Hi everyone, those who have been readying this from the start will know that I very rarely don't post A/Ns in my storties unless there is something imporant that I have to tell you wonderful people who are given me the time to read my story.

At the current moment Avengers and the Book of the Dead is still a large project that I am doing here on . There is characters coming and going from many different fandoms and it was last night that I had remebered about ParaNorman: The Nightmare of Halloween which of course had Norman and also Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Chritsmas. The only character from those two fandoms that I have brought in has been Oggie Boogie and he has played a small part in the story as a whole and has become something as a minion for Seth the same can be said for Dalek Caan. I am planning on bringing Norman and Jack Skellington in but it's just a matter of finding when is the right time.

The past few chapters have not really been focusing on the Avengers, it has been Dalek Sec as he faces agaisnt Dalek Caan which to him was cutting any past connections he had to Dalek Caan who has sided with Seth.

The last chapter had focused on Galvatron going up against Shadowstalker. I had orignally planned for it to be Galvatron going up agaisnt Unicron as it had been setting up for that, but I changed it to be Shadowstalker later in the chapter. The reason for this is that is I will let you read on to find out what is really going between them.

I will be going back to the Avengers later on, but at the moment there is many different plot lines that I am going through that all have connections with the bigger plot which keeps growing as the story goes on as more characters come and go.

Chapter 24

"Unicron!" Nightshade shouted as she blasted a blast of dark blue lightning in front of the Chaos Bringer from Cybertron. She watched as Unicron transformed and with the afterburners in his feet he hovered above the ground as she used her wings to keep her balanced in the air.

"Nightshade, so nice to see you again! I do hope that you have come to tell me that you will stop me and Seth from our plans?" he asked her. He watched as she kept a good distance away from him. He smirked at the clear fear that Nightshade was showing towards him. He knew that the humans had a fear of the Devil and had been told of all the horrible acts that he had committed. It was noting compared to what he had done. He had caused wars and destruction to Cybertron in a way that the Mechs blamed each. This blaming game that he had seen before in Mech's like Megatron who blamed the new Prime at the time, Optimus Prime. The war that ensured had been like nothing he had seen in all the years that he had been in stasis under the feet of the creatures that Nightshade and the Autobots had vowed to protect.

Nightshade growled at him and glanced the claws on her forepaws. The sound of metal scrapping against metal that he had to look closely at the new designs that Primus had given her when he had helped her become free of the toxins of the Dark Energon. There was a few remnants of her old self and also Shadowstalker, who he still viewed as being one of the best creations he had created in the war. Shadowstalker was insane like Megatron had been during the war on Cybertron, but she had more protentional. Protentional that had been kept back by Nightshade who had been fighting all that time to get free from his hold. Shadowstalker also had Nightshade's abilities to face the dead and she had managed to control more Terracons than he could manage.

But there was always one problem when it came to Shadowstalker. And that was Nightshade. Nightshade's personality and core goals had still been there even if they had been twisted beyond recognition as he had used the Dark Energon to create a being that would get him the AllSpark. Now he had gotten rid of that weakness that he had found in Shadowstalker and she was now the second in command that he had hoped he would get from Megatron, but Megatron had been more for himself as he lead Cybertron down the path of war and he didn't like it when Unicron tried to tell him what to do.

Shadowstalker she was everything that he wanted in a follower. She listened to what he told her to do and she followed the orders. Now she was fighting against Galvatron in hopes of getting his former follower back on their side, but it looked like he needed to deal with Nightshade first before he went against Galvatron for the last time. He was finished with given Galvatron changes and if he did not accept to re-join him.

"No! I'm going to show you!" Nightshade snapped back at him.

Nightshade blasted another blast of blue lightning that Unicron was just able to avoid with a sudden blast from his afterburners on his feet. She snarled before she fired another blast of dark blue lightning back after Unicron. She snorted as she watched Unicron fly away from her before he slingshot back towards her.

