AN: Okay since some people are so eager to have a few words with me during these note (*cough* Cagalli *cough*) I figured what the hey, but I am starting out safe with someone I know will NOT try and kill me. So ladies and gentlemen, humans and Bots, please welcome the believer that Freedom is the right of all sentient beings, the galaxy's greatest champion of peace, the Autobot Commander himself, Optimus Prime!
(audience applause) (Optimus rolls onto the set and transformers while giving a wave to everyone)
Optimus: Greeting lyokoMARVELanime. It is a privilege to be here.
AN: Optimus believe you me, the honor is mine.
Optimus: I believe some people have inquired if certain Autobots would be appearing in this tale of yours. Perhaps you could clarify that for myself and them?
AN: Certainly. I'm not going to say exactly who will be appearing in this story, but I will say that Smokescreen and Ultra Magnus won't be appearing until the very possible sequel for this story, the title of which I'm still juggling around. Also, you should more than likely expect the other Autobots that appeared in Season 1 of Transformers Prime to appear in this story so you can expect that, and like I've demonstrated with the inclusion of Hound and Elita One, others will appear as well.
Optimus: And another asks if Bulkhead is from the Animated or Prime version of him.
AN: You kidding? Prime of course, I'd think that'd be obvious by the fact that it was mentioned he's a former Wrecker. Plus I wasn't that big of a fan of Transformers Animated personally. I mean look what they did with your character alone Prime!
Optimus: Yes I agree with you on that my friend.
AN: Well we need to get this story rolling so...care to do the honors Optimus?
Optimus: Of course. lyokoMARVELanime does not own myself, or anything else in the Gundam and/or Transformers franchises and series. Please enjoy.
Chapter 6: Starscream's Vengeance
Nearly half of the Desert Dawn had raced off towards Tassil in order to help, including Sahib, Cagalli, Ahmed, and the archer, and along with them, Mu had launched in a Sky Grasper to get there more quickly with a few jeeps carrying a doctor and medical supplies from the Archangel. The Autobots also sent a small team to the town as well which consisted of Arcee, Bumblebee, and Cliffjumper. Optimus thought it wise to not deploy all of the Autobots to the field for fear of a Decepticon trap by Starscream.
Mu was the first to arrive at Tassil and as he flew over the desert town, he could not help but feel despair at the amount of destruction. Everything was burning, clearly showing that what was once Tassil was now nothing more than fire and rumble in the desert night.
"Whoa this is bad. Total destruction," the Hawk of Endymion commented as he turned to look out his other window. He then gasped at what he saw. "La Flaga here," Mu called over the radio. "There are survivors from the town…or more precisely a large number of people seem to be fine. I don't understand how or why."
"And the enemy," Murrue asked over the radio.
"No sign of them," La Flaga reported. He then saw Sahib and the others' jeeps pull to a stop in front of the group of people that had gathered outside the town, followed by the three Autobots a moment later. He also made a slight note that Bumblebee had opted to change his vehicle mode sometime recently so that he now looked like an Earth sports car with gold paint and black stripes running up the center. He then noticed how the three were not having as much of the same trouble moving through the desert now that Bumblebee had earlier when he was in his vehicle mode and figured that the Bots must have somehow altered something in them that would help them to move through the sandy terrain. Finally, he saw that Arcee had a rider in a black leather outfit, and a black helmet with a tinted visor that would not allow anyone to see the rider's face. Must be to help her blend in more, Mu thought as he noted this.
The three Autobots rolled to stop a short distance away as Cagalli, Sahib, and the rest of the Desert Dawn ran up to their families and friends, but did not reassume bipedal mode. As they sat there watching the reunion, Bumblebee let off a series of small trills asking why they were sitting there in alt mode.
"Because Optimus ordered us to remain in vehicular mode unless absolutely necessary," Arcee whispered. "The last thing we need to do right now is to scare these people after their town was just destroyed by giant mobile suits."
