Chapter 4: Home Run

Present...

During their drops, Jazz and Crosshair floated on midair. Crosshair dived through straight to the ground. For about 5 feet on air, Crosshair pulled the strings out; launching his parachutes out. He floated on midair as he slowly descended on the ground. Jazz launched his grappling hook on the first electrical box. He then hovered over to the second platform's edge. He fell on his back before landed on the ground hard.

Crosshair chuckled cruelly, "Now that's the style, baby! Boom Dive!"

"Tell me about it. I call it Groove Dive, man. You really need to play some cool and chill moves, Cross," Jazz said calmly and coolly.

Crosshair and Jazz gave the friendly fist shakes. They both chuckled wildly and happily. They looked around of their surroundings. The area was filled junks, literals, old and ruined parts and metals. On four directions; three of them were metallic sewer cages while the front on north was blockage of metallic vines.

BEEP! They both responded the call. It was from Sideswipe and Cliffjumper.

"You guys are alright?" Cliffjumper asked.

Crosshair chuckled, "Aren't we always?"

"What do you see," Sideswipe asked.

Jazz scoffed, "A lotta junk. But I can grapple through it pretty easy!"

Jazz launched his grappling hook on the blockage's top edge. He grunted as he pulled his Energon Line of grappling hook hard and harder. For the moment had passed, he pulled it down hard. The blockage of vines torn themselves apart to pieces while falling to the ground hard.

Crosshair whistled happily before chuckling. He and his partner entered the entrance and headed straight. Crosshair followed his tracker monitor in searching and locating Grimlock and his teammates. For the moment had passed, they continued passing through the long hallway of dirty and filthy sewage of tunnels. They had arrived on the large area of circle-shaped. Ahead of them was the another room. They entered the room. They spotted several more of monitors.

They whistled in impressed. Crosshair followed his tracker as the signal blinked enlarged frantically and beeped loudly. They both stopped as the signal blinked bigger and beeped loudly. They found their target. They looked down. They found a dead Autobot Trooper.

"No way..." Crosshair said in disappointed, "That's no Grimlock..."

Jazz nodded, "No kidding. He must be lone survivor of Polyhex. Aw man! If he was alive, we could have asked him what was going on and especially what happen to Grimlock and his team."

Crosshair sighed in upset, "Too bad... There was not a sign of his Spark."

Jazz took on his seat as he typed on the keyboards as he went through the several videos in search of what they were looking for. He stopped at once. He spotted a video of where Grimlock and his team met up with the Autobot Soldier.

Jazz smirked, "Bingo! Found ya."

Crosshair whistled in impressed, "Can't wait to find out of what was going on this messy damn place..."

Jazz nodded his head as he selected on the video before it enlarged into large vision and played it. Crosshair had his goggles worn up and scanned on the monitor, so his allies and comrades to watch and listen. The fate of Grimlock and his team had revealed...


8 hours ago...

Grimlock and his team continued walking and checking up through the underground area for nearly two hours. They encountered and found an Autobot Loner at the circled area that Jazz and Crosshair presently passed by. Both sides were armed with their weapons as they readied to battle.

Autobot Loner groaned in anger, "Who the hell are you?! Are you one of Shockwave's spy?!"

"Shockwave? No way! We don't work for that creep!" Scorn exclaimed in anger.

Slug nodded his head, "Who are you?! Identify yourself!"

Autobot Loner groaned, "I'm the only Autobot Trooper, who ever lived in this abandoned town. I survived all kind of worse and danger before in my life."

Swoop whistled, "That's gotta hurt. He must have been taken a big hit."

Snarl nodded as he glanced at the Autobot Loner, "Well, sir; you are not alone. You have us now. We are the Lightning Strike Coalition. We can help you out. What happened here? And more importantly, what happen to you?"

Autobot Loner grunted painfully, "Well, after the Decepticons had taken over Polyhex, some of my comrades and I had been forced to live in this underground for our entire life. I survived the harsh journey from all kinds of danger and enemies of mine, but I've lost most of my comrades. But that's not the worse, I was fighting for my survival from the underground monsters."

"Underground Monsters?" Sludge asked in shock and worry, "What monsters?! The only monster we know of is Trypticon."

