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Megatron looked over the ruins of Kaon, a city already ravaged by the scores of war and battle, now lay in dust.
Decepticons were laying injured, some in Stasis, some having gone beyond that due to many a factor. He looked up at the building that used to be his quarters, which was now a smoldering wreck.
The Devastator lay on the ground, having since fallen due to it's cracked Knee joints and the like, it now aly, sparking, with the bodies of around thirty or more Decepticons laying under or around it. So many Decepticons lost, so many resources had been destroyed as well. Megatron didn't even turn his head, as Starscream came toward him, dragging his feet a little due to his injuries.
"Well my liege, this is an interesting set back," The seeker said and Megatron growled softly in response.
"Not to worry though, I am certain that we can raise Kaon up into a mighty fortress once again, perhaps with uh, a little more fortress than a cityscape." He said with a grin, as Megatron gave him a glaring look but Starscream held his ground, mostly due to his injuries, which the seeker noted, Megatron only had cracks and blast marks in his armor, most of the other Decepticons had much worse. Starscream scowled a bit but then looked up, when he saw Blackout racing toward them both, crashing into the ruins of several buildings while Transforming and coming to a landing directly in front of Megatron.
"Forgive me oh great Megatron," he said, bowing slightly. "I was low on Energon and I couldn't even transform properly, if I had been here the Autobots would have been pounded into sheet metal to use to construct you a throne that I myself would build!" He said aloud, as Megatron gave an annoyed look. It was one thing to have loyal minions, but if Lugnut and Blackout ever went to battle over who was more loyal to Megatron it would become a war.
"The past is behind us Blackout, right now we need clean up and recovery, I want you to find all injured Decepticons and get them to Knock Out and Flatline for repairs, we will need the labor power to reully rebuild Kaon."
Blackout stood up and nodded. 'At once Lord Megatron." He said and walked away from the two, the ground shaking underneath them.
"And I find another reason to be glad that Lugnut is stationed on Cybertron's southern belt." Starscream said smirking.
THen he saw Thundercracker and Skywarp limp past, Thundercracker supporting Skywarp, though Thundercracker himself looked on the verge of collapsing into a pile scrap metal.
"You did a slagging good job of avenging me there TC," Skywarp said with a mocking scowl. "I bet that you showed those Autobots not to mess with seekers."
"Shove it up your aft." Thundercracker responded, Energon spilling from his mouth. as he straightened out his jaw.
As they trudged past Breakdown rolled up in Vehicle mode and Transformed, revealing the betan form of Soundwave in his servos. "I found him outside the city Lord Megatron, he looks pretty bad."
Every Decepticon in the area stared in awe at the sight of Soundwave looking like that. The Decepticon communications expert had been well known, for being able to hold his own in a fight.
As Megatron walked over, he placed a servo on Soundwave's chest plates. "Soundwave, do you still function?" he asked
Soundwave looked at Megatron, and his visor flickered a bit and he nodded, before letting his head thunk back to the side but he managed to snap off a salute.
Megatron nodded and looked at Breakdown "Get him to Knock Out's, as fast as you can." Megatron ordered, Breakdown, noded and began walking away. As he did, Megatron turned his head back towards the remains of the Devastator and narrowed his optics.
The thing had been a very powerful warrior indeed, even it was a drone, however it had also failed to destroy a single Autobot in it's rampage, and had managed to reduce kaon to a further rubble.
As Counterpunch came up to him, he looked at her. "And where have you been this whole time?" He asked, staring her down
Counterpunch gulped and snapped off a shaky salute. "I was caught near one of the initial bomb blasts and was knocked into stasis, sir."
Megatron paused, considering her story, he had after all, seen her appear and gun down her sister Punch, and if luck held out, she might be the only Decepticon to have killed an Autobot that day.
Megatron, gave a nod before turning and looking towards Shockwave's tower. His gaze hardened as he looked into the sky, where the missiles were could still be seen, retreating from Cybertron's atmosphere.
As More and more Decepticons pulled themselves from the rubble, he began to make his way toward the Devastator, and used his still damaged jets to fly up and onto it's back.