"Still that doesn't mean we have to like it Cee," Cliffjumper commented. "I mean we could do a lot more to help these people in robot mode than we could like this."
"I know Cliff, but right now it's for the best."
Bumblebee let off a few trills to indicate that he was still complaining which elicited a soft laugh from Cliffjumper and a groan from Arcee that sounded similar to "Like dealing with a pair of younglings sometimes."
They continued to watch as Natarle pulled up in a jeep with the rest of the team from the Archangel, and saw Sahib and Cagalli speak to the town's chief and Sahib's son. They all gave a small, sad smile internally as they watched the happy reunion between father and child, thinking of how good it would feel for many Autobots to have a chance to reunite with their old friends and family members from back on Cybertron. This feeling did not last long as they grew serious and then confused after Sahib asked the all important question, "How many of our people were killed."
"Not a single life has been sacrificed," the chief replied. "They issued a warning to us ahead of time saying they were setting fire to the town and told us to run away."
"But how can this be," Sahib asked. The three Bots were also confused by this. If the Decepticons did have a hand in this, then why would they issue a warning, especially since it was a team led by Starscream? The Decepticon sky commander alone was not known for giving warnings in the past before an attack, let alone any of the Decepticons at all, so why this time?
"And then they set everything ablaze. Food, ammunition, fuel, everything," The chief finished. "Granted we suffered no casualties, but what happens now? How are we expected to live?"
It was a question that made Sahib, Cagalli, and the three Autobots quite upset with both the Desert Tiger and the Decepticon second in command. "Survival is possible you know as long as you're alive," Mu spoke up, getting everyone's attention.
Whatever you are about to say Mu, you'd better make sure you choose your words carefully, Bumblebee thought. "It appears the Tiger has no intention of engaging in a serious battle with you. This is likely payback for what you did to their forces last night. I'd have to say it's relatively generous of the Tiger to let you off with something as minor as this."
And that last part was most definitely the absolute WRONG thing to say idiot, was the shared thought among the three Autobots. "You're kidding me," Cagalli shouted, getting right in Mu's face at that. "You call this minor?! Having a town burned to the ground is nothing to you?! How can you even think of someone who'd do this as generous?!"
"No offense," Mu replied as he raised a hand in a way to attempt to calm the fiery blonde. "I apologize if I upset you in anyway; however the enemy are professional soldiers. I'm sure even you can conceive that if they were serious it would have turned out much worse."
Okay Mu you seriously need to stop talking before we need a crane to get your foot out of your big fat mouth, Bumblebee thought as Cagalli ranted on, still clearly angry at the commander. "That guy's nothing but a lousy, stinking coward. He burns down this poor town while we're not even here and thinks of it as a victory?! Every time we go into battle we manage to fight with courage, we even destroyed their BaCUEs in that last operation, and that's why that jerk commander can only get us back with a response like this. To hell with the Desert Tiger!"
Mu was silent at that, and then noticed that Sahib had called by one his fellow fighters to speak with him off to the side. He then looked back to Cagalli and cringed under her hard glare that could have melted hard metal off a mobile suit. Yep even on other worlds the Pits hath no fury than a femme scorned, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper both thought as they had to deal with a similar look being directed at them from Arcee multiple times in the past.
"Yeah uh…the Tiger…What a detestable guy," Mu stated sheepishly as he tried to save a bit of face.
"Same goes for you," Cagalli shouted before she stormed off after Sahib. Mu then heard the people muttering agreements with what Cagalli had said as they glared at him, while Natarle just shot him a look with her arms crossed. The blonde commander only had one thought running through his mind as he lightly trembled under the glares. I am not gonna be making any fast friends among these people. Open mouth, insert foot.
Cliffjumper would have shaken his head at Mu right then, but could not for two reasons. One being he was still in vehicle mode, and the other being that he found Sahib's conversation more interesting.