"Shit!" she snapped as she folded her wings close to her body and dropped towards the ground. Above the tree lines she opened her wings and glided above the trees. Unicron's shadow passed above her as the F-18 got into position to bring fire on to her. Snarling again Nightshade melted into the shadows as she became a ghost.

"Where did you go? Have you come to your senses and know that I am way to powerful for you to defeat on your own!" Unicron shouted at Nightshade as she kept hidden in the shadows. "Do you not know who I am? I am Unicron the Chaos Bringer? You really believe that a petty creature like you can hope to survive against me and my wrath when many Mechs and Femmes have fallen to my temptation!" he shouted out to Nightshade again as she remained hidden from him and his sensors where bringing nothing up.

Unicron transformed back into his robot mode. His afterburners on his feet activated and he was once again hovered above the forest that was just underneath him. His purple optics scanned the whole area around him. He turned his back just as a black shape darted out of the shadows of the forest towards the dark clouds well above Unicron.

"I know who you are Unicron! And I always know that there is always a high change in a fight that I am not going to come!" came Nightshade's voice that drifted from all directions. Her voice was carried in the wind as she kept moving to keep out of Unicron's view. "But I can tell you that if you defeat me and I live on I will stand up and avenge the people who you had caused pain. I will also warn you that I wont be the last person to stand up to you!"

Unicron couldn't help the laugh that came out. "You think simple Mechs and Femmes, and even the organics will stand up against me? You are just as weak as the Prime himself!" he chuckled at Nightshade as she kept moving around him.

"You seem to misunderstand the normal folk, Unicron. I have seen so many people standing up to the likes of you. I have seen what they can do when they put aside their differences to make a difference when they go against power-hungry gods! Just like you!" Nightshade shouted back at Unicron. She remained hidden in the clouds as she waited for the right moment to strike Unicron.

"They are weak and useless all of them. Once they see that you have been defeated they will submit!" Unicron shouted back at Nightshade. His purple optics constantly searching for any sign of Nightshade, but the Dragonoid had vanished with no sign of her anyway. Snarling to himself he missed as Nightshade dropped out from the clouds behind. He felt searing pain in his back as he felt sharp claws slashing him in the back. A second later Nightshade flew by him and disappeared once again.

"Enough of these games!" he roared as he fired rockets that were made out of Dark Energon into the clouds in hopes of hitting Nightshade.

Nightshade dropped out of the cloud cover behind Unicron and blasted him with another Undead blast. The blast caused Unicron to shout out in pain before she vanished from view once again. She attacked him again from a different angle and with a different attack this time. She folded her wings close to her body before she dropped closer to the forest this time.

"I can play these games all day Unicron!" Nightshade shouted before a black inky mass formed Unicron causing him to drop to the ground. His optics that a second ago where glowing a bright purple had gone dark.

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Galvatron dodged Shadowstalker's claws as they slashed the air that had a moment ago been where his faceplate was. He took a few steps to keep his balance as he watched Shadowstalker land on the ground with a slight tapping of her claws. He could see Nightshade's movements in Shadowstalker. He had to remember that Shadowstalker was not Nightshade. He could feel Nightshade on the other side of the connection that had formed with her Curse Breaker in his Spark. The Curse Breaker that was repairing the damage that Unicron had done to his Spark back on Cybertron.

"You don't want to play with me?" Shadowstalker asked Galvatron. Again she kept giggling as she watched the former leader of the Decepticons keep a good distance away from her. His sword was out of its sheath and plasma canon mounted on his arm was glowing bright red.

"Hardly!" Galvatron snapped back at Shadowstalker. He was getting used to hearing the insane copy of Nightshade giggle like a schoolgirl. It was something that Nightshade wouldn't do.

"If you join with Unicron we can be together and have the best time in our lives as we serve our master. Think of the rewards that you can get from both Seth and Unicron. I can see him given you Cybertron as a reward. After all that's what you wanted!" Shadowstalker spoke as she slowly got closer to Galvatron. She yelped when his plasma canon was right in her face. "You're no fun!"

