Panthera sat on her recharge bed, sharpening her claws. She was nervous, back then, in the past, it was all messed up. True, her mysterious leader would have killed her, but Panthera had originally planned to use the energon against the Decepticons, kill off Shockblast and Megatron, and then destroy her own leader and her daughter, who, was supposed to be the next leader, but destruction of both would leave her to rule.
Of course, then there were the Autobots, she never forgot about them she just thought the Autobots weren't much more than slag and she could easily make them bow down to her, though that would have been after she actually fought one.
Her mind began making plans, dark plans
No! Stop, I can't allow myself to be like that, there's too much at stake. I couldn't be a leader I'll never be one. I'll just have to watch my back.
Her door hissed open then shut. It locked.
She quickly turned around to look directly into Shockblast's single eye.
She didn't say anything but began to get cold shivers down her back
"I don't believe your little explanation back there," he leaned in closer "but I can't do anything about it, not right now anyway." He hissed
"Megatron favours you, I don't know why since you yourself have quite the conniving mind."
he tapped her head and she backed off the bed, keeping on the other side.
He moved around the table.
"Shockblast, if you came here to talk about what happened all that time ago, I'll be happy to explain again." She growled as she kept the bed between him and herself.
"What's the point? I know it's a lie!" he leapt over the obstacle and went to grab her but she had already gone back around.
"What do you want with me?" Panthera was scared now, he had already lunged at her once, and the door was locked.
"I want to make sure you don't mess with me again." He simply replied
"Shockblast, why do you doubt my words?" Panthera summoned up her courage and stopped moving, he went around the recharge bed and faced her head on.
"I'm not stupid Panthera, I could see it in your eyes the last moment I saw you. Inside you were laughing you had the slight smirk, just like now." He shoved her up against the wall as she grimaced.
"Just remember, you will never screw me over again, ever." He whispered dangerously
Panthera would admit, she was scared again, Shockblast is quite the scary Decepticon when you don't know what he's going to do.
He hesitated for a moment, and for a few minutes he stood there, staring at her.
Finally he let go of her and headed for the door
"What was the purpose in locking the door anyway?" Panthera climbed back onto her recharge bed.
Shockblast paused and looked back at her
"in case you got the wrong idea and tried to escape, you wouldn't have unlocked it and gotten away fast enough." He then unlocked the door and exited.
She stretched out and began shaking, she was terrified, though she couldn't let him feed off her fears, she wouldn't.
Panthera raised her head, growled and exited the room shortly after.

Viper's vision was blurry at first, but after laying there for several minutes she could make out the familiar shapes found in her chamber.
"It's about time you've woken up!" she looked over to Hotshot, seated on a chair.
"Man, I feel like I've got an energon overload." She got up slowly and began walking around a bit.
"Nah, just another one of those darts."
She stopped "where is he?"
Hotshot stood "no worries, Optimus is questioning him, should be in the command centre."
"Well let's go." Viper went to leave
"yeah about that." He put a hand on her shoulder.
"What?" Viper tilted her head as she turned to him
"Optimus gave me specific orders to keep you here, in case Firon gets riled up and tries to attack you again."
Viper sighed "but!"
Hotshot shook his head "sorry Viper, not until someone comes and tells us it's ok to leave."
She mumbled and crossed her arms

In the command centre Optimus, Inferno, Jetfire, and Rodimus stood with Firon in front of the control panel.
Prowl and Landmine had been sent back to the ship while Rodimus sees Optimus' plan fold out.
Firon tapped on some keys slowly while his wrists were bound by energon chains.
"Ok, there you go." He grumbled to Optimus.
Suddenly on screen was Saneres, her eyes widened in surprise
"Optimus? How odd it is for you to call me," she chuckled and suddenly stopped, quickly adding in "What do you want?"
"Firon is here, you want him? Come and get him, now, 56 point 365." With that he cut the connection just as Saneres was going to say something.
"Optimus, I must do some other business, I cannot help now but I will be back."
The Autobot leader nodded, "we'll be going to our ship as well, once we get Viper and Hotshot heading there too." He paused and called Hotshot on a signal link

"Hotshot?"
Viper jumped as she heard Optimus' voice come from Hotshots external speaker
"Yes Optimus?" Hotshot switched the speaker so only he could hear
"oh, alright we'll head there now."
"Where are we going?" Viper tilted her head.
"To the ship." Hotshot headed out with door with Viper at his heels
"Optimus said he would explain the plan when we get there." Hotshot answered a question that Viper had on her mind.