"It hasn't been that long since they withdrew from the area," one Sahib's men reported. "We can still catch up to them."
"They'll be low on ammunition," one of the others said in agreement. "So now would be the perfect opportunity to attack them."
"We will strike back at Z.A.F.T. We can't just sit around here after being treated like this," a third one exclaimed.
"Don't be ridiculous," Sahib chided. "If you're wondering what to do with your time take care of the injured. Stay here and protect your wives and children. That is most is most important of all."
"And how is that supposed to help us," demanded the one who had called Sahib over. "Look the Tassil we knew is gone! Our homes, food, and everything have been burned to the ground! Are we supposed to sit back and weep with our wives and little ones?!"
The third man that had spoke up then turned to Sahib and demanded, "You can't be saying that we should reconcile ourselves to being the Tiger's lap dogs. Is that the case?"
Sahib didn't get a chance to retort as the others had already started heading out. After watching them for a moment, Sahib then boarded a jeep and headed off after them, with Cagalli and Ahmed following shortly after. Cliffjumper knew it wasn't the Autobots place to get in the way of the humans' battles unless the Decepticons were involved, but he couldn't shake the feeling that he needed to go with them. That was when he heard some of the villagers mumbling something.
"What was with those two jets though," the villager asked. "I thought the Tiger only used BaCUEs and helicopters when he went into battle."
"He normally does," another one replied. "At least that's what I heard. Plus those jets didn't even have normal Z.A.F.T. colors, they were blue and silver, and purple and black, and I think a saw a symbol on one that looked like an evil looking face with horns."
"Hey did you two hear that," Cliffjumper asked.
Bumblebee let an affirmative beep as Arcee replied, "Sounds like Thundercracker and Skywarp. We should inform Optimus about this."
"We may not have time," Cliff stated. "Some of those Desert Dawn guys just took off after them, and they won't last long with just one Con there let alone two of them, and who knows how many more. I'm going to go help."
"Cliff you can't go alone," Arcee stated.
"Arcee's right buddy, at least let one of us come along as backup," Bumblebee trilled.
"Hey it's me remember," Cliffjumper stated. "I'll be fine." Before either one of the other two could say anything else, the red Autobot revved his engine and raced off across the desert after the guerilla fighters.
"Looks like the wind and people aren't the only things in this land that can get very heated," Mu stated. "So what'll we do?"
Natarle turned away before replying, "Don't ask me, I haven't a clue."
That makes two of us, Arcee thought worried. She then decided that there was only one thing she could do. "Optimus this is Arcee. We have a situation."
It was now morning and Waltfeld and his soldiers were just taking their time heading back to their base with the Decepticons in their bipedal modes just walking along as well. Needless to say this was not agreeable with some people, or should I say some Cons.
"Why the Pits are we going at this speed when we could have returned to base by now," the blue, silver, and red trimmed Seeker Thundercracker demanded.
"You eager to back or something Noisemaker," Waltfeld asked.
"My name is Thundercracker you insolent little bug!"
"Sir I actually have to agree," Waltfeld's right hand man Dacosta commented. "At the speed we're going they'll catch up to us."
Waltfeld just put his hands behind his head and leaned back in his seat as he gave a casual reply. "Then we're meant to meet. It's fate."
"What are you talking about human," Thundercracker's brother Skywarp asked. Neither of the Seekers understood why Starscream insisted that they come with this human, but they had an even harder time understanding why they were in this alliance at all if all humans were like this. Not that they had any intention of questioning and/or arguing with Megatron, they left that to their older brother, Starscream.
"For one thing their artillery trucks are no match against our BaCUEs and unless they bring those Autobots along, I highly doubt that they'll be much of a problem for you two fellas," Waltfeld told the large black and purple Con. "Whenever people are put to the test I often hear them boast I'd rather die, but do you think they honestly mean it?"
