The Diego Diaries: Game (dd6 330)
-0-Game time.
Grimlock with his raptors began to beat feet. All around the game board little bots were running for the hills. It didn't matter. Grimmy was heading for the big bots. They were in consultation and decided to go for broke. As long as Grimlock was loose with his beasties there was no hope for anyone. Tyke stepped back on the game board with his guns and began to sight in on the two running to one side as all seven swept forward like a bore tide. He fired. The beast was slowed, then came back to speed. Tyke stepped back off.
"What now?" Fort Max asked as he howled with laughter. "All of you together. GET THAT RAT!"
They all stared at him as the raptors and Grimlock arrived at the fort and began to desecrate the dead. Bits and pieces of the Supremes were rendered to nothingness in their fury. As the raptors gnawed on the pieces parts, Metroplex's little mech leaned over to grip one by the leg. Lifting it up, he dropped it right away as it chewed off his fingers up to the wrist. Caminus of the No Head nearly fell down laughing.
"Ow," Metroplex said with a laugh. His bot never made it back to safety as three raptors jumped on it and reduced it to long strips of metal and tiny fires. Both his planned bot and the ringer were rung.
At that moment, Ironhide flew in with new bombs … cluster bombs. Stumpy little bots and his own in the doorway held them in their servos as Ironhide maneuvered it over the raptors. Grimlock turned his and fled followed by two others. Three which were preparing to topple Lil Plex who was burning down to his waist didn't see the bombs fall but they felt them as they exploded sending pellets and jagged shrapnel everywhere.
It was instructive to see them stand, then disintegrate. There was almost nothing left of them after it was over and complimenting the show was a lot of swearing by Xantium who took a pound or two of shrapnel on the ped. Kappa was highly amused. It paid to see the boyfriend in all manner of situations, good and bad before one got in too deep.
Ironhide cut around and began to chase Grimlock. Using his Gatling gun, he destroyed two more raptors before Grimlock made it to the underground fort and disappeared. Ironhide got a standing ovation from the crowd and the Cybertronian finger from Blue Team. He then flew to the east trolling for victims before dropping a grenade into the crevasse where Cliffie was stuck and forever ended any chance he would have of winning two in a row.
He and Prowl had more in common than they knew.
Buzzie was in deep mourning as Cliffie unloaded on Ironhide.
Verbally.
Ironhide was back for more ammo.
The remaining slaggers of the bot teams were burning up the lines working out strategy. Those who were left were few … Wheeljack and Percy along with Dev converged on the Pretty Ocean. The twins, Smokescreen, Insecticon Bob, Jetta and Mack, Charlotte, and Seymour who was calling to the humans to come join in. That brought in a chorus of "ONE MAN! ALL ALONE!" from the crowd.
The humans told both to go stuff themselves.
Arcee, Elita, Maxi, Gee-Gee, and Magnus met up with Brown Team by the Swirling Hole Lake. Their handlers were furiously working out a plan when Team Turncoat lifted off again.
"This is kinda fun. Who's next?" Springer whispered to Ironhide.
Ironhide grinned. "Guess," he said as he flew eastward furiously. Before the humans could make a move to dessert their area, bombs were falling. Dust kicked up. HUGE blasts occurred. Ironhide had packed the payload himself having experimented with different combinations of bombs, bunker busters, gun ammo, and other devices including a tiny EMP in his spare time in the hills behind the armory at Stanix. It was paying off. He was going to be the slagger who won if he had to level everyone and everything everywhere.
He was well on his way.
The dust began to settle as the humans began to peer into the wreckage. Their devices were only working on some of the bots. Epps's doppelganger staggered out of the wreckage with a lower functional body but everything above his belly button was gone.
:EW! KILL IT! NOW!: Lonnie Epps said as she looked around for a gun.
HUGE laughter.
Ironhide who was hovering put Lil Epps out of everyone's misery. Then he finished off the rest. He hovered as he watched the others making for the sidelines. "BOMBS AWAY!" he bellowed as he gave pursuit. The twins, Jetta and Mack fell in a furious burst of machine gun fire. They exploded and gave up their essence to the universe. Charlotte and Seymour zigzagged their way off the field and were given huge props.
Swinging back, Ironhide took aim at Brown Team. They hoofed it back to the other side rolling past the underground fort which opened and with a maddened Grimlock and a raptor helping out, everyone but Hercy went bye-bye.
It was silent a moment as Ironhide flew back to ammo up. Ratchet who was watching him smirked. "I have to say, Ironhide, you don't seem worried about having to live here amongst us after this is over."
"He should," Raptor said with a smirk. He was handing ammo to his grandson. The softie.
Ironhide loaded up, then flew outward again. Grimlock was facing off with Hercy who didn't look too worried about it. They were going great guns when the last raptor made a break for it, chasing Gee-Gee toward the Insecticon manipulated by an infuriated Sunstreaker. Bob and the raptor jumped on each other and rolled around on the ground as Bob the Bug bit the slag out of it. Apparently, his teeth were as sharp as the real thing.
Meanwhile, Hercy and Grimlock were trading blows, neither of them getting the upper hand. Grimlock stepped back, blew a bale of fire at Hercy, then watched him burn. Before Hercy 'died' he transformed a bomb, walked up to Lil Grimmy and put it against his chest. Nothing happened as everyone watched, then Hercy blew up. He had a big, big bomb hidden inside his botlet and the fire exploded it. It took him and Grimlock along with half his underground fort up with it. It was startling how much firepower the little bot exuded.
"All hail, Hercy," Smokey whispered in overwhelmed awe at the little slagger.
They all hailed.
