The Seekers were pushing the Zoids hard, Slipstream being the more adamant as she grabbed a Zabat by the head, crushing it then proceeding to rip the spark out of the Zoid, throwing the empty shell at another Zoid. Before she could continue Slipstream received a transmission from the Defiant, "We've just finished analyzed the Autobot attack patterns. They're not even trying to hit us."

She looked down to the Autobot ship, "This is a distraction! Have Sixshot ignore the Autobots. Keep moving the ship into position and destroy the Gojulas! Seekers, destroy anything that doesn't bear a Decepticon insignia!" Slipstream grabbed a nearby Ptera that tried to avenge a fallen comrade. She then proceeded to ripping the head off of the Ptera and crushed it, "I want to see them burn!"

Roadbuster punched Flamewar's face before he kneed her and threw her away from the Zoids. "Lost your focus when the Zoids showed up. Not good for you." Flamewar however started to laugh. "Hey, what's so funny?"

"What's so funny? You. One of the biggest, baddest Wreckers, you're not so tough." Roadbuster moved closer, ready to crush her head, however he was stopped by a streaking bullet, fired by one of his allies.

The shot however did hit its target, a Organoid that Roadbuster didn't see. The Organoid was just about ready to smash through his head. Roadbuster pressed his biggest rifle against Flamewar's chest before unloading several shots into her, reducing her midsection into nothing more than scrap and stomping her head just because he could.

Aside from that single shot, most of the sniper fire had been focused on supporting Dan, Tali and the Rev Raptors in picking off missiles while drawing Mad Thunder's attention. Fortunately with Mad Thunder's mass, it wasn't trying to move all that much, relying on its defenses to try and deal with them.

Kasumi and Legion were able to sneak underneath the control center. "Here's your stop." The Helcat's canopy opened up and Legion jumped on to start the climb. With her job done, Kasumi pulled away, avoiding the fighting until she was back with Shepard and the Vera.

"Down to my last five round here. Legion how's the Snipe Master looking?"

"Snipe Master is down to two. Will switch combat from long-range to mid-range settings." The Snipe Master fired its last two shots, managing to cluster about seven missiles total before the Zoid rushed into battle with the others.

Vera was frustrated over not being part of the attack, if nothing else than to help cover Dan. Roadbuster returned to Shepard's side, "Go on, I'm running low on mags to burn. And a big slow target ain't something you want so close to that death dealer." The Dark Spiner soon ran off into the fight now, gunning down a few missiles going after the Blade Liger.

Shepard switched to Autobot channels, "You aren't low on ammo."

Roadbuster sat in the sands, checking his leg, "And I ain't that slow. But it's easier for someone like her to actually be doing something. That and Flamewar did a number on my leg joint. Bot wasn't a scrapper, but she put up one hell of a fight just the same."

Shepard fired his last round for the sniper rifle, shifting back to the cockpit in the Gun Sniper's head. "Ready to get back out there?"

After a few more adjustments Roadbuster slapped his leg to make sure he wasn't going to lose any parts. "I think I'm good now." The two charged into battle with the Mad Thunder now, giving it even more targets to focus on and Legion more time to gain control from the Organoids.

The battle with the King Gojulas had started long before the early party arrived. The Gojulas was singlehandedly taking every shot as if they were nothing, breaking and destroy Zoids with almost every move it made.

Whirl paused, "You know, I'm half tempted to just wait for him to finish these guys off."

"If we do that than the others will be walking right into enemy fire."

EDI dived in with the Raynos, catching Whirl in her tailwind. "I said half tempted!" Whirl followed EDI in her dive bomb against the King Gojulas getting quite a few good hit on the head and shoulders with missiles while also avoiding shots from the other Zoids. "Hey was my optic fooling me or was the cockpit…?"

"Covered in blood and yahg entrails?"

"I was going to say organic pulp, but if you say so. Do you think that's why these losers are fighting so hard and trying to shoot at us too? Though you'd figure the Cons would send more than these to distract the Zoid." Thundercracker was also engaging the Gojulas, ignoring the Zoids and Whirl.

Soon enough the first of their ground forces arrived, sandwiching the yahg against the King Gojulas. EDI pulled back a bit as she contacted the new arrivals, "Allied forces be advised, Gojulas targeting capabilities. Uploading data now. There has been no visual of the Decepticon Deluge or his Organoids. It's possible that they have moved ahead or are keeping out of sight."

"So don't do anything stupid, take as many shot on the big target as you can, and try not to die."

Deluge knew what was coming, he knew that he wouldn't win in the traditional sense, but he was now closer to winning than even Slipstream or the Autobots realizes. The tunnel could be more accommodating, but it was enough that he could drive through.

Deluge soon found what remained of the original Death Saurer, having long since petrified to stone and starting to break apart by the building that collapsed around it. "Not much further, and Ore-9 will be in my hands and a true rebirth can be created properly."

Eight Organoids flew ahead through the rubble to create a new opening before another five flew up to surround Deluge. Deluge himself wasn't even speeding through, just coasting alone as more of the path is cleared for him.