As he landed he raised his cannon and shot it into the air.
"Decepticons, heed my words!" he ordered. "While Kaon is now in ruins, and it appears that the Autobots may have won, we are still victorious!"
All the Decepticons in the area turned to look at him with more gathering nearer and near to Megatron's location.
"As of this very moment we have projectiles on their way to seed a selected world and place Energon onto it,in a matter of deca cycles they will impact and the planet shall be seeded with Energon beyond our wildest dreams!"
Megatron, lowered his arms. "Let us put the past behind us, for we shall soon be rejoicing in a new tomorrow!"
The assembled Decepticons began cheering, well the ones that could anyway, some were too injured or just uninterested in Megatron's speech
"I can promise you this my loyal Decepticons, soon we shall not have to worry about war, for soon, victory shall be in our grasp and the Decepticons shall get what they deserve!"
From his tower, Shockwave watched the events unfold from his monitor, if he could he would have frowned, even now with Kaon in ruins Megatron hadn't lost much respect from the other Decepticons. In fact, it seemed he may have actually earned even more respect!
"With the Energon that we shall gain, no one shall dare challenge us anymore, the Decepticons will be victorious!" Megatron called out and the Decepticons began cheering in full now.
Shockwave clenched his fist as he galred down at Megatron.
Today had been a success, and a crippling failure, A successful Test run of a Devastator and what he needed to fix, and the Energon was launched into the stars.
And a failure in that Megatron was not dead and Devastor had fallen to enemy weapons fire and would need extensive retooling to survive heavy Autobot assault, despite the armor of the individual Constructicons had held, the joints and weapons systems had been the gestalt's undoing.
Shockwave stored over toward his consul's and activated a hologram for the missiles that he had just sent rocketing into the atmosphere, as he readied their progress he looked at a set of controls supposed to be used in case of complications and should the rockets be needed to be destroyed. In a flick of a switch he could easily destroy the missiles,blame the Autobots, and make Megatron look like a colossal failure.
However, in the end what good would that do for him? He ran on Energon too, and the rockets were also his hope for survival as well.
Shockwave stared at the screen and emitted a sigh from his exhausts. While Megatron hadn't been removed from the picture today, his time would end soon.
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Autobot City: Ratchet's Medbay.
The Autobot Medical facility's were well renowned for it's repairs, even some of the most fatal injuries had been repaired at this medical center.
Though at times the staff left much to be desired, as the head medical officer Ratchet had a bit of a tendency to explode if provoked.
Right now however, the Medbay was full and barely a sound could be heard beside the welding of metal and the whirs and hum of tools.
Optimus Prime sat on a med bay, one of the last damaged out of the Autobots on the mission, he had made sure that his repairs came last. Next to him stood Roadbuster, Hound, Prowl, Cliffjumper,Arcee and Bumblebee.
On the medical table next to Bee, Sari lay with Energon pumps fueling into her body due to the massive drain that had been taken on by her hacking and next to her lay Jazz, who was undergoing repairs from First Aid.
Ratchet himself was working on Dogfight and Bluestreak, the most heavily injured in the battle, while Dogfight was the second most injured, he was unable to move much at all. Ratchet was far from an old grizzled war veteran that many people assumed, he however had a bit of a temper that could flare from time to time.
As he worked, Optimus walked over. "Ratchet, how is he doing?" Optimus asked, and then ducked down as Ratchet threw a piece of pipe over his head.
"Well, his spark has some pieces of shrapnel near it, and almost entering his spark chamber, it will take me a while to get repairs done, and it would help if some bots didn't keep making noise!" Ratchet snapped at the prime, before grabbing another pipe from a pile of old pipes that sat next to him, kept there to throw at people who interrupted him.
"And what about Dogfight, is he going to make it?" Override asked, as she yelped, a pipe clanged into her arm.
