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Chapter 21- "Battle of the Ages"
(Pestilence's perspective)
We all gathered together facing north far away from the core on the far side of the Well of Sparks, where the Decepticons will come from. Ultra Magnus and Optimus prime have gathered us together to map out a plan.
"I am going to split us into two groups," Magnus starts, "please note that this is not out of racial uncertainty, it is primarily out of strategy. One team will be Autobots, the other will be Insecticons. We will have at least one presiding officer for each group, Pestilence will preside over the Insecticons, when he is decombined the presiding officer will be Sharpshot. Myself and Optimus will be the presiding officers over the Autobots. Our job is to make sure you know yours, what you are supposed to do and how you're supposed to do it. This isn't about pointing and shooting, Megatron is smart, we must expect the unexpected. For the Autobots, I will institute overseers that will make sure you're doing your job properly. Warpath and Hound will oversee the grunts and heavies. Roadbuster will oversee the wreckers which now include himself, Topspin, and Bulkhead. Drift will oversee the warriors and Crosshairs will oversee the marksmen. Pestilence will now breif the Insecticon group."
We then communicate through the hive mind and say aloud, "done."
"Care to share?" Magnus asks sarcastically.
"Since all of us are connected to the hive mind we won't need overseers, I can constantly monitor every Insecticon at once, we can hear their thoughts. Symphony, how many mystics do we have right now?"
"Mystics?" Optimus inquires.
"Insecticons with super powers." Shockwave said bluntly.
"From what I could find, about 40 including myself, Ransack and Sharpshot." Symphony answered.
"Good, they will be very useful in this fight."
"Do you have a plan of attack Pestilence?" Optimus asks.
"We do have a plan, attack."
"Wait a sec," Warpath starts, "Who will preside over the Dinobots?"
"Who do you think?" Optimus mused.
Suddenly Grimlock roared loud enough to make the ground shake.
Then we heard the sound of a war cry from afar.
"This is it!" Magnus cried.
"Weapons ready!" Optimus ordered.
Every Autobot and Insecticon took out their weaponry and faced the north.
Tremor rose from the sand beside the dinobots. Infestor lit his left arm on fire with the powers of his ember beetle component. We did the same and deployed Venom's arm blade. Optimus took out his sword and shield, Ultra Magnus took out a hammer that made us shudder in rage. The Decepticons took Buzzkill from us, now it's our turn.
Then once the Decepticon army came into view, Optimus and Ultra Magnus let out a war cry that caused all of us to charge. The beasts roared and charged ahead of us, beelining to the drones. Once Tremor was about to make contact, she dove into the sand while the Dinobots started to thrash them around. Then Tremor burst from the ground ahead of them, swallowing several drones with gunfire spreading everywhere. We took note of the forces and noticed another combiner. This reminded us of the pep talk Shockwave gave us on the moon, he said that now we would attract bigger predators, namely combiners. Now is our chance to fully unleash the beast.
As all of our forces clash together, we charge the combiner and immediately slice it across the face and blast it with a pillar of fire and lightning, sending it backward. We had a chance to look at the line of scrimmage to see if the others needed help. Shockwave and Symphony stood slightly back, sniping the larger enemies with their arm cannons. Optimus and Ultra Magnus were fending off the brunts at the front of their lines. Infestor was smashing everything he saw. The beasts were somewhat in the center of the enemy forces, creating a distraction so that the rest could kill off the front lines quicker to overpower the enemy. Then the combiner got up and charged. It was big and it walked on all fours, which meant it was slow and uncoordinated. Perfect. We dodge the first punch, then the second swipe, to then counter with a flaming uppercut with our right.
We went for a left jab but it caught our hand and bit it completely off. We screeched in pain for a moment but we actually replaced the hand with a clay mace from Terrormite. (1)
We then slammed the con as hard as we could in the chest, making it flip through the air only to explode into the nearby forces, killing many of them.
From the countless insecticons; webs, acid arches of lightning and flames scatter the battlefield. Most of our ember beetles were acting as Napalms in the back, our spiders were acting as supports helping weaker allies defend against the stronger cons with their extra appendages or disarming them with their webs, a lot of our Termites also acted as acid mortars. There were even new kinds of Mystics, this that could lift the ground below them as massive boulders and launch them at the enemy. Those that could crush them with a mere movement of their servos. Even those with super speed, quickly laying waste to hundreds of drones in seconds.
