"So we now have three beasts on earth," Lelouch said as Kallen hummed quietly in the background. "Yes and judging by what both Howler and Rhinox said, more are coming." Milly said as Euphie entered with Ayame "Uncle Lulu!" the young girl cheered as she raced over to the emperor of Britannia. "Hey, sweetheart" Lelouch said picking her up "Sorry about that" Euphie said "No problem, now back to the beasts" Lelouch said.
"The next one might show up soon, which means we may need to increase the production rate of Project Neo Knight," Nina said. "I see" Lelocuh said concerned. "We have a couple up, but only one pilot, you see we have Kallen's Neo Knight, but with her a couple of months along, we figured it was too risky" Lloyd said "No, you did the right thing, that frame is Emergency use only" Lelouch said "Yes, your highness" the group said "Ah, Optimus hopefully the beast fights have given you're teams enough time to rest" Lelouch said. "Yes, however they are a bit itchy for combat" Optimus said. "But they also understand, that is why I have ordered them back to Cybertron temporarily" Optimus said "But you've stayed" Suzaku said "I soon will be heading back to give my report" Optimus said. "You will be missed old friend" Lelouch said.
"So you have to go?" Nunnally asked, "I'm afraid so" Rodimus said "Will we see each other again?" Nunnally asked. "I hope so, you're the first friend I made here" Rodimus smiled, "Well this is it" Rodimus said. "Goodbye," "Bye" Nunnally said sadly. "And I hope to see you soon" the Autobot smiled. He walked past the rest of his human friends and stopped, "Jacob" "Yeah?" Jake answered "I have a mission for you," Rodimus instructed "Sir?" "Watch after her, and treat her like a princess; otherwise I'll come back and slam your ass" Rodimus smiled.
Dark Beast Tomb
"YOU ARE ALL USELESS!" Darkfire roared at Waspinator, Slapper and Shredclaw who flinch. "I don't know why I sent you; Shredclaw you had them fighting and arguing with each other, Slapper, you managed to poison a human, and you bug did cause some chaos, but they were stopped!" Darkfire snarled. "It wasn't our fault" Slapper said "Oh; wasn't it?" Darkfire asked "It was them humans that hang out with Prime's forces" Shredclaw said. "Oh I understand, take out their base and we'll do better, is that your excuse?" Darkfire asked "yeah" the three failures said. "Out of my sight" Darkfire said as the three scampered "Why am I surrounded by fools?" Darkfire asked "Anything I can help you with, milord" a sultry voice said "Blackarchnia, how good of you to appear, I could use your help" Darkfire said looking at the spider in front of him. "Anything" the spider said "Excellent"
Cyber Beast Mausoleum
"Rattrap I need for you to go to earth this time" the cyber beast leader said to a rat. "Oh no, way fearless leader" Rattrap said. "Too bad, she is heading there and you are her counter" "What, the spider?" Rattrap asked "I'm afraid so; so do it!" "I'm going!" Rattrap scampered. "What am I going to do with that one?" the leader said "Feed him to me" a bird said "Not yet Airrazor he still has uses" he smiled as his friend. "I understand" Airrazor said.
NEST
"Whoa!" Rattrap shouted landed on a catwalk "Ow, these humans need to invest in some comfort" he said "Anyway, why here? We're usually in the area where the dark beast is, unless" Rattrap said. "Oh no, it's here somewhere" he said scurrying around looking for the dark beast. "This isn't going to be easy" he said.
Euphie was sweeping up the halls "Stupid cleaners" she muttered. "Always missing things" she grumbled before she heard footsteps and squeaks. "Huh?" she asked spying a rat shaped shadow on the wall. "You filthy vermin" she said swing the broom overhead and bringing it down several times and each time Rattrap was hit he would let out a noise "Ow, dee, ooph, Hey cut, ouch, that, Ooph OUT!" "A giant talking rat" Euphie flinched grabbing her broom "Easy now" Rattrap said as Euphie reached for a replacement weapon "Look, I'm on...What is with the gun?" Rattrap asked as Euphie cocked the shotgun she was now holding "Oh, slag" Rattrap said running as the first shot was fired.