Saneres paced back and forth, back and forth on top of a smaller ship deployed from the space station. She was at the co-ordinates, why aren't they?
She was impatient, stubborn and obnoxious, and no way was she about to wait here for another five minutes. Even if that means leaving one of her best fighters
'Soldiers are expendable I am not' is one of her many rules, in this case waiting for very long is a waste of her time, especially for a soldier.
Finally just as she was about to leave, the familiar green portal spewed forth a ship that belonged to the Autobots.
"It's about slaggin' time." She grumbled to herself.
If the Autobots were to go into Saneres ship, they would be immediately attacked, if Saneres went into the Autobot ship something would have happened, so to avoid the worst, both of the factions met in open space, their ships farther away in case a fight did happen to break out.
"Alright, just hand him over." Saneres growled
"Not quite yet." Optimus replied, Firon behind him with the rest of the Autobot team.
"Just stop wasting time Optimus and hand him over." Saneres yelled
"Mother, quit your yelling! I want to speak with you before anything else is done here."
Saneres quietened and raised her head slightly.
"The reason I left you so long ago was because you wanted me to be a fighter, but not just any fighter, whoever I fought, I had to kill. If anyone stood in my way, they would be pummelled down."
"Glad you remember." Saneres smirked
"Well I'm not glad at all. I will not destroy anybody unless I must do it for the better, I will not join you, I will not be by your side, ever! So I suggest once you've got Firon back, you go and rule another part of the universe, this one has enough problems, you don't need to add to it."
"Well now," Saneres tapped her chin, reflecting on the information inside her mind.
"That's not an option," she growled. There was an odd moment; her fact was a perfect picture of malevolence. Behind Optimus, Firon bulled forward and struck the leader in the back, had he not have his hands bonded behind his back, he would have tried to kill the fearless Optimus.
"Now!" he yelled to Saneres.
A void of total darkness, not a speck of light appeared. Suddenly, a dark orange liquid substance exited the portal, evaporating soon after, not long after a whole army of Draconian droids flew along, ready to attack.
With this distraction, Firon took the opportunity to escape.
"Grab him!" Hotshot lunged for him but missed
Viper went to grab her new enemy but it was too late.
Once Saneres and Firon were surrounded by draconian drones, the dark queen had no intentions of letting the Autobots escape to their ship
"ATTACK!"
Another black portal opened up in front of the Autobot ship, the evaporating liquid revealed even more draconian's.
The Autobots stopped.
"Man, didn't expect this!" Hotshot started shooting at the draconian drones.
"Jetfire, Viper! See if you can weaken the groups." Optimus ordered.
Viper immediately flew out towards the drones at their flanks, closest to her mother, Jetfire the same.
"We'll cover you!" Jetfire called back.
The draconian drones began creating a circle around the Autobots.
"There's too many of them!" Ironhide cried out
Kicker, who is back in the energon ship with Misha tried his best to manuever the ship closer to the Autobots, though no luck, he had to stay away from Saneres, she was the real threat.
"Is there anyway we can use the energon to help them?" Misha asked.
"Not without harming Optimus and the others as well." Kicker replied grimly.
"How's that? If we get farther out of range, then it'll only hit the drones closer to us."
"No, we could do an energon wave, it'll knock everyone out, but it'll knock out the Autobots and we still wouldn't be able to get them in here, we'll just have to be ready."
Inferno shot wildly into the fray,"Their closing in on us."
"Keep firing!" Hotshot exclaimed
quickly the drones closed in, Viper and Jetfire trying their best to keep them off but it was no use.