Suddenly we heard a roar that shook the ground all around us, not only that but it shook us!
An eerie peace and silence settled over the battlefield.
'What was that? And why has everyone just stopped.' Magnus inquired through the comms.
'The answer to both questions is out there.' We added as we gestured at a hulking silhouette far behind the decepticon ranks.
'I ain't got enough ammo for that…' Hound lamented.
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it' Optimus replied.
'Your expressions of speech confuse me, but we must focus on the current problem before worrying about the next.' Shockwave reiterated.
We continued to hurl balls of lightning and acid at the massive army, and continued to combat the same combiner that kept leaping for us specifically.
We dodged to the side, grabbed his hind legs and hurled him back into a marauder tank, causing it to explode and kill all the cons around it.
Amidst the flames the persistent combiner got back up again and lunged for us once more.
We caught it by the neck with our right, making his body swing toward us from the momentum. Then Scythe's claws on our hand extended and split so there was one blade under and on top of our hand in a pincer position. The blades then became electrified and they plunged into the combiner, tasing him. We let it convulse in shock for a couple cycles before we drop it to the ground, paralyzed.
Once Trypticon finally made it to the battle, all of the weaponry sprawled out across its body started to spray everywhere, killing everything even close to an Insecticon or Autobot.
'Infestor! Deal with that before it kills everything!' Optimus ordered.
Infestor looked toward the titan and charged at it. He dove and tackled it, knocking it to the ground behind them. The same move he did to us.
He continued to pummel the titan before it shot him in the face, causing him to double over.
The massive Titan began to gather power into his palm. I was about to rush over when Tremor burst from the ground and started to eat into the arm that was gathering power.
The Titan threw her to the ground before once again charging his shot.
'Tremor, do you mind if I throw you at his face?' Infestor asked through the hive mind.
'Not at all, I've been craving to mutilate something.' Tremor replied in the same manner.
Then Infestor grabbed and threw Tremor into the titans face letting the giant worm tear through the plating of his face. The monster charged up the blast once again and targeted the worm writhing on his face. Seeing this Infestor grappled Tremor with the web launchers on each shoulder and pulled her down just as the blast fired. The concussive force from the blast hit him square in the face toppling his massive bulk to the ground and crushing countless decepticon soldiers. Then Tremor flew through the air being swung by Infestor and slammed into the titans chest, mutilating the metal plating. So much so that you could faintly see the glow of his purple spark.
The combiner turned and targeted Tremor to assist the massive titan.
'Infestor, Tremor, fall back. The combiner is headed your way, you can't take on a titan and a combiner at the same time.' I ordered through the hive mind.
'Watch me.' Infestor replied.
As the combiner charged, Infestor webbed Trypticon to the ground to buy him some time. Tremor continued to drill through its chest as Infestor uppercutted the combiner, grabbed him, and threw him at the Decepticon soldiers.
We were closing in on the Decepticons quickly, victory will be ours soon.
'Has anyone seen Megatron?' Warpath asks through the com.
'Negative, he's up to something for sure.' Magnus realized.
Then in the distance there was a purple glow coming from a single bot.
'We have eyes on Megatron, at the back of his army on the protruding rock.'
'I see him, Pestilence, approach with caution.' Optimus directed.
We tore through Decepticons to get to another protruding rock to see what Megatron was doing.
Once we arrived we focused on Megatron.
'He seems to be… meditating?' We observe.
'Is he glowing purple?' Optimus asks.
'Yes.'
'Oh no...'
Then Megatron's eyes went wild and glowed almost white from how bright the purple was.
He then took out a shard of Dark Energon and sent it into the ground in front of him.
It pulsated for a few moments before the ground started to shake and crack. These increasingly growing cracks glowed the same purple light as Megatron. The cracks spread across the battlefield before they stopped at the perimeters. Then Megatron cried,
"RISE DECEPTICONS!"
Then all the dead Decepticon drones who had been killed by our forces suddenly started to glow purple and convulse. Then they all rose shakily and started to walk toward our forces like something out of an old zombie movie. Even the husks of dead bots from the war rose from the cracked sand. They were walking toward the Dinobots as Grimlock was igniting them in his fire and the others were tossing them away. But they kept coming back. Even the ones that were slashed in half were dragging themselves toward us.