Slash nodded while yelping in worry and scared, "If it was his twin, we are so dead! That is no way we can beat that thing!"

Grimlock groaned in annoyance, "Stop your whining, Slash! There is no way it can be Trypticon's Twin. There was only one. And that is him! He was shut down and torn apart! And whatever those things you had mention, we can handle it!"

"No! You don't understand! This is unlike any Decepticon Troopers you had face before in your life. These creatures... They're different. They're more monstrous like they came from another world," Autobot Loner explained frantically.

Grimlock and his team looked worry and concern of what Autobot Loner had said. They were about to ask him. The Autobot Loner yelped and screamed in fear as he pointed at something for their backs.

"It's them! They're back! No! I can't let them kill me!" Autobot Loner exclaimed frantically and feared.

Grimlock and his team turned and found the shadow thousand figures of giant muscular and bulkier mechanical robots. Their faces had the insect's face-like with crimson triangle visor. Some were climbing on the ceilings and walls. Others walked straight at them. Few were in their robotic modes while most were in Hercules Beetles-like modes. They growled, screeched and roared wildly and angrily.

"What are those things?!" Snarl asked in fear.

Scorn growled in anger, "Who cares! They're attacking us! Fight back!"

"Stand tall, team! Those freaks are not gonna get away without the fight! Charge and fight!" Grimlock ordered before he growled in anger and wildly.

Grimlock took both his mace and sword out as he charged in and struck, swung and slammed on his enemies. His team and Autobot Loner joined in the battles as well. They battled and fought against their mysterious enemies hard and quick.

Grimlock swung both of his sword and mace at their enemies while slamming them on the walls or floors. Slug swung his mace in attacking his enemies. Sludge blocked the attacks while punching at them to the ground. Swoop continued firing his arrows at his enemies while Snarl came and protected him from the enemies' attacks. Scorn whack his whip on his enmies hard and quick. In high speed, Slash charged in and swung his knives in cutting, injuring, striking and tearing his enemies apart. Autobot Loner used his blaster and fired at his enemies.

The swarm of mysterious enemies continued swarming and emerging out from both hallway's and height's thousands of tunnels. They were all charging straight at Grimlock and his team, who continued fighting and battling back at them. The battle fought hard in dealing with dangerous yet mysterious enemies...


Present...

Jazz and Crosshair looked shock and worry. They turned and stared at each other for the moment before they turned and glanced at the monitor in hopes they can find of what had happen to Grimlock and his team.


5 hours ago...

One hour later, Grimlock and his team had manage to withhold and withstand against their mysterious enemies as they barricaded themselves in the security room, along with the wounded Autobot Loner. The enemies had proven themselves stronger and difficult to defeat. More of them had come and charged at them. They were forced to withdraw and retreat to the security room for further defense.

Grimlock, Sludge, Scorn and Slug held and pushed the giant metallic door hard. Their enemies continued ramming and banging the door hard Swoop, Snarl and Slash helped in treating Autobot Loner's injuries and wounds from the battles. For nearly half an hour had passed, there was no sign of enemies' attacking.

Slash opened the door to check up. As the door opened half way, he screamed in agony as his leg was grabbed and pulled. Snarl and Swoop grabbed his hands as they tried to pull him back to their allies. Grimlock and Slug thrust and slammed their maces at their enemies hard as they can. Autobot Loner came out and fired his blaster at two-three enemies to the ground before Slash's legs was released. Autobot Loner had his chest pierced by their claws.

Slash gasped in shock. He screamed in anger as he took his knives out and cut his enemies down to pieces. Slash quickly grabbed Autobot Loner and brought him to inside of the room. They were about to attack, but Sludge and Swoop fired their Blazing Wheels and Energon Arrows at them to the ground. They quickly closed the door at once.

For two hours had passed, the enemies continued attacking and ramming on the door hard and harder while Grimlock and his team held and pushed it tight and hard. Swoop and Slash tried to treat and patched the Autobot Loner's wound during that time. But when the enemies manage to breach the door in small opening, one of them fired his blaster at the Autobot Loner's chest. His Energon was leaking out from his chest and limbs.

Swoop and Slash tried their best in patching and preventing Autobot Loner's wounds leaking and dripping his Energon out.

