The Giant Appears
The Giant Appears

Wheeljack knelt. His instruments were giving off readings that didn't make sense in relation to Megatron's destruction. The energy had completely disappeared, like it had been instantly converted elsewhere. According to thermodynamics, the energy would have had to go into heat. Yet Wheeljack's data was such that the energy of the explosion no longer existed no temperature change was recorded in the area of the blast, and his measurements indicated that even with no heat created, energy had still been conserved. He was puzzled. He turned his sensors to find sources of energy that were not present during the battle. And then he found it, a huge mammoth energy supply greater than anything he had seen. And it was mobile. Wheeljack checked its movements. According to his calculations, the source would reach them in about two minutes. He looked up. In the distance he could see it. It was like a robot, but of unimaginable height. Wheeljack wondered if anyone else saw it. The creature was gargantuan. He appeared to be as large as a planet. Wheeljack quickly knew that he was no larger than half the being's hand. The Gundams would only be slightly larger. The robot walked slowly toward them. Evidently it had no idea where it was or who anyone was.         

            On the top of the ridge, all of the others except Dinobot had gathered. Here, they began to erect markers for their fallen comrades. It completely absorbed their attention. T.K. and Patamon set up Piccolo's marker while Hoover put Salamander's. Spiderman's was handled by Michelangelo. Seahorse's marker was planted by Kerensky. Sailor Jupiter could not bring herself to look at Sailor Mercury's. It was a sad scene all in all. Matt comforted T.K. Sailor Jupiter cried quietly on Churchill's shoulder. Sage went back into his subarmor and Tenchi let his power go as well. Charmander had to be consoled by Winston and Joe Dumars. Weregarurumon watched over the scene and felt somewhat apprehensive. No one had said anything about going home. This was the logical next step. He sniffed the air and did not like what he found. Meanwhile Trowa and Quatre looked over the land they had just fought on. Power's Hill was down from the ridge. That had been Megatron's last stand. The landscape was as if he had never been there except for the swath of desert due to the explosion. Birds still sang. The two Gundam pilots were content to listen until they realized the music had stopped. They turned and saw the monolith that Wheeljack had detected earlier. Was it foe or their ride home?

            Dinobot gazed at the new arrival, still some distance away. He saw the head with its menacing two horns. The green eyes were visible from where he was. The wings too, they were orange with thin structures. The middle was chambered and red, the feet large and white. They were like walking flat tripods. Dinobot had seen enough. It was time to think. This description was familiar. Where was it? This was certainly a figure from Autobot/Maximal Military history, but who? Dinobot knew the answer was at the tip of his tongue. A planet that destroys everything in its path. It transformed to become the largest transformer ever. Dinobot knew these details were right, but he could not conclude what. Maybe the matrix can stop it. It can. What do you know about it lad? I don't, I just have this feeling. Dinobot knew that a further review just after this point would lead him to the answer. Destroy Unicron! Kill the grand Pooh-Bah! Eliminate the toughest stain! Dinobot realized the truth. Unicron was here. And they were all in his way. This was the greatest danger that could have possibly happened.

            Hoover looked up and saw the towering robot. And then he saw Dinobot running toward him. "What's up, Dinobot?" Dinobot was not in the mood to waste words, "We all must leave quickly, now even." Churchill was disturbed by such a request. "What is it Dinobot, if you're not willing to duke it out it must be real bad." "Unicron is here!" shouted the maximal. "Unicron, not THE Unicron?" asked a now disconcerted Churchill. "Yes, Orson Welles voice and everything," answered Dinobot. "Shoot, with his size, he'll be on us before we know it. We'll need to retreat, everyone to the base!" A large-scale melee ran from the towering giant who now was almost on him. Unicron realized that the group running from him might be a threat. He scanned their data. All had some power, and some had more power than others. But there was one who had the most power of all. That power had to be eliminated before it was used against him. He opened his mouth and sent a fiery gaseous blast at where he thought they were headed. The base exploded in a fireball. All within were decimated, with no chance of recovery. The gang knew that they had lost Hawkeye, Hornblower, Herschel, and Ryan. More casualties to add to the list.

            Dinobot decided something needed to be done. He had now to act. He turned from running and faced the other way. "I'll slow him down," he said. Trowa and Quatre looked at the Maximal warrior. They realized he was not kidding. They knew too that he would not be enough even to slow down the hulking villain. "We're staying too," voiced Quatre as he and Trowa got into their Gundams. Heavyarms Custom and Sandrock aligned themselves with Dinobot. They could smell the fight to come, but they would have one more ally. Matt stopped running as well. He looked at Weregarurumon and the two nodded in agreement. They would stay as well. The rest of the group slowed its pace and eventually stopped. T.K. ran up to Matt and looked up at his big brother painfully. "Matt, are you really going to fight?" Matt looked at Churchill and then at T.K. "I have to do this, T.K. Just get out of here. I'm sure some new plan will come up and they'll need you. If I get back then we can be together. I'm sure you can take care of yourself. Remember there is always someone here for you." David and Leon glanced at each other and knew what the other was thinking. "Right, then the rest of us will meet in that forest to discuss our next move and make yet another plan," Leon spoke with somewhat of a foreboding tone. Robert gravely stared at the ground, he felt bad for T.K. because of the dangers of what Matt was doing. Billy tried to look optimistic, but succeeded in looking as if he had a stomachache. David seemed inspired, however, as if there was something in those words that he grasped and no one else did. The group headed toward the forest. The last line of defense stood ready.

