-Ten-Faced Paladin
Moon Armada
By Ten-Faced Paladin
Chapter 5: Battle Royal
The air was tense as the impending battle between the Sailor Scouts and the Decepticons was about to start off. The Sailor Scouts had met up with Hotshot and were getting along with him until the Decepticons arrived. They attacked hard and fast. Hotshot was busy tussling with Cyclonus while the others set their sights on the girls. When the scouts transformed, the Decepticons were obviously shocked. They went for their 'divide and conquer' trick. Starscream had faced down Sailor Moon and Saior Mars. Wheeljack aimed for Sailor Venus. Thrust went after Sailor Jupiter. Sideways wanted revenge on Sailor Mercury. Even Sailor Mini-Moon was in on this as she, Jolt, and Arvee went to help Hotshot against Cyclonus.
Starscream stood silent as he watched the two Sailor Scouts in front of him. He was smirking as he watched them get tense.
"Human transformers eh?" he asked with a smirk. "This will be amusing."
Starscream then drew his blade which used to be his plane wing. It unfolded into it's true form and began to glow an evil red colour. Serena and Raye felt a bit uneasy as they saw the giant sword. Starscream's grin turned into a wicked smile.
"I'll destroy you both!" he shouted as lunged for them.
Starscream brought his sword crashing into the ground. Both scouts gave a cry as they barely dodged it. As the dust cleared they saw a large gash in the ground from the Decepticon's sword. If the thing had hit either of them...it wasn't a pretty thought.
"Raye!" Serena called to her friend. "Can't you use a talisman on him or something?"
"Serena, he's a machine!" Raye shouted back. "He may have a soul but I don't know if they'll work on him!"
As the two scouts were talking, Starscream had already brought his weapon to bear and was lunging back at them.
"Duck!" Serena shouted as both scouts dove to the ground. Starscream's sword went over their heads and cut down some trees that were behind them.
"Would you stop squirming and fight!" Starscream shouted irritably.
Raye beagn to stand up as her gaze narrowed on the giant machine, "My talismans might not work, but I know what will!"
Raye stood up straight and leaped back a short distance. She then brought her hands together with her index fingers pointing up.
"Mars fireball...," she began as a small flame appeared on her fingertips. "...Ignite!"
Raye pointed her fingers at Starscream and the fire shot at him,growing larger as it came closer to it's target. Starscream crossed his arms as he saw the attack coming. He could have dodged it, but his arrogance told him that there was no way that a human could hurt him. Transformer or not. The fireball hit him directy in a small explosion. The force caused Starscream to back away half a step. The smoke cleared and he was seen still standing. His arms were singed and glowing slightly from the immense heat. His face was in a painful frown. He was hurting and he didn't want to show it.
"That the best you got?" he roared at the two scouts.
"Not even close you creep!" Serena shouted.
Serena reached up to her her tiara and gently held the jewel in the centre. She removed the tiara in one fluid motion. As she held it, it began to glow. When it was like a small star, she realesed it and it began to float above her hand. She brought the glowing disk back, ready to throw it.
"Moon tiara magic!" Serena cried as she threw the disk.
The magical attack raced towards Starscream with unnerving accuracy and speed. Starscream just smirked and raised his sword.
"I'll knock that piece of junk back at you!" he shouted arrogantly.
The glowing disk came closer and Starscream slashed at it. Everything stopped as the two energies collided with each other. Serena's magic going up agaist Starscream's decepticon technology. Flashes of energy could be seen as the two battled against each other. Finally, there was a small blast of light and the tiara was sent hurtling back. It stuck into the ground by Serena's feet.
"No way!" Serena gasped.
"Impossible!" Raye agreed.
Starscream smirked at his accomplishment, "Ha ha ha! Your power is nothing compared to mine!"
Starscream began to gloat more when a loud cracking noise caught his attention. He looked to his sword and saw that the red glow was quickly fading. He could also see deep cracks spreading through his sword.
"No!" he cried as th sword shattered and the pices fell to the ground.