"Hang on, pal! You'll make it! I promise!" Swoop exclaimed in determination.

Autobot Loner coughed out loud, "Why... Why now... After so long in enduring the danger, I finally get to rescued by you..."

Slash shaken Autobot Loner hard, "We will get out of here! I promise you that!"

Autobot Loner groaned in pain. Slash and Swoop continued their treating and patching on his injuries and wounds of his chests.

Autobot Loner sighed before he smiled. His time had come. He spoke softly, "Everyone... Thank you for saving my life... No matter what happens... Keep on fighting... For our freedom and friends... This is what Optimus Prime wanted... He is the true inspiration... Bye..."

Autobot Loner gave his last breathe before his eyes went off. Slash and Swoop gasped in shock and scared. Slash turned to Swoop, who shook his head in despair and pain. They had no chance in saving him. His wounds were beyond their treatment. He was killed...

Slash sniffed in tears before he cried in pain, "He's gone... Damn it! He's gone! And all we did is nothing but to fight! We didn't even save one Autobot's life!"

Grimlock growled in anger, "Stop your whining, Slash! It's pointless to cry over the dead Autobot! We have to defeat those monsters and get out of here!"

Slug snorted in anger, "Grimlock! Get to your thick skull. We need to call for backup!"

"There is no backup, Slug!" Grimlock argued, "Optimus doesn't even know we're here!"

BANG! The door got rammed very hard. The creatures screamed and roared in anger and wild. Grimlock and his team yelped in shock and worry. The door was opened in half way of two. Sludge and Scorn quickly pushed and held the door back.

"Argue later! We need to get out of here now! We can't stay here too long!" Sludge exclaimed in worry.

Scorn grunted, "I don't think we had the chance in beating those freaks out now!"

Grimlock roared in anger as he charged and rammed the door in two. He yelled in anger, "Stand and fight! We will survive! We will defeat those monsters! We will get the Energon! And when we're out of this junk, I'm gonna find the one, who is responsible of killing our friends! He will pay!"

Grimlock and his team roared in anger and determination as they all charged straight to the front as they battled and fought against the creatures as hard as they can while they escaped the underground area.


Present...

Jazz and Crosshair were in shock and surprise of what they had seen. The last video they had watched was Grimlock and his Lightning Strike Coalition battled and fought against the strange and mysterious creatures before Grimlock swung his giant mace at another creature to the ceiling; knocking the camera down.

Jazz contacted his allies, "Guys, you catch any of that?"

"Yeah... What were those things? Those claws, faces, wings and their alternative modes- They're different from ours," Cliffjumper said in shock and worry.

"But... what happen to Grimlock and his team? Did those freaks took them out?" Sideswipe asked in shock and worry.

Crosshair shook his head gently, "Don't think so. The way those guys fight. No way they were beaten and killed that easily. Whatever those things were, I'm so not gonna meet them."

Growling and hissing sounded, Jazz yelped before whining. He slowly turned to his back. He spotted the crimson eyes. He gulped, "Uh... That's so unfortunate."

Crosshair, confused and worried, asked: "Why is that?"

"I think we're about to," Jazz said in fear. He armed himself with his Shotgun Blaster, "We've got company!"

Crosshair quickly got off his seats. He turned and armed with his Twin Pistol Blasters. Both him and Jazz fired their blasters at three mysterious robotic creatures to pieces. They quickly exited to the circled arena.

When they got out, they encountered the swarms of thousands of robotic Insects-like. Some were climbing on the walls while others were standing, hissing and growling. A few were in robotic modes while most were in their bug modes. Both Crosshair and Jazz gulped in fear and scared.

"Scrap," Jazz said softly.

The robotic Insects roared, hissed, screeched and screamed wildly, angrily and loudly. They charged right at both of them, who quickly jumped and dodged to both sides. Crosshair quickly fired his pistols at three-five creatures to pieces while dodging up or over from their attacks. Jazz slid straight on the floor down while firing his Shotgun at six creatures. Both continued dodging and avoided the attacks while firing their blasters at them to pieces on heads, chests and limbs.

"They're everywhere," Crosshair exclaimed frantically as he kept on shooting at his enemies, "And they're ugly!"