Galvatron snarled as he silently sent out a signal to the Moonray. He kept getting a dead tone from the AIs side. He had hoped that when Nightshade had told him that the Moonray was down she had meant only the jet, not the AI that controlled it. If the Moonray was down and the Avengers where handling important relics this would be the perfect occasion for Seth and his allies to attack them.

"Do you really not like me?" Shadowstalker asked in a broken voice. She had dropped to the ground so that her chin was resting on the damp grass that they were standing on.

"No I don't like you. You are the twisted and perverted version of someone I care about. You are nothing but an insult to the people who I call friends!" Galvatron snapped at her.

"What about yourself?" Shadowstalker asked him. Her claw was pointing at something or someone who was standing behind him.

Galvatron turned around and came face to face with Megatron. The Mech who Nightshade had been fighting for so many years and his Decepticons all emerged from the trees and formed a circle around Galvatron and Shadowstalker. There was Decepticons that Galvatron had not seen in eons that were still alive that he couldn't help but send the information to Nightshade through the bond.

/Izzy/

The strange response that Nightshade had send him caused him to raise his optic ridge as Megatron and Soundwave approached him. He stood his ground as the tankformer stood beside him and glared at Shadowstalker.

"So you are the creature that Unicron had created? I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own optics that the Chaos Bringer is using Starscream's body as a means of his plans!" he spoke to Shadowstalker. He was ignoring Galvatron as Soundwave watched over Galvatron to make sure that he did not do anything at all.

Shadowstalker giggled. "Yes my master had created me. I am a much better version of Nightshade but without any morals and codes. Which is the best type of life I must say! All I have to do is follow Unicron's orders!" she giggled back at Megatron. Her Dark Energon claws clicking against his throat. She giggled again when he pulled away. "Another Mech who doesn't want to play wit me! What a shame!" she giggled at Megatron before winking at Soundwave.

"Yeah she is not like Nightshade. Nightshade doesn't giggle like that or do any of this!" Frenzy told his brother Rumble. He yelped when Shadowstalker looked back at him.

Megatron cleared his throat and got Shadowstalker to look back at him. "You can tell your master that he had the whole Decepticon army against him. I am Megatron and I am not a servant to any Mech. It doesn't matter if that Mech is a Prime or if that Mech is a Chaos Bringer like Unicron!" he declared to Shadowstalker.

"Oh goody. I get to play with more Mechs!" Shadowstalker giggled at Megatron. She then took to the air. Her wings snapped open and she hovered above the ground. With no warning she blasted at both Megatron and Galvatron with her black lightning. Two Mechs had the same movement styles as they jumped aside and avoided the attack that Shadowstalker had sent their way. At the same time both Megatron and Galvatron had raised their plasma cannon mounted arms at Shadowstalker and fired at her.

Megatron looked around at Thundercracker and Skywarp, "Take to the skies and bring that thing down!" he commanded the two Seekers. The two Seekers transformed into their F-18 forms and took to the sky.

A loud roar broke the sky as a large robotic dragon dropped out of the sky. The Preadcon was twice the size of Shadowstalker and it used its greater size to pin Shadowstalker to the ground with its large feet.

"Get off you brute!" Shadowstalker demanded the large Predacon that had pinned her. Purple optics glared up at yellow optics as Troopers from Galvatron's dimension and formed a cirlce around Megatron's forces Their weapons aimed at the Decepticons and at Shadowstalker who remained trapped under Predaking.

"Thank you Predaking!" Galvatron told Predaking as he looked down at Shadowstalker who was trapped under the Predacons large foot. "Shadowstalker I am charging you witu crimes against the poeple of both Cybertron and Earth! You have assisted both Seth and Unicron and in doing so you have deemed yourself as an enemy of our people!" Galvatron told Shadowstalker with a commanding tone that he had used for years while dealing with backstabbers who had tried to overthrow his rule over the Decepticons. He was sure that Megatron had also used this tone to deal with his own Starscream.

