"no" Shadow replied quite flatly "we came in from cybertron a little while ago". Shadow shrugged. Like she'd tell a stranger her complete origins.
Bluestatic piped up "Yup just got here; I'm Bluestatic by the way; and the almost anti-social dragon is my elder sister Shadow" he spoke in greeting.
Cable nodded. "I'm Cable, an these are my pals Gunlock..."
(he motioned to the darkly colored black green and blue jet, although the blue and green were so dark he looked completely black)
"...and Beacon." (he motioned to the grey-colored blue-visored flier)
"And I'm sure you know Jade." he grinned, red optics brightening for a second. Jade just waved.
"My other teammates are around here somewheres. Big chick, about yay high, goes by 'hey you'.." he held a hand up over his head for emphasis. "Or Ty." he chuckled.
It was about that time a loud 'CRACK!' was heard, and a beam of light shot out of nowhere, nearly taking Cable's hand off. The car yeeped loudly like a little girl and ducked.
The blast knocked Bluestatic completely out of his seat, a smoking hole left in the side of his helmet. Jade, Beacon and Gunlock few out of their seats, drawing their guns. Gunlock and Beacon blocked the doorway.
Shadow looked over to the two jets and nodded taking note of who they were and their names. She did raise an optic ridge at Cables desc. of Ty but otherwise didn't really say much; well she didn't really get time to.
Shadow heard the 'crack' and instinctivly ducked. Turning to see Gunlock and Beacon blocking the doorwa.y
Shadow fearfully turned to regard her brother. Shadow didn't scream or cry out at seeing Bluestatic on the floor instead she padded over to him and gently gave him a slight nudge with her hand.
When he didn't move Shadows optics narrowed to slits.
Her wings half spread Shadow looked about ready to commit murder. The dragoness silently sniffed the air and trianglated the angle from which the shot came from. Oh she knew who it was alright. Only Saber would be able to get in here undetected and be prepared to shoot 'Static.
Sure it could have been one of Soundwave's spies, except they wouldn't have shot him in that way; no that was all Saber.
Emitting a feral growl Shadow transformed into her dragon mode and crouched ready to spring; the minute Saber moved all hell would be let lose.
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Outside, Kickback was bored. He hated waiting; he was sincerly hoping that this whole ordeal would get started already.
The rangers heard the shot Darkclaw expectantly turned to Starscream "would you do the honours sir?" he asked in a polite tone.
Sky transformed into his pheonix mode and waited for the order. Windwhisper was ready and Beedrill buzzed lightly in excitement.
Kickback, however, just looked at the scene unfolding; this could be fun he thought to himself, or suicidal. Therefore as the good insecticon that he was he waited for the order.
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Jade hit her comm. Intruder alert! get Ratchet down to the rec room, NOW!" she yelled.
The car's armor was allready starting to dullen in color.
Saber transformed back to beast mode as the Seeker yelled, hoping the ruckus would cover the sound of her transforming. Now, how to get past those two fliers blocking the door?
wait, they couldn't see her. The tiger had to get Shadow to follow her, though.. hmmm.
The tiger ran and leapt at the smaller one, who was grey.
Beacon fired off a row of shots as he was tackled, but they missed. Once in the hall, she turned visible, daring Shadow to follow her.
Saber snarled at Gunlock, and looked at Shadow like 'catch me if you can' and bolted down the corridor towards the exit.
Starscream drew himself up. "Decepticons. ATTACK!"
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Driveby had just opened her mouth to ask Prowl something, but the base's alarm went off. Both rushed to the control room.
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The insecticons transformed and started firing at the walls of the Ark. Bombshell took his position behind a rock near the ark's entrance. All he and his fellow insecticons had to do was sneak up behind Shadow and get her on the ground. Then he could implant a cerebro-shell.
True, it would inhibit her higher brain functions, so he wasn't certain whether the gestalt would be able to merge or not...
Shadow roared pouncing after the tiger; all sense had been driven from her mind;
((note: it'd probably take someone like sunstreaker or sideswipe to hold shadow down when she's in dragon mode and in pretty much a bezerk fury))
She roared again when Saber had managed to get through the door this time she used her fire breath. Luckily she missed Gunlock, though no doubt he felt the heat of it. Unfortuantly Shadow couldn't fit through the door; and right now she didn't have enough of a coherant thought pattern to get through the door so she quite litterally ripped her way through it. Roaring and allowing her fire to lick the corridor, the dragoness was quite litterally out of it.