Jazz huffed before hovered back and away from the creatures, "Tell me about it! Keep firing on them!"

Crosshair snorted in annoyance, "Easy for you to say! I so don't like the looks of this!"

"Then, don't want to," Jazz exclaimed in frustration.

Both Jazz and Crosshair continued firing their guns and blasters at the mysterious and dangerous creatures as fast as they can while avoiding the blasts and attacks from them. More of the creatures continued crawling and climbing out from the holes and tunnels on the walls and floors.

Jazz and Crosshair groaned in annoyance. They had to escape from the battlefield, despite able to kill them about 50. Spotting the tank rupture, Jazz smirked as he blasted thrice on it.

BOOM! The tank blown into pieces. But it wasn't the only one. The whole building's pipes and systems blown into pieces.

"OH NO!" Jazz exclaimed in fear.

Crosshair groaned in anger, "Jazz! What the heck did you do?!"

"Jazz! Crosshair! We're receiving masses of toxic reading! Get out of there NOW!" Sideswipe shouted in fear.

SCREAMED! SCREECHED! One-ten of the creatures fell to the ground hard. Some quickly climbed on the walls. Most flew up to in midair.

"Can't argue with that!" Jazz and Crosshair exclaimed.

They both transformed into their silver-white car and greenish car. They both drove straight to the tank rapture's hole and long hallway before exiting the hole. They spotted the greenish toxic flooded the area. They both quickly transformed into their robotic modes. They quickly used their grappling hook on the third platform's edge. They flew to the top while continued running as fast as they can on its hallway.

Both Jazz and Crosshair continued running through the tunnels while firing their blasters at the running and flying creatures. And at the same time, they used their grappling hooks on two-three platform's edge on fourth-sixth level for them to climb up to the top. For nearly three minutes, they exited the hole. They stopped and found themselves back where they started: the long tube they just dived down from the surface.

Jazz and Crosshair looked up and found about 4 meters away from them to the top. They quickly used their grappling hooks on the surface's edge and headed to the top. At the moment of reaching to the top, Jazz and Crosshair managed to get to the top. Sideswipe and Cliffjumper quickly helped them both out from the giant hole.

As soon as Jazz and Crosshair were away from the underground's hole entrance, Jazz exclaimed, "Blow it up! Blow it up! BLOW IT UP!"

Both Cliffjumper and Sideswipe turned and aimed at the tower's structure. They fired on it for few times before its structure slowly breaking up. CRACK! The top part of tower fell. The creatures managed in getting to the top. They were prepared to attack their prey. SLAM! The screeching and screaming creatures had dropped and fallen into the depths of underground's hole by the tower's top structure. The hole was sealed.

Four Autobots took a deep breath before releasing it. That was scary yet intense...

"That was close," Sideswipe sighed in relief, "What now?"

"The distress signal we pick up is gone..." Crosshair said in upset. BEEP! He checked on his right-armed monitor as it shown the Energon Signal, "I'm receiving another energy signal."

"I'd say we chase it," Cliffjumper suggested.

Jazz nodded his head in agreement, "Autobots, roll out!"

Four Autobots transformed into their car modes before rolling straight to another ruined ye broken hallway of metallic factory's walls. For a while had passed, they transformed into their robotic modes. They spotted the large old door in front of them.

Crosshair snorted, "This must be it. It's beyond the door..."

The scanner eyeball on top of the door shot its laser on four of them; scanning on them for a while before it went off.

"Access denied!" The Security Door boomed.

Jazz huffed, "We'll see about that!"

Jazz launched his grappling hook on the door's top edge before pulling it hard. It torn into pieces and apart. The scanner went off before shutting down.

Autobots entered the entrance as they headed straight out. BOOM! They stopped at once. They looked up and spotted the tallest and largest tower, with its laser-like and four claws-like.

"What the heck is that?" Sideswipe asked in shock and surprise.

"Look! The lake," Crosshair exclaimed in shock. He pointed at the large lake that surrounded the tower. He spoke, "It's filled with raw Energon..."

Cliffjumper looked shock and surprise, "No way... This could be the last reservoir on the whole planet..."

Jazz nodded, "And the Decepticons got here first. Come on, let's move it and groove it."