"Was that a shotgun blast?" Tohdoh asked "Lelouch to Euphie what is going on down there?" Lelouch asked as a second shell fired. "Just doing a bit of exterminating" Euphie chuckling "What kind of vermin requires a shotgun?" Lelouch asked "A big one" Euphie said cocking it again "That girl is crazy" Lelouch muttered.
"Easy now" Rattrap said backed into a corner. "Why?" Euphie asked "Because I'm a legendary cyber beast" Rattrap said "Really?" Euphie asked, "Yep" "But if your here that means" "Oh yeah, you've got a dark beast" Rattrap said. "Lelouch this is Euphie, we've got a problem" she said.
Coby was walking around the corridors when he heard a clattering "Your highness?" he asked seeing no on there, he walked off shrugging before hearing it again "Lori?" he said getting nervous. "Is that you?" he asked quivering "No I'm not" a sultry voice cackled "A dark beast here?" Coby asked "Yes you are correct" the beast said "Who are you?"
Cybertron during the same time
"And so you see Alpha Tridon the dark beasts have been attacking Earth for some time, however we have only encountered three: Shredclaw, Slapper and Waspinator" Rodimus said to the Autobot high council "Thank you for your report Rodimus Minor, you can return to earth once you have recharged, in the mean time I shall talk to the Prime of Military and alliances" Alpha Tridon said standing up. "Yes sir" the autobots said. Soon Alpha Tridon and Optimus were the only one in the council chamber.
"Optimus" "Yes Father?" Optimus asked "What do you think of his progress?" "He's advancing quickly" "So do you think I could give him a team?" Alpha Tridon asked "I think so, I will have my team posted at the Pax Centre in Britannia near the palace, while Ultra Magnus' rookies and a few others will be placed under Rodimus' command" "Yes; that sounds like a good idea, I want Wrench under Rodimus' command as well" "I'm not I follow father" "Ultra Magnus' academy team does not have a medic and since Wrench was Ratchet's teammate, I think he will make a valuable team member for them" "I understand now, may Primus protect you Alpha Tridon" "And you as well Optimus Prime" the two then departed.
Earth NEST base alpha
"Who are you?" Coby asked "You can call me Blackarachnia" the spider said "And you're here?" "To destroy you" the Decepticon spider said "And then you'll humans will be no problem when we take over this planet" she said. "THINK AGAIN" Coby said slamming a torque wrench into her head. "That probably was a bad idea" Coby said "You think fleshbag?" the spider asked. "Yeah it was." Coby said running for his life. "HEEELLLPPP!" he shouted.
"Huh?" Euphie asked looking around "So she's here and I'm betting it's not to play" Rattrap said. "Milly, this is Euphie put the base on full alert. A Decepticon has infiltrated the area," Euphie said. Soon the base's security systems were blaring. "What, who triggered a full base alert?" Lelouch shouted. "Euphie did, it seems we have a Decepticon somewhere." Milly said "Get all civilians to safety, Tohdoh take a squad and check out the East sector, Tamaki West sector, Suzaku take the south and Zero will take the north" Lelouch ordered. "Yes sir." Was the response heard.
Coby was holding a wrench, while hiding in engineering. "Why did it have to be a spider?" Coby asked quivering looking over the crate he was hiding behind and there he saw them, Three Knightmare frames that had just been updated. "Incredible these must be three of the new Neo Knight projects, Lets see Gawain, Guren and Lancelot" Coby said staring at them in awe. "Here little fleshy I'm not going to kill you" Blackarachnia said as her stick like legs were heard on the floor clacking along it. "Where are you?" the spider said as Coby steadied his breathing "Focus man lead her away" he said to himself in his mind.
"Welcome to NEST Base alpha," Rodimus said to his team. "Something's off majorly here" Wrench said looking around. "He's right; the base is on lockdown" Moonracer said "A drill, maybe?" Bulkhead said. "No, the alert drill was done before I left, this must be something else" Rodimus said "Fan out, be careful and keep your guard up" he continued handing out orders. "Yes sir" the autobots said. "I fear we could be too late" Rodimus muttered.