That gave both Dacosta and the two Seekers a pause, until said Cons smirked a bit at that as Thundercracker stated, "Actually now that you mention it, the only Autobot I've ever known to mean it would be Prime's little Scout and look what happened to him."
"Yeah he got exactly what he deserved for his 'loyalty' to Prime," Skywarp agreed.
"Oh yeah? What happened to him exactly? I am assuming you mean the one we ran into the other night," Waltfeld inquired.
The two Decepticons chuckled at the memory before Skywarp answered, "Lord Megatron decided that if the scout would not speak to him then he would never speak again, and crushed out the pathetic scout's voice box."
Now that had Waltfeld's attention. He had no idea that these Decepticons were so brutal in their interrogation methods that they would go as far as that. The mere idea of never being able to speak again gave him reason to question the supreme council's judgment on aligning themselves with these beings. At least until one of his BaCUE pilots radioed in reporting, "Commander, there are vehicles approaching us from behind. Six…no eight vehicles. They appear to be those of the resistance fighters."
Waltfeld then smirked a bit. "Maybe those people would rather die after all," He thought aloud.
"Sir," the same pilot then reported. "There also appears to be another vehicle approaching. It doesn't appear to be one of the resistance fighters, but I don't think it's one of the ones of the Autobots we fought the other night. I think it might be a new one."
Waltfeld turned to look at the Seeker twins as Thundercracker chuckled, "I recognize that signal. It is an Autobot alright, come to save the little humans. What do you say we have some fun Skywarp my brother."
"Huh, I was hoping you'd ask Thundercracker," Skywarp replied as he shifted his right arm into his favorite weapon, the Gear Shredder.
A moment later, the Desert Dawn's jeeps had burst onto the scene, and soon after they were firing bazookas right into the path of Waltfeld's vehicle. Dacosta quickly pulled the vehicle out of the way as one of the BaCUEs moved to intercept the shots that followed after. Though their prime target was Waltfeld, the guerilla fighters were more than willing to take out a few BaCUEs along the way if they had to. It was not long before Cagalli and her group had landed a disabling blow to one BaCUE unit, or so they thought. A moment later, the BaCUE pilot had retracted the legs to fold up so it could race across the desert on its treads instead of moving around on legs like an animal.
Skywarp smirked at the sight of watching the humans squirm under the might of the larger machines, and decided then and there to put them out of their misery. He took careful aim with his Gear Shredder and prepared to launch a single spinning blade from it at Cagalli and Ahmed's jeep when he was rammed in the side by a red blur.
"What in the pits…," he cried out as he turned to what had hit him, and then smirked a bit at the sight of Cliffjumper assuming his bipedal mode.
"Sorry Skywarp, but you're not scrapping anything or anyone else today," Cliffjumper stated confidently.
"Are you sure about that?" Not a moment after Skywarp had asked that, a sonic shockwave had hit Cliffjumper in his back, causing him to lose his balance for a moment and take a hit to his leg from Skywarp's Gear Shredder. He spun around and spotted Thundercracker with his hand out, indicating he had just hit him with a Shockwave burst. Not a moment later, Decepticon flyer drones started to drop in on the Autobot warrior to join the fray.
"Ah scrap," Cliffjumper moaned softly. He then gathered up his confidence and charged shouting, "Alright Cons, time for you to get the horns!"
Meanwhile, Cagalli and the mystery archer had jumped clear of the jeep before it was hit by a BaCUE, but Cagalli's friend Ahmed was not so lucky. Cagalli watched in horror as her friend was flung through the air and neither she nor the mystery archer saw the BaCUE getting ready to fire on Sahib and the others until a beam blast hit the large mobile armor. "The Strike," Cagalli gasped upon seeing the large blue and white mobile suit flying across the desert with the Aile Striker pack keeping the suit air born for as long as it could.