Legion's fight for control of the Mad Thunder was considerably easier than anticipated since the Organoids have never had to defend against a viral attack though the distraction of being attacked physically helped Legion in his initial infiltration.

The Mad Thunder let out another load roar before shutting down. Roadbuster moved close to the neck joint, priming explosives just in case. The Zoid started to reactivate again, the orange optics started to change to a more blue hue. "Shepard-Commander, I have gained full control over Mad Thunder. Organoids are attempting to flee. I cannot stop them."

The first Organoid burst out of the Mad Thunder, however it didn't get very far as the Liger's blade cut it down. "Nice call Zeke! Vera now!"

Vera's Dark Spiner launched a pulse of electromagnetic energy over the Mad Thunder, catching two Organoids in the blast. "Maybe Zeke should take your place, Dan?"

"Hey!"

Shepard was ready, "Eyes up. We've got two more to go." The last two Organoids split away rather quickly, keeping their distances and forcing them to divide their forces. "Tali!"

The Rev Raptor pack quickly gave chase as Shepard and Dan went after the other. Tali tried blasting the Organoid a few times, but the speed and size of the Organoid was making that rather difficult.

"Need a boost?" Tali noticed a slight shimmer next to her before Kasumi's Helcat appeared. The Helcat just barely was able to get ahead of one of the Raptors, "Well, what are you waiting for, we can't let them escape."

"Thanks," Tali's Raptor jumped onto the Helcat's back, getting even higher now activating the Counter Scythes. It didn't look like they would make it, however another of the pack jumped off of Kasumi's Helcat to push Tali to close the gap and destroy the Organoid.

The two raptors rolled into the sands. "Are you three alright?"

The Raptors shook the sand off as they got up, "Yeah, we're fine. How are you doing, Kasumi?"

Kasumi looked back, seeing a few claw marks that cut into the armor, "I don't think we'll be turning invisible any time soon."

"Sorry, Kasumi."

"We knew the risks. So how's it going over there Shep?"

"We just got ours. Legion, let get moving."

"Affirmative." The Mad Thunder proceeded to stomp its way toward the Gojulas as the others moved ahead to the location first.

Dragonblade handed the next energon cube down to Krok as the chain continued to transport more off the ship. As they continued Silverclaw couldn't help but comment, "Weather on Cybertron or not, we're still stealing from someone."

"At least we know none of it will go to waste or get lost."

"That's debatable…"

Krok was still looking for any cameras, "Do you think they know we're here?"

Sky-Byte was watching the door, "If they did we wouldn't have been able to take over four thousand units of energon much less have any time to talk about it. I'd be more concerned with a foolish guard who starts firing in here."

Dragonblade hadn't stopped moving more energon cubes, "Then let's keep going until we've secured at least eight thousand units and bug out."

Whirl landed on top of the Gojulas' head, "Come on big and ugly, try and crush me!" The Gojulas let out a loud deafening roar and forced Whirl off. "You were right, turning off my audio receptors helped with that!"

There was another reason for Whirl's antics. EDI had him scanning the Zoid's structure and weaponry. "Admiral Schubaltz, I believe we have a plan of attack. Aggressive scanning has revealed that when the King Gojulas attacks using its sonic generator, the Zoid has to lock down its components during the assault to prevent the resonance from destroying itself. Afterwards, all chambers open to readjust for movement."

"So we have a shot at the Zoid core?"

"In a manner of speaking."

"EDI thinks that we can punch a hole through its head straight to the core with the Thanix Cannon. I don't think the ancient Zodians expected an attack from a spaceship. We just need it to attack again without anyone getting in the way when we drop the hammer."

"Then we should have a few of us attack to distract it and use its roar."

Dropshot was quick to point out, "One problem with that, Miss Williams, that thing still has those guns on its chest. Can't say I've seen this in action, but I doubt you'd be able to be put me back together after getting hit by that."

"Then what about the Mad Thunder? Shepard said they captured it."

"And it'll be hours before we get there. This thing isn't exactly a runner."

"Perhaps we can shorten that." A loud roar from the Mad Thunder started to fill the comms now. "Shepard-Commander, advise your squad to break from the path. Activating homing protocol." Just as Legion said that the King Gojulas stopped its attacks, turning toward the Man Thunder's current position and started to marching toward it. "Estimated time of engagement: 120 minutes. Will over clock gyro caps in an effort to shorten time."

The King Gojulas however stopped moving after it turned toward the Mad Thunder. The Zoid's legs gyro caps suddenly started to spin rapidly now before a massive burst of energy was released and sent the Zoid flying.

The King Gojulas nearly skewered Rago'Za and the Redler with its horn. "Legion, you might want to recalculate that estimate."

Even the Decepticons weren't prepared for the enormous Zoid to be able to leap so far. Nightbird knew that Sixshot was no fool and actions needed to be taken in order to survive, "If we continue to persist with this path any longer we may lose everything that we had built up. Something I don't think Megatron would be pleased to hear."

Nothing new that Sixshot hadn't told himself at one point or another since starting this mission. "Get me a secure link to the Autobot ship."

