to have the femme already standing behind her. "Heh!" she says slightly surprised, "I've really got to learn that you can do that, sneaking up on me quietly and closing off your mind to me so I won't even see or feel you next to me!" She finds a quiet spot for both of them outside and discusses her concerns to Sound Track about Decellion.
After they all had left for Iacon, Sunstreaker looks for a quiet spot to do some private training close by, but finds Sunstar while he was doing so.
She had left Iacon earlier in the day to be alone. Sunstreaker didn't know why till he saw her briefly, training on one of the ridges outside of Iacon. Sunstreaker had become fascinated with all the moves she was going through. He recognized it as Metalikato. He was not one to admit he didn't know very much about it but he had seen some archived vids of it before all records of its existence was completely banned from society just before the war started.
"Nice form." He calls out to her.
She thought she had chosen a spot out of sight and was quite surprised when she found Sunstreaker watching her go through her fighting techniques. She waited till she was done with her flow techniques before she acknowledged him properly. She made her way up to his location.
"Thank you." She smiled and nodded to him on the way past returning to her temporary quarters at Iacon, that Prime had provided for them while they were here.
Sunstreaker found himself watching after her for a fair while before returning to what he wanted to do. He shook his head, and decided that becoming infatuated with a femme wasn't worth it, not with all this fighting going on. But still she was something to look at to look at. He smirked to himself as he took over her spot and began some training of his own.
Later in space, en route to Cybertron...
Inside his new flagship, Galvatron was monitoring Cybertron from a distance, and strategizing for the best plan of attack. Several of his most loyal soldiers were manning the controls of the new ship, which the Dominion had given him. Decellion had since joined them on the bridge and quietly watched the goings on from a place near Galvetron.
"Scourge," said Galvetron gruffly. "Status report."
The ruthless leader of the Sweeps got up suddenly and looked up to his master. "We will be within firing range of Cybertron in less than a mega-cycle, Lord Galvatron." He sat down again after bowing to Galvatron, and murmured to another Decepticon to his right, a Constructicon named Scrapper, about readying the weapons system for attack when ordered.
Decellion was standing off to one side of the command chair. Using her good eyesight, she saw Cybertron in the distance and opened her mind to the area she was viewing. She then commented to Galvatron, without looking at him. "Hmmm…They know we are coming. I suggest you employ a different strategy of attack from this point."
Galvetron looked around at her.
"How did she know that?" Cyclonus whispers to another Constructicon standing next to him, who shrugs vaguely in response to the comment Cyclonus had just made.
Galvatron had learned not to discount her ability to perceive things far better than he could, and that was one reason he kept her around making full use of her. "What exactly did you have in mind?" he asked her, not wanting to accept help from her, but at the same time wanting information from her.
Decellion, still looking straight ahead, smiled an evil smile.
Sound Track and Ella had been talking at length.
"Ya'll think she's after them again!" Sound Track remembers the last attempt by Decellion to take the Power Matrice Artefacts. "Ah barely survahved that tahme. But then ah wasn't what ah am now, as ah was then."
Ella responded, "Well it's no coincidence that Bonecrusher happened upon our location either." Nova hasn't said anything yet but I know her power grid is more faded than what it was before. She's definitely passed her Power Matrice onto Bonecrusher. You inherited yours from my cousin Marina, and Optimus has another one. The presence of our two should be enough to charge the Autobot Matrix somewhat since it's drained and be of use to us. It's been useless to them ever since 2007 when they used it on the Hate Plague on Earth."
Novara and Bonecrusher had just turned up. Overhearing most of the conversation. "Well at least I don't have to tell you anything! You always were one step ahead of me kid!" she snickers.
Bonecrusher looks down at Novara. She is still in her beast mode and has been since she arrived here on Cybertron. "Time for facing facts I do believe." She comments. She begins her transformation from her Tyrannosaurus Rex beast mode to her robot mode, finishing rather quicker than usual. "I feel so stiff from being a beast for so long. Even though I do prefer it, but…I cannot stay that way forever. And I do appreciate this new power charger you have given me Novara, it will come in very handy for the forthcoming battle."
