Disclaimer: You've all heard this before; I don't own the Transformers, blah blah blah! However, I DO own the Elementacons and Dash/Becca

Ceestar: OK. I may have mentioned this before…but I don't believe I have. The title of this story, it was made up by my brother. He also gave me the whole Elementacons thing, but them being the Soul Catchers, that's MY idea! We had a long debate about what to call the Elementacons, and we basically came up with what you've been reading.

I would also like to add, I do not, repeat, DO NOT, think my brother is brilliant. As he so often proclaims. Thank you.

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Please disregard anything I'm said up until now, I may not include all that I have said I would include. Writers Block is a curse. If anyone has ideas, dear god help me!

Chapter 14: The Battle Begins

The Autobots stood in a barren desert field. RedAlert had once again stayed behind at the base with the kids. Alexis insisted on being alright, no matter how much Rad kept saying she wasn't.

A warm breeze blew by as the Autobots stood there, waiting for their opponent. Blurr had his arms folded and was taping his foot impatiently, they had been there for well over an hour. He let out a rough sigh and heard a small cracking noise. The masked Autobot looked over to his right where Hotshot stood next to him. He was staring at the ground, a distant look in his optics. The young bot was holding his rifle tight in his left hand and was coming very close to snapping the weapon in half.

Hotshot looked up when Blurr placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder. He didn't bother with a smile because Blurr would be able to see right through it anyway.

- : Flashback : -

"Oh if you are so determined to be destroyed like your friends, by all means come and get us." Blaze laughed.

"You little creep!" Hotshot said threateningly to the monitor.

"Calm down Hotshot. You getting angry will only cause us more trouble." Scavenger said.

"OK, we'll give you a chance to try and beat us before we kill you." Dusk spoke coldy.

The screen turned from the "Soul Catchers" to a desert picture. A fierce wind blew over sometimes and the sun was shining intensely. There were large boulders lying all over the place, and also bulky rock formations in certain spots.

The screen switched back again to the "Soul Catchers".

"Meet us here at noon today. Come and. Don't come, we'll let you say goodbye to your friends before we kill them. Then we'll kill you. We're just too kind." Dusk laughed.

The Autobots sweat dropped and a few of them had that little angry anime sign. That had to be the corniest joke in the history of the universe!

: Normal Time : -

It had been more than an hour as Blurr had noticed, but there was still no sign of the Elementacons.The desert heat did not have too much of an effect on the Autobots, but it did start to get irritating after an hour of the blazing stuff! Even transformers can take only so much heat.

"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen Autobots." Blaze's voice laughed.

All the Autobots got into a battle stance as they saw the five figures appear before them.

Hotshot quickly scanned the area and didn't see his sister and instantly got angry. Though he knew better than to just simply rush in without thinking.

A static form quickly shaped into Sideways, making the enemy six.

"So, we'll let you see your friends, then kill them before we kill you." Dawn said happily.

-- ? --

"I need to somehow get in contact with the others," Becca said to herself while once again pacing up and down in the darkness.

Starscream smiled a weak smile, watching the young human. Although in his own heart, he believed that there was no way he would be able to go back to the real world with her; he was touched by Becca's determination. One idea was all it took to spark hope again in her mind, and instantly she was thinking of a way to help him out.

"Darn it! I can't get out my human form in here." Becca cried in frustration.

She sat on the floor and folded her arms. Shutting her eyes tight, she began thinking as hard as she could, to get in touch with Hotshot and the others.

"Come on bro! Tell me that you can hear me! It's Dash! Respond!"

When her only response was silence, Becca punched the ground hard and the entire area shook. She fell backwards and looked around in shock, Starscream's guard was up, but after the shake everything returned to normal.

"Di-Did I do that?" Becca stuttered.

-- Battle Field --

Hotshot had launched himself and punched Dusk as hard as he could. All his rage was in that one punch and darn right it felt good.

"I swear if you don't give me back my sister, there's so much more where that came from!"

"Now, now. I wouldn't if I were you." Dusk laughed. An image appeared slightly above everyone, showing Becca and Starscream in the darkness. The two looked around and apparently could see them two, because they ran up close.

"Hey! Where's my body! I think I need it to get out of here!"

The Autobots could see Becca calling out something, but no sound was heard.

"They can't hear me," Becca sighed. She sat on the floor, curling on knees up to her chest. "I need Red to make you a temporary body."

Starscream quickly looked down at the human with wide optics, "What?"

"They're right inside me, kill me, you'll be killing them too." Dusk said.

