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Battle
"Autobots, attack!" Rodimus yelled as he fired on Galvatron.
The other Autobots fired at the Decepticons insuring that they would not interfere with their new commanding officer's fight. After a short fire fight between the two forces Galvatron launched himself straight at Rodimus, knocking the young Prime to the ground.
"Pathetic." He growled, smirking.
Rodimus ignored him as he maneuvered his leg under Galvatron and kicked him off quickly getting to his feet. Now totally ignoring Galvatron he dodged a surprise attack from Scourge.
"I think you're getting slow Scourge" Rodimus laughed as he kicked him in the abdomen causing the Decepticon to crumple. He was so preoccupied with his current opponent that didn't see Galvatron launch himself at him.
"Prime! Look out!" Hot Shot called out franticly as he tried desperately to get to his leader's side, not wanting to lose another Prime so soon. The other Autobots turned at Hot Shot's cry to watch in horror as Galvatron transformed to his Iron Mammoth form and fired on Rodimus just as the young commander turned to face the oncoming blast.
All around the battle field time seemed to slow for both Autobots and Decepticons as they watched the attack ark its way towards the young leader, who realized that he would never be able to evade the blast. He could only hope that he survived. However, what neither team noticed was a large form moving towards the two combatants. It wasn't until the mysterious form slid between the blast and Rodimus on one knee and raised a shield with the utterance of the phrase 'Deflector shield' was he noticed and recognized.
Suddenly the passing of time seemed to snap back to normal as the blast hit the shield causing the large transformer to slide backwards a few feet as the attack ricocheted off the barrier and back at Galvatron hitting him in the chest and causing the Decepticon commander to stumble off the cliff face behind him. A shower of rocks, knocked lose in the blast, showered down on the stunned form.
The Autobots regarded the two remaining forms in shock. They had been certain that Galvatron's attack was about to render them leaderless once more. Rodimus absorbed the surprise a bit better than his troops, simply standing there staring at the back of a familiar Autobot.
"Rapid Run, great timing," He said with obvious relief on his face and in his voice.
Rapid Run just turned and smiled. "Any time sir, we already had one death this month, we don't need another."
"Right," Rodimus said as he stepped around Rapid Run who merely stood to take up a guard position behind his leader. The rest of the Autobots formed up ranks around the pair. Rodimus looked down at Galvatron as the annoyed Decepticon worked to extract himself from the rubble.
"I think it's time you picked up your toys and went home Galvatron!" Rodimus yelled.
The 'Con in question regarded them with a glare and a disgruntled growl.
"Who are you?" He demanded.
"I'm afraid Galvatron, you're just going to have to figure that one out for yourself, but since you are obviously not intelligent enough to put the pieces together on your own I'll give you a clue. Look for what is missing." Rodimus said with an evil glint in his optics.
"What do you mean?" The Decepticon growled angerly.
"Just what I said." Rodimus said with a laugh as he brought up his rifle "Goodbye."
"Autobots, fire!" With that Rodimus and his Autobots attacked, giving the Decepticons no to time to even think of retaliation.
Galvatron, seeing defeat close at hand, transformed and took to the air.
"Do not think that this is over, dear Rodimus Prime, I will have my revenge no matter who you are. Decepticons, retreat!"
"Now that was a show," X-Brown commented as he watched the Decepticons retreat into the distance, "Is anything more satisfying then that?"
"No, I don't think there is." Rodimus said as he looked at his older brother grinning, who just laughed as he clapped Rodimus on the back.
"Well that was truly an interesting way to start off your leadership." Hot Shot complimented as the rest of the spy changers nodded in agreement.
"Yes it was, but I owe a debt of gratitude to Rapid Run here, if it wasn't for him I would most likely not be standing here right now celebrating this victory with you." Rodimus said with a smile as he turned to Rapid Run.
"It was nothing, just doing my job." He muttered.
"No it wasn't, what you did could have easily back fired if you had been just two seconds later then you were. For your excellent timing and your bravery I am giving you the day off tomorrow, so use the time how ever you like, and thanks once more for your courage." Prime said.
The rest of the Autobots cheered as Rapid Run got a sheepish look on his face.
"Now let's all get back to work showing those Decepticons we are anything but defeated." Prime smirked as he turned towards a newly opened space bridge only to stop as he heard a familiar sound on the nearby road. Turning to look he found a classy red sports car come driving by. What he didn't see was the rest of the Transformers behind him tense watching their new leader closely. Some wondered if he was going to do something stupid and reckless, others now questioned if the Matrix had truly chosen the right 'Bot for the job. Rodimus himself was watching the vehicle drive by with slight shock; for the first time since he had came to Earth he had no urge to go chasing after the fancy red car.
'Huh, I guess when the Matrix changed me it altered that aspect as well,' Rodimus thought to himself, 'but then again Sideburn was my past life, I have a new one now, one that won't allow me such silly hobbies.' He thought as he visually stood up straighter watching the car go down the road 'I'm an Autobot commander now, no matter how much I wish it wasn't me. I can't do the stuff I was able to before, I am no longer Sideburn, but Rodimus Prime. I must be a good leader, if nothing else but to honor Optimus's memory.' With that in mind he turned back to his troops who where watching his unreadable expressions.
"Let's get back to work." He finally said after meeting all their eyes. "Autobots, transform and roll out!" he called as he put actions to words and transformed to his new semi form and rolled off towards the space bridge. The others followed, now with mixed feelings, wondering what kind of leader Rodimus was truly going be, but thankful that he didn't seem to have his old obsession that had gotten him into trouble more then once. They could only guess at what the future would hold in store for them and the Earth as they split off heading for there patrol routes.
Authors P.O.V.
Sorry about the lateness of this chapter, I hope you like this newest one and I hope to have the next one up as soon as I can, Please read and review, oh and if you really want to be mad at some one blame it on my beta, took her forever too read over it, gave it to her last week. He he so please review, Me love reviews, they cool he he he.