Ella looks at Sound Track. She thinks 'Power charger?' Sound track looks back at her and shrugs. Ella then turns her attention to Bonecrusher, "Do you have any ideas you'd like to add to our battle plan?"
First Bonecrusher looks to Ella, and then she looks to Sound Track. "I have more than an idea. I have a few extra soldiers in cryo-stasis aboard Blindside."
"So that's whaht those were for?" questions Sound Track, "Ah just couldn't see through the lasah grid protectin' tha pods. Ah just thought they were empty."
Bonecrusher smiles, "I will save them for later if we need them.
"I had the same problem Sound Track had. I wonder where you picked up the technology for that?" Says Ella looking to her maternal unit, who smirks. "Doesn't matter though. Who do you have?" she asks.
Bonecrusher only smiles, "We've got Rapture, Headstrong and Handglide. They were damaged in that fight and when we arrived here we just left them in cryogenic restoration for repairs, they should be ready by now."
"Good." Comments Sound Track. "Have them ready on standbah just in case."
On Earth, the Dinobots had turned up at Autobot City, among a very surprised group of Protectobots left to guard the city in the absence of their comrades now on Cybertron.
"Where all Autobots? Me, Grimlock, want to know, now!" said a frustrated, giant mechanical Tyrannosaur, stamping his feet.
"They're not here, Grimlock, they went to Cybertron to fight Decepticons," replied First Aid, quietly and politely.
"This no fun," said Slag, another of the mechanoid dinosaurs. "We come here for fight, and they go another place to fight!"
The other Dinobots clamour in agreement, until Grimlock shuts them up. "Me, Grimlock, want to go to Cybertron, and me want to go now!" he said angrily to Groove, who had just come in on the conversation.
Surprised at what was going on, Groove had no response, but Jetfire, having heard the commotion, came out to see what was happening. "Did someone say they want to go to Cybertron?" he asked matter-of-factly.
"Yes." Grimlock stands tall to make himself look intimidating "Me, Grimlock, not come all the way from Dinobot Island just to sit here on Auto-butt with other Dinobots in Autobot City and find out other Autobots fight Decepticons on Cybertron without us."
"Well," said Jetfire, "I don't exactly have orders to stay here, nor do I have any to stay out of the fight, so I'll take you along to Cybertron, Dinobots. I'll refuel and be ready to take you okay." They wait for a short time while he goes to a refuelling station to fill his tanks for the long journey to Cybertron.
It didn't take too long and when he got back to where the Dinobots were still waiting, he transformed, and then said, "Hop in!" They all squeezed into Jetfire's loading bay, and then he took off once they were all inside.
Blades, Streetwise and Hotspot had all been listening to the conversation from a distance.
Hotspot asked Groove, "Better hope Prime is better equipped to deal with them, rather than we were." He chuckled slightly to himself, and then promptly returned to his work once he could no longer see Jetfire's chassis up above.
On Cybertron, the battle had already begun, and had been in full swing for some time. Decellion and Galvatron had split up their forces, to attack on two different fronts, forcing the Autobots and their guests to rethink their strategy. Their method of attack was an unknown and unexpected development that had indeed caught them off guard.
Ella had left Joyride and Flashdance at Autobot HQ in Iacon with Blaster and Bluestreak, while she had taken Flash's case of animechs she'd brought along and headed into the fight in her Biomode, with Heather, Stretch, Hailey and Ray.
Stretching her mind out, she could see where everyone was fighting. Prime had given Hot Rod command of a group, and along with Kup, they were fighting up a frenzy against the Dominion Destron mechs, out west in the Uraya sector.
Optimus Prime and his main team of soldiers were strewn out all over Altihex, and under heavy fire, while others had joined Ella and her group near Iacon, where they were now fighting. Optimus and his group were slowly fighting their way back to Iacon, through the Decepticon soldiers.