"No match for you huh?" Raye smirked.
"Rrr!" Starscream growled. "I'll crush you with my bare hands!"
He charged at the two Sailor Scouts with murder in his optics. Raye reacted quickly as she brought her hands together again.
"Mars celestial fire surround!" she cried as she hurled her attack.
Fire circled around Starscream and he was soon engulfed in it. He gave off a cry of pain while it swirled around him. When it finally disappated, he collapsed to the ground with a groan. His body was covered in scortch marks and no doubt that a good bit of his circiutry was damaged as well. He wasn't going to be getting up for a while.
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Amy stared down Sideways yet again. The Decepticon was glaring down at her. He was obviously ready to react if she tried to attack him again. Amy knew that she didn't have the element of surprise anymore.
"You may have gotten me the first time Mercury, but I'll be sure to pay you back ten fold for that humiliation." he spoke darkly.
Amy didn't give that a response. She was busy going over what her computr told her when she scanned Sideways. It had told her that his weakpoint in robot form was his neck, however, while he was in vehicle form, the motorcycle wasn't the threat. It was the rider that was. She just had to figure out how to get him back into vehicle form.
"I don't have all day you know," Sideways chuckled. "If you want to go without a fight then that's fine with me."
Sideways was about to aim for her when Amy made her move.
"Come and get me Sideways!" she called before making a break for the beach.
"Heh. Now it's interesting," Sideways smirked. "TRANSFORM!"
Sideways shifted into his vehicle form and with a roar of his engine, he chased after her. Amy glanced back and saw the purple motorcycle following her. So far, her plan was working. She only needed to get to the beach before Sideways could catch up to her.
Amy leaped to the stairs which lead down to the beaches. As she came to the sand, her boots sank into it slightly. She looked up and didn't seee Sideways just yet.
'Perfect,' she thought to herself before she started running for the water.
Sideways Leaped straight over the rail guards and began going downhill for the beach. He saw Amy on the beach and he snorted in amusement.
"Think a little sand is going to stop me?" he snorted. "Think again."
His wheels met the sand with a slight squeal. After a brief pause where they dug in, Sideways went off onto his chase again.
Amy watched as Sideways adapted quickly and she went for the water again. When she was about ankle-deep, she turned to face Sideways again.
"Okay," Amy spoke to herself. "Now if I can get the timing just right."
Sideways saw Amy stop moving and he revved his engines so he could go faster. He could already taste his vengance.
"Giving up?" he laughed. "Smart choice. I'll make this quick!"
Sideways extended his arm while continuing to drive with the other. He was aiming to clothesline Amy. With the speed he was going, he was going to remove her head. He sped closer and Amy tensed. She just needed to time it right. When she could see the light blinking it Sideways' optics, Amy dove forward just as he sped past. Sideways tried to do quick U-turn, but he quickly discovered that mud was even worse driving terrain than sand.
"Graah!" he roared as his motorcycle tipped to the side, sending him skidding through the water.
Amy stood up again, soaking wet, but unharmed. She spied the prone Sideways and she raced to meet with him. Sideways shook his head and he turned to find his body when he saw Amy coming closer. She had stretched her hands out in front of her.
"Aqua shine illusion!" she called loudly.
The energy from her attack surged forward and Sideways knew that there was no way he was going to avoid it with his smaller body.
"Slag!" he cursed loudly.
That was all he could get out before he was frozen solid. When the icee hardened, Amy allowed herself a sigh of relief. She then turned to head back to the others.No doubt that they needed her help.
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Wheeljack and Mita squared off. Mita felt a kind of anger towards the former Autobot. She had heard about how the Autobots stood for justice and peace. Seeing this transformer in front of her revealed how he had thrown that right bck in his comrade's faces.
"How could you?" Mina asked angrily. "How could you betray your comrades?"
Wheeljack looked to the ground. His face seemed to take on the form of some kind of shame. It was only for a second, but Mina could tell that it was there. Wheeljack then turned his attention back to Mina, the look of shame was gone.