Shadowstalker only burst out laughing again at what he had just said. "You are trying to be like Optimus Prime. You are hopping that if you help the Avengers and anyone else against Seth you will be redeemed for the crimes that you had done on Cybertron!" she stated to Galvatron. She had gone series as she glared at Galvatron with her purple optics.

"I have already been redeemed by the Mechs and Femmes of Cybertron!" Galvatron stated to Shadowstalker. He could feel his Troopers closing ranks closer to Shadowstalker as they waited for to make move against them.

Shadowstalker snorted air through her vents as she kept glaring at Galvatron. "Really? What about yourself? I can see as clear as day that you hate yourself. You had allowed yourself to get addicted to Dark Energon. You had allowed Unicron to use your body for taken Cybertron. The other Mechs and Femmes of Cybertron may have seen that you have redeemed yourself for your past sins but you have not!" Shadowstalker said with a smug glint in her purple optics.

"Shut up witch!" Galvatron roared. He aimed his plasma cannon and aimed it at Shadowstalker's head. "You have no right to tell me such things. I already know that I am marked with the Dark Energon that I had used to create an army of Terracons, but I have learned from my mistakes and I am working to clear out my body of the vile substance that is coursing through yours!" he roared at her as he kept his plasma canon aimed at her.

He couldn't help but send his hatred down the Bond that he had with Nightshade. He didn't know that he had let out the hatred that he was feeling towards Shadowstalker down to Nightshade until he felt a powerful current going through his Spark. The current caused his whole body to freeze and he found himself no longer in the Scottish forest but in a dark place.

/Galvatron/

He turned around to come face to face with Nightshade. She was not solid but was see-through like a ghost. She looked tired as she no doubt strained the Bond that had formed due to her powers to see them in the world that they were in at the moment.

/Nightshade/

He was about to take a step forward but found that he had walked into a wall that he had not seen before. He looked at Nightshade again to see that she was still where she had been a second ago.

/Galvatron, do not listen to what she is saying. She is trying to get into your helm. Do not let her. She wants you to make a mistake. Do not let her. Do not let her win/

The current stopped flowing and he found himself looking down at Shadowstalker. "Dreadwing!" he commanded his loyal second in command. The large blue and yellow Seeker approached his leader.

"My lord?" he asked as he stood beside Galvatron. He kept his optics on the Decepticons from this dimension as they mingled with their own troops. He still wasn't sure about working with them, but they had formed ranks around Galvatron and had watched his back as he stood face to face with Shadowstalker. He looked at the Dragonoid, more Predacon that Unicron had created to mock an old friend of Optimus Prime from this dimension to become a sadistic monster who took pride in playing mind games with her victims. Something that Nightshade did not do.

"Have your best Seekers secure Shadowstalker and transport her to UNIT Stirling. I am sure that Nightshade's forces will love to get their claws on her!" he ordered Dreadwing glaring at Shadowstalker.

"You think that humans can handle me! Ha! Your just as deluded as Nightshade and Optimus Prime. They seem to think that humans can do impossible things. Things that see them stand up against Gods!" came Shadowstalker's response. She was about to say something when a Seeker placed a muzzle over her jaws.

Shadowstalker twisted in Predaking's hold as she tried to get the muzzle off of her jaws. The large Predacon transformed into their robot form but he kept a good grip on her shoulders. Snarling through the muzzle she watched as a Seeker placed stasis cuffs over her wings. Instantly feeling drained she looked up at Galvatron as he approached her.

"Nightshade's forces are not just made out of humans there are few other races that make a bulk of her forces!" Galvatron told Shadowstalker in an empty tone as he watched the insane Dragonoid struggle in the grip of Predaking. "Take her away!" he ordered Dreadwing.

Dreadwing bowed and with a team of Seekers he lead the way for Predaking and Shadowstalker to follow after. The large blue and yellow looked once more at Galvatron before he disappeared into the open Ground Bridge.

Galvatron's attention returned back to Megatron. "What are you doing here?" he asked the leader of the Decepticons.

