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Disclaiming ownership of Transformers.

"Strafe reporting in"

"What is your report?"

"We found some residual energy in the gamma sector indicating someone has been through here in the last deca-cycle."

"Hmm, Stay in the area and if you can find anything else, we are heading to your position now, Magnus out."

"Roger that"

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"Starscream come take a look at this"

"What is it?"

"Look here at this line of coding, if I multiple this vector by 83(z-n + p) and subtract the RNA code from the organic string, here"

Skyfire began typing away as figures and numbers obeyed the commands and were now dancing around the screen, disappearing and forming at new locations of coding.

"Now, watch this, follow up with r and divide the last interval of every code by a random denominator…."

"Cosmic Rust!" Starscream interrupted.

"Yup"

Skyfire stepped away from the keyboard allowing Starscream to poke around at the results.

"It seems that Shockwave's virus is a highly modified version of cosmic rust, which also explains the way it's slowly eroding Rodimus's internals."

"Of course, but" Starscream paused as he glanced through the figures on the screen "is there a way to break it down?"

"Not sure yet, we should tell the others what we found."

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"Hey TC, look at the puny earthlings run" Skywarp cackled as he released a reign of shots on the factory.

"Careful not to hit the fuel tanks"

"I know Thindercracker"

Soundwave stood at the dock, Ravage attacking the humans nearby while the Blue Decepticon poured fuel into containers so it can be converted into energon. The fuel spewed out from the pipes.

Not only did they have to worry about Autobots attacking, they had to worry about their own side attacking. Since Megatron was no longer Galvatron, the insecticons have been in a constant battle with him for leadership of the faction.

'Not like any would follow those creatures' Soundwave thought to himself as he stood with his guard up in case of impending attack.

When no humans were longer visible at the factory, Thundercracker and Skywarp landed at the edge of the water.

"So how come you never shoot on the squishies?" Skywarp asked optics locked on Thundercracker.

"Of course I shoot on them."

"No you don't, I noticed you don't. You don't aim to hit them."

They both stared out at the water now. Behind them where a factory once stood was a forest of flames and smoke.

Thundercracker never thought his mate was so perceptive. It was true he never fired at the humans, it wasn't there war after all. The humans were just innocent victims of their war. Victims like they themselves had been, before the rebellions and revolution that took place on Cybertron. That marked the start of the Great War and ended a Golden age. A Golden Age to whom? Surely it wasn't them fighting for their lives in the combat pits and in the mines, and on the streets. Thundercracker shook his CPU at the memories. No that was all in the past now, he chose his side. Megatron has once offered peace, and a world without a caste system. He believed that if one Bot ruled with a Just hand that slavery could be a thing of the past.

Megatron had unified them, he spoke well and made others believe in words. Back then Megatron too believed in his words, but over time… The more he killed the more his ambitions became tainted….. It was too late for Thundercracker to drop out now, he couldn't switch sides, couldn't leave his mate behind either. But the question was always in the back of his head, he wondered if he chose the right side, but he couldn't stand watching the noblemechs and the government horde all the energy, while others all around them deactivated from not be able to fuel. He joined the Decepticons to end slavery, to rid of the corrupt officials, to make Cybertron great. He didn't want this constant destruction, to destroy other planets and innocent lives.

Blasts could be heard in the distance.

"Decepticons grab the energon cubes and retreat" came Megatron's bellow.

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Perceptor and Ratchet stood in front of the screen as Skyfire showed them his findings.

"Alright, so what do we do now?" Ratchet asked.

"Right, so we believe if we can breakdown the molecular structure of the organic part of the virus, all that would be left is the binary code" Skyfire theorized.

"And then after that it would just be cosmic rust and we could use chorostop to get rid of it!" Perceptor said optimistically.

"But I would need to find more ingredients for my chorostop" he added.

"Starscream and I will go and gather the ingredients" Skyfire replied motioning to him and the jet by his side.

"Let me come too"

"What for? You will just be in our way, if we are attacked, what use would a microscope be in a battle?" Starscream sneered at the red scientist.

"Well for one, I know the ingredients for Chorostop, and two, wouldn't it be quicker with more of us? Rodimus doesn't have much time we can barely keep him online. And once he goes into stasis all his firewalls will go offline too, and he won't have any protection, and at that point the virus would wipe his systems clean, we wouldn't even be able to get the Quints to resurrect him. Really ingenious on Shockwave's part"

Perceptor went on.

"I know that already!" Starscream piped in stopping the seemingly endless stream of information that seeped out of preceptor's vocalizer.

"Fine, you can come. I don't care anymore, let's just go already" Starscream walked out of the room.

"Ratchet?"

"hmm?" Ratchet responded still staring at the schematics on the viewer.

"Can you see if Wheeljack can break down the binary code?" Skyfire asked. "And perhaps Carly and Spike might know of a way to break down the organic in the virus. It might be similar to a virus they have seen before."

"Yes, seems possible. I will get it to them right away. Good luck." He said as the Large Jet turned and walked away.

"You too" Skyfire said before disappearing through the doorway.

A/N: The transformers Animated stole things from my fic! lol. Not going to say what, because I don't want to spoil anyone incase they didn't see today's episode.