The ground shook enough to cause a minor earthquake as a huge shadow overtook the beach. A sudden sea green servo slammed down onto the sand, leaving a good imprint as another overlapped it once it lifted off. Four arms dragged its body and tail quickly across the beach. The sea dweller had no legs so crawling was its only mode of movement on land.
Bermuda roared and stomped through the sand with a snarl, her fish-like tail and her fins swaying from the harsh movements. She could have been mistaken from a distance as a mermaid, but the mermaids of legend were half-human in appearance as would sing to lure their victims. This mermaid could tear ships apart with her jaws and would rather hunt than lure, even the smaller ones would as well. Then again, mermaids weren't real but Leviathans were.
She was a Queen Leviathan, or ex-queen as she had lost her hive, native to the water world of Aquatron. The Quintessons may have been a huge threat to Cybertronians but the waters there held creatures that even they feared. Queen Leviathans like Bermuda roamed the vast planet in the depths will their school of Leviathans they ruled over. Each hive of Leviathans had one queen and while normal Leviathans ranged from about as big as a normal Cybertronian to Predacon size, the Queen Leviathan was almost as large as the Omega Sentinels Cybertron had. They were the ultimate aquatic predators. But like all predators, an invasive rehousing on a different planet was not good and for Earth, this Queen was not doing the ocean's ecosystem any favors.
Antagonizer gave a hefty rumble as she rotated herself to turn starboard, her rows of cannons charging and locked onto the moving target. The chains preventing each cannon from jolting backwards in chaos after a shot strained their bounds as the guns fired, smoke remaining behind as the blasts lit up the beach side. She huffed when her target managed to dodge almost every round except two which hit her waist and one of her upper arms, resulting in a loud bellow. The large monster slowed a bit from the damage.
"Good girl, Antagonizer!" A voice called to her. Her enlarged beak twisting wood to mimic a smile as her blue fire-lit lamps in the holes of her upmost hull that acted as her eyes widened, the chains steering the lamp moving towards her master's position. Having practically all 180 monocular vision, only her right optic was able to glance gleefully and track him.
The target of her orders roared and fled across the beach, Max in deadly pursuit. Activating his wrist communication, he smiled, "Alright Kia, it's time to make Bermuda slip back into her pool. Have Zeliria prepare the portal to transfer her back to her cell."
A coarse breath indicated she acknowledged him and he quickly shut off the line. Watching the four-armed Leviathan crawl mercilessly away from him, wagging its mermaid-like tail across the sand, made him smirk cockily. As if Bermuda could run from him on his territory. In water, that was a different situation altogether.
Her spiked Alien queen-like skull severed tree limbs caught from her rampage, sending some of them flying backwards for Max to avoid accordingly. Growing tired of the destruction, Max veered off to the left towards the trees, some broken obviously, and timed his jumps to accelerate off the remaining limbs before rebounding off the trunk of one to launch himself at the Leviathan's back.
She gave an ear-shattering cry of anger as Max landed next to her webbed spine appendages and used his clawed gauntlets to keep himself from sliding off her. Arrogantly, she turned the curve of the beach sharply and followed her momentum to do a quick barrel roll to crush the annoying Guardian. Rolling back over and continuing on, Bermuda narrowed all four green optics in suspicion. Max had never been easy to kill unlike the other pests. Her confusion led to spiteful surprise when she felt the equivalent of a bug to a human scaling her.
Max managed to crawl to her neck and used her broad crown as a point of cover on her back neck which happened to be one of the few areas that couldn't touch the ground completely because of her helm structure. Considering this was the first time Bermuda of all creatures lowered herself to such a common tactic meant he was indeed becoming an absolute thorn in her side.
Aerobically climbing up to her helm wasn't an easy task, especially with the poor trees being desecrated by her charging form and pieces nearly falling on him along with the fact she was moving at nearly 80 miles per hour. Timing was everything as well as having the perfect angle with the points of access constantly wobbling. As he got to a high enough vantage, he moved onto her forehead which supported several spiraling designs highlighted an aqua green. She really was a beautiful design, a pity she was an asshole compared to her brethren who only committed such crimes if provoked and knew better than to mindlessly kill just because.
"Kia, we're approaching the Mastaba of the Sentinels. On my word, have Zeliria activate it on the southwest side beachfront."
Max carefully dwindled on the edge of her helm before attaching his gauntlet grapple to her closest horn and using it to lower himself to pose upside down Spider-Man style in front of her line of vision.
He grinned, "Did you miss me, your Highness?"
All four optics on her greenish-grey faceplates went wide and cross eyed to pinpoint the black, red, and gold form before they turned to barely visible slits of bright green. Fangs bared, her webbed ears rattled as she whipped her helm around, sending his line lashing around. He merely laughed at the joyride and swiftly found stable platforming to wall run around her form. Returning to nearly to his original area of grappling, he jumped off her neck and kicked her in the lower right optic, forcing the massive monster to slide trying to stop.