The Mech who transformed into a tank rather than a jet like Galvatron walked past Galvatron and towards the open Ground Bridge that was still opened after taking Dreadwing and Shadowstalker back to the base where the other Avengers were meeting up.

"I would have thought that a fellow Decepticon would have apricated the help of their leader!" Megatron told Galvatron when he looked back at the slightly taller Mech. "And also because we have a common enemy in the form of Unicron the Chaos Bringer. I am willing to put aside the War and aid you and your allies against him!"

Galvatron arched his optic ridge as he studied Megatron before him. Megatron had extended his arm outward for him to shake to show their agreement to work together. Taken the hand of this version of himself he shock it. "To defeat the Chaos Bringer!"

"To defeat the Chaos Bringer!" Megatron echoed with what Galvatron had said.

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Nightshade looked down at the prone body of the Chaos Bringer. The body that was of Starscream's was just another reminder of the damage that Unicron done to Mech's and Femmes who had touched his flames. She had never like Starscream at all over the years that they had crossed paths both on Cybertron and on Earth. To have Starscream becoming the punching bag that Unicron was using to carry out his and Seth's plans.

It had been to easy on taken him down. She may have been able to get the upper hand with trapping Unicron in his own mind. Normally to keep someone trapped under the Night Mare was easy that she could keep her enemy trapped in the nightmares for a few days, but for Unicron she could already feel the strain of keeping him under the nightmare. It was also not helping that she could feel Galvatron's emotions coming through the Bond.

"Nightshade!"

Nightshade looked around to see Kabuterimon landing behind her. Izzy jumped down to the ground and walked towards Nightshade. The young teenager was not afraid of approaching Nightshade and also the downed Mech. Nightshade knew that Izzy had seen and been through many things with being a DigiDestined, but she was not going to allow him to make a risk when it comes to Unicron.

"Stay back Izzy! This Mech is very dangerous and I am losing the hold on keeping him under!" Nightshade informed Izzy. She was happy to see that Izzy had taken notice of what she was saying. Kabuterimon had also taken a closer step towards Izzy as the large insect Digimon went to protect his human partner.

"Who is he?" Izzy asked as he looked over Nightshade at the Mech that was lying flat on the ground in front of Nightshade. He stood beside Nightshade but he soon found that Nightshade was keeping herself between him and the Transformer on the ground.

Nightshade looked from Izzy back to Unicron. The Mech that had caused Galvatron so much misery for years was now at her mercy. She could finish him off, but she also knew the balance that Unicron formed with Primus. She needed to think of something fast about dealing with him so they did not have to worry about having to deal with both Seth and Unicron.

The idea that came to her she knew was one that she was going to regret in the future but she really didn't have much of a choice. She looked down over at Izzy. "Have you got your laptop with you?" she asked him. She knew that it was foolish question that she had asked, but she wanted to make sure that she was slowly easing the boy into her world slowly.

"Of course. I take my laptop everywhere I go. It went with me to the DigiWorld and back!" he proclaimed to her. He removed his laptop bag that was on his back and placed it gentle on the ground.

"I am surprised that it has not been destroyed at all!" Kabuterimon spoke up. He was staying close to Izzy as they waited for something to either happen or not. He was not going to risk the chance of his partner getting hurt with his mum and dad waiting to hear from him in the next few days about what he had been doing. It was the agreement that they had made with Nightshade in order to keep him safe from the likes of Leatherback who was still out there.

"I watch out for my laptop pal!" Izzy told him. He powered up the laptop and looked back at Nightshade. "What next?" he asked her.

Nightshade looked back at Unicron for a second. He had not moved and he was still trapped in his own mind but he was starting to wake up. She had limited time to get the others to know of the series threat that they were facing. "Listen carefully to what I am going to say. This will allow you to get in touch with both the Autobots and Decepticons! We need their help. Unicron is someone that me and the pair of you can not contain for long!" she told him.

"I understand!" he replied and was ready for the programming that she had given him.