"Unlike Bluestreak, he wasn't blasted through the chest, and most of his damage is structural, I'll fix him once I ensure that we will have Bluestreak around for a while longer." Ratchet said, before looking at Bee and Arcee,
"In about five cycles Sari should be fine, the Energon fusers need disconnecting," He said, looking over the tiny fem. "Minerva, I need you over here!"
From Across the medbay, a fem appeared, decked out in the same White and Red color scheme as most medics, with a slim figure, and two large antee sticking up from her helm.
She raced over to Ratchet, and nearly tripped over her peds in a hurry and reached Ratchet, and then nearly fell onto his pile of pipes.
Like Ratchet, Minerva was a medic, in training, she was Ratchet's apprentice and while she had limited knowledge in field medicine she knew a surprisingly lot of information about dodging blows.
"Sari's completed her Energon transfusion," Ratchet said. "I need you to stop the flow and disconnect the hoses."
Minerva gave a curt nod and walked over to the table, and gave Jazz a small smile, which the trainee returned, before she got to work on Sari.
Ratchet looked over the Autobots that were still watching him and waiting for the others to get done. "Ya know, I scanned you all when you first came in, your damages are mostly shell, you don't need to be here, clogging up this med bay and keeping me from getting my work done." He said, shooting a glare toward Optimus which said, Translation: Get the frag out of here.
Optimus nodded as Minerva finished unhooking Sari, and handed her to Arcee, who smiled. "Thanks Minerva." She said, and then Minerva stuck out her arm, and then a pipe ricocheted off of it.
Optimus walked toward the door and ushered the other Autobots to follow after him, Arcee was the first one out the door, followed by Bee and Cliffjumper, Hound shared a fist bump with Jazz, and Roadbuster scraped against the doors,and several pipes hit him in the back.
Prowl paused and shot a glare at Ratchet. "I don't see why your head medic if all you do is throw pipes at people." He said sneering.
Ratchet reached for a pipe but and Prowl, dove for the door, and dodged the pipe as it clanged against a wall and the door slammed shut.
Prowl scowled as he turned back at the door and then looked at Optimus. "Why, in the fragging name of Primus, is he head medical officer?" He asked with a scowl.
"While Ratchet may have a temper, his spark is in the right place, and his work skills cannot be matched." Optimus said, though in secret he too was annoyed by Ratchet's near constant anger and pipe throwing, however Ratchet had a record of pulling people out of the fires of battle and saving many a life.
"Besides, we have more pressing matters to deal with, I have contacted Ultra Magnus and Elita One, and Silverbolt, we will be discussing the mission, and the Energon missiles that were just launched."
Prowl frowned and crossed his arms, the mission, in his optics, had been a waste of time and had been botched from the get go.
"The Meeting shall take place in 30 cycles, have a report ready." Optimus said as he turned and walked away with a sigh, he had a lot on his processor, while prowl crossed her servos and he narrowed his visor.
"Believe me Optimus, my report will be enlightening." He sneered.
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Hound stumbled as he walked through the halls of the city, autobots were running, walking or rolling past him, the news of Kaons destruction had brought in a new degree of excitement that a blow had been smashed into the Decepticons, while at the same time, fear of Decepticon retaliation was high as well.
Hound stumbled down a familiar corridor and walked up to the wall of a hab suite. As Red Alert charged past, security Cameras in her servo's screaming about updating the ones in this hallway to her friend Inferno, Hound gently knocked on the hab suite.
"Hide, it's me, I'm back from the mission." He said simply. Hound waited a few clicks before the door slid open and the hulking frame of Ironhide appeared, looking him over.
"By the matrix what happened out there?!" Ironhide asked, stepping to the side so Hound could enter. "You look like you went around with Blackout!" He exclaimed and a sigh escaped Hound's manifolds.
"You have no idea, we ended up botching the mission when Soundwave found us." Hound said, sitting on the second berth, and Ironhide offered him half of an Energon cube.
Hound took it and drank a bit before turning toward Ironhide who sat on the other berth, looking at him. "So, you guys manage to knock a few heads?"
Hound nodded and then looked down. 'We failed in our basic mission, the rockets got away." He said.
