Chapter 23: The Crew of the Nemesis

Galvatron looked over at all the gathered Mechs and Femmes who were coming with him and Nightshade to Animatron. Nightshade had voiced that she didn't trust the Decepticon members of the crew who were coming with them, but he couldn't help but understand where Nightshade was coming from. She was still fighting the Decepticons in her dimension. He was glad that she was not putting her conflict in the way of this mission. When he and Nightshade were only still getting to know each other she had told him that she would be at his side until he had felt that he had redeemed himself for everything that he had done. Going to Animatron he felt was just another step of him redemption that he and Primus had agreed upon.

Then there were the Avengers. He had joined their ranks along with Nightshade and a few others after the fight against Ultron and his army of drones at Sokovia. Earth had been saved but at the cost of Sokovia. He had felt nothing but sorrow for the poeple of Sokovia who had lost their city and their loved ones all at the same time. That was something he had not wanted to see again after everything he had done to Cybertron and the Earth from his dimension. Wanda, a new member of the Avengers had been taken under the wing of Nightshade after the destruction of Sokovia and the death of her twin brother he had not meet during the battle against Ultron. Nightshade had even started a few basic lessons for her to get a grasp on her powers that everyone was afraid of. Nightshade and Vision were not afraid of Wanda, something that was knew to the young human adult.

"Boss?" asked Barricade a Mech that Galvatron had known for years spoke up. It was enough to get Galvatron to look at all the gathered Mechs and Femmes who were coming with them to Animatron. They were all looking at him waiting for his orders to load into the Nemesis. Nightshade had argued strongly that the Moonray should have been used since it was much faster, but he had shot her down. The Moonray was needed in a few things back on Earth when Nightshade was away. Nightshade had been reluctant but had agreed that the Nemesis was the best thing that they needed for this mission.

The Nemesis had always been his flag ship it had caused great damage to the City States of Cybertron and had then been his base when they were exiled to Earth. The Nemesis would be used to take them to Animatron and it would also be the much needed force if Scourge is not in a chatting mood. And he knew the Predacon that was never the case. Scourge was always looking for a fight. No wonder Predaking and Grimlock had both been having problems in trying to get the Jungle Planet free from his rule.

He stole a glance towards Nightshade to see that she was standing beside Predaking. The two had no doubt been talking about battle plans as Predaking looked ready to take Scourge on in a fight against him. Nightshade, he knew that look. That was look of someone who had a plan that involved small moving parts for it to work.

Grimlock and the Wreckers were not far away from them. The Autobots on finding out that Nightshade was an Autobot from another dimension had welcomed her a lot better than before. It had also helped that many had seen her fight Unicron's forces when he had tried to take the Core of Cybertron. They had even seen her take control on a good two hundred Terracons without losing focus on her battle tactics. That in itself had caused her to be welcomed by the Wreckers like Wheeljack, but not Ultra Magnus. The strict Mech still watched her as if she was a wild Predacon. Nightshade had been quick to tell him that she was not a Predacon but what in fact an alien creature known as a Dragonoid. That was laughed at by many until Nightshade had shifted into a one eyed tiger creature that had been too fast for any of the Wreckers to catch. The next form she took was a massive dinosaurs. When the young human allies had been asked about the dinosaur they had no clue.

Nightshade had explained that she was the only one of her kind who can shapeshift like the way that she had done due to magic and technology. She had explained that before she had meet Orion Pax before he had become Optimus Prime that she had not even the ability to transform. It had been during the early years of the War had she been given the ability to transform. It had been Shockwave who had given her that ability. The Shockwave from her dimension had captured her and had carried out a series of experiments on her. It had been during these experiments that Nightshade's shapeshifting abilites had been activated.

He had only seen a few of Nightshade's forms and those few forms that she had used during her many fights against Unicron and then Ultron. There had been her jet form that she had used to travel a lot faster than in her true form. Its afterburners had been designed for speed and had been altered so many times for reasons that Nightshade had not shared with him. During the fight against Ultron, Galvatron had seen Nightshade humans form which he had seen when they had first meet. There was also the one eyed tiger form that she had informed the Mechs and Femmes that were present that it was called a Grimm. Raphael had done a search on the creature for both Earth and Cybertron Myths on the Grimm and found out that it was the omen of Death. Jack and Raphael had been shocked that a hero from another dimension had taken the form of a creature that was the symbol of death to both Earth and Cybertron. Miko however had been annoying Nightshade ever since the end of the meeting that they had with the New Cybertronian Council. It was only know that Nightshade was able to get away from the teen who had only wanted to know more about the supernatural world that Nightshade dealt more in than any other Avenger. The other form that he had seen was the white dinosaur, that no one not even Nightshade could name.

"Get everyone ready Soundwave! We are leaving as soon as possible!" Galvatron said to the faceless Mech. The faceless Mech nodded his helm before he went to get the other Mechs and Femmes who were joining in the mission. The Mechs and Femmes who had already been gathered. He then looked over at Nightshade and Predaking. "I take it the pair of you have come up with a plan or are we going in with no plan at all?" he asked the both of them but he was looking at Nightshade mostly.

Predaking snorted. "We have and there is to be no fighting!" he grumbled as he to looked over at Nightshade. "It must be a Dragonoid thing!" he said to her as she stopped before Galvatron.

