"Arghhhh!"
"Sunstreaker! You okay!" Sideswipe asks.
"My gold plating! That triple changing moron scratched it! That's it!" Sunstreaker yells, with a slight whimper.
Blitzwing barrel rolls high above to begin another barrage, but Sunstreaker responds with two blasts from his incendiary rifle.
"Lousy Auto-Scum!" Blitzwing bellows.
"Quickly transforming into tank mode the warrior begins another barrage.
"Hold your ground Autobots! We can't let Megatron get away with this energon!" Prime commands.
Explosions, blaster fire, kicks, and punches are thrown about the battle field. The Decepticons are scrambling to get away with their energon cache. A red Porsche plows through the desert sands racing towards Bombshell and Kickback.
"On no you don't!" Cliffjumper yells while transforming.
Kickback and Bombshell lunge toward him. Acting fast Cliffjumper blasts Kickback back, but is unable to take down Bombshell.
"Time to go into permanent stasis lock Autoslag!" Bombshell yells.
Three photon blasts are shot into Cliffjumper.
As the battle rages the Constructicons and Combaticons are released form the Decepticon's desert base. The combaticons merge into Bruticus while the Constructicons attack the Autobot's left flank.
"Long Haul! Go to Bombshell and retrieve the Autobot Cliffjumper's body!" Megatron commands.
"Alright! Haul, haul, haul! I was looking forward to some action!" Long Haul responds.
Quickly following their leaders commands Bombshell throws the Porsche onto Long Haul's back.
"Now return his body to the base!" Megatron orders.
Cliffjumper is taken into the Decepticon base without notice.
Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Windcharger, and Ironhide are caught in Bruticus' onslaught. "Crush all Autobots!" Bruticus bellows.
"Windcharger transform and see if you can demagnitize one of Bruticus' connection junctions." Ironhide yells.
"On it." Windcharger quickly responds.
Swerving around the titanic mech Windcharger attempts to weaken Brawl and Onslaught's leg connection. The connection breaks and Bruticus falls face first to the ground.
"Good job Windcharger!" Sideswipe says excitedly.
The Autobots take on the individual combaticons.
Three seekers begin another strafing run on Hound, Mirage, Prowl, and Jazz. Hound transforms and leads Thundercracker's firepower away form the others. Hound quickly hits the breaks swerves around, transformers and fires a barrage of shots from his turret gun. Three shots make direct hits and Thundercracker falls to the ground. Jazz and Mirage both fire simultaneously at Skywarp's wings. Both blasts blow plating off of the seeker's wings. Prowl transforms and to dodge an assault by Dirge. Dirge sweeps around for another assault , but he's too late. Prowl already fired a shot form his acid pellet rifle. Dirge is forced to transform and land. Jazz responds quickly with a right hook.
Meanwhile within the Decepticon headquarters, Bombshell prepares a newly improved cerebro-shell to implant in the captured Autobot.
"This shell should emulate your personality rather well, but of course you'll be under Decepticon control hehehehe." Bombshell says.
"Arghhh let me go!" Cliffjumper barks while struggling to free himself.
Thousands of volts surge through Cliffjumper knocking him out. The cerebro-shell is placed on the base of his brow. As Bombshell waits for the scan to be completed he activates a near carbon copy of Cliffjumper, with the battle wounds of the original.
"Hey, Bombshell your thingamajig is done." Long Haul states.
"Excellent."
Bombshell detaches the device and implants it in the Cliffjumper copy.
"Long Haul get him back to the battlefield!
After Long Haul dumps the clone Megatron orders a retreat and the Autobots notice the wounded Autobot.
"Whoa. Ratchet! Cliffjumper needs some assistance stat." Bluestreak says.
Quickly transforming Bluestreak and Ironhide help the mech into Ratchet's back.
Back at the Ark Cliffjumper regains consciousness.
"Who wha where am I!" Cliffjumper jumps up.
"Whoa there little guy you took quite a hit back there at the battle. We've got your wounds patched up." Ratchet said.
"Thanks."
Cliffjumper attempts to stand up and walk out, but he wavers upon standing up.
"Hey wait a minute there Cliffjumper! Where are you going?" Ratchet asks.
"Outta here! I'm feeling fine!" Cliffjumper spat.
As he exits the medbay he walks towards the bridge.
At the Decepticon headquarters the real Cliffjumper is waking up as well in a some what less welcomed manner.
"Decepticon holding cell huh? How'd I get here. Oh yeah that creep Bombshell caught me off guard." the red mech thinks to himself.
He looks done at his chest and notices some severe blaster wounds that are surrounded by coagulated energon.
"I've gotta get out of here... arggghhh OH! Okay maybe moving wasn't such a bright idea."
Outside the holding cell Astrotrain and Rumble stand guard.
"Sounds like the puny Autobot finally woke up." Rumble says while glancing at the monitor.
"Megatron to Astrotrain what is the prisoner's condition?"
"He's barely moving at all Megatron. Hopefully he'll act up so I can inflict some real pain on him." Astrotrain says.
"I want him kept in that cell at all costs!" Megatron orders. "Bombshell, is the new program active?"
"Yes. We're able to see into the Ark and proceed with phase two of your plan."