More than meets the eye 17/10/2007
Author's notes
Nothing much happening here, just a free for all developing in the streets of Beijing. Will end the chapter with some slight angst though. Don't worry, Megatron will be getting his just deserts very Very VERY soon.
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Chapter 26: Rumble in the Bronx
As soon as Shampoo and Akane tackled Rumble, Kasumi had to roll over and avoid the stamping feet of Soundwave and Bumblebee. She frantically searched for her rifle, which was her best weapon and then slapped her helmet as she remembered that she had dropped it on the roof of the building. Her gauntlet mounted Storm Bolters were running out of ammunition and her only remaining fire arm was a phased plasma pistol that would not be enough to harm a large Cybertronian.
Taking a moment to survey her surroundings, she saw Ratchet transform but before he could help Bumblebee, a SUKHOI PAK FA jet fighter ploughed into Ratchet, carrying both of them away from the fight. She saw Shampoo and Akane engage in a furious fight with Rumble down the street then she heard multiple cries of Shi Shi Hokodans and Mokotakabishas from the top of the building she had just fought Ravage on. She looked up to see many blasts of chi, as well as numerous throwing weapons that was the trademark of Mousse's fighting style and even mini-spatula shurikens and flour bombs being thrown all around the building, along with the answering weapons fire from Laserbeak, Ravage and Ratbat.
Nearest to her some twenty metres away, Cologne seemed to be playing a game of smash the zombies with the Decepticon drones, which ranged from every shape and size, from little laptop computers to the large Chinese battle tanks that still sported alien weaponry. But without their Decepticon commanders, most of which had merged into Bruticus and Devastator, they lacked the guile and cunning of the true Cybertronians so for the most part, Cologne could easily dodge and strike them without fear of surprise. Kasumi decided to help Cologne and ran towards her.
Her HUD suddenly flashed red and she immediately activated her backpack, which propelled her into the air just as Frenzy tried to tackle her from behind. He missed but instead of falling to the floor, he gracefully somersaulted forward and landed on his feet, then turned to face Kasumi. Like his brother Rumble, both of his hands transformed into huge pile drivers.
"Going somewhere, bitch?" Frenzy sneered as Kasumi landed on the ground again then he smashed both pile drivers into the ground hard, creating a small earthquake that shook Kasumi off her feet. The poor girl fell on her back and to her shock, Frenzy suddenly appeared in front of her, aiming both pile drivers at her. "Today's menu is, female mash potato!"
Kasumi clenched her fists. On both her arms, a shimmering and translucent diamond shaped energy shield materialised. She then brought both arms together joining the two shields just as the pile divers hammered downwards, praying fervently that not only the energy shield would hold but that the Exo-Suit's strength was enough to withstand the impact, otherwise she would be saying goodbye to her arms.
There was a terrific smashing sound and Kasumi's entire HUD became yellow in colour as the strain of the suit withstanding the pile drivers announced themselves as barely able to handle it. The yellow colour became increasingly red as Frenzy continued to pound her shields and underneath the suit, her own flesh was beginning to feel the impact and strain of withstanding the impacts.
Sorry Frenzy, I really don't like to use underhanded tactics, she thought.
She pulled her right leg back and then kicked her foot into Frenzy's crotch. This amused the Decepticon who said, "Stupid bitch, you're mistaken if you think all males are weak between the legs. I'm not one of your weak males with huge vulnerable testicles between their legs for every one to kick."
Kasumi only said, "Activate Foot Anchors."
Frenzy suddenly screamed as out of Kasumi's greave, a four-foot spike sprouted and pierced through the Decepticon's crotch. As if it wasn't enough, the protruding part of the spike split into six claws and literally anchored the lower half of his body to Kasumi's greave. The purple Decepticon immediately forgot about hammering Kasumi and transformed his pile drivers back into his normal arms and vainly tried to pull out Kasumi's anchored foot out of his crotch. The Tendo sister than reached with her right hand for the cylinder, which had been attached to her hip earlier and took it out. She pressed a little button on the cylinder.