The Strike then fired off another shot, which missed its intended target. "The heat convection must be off," Kira commented aloud. He then had the Strike land and run across the ground for a moment as he typed a few new commands into the Strike's programming. A moment later, the Strike was back in the air, and firing off blasts from its beam rifle that hit its targets with no problem at all.
Kid works fast I'll give him that, Cliffjumper thought to himself as he smashed his fist into another Con drone. He then saw Thundercracker preparing to fire an arm missile at the Strike, and quickly tackled said Con, throwing his aim off. "Kid," Cliff called out over a radio frequency he knew Kira could use to respond with. "You worry about the BaCUEs. Leave these scrap headed Cons to me."
"Roger that Cliffjumper," Kira replied over the radio as he took aim at another BaCUE. Before he could fire, he was hit in the side by one of the other machines. "The third machine is still running?"
The third BaCUE was in fact fighting still, but what Kira did not know was that Waltfeld had taken over for the previous pilot so that he could test Kira's skills first hand. Cliff on the other hand had spotted this and was ready to lend a hand when he was nailed in the arm from an unknown shooter.
"Surprise Autobot," a snide voice boasted. Cliffjumper looked up and saw Starscream walking over, switching his arm blaster from Nucleon Charge rifle to his own arm. "I must admit, I was hoping for either Prime or his wretched scout, but you'll do just as well I suppose."
Now Cliffjumper was worried, because Starscream had all but confirmed that he and his two Seeker brothers were expecting this to happen. Granted he was glad the lone female member of the Seeker family was not present, but that was a small comfort at best given his situation. "Uh Arcee," Cliffjumper radioed. "About that backup?"
"Don't worry Cliff," Arcee responded. "Optimus is already on the way with the others in tow, and Bumblebee and I should be there soon enough as well. Just try to hold out for a few cycles."
"I don't think I have that long," Cliffjumper stated solemnly. Even though his confidence was shaken and it seemed like he was going to go down, if there was one thing you could be sure of when it came to Cliffjumper, it's that he would not be going down without a fight.
This fact proved to be true as he switched his right hand into his default blaster mode and let loose a volley of Energon blasts at the three Seekers. He then prepared to spare a shot for Kira but saw that it was not necessary as Kira had already taken out one of his opponents by having the Strike discard its shield and letting said shield collide with one of the BaCUEs as it passed. As soon as the mobile suit spun around, it used its free hand to pull out a beam saber from its backpack and back flipped to throw up a sand wall to block the missile fire that was then sent its way. When a BaCUE leapt into the air to try and take Kira by surprise, the pilot of the BaCUE was the one who ended up surprised as the Strike emerged from the small dust cloud with its beam rifle already primed and aimed directly at where the BaCUE was.
Whoa, where did all that come from, Cliff wondered for a moment as he fired another volley at some drones trying to charge him and swung his fist at another. Bumblebee said that this kid was nothing like a trained fighter and yet the moves he's pulling are that of a powerful warrior. Either his recent battle experience has made him a stronger fighter than we thought or this is something else entirely, but what could that be?
Cliffjumper did not have time to ponder this more, as a searing pain suddenly ran through his right leg, followed by a blast to his blaster arm disabling said arm almost completely. Cliffjumper fell to his knees and looked to see that a razor disk had completely embedded itself into his leg at the knee, nearly cutting right through it. Before he could even attempt to struggle back to his feet, Skywarp suddenly appeared right next to the bull horn headed Autobot and hit him hard in the side.
Starscream chuckled at the pathetic sight of the lone Autobot warrior struggling for his life, and prepared to finish the job when he got a call from Waltfeld. "Starscream, we're retreating."
Starscream looked to the machine that Waltfeld was piloting and saw that one of its legs had been sliced clean off by the Strike's beam saber. Being disgusted at having to take orders from this human and at the idea of having to leave right then, Starscream decided that it would be better to not leave completely empty handed. "Just a moment Commander Waltfeld," the silver seeker replied. "I intend to leave a small message of my own for Prime and his Autobots."
