I'm still putting in the location markers, that way nobody gets confused. Also, scene switches are marked by ------------------
In case you have trouble identifying anyone, here's the basic descriptions:
Kit: white tiger, blue optics
Alpha: blue pickup truck, blue optics
Omega (black seekerjet with blue visor)
Hammertread reddish-brown M1A1 Abrams tank, red optics
Driveby: white Toyota Camry (car), blue optics, has doorwings
Cable: yellow (with blue doors) Ford Festiva (hatchback), red optics
Cap: camoflauge colored Challenger-2 tank, blue optics
Beacon light grey spyplane (M-Q1 Predator) blue visor
Gunlock dark blue/dark green stealth jet, darkly tinted visor
Ty: Black Chevy Blazer with teal sidestripes ( S.U.V. that looks like Trailbreaker's altmode) , blue optics
Jade: muave and blue seekerjet, F-15, green optics
Klutch: blue Lotus Elise Sport (car) #6 on hood. blue optics. English-australian accent
Indy: red Corvette concept car (looks like a ferrari, kinda. has engine in back of carmode. Blue optics. English accent.
AngelLink: blue Porsche (car) and smaller F-22 (jet
Dust: alien-fly (jet, kinda like a cross of an F-16 and X-31), and a racecar (kinda like Mirage)
I think that's it. Did I forget anyone?
lemme know if I did.
Now then, on to the story.
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Autobot City
"KIMCHEE!" The cry was heard and suddeny Thundercracker was in Hammertread's scope range, Kit on his back and stabbing the mech with her claws. She jumped off once she saw the tank aiming at TC and landed beside him on her feet. HT chuckled and waited for the teenager to jump off before firing again.
Kit landed beside Hammertread and watched TC get shot in the wing. She pumped her arm, "Yes! Two points for the snarky tank and tiger sparkling!"
Hammertread just smirked as the black Decepticon jet spiraled towards the ground. "One down, about thirty to go." he noted dryly.
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the forest south of Autobot City, 9.5 miles out
Kup transformed and looked at Ty while HotRod looked at Cable As small and frightened as he was, Cable's aim had been very good, unfortunately. The shot had gone right through her fuel pump. As for Cable, though, a lot of damage had been done. Problem was, if they tried to move him, it might do more damage, sending him offline for good. If they didn't, he would go offline anyways.
"What do we do?" Hotrod asked. "We can't move him"
"If we don't, he'll die." Kup countered.
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Autobot City, catapult room
Alpha nodded and ran over to the Mega-cannon Wheeljack, Windcharger, and herself were working on.. She opened it up and started to work. After a moment, she asked, "Try it now, Jack!"
No reply.
Alpha glanced over at her friends as she tried to finish working on the machine. "Wheeljack, is it ready yet?"
No answer.
"...Jack?" She turned and covered her mouth. Tears sprung to her optics.
Wheeljack lay dead on the floor.
"Oh Primus!"
Watching the whole scene from the air, the golden optics did nothing but blink, the person she was watching just kept crying over the deactivated mech. "Not again, I hate the looks of a crying thing" the bronze-colored masked femme shook her head. "I have already gone completley insane of this!" changing her optics to the dead, she noticed who it was.
"No! Im gonna kill them for this!" The bronze-golden nearly screamed and transformed into a alien-jet and flew away before dissapearing in a flash into the stream of light.
Alpha saw the jet fly away and started to fire at it, but Windacharger grabbed her arm, "Al! We've gotta finish this! ...For Jack."
Alpha sniffled and wiped her optics. "Right. Let's get to work!" She said, reaching into the machine and working again.
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Just outside Autobot City, main battlefield
Avoiding the fired shots Dust continued through the light stream. "Mission complete" the green screen in her cockpit said as it downloaded what she had manage to scan of the machine the transformers had being building. The violent speed started to slow down, and the bronze-golden jet transformed into robot-mode and stopped, Dust felt how the press almost pulled in her wings as they transformed, around her the stream had desppeard and she was in middel of a battle, time went almost as slow as it had stopped completely when she did that.
Looking around awoiding the bullets and shots that where hanging in the air around her, she caught sight of a deactivated Decepticon and Autobot. she bent down and picked up a small bomb from the Autobot, and a black gun from the Decepticon, admiring it some moments before a creepy smile crept over her masked face.