"I didn't do what I did out of choice," he remarked simply.
He then stepped forward and brought back his fist. Mina jumped out of the way as his white metal fist came crashing into the ground where she stood. Wheeljack turned his head and attempted to backhand her with his other hand. Mina could feel her hair get hit as she ducked under the attack.
Wheeljack stood up as did Mina and they faced each other again.
"Why are you fighting us?" he asked. "This isn't your fight. It's between the Autobots and Decepticons. Humans shouldn't concern themselves over this."
Mina frowned at the former Autobot, "This became my fight when you tried to take my friend Arvee!"
To her surprise, Wheeljack smiled at her passionate reply.
"That's good," he smiled. "You'd make a heck of an Autobot. I hope you meet the other Autobots. You'd fit right in."
Mina felt nothing short of surprise at Wheeljack's response. Was there still an Autobot heart inside that Decepticon body? Further speculation was halted when Wheeljack's smile turned back into it's usual emotionless look.
"Still," he continued. "Under Megatron's orders, I have to try and get that Mini-con."
Mina tensed again, ready for the impending fight, "Then I'll just have to put you down!"
Wheeljack launched himself forward again with a raised fist.Mina brought out her right hand and held it our with her index finger pointing at Wheeljack's scar.
"Venus cresent beam smash!" she cried loudly.
A blast of light shot out of Mina's hand and it flew at Wheeljack. The former Autobot was shocked by this revelation and was unable to react in time. The attack collided with his scar and created a small explosion.
"Gaaaahh!" Wheeljack cried as he was blasted to the ground by the impact.
Mina watched him for a moment. He wasn't moving. Small bolts of electricity emenated from his scar. Mina stepped closer until she could see Wheeljack's face. The former Autobot turned his head to look at her.
"Not bad Venus," he remarked with some effort. "You'd better get to Hotshot. This isn't going to keep me down long."
Mina nodded and ran towards where Hotshot was busy with Cyclonus. Wheeljack smiled as he watched her go. Those humans would make great Autobots if they were Cybertronians.
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Lita was currently facing down the greatest strategist of the Decepticons. The high-flying Thrust. He was watching her through narrowed optics. He seemed to be trying to analyze her. It was getting on Lita's nerves.
"A human transformer," Thrust pondered out loud. "A completely unexpected development."
"So?" Lita smirked. "What are you going to do about it?"
"Foolish creatrue," Thrust snorted. "While we've been standing here I've been formulating a strategy and I believe I have one."
"Well don't keep me in suspense," Lita remarked sarcastically.
"If you are in such a hurry to be destroyed then by all means," he laughed. "TRANSFORM!"
Thrust changed into his black fighter jet form and blasted into the sky again. Lita watched him go, feeling a little confused about what he was doing.
As if he had read her mind, Thrust began cackling.
"Despite your abilities," he explained. "You are still human and therefore extremely limited in your range!"
Thrust then turned around and began coming back down in a dive bomb move. As he came closer, Lita found herself the target of two machine guns.
"Yow!" she cried as she dodged the attack.
As she stood up again, Thrust blew past. He then rose into the air again.
"Ha ha ha!" he cackled. "That's right Jupiter! You are helpless and it's only a matter of time before I get you!"
Thrust's voice and his laughing was beginning to grate on Lita's nerves. She was getting angry in other words. Thrust was about to learn why no one, not human, transformer or even youma, should ever, ever do that.
Lita dug her heels into the ground and crossed her arms over her chest. A small antenne rose out of her tiara and electric bolts began to surge around it. With every second passing, the bolts began growing larger and larger.
In the skies, Thrust was beginning to get strange readings on his sensors. They were reading that there was a large electric anomoly appearing. That and it was growing larger by the second. He turned his gaze downward and saw none other than Lita and the electric bolts surging around her.
"What!" he shouted.
Lita turned her eyes up and saw the black jet standing still. She couldn't help but smile. Perfect.
"Jupiter supreme thunder crash!" lita cried as she released the attack.