He and his team headed off. They walked on tower's opposite walkway while looking at the Energon Lake. They spotted the plumbing pipes came out from some holes and touched on the Energon in absorbing it. They quickly headed to the ledge as they climbed to the top of platform. They turned and witness the mysterious tower-like...

BOOM! The tower shot the laser gun to the space. Four Autobots yelped in surprise and shock before falling their backs on the grounds hard. They witness the laser was creating the black hole-like. They slowly got up and watched on the event.

Cliffjumper gulped, "The Decepticons are pumping the lake dry."

Jazz nodded his head in agreement, "That's quite a light show for an Energon refinery." He snorted in anger, "Maybe there's something more to this place. Let's find out about this place..."

His three Autobots nodded in agreement. Four of them transformed into their vehicle modes before driving off on the long route to the tower. Whatever it was from the tower, it was strange yet mysterious to learn and discover of why Decepticons wanted...


2 hours ago...

Grimlock and his team had survived the attacks. They journeyed to the tower area where present four Autobots were going and entered in investigating. They entered the tower's large facility. They battled and attacked on the remaining Decepticon Vanguards and Troopers while venturing across the facility's four level areas.

They were at the second squared area. It led to the mysterious towers that Grimlock and his team had found.

"Okay, we did find the Energon Source," Swoop said calmly before screaming frantically, "Why the hell are we still here?! We've gotta tell Optimus and the rest about this!"

Snarl nodded his head, "Swoop's right. We've done it. Let's get out of here now! We can't stay here! The Decepticons will be here for the Energon!"

Grimlock roared in anger, "No! Something's not right..."

"What something's not right?" Sludge asked in worry, "Grimlock, we've found what we were looking for. We had to get out of here now. We've done the mission. It's time we leave this facility before anything bad could happen!"

Scorn nodded his head, "There's no point of investigation when we succeeded."

"Quiet!" Grimlock shouted, "Listen to me, if there was Energon Lake here, why didn't Decepticons took it and left this area?! And more importantly, what kind of tower is that?"

Slash shrugged, "Beats me, Grim. Maybe they were waiting for Megatron to get here and check out about this area. You know Megatron wanted to be sure of what he was looking for was correct."

"As for the tower, we're not sure. It maybe a lighthouse or signal," Slug answered calmly.

Grimlock shook his head, "No... It doesn't add up well. That tower... is no ordinary tower. There must be reason of why Decepticons wanted to remain here. If I had to guess correctly, Shockwave must be nearby."

"Shockwave?!" Lightning Strike Coalition members asked.

Grimlock nodded his head, "Autobot Soldier told us that after Polyhex had fallen to those creeps, Shockwave came here. I have been wondering why come here since it was covered by Sea of Rust, unless... the tower is the reason."

"Whatever it was, we'd better get out of here now," Swoop suggested.

Slash nodded his head, "Our investigation is done."

Grimlock growled, "No... It is not! Our investigation just started! When we find Shockwave, we'll get the answer from him! Once we're done, I'm gonna rip him apart for killing the survivors!"

Lightning Strike Coalition looked shock and surprise of what Grimlock had said. Was he serious? Grimlock marched out and exited the entrance. His team followed him. They had arrived at the ramp and in front of them was the large door. Whatever lies within the door, Shockwave was working on something important...


Present...

Jazz, Sideswipe, Cliffjumper and Crosshair were standing on the same position as Grimlock and his team had from the past. They spotted the tower in front of them. They headed straight ahead of them. They entered the facility.

The area was in dark. They turned their headlights on from their helmets in hopes of finding the switch in the area. Cliffjumper found the switch on his left back. As soon as he switched it on, the lights were on. They turned to the front. They yelped in shock and scared.

They were in the large laboratory. The area was filled with dissection table, monitors on the walls and pods of sleeping strange creatures on middle. They gulped in fear and concern of what they had seen...

"What the heck is this place?" Cliffjumper asked in shock.

Crosshair gulped as he pointed at the pods, "Those were the monsters Grimlock and his team had fought. Of course, Jazz and I did fight them. Trust me, they are so ugly. And I really hate them!"

Sideswipe huffed as he approached the monitor in front of him. He checked on them, "Whatever these creatures were, they were called Insecticons. They're now in stasis. No harm done. And listen to this, Shockwave found them from Polyhex's underground when the Cybertronian Great War begins. Man... this is an interesting fact. They were serving and working under Shockwave."