/This is Hound of the Autobot base. Please identify yourself young man?/ ordered a green Mech with bright blue eyes that had appeared on the screen of Izzy's computer. He had parts of a Jeep on his chest and on his shoulders he had the red symbol of the Autobots.

"My name is Izzy Izumi. I am one of the DigiDestined from Japan"! Izzy told Hound. He looked up at Nightshade who nodded her head before she let out a grunt. "I am with Nightshade at the moment who gave me the programming to get in touch with the Autobots!" he told Hound.

/Nightshade? Is everything okay with her? Has that Mech Galvatron done something to her like Red Alert predicted? Wait until Ironhide hears about this!/ Hound ranted into the chat room that had been created between Izzy's laptop and the main computer of the Autobots base.

Nightshade let out another grunt followed by a hiss. "Its not that Hound! I need you to get Prime NOW!" she shouted at the green scout of the Autobots.

Hound vanished from the screen and he was replaced by a large red Mech with a blue helm and a battle mask covering his face. His bright blue optics studying Izzy who was staring with fasciation at the large Mech who was slightly smaller than Galvatron from what he could see of the Mech that was before him. Hound had also returned to the screen and was looking with worry as to why Nightshade had called them when she was still raw with what Wheeljack had done.

/Nightshade what is wrong?/ Optimus asked after a moment of silence.

"Unicron!"

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The Ark, Autobot Base- Nevada

Hound looked at Optimus Prime as the leader of the Autobots stared at the screen where they could see Izzy retreating to hide behind a tree at the order of Nightshade. They had both stepped back when Nightshade had mentioned Unicron's name.

"Do you think this is one of Nightshade's jokes? A joke to get back at what Wheeljack had done with Spike?" Hound asked Optimus. He was not taken his optics off of his leader as he waited for the response that would see them going to Nightshade's aid to see what was really going on.

Optimus dragged air through his vents. He looked at the floor as he thought of the last encounter they had with Nightshade and Galvatron. She had made it clear that she had not agreed with what he had allowed Wheeljack to turn Spike into a Sparkling after the damage that had been done to him at the hands of the Decepticons. After that event Nightshade had not even got in touch with them at all, he did know that she was busy with helping the Avengers in dealing with Seth.

He knew that with Nightshade being the leader of the Guardians there was always going to be a chance that he was not going to hear and see from her in a long time. There had been times when he had not eard from her in many years and had thought that she had meet an end lke other Guardians over the years.

"Nightshade is not one for playing pranks like this. I trust her in that if she says that Unicron is on Earth and then we need to give her aid!" Optimus told Hound.

"I'll gather a scout team!" Hound told Optimus.

He started to walk away from the Prime but Optimus spoke up before he could get away, "No Hound! We need all the Autobots!"

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Unicron punched Nightshade in her head. The force of the attack had forced Nightshade to take a step back and away from Unicron. Unicron took this moment to slam Nightshade against the closet tree to them. The metal that made her head made little work of the tree as it crushed under her weight.

"Electro Shocker!"

Unicron stepped back and glared up at the Digimon that was hovering in the sky above him. He snarled and fired a blast at the Champion level Digimon. He snarled once again when the laser went wide with the Digimon moving out of his reach.

"Stand down Starscream!"

Unicron turned around to come face to face with Optimus Prime. The Autobot leader was surrounded by the other Autobots who had all their weapons aimed at him. He couldn't help but scof at the Mechs who had come to Nightshade's aid.

"I would stand down if I were Starscream but I am not!" he declared before he vanished in a purple vortex.

Optimus watched Jazz and Prowl help Nightshade back to her feet. "What's going on?" he asked her.

Nightshade managed to look innocent and guilty as she said, "I'll explain later!"

Wow. That was way longer than I had expected when I had first thought of the chapter.

I want to explain a few things. Galvatron along with Dreadwing and Predaking are all from the Transfomers Prime Cartoon. The other Transformers they are from the original cartoon from the 80s and no I was not even born when that was showing.

I also want to make you all aware that I am setting up a Pateron. So if you want please join me at /FantasyScribeI hope to see you all there.