Ironhide looked toward Hound and leaned back, "You can't win em all unfortunately." He scowled.
"We did however, manage to blow a chunk of Kaon to kingdom come." Hound said, looking toward Ironhide, who turned back and glared a bit.
"Ya did?, how?" He asked, a frown developing on his face plates.
"Well, it wasn't my idea but we planted explosives underground, they went off early on when Soundwave exposed us, that's where many of our injuries come from." Hound said, "It was an act of desperation,"
Ironhide sneered as Hound talked and then looked down scowling "So you lost the rockets, but you still managed to hit a hard blow then…"
Hound shook his head and then paused. "Ironhide...have you ever heard of Devastor?"
Ironhide's head popped up. "The winds, or Shockwave's gestalt idea?"
Hound stood up, mouth agape. "Idea nothing, ironhide that thing almost crushed us!" Now it was Ironhides turn to look shock, and he slammed his fist on the berth.
"The blasted fool, he perfected it!, Combiner technology was a tool that Shockwave's mentor told us about, well he told Shockwave, cause I was guarding his projects at the time I got to hear everything, meant to merge six minds into one, however the process was unstable and usually made bots go mad-"
"Well the things that turned into that monster were drones, and Jazz bets that there might be more of them."
"Then your all fragged." Ironhide said. he stood up.
"We managed to take it down-"
"Then that means that Shockwave will just look back at the drawing board and fix the problems I know the way they operate Hound, and Shockwave knows it too."
"Then why haven't you reported this to anybot, this is huge Ironhide, if SHockwave gets these things up and running then you're right we're all fragged!"
Ironhide whipped around at him. 'You don't think I've tried?, everytime I try to tell Prowl my suspicions, or even say anything he acts like I'm going to try and blow a hole in his processor!" He shouted, slamming his fist into a wall and sighing. Hound walked over and gently placed his arm on Ironhide's arm and he pulled it from the wall.
"And everytime I try to go near Optimus, the others act like it's an assassination attempt….no one trusts me here." He said frowning. "Because I was a Con, I am branded as evil."
"I Trust you." Hound said gently. Ironhide didn't respond but shot Hound a look, a frown was on his faceplates but his optics were pleading.
Before anybot could say anymore, the door flew open, revealing Prowl "I heard a crash." He said simply sending Ironhide a glare. "I wanted to make sure that nothing was wrong."
"I wanted to see if I finally have an excuse to terminate you." Was what Prowl's glare at ironhide said and the warrior growled as Hound stepped forward.
"Yeah, Ironhide here has intel on-"
"I don't care what Ironhide knows about the past, or what he knows on tactics that the Decepticons have already changed because we have him in custody."
"Custody?" ironhide and Hound snapped Angrily.
"Well, it seems like custody, he never leaves this room, so it might as well be a cell." Prowl said looking over the door and then at Hound. "A Cell with restricted to high commanders only.."
Ironhide then grabbed Prowl and ushered him into the wall and stood there, as the Commander and Cyber Ninja whirled around, Ironhide cross his arms.
"That was a violation." Prowl said curtly.
"And you're getting on my nerves." ironhide said, jabbing prowl in the chest plates."i've tried to tell ya'll time and time about Decepticon tactics, movements, weaknesses and you all go and blow it skyward, My information could have been a pretty slagging valuable, and might still be."
Prowl stared at Ironhide long and hard and then spoke. "Your information, at best wouldn't have been very valuable Ironhide, we're only keeping you here at Optimus Prime's request, which quite frankly I personally think that we should have done what the Decepticons wanted to in the first place."
Before ironhide could give a response, prowl had turned on his heel and walked away, leaving Hound and Ironhide standing alone.
"Ironhide?" Hound asked as he saw Ironhide's frame shake. "Hide, prowl's just one bot, he was appointed by Sentinel and- "
"Hound...leave me alone." Ironhide said with a low growl. "I want to be alone for a while, to think things over." Ironhide said, and went back into his room, not allowing Hound to reply, leaving him alone in the hallway.