"Lets see what this baby can do...!" she whispered before transforming and went back into the stream of light again. When would people learn that fighting wouldn? solve anything? Not that she was one to care, she had just decided to do a little target-practing on a female Autobot.
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inside Autobot City, catapult room
Alpha winced as a shot nearly hit her shoulder and turned around. "Oh shoot..." She cursed, backing up. "Windcharger, finish the cannon!"
"What about you?! You can't just-"
"I've got Decepti-Creeps to slag." Alpha snarled, cocking her weapon. She stomped out of the building, firing at any and all Decepticons.
Windcharger hooked up another wire, muttering a barely-heard prayer to Primus that it would work. A stray shot came and nearly hit the mini-bot as he continued to work.
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The forest, ten miles southeast of Autobot City
Gunlock fired around the rock he was behind and looked over to where Klutch was crouching. The blue car pulled out his rifle. The high-powered one that could pierce armor in a single shot. Mixmaster yelped as the shot hit him in the shoulder.
Terra landed behind Cap as she fired over Klutch.
Cap glanced back at her. "I thought I told you to..." his sentence was cut off by the laserbolt hitting his shoulder.
"Cap!" Driveby popped up and let off a row of shots, hitting Mixmaster in the shoulder.
"Yeah, I know. Told me to go, but I'm a bad at listening." Terra said dryly, firing.
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the forest south of Autobot City, 9.5 miles out
HotRod looked up at the sky as the coneheads flew over. Ramjet, Thrust and Dirge didn't even see the two Autobots as they flew into the setting sun towards the city.
Kup looked up at the three and then fired at Ramjet, hitting his wing. Ramjet wheeled, looking for the source of the shot.
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Autobot City, front gates
The insecticons met with Megatron at Metroplex's front gates, smirking. "Where are those Constructicons!?" the silver Decepticon demanded.
"Eh..." Bombshell looked around nervously. "Fightin'."
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The forest, ten miles southeast of Autobot City
Meanwhile, said Construction vehicles were firing at the trapped Autobots Marauders. Driveby glanced over at Beacon. Indy popped off a shot at Longhaul, who ducked. The red femmecar hissed aggravatedly. Hook looked over at Mismaster worriedly. If the cement mixer was knocked out, they couldn't merge. And the attack hinged on their ability to merge.
"Hold them off. I'm going to wake up sleeping beauty here." he said to Longhaul.
"Yeah, yeah, I know." the truck grumped, firing off a row of shots that turned the top of Driveby's cover to tiny bits. She returned fire, but missed.
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Thrust, dirge, and Ramjet were flying over, and Ramjet commed Dirge. "hey Dirge, check it out.
"I see em." Dirge replied, swinging down and letting of a couple of cluster bombs. Driveby yelped as she was thrown to one side by the explosion. She coughed and tried to get up, realizing not only had her right arm been torn up by the shrapnel bomb, but part of the rock had landed on her. There was too much dust, and she couldn't see the others. "Guys?" She called.
No answer.
The sound of jet engines close by caught her attention. She turned her head, trying to see through the dust. A hand landed on her shoulder and she yelped out loud, knowing this was the end. The constructicons had gotten past their defenses and was going to shoot her. The dust cleared a little, and Indy looked over at her. "Are you okay?" shje asked, trying to get the rock of the white car's leg.
"Ugh."
Driveby winced as the rock moved on her allready severely dented leg.
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The three coneheads, satisfied that they had cluster-bombed the opposition into oblivion, circled around, back towards where Kup and Hot Rod were.
Hook quickly set to work on repairing his teammate, swearing loudly when the nearby explosion threw a spray of dirt over them.
Bonecrusher fired through the smoke, getting a startled cry.
"Youah gonna pay for thot!" came the angry yell back.
Beacon and gunlock took to the air to chase down Ramjet thrust and dirge. Driveby glanced up at them. The Constructicons paused as their comms came on.
"Where are you!" Megatron demanded angrily.
"We were just taking care of some stray Autobots, Megatron." Longhaul replied.
"Well get back to the city! we have work to do!"