Suddenly laser fire flooded the draconian troops.
Optimus never even noticed the purple portal open up.
Shockblast entered the battle scene, attacking draconian drones. Snowcat, Demolisher, and Tidalwave were giving their fair share in laser fire towards the drones.
This was no act of kindness, Megatron wanted to defeat Optimus, not some stupid drones, so he was doing what he could to keep Optimus alive long enough so he could destroy him.
Saneres growled she saw the decepticons, destroying her army, with both Autobots and Decepticons on her hands; this was going to be a problem. She cast away Firon's energon cuffs
"get the drones under control." She grumbled
"yes, highness." Firon went above the battle, shouting out orders.
The drone's tactics raised incredibly. With both factions partly helping each other they still had troubles, they were outnumbered.
"We need energon, Kicker send us some!" Optimus ordered.
The ship moved closer, "on their way!"
Several glowing energon orbs shot out from the ship. They stretched out to form energon stars.
One for Optimus, Hotshot, Inferno, Jetfire, and Viper.
Their forms glowed the familiar red glow and extra power flowed through their bodies.
"It's show time!" Jetfire began blasting through the ranks of draconians, firing off multiple shots, each one hitting where it counts. One, then two, then more exploded, damaging their comrades.
Viper swooped through them, the drones were retreating. She could faintly hear her mother screaming "retreat, retreat!" she then saw the black portal; before she knew it they were gone. She went to do a sharp turn and return to the Autobots when suddenly something slammed into her back, sharp claws dug into her back.
Viper roared around and twisted herself into a barrel roll, throwing off her attacker.
"Viper." The voice purred
"Panthera!" She whirled upon the feline transformer "you're a Decpticon now?!" she was surprised.
"Yep, now's my chance to destroy you!" she pounced again with a yowl. Viper and Panthera locked up into a ball. Panthera scratched, Viper constricted with her tail. They bit and kicked, finally Viper let loose a ball of flame right in Panthera's face.

Megatron and Optimus were interlocked in a fierce battle. Weapons blazing at first until they had to go into hand to hand combat.
"I've planned your demise too long, Prime."
"and you will fail time and time again!" Optimus landed a punch directly to Megatrons nose.
Behind them, Jetfire kept Shockblast from reaching Optimus
"Get out of my way fool!" Shockblast shoved Jetfire, who in turn hit him over the head with his weapon,"Not a chance!"
Shockblast recovered and shot Jetfire point blank several times, right on the chest.
His yell grabbed everyone's attention, even the battling Megatron and Optimus.

Time seemed to freeze as Jetfire flew back, bits of metal blown off floated around him.
His scream, triggered something, someone flashed in front of his eyes, Shockblast was watching him and chuckling evilly, his vision blurred then came into focus again.
There, something was coming. It was coming fast. It was black, all black. Who was black? Certainly not Starscream, he had black but not this much.
"SkyShadow..." he whispered the name
Shockblast tilted his head "what was that, Autobot? Shall I hit you again, see if you can repeat yourself louder!" he raised his arm when suddenly he was struck in the back.
Jetfire watched. The figure, a femme. She was flying, she transformed and now, she was attacking Shockblast. The familiar looks. Yes, it was her, Skyshadow.
She was in rough shape. Her paint was chipped, she was scratched and dented. Her blue visor was cracked.
Her leg was outstretched, her foot planted right on Shockblast's back.
She pulled two swords out from her energon pocket. They were black and navy blue, shining with splendour as she prepared to strike.
"How dare you!" She was hurt, emotionally and physically. Where was she this whole time? Jetfire tried to recover but he was wounded badly.
The fighting continued all around, the Autobots trying desperately to reach Jetfire and the femme.
Panthera saw the other Autobot, and she saw Starscream start attacking her with his sword. Panthera could help but be awed at the black wonder. She was fighting Shockblast, and Starscream, while keeping Shockblast at bay with several swipes of her sword, she clashed weapons with Starscream.
Viper watched and knew she needed help.
"Sorry Panthera, I need to go help somebody else who needs it, I'll fight you some other time."
Panthera growled, her whole face was scorched black.
Viper flew forward. Closer, closer, she tumbled into Shockblast, yelling her name to Skyshadow as she tumbled past "Viper!"
This was getting ridiculous, and Megatron knew it. He could see Hotshot, Ironhide and Inferno, fighting off Snowcat, Demolisher and Tidalwave. Shockblast kept his cannon arm under Viper's jaw as she tried to bite him, Panthera went to assist Demolisher and the others and the new Autobot, fighting Starscream.
"I've had enough of this, it's not getting anywhere, retreat!"
An indigo portal yawned open, swallowing the Decepticons whole.
"Next time Optimus Prime!" Megatron yelled back in a fit of anger.
Optimus ignored Megatron and headed straight for Jetfire and Skyshadow
The large Autobot ship approached everyone slowly.
Optimus put his hand on Skyshadow's shoulder as they all entered the ship, holding Jetfire carefully. Both Ironhide and Viper looked at each other, by the looks of it, everyone knew her but them. There was alot of explaining to do.
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OK, I'm supposed to be studying for a test and instead I typed my butt off on this! You better be grateful it's up! LOL
BTW, Hotshot, I hope you liked her intro!
More will be told about her next chapter so stay tuned!