He then stalked up to Cliffjumper with a sadistic, vile smirk on his face. "So little Autobot, any last words?"
Cliffjumper let out a small, indistinguishable groan at that. "Oh do please speak up," Starscream mocked. "I can't hear you."
"Get…fragged…Screamer," Cliffjumper breathed out.
Starscream merely chuckled. "Sorry, but the only one here who is being fragged is you. Goodbye Cliffjumper!" With that, he plunged his sharp fingered hand right through Cliffjumper's torso, and mere moments later, the light left the valiant Autobot's eyes. Kira and Cagalli both looked on in horror at what had just happened, and then Kira felt a ferocious anger welling up inside him.
"NO," Kira shouted as he charged the Strike right at Starscream, swinging the machine's beam saber at the flying Decepticon wildly as soon as he was close enough. Starscream merely sidestepped every swing with the same smirk, enjoying every moment of the human child's anguish.
"Starscream, if you're done, it's time to go now," Waltfeld shouted.
"But of course Commander Waltfeld," Starscream replied casually. He then slammed an open palm into the Strike, knocking it onto its back, and jostling the pilot inside the cockpit. "Perhaps next time young pilot," the seeker mocked before he transformed into his jet mode and blasted off into the air with Thundercracker and Skywarp not far behind.
Once Waltfeld saw that the Seekers were leaving the battle field, he then pushed his machine's controls to the maximum so that he could catch up to his men. He then smirked as he then thought back to the pilot of the Earth Force's mobile weapon and how well the mysterious pilot seemed to do against him and his men on his own. "Heh, now that's my kind of guy," he commented to himself, still meaning the Strike pilot. "Been a while since I had that much fun."
He then glanced to the side as he saw the Seekers in the air alongside him and his troops and thought to himself, Even if this is a war, how do we know when one side or the other has won, especially with guys like those with us? Is command really sure about them, or are they just being played along by these things, or is there more going on here than meets the eye?
A short while later, Kira had dismounted the Strike and walked up to Cagalli, Sahib and the surviving members of the Desert Dawn. He gave them a small unreadable look as he removed his helmet before asking, "You trying to get yourselves killed?"
Cagalli just stared at him in shock at that, but before Kira or anyone else could say anything, the sound of roaring engines reached their ears. They all turned and a moment later, the other Autobots had raced onto the scene and assumed their bipedal mode, weapons charging up, ready for action, with Optimus in the lead. Once they noticed that their assistance was no longer needed, they quickly stood down. Optimus looked around and stated, "I apologize for our late arrival, but as you are no doubt aware by now, even with our alt modes, it takes quite some time for us to travel across this desert."
Arcee then looked around for Cliffjumper, thinking he would be standing nearby waiting to boast how he was able to hold off the Cons all on his own, but did not see the large red Bot anywhere. "Where is he," she asked.
Kira looked up at Arcee for a moment before she clarified, "Where is Cliffjumper?"
Cagalli looked down in shame, as Kira looked sadly off to the side. The other Autobots all followed his gaze and then gasped in shock. There, lying in the sand was Cliffjumper, severely damaged and appearing lifeless. Elita One quickly ran over to him to see if there was something she could do, but all she needed was a few scans, before she stood up and sadly reported the one thing none of the Autobots ever wanted to hear about their comrade. "It's too late. Cliffjumper's spark has gone completely dark. He is offline."
"By the AllSpark," Bulkhead gasped.
"No," Hound exclaimed in a whisper.
Bumblebee let out small trill that showed that he could not believe what he had just heard either, and while he remained silent during these exclamations, the pain Optimus felt at this news was clear in his optics. Arcee let out a small gasp, before she quickly started to let out a small sob into Bumblebee's torso. Sadly, the only thing the young scout could do to comfort his friend at the moment, was give her a small hug in return to try and reassure her, that there was still hope for the future.