"Yes, Megatron." The truck threw bonecrusher a look.
The constructicon kept firing at the Autobots.
Scavenger stood. "You heard Megatron"
Megatron growled, glaring at the three insecticons. "Go find something to eat. Preferably one of the walls, so we can get in"
All three grinned and did as they were told.
As soon as Scavenger's head popped up over the rocks he was behind, indy fired. "Klutch? You okay love"
no answer.
Then finally, a slightly off-tone "I'm fine"
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the forest south of Autobot City, 9.5 miles out
Kup looked over at HotRod. "Ya ready, lad?" He asked.
Hot Rod nodded. You carry him, and I'll watch your back." he glanced over at Ty, grey allready creeping over her black and teal armor. The youth shook his head.
"let's go." He carefully lifted the yellow minispy into the blue El Camino's truck bed and transformed, starting his engine with a low growl.
Kup nodded. "You got it, Lad." He agreed, diving off.
The trio of jets spotted the two cars making a beeline for the city. They swooped down, strafing the two as they went around the mountain roads, and swooped up into the air to turn around again.
Kup cursed. "They're gaining on us"
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Autobot City
Kit frowned and then got out her freeze blaster. "Yup." She agreed before scurrying away from Hammertread to go fight in the main battle.
Hammertread glanced over, and saw Kit running into the thick of the battle. "Kit, wait!" the tank stomped after her. If he let anything happen to Kit, Alpha would kill him!" He fired off a shot at Blitzwing, hiding behind something or another.
Over to the right, Perceptor and one of the autobots, he couldn't tell who, were hiding in a dip in the ground, firing at anything that moved on the other side of the battle line about fifty meters away.
Kit ignored Hammertread's calls and slid into a crack in the wall that he been caused by laser fire. "Take dis, Decepti-Creeps!" She said, sounding like Ironhide. The sparkling fired, freezing one of the seeker's wings.
HT caught up to Kit. "Don't just go running into the middle of the battlefield unless you've got some serious armor." he glanced at her. "Which you don't." he squeezed in beside her behind the wall, and handed her a rifle. "Here. It's more powerfull than what you've got." He smirked, and pulled out something that resembled Cliffjumper's bazooka. He smirked and loaded a grenade into it, launching it towards the battle line. He chuckled darkly when the resonating "bo-boom." resonated across the field, trembling the Earth under their feet.
Kit took the rifle and her optics glittered with pleasure. She grinned, showing her uncle her fangs, and then fired. She giggled slightly as earth trembled. "...I hang wit' you too much." She commented.
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The forest, ten miles southeast of Autobot City
Cap glanced over at the Klutch, noticing he'd been hit in the chest. Wires sparked, and he glanced over at Cap, moving behind a rock away from the duo before calling "I'm fine."
Cap looked at Terra with a concerned look.
Indy smiled at him and nodded, not able to see him because he was behind the rock. "Good."
Terra looked back over at Cap. "I'll be fine."
"Ughhhh..." Mixmaster woke up. "Who let Motormaster come along." He mumbled for a second, then his optics clicked on full. "Wha-oh. Right." he picked himself up.
"Megatron wants us back at Autobot city." Longhaul announced.
"Well, then lets finish this and go." Mixmaster said, standing.
Driveby winced again as Indy shoved the rock, but it didn't seem to want to move. she looked up just in time to see the six robots flying through the air, coming together...
Indy's optics widened and she tried desperately to move the rock again.
Driveby's optics widened, and she clicked on her commline. "Gunlock, Beacon get back!..." Devastator delivered a swift kick, sending both femmes and the rock flying.
"Indy!" Klutch yelled and fired off a rapid-fire row of shots at the gestalt.
Indy yelled as she hit the ground, hard, her head wacking it. Her vision blurred for a second.
Terra yelped and rolled, but got out of the way of the four.
The giant smirked as the high-powered rifle didn't even dent his armor. He lifted one foot.
"MOVE!" Cap shoved Terra roughly to one side, as the giant's foot came down.
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the forest south of Autobot City, 7 miles out
Gunlock and Beacon hadn't heard the car's final transmission. They were too busy trying to shoot down Thrust and Dirge. Gunlock got a lock, and fired a missile, hitting the mountain above Ramjet, bringing down a pile of rock on him.