"Now!" He shouted seemingly into thin air.
A large portal opened revealing a rippling image of Zeliria's prison island, the Devil's Den, with a ghostly pale blue outline swirling around it. Retracting the grapple, he plummeted to the ground as Bermuda's eyes grew tenfold in alarm. She failed to halt in time and was sucked into it after breaching part of it. A last roar was heard as she disappeared, leaving Max to land on the beach on his backside before rolling quickly from his durability to recorrect himself into a predatory crawl backwards like a panther into a battle-ready pose.
The portal collapsed as fast as it appeared. Activating his subspace, he brought out his Compendium of Creatures and Monsters which he created and bewitched with Zeliria's powers to monitor all the known monstrous evils of Earth. Whenever a new monster was discovered, he hand-wrote the chapter on it and the book translated the writing to inked text automatically as it also did with drawings. The index held the names and chapter locations of each monster, but the way they were ordered were based on how deadly they were to Earth's citizens, maybe even to Cybertronians since the second deadliest had contact multiple times with them. The book automatically ranked them on his written content.
Three markings were found beside each name and as he opened it to glance at Bermuda who was declared the fifth deadliest on the planet, her red oval marking vanished and was replaced with a green check mark. Any monster that had a red oval had escaped or was yet to be captured in the Devil's Den. Those with green check marks were safely secured inside the prison island in their respective cells. Then there was the yellow triangle which only two had: Freddy Fazbear & Company and Bendy with his remaining crew members who were listed as one under Bendy's name. The triangle meant that the monsters were on the equivalent of parole meaning he watched over them and let them roam on Earth as long as they didn't cause too much chaos.
It took years for him to document some of the older villains, but the modern ones were much easier because the older ones were when he first started to hunt and imprison them. Bermuda, Tamatoa, Quetzalcoatl, Xibalba, and the Cybertronian Predator were the oldest known enemies though the latter of the five only awoke recently and was indestructible since no one had even been able to kill it when it ruled Cybertron as the top hunter. Circus Baby, Springtrap, Headless Horseman and Daredevil, Mama Dragon, and Krampus were newer compared to the others, but they held their ground rather well. There were more like the Cybertronian Demon and Doctor Satan, or Sharpsteel as he was originally called, and so on but those were middle ground because a lot of the remaining ones he didn't necessarily know how long they were around before he found them.
Closing the Compendium, another portal from Zeliria appeared and Max smiled as Kia hopped out. The dementor circled him fast enough to make him spin but not enough to make him dizzy as she eventually hovered slightly above him, her belt gear swaying slightly. The jewels embedded in her head glistened and pulsed as he grabbed her chin and pressed his forehead against her own as a sign of respect and love among family. She purred happily, rotating slowly in the air horizontally while keeping eye contact.
"I'd call that a day, huh?"
Kia nodded, brushing off her black cloak as if she got her skeletal hands dirty. As if.
The Guardian raised a brow but didn't comment on it, instead whistling out to open sea. In the distance closing fast, Antagonizer came roaring towards him. The wood and metal fused ship made a returning imitation of a whistle and made the dragon emblem on her sails rupture in a red light compared to her white sails. Her flag that bore the insignia of piracy flew high and proud, a reminder of Max's former life when he was alive and Antagonizer was merely his vessel.
Turning port side to align herself with the beach, Antagonizer's spiked pillars attached to the side curving vertically each individually bucked up and rattled like bug mandibles which was an immediate sign she was pleased. Since no crew steered her, Max didn't need to worry about her crashing and pressing forward too far. She could stop herself and align with the waves better than the advanced boats fishermen have now and days.
Petting her side, he laughed, "You did well today, my dear. Tracking Bermuda wasn't possible without you. Thank you."
Antagonizer gave a snort of approval before releasing a strand of rope for Max to climb. He clapped his metal gloves together, "Let's go have some fun as a reward for out hard work."
Both girls cheered and after the two boarded her, Antagonizer sped off using the upright mandibles on her hull to act as a limb and push herself from shore. They were able to break from her side and extend like spider legs to do a multitude of things including walk on land or help navigate land if she was extremely close to it from the water, very great for small space waterways. Afterwards, they sunk back into their slots from prior use and from what Max could remember, there were eighteen of them in total so nine mandibles on both sides.
She clicked her limb back into place as Max brought out his sword and pointed at the nearest star, "To the horizon and beyond, girls!"
AN: A little short but Bermuda is a difficult character to write considering her background. Her origin story, which i will write eventually, will dive into just what exactly her problem is.