Jazz and his team from Earth had been driven all the way down to sonic canyons, close to Sound Track, against a group of Destron mechs. Sound Track had only half of her team, as she was directly north of the canyons with some 'Roughnecks' members, Timewarp, as well as Sunstar and Burnout. The latter two had gotten separated from them and were quite possibly fighting alone somewhere. The rest of her team, consisting of Landslide, Ranger, Freestyle and Vanguard, had been pushed further north to the Tagon Heights area.
But now Sound Track had been separated from the rest of her dwindling group, and had ended up near the canyons, where she ran into Jazz and his group.
"You've lost a few mechs I see Sound Track!" Jazz joked, amidst avoiding the gunfire buzzing around him.
"Ah haven't lost anyone yet!" she said dryly. "Ah may be blind, but even through all this noise ah can still hear them fahtin' up north ya'll." She then raced off, transforming from robot mode to her Earthen blue Porsche alternate mode, to run down a few more Destron mechanoids that were close by, keeping her from the rest of her group.
While the confusion was going on down on the planet, Decellion had her chance to go after what she was here for.
Cyclonus noticed her leave the ship and asked Soundwave to send Laserbeak after her to be watched. Not realising Decellion already knew what they would do and deliberately led Laserbeak astray on the planet.
Once she had lost the mechanoid bird, she found the entry to an old place, she thought she'd never find again. This place was near Iacon and it was the chamber of the ancients.
"It has not changed much since my day." She murmured to herself. She noticed that Laserbeak had found her again and was hiding up above her, but she ignored the beast this time and found the switch she was looking for.
Before she could look through the door in the floor that had been opened, she was surprised by the entry into the room of another beast mechanoid. There was also radiation affecting her from the energon glow in the floor.
She recognized the beast as one of the group that had attacked one of the outposts in the Dominion recently. She was surprised to see this one up and around again after the damage it had received.
Decellion eyed off the beast and it did the same to her. She felt no fear of it, thinking her superior power would keep her safe. So when it charged and gored her in the mid section, the immense pain took her by surprise. She grabbed and threw off the animal and pulled out the horn that had come off of the beast and had stuck into her.
She was angry now. Angry that this primitive animal had touched her, had even attacked her, her, far superior to this insignificant Earthen beast.
"You will pay for that you ugly wretched waste of creation!" she growled.
The beast was almost smiling. "I look forward to it." It spoke. It then transformed from a Styracosaurus alternate mode to a female robot mode. "Aren't ye forgetting where ye are Decellion? This is Sigma Prime, or at least it used ta be. Ye have no power here."
Decellion was loathe to admit the Deltronian was right. She had let this small piece of very important information slip her mind and the radiation she was seeing on her sensors, affecting her judgement was the energy from an old mortal enemy of hers. She could feel the mind of this planet around her through that open door and knew who it belonged to. She had no choice; she had to get out of this room and now. It was different now than it had been before.
She was just as surprised that the mechanoid knew who she was. She would have to relinquish the fight to this one for now and retreat, allowing her wound to heal, then try to go for the Power Matrice again later.
She quickly used her scanners and found the open chamber empty and did not like what she saw with her mind. 'One of them must have it?' she thought. Then she quickly retreated into the shadows away from her attacker with Laserbeak not too far behind.
When they had both left, Headstrong radioed Bonecrusher to let her know what just happened.
'Good.' Replied Bonecrusher over the radio, 'Now stay there in case she returns again.' Headstrong didn't like being there, she wanted to be out in the battle, but orders were orders. She didn't have the power to confront Bonecrusher, at least not anymore. Not now that it was obvious her commander had just received a new power boost.
At Iacon, Ultra Magnus and his team had rejoined Ella's group. He was marvelling at Warhammer and Stronghold's battle prowess.
The Destron mechs had moved further north from where they had started, and were now being driven to invade Iacon at any expense.
Bonecrusher had been fighting to the south, in Altihex. Optimus Prime and his soldiers charged up through the rear of the Destrons, and once in front of them she let out an almighty roar that made several of them turn and run. Optimus, unable to keep the Decepticons back in Altihex, decided to retreat back to Iacon with whoever was still able to follow.