Ramjet yelped and then was, well quickly buried.
Thrust and Dirge moved off, circling back around, and Gunlock and beacon swooped down. "Thanks for the help." Hot Rod called. "No problem." Beacon called back.
Kup smirked and 'nodded', bouncing up and down on his wheels, excellerating slightly.
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Autobot City
Skywarp yelled at the sudden cold on his wing, and the sudden weight that caused him to go into an uncontrolled spin. The jet collided with one of the gun towers, taking off the gun, and tearing off his wing. He yelled as he hit the ground smoking, and bounced.
He looked up through an opening. There, on the level below him was some kind of gun.
And a minspy and femme working on it. He aimed for the grey Autobot's back and fired.
Alpha heard a grunt and then she felt a sudden emptiness in the air beside her.
She paused, turned and put her hands to her mouth to quiet her screams.
"Windcharger!" She finally yelled out, moving her hands from her mouth. "No!" More tears came, "First Jack, now you!?"
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The forest, ten miles southeast of Autobot City
Devastator grinned at the inmpression in the ground his foot left, and the crushed Autobot under it. Cap tried to think around the pain, and knew if he moved, Devastator would finish him off. Not that he could, anyway. He tried to ignore the red lights across his vision, and the pounding pain that racing across his chassis. If he didn't have such thick armor, he might have been totally crushed instead of...
Well, he noted, he'd left quite an impression, no pun intended. Hi vision blurred and darkened for a second, and the tank prayed Terra would be alright, then went into stasis lock.
"Cap!" Terra yelled upon seeing the mech nearly get killed.
Devastator stomped forward, reaching for Klutch. The blue car reached for his gun, just a few finger-lengths away. He hadn't totally gotten away from Devastator. The Gestalt had managed to step on his legs. He gulped as he glanced at Cap. He finally jerked forward, biting back a cry as his hand closed around his gun.
Devastator swept him up so fast it made him dizzy. "Prepare for termination." The deep voice droned.
"Terminate this."
The blue car fired at Devastator's optics.
The giant roared and closed his hand the rest of the way, and the world went black. Devastator threw the blue Autobot at the ground and looked around to see if there were any more survivors.
Not seeing any, he headed towards the city, to meet up with the main Decepticon forces there.
"Klutch..." Indy's optics widened and tears filled them. She could 'feel' her bondmate's life force fading away. Dizziness came back, and her vision faded to darkness.
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Autobot City
Skywarp grinned and looked over Alpha's head. Devastator had crushed the topmost turret gun, and was pounding at the wall. He heard the roar of engines, and looked up. an Autobot shuttle swooped down to land. The jet cursed and fired at Alpha.
HT looked up. "About time the reinforcements got here." he grunted, firing another grenade. The Autobot ship swung around the battlefield, swooping lower as it neared.
Kit nodded in agreement. "Finally." She said, firing HT's rifle at another decepticon.
Alpha let out a cry of pain as the shot hit her in the small of her back, sending her into stasis for a while.
And no one to push the cannon into its proper spot.
Devastator had stomped back to the city, and gotten past the first wall, where Inferno and Red alert were trying to stop him. He looked up in time to see the Dinobots headed straight for him. He managed to hit Grimlock out of the way, and grab one of the other Dinobots and throw him out of the way.
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The air above the battlefield, just outside Autobot City
Beacon and Gunlock swooped around, locking in one the coneheads, shooting them down as the shuttle landed, and Prime stepped out. Springer and Arcee had headed for the launcher bay, and Kup and Hot Rod reached Autobot City's main entrance. The bridge was retracting, as the Insecticons were trying to eat their way throught the door.
"A little heavy on the electrons, electrons." One noted. Kickback and bombshell turned around, staying on the bridge as it started to slide away from the entryway.
Omega leapt out of the shuttle behind the Dinobots and fired at Devastator as he took in the damage. "Slag..." He cursed.
"The Insecticons are in our way!" Kup reported, speeding up slightly.
"Wrong, they're our way in!" Hot Rod whooped, speeding up to ramp off Bombshell, and knock of Shrapnel as he went into the corridor.