Unicron bore down on them with massive strides. Compared to him they were nothing but mice. He barely noticed them except for their energy ratings. The source had turned to face him. He must destroy it now. After that there were the other sources with which he would deal. He fired his eye laser at the group opposing them, scattering them temporarily. The laser made an immense crater on the ground. His opponents were dilapidated around it. He moved to step on the nearest. It got away. Unicron fired around mouth blast which missed the armor suits, but took out a good deal of forest. Unicron looked. He would dispense with the power now before it had a chance to respond. He sought it out around him. Then he found it, he honed in on it. But a sharp hit in his foot caused him to recoil from attacking the power.

Dinobot saw Unicron's huge body go after Matt. He did not why it had done so, but he had intervened by firing his laser into the foot of Unicron. The Maximal knew his task was enormous, but he did not care. They had to make it. If his death was the only way for it, then so be it. He drew his sword. The point quivered as Unicron's massive head looked down. Dinobot was so small, so miniscule, that Unicron could think of squashing a fly. "Fool, you dare attack me, very well, you shall be obliterated." Dinobot charged. He dodged a foot and some laser fire, somersaulting. Once in the rear of Unicron, Dinobot opened eye laser fire on his rear. He leaped just after and drove his sword into the leg of Unicron. The cut was small, but Dinobot had to do something. He bashed into the leg with his fists, the futility of his action apparent with every swing. Unicron shook his leg, and Dinobot flew into some of the rocks of Devil's Den. Unicron fired an eye laser shot there. Dinobot knew he could not dodge this one. He grimaced as the shot overcame him. After it had passed, he looked up. He would die honorably at least as the acidic breath of Unicron now consumed him. Dinobot was no more.

Weregarurumon surged with power. However, Trowa observed, it was the wild flickering of a candle before it went out. Matt and his digimon were ready to take vengeance for Dinobot. "Go get him, Weregarurumon, make him pay!" Matt watched from the distance. Weregarurumon jumped on Unicron and began to climb the titan. Unicron ignored the wolf and reached down. He grabbed Matt and began to squeeze. This was the power that he had feared and now he would extinguish it.

WOLF CLAW!

The attack from Weregarurumon hit his nose, leaving a mark, but no more. Weregarurumon kicked viciously at the nose to distract Unicron. He tried punching it as well. He bit at it. Nothing seemed to work. He went down the arm to help Matt. Running the length of Unicron's arm, Weregarurumon pulled and pulled at the robot's fingers to free the trapped Matt. But this struggle was too much for him, and he became Gabumon once more. Gabumon continued to attack a finger.

BLUE BLASTER!

Unicron reached other and grabbed the rookie digimon. He crushed both him and Matt and threw them into the air, where his laser played merry havoc. The boy and digimon were gone. Unicron looked for the next great power. He began moving toward another source when two somewhat larger objects stopped him. Unicron would now deal with this threat.

            Trowa and Quatre knew that Unicron was headed for the others. It was their turn to sacrifice themselves to stop it in the hopes that Churchill would formulate a plan that would stop the creature. Heavyarms Custom stood in front, unloading all of its bullets into the colossus. He was barely denting it. Yet Unicron seemed occupied for the moment, and Trowa was thankful for that. The other Gundam, Sandrock, had been zipping around Unicron's legs. Quatre had moved in with heat shorters. He slashed into the legs of Unicron. His efforts were making little difference in the situation. Unicron tired moving around to shake Sandrock loose. An eye laser shot took out one of the heat shorters. Quatre slung the other one into the knee of Unicron. It made little difference. Sandrock pulled out the beam submachine gun and moved back toward Trowa.

            Heavyarms Custom had continued to fire bullets into Unicron. But now the huge beam machine guns were empty. Unicron reached toward them. Trowa let the missiles fly. They impacted into Unicron, but damage was minimal. The hulking robot was just too much for him. The guns slid off. It was up to Quatre to slow him down now. Quatre had the submachine gun up and operating. It was not producing results. He fired the homing missiles and emptied the Vulcan guns on the head into the monster as well. Yet Unicron again fired on them. They dodged. The gun emptied. There was only one option left, the self-detonation devices. Quatre and Trowa both knew that those would have to be it. Otherwise they had no chance. They quickly exited their Gundams; the timer was set. Unicron picked up his latest menaces (the Gundams) and began to crush them together in his hands. The devices blew up right then. Trowa and Quatre hid in the bushes and looked out into the clearing. There was Unicron, slightly damaged, looking for his next target. The Gundam pilots could not believe it.  The monster was not stopped for a moment. The two now hoped that Churchill and the others had thought of something.