Bulkhead was walking around; looking for something that suggested what was going on in the sector. "Rodimus to Bulkhead, have you found anything yet?" the group's leader asked "No, it appears I'm in a low light section of the base, I've turned my lights on but nothing yet" Bulkhead replied "Keep searching and don't step on anything or let your wrecking ball break anything" Rodimus said "Okay, I'll keep my eyes out and weapons in, unless I see something than its weapons out" Bulkhead said signing off. Soon Bulkhead heard something and prepared his ball, "Alright whose there?" Bulkhead said swinging his ball and making it hit the floor before a stack of boxes "DON'T HURT ME PLEASE!" "A human, hey its alright I'm not going to hurt you" "Fat chance" "No, really; I'm an Autobot" Bulkhead said turning his lights to his chest where a red face sat "An Autobot, really? Thanks goodness, I'm Coby" Coby said "Nice to meet ya, I'm Bulkhead" Bulkhead said holding out a finger for Coby to shake.
"Come on toots, we have to hurry" Rattrap said bolting down the corridor they were running in "Why?" Euphie asked "Blackarachnia is the dark beast of nightmares and I'm the Cyber beast of humour, the joker of the group if you would. One strike from her poison and you'll be in an unending nightmare. I'm here to stop her so that doesn't happen" Rattrap said. After finishing his sentence Rattrap heard a large clang ring throughout the base. "What was that?" Euphie asked.
In engineering Coby had clocked Blackarachnia on the head with the largest wrench he could find. "That had to hurt" Bulkhead said. "I'm sure it did" Coby said "Coby?" "Lori, Nunnally" Coby said as teh two girls entered "Is that a spider?" Nunnally asked "No worse, it's a decepticon" Coby said "I'm betting the Dark Beast, has had about enough of NEST and sent one of their own here to offline us" Lori theorized "I'm guessing that's correct" Nunnally said. "Should we activate one of the Neo-Knights?" Lori asked "I'll use the Guren Firestorm, considering I've had training on both the Guren and the Shinkirou" Nunnally said heading to the red knightmare that would eventually be piloted by her sister in law.
"Okay booting up systems" Nunnally said "weapons; check, landspinners: check, RADAR check, This is the firestorm, ready for action" Nunnally said pushing the control grips forward; resulting in her going backwards. "What happened?" "I think someone inverted the controls" Lori said "Hurry up, the Beast is right there" Coby said as Nunnally fixed the control scheme. "Blackarachnia transform." Blackarachnia commanded as her fangs shot out infront of her, next her spider head came down forming her body, finally he legs sprang forth from her abdomen. "From the nightmare I come: Blackarachnia!" she said. "That has to be teh ugliest thing I've seen!" Coby said.
"Lets roll!" Nunnally said thrusting her frame's claw like hand out to inflict heat damage to her spider enemy only to have the spider shot lead out of her eight legs situated on her arms. "Nunnally put some distance between you two and use the Dragon's blaze cannon" Coby said "Roger, DRAGON'S BLAZE!" Nunnally said firing out a stream of white hot fire at her enemy.
Rattrap and Euphie entered to see the Guren and Blackarachnia fighting. "My turn: Rattrap transform" his legs folded open and went to hsi back as his rat head folded down and his robot form appeared. "From the humour I come: Rattrap" Rattrap said, "let's dance" Rattrap said as he pulled out his blaster and started to fire. Soon Blackarachnia was facing white hot flames and plasma bursts. "Oh yeah I'm having me some cooked spider legs for refuelling" Rattrap said "Pheonix Claw!" Nunnally said as scarlet flames surrounded the clawed hand of the Guren firestorm. "Maximum impact!" The claw impacted leaving the decepticon's right shoulder with deep slashed and smouldering circuits. "STAR SABER!" a third voice said; as Rodimus slid the star sabre down her back before round housing her into an open portal. "Good work people" Euphie said.
"Nunnally are you okay?" Lori asked as the Guren firestorm docked and the hatch opened. "I need water and a towel" she said exiting, "Why?" Lori asked handing her the items she asked for as Coby did a scan "Simple. The cooling systems off, five minutes longer, and she would have gone into a de-hydration induced coma" Coby said "But who did that?" Euphie asked. "I'm not sure but the recording show something interesting. "What?" Lori asked,
Coby then showed them; as Nina entered the Guren she became "Alice!" Euphie said. "The Decepticons shut the cooling down, but why?" Lori asked. "Why indeed" Coby said.