Jazz chuckled, "I bet they were Shockwave's Pets."

He turned and found a small monitor where it had the holographic of the tower they spotted. He checked on them for a while. He then spotted the holographic map appeared behind of the tower. It then revealed the crimson target locked-on of the water planet. He gasped in shock and worry.

"Listen to this. This is some kind of holo-map of distant star system. It looked like what you had found from Ancient Map Room. And for some reason, Decepticons were targeting on this water planet. I wonder what so special about this water planet?"

"Whatever it was," Crosshair said calmly, "It can't be good. Come on. Let's find Grimlock and the rest."

Sideswipe nodded, "And we need to tell Optimus of what we found."

Cliffjumper hushed, "Listen!"

Four Autobots were quiet as they listened carefully of the noise they received from. They turned and found the stairs to the top entrance and entrance. They looked at each other for the moment before they headed to the top. They had to find out of what was going on.

For moment had passed, they had arrived on the balcony area and in front of them was the tower. They looked down. They found two Decepticons, who were talking with holographic Airachnid.

"Starscream? Shockwave?" Jazz asked in shock and surprise.

Cliffjumper groaned in anger when he saw Airachnid's hologram, "Airachnid..."

Airachnid glared at both Starscream and Shockwave before she continued, "Shockwave, you're wasting your time on your experiments!"

Shockwave shook his head gently, "Predictably, you do not understand the true value of this tower. It is the key to unlocking a bridge across time and space itself."

Starscream chuckled, "Which means this led us to any planet we want..."

"Silent," Airacnid exclaimed in anger, "I want the Energon pumped into Energon Cubes and be delivered to my forces at once! I'm planning to finish of what Megatron had fail to do so. I don't want to hear this Space Bridge nonsense. That doesn't concern me because I am your leader of Decepticons now!"

Jazz, Sideswipe and Crosshair looked worry and concern of what they had learn about. They looked down and found Cliffjumper was sneaking and approaching to two Decepticons.

Jazz gasped as he contacted Cliffjumper, "Cliff! What are you doing?!"

Cliffjumper smirked as he went in his Cloak Mode, "Getting my jump on."

As Clffjumper continued in sneaking on Starscream and Shockwave, Airachnid continued arguing with her two Officers, "If you don't get it done, I will have you both demoted and had Onslaught taking over." She smirked darkly, "Take care of another partner of Arcee."

Airachnid's hologram disappeared. Cliffjumper gasped in shock as his cloak mode disabled. Shockwave turned as he grabbed and knocked him to the computer monitor hard. Starscream was about to attack. Cliffjumper punched on his face hard before throwing him at Shockwave. They both attacked him at once.

Sideswipe armed with his sniper as he aimed at both Starscream and Shockwave were holding Cliffjumper's both arms. He fired it! BOOM!The computer blown up, causing Starscream, Shocwave and Cliffjumper to yelped and fall down. They both got up from the ground. Starscream gasped in shock.

"Autobot fools! Look what you had done!"

Shockwave nodded his head, "You've ruptured the fuel lines! Interlopers! I must repair it!" Jazz, Sideswipe and Crosshair dropped from the balcony. They were armed and readied to fight. Both Starscream and him quickly transformed into their jet modes. He spoke, "Insecticons! Deal with the Autobots."

"Make sure you rust them to pieces," Starscream screamed in anger.

Both Starscream and Shockwave flew up to the sky. Hundreds of Insecticon Horde from walls, grounds and air were charging straight at four Autobots. They were about to kill and defeat their intruders.

"Oh boy... That can't be good..." Crosshair said in concern.

"Cliff, hop on the console," Jazz ordered, "whatever Shockwave wanted to fix, we need to break more! The rest of us will handle the rest!"

Cliffjumper nodded his head, "On it!"

Cliffjumper turned to the console as he pressed some buttons on it while Jazz, Sideswipe and Crosshair battled and fought against some of Insecticon Horde.

"If I could reroute enough toxic waste into the server core, -" Cliffjumper said as he continued pressing on some buttons, "- it should blow this whole facility to sky high!"