Hound stared at the door and then galred in the direction that Prowl had just walked and his face grew grim.
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"You had better have a decent explanation for not reacting the very nanoclick that you saw the Autobots on your scanners Shockwave," Megatron threatened as he stared down the scientist. ",or else you shall be missing more than just your arm."
Shockwave turned and gave a look toward Megatron matching the Decepticon war lord's glare.
"As I have stated before Lord Megatron, I had most of my monitoring equipment on the rockets so as to prevent any sort of sabotage." Shockwave said, gesturing toward the monitors which showed a scan array of the remains of Kaon, and showing the underground tunnel network that the Autobots had dug.
"I only detected them when they got close enough to my tower proximeters, and I reported them to Soundwave immediately."
"If you had reported them to me, kaon wouldn't be in ruins." Megatron growled in frustration.
Shockwave turned to him. "An error in my judgement Lord Megatron." He explained. He heard Megatron's left fingers clench into a fist. "An error in judgement SHockwave, and here I thought that you were incapable of such a thing."
Shockwave shook with rage for a few clicks before returning back to normal. "it will not happen again Lord Megatron.." Shockwave stated as he bowed slightly.
Megatron watched him for a few seconds, and then pulled back his arm and threw a punch into Shockwave's face.
The Scientist stumbled back, gripping a control panel.
"See that it doesn't, or else you shall end up like Ironhide." The Decepticon leader warned and he turned and began to walk out of the room.
Shockwave got to his feet and looked in the direction Megatron had walked off in. "Clearly, more heavy measures must be taken." He said with malice in his voice.
The computer suddenly began beeping rapidly and Shockwave turned to it and looked at the screen, a readout, showing the radar from the rockets revealed that it was leaving the galaxy that Cybertron inhabited.
At the rate they were travelling it would take them at least three more solar cycles to hit the target planet.
However, that wasn't the only thing that was interesting about the readout, a signal….a lone one….one that matched Autobot frequencies was right in the rocket's path.
Shockwave issued to consider this and uttered only one word.
"Scrap."
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The galaxy outside of the one Cybertron occupied had rarely been explored by many species, least of which, not many cybertronians ventured out that far.
Rumors of the ancients such as Nexus, Solus, and Megatronus Prime(s) had been there before, and had ventured across the stars and brought back tons of energon resources, many of which had been lost over the years and not many Cybertronians had ventured out that far without space bridges for many years.
However to even the casual observer, it was clear that the ship they would be seeing was indeed of Cybertronian origen, and appeared to be a derelict as it showed no signs of life, however the ship looked new,and was colored in a white paintjob with highlights of Red, and it was of fair size perhaps large enough do three Cybertronians to live comfortably.
On the left side, there was a name scratched into the side, Jackhammer.
Inside the ship, however the place was an utter wreck blast amks where everywhere there were burns lining the walls and Energon was splashed around in certain areas and the place was also
littered with many items as well.
At the ships main control area, one of the only clean places left on the entire ship,. a lone Autobot sat, slumped against the side of the chair, the hilt and handle of a sword co0uld be seen sticking out from the bots back, and around his head there was a strange helmet with a round shape, a facemask made up of individual parts and what appeared to be two "ear' like things sticking out of his side, made up of predominantly white, with some green and red highlights,
As the bot slept, he slumped over a bit more and was leaning like he was about to fall of the chair when the ear things on the side of his head began flashing and sounding an alarm.
The Bot woke up and snapped his head up with alarm.
"Wuh huh?, confound it prowl stop doing that to wake me up-." He scowled before he remembered where he was and sighed, "Right, he's not here."
The bot then reached forward at the controls for the ship and flicked on a monitor, "Alright, looks like we're going to have to see what the scanners picked up THIS TIME." He said as he flicked on the monitor showing a 3D view of the ship, and all the rockets hurtling directly at ship and it's general direction.
"Oh Primus that's a lot of missiles." He said his optics going wide with shock.
The bot then grabbed a hold of the ships controls and surged his seat forward. He grabbed a lever and shoved it all the way forward and the ship began to light up, and the engines began to whine,l and the whine quickly turned into a giant roar.