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Sky just rolled his optics but took off nevertheless activating his flamethrower he took delight in destroying various parts of the mountain.
Windwhisper shot at anyone who came near the entrance only Shadow would be permitted to leave. Beedrill used her disrupting ability to try to quiet down the ark's systems. Darkclaw just shot stuff occassionally calling his team to order.
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Kickback just did what shrapnel told him to; shooting the arks walls was boring but soon enough the dragon should make her exit.
Then the fun would really start.
Saber reached the exit, hoping Shrapnel's stun gun would work on the angry dragon. The rest of the Autobots were not too far behind her, including five out of the six members of Driveby's team.
Shadow was waaaayy to mad to care anymore; the dragon practically burst out of the ark and took wing as soon as there wasn't anything above her head, roaring Shadow snapped at the seekers and used her fire on any who got close enough. Circling, Shadow was pretty much ready to attack anyone who moved (excluding autobots; she had enough restraint not to go on a complete murderous rampage).
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Kickback started in surprise at the speed of the dragon frowning he nudged Shrapnel hoping his 'leader' could get a clear shot; he wasn't in the mood to be dragon food.
Shrapnel sighted the dragon's head, and let off not just one shot, but an entire row of shots.
He was pretty sure he had hit her, but couldn't tell while she was still in the sky. he kept firing. By now, the rest of the autobots were out of the Ark, and Driveby's team had taken cover. Gunlock, Jade, and Beacon took to the air to help shadow with the seekers. Driveby, Ty, and Cable fired at the other insecticons on the ground, and Shrapnel kept firing at shadow.
Shadow's head wasn't easy to hit as it was Shrapnel had only hit it twice and as far gone as she was, all it did was make her more angry now she started to use her fire on the insecticons. Shadow's ruby optics were blazing with their own fire.
She was going to rip them apart when she got her claws on them!
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Sky had to dodge getting shot at by Shrapnel as well as dodging Jade. He gave a shriek as he tried to grab Jade's wings and rip them off. Beedrill tried to use her frequencies but soon figured out that would do more harm than good, so instead took to shooting the autbots along with windwhisper.
Darkclaw watched the angry dragon; the power and force behind it should have been for them!! Not for some worthless autobot engineer who couldn't hold his own in a fight!
Meanwhile, Wheeljack and Ratchet had hurried to the rec. room to find Bluestatic, and rushed himto the repairbay...
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As for kickback, well, he was having a tough time of it as it was; trying to bring that dragon down was like trying to stop the tide; virtually impossible.
He kept firing, though. He wasn't about to disobey orders; And he knew the other Decepticons would give him sufficient cover fire, so he wouldn't have to worry about getting hit. He was hitting her, why wasn't it working?
Jade barrel rolled and dodged as the phoenix's claws scraped across her wings. Beacon dove in behind her, targeting Sky. He fired off a missile, and Sky dodged.
Jade also did as it whizzed inches from her. "HEY! watch where you're shooting those things!!!"
"Grrr. I wish he would stay still." the black Avro Vulcan B-2 growled.
Skywarp teleported in front of Jade, who slammed on her airbrakes. Gunlock skidded past, right into Skywarp.
Shrapnel got another shot in on Shadow's head. Her servos should have been completely paralised by now. So why was she still moving?
Driveby hit her comm. "Cap, that was an alarm!! where are you"
Said tank looked up from where he was kissing his girlfriend. "oops..." he glanced at Terra. "um..."
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At the next few shots Shadow felt her systems start to freeze up with a snarl she landed grabbing shrapnel in her claws it was at this time that she became paralised; which for Shrapnel was probably a good thing or he'd be a pancake.
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Sky was having his own amsument being the most manuverable in the air he dived under and over the jets blasting them every now and then. He was amused to see one of the jets crash into skywarp.
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Shrapnel gave a sigh of relief, as the Dragon's grip on him faltered, then shen failed. Bombshell walked over to the stunned dragon. "Soon, you will be one of us, again." he grinned, and fired a cerebroshell into the femme's forehead. He cackled, and signaled DarkClaw. "The femme is ours..."