Highroad transformed, the Lamborginis and Ironhide pulling up behind him. He grinned behind his facemask. This was going to be too easy. "Starscream." he greeted. The red and blue seeker's optics widened slightly. "Whattyou want, Auto-boob!" Rumble declared from slightly behind him. Trailbreaker took a step forward, but HighRoad merely glanced at the Autobot over his shoulder. "I take it Megatron left the spacebridge in your capable hands?" there was a tone of amusement in the Autobot leader's optics. Starscream practically snarled, bristling visibly. "Why don't you go terrorize some poor human or... or go haul a load of oranges to a market somewhere!" the seeker spat back. HighRoad raised a single optic ridge. He wasn't going to reply with the response he wanted to use, or Starscream would know he wasn't really Prime.
Rumble seemed somewhat amused by Starscream's ruffling, though. "Oh yeah, just wait till Megatron gets here!" He sounded smug. "Oh yeah, and who says there'll be anything left of you when he gets here?" High Road pulled out his rifle. Starscream took the hint and left into the air, leaving Rumble wondering how he got into the sky so fast. "Hey! come back here, ya tin-foil plated coward!" he yelled, firing off a couple shots at the Autobots before doing a double take to look at the spacebridge, then at the Autobots, then back at the spacebridge again, then took off. "Megatron is not gonna be happy about this!" he yelled at Starscream on the way up.
"Who cares!" came the raspy reply. HighRoad just watched him go before turning to his group. "Well, that was easy." He noted. "Yeah," trailbreaker stepped forward. "But don't you think we should do something about the pile of junk they left behind?" he motioned to the spacebridge.
Ironhide walked up beside the mimic. "Especially if Megatron is on his way here. We should probly destroy this thing before he gets here." he suggested. "Agreed." HighRoad nodded, and Trailbreaker and the twins started to set explosive charges around the metal structure.
"Lookout!" sunstreaker yelled. Unfortunately, Megatron HAD arrived faster than anticipated, and fired off a blast from his fusion cannon at the Prime Mimic's feet before he could fire his gun at the Spacebridge. "Decepticons!" Trailbreaker yelled, turning on his forcefield. HighRoad swore under his breath and went for cover. Sunstreaker and sideswipe fired at Thundercracker and Skywarp, and Soundwave narrowly missed Ironhide. Prowl didn't get the chance to say "I told you so" as he, Smokescreen, and Bluestreak pulled up. The young gunner ducked behind some rocks and fired off a couple shots at Soundwave. The casette player dispatched Buzzsaw and Laserbeak, and Bluestreak tried to shoot at them, missing. The two birdlike casetticons kept their distance, but fired at the Datsun, hoiping to hit him between the two of them.
Prowl looked up and squinted. Ah, so Starscream *had* returned. And from the look Megatron sent him, he was NOT thrilled at. all. He fired off a shot, hitting Starscream's wing and got a cross between a shriek and a snarl in reply for it. High Road faced off with Megatron. "Give it up Megatron, the spacebridge is ours." highroad declared, shifting to the left as Megatron swung a powerfull right hook. HighRoad ducked, and Megatron Missed him completely. the Prime lookalike was suprised Megatron hadn't swung hard enough to swing himself all the way around when he missed. But instead megatron trurned so his side wasfacing HighRoad, and he settled for grabbing the Decepticon leader from behind and gave him a shove. "The spacebridge is ours, Prime! there's nothing you can do to stop us!" Megatron fired at the almost-Autobot leader and instead hit a rock to one side.
The clear whine and rush of darkening air signaled the reopening of the spacebridge, and Megatron turned to glance at it. "What! I had no travellers on cybertron!" Prime glanced at it also. But something had come through. The blinding beam of light was fading, leaving only the acrid smell of burnt ions in the surrounding atmosphere.
Jade glanced at Bullet as the spacebridge activated, then offlined her optics, concentrating on the spacebridge on Earth. She had heard about spacebridge accidents, and frankly, it almost terrified her to have to travel like this. A mere blink of an optic later, the blue sky of Earth was around them, and she looked around. She glanced at Bullet almost questioningly. "Well, that was fast." he noted. "Yeah, but let's just get back to base before the decepticons realise we've arrived." she said, thankful for the peace and quiet of Earth. Then the door slid open, and a laserblast struck the ground at her feet. The femmejet "eep!"ed really loud and leapt into the air backward, trying with every fiber of her chassis not to hide behind Bullet.
Thankfully, Optimus Prime chose that moment to deck Megatron, and Jade nudged Bullet. "Let's go!" she leapt into the air, and swooped down lower to fly close to the ground and keep a small outcropping of rocks between them and the Decepticons. Jade snarled as a grey and red robot with doorwings popped up to shoot at her. Jade hissed as the shot hit her wing. It hurt! "My wing! You'll pay for that!" she snarled, realising only too late that her voice still sounded like Starscream.
Windstriker swooped down, transforming behind Bluestreak, who was the grey and red mech who'd shot Jade in the wing. "Jade, quit playing around and let's go!" she called. "Oh yeah, you try getting out of this wihtout getting shot to peices!" the jet declared. Bluestreak blinked. The new mechs knew the Decepticons?" Bullet looked around and saw that Prime and Megatron had fistfought their way behind some bushes, and were totally unseeable to either group of fighting mechs. "Jade, go. I'll catch up." he called. Backdraft took to the air "Don't have to tell me twice." he shot off into the sky. Jade glared after him. "You'd better be carefull. Scythe will have my afterburners if you get yourself scrapped!" she snarked, taking to the air.
Bullet watched her go, then grinned. He flew to the opposite end of the battlefield. "Decepticons, retreat! the spacebridge is a lost cause!" he called. From behind the bushes, Megatron heard and tried to get up and run back to where his troiups were being led away by an imposter! But Prime grabbed his ankle. "Oh no you don't!" Megatron snarled and kicked the Autobot leader in the face. HighRoad, who Mewgatron (and everyone else, apparently) thought was Prime, let go.
Ironhide fired at Bullet "So those new mechs ARE workin' with the Deceptercons!" he fired a few morte shots. But Bullet was faster than his Decepticon counterpart, and chose his route wisely. He had allready led the Decepticons out of sight of the main battlefield and the spacebridge before landing in a small crevasse in the rocks hidden by the unergrowth. He watched them fly past with a smirk. "Scratch one battle, and a spacebridge." he said to himself.
Once they had gone, he took off again, heading back to the Kintaari mountainbase.