A five foot long silver blade of light stabbed out of the cylinder. She swung the blade at Frenzy's waist and to her shock; it cut through the Decepticon's waist with almost no friction. As Frenzy was holding Kasumi's leg with both hands at that moment, she also cut through Frenzy's arms as well. This only increased the pitch and volume of Frenzy's scream as the top part of his body minus part of his arms dropped to the ground and he started writhing like a grotesque dismembered insect. Comically, both of his hands were still gripping Kasumi's leg and the bottom part of his body was still standing, attached to her leg. But to Kasumi, it was as though she had actually cut through a person's arms and body and the thought sickened her to the point of nausea. She mentally voiced a command to release the right greave anchor, which formed into a spike again before retracting into her greave. She then tried to remove the two hands that were still tightly gripping her leg but found that she could not. In the end, she had to use her beam sabre to cut the fingers off and remove Frenzy's arms.
Frenzy in the midst of screaming in pain suddenly changed to laughing sinisterly. Kasumi stood up and walked to the chopped up Decepticon, her beam sabre cautiously pointing at Frenzy.
"I can't believe it. I've been sliced by a female human. Do me a favour Kasumi? Put me out of my misery because there's no way I'm going to let you live after this! On second thought, I think I'll keep you alive as I put your family through living hell for the rest of your life while you watch!" Frenzy said while giggling maniacally.
The Tendo girl shook her head then turned off her beam sabre. "Seriously, do you realise how many times I've heard that threat already? When this is over, you and I are going to have a long chat about manners Frenzy," Kasumi said icily.
She then heard a huge crashing sound coming nearer and saw that Bumblebee's and Soundwave's brawl had brought them close to her again. She quickly transformed her greaves to the anti-gravity skateboard again then floated to the top of the building where Ukyo, Ranma, Ryoga and Mousse were fighting, intending to find her rifle and help Bumblebee repel Soundwave.
Fortunately for her, the battle on the roof had been taken elsewhere, leaving the rooftop empty. Kasumi quickly spotted her rifle then looked in alarm as her HUD showed one of the Autobots in danger. She quickly picked up her rifle and flew towards the Autobot.
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Bruticus grunted as Omega Supreme tripped him and made the seventy-foot gestalt fall flat on his face. Although each gestalt could match Omega Supreme in terms of strength individually, unlike the gestalts, Omega Supreme's mind was not an amalgamation of five or six personalities. Despite sounding like a dumb brute, the Autobot colossus was surprisingly cool and calculative in battle whereas Bruticus and Devastator fought like berserkers with little strategy other than the desire for destruction.
"STOP MOVING SO DEVASTATOR CAN DEVASTATE AUTOBOT!" Devastator shouted as Omega Supreme moved to one side as Devastator charged at Omega like a raging bull. As he passed by Omega, the Autobot kicked Devastator's butt hard and propelled him into the air. The Constructicon gestalt flew into the air before landing face first on the ground.
Inside Bruticus' mind, the five Combaticon personalities warred for control over Bruticus' actions. Blast Off and Brawl wanted to disengage and fight the remaining Autobots individually and leave Devastator to focus on Omega Supreme, but the other three Decepticons doggedly refused to yield to their reason. The two veteran Decepticons had become increasingly alarmed as Arcee, Jazz, Prowl and even Elder Cologne cut a swath of destruction at the leaderless Decepticon drones.
"At this rate, we WILL be outnumbered! We must fight the Autobots ourselves! The drones are useless without our command!" Brawl shouted.
Onslaught snorted. "Forget the drones, we kill that Quintesson freak and the Autobots won't have any heavy firepower!"
"This is taking too long. It's no use fighting with Devastator against that Dark Guardian. We can't focus enough to work together ourselves let alone with Devastator. And the Dark Guardian is making sure he doesn't fight both of us directly!" Blast Off said.
"NO! I WANT TO KICK THAT GIANT FREAK'S ASS!" Swindle whined.
"Yeah, who cares about the freaking drones?" Vortex protested.
This was an abridged version of what was going on inside Bruticus' mind. The gestalt outwardly looked like he was having a headache as he tried to decide what to do, leaving Devastator alone to combat Omega Supreme, who now abandoned all his guile and feinting to fought Devastator directly. The two were evenly matched in terms of strength and the level of destruction they wrecked upon the city of Beijing was comparable to any Godzilla movie.
In the end, Blast Off remembered that since he was the main body, he COULD force everyone to disconnect since without him, there was nobody large enough to form the Bruticus' body and join the Combaticons together. With a final insane scream, Bruticus howled into the air and then his arms and legs disconnected themselves and the Combaticons changed back to their military vehicle modes.