The Dragonoid took to sitting down like a massive car. Her tail wrapped around her front paws with the tail fine that she was still getting used to was folded up into an angle that was better manageable in such tight space. "It should have been the first thing that you and Grimlock had done as soon as you made planet fall! I want to see what Scourge thinks of himself before we go any further and to see if there is a weakness in his society that he has created!" she replied looking at Predaking. The leader of the Predacons snorted once again and shock his head before he along with Darkstyle and Skylinx walked into the Nemesis. The Dinobots followed after the Predacons, with Grimlock given Nightshade one last look before he lead his team into the massive Battlecrusier.

"What are you planning Nightshade?" Galvatron asked her. He hoped that it would not be something daring and be as quick as possible. Like her, he wanted to get this wrapped up as possible to get back to Nightshade's dimension. The threat that Seth was carrying around was something that he did not like. Plus that he was the Avengers greatest threat that made HYDRA and AIM look like children's playthings. When Seth was no longer an issue for him and the others he didn't know what else he would do. Would he go back to his dimension and stop other planets that are still under Deception rule? Would he go back to his dimension to go into exile on a dead planet? Would he stay in Nightshade's dimension even after the Curse Breaker has finished its work and Seth is no longer a problem? He knew that the Curse Breaker would take its time. It was something that did not happen over night. The curse that Unicron had placed on his Spark had been complicated that it took a great deal of Primus's powers to crack it apart and to start the healing process. Nightshade's Curse Breaker was finishing the curse off as Primus healed his Spark after the damage that Unicron had been doing for eons without anyone noticing.

"Like I said I want to see what this Mech is all about. I think its best that the first time that I go to Animatron is by myself! Make it seem like I am passing through and get as much intell as I can get about him! I want to see if he will be swayed when he thinks he's not dealing with an Autobot or a Decepticon!" she replied. There was something that she was not telling Galvatron, but he didn't need to worry about that part. "If that fails then you, me and Ultra Magnus will be going down with a Dinobot and a Predacon! A small party! I will change my form so that Scourge wont be suspicious as to what is happening and see if he will come to his senses and stop his evil ways!" she explained her second part of her plan.

Galvatron arched an optic ridge as he walked towards his massive ship. Nightshade followed after him. The stomps of his pedes masked the scrapping of her sharp claws that connected with the metal ground of the loading dock as they both walked into the Nemesis. Behind them the other Mechs and Femmes who were coming on the mission. "What if this all fails? You must have a back up plan for everything that can go wrong?" Galvatron asked Nightshade as they made their way to the bridge. Decepticon troopers walked backwards and forwards as they done their rounds and got the massive Cybertronian Battlecrusier ready to take off.

Nightshade made a noise that could only be a chuckle. "Of course I do! I always have a back up plan for nearly everything that I plan!" she replied as she kept walking on towards the bridge of the Nemesis.

"And what would that be?" Galvatron asked as he followed Nightshade. Barricade was right behind them with Ultra Magnus and the Wreckers not far behind. The Wreckers were much like the Dinobots and the Predacons. They wanted to go to Animatron and fight against Scourge and his allies. Ultra Magnus was the only Wrecker who agreed with Nightshade in not rushing in without a plan.

"That is where the Gladiator of the Pits of Kaon comes in!" she simple said before walking into the bridge to see all the assembled Mechs and Femmes. "And lets try to get this wrapped up as quickly as possible without starting an intergalactic war!" she said. She stepped to the side to allow a Trooper to a console that would control the massive ship.

Galvatron was about to say something to her when the Trooper who had walked past Nightshade spoke up, "Sir we are ready to take off!"

The former leader of the Decepticons and the leader of the Elemental Knights both looked towards the Trooper. "Take off!" Galvatron ordered. He never thought that he would be given that order again after all that he had been through. He had walked away from being the leader of the Decepticons and had become a member of the Avengers to help and defend the Earth from those who wanted to take it over. He had never thought that in all the chaos that was being caused by Unicron and Seth that he was back in his dimension and cleaning up the damage that he had caused to his race.

The vibrations of the massive engines soon filled the bridge as the Nemesis took off from the docking station. Galvatron watched in silence as Mechs who had been mere troopers worked to get the Nemesis up into the air. He watched as the Mechs and Femmes who were being a part of the mission went into groups as they planned their moves when they got to Animatron. Many of them had gone into their cabins to spend time alone. Shockwave had gone into his lab where he felt more comfortable in while the Predacons and Dinobots took what had once been the dungeons as their own.

"It will be a few sols that we get to Animatron!" Galvatron said. The large silver and black looked down at Nightshade to see that she was already walking away. "And where are you going?" he asked her. She didn't turn around but she did stop. "Nightshade talk to me!" he said when Nightshade did not look around to him.

"I am going to find a cabin where I can be alone for sometime and then once we are closer to this Jungle Planet I am going to go ahead to go through with phase one!" she replied. She started to walk again and within a matter of seconds she was out of the bridge and was heading towards the cabins.

Galvatron arched an optic ridge as he stared at where Nightshade had been only a few moments ago. He knew that there was something else that Nightshade was not telling him. He had a feeling that it was something that Nightshade would share with him when she was ready. That was if she was going to share it with him. He had learned that Nightshade kept a lot of secrets from those that she considered allies only letting them out when they were needed to be known.

Venting air through his systems he turned back around to being the commander of the Nemesis. "Set a course for Animatron!" he ordered. Once the order had been given a Space Bridge had opened. They would be at Animatron sooner than he had told Nightshade, but that was because he wanted to go and speak to Scourge before Nightshade. This was his fault and it should be him that was dealing with it. This should not be fallen to Nightshade. He felt that the Dragonoid should not be cleaning up his messes.