"That must've been the shock earlier. Man, I was hoping I was just that strong." Becca said aloud to Starscream.

"Coward." Sideswipe muttered.

"I guess you could say that, but whether cowardly or not, you all know you can't attack me now."

"What do we do?" Hoist asked, directing his question more on Jetfire than on anyone else.

"Well," Jetfire started softly. "It's true we can' attack Dusk if Becca and Starscream are in there. But that doesn't give us any excuse to take out the other five first."

"How are we going to do that?" Scavenger said.

"Hoist, you remember that day by the Energon tanks?" Jetfire smiled.

"Um..yeah."

"Do you remember what happened?"

"Of course I do, but what does-" Hoist paused and thought back to the fight. "I get it!"

The others looked at them in confusion and Jetfire quickly, but quietly, explained how they may be able to defeat the The plan may only take down two opponents, but it all worked out, it'd take three or even four. They all knew it was a big risk, if it didn't work then that'd be the end.

"So Autobots," Dawn smirked. "What are you going to do?"

"Fight." Jetfire proclaimed.

"Ok, I'll take care of them. I can't stand this heat!" Tsunami grunted, walking forward.

"We just sit back and watch?" Sideways grunted.

Tsunami's form grew, so now he was in the shape of a human as tall as the Autobots. "I want to make this fair, so you won't whine that I had an advantage."

"Well in that case, there goes my plan," Blurr said saracastically. "I was planning to just step on you little insects."

"I told you we're not insects!" Shock shouted, sending a lightning bolt down from the clear blue sky. Blurr was quick to dodge the attack and he rolled to the side.

"Hey! I thought I told you that I was taking care of them Shock!" Tsunami shouted back, a vein popping out of his head.

"Shut up!" Shock retorted.

"Yoohoo," Jetfire waved his hand in the air, catching Tsunami's attention. Tsunami whipped around and saw Jetfire standing alone, hands on hips.

"What? Where did the oth-"

"Don't you worry about the others, I dare you to just take me on."

"Don't underestimate me Autobot!"

"I'm not, I never underestimate an opponent. Now come on, bring it."

Tsunami didn't hesitate at all and let out a large burst of water at the Autobot's leader. This was nothing for Jetfire who quickly took to the air and dodged several more blasts.

"You're going to have to do better than that to beat me!"

Hotshot, Sideswipe, Hoist and Scavenger had turned on cloaking devices that RedAlert had desgined. They were a fair distant away from the fight, lying on the hot sand just so it'd be harder to spot them. Hotshot and Sideswipe were on the right, they were more watching Dusk than anything else. Hoist and Scavenger were on the otherside, they kept their optics on the fight itself. They were the back up in case anything went wrong.

"Do we know how we're going to get them out of there yet bro?" Sideswipe whispered.

"Not really. We can't kill Dusk, and I'm afraid of what might happen if we even try to hurt him." Hotshot replied, slight irritation was in his voice.

"Can we talk to her?"

"What?"

"She's not far; do you think we could communicate to her from here?"

Hotshot 'blinked' at his younger friend lying next to him before saying anything. "Sideswipe , you're a genius!"

-X-

"Come on is that all you've got?" Jetfire taunted, quite enjoying himself.

"Stay (blast) still (blast) Autobot!"

"Alright Blurr, part one's done. Now it's your turn."

"Hey insect."

Shock looked around to see Blurr standing next to him. He instantly got angry and fired another bolt of lightning at the masked Autobot.

"Stop calling me an insect!"

"Shock you idiot!" Blaze shouted. "Would you just stay still."

Shock didn't listen to a word of his comrades', but followed Tsunami by also growing to the size of an average Transformer. He continued sending down lightning bolts, trying to hit Blurr.

Now the battle field was basically made up of blue and yellow streaks and two dancing Autobots.

"Looks like alls going according to plan." Hoist smiled.

"You're right, they are pretty stupid." Scavenger said.

"Those two are so stupid." Dawn said, shaking his head.

"Ah well, if they can't see it, they deserve to be destroyed." Dusk said coldly.

"DESTROYED?" Blaze shouted.

"Can you not see the Autobots plan?" Dawn asked, annoyed. "They're going to use Shock and Tsunami to attack each other."

"Those idiots!" Blaze quickly ran out onto to the battlefield, clearly not thinking.

"No you- urgh why do I bother." Dawn groaned.

"Now you just watch as they annihilate each other?" Sideways asked, looking down at the now remaining two.

Dawn didn't say anything, but looked at Dusk.

"Yes."

Ceestar: Even shorter I know! I'm sorry! Please review!