Kup did the same, following Hot Rod, just as the door shut.
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Skywarp cackled and turned to shoot at the nearby Kit and Hammertread.
Kit yelped as the shot hit her square in the chest, making her stumble back and hit Hammertread. Her optics dimmed and she tightened her grip on the rifle before firing one last shot at Skywarp.Then she entered stasis.
HT turned around and Kit hit him. "Kit?" He looked up to see the laughing jet and his optics darkened angrily. He fired off a shot, hitting the jet in the wing. He took a step, then looked back down at Kit, realising she was only in stasis, then ran towards the fallen jet. "You're gonna PAY FOR THAT!" he growled loudly.
Skywarp's optics widened and he tried to run, firing at Hammertread.
Alpha managed to climb up to where Hammertread and Skywarp where. She saw Kit and her optics widened. "KIT! No!" She yelled, running over to the sparkling. Unbeknownst to her, a certain Decepticon spotted her and took aim...
Alpha felt the shot go strait through her spark and screamed. Pain ravaged her body as she fell over, on top of Kit, and her optics went dull. With her last bit of life, she protected her daughter from anymore attacks as Starscream cackled.
At the same time, Omega doubled over, clutching his spark. He gasped and clenched his fists. "SIS!" He yelled as he hit his knees. His optics went dull and he was dead to the world, falling over, when a shot went strait through his back.
HT caught up with Skywarp, forcing him back down on the ground. Placing one giant foot on the jet's back, he grabed the seeker's wing and yanked. The metal screeched as it was torn away.
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Meanwhile, across the city, Kup and Hot Rod arrived at the med bay with their cargo.They carefully got Cable onto the repair berth, and FirstAid looked over him worriedly.
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Outside, his teammates swung around, firing wildly at Starscream. Beacon eeped and swerved to miss a tower, and Gunlock shot down one of the coneheads. The duo circled around, noting Prime had come careening across the battlefield, hitting whoever it was they had just shot down (the red conehead), anbd some poor other sucker jumped out of the way at the last second.
Skywarp screamed with pain as his wings were torn away. He tried to turn to fire on the much larger mech, but couldn't seeing as how he was pinned down. He simply struggled to get out from under him.
HT grinned and pulled out his rifle, aiming for the jet's spark chamber. (Or rather, where it would be on a car-based mech), and pulled the trigger. He headed back to to check on Kit.
Kit managed to poke her head out of her mother's arms, tears were in her optics. She sobbed and reached for him. "Uncle HT"
Hammertread walked over and carefully rolled the femme over. Her optics were dark, and the color was allready draining from her armor. He looked at Kit, expression unreadable.
He tried to feel for a pulse, but wasn't getting one. The tank took a ragged breath, trying to withold the building emotions..
"Kit, go... back inside."
What he wated to say was go away, he didn't want her.. or anyone for that matter, to see him cry.
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Somewhere on the East side of Autobot City, upper level
Kup grinned at the sight of Prime kickin' tail pipe and hurried outside to join the mech.
Hot Rod followed. Seeing Prime and Megatron grappling in hand to hand combat, the youth tried to run out to help. "I've got ot help Prime!"
"Stay out of it, lad, this is Prime's fight!" Kup yelled, reaching for him.
Megatron reached for the pistol under a bit of fallen metal, all the while begging Prime for mercy.
Prime couldn't see the weapon, But Hot Rod sure could.
Megatron reached out and snatched it just a Hot Rod tackle-jumped the Decepticon leader. "Oh no you don't, Megatron!"
Prime saw the weapon, and the youngster at the same time. "Get out of the way Hot Rod!"
Too late. Megatron had his arm around the younster's throat, using him as a body-shield. He couldn't move, nevertheless get away, Megatron was too strong. He fired off two shots in a row at Prime.
"Fall, Fall!"
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The forest, ten or so miles southeast of Autobot City
Gunlock and Beacon went out to where they had last seen their friends, hoping they were doing okay, and dodging laserblasts all the way.
Terra reached over and pulled Cap to his feet, putting him on her back, as Indy walked over to Klutch's body.
Cap mumbled something incoherent, feeling Terra's fur under him, and knowing somehow it'd be okay as she flapped away.