Optimus then turned to the humans and went to say something before Kira quickly called out. "I'm sorry Optimus. I should've tried to do something to help him."
"This tragedy is not something you should bare the blame for Kira Yamato," Optimus reassured him softly. "The only ones at fault for this are the Decepticons who staged this act of aggression." He then looked to all the humans present as he continued. "Though we have lost a great comrade today, we have also gained new allies, if not in all, but in the few humans we have met and fought alongside with since we had arrived here on your world. Though we did not intend to bring other worlds into this war, your world is now caught up in it, and for that I cannot apologize enough. However despite the fact that we are now allies with you, it does not mean that we can simply charge off into battle in retaliation for every act of aggression that our enemies launch against us needlessly and foolishly, lest we wish to meet our end."
The Desert Dawn was all slightly confused by this, but Kira understood what he meant, as he continued with what he was saying earlier. "He's right. In a place like this there's absolutely reason for any of you-"
"That's the last straw," Cagalli interrupted in anger. "You heartless moron! Just look!" She then gestured to her late friend Ahmed before continuing her rant. "They fought desperately! We're all fighting desperately all so we can protect the things and people that are so important to us!"
Arcee was now angry with the blonde girl, and would have moved to do something to Cagalli herself if Bumblebee had not held her back. The blue femme shot Bumblebee and angered look but then softened immediately when she saw the scout giving his friend a sad look of his own while shaking his head clearly sending the silent message that it was not the time. Then they both heard a loud slap and saw that Kira had beaten everyone to the punch.
To the shock and surprise of Sahib, Cagalli, and almost all of the Autobots save for Optimus, Kira had slapped Cagalli across the face. As they all continued to stare in surprise, Kira gave Cagalli an angered glare as he shouted out, "What the hell can you protect when your feelings are the only weapons you've got?!"
Optimus looked down in sorrow as he knew for a fact that Kira was right in that regard. There was only so much one could do with feelings alone, for if one were to fight with nothing more than their feelings it would only result in greater amounts of disaster. After allowing the moment to pass, he had the Autobots collect Cliffjumper's remains so that they could give the valiant soldier a proper burial after they returned to the Archangel and the temporary base, knowing full well that they all had much to think about.
AN: Okay, I know some of you will hate me for killing off Cliffjumper like in the show, but to be fair, I want this story to be as much like both series as possible while still throwing in my own twists and turns.
Optimus: The sight and knowledge of my Autobots losing their lives does sadden me greatly, but I intend to ensure that their sacrifice shall never be in vain nor forgotten.
AN: And that folks is another reason why Optimus is one of the greatest heroes of all time. A heart of gold for others and such care and respect for his comrades and friends whether they are living or passed on. Respect to ya Prime.
Optimus: Thank you my friend. Now I believe that there is a chapter preview which must be given.
AN: but of course...
Enemies surround Kira and the Autobot on the battlefield and off. Sai is driven to desperate measures when it's clear that Flay wants nothing more to do with him. Outside a radical group launches an attack on an unsuspecting Kira and Cagalli. Matters are not made any better when Decepticon drones join the fray, pulling Hound and Bulkhead into the action in their duties as the two's current Autobot protectors. Security and comfort are offered up by an overzealous civilian who turns out to be none other than the Desert Tiger who also wishes to have a chance to meet at least one of the Autobots face to face. How will the human pair and the two Wreckers get out of this one? Meanwhile unknown to anyone but a few, a certain individual learns about the two faction of Cybertron and sees it as an unexpected opportunity for himself and his followers. What could this mean for the Autobots and the Decepticons? Next time on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Prime...Fangs of the Enemy, Known and Unknown. Blast that shadow and be ready to call for clean up Gundam and Wreckers!
AN: Optimus thank you again for coming and hope to see you again soon whether it be out in action in anything including this story, or just for another Author's note.
Optimus: Thank you my friend. This was quite enjoyable actually.