As the rockets began to near the jackhammer, the ship turned itself and readied it's weaponry.
"Alright, let's scan and see what you guys are-Full of energon!?" The bot exclaimed and then rechecked the scan. "no warheads, alright so basically I just have to play dodger here...perfect." He said and pushed the sips controls forward.
The Jackhammer began to fly toward the rockets and flew over one and then down to avoid another and then the whole bots vision was obscured by flames and rockets.
"Primus how many of these are there?" he demanded and then swerved the ship and blasted away trying to dodge the rockets in any way that he could.
"Whatever these things are for it must be important," he said looking at the data read out. "They must be transporting it, but kind of a strange way to do so."
The bot then noticed suddenly that several of the rockets were suddenly ejecting smaller rockets and when his ship scanned those….revealed that they had war heads.
"Slag." the bot cursed and pushed his ship forward, however the smaller missiles raced after him.
The Jackhammer raced through the pack of rockets with the smaller ones right on it's tail as the bot inside yanked on a cord like thing and guns sprouted out of the ship.
The Jackhammer's rear weapons began firing upon the smaller projectiles that were so desperately trying to reduce it to space scrap, several shots hit some and others went wide and hit some of the main rockets.
As The Jackhammer flew the bot inside noticed that the smaller rockets seemed to be trying to place themselves in the direct path of his laser blasts from the ships gun to avoid him from hitting the main rockets.
"Yeehaw!" The bot said as he pulled the ship straight up, sending it vertically with a roar of the engines. The smaller projectiles followed suit and the bot began laughing as he aimed his ship right toward a rocket, the smaller missiles followed and pulled up in front of the Jackhammer and began trying to turn as the bot aimed his ship for the rocket's engine.
The smaller missiles attempted to turn to avoid or turn to hit him, but they all smashed into the rocket's engine blowing it apart with a series of small explosions.
The bot let out a wild laugh as the rocket became dead and sputtered to a halt.
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Shockwave stared at the screen as one of the thirty rockets went offline,and stopped dead in it's tracks.
Shockwave clenched a fist and narrowed his optic, there was no time to salvage the rocket nor any means of it, he began typing in some commands on the controls for the rockets.
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Out in space the bot inside the ship turned his head and watched as the other rockets engine roared even louder, and began to blast away from him, getting farther and farther at a breakneck speed.
"Hmm." the bot said as he walked toward the back of the ship and into the cargo bay, from there he grabbed a hose connected to a large container and opened the bay door and leapt out into space.
As the bot floated he reached down into his chest area and tapped his autobot insignia and his feet began sparking and with a wosh and a clunk, he was connected to the rocket.
The bot began scanning the thing and then stuck the hose into the energon storage tank which drilled down deep.
As that happened the bot began to walk over to the top of the rocket, scanning as he went until he found something interesting and pulled out the sword from his back.
In one fluid motion, he had sliced open part of the rocket and reached i and yanked out a large coding chip grafted with the Decepticon insignia. Still attached to some wires, the bot quickly sliced them off, before reaching in and shutting down the rocket's power core. and then he began pulling out several more chips as well.
As he turned he noticed that the hose had stopped pumping and disconnected it from the tank and scanned it, revealing that it was now empty and his storage tanks were fully and he yanked on the hose and was pulled back into the ship.
As the bot touched down inside the cargo bay and the door closed he looked over the chips. "Alright little guys." he said, having been unable to talk in the vacuum of space, "Let's see what information you all got, and what kind of value it might have to the boys back home."
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Yeah the ending is a bit rushed but it's space, no sound and no kind of battle.
Anyway, looks like things have gotten a bit interesting for our cast here.
Prowl is getting on everyone's nerves.
Shockwave's grand plans have hit a snag.
and we have introduced everyone's favorite tool wielding maniac Wheeljack!
Remember to leave comments..and for those who ask I have since decided that I shall be working on Chapters of The Flale of Imagination in between these chapters till I go on break with this story.
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