The attack ripped upwards through the air towards Thrust. He would have been hit easily if he hadn't reacted so quickly. Before he could actually be hit, he transformed again so that he was in a vertical position. The electricity shot past him.
"Incredible," he gasped as he turned his gaze down on Lita. "The ability to harness electricity. That was unexpected."
He noticed that Lita had a smile on her face. That confused him. Usually when someone avoided such an attack, the one who launched it would be disappointed or shocked. He watched her and saw that she was glancing upwards.
What Thrust wasn't noticing was that where Lita's attack had went up, dark clouds were concentrating. As he started looking up where her eyes were looking, a large bolt of electricity was coming down. When he finally saw it, it was too late. His optics widened in recognition before the bolt hit him.
"Gyaaaaaaaaahh!" Thrust screamed.
Lita had to cover her eyes from the bright light. When it vanished, Thrust could be seen falling from the sky. His body was smoking and he seemed to be knocked out. Even if he wasn't he woudn't be able to fly anyway. Lita's atttack had fried a good number of circiuts in his systems. Many of them were part of his flight systems.
His body crashed into the ground with a large smash. Lita smiled in satisfaction as she raced to find her friends. No doubt that they might need some help. While she was running off, Thrust's eyes flickered.
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Cyclonus was having the time of his life. Smashing Autobots was one of his favorite things to do. He had gotten this one by surprise and almost crushed some humans at the same time.
Life was good.
"Come on autobum!" Cyclonus laughed. "That the best you can do?"
Hotshot was trapped underneath Cyclonus and was getting pounded with every stomp. Cyclonus raised his foot again, ready to smash his head this time.
"I can do better!" Hotshot shouted.
Hotshot rolled over abd grabbed Cyclonus' foot. With a huge jerk, he threw Cyclonus into the sand. hotshot then stood up and got ready to fight again. The helicopter Decepticon stood up with a crazy smirk on his.
"Now for the real fun!" he laughed.
Before either of them could start fighting again, they were suddenly interrupted.
"Hold it!" a tiny voice shouted.
Hotshot and Cyclonus looked to the edge of the oarking lot they were fighting in and saw none other than Rini standing there. Jolt and Arvee were hiding behind a nearby tree.
"Who are you?" Cyclonus grunted.
"I am Sailor Mini-Moon!" Rini announced. "I'm one of the Sailor Scouts. I right wrongs and punish evil, and in the name of the moon I will punish you!"
Hotshot had seen this once already so he didn't question it. Cyclonus, on the other hand, had a different reaction.
"Bwa ha ha ha!" he roared in laughter,clutching his sides. "In the name of the moon! Ah ha ha ha!"
"What's so funny?" Rini shrieked, her cheeks turning red in ebarrassment and anger.
"You expect me to fight you?" Cyclonus snorted. "Get real! A shrimp like you isn't worth my time!"
Rini's face started to adopt an emotion that Hotshot recognised quite easily in humans. She was getting angry. Hotshot had seen Alexis get like that sometimes when Rad and Carlos really got on her nerves. If Rini had powers like Any did then Cyclonus was in for a real surprise.
"Oh yeah?" Rini huffed angrily. "Then take this! Pink sugar heart attack!"
The attack zoomed towards Cyclonus and collided with his chest. Too bad it really didn't have any real affect.
"That's it?" he laughed. "Man, human transformers are weak."
Hotshot saw an opportunity and slipped awaay from Cyclonus and made a break for Rini and the two Mini-cons.
"Hey!" Cyclonus whined, seeing Hotshot leave. "Get back here!"
Hotshot skidded around with his back to Jolt and beside Rini.
"Thanks Rini," he smiled. "I'll take it from here. Jolt! Let's powerlink!"
The red Mini-con nodded and swiftly transformed into his vehicle form. He then attatched himself to Hotshot's bacK, activating his axle cannon.
"Big deal," Cyclonus snorted. "Think you're tough 'cause you got a human and a Mini-con? I'll show you though. TRANSFORM!"