Jazz and Arcee were fighting near each other when Vortex and Blast Off flew to them and started firing their flight weaponry. Quickly they transformed into their car modes, one becoming a Mazda RX 7 while Arcee, taking a moment to scan a surprisingly intact pink Porche, transformed into that particular luxury car and sped off with Jazz, ramming into the horde of drones as they went.
"Aw man, this is seriously going to ruin my paint job!" Jazz whined.
"Suck it up rookie, we got better things to do than worry being narcistic," Arcee scolded him.
"WHO YOU CALLING ROOKIE!" then to Jazz's alarm, Swindle's IFV suddenly cut them off at the junction ahead and fired his weaponry at them. He swerved and pushed Arcee to the sidewalk, as the volley of fire was about to hit her, resulting in him taking a few shots at the hood. He then transformed and shot his shield-gun's liquid-nitrogen ray at Swindle. However, Swindle also transformed and his right hand became a gun that fired a stream of liquid fire that intercepted Jazz's shot. The resulting meeting of liquid fire with liquid nitrogen resulted in a thick mist being formed and enveloping the surrounding area. The mist was promptly blown away by Vortex as his helicopter mode approached to deny Jazz the element of surprise
Jazz groaned. Of all the times the Decepticons chose to strategise, it had to be now. He became puzzled when he didn't see Arcee anywhere.
Swindle grinned as Vortex and Blast Off transformed, with Blast Off standing at the other end of the street while Vortex perched himself on top of a building overlooking Jazz from above. The huge white Decepticon once again brandished his axe in a two handed grip and looked menacingly at Jazz.
"Hold your fire but prevent him from escaping. I'll deal with him personally," Blast Off ordered his comrades.
"HEY, HOW COME YOU GET ALL THE FUN?!" Vortex protested.
"BECAUSE YOU TWO INCOMPETENTS FAILED TO DEFEAT HIM THE LAST TIME! FACE IT, THIS GUY HAS MORE BALLS THAN THE BOTH OF YOU WILL EVER HAVE!" Blast Off furiously shouted at the other two.
Jazz blinked. Did he just hear the Decepticon praising him?
Blast Off turned his attention to Jazz. "Draw your sword Autobot. I would like to have a rematch with Optimus Prime but since he is preoccupied with my Lord Megatron, his next best warrior will have to suffice!" he then cautiously advanced on Jazz.
The silver Autobot's visor covered his eyes and he drew out his double laser edged sword. "You know what Blast Off? Decepticon aside, you're all right," he said as he put himself into a guard position against the white behemoth of a Decepticon who was easily the size of Megatron. The Decepticon nodded grimly then swung his axe at Jazz.
Swindle could not bear it anymore and hissed, "Screw you Blast Off," then two cannons protruded from his chest where his nipples would have been and fired two sabot missiles at Jazz from behind just as Jazz leaped over the axe swing. The missiles never hit Jazz as out of a nearby shop, Arcee's Porche mode zoomed out, transformed in mid air then blocked the missiles with the twin falchions that emerged from her hands. She then threw one falchion at Swindle, which twirled like a boomerang in a circular heading. The falchion sliced off the two nipple cannons then returned to Arcee's left hand. The Decepticon howled and clutched his chest where the cannons had been severed. This had the effect of pausing the fight between Jazz and Blast Off even as the former was standing on the latter's axe shaft and was about to swing his sword at Blast Off. The two of them were disgusted at Swindle's girly high-pitched screaming while rubbing his chest.
"Dude, that is so wrong on so many levels. How did you pick up a Baby like that for your team?" Jazz asked Blast Off.
Blast Off merely shook his head. "I didn't. Starscream did. He always did have a knack of recruiting cowardly fighters."
Jazz snorted. "Figures. Do I even want to know why that guy has been leading you ever since Megatron got stuck in a pond?"
"He was stronger than the rest of us. End of story. Now can we resume our fight?"
"Just a minute. THANKS ARCEE!" Jazz shouted just before he resumed swinging his sword at Blast Off's head, who blocked it with the back of his right hand gauntlet.
"Ooh, referring to her by her name now aren't you? I thought you only referred to females as, 'gal', 'babe', 'hot hootchie mama'…. Need I go on? " Blast Off taunted.
Jazz's eyes narrowed. "That's none of your business Decepti-creep!"
"Here's a little song I heard on American TV."