We then hear an Autobot soldier through the com.
'Optimus! What do we dooOooOAaaAAAAAGH-' Then we hear the gurgled growl of the Terracons as it's feasting on the soldier.
We Instantly jump off the edge of the rock into the battle again, killing both Decepticons and Terracons with Fire, Lightning and Acid blasts.
We see Optimus and Ultra Magnus together having difficulty fending off some of the Terracons.
We then deploy the minigun from Widow and shoot them off. They both look at us and nod in thanks. We then send rockets from Flashback to everyone fending off Terracons. Suddenly, one of the Terracons started attacking us, ripping off pieces of our metal plating which was slightly painful. We stomped on the ground which sent everything back. Then we created a liquified ball of clay in our right hand and slammed it into the ground, which spread all around us creating spike walls that impaled the enemies trying to advance toward us, and prevent others from trying to get to us. We continued to fire at the Terracons about to kill our forces before something suddenly knocked us to the ground. We were dazed from the impact, we tried to see who the attacker was but before we could process anything, we were impaled by our own clay spike.
We screeched in pain and then looked at our oppressor. He was big, about the same size as Overlord, but with green, white, and black paint.
We tried to take out the stake but the attacker kept it in place. This bot is strong.
"Who… are you..?" We asked in a weakened voice.
"Your worst nightmare." He replied as he slowly started to rip off our left arm with the stake.
This would result in him killing Kickback and Terrormite.
No. Not again. "NoooOOOOOOOOO!" We screamed as we punched him as hard as we could with a lightning charged fist. The boom from the impact was so loud it created a shockwave that rippled across the battlefield.
We slowly got up as the attacker did in front of us. Once we were fully upright we flexed our chest and the clay stake snapped off.
The attacker smirked and said, "You wanna know who I am? I am the one that seeks out battle wherever it may be. I am the one who seeks the most powerful of warriors. And I finally found my most worthy opponent. Make no mistake, I am a bot of honour, but I show no mercy.
I am Sixshot."
Then he deployed his sword and charged.
We deployed our arm blade and stopped his first slash.
"We are the ones who feast on the metal of the ones who stood no chance against us. We devour the very fear from those who quake in our presence. We don't care about honour, and we show no mercy.
We are Pestilence."
Then we ignite our clay mace hand in a ball of flame and uppercut him into the sky, propelled by a pillar of fire.
We watched as Sixshot rocketed away. Once he was out of sight, we walked off and continued to snipe the Terracons.
Suddenly we heard the sound of an aircraft fly in and land behind us. We turn around to see Sixshot transforming, "you're not gonna get rid of me that easily." He said as his chest steamed from the fire blast.
He then transformed into a tank and shot us two times in the chest, we fell backward to the ground.
"I also forgot to mention I have six alt-modes." He mused as he slowly walked forward.
"Yeah? Well we technically have 24." We say as we fire a lightning blast at him.
We get up quickly and hook him in the side while he is still bent over from the blast. Then we hit him with a left uppercut to the abdomen, then a right jab to the face, and a left to the chest to knock him back. All this took about a second.
Then as we are about to finish him, he slashes us across the chest in a blur, to then throw his sword which impaled us just to the right of our spark.
We were in a sort of shock for a moment and then the pain rushed in.
We fell to our back clutching the sword, writhing in pain. If we take out the sword we risk bleeding to death.
"You are an abomination, but you fought well. However, in the end, the strongest one wins. It's not about good always wins and bad always loses. This is about power, the powerful one always wins. And guess what?
I win."
Then he ripped out the sword from our chest and watched our energon spill out. We slowly looked up at him as our life force was draining before him, he was smiling at us intently as our vision started to blur,
As we slowly started to die.
(1) so, due to Terrormite forming part of the left arm he is able to still produce clay. hence when the hand is bitten off he replaces it with a mace made of clay.
Descrepency: every series has Megatron being the one to remove/destryoy Bumblebee's voicebox... than bumblebee movie comes along and claims it was Blitzwing, even though earlier in the series it was stated that it was indeed Megatron.