Cyclonus changed to hi helicoptr form and rose into the air. Dirt kicked around around him.
"Come on out Crumplezone!" he called. "We gotta powerlink!"
"Crumplezone?" Rini asked over the roar of the rotors. "Who's that?"
"His Mini-con partner," Hotshot replied darkly.
Rini looked back up and saw a blue Mini-con come out of the cockpit of the helicopter. It then leaped and transformed into a tank. It then changed again into a new cockpit while the old one opened up. Crumplezone attatched to the front with loud metallic ring.
"Chaaarge!" he laughed as he began flying at his targets.
Hotshot and Rini dove out of the way as he flew past. Hotshot tried to blast him, but his attacks kept missing.
"Too slow autobum!" Cyclonus laughed. "Take this!"
Cyclonus fired his super cannon and the large purple bolts flew at the two fighters. Both dodged...barely. The ground was blown out around them as Cyclonus kept taking potshots at them.
"Ah ha ha!" Cyclonus laughed. "I think I'll take your mini-runt friend out first!"
Cyclonus changed courrse and began flying straight at Rini. She could see his super cannon charging up for another shot.
"Waaah!" Rini cried, freezing.
A beeping noise caught her attention and she saw a familiar pink car speeding towards her. It sped towards her and Rini instantly hopped on as it sped past. Cyclonus began shooting wildly at them.
"Would you just hold still!" he whined.
Rini was gripping for dear life onto her friend, "What do we do Arvee?"
Arvee replied in a few short beeps. Rini blinked at what Arvee said and then she smiled.
"Hey, that's a good idea!" she smiled. "Let's do it!"
Rini turned around and saw Cyclonus was still coming after them. He had lowered himself closer to the ground for a better shot. Rini prepared herself and hoped that she didn't miss.
"Pink sugar heart attack!" she cried as she fired her attack again.
Her attack flew at the helicopter again and crashed against the cockpit of the machine. It didn't hurt Cyclonus, but it had a different effect.
"Waaagh!" Cyclonus cried. "I can't see!"
he helicopter began to move erratically as it went. Soon, it seemed as if it was going to crash into the dirt, and crash it did.
WHAM
"Guuuuh,"
Cyclonus did crash, but not into the ground. He smashed into a tree. Rini cheered as his body came slipping to the ground.
"I did it!" Rini cheered. "Thanks Arvee!"
Arvee beeped happily. She found that it felt nice to help a friend.
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"Are you all okay?" Hotshot asked in concern as he joined back up with the girls.
"We're fine," Serena laughed. "We put those guys down!"
"It was still a hard fight Serena," Raye remarked. "They could really take a beating."
"I think the decepti-clowns didn't have as much as they bragged to have," Lita shrugged.
"We shouldn't get over-confident," Amy suggested. "We haven't fought anything like them before."
"Oh come on Amy," Serena laughed. "They're moondust."
A rumbling noise came from all around as Serena spoke her words. The scouts all turned around to see what was coming. From the way of the beach, the gfamiliar purple motorcycle of Sideways, rider and all, came onto the asphalt. Wheeljack, Starscream, and Thrust came walking out of their respective battles looking worse for wear, but ready for more. Cyclonus even stumbled out of the forest, even if he still looked a little dazed.
"Who's moondust?" Thrust asked with a sneer evident in his voice.
"Oh man," Serena whimpered, wishing she hadn't opened her big mouth.
To Be Continued.
A/N: There is chapter five for everyone. The scouts gave the Decepticons a good thrashing and they still come back for more. Can they hope to win? Perhaos it's time for some Autobot assistance to finally arrive. The girls are just lucky Tidal Wave isn't there yet, aren't they? Oh yeah, I've gotten a review or two asking why a Decepticon has a name like Wheeljack. For those unfamiliar with Armada, I will attempt to explain. This Wheeljack used to be an Autobot. During an assault, he was trapped by some rubble which gave him that scar on his chest. Megatron had saved his life and now Wheeljack is forced to serve Megatron with his life. He may not like it, but it's a matter of honour for him.