Heather turned to Ella and said, "You know, you have a real knack for dragging me into messes I don't want anything to do with, don't you? I should slap you for that!"
Ella smiled back at her firing a plasma gun, and replied, "Yeah right, like you aren't enjoying the thrill of the battle right now."
"Ok, you got me on that one," she said laughingly, and charged past Optimus in a fearless fury to take down several Destron mechs more than twice her size, who were beginning to team up against Optimus.
Optimus thanked Heather for her assistance. She bowed slightly towards him, and then charged off to fight more mechs, commenting as she went. "It's not the size that counts, its how committed your heart is to defending the rights to freedom, right Optimus?"
He stopped shooting his laser rifle for a moment amidst the enemy fire, and thought about what she had said. "Right," he replied, but was slightly disturbed at her comment, as it was very similar to something Elita-1 had said right before she had been terminated, as Ultra Magnus had told him in the past. He returned to fighting the mechs, not wanting to remember the memories Heather's comment had brought up in him over his beloved Elita-1 and not being there for her when she had passed on to the Allspark.
Jazz and his team had finally begun to make his way north through to Tagon Heights with his group, and had found the rest of Sound Track's team in the process. They were also bringing along the first part of her team.
Sound Track had realized that she had lost Vanguard somewhere. She was told by Ranger that she had taken Freestyle and Landslide back to Iacon for medical assistance, due to their bad injuries.
Overhead, she could hear Powerglide giving Blitzwing a run for his money, outmanoeuvring him to avoid being hit by his blast shots. Elsewhere, Timewarp was busily trying to outrun two Decepticon jets who had joined their party, Dirge and Ramjet.
At least they had until the Aerialbots joined the fight, too. Having disposed of Thrust and freed Powerglide to attack some other unsuspecting enemy jet, they had quickly started after the other two, but were cut off by Astrotrain. Meanwhile, Burnout and Sunstar were having a real good time with all the mechs that were throwing themselves at them on the ground.
Jazz's team of mechs - Bumblebee, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Cliffjumper, Hound and Tracks – weren't faring much better, either, but they were slowly but surely pushing their way through, to return to Iacon. Even though they could see they were greatly outnumbered, they still fought on valiantly.
Out west in Uraya, Hot Rod, Kup, and a team that consisted of Gears, Smokescreen, Cosmos, Quickswitch, and the two triple changers, Broadside and Sandstorm, along with a few of the rest of the Wreckers group, and were having a hard time fighting against a Destron mech team called the Necromancers, and had to fall back to Iacon with the others.
The rest of Optimus Prime's team, currently consisting of the Throttlebots, joined up once again with Optimus and the Tecnobots in Iacon. They had been pushed back to Iacon due to the combined efforts of Galvatron, Scourge and the Sweeps, along with various other Decepticon soldiers and some Destrons still up and moving.
Galvatron noticed Prime through the blitz of the fire fighting going on, and retorted, "How convenient that you should all be in one place for us to terminate you, Prime."
Optimus replied confidently, "I'd like to see you try and terminate us all, Galvatron. So far, you've failed to do even that to me."
Galvatron was furious at his retort and attacked. The two got to fight each other head on, oblivious to all others around them.
Back on the Decepticon Ship, Cyclonus has been left in charge; with Soundwave and the Constructicons there as part of a back up force to be released after a certain time frame.
Cyclonus, however, had noticed Decellion leaving before. And with Soundwave's help he also saw where she went on the planet through Laserbeak's reports. He had lost her at some stage after she had left that chamber, and decided to leave her to it. He had Laserbeak report on the battlefield instead. He decided it was the right time to have Devastator level the field of battle, as it was now the time that had been indicated by Galvetron.
Decellion had again gotten away from Laserbeak, heading to the far south away from Iacon and that chamber. Once she was out of that chamber and away from the radiation of the energy that she realised led to the core of this planet, her wounds began to heal.