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Death's Head – I do not own The Transformers, nor Death's Head. Takara Industries/Hasbro/Marvel US/Marvel UK/Sunbow Entertainment/Saban Entertainment, all own parts of The Transformers. Marvel UK owns Death's Head.
The following are my own creations. I made them, they're mine. If you'd like to use them in one of your stories, just send me an email asking for permission to use them, as I'll most likely say you can. I just want to know which story they're going to be placed in.
The New Autobots I created : Outlaw, Valkyrie and Seraphim.
The New Decepticons I created : Alpha Destroyer, Acousia, Tremble, Carnage, Blaze, Thraka, Tempest, Darkshayde, Hydrina, Vette and Roadkill.
Also, please, please, PLEASE read all of my first Transformers story : Transformers : Book 1 : Death's Head and Transformers : Book 2 : Megatron's Revenge. A lot of information is in that story, which is carried over into this one.
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Elsewhere :
Outlaw snarled as he landed with a thud at the bottom of the canyon. Unfortunately, the cable had run out a couple of hundred metres from the bottom, so he had no choice but to have the grapnel remove itself from the boulder it was lodged in, and retract back along the cable into his left forearm. However, the ledge he had been standing on, gave way, and he fell the remaining distance. Fortunately for him, the absorbers in his legs absorbed the impact, only jarring him slightly.
"That's it! When I get back to Cybertron, I'm gonna put myself in for repairs and upgrades!"
The dark Autobot glanced around his location, twisted pieces of asteroid rock all about. He snarled again, and was about to risk firing the boosters in his legs, when his metal scanner starting to beep. He pressed a small button on his wrist, and a holographic image appeared on his forearm. The scanner was detecting metal at a distance of 20.8 kilometres from his position.
"Oh that's just great. Judging from the looks of the terrain between myself and this metallic object, I won't be able to get there in my vehicle form. Nor fly there due to the severe lack of energy in my systems at the moment. What I need is…"
Outlaw looked up as he heard the engine roar of a jet fly above him. His optics quickly identified the form as the Autobot air guardian, Jetfire.
"Talk about good timing," Outlaw activated his comm switch "Outlaw to Jetfire, Outlaw to Jetfire. Do you read me?"
The jet shot over the edge of the canyon, then veered backwards and transformed into Jetfire. The Autobot looked around.
"Outlaw? Man, it's good to hear you. Unfortunately for us, Optimus and the others had to head back to Cybertronian airspace. Apparently the two Super Stupid, Mechanical doormat, Decepticon brothers, have found the mausoleum shuttle their fallen were loaded in, and are in the process of fighting it out amongst themselves for who gets the spoils."
Outlaw rolled his optics.
"I don't know what's worse Jetfire, Mega-Jerk and Galva-Dump getting their grimy little hands on those Decepticons, or you're jokes!"
Jetfire chuckled.
"You know me Outlaw, always willing to have a laugh."
Outlaw frowned.
"Yeah, much to my disgust. Now get your red caboose down here! I'm about 580 metres directly south of where you are now."
Jetfire looked down into the canyon, and boosted his optic magnification to 200%. He saw the faint outline of his target. Jetfire ignited his boosters and flew down into the canyon, dodging the outcropping pieces of rock. At twenty metres he cut his boosters and dropped to the ground. He looked at the battered Outlaw and whistled.
"Phew, you look terrible. Valkyrie been beating you up again?"
Outlaw rolled his optics, at his friend's joke.
"Yeah, right. Guess what she's going to do with you, when she hears what you said?"
Jetfire shrugged.
"Makes no diff to me. Last I heard, she was still in temporary shutdown."
Outlaw stood and faced him.
"What happened to her?"
Jetfire studied him.
"I don't know the full details about her condition. Seraphim put her under, until we get you and our sorry butts back to Cybertron to effect repairs on her." He also added "as well as you, it would seem."
Outlaw grunted as he started towards the metallic object.
"Come on Jetfire. I have a feeling, we're going to find what we've been searching for about twenty kilometres ahead of us."
Jetfire nodded.
"Can you fly?"
Outlaw shook his head.
"Negative. My self repair and diagnostic systems have repaired most of the damage, only down side is that I'm low on energon."
Jetfire hurried up to his friend.
"Well then, instead of walking, and using up what precious energy you have left…"
Jetfire started to transform, but no completely into his fighter jet form. He looked like a fighter jet, with arms and legs. Outlaw smiled.
"Half jet and half robot form eh?"
Jetfire spoke.
"Yep. In this form, I'm faster than robot, and more agile than jet. Climb on top and hold on."
Outlaw nodded and climbed on top of the hybrid fighter jet, and Jetfire ignited his boosters, and flew off towards the object Outlaw had detected. As they flew along, Jetfire spoke.
"We'll be there in under five earth minutes. Tell me Outlaw, do you think we'll find Elita and her warriors?"
Outlaw sighed.
"I'm not sure Jetfire. From the information we have, Elita had taken what was left of her femme force into space, just after Optimus Prime and the others left Cybertron. Unfortunately, Megatron and his cronies had attacked the femme base. Only a handful of femmes escaped their friends deaths."
Jetfire increased his speed and altitude.
"Do we have any ideas as to how many of them escaped?"
Outlaw remained silent, then spoke quietly.
"Unknown. All we do know, is that Elita herself survived the attack, and led the femmes away."
Jetfire sighed.
"Well, let's just hope that Primus was looking over them back then, and still is."
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Death's Head - Jetfire's 'hybrid' form, is equivalent to the 'Guardian' form of the Veritechs/Valkyries from Robotech/Macross. Not that hard to believe actually, since the Jetfire figure was made from the same mould and such that the Robotech/Macross figures were made from. Also, the reason why I have him in this story, is that not many author's here have Jetfire in their stories, mainly having Skyfire. From what I can remember, and from what I've found on the Net, Jetfire is the Autobot Air Guardian, whereas Skyfire is a Scientist and explorer. Therefore, I have both of them in this story.
Now, the metallic object they're heading to, well, you're just going to have to wait until I write that part. Which should be up in a week or so. In any event, there are some more chapters after this one, which I hope will tide you, my faithful reviewers, over until I update again. R&R please.