Jazz and Arcee sitting in a tree.
K-I-S-S-I-N-G…..
"GEAAARRRGGGHH" this time Jazz fought with a berserker like fury and Blast Off contented himself with fighting a worthy opponent.
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"YOU FUCKING BITCH! YOU HURT MY BABIES!" Swindle screamed than his hands transformed and became over sized claws that were completely encased in some sort of silver metal.
Arcee shook her head and made a tsk tsk sound. "Dear me, what a cry-baby I picked to be my opponent."
"DON'T CALL ME BABY!" he howled as he charged like a rampaging rhinoceros. Arcee stood her ground though but at the back of her mind, she sensed Vortex about to drop behind with the intention of attacking her from behind. Just as Swindle threw himself forward to tackle Arcee, and Vortex dropped to the ground behind Arcee and swung his rear rotor blades at the Autobot female, Arcee quickly transformed into her Porche mode and let the two Decepticons smash against each other. The two fell to the ground dazed and she quickly drove away. Vortex quickly recovered however and fired his sonic cannon at Arcee. The shot missed Arcee but hit the ground before her, causing her car to overturn and she transformed back to robot form.
"Get off you idiot," Vortex growled as he pushed off the still dazed Swindle from on top of him and stood up to face Arcee. The Autobot female then transformed her right arm into a gun and fired continuous energy pulses at Vortex. To her shock, Vortex picked up Swindle and used him as a shield for her first volley, causing her to pause briefly as a fresh wave of screams was heard from Swindle. In truth, his armour was actually as strong as Brawl's and Arcee's pulse cannon had little effect on Swindle's back armour.
"Catch!" Vortex shouted as he threw his Decepticon comrade at Arcee. Once again Swindle tried to tackle Arcee but as before, the female Autobot dodged. This time she leapt into the air, stepped on Swindle's head and pushing him to the ground as a result then swung her left falchion at Vortex as the Decepticon helicopter quickly dashed forward with his twirling rotor blade. Sparks flashed at the two weapons clashed and the two Cybertronians began to duel. Vortex proved to be a surprisingly skilled fighter and despite Arcee being smaller and more agile, refused the let the Autobot outfight her.
"Graggh! You fight pretty well female! Now hold still so I can slag you!" Vortex shouted.
Arcee snorted. "Yes, that is what I will do…. NOT!" she shouted as she slid herself between Vortex's legs then slashed her falchion backwards, dealing a vicious slash at Vortex's back. However the helicopter's main rotor blades, which had folded together at the back of Vortex's back blocked her blow, giving Vortex time to turn around and swipe at Arcee who backed away quickly.
"Ah ah ah, no backstabbing my little bitch!" Vortex scolded her then proceeded to have a very heated duel with Arcee.
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A Nissan GTR raced through the streets toward Onslaught as the Decepticon fired a barrage of weapons fire that rivalled Ironhide's arsenal at the police car. At the last ten meters or so Onslaught stopped firing and prepared for Prowl to transform and attack him with close combat weapons. Instead of doing so however, the police car rammed straight into the Decepticon's legs, tripping him over then headed straight to the battle tank that was heading towards the fight between Optimus, Elita and Megatron.
Prowl transformed and took out his twin plasma pistols, shooting at the tank. Brawl stopped in his tracks then his main cannon turned faster than Prowl expected and started firing HEAT shells and missiles at Prowl even as his main tank body turned to face the Autobot. He transformed again into a car to dodge the shots. At the same time, Onslaught also tried to shoot at him from behind. Brawl cursed as he had to reverse into a nearby shop to avoid Onslaught's barrage.
"Watch where you are shooting you idiot! Go help Lord Megatron, I'll take care of Prowl!" Brawl shouted as he transformed into his towering figure. His left hand became a spiked ball while the other transformed into a sort of double-barrelled shotgun. He fired at Prowl and the Autobot police car was shocked to see a hail of explosive shells sprayed out and spread all over the area, leaving him nowhere to dodge to. Desperately he tried to fall to the floor but at least three of Brawl's shots managed to hit him, one on the chest, one at the waist and the other at his shoulder.
Onslaught looked at the now injured Prowl then walked off towards Megatron.
Brawl approached Prowl with his shotgun pointed at him. "If you want something done, you really have to do it yourself. Incompetent lackeys will be the death of me. How you survived fighting with your lackeys I'll never understand."