Actual Grimlock and Pretender Xantium nearly got into a real fight but were curbed with a cuff to the helm by Metroplex, Caminus, Tyke, Fort Max, and Acroplex.
Together.
Ironhide who was howling with glee looked at the game board. The nine kids were off the deck and looking worried. The humans were burning and adding a quaint glow to the game. The Hu-An were still off the game, and the few left were trying to find a place to hide. The raptor and Bob were about even though they were edging close to the line. Maybe they would make it-
They didn't.
The moment they neared the line, Roadbuster stepped over it and squashed both of them. Everyone stared at him, a bot whose blood lust couldn't be anymore contained than a dinobot. No one had the stones to call him out. Obviously, the big mech liked to fight, even in toy format.
Flying around the board, Ironhide shot up and bombed just about everyone and everything left. Seymour and Charlotte were still off the board, Beachcomber and his crew were getting their guns ready before they died, Arcee, Elita, Magnus, Gee-Gee, Maxi and the last three Seekers were about all that was left if the Hu-An didn't come on board. The nine kids had come to a conclusion but it would take in the rest of the game's outcome before they would tell.
Taking aim at Beachcomber's fort, Ironhide flew in guns blasting. They blasted back and UTD who was leaning out to drop a bomb took one on the chin. He fell out as Ironhide flew over and landed in the compound. Their joy and that of the audience was short lived when the bomb he had held in his servos went off and took out everyone. The tower fell, Beachcomber who had survived the blast was eviscerated by the razor wire and all went up in smoke.
Wheeljack, Perceptor and Dev finally made it to Bob who was a smear in the sand and all turned to watch what Ironhide was going to do. A plan was born as the Seekers remaining slugged it out with Ironhide. They were also splattered over a large area as they met a plucky doom. Flying back for ammo, Ironhide took a blow on his helm from his parents as they walked over to see how much ammo he had actually brought with him, some of which had just obliterated the entire Blue Team at last.
"If that ever exploded, Ironhide, there would be actual dead everywhere," Turbine said with a frown.
"It won't, Amma," Ironhide said with a maniacal gleam in his optics.
He got another slap on the noggin just because.
Then he flew out to do battle with the remnants of the melee. As he approached Magnus and his crew, Arcee climbed up on Lil Magnus along with Elita. As the gunboat came in, they shot it up, their ammo landing. They didn't do much good because this was double plated cybertanium. But they allowed the two to grab the sleds of the helicopter and hang on. It flew around, then buzzed the ground dragging both through the sand. Arcee bit it at the Razor Wire while Elita finally made it inside. No one could see the fight that transpired but they could see UTS fall from the helicopter with a pair of bombs in each hand. He bounced on the ground, then ran on his hands as fast as he could. The bombs went off behind him.
Magnus laughed, then ran after Springer, shooting at the half a mech as he scurried away like a demented crab. Flying overhead, the pieces parts of Elita scattered over the ground. Lil Ironhide leaned out with a pair of razor sharp swords. Ironhide howled. "I. AM. IRONHIDE!"
Metroplex smirked. "That's my line."
Gee-Gee, Bob, Maxi, and Magnus ran toward Dev, Percy and 'Jack. Heading together to Consolation and Hammer of Primus, they would have reached it if all things were equal. A strafing run took out Gee-Gee, Maxi, Magnus, Percy, and Dev. Wheeljack made it into the city. Ironhide buzzed over just as the Hu-An entered the game. Half a dozen of them ran for Consolation and the city to regroup with the remaining player(s).
Wheeljack.
Charlotte and Seymour were in consultation with the titans.
Drift was sitting on his hands. Literally.
They were a mixed bag. Lil Plex was done for. Metroplex's other bot had been stripped down to only one semi functional hand.
Ewww.
Caminus was done for. Tyke was complete and so was Fort Max. By the time they settled on a plan, there was little left to do but burn up from a dive bombing helicopter. So they gave the team cheer, sat Seymour and Charlotte on their shoulders and stepped off. Metroplex turned to the kids. "When are you going to help us?"
"We aren't," Quadrus said.
Everyone paused. "What?" -every titan there in the game and audience
"We can't shoot our atar," Quadrus said as the others nodded. "As long as he's going along, we're out of the game."
Everyone stared at them, then laughed loudly. "IRONHIDE! YOU'RE LUCKY THEY HAVE WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE! CHARACTER!" -everyone there
Ironhide grinned at the kids and they grinned at him. Then he flew furiously forward with his appas and ammas giving him (unwanted) advice. There was no where to go but to the cities and all of the survivors made it there. That's when Ironhide began all alone to drop napalm on both. He selected his places, then down it went. HUGE fires broke out immediately.
"Oh frag," Arcee said with a grin. "Doesn't pay to have the Master of the Armory as an opponent."
"Tell me about it," Perceptor sniffed as he leaned in to watch the cute little city burn to a cinder.
The fires were furious as everyone tried to get out. The Hu-An did and ran for their fortress, a space on the sidelines like the titans had. The titans were headed for Ironhide who gunned them down as best he could before flying to the sidelines to rearm. When he did, Tyke began to melt down into a sagging pool of plastic and Fort Max had half a face. Charlotte was laying on the ground burning after being picked off and Seymour was scattered all over the field though he managed to land a shot on the chopper. It had a broken window.
"You look like you've seen better orns, Max," Metroplex said with a laugh. "You're next."
"Wanna shake on it, Metroplex?" Tennyson asked with a snicker.
Huge insults circled the game as Ironhide lifted off to go out again. The slagger.
-0-TBC 4-16-18 edited 4-18-18