With the Zoid reinforcements it was easier to keep the Seekers away from the Xantium. Yet Skids' attention wasn't on the battle. It was the expected communication that was coming from the Decepticon ship. Just for how unusual this situation was, he contacted Vibes first, "You're going to love this. It seems that the Decepticons are trying to contact us now."

"Is it an open channel?"

"Private. I'll link you in and keep it to audio only." Skids didn't have to worry about the guns, the Wreakers already had settings for distraction firing.

"Autobots, this is Sixshot. I have a proposition I believe will be beneficial to most parties."

Skids didn't have to ask Vibes about this, probing Sixshot, "Deals with Decepticons have a statistically low probability of benefitting anyone but the Decepticons, particularly for Autobots. Even with your obscure sense of honor, how can we be certain this isn't another crooked arrangement?"

"This one is different. You have my word. Many of us wish to see an end to our 'alliance' with the yahg. However a bigger issue needs to be resolved first. The Zoids King Gojulas and Mad Thunder are nothing more than distractions. The real threat is Deluge and the energon. If his claims are true, he could attempt at making a new Cybertron or an army under his command."

Skids watched monitors following Slipstream as she torn into the Zoids with glee, "And your Commander, Slipstream? Is she the one offering this, or are these independent actions within her forces?"

He seemed to cut straight to the heart of it, now the question was how the Decepticons react. There was a long pause before Sixshot responded again, "Slipstream is not a part of this deal. She will drag us into destruction to pursue her vices. So, are you and your organic allies interested?"

Skids knew he couldn't accept without approval. Though there were still things about this that were concerning, "Can't you at least go into details about this before we agree?"

"We could, but the longer we wait, the close Deluge gets to victory."

Skids was running a number of scenarios now through his mind, however his thoughts were interrupted by Vibes, "Do it. Tell them we'll do it."

Skids switched to Vibes, "Are you sure? We haven't even spoken with Shepard or the humans of Zi. And if this a feint…"

"I know… But even with the Normandy, we'll stop the Zoids, but we don't have any clue on what Deluge plans to do. We can't risk letting him escape or initiate any sort of back up measure. Tell them we'll cooperate, on one condition, the same conditions proposed during the duel."

Skids didn't feel right in doing this, though he agreed that forcing the Decepticons off the world before they became entrenched was the best option for this world. "We'll deal, Sixshot. However our forces are currently in the middle of a plan to destroy the Zoids."

"As we noticed. However my plan isn't regarding the Zoids. We'll be in contact shortly about what we'll do about Slipstream and Deluge. Just continue your 'attack' on us so that Slipstream doesn't notice. Seeker losses will be unavoidable, but acceptable, for the time being."

There didn't seem like there was much that Skids could do now, though with how aggressive Slipstream is attacking the Zoids, it wouldn't be long until she caught up with the two Storm Sworders.

Minerva was almost finished patching Vibes up again. She heard part of the conversation, just not what the Decepticons or Skids said, "Are you absolutely sure we have to do this?"

"We only know bits and pieces of what's going on. The Decepticons were betrayed by Deluge and Flamewar who had other plans in mind. The Organoids are a major problem and if we can't find them all, all of which is eclipsed if this planet loses its source of energon then we'll all be at the mercy of the Decepticons regardless…"

"I see all of that, my concern is that the Decepticons might try to sandwich us between them and the enemy and claim friendly fire. I'm also worried about our new friends…"

Vibes got up now that her repairs were completed, "I believe Shepard and his team would be capable of helping for a time. But I don't want to come to that. I'm no Prime, so unless someone else can see a better way we can get the Decepticons off this planet I'm open to suggestions."

Minerva looked away, "I just think we're betraying what Optimus would do."

Vibes stopped for a moment, "That's something I tell myself every time something like this happens…" She transformed and rushed off to join the others to where the King Gojulas and Mad Thunder were anticipated to meet.

Minerva was left alone now, "Then I pray that Primus will see us through our darkest hour." She transformed, driving off towards Swindle and the Neutrals to wait for the battles to be finished.

A/N: I know there's no official thing that says that the King Gojulas was even built with such jumping capabilities, though you have to ask yourself, for one of the largest Zoids ever built having such limited range weaponry consisted of missile pods(don't know where), an amped up roar and the super gatling gun(which is made up of a charged particle gun, a laser beam gun, and a super electromagnetic gun) mounted on the chest ever have use of a giant Zoid killing blade on its head if it can use its claws and tail? Its taller than the Death Saurer(Battle Story measurements). The only reason I can think of for why they had the giant sword horn was so that it could jump and skewer Gil Vaders out of the sky, the only potential threat to it besides the Descat's super gravity bullet cannon. The other inspiration came from a YouTube fan video posted by anomarokarintou(all in Japanese). Admittedly there are a few things in there that bugs me(mainly the depiction of Mad Thunder who was specifically designed to murder Death Saurers and King Gojulas' super roar) but overall I think any Zoid fan might find it enjoyable to watch as five Death Saurers, a Bloody Death Saurer and three Gil Vaders get wrecked by King Gojulas.