"That's because they are not lackeys, they're TEAM MATES!" Prowl angrily said as he dashed towards Brawl. Before Brawl could fire a second round, Prowl had appeared in front of him well beyond the shotgun's firing arc and tried to cut off Brawl's shotgun arm. Quicker than Prowl gave Brawl, the Decepticon immediately kick Prowl with his knee and then swung his mace arm and hit Prowl's back as he doubled over Brawl's knee.
Prowl metamorphically speaking had his breath knocked out of him but bore the pain with gritted teeth even as Brawls weapons transformed back into gorilla like arms and grabbed hold of his head, bringing it level to his.
"Awwww, did I hurt the poor little Autobot?" Brawl mockingly said as he viciously headbutted the Autobot, making him see stars for a moment. Prowl furiously tried to gather his thoughts and launch a counter attack but his internal brain circuitry was being seriously confused.
"Gooooooooodddd," Brawl said happily as he proceeded to crush Prowl's head with his bare hands.
A blast of laser fire hit Brawl's head, causing the Decepticon to cry out and put his right hand on the new hole in his head. Prowl took the opportunity to extend his claws and slice off a few of Brawl's left hand fingers to get him to release him. The Autobot quickly backed away from the Decepticon tank then took out both plasma pistols and started firing with impunity at the Decepticon's chest. Brawl retaliated by using his mace as a makeshift shield to block Prowl's shots while he retreated behind a corner.
A green armoured figure appeared floating in the air next to Prowl's head. "Oh my, are you alright Prowl? How many fingers am I holding?" Kasumi said as she stretched two fingers from her gauntlet and waved in front of Prowl.
"Oh don't be ridiculous Kasumi, if I can still aim at Brawl's chest, I'm fine enough to see that your holding your two digits in my face," Prowl said, irritated.
"Thank goodness, I thought Brawl's attack would have damaged your head inside," Kasumi said, concerned.
Prowl snorted. "I've been fighting alongside Jazz for thousands of years. If that doesn't harden my head, I don't know what will."
Kasumi giggled. "That's true. My mistake Prowl." Becoming serious for a moment, she then asked, "Any news on the rest of them? I mean Kup, Tracks and Trailbreaker?"
"They're coming soon. Unfortunately, they did not encounter Starscream, which means that asshole is coming to reinforce Megatron with Jinan's military forces. Which means we're going to see hell before the rest arrive," Prowl said grimly. He suddenly grabbed Kasumi with his hand and lay flat on the ground just as Brawl swung his right arm around the corner and fired a volley at Prowl.
"You better go back and focus on the mini-cons. Stick to the plan and don't worry about the rest of us Autobots. We can take care of ourselves."
Kasumi sighed. "OK Prowl, be safe," she said as she prepared to leave and help the NWC.
"And Kasumi…."
"Yes?"
"Thank you, for saving my life," Prowl said quietly before he ran around the corner and charged at Brawl who had also emerged.
The eldest Tendo daughter smiled. "You're welcome."
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Shampoo gasped as Rumble's hand finally found her throat and proceeded to throttle her. At the same time, Rumble locked his legs around Akane's neck. This happened after the three had fallen to the ground in an odd position, with Shampoo straddling his waist and Akane lying on the floor just beside his legs. He instantly grabbed the chance to incapacitate the two girls, especially when the two were giving him so much trouble. Although their weapons had little effect on Rumble, their brute strength was enough to give Rumble a run for his money and prevent him from aiding his immediate master Soundwave against Bumblebee.
"Let……go………..stu…….pid…….bot!"Shampoo gasped as she tried to hammer Rumble's arms, chest and even his head but her strength decreased as she began to run out of air and eventually she dropped the bonbouris and tried to pry Rumble's fingers off her throat but to no avail. Akane fared no better and was in no position to retaliate as she was also gasping for breath at the crab leg grip on her head, which was also meant to snap Akane's neck.
Rumble finally allowed himself a smile. "This time, I win you filthy insects!"
The smile died as both his arms were chopped off by Kasumi's beam sabre. Shampoo quickly pulled away from Rumble, allowing Kasumi to dismember Rumble's legs as well to free Akane. Kasumi then took hold of Shampoo and Akane then flew to a relatively quiet spot at another street. She bent down to examine their injuries.
"Are you alright Akane-chan? Shampoo-san?" Kasumi asked, concerned as her helmet folded back to reveal face.
They took a moment to catch their breath before Shampoo finally said, "Shampoo alright, nice nice girl come nick of time."
"I'm alright sis, that jerk just caught me off guard for a moment. Now we got to go finish him. Now where's my hammer?" Akane growled as she looked for it. To her surprise, Kasumi reached behind her back and pulled out the forty kilogram hammer as though it weighed nothing and handed it to Akane.
"Rumble and Frenzy is pretty much out of the fight. However, I don't want you two to kill them. Their pretty much limbless and defenceless now and I want to keep them that away. Go and take their bodies then I want you to hide them somewhere before helping Cologne out with the drones, which should be easier to deal with.
"But Onee-chan, why don't we kill them now?" Akane asked surprised.
Kasumi shook her head. "We're here to defeat them Akane. It doesn't mean we have to annihilate them. Besides, didn't you hear already? Optimus Prime's race is already dying, we don't need any more deaths, even Decepticons. Please Akane. I would rather not have you take life yet, even if it isn't a human one."
Shampoo scratched her head. "Shampoo not see why can't smash Decepticon but since nice nice girl ask, we find and hide bad bots."
Akane nodded. "I hope you know what you are doing Kasumi. How's Ranma and the rest doing?"
Kasumi pointed at the roof. "That match should be finishing soon in Ranma's favour, but the worrying thing is that there's at least one more force of drones led by one Decepticon called Starscream that is on his way here right now. Any reinforcements we will be getting will only come after that. Until then, we must hold the fort here. Megatron must not take another step further on our world. If we don't stop him here, we're in for one hell of a world war," Kasumi said grimly. Akane and Shampoo winced. If Kasumi was worried enough to use the word 'hell', hell might just be what they're getting soon.
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As if on cue with Kasumi's words, at that exact moment, an armada of aircraft appeared from the east, led by a dreaded F 22 Raptor. Optimus and Elita watched in horror as all of the new three hundred aircraft dived towards Omega Supreme, who currently had Devastator in a headlock.
"OMEGA! WATCH OUT!" Elita cried to the huge Autobot.
"Watch out for yourself Elita!" Megatron grinned as he whipped the chain of his flail around Elita, immobilising her.
"MEGATRON!" Optimus shouted as he batted the Key Flail to the ground to prevent it from hitting Elita as it was about to wound itself completely around her. He then struck the axe head at where the chain connected to Megatron's right arm. The axe struck deep into the arm but once again, the Key To Vector Sigma healed it almost instantly, pushing the axe head out of the arm before Megatron's huge left hand claw grabbed Optimus head and smashed him into the ground. He also kicked Elita so that she lay on the ground on her back then gasped as Megatron stomped his right foot on her, resulting in her crying out in pain.
"Behold, the beginning of the end. Starscream has returned and now we outnumber any subsequent military force China can send against me. Including your already pathetic Autobot force," Megatron snarled as he forced Elita and Optimus to watch as three hundred aircraft launched hundreds of missiles at Omega Supreme. He was slightly disappointed as Omega quickly released Devastator, aimed both arm cannons into the air and fired back at the newly arrived Decepticon drones. He destroyed about a quarter of the missiles but the rest manage to hit home and he barely had time to cover his face before the Cybertronian enhanced missiles hit his entire body, mostly from the front. He staggered a little but miraculously managed to stay on his feet.
Megatron then released Elita and Optimus. The Decepticon leader was nearly the size of Bruticus now at sixty feet. Elita and Optimus immediately took out their firearms and tried to shoot Megatron but to no avail, as the Key to Vector Sigma made Megatron practically indestructible. Even when some of Optimus shots penetrated Megatron's armour, it healed back almost instantly like the Marvel superhero Wolverine. In a nightmarish sequence of folding metal, he transformed into his alien jet mode, which was even larger now and sported numerous gun emplacements in addition to the massive Key To Vector Sigma cannon underneath it then. He then flew towards Omega Supreme.
Both leaders instantly contacted their comrades.
"IRONHIDE! CHROMIA! HOUND! MEGATRON IS IN THE AIR HEADING FOR OMEGA SUPREME! TAKE HIM OUT, PROTECT OMEGA!"
"WHEELJACK, WATCH OUT! MEGATRON IS HEADING STRAIGHT FOR YOU!"
The three anti-air Autobots on the ground all spied Megatron in the air and despite still being under fire from the other Decepticon Seekers and their drones, redirected their fire at Megatron. Like Optimus' and Elita's shots however, any direct hit they scored either bounced off or healed instantly. Even Chromia's massive cannons only pushed Megatron off course slightly as he continued his approach on Omega Supreme.
From next to Omega's head, a hatch opened and Wheeljack came out of Omega Supreme, where he had earlier been advising the colossal Autobot's in battle earlier, as well repairing any damage Omega sustained as Omega did not quite have the regenerative power of Autobots or Decepticons despite his powerful armour. He nearly cried at the huge amount of damage that Omega had endured then asked, "Omega! You OK big fella?"
"Must. Protect. Humanity." Omega only grunted as he tried to level his arms to the air to shoot the air drones.
"Hang in there big buddy," Wheeljack said grimly as he spotted the approaching monstrosity that was Megatron. He reached into the hatch again and pulled out a humungous cannon that was even bigger than Chromia's tits of doom and longer than Hound's sniper rifle. It had only one barrel which was about twenty-feet in length while the rest of the rifle was about ten feet. He took a bullet the size of a small car and jammed it into the ammunition slot. With a strength that belied his small size, he mounted the cannon on his right shoulder, which joined with the existing cannon over it and aimed at Megatron.
"HEY MEGATRON! SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" Wheeljack shouted as he fired the cannon. The massive bullet exploded out of the barrel, the recoil was so powerful it propelled Wheeljack backward and slammed him to the side of Omega's head. The moment the bullet hit Megatron, it resulted in a massive explosion that was almost the size of a football field in the air.
"All right! Take that you self-proclaimed egoistical maniacal lord of clowns! Who's the man?! Who's the man?!" Wheeljack shouted and laughed gleefully.
The laughter died in his throat when Megatron's alien jet flew out of the explosion and transformed right in front of him. Taking the long cannon in his left claw hand and snapping it in half, he grinned maliciously and said, "I believe I'M THE MAN!" as he grabbed Wheeljack with the other claw hand and quickly flew away from Omega. The Decepticon leader's claw enveloped Wheeljack's entire chest and then crushed it partially. Wheeljack screamed and Omega grunted as he turned towards Megatron.
"MEGATRON.GIVE.WHEELJACK.BACK!" he roared.
Megatron shook his head. "Of course Dark Guardian. But first, a taste of the new Cybertronian Empire's hospitality," he said before waving his other arm into the air. Starscream, the Seekers and the air drones then dived towards the ground at Omega and this time, fired their missiles at Omega's unprotected back. The missiles impacted again and again in five separate volleys on Omega's entire back as well as his arms and legs until finally huge chunks of blackened and melted armour exploded from him. The former Dark Guardian of the Quintessons was now a shadow of his former self, most of his armour now destroyed, leaving a smaller, almost skinny exo-skeletal structure behind.
Still Omega did not fall. Nor did he cry or show that he felt any pain. His right claw arm was still extended towards Wheeljack.
"GIVE.BACK!"
The Decepticon leader was dumbfounded that Omega managed to take a bombardment like that and still survive. To his further annoyance, Omega looked as though he was not feeling any pain despite being stripped down to his basic exoskeletal structure.
"Oh fine, take him," Megatron said then with all his might, he threw the partially crushed Autobot scientist at Omega's chest. The impact of Wheeljack hitting Omega was enough to throw the Dark Guardian backward and off balance.
"TIMBER!" Megatron shouted mockingly as the eighty-foot giant fell to the ground, his right claw hand wrapped protectively around Wheeljack.
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Optimus, Elita, Arcee, Chromia, Prowl, Jazz, Ironhide, Bumblebee and Kasumi watched in horror as their largest ally fell.
"OMEGA!" they all screamed as Omega Supreme finally hit the ground with a titanic crash which shook the Earth.
To be continued……
He he he, I'm just rubbing my hands with glee as I'm about to start writing the chapter where Megatron gets his just deserts. Sorry for the angst ending to this chapter, but I want Megatron's humiliation to be …. well, extremely humiliating.
Sorry if there's not much focus on Ranma and co. but like I said, battle isn't my thing and I'm more interested in pitching Autobot vs Decepticons. Don't worry Galen, I'm sure I can fit in the NWC further in the next chapter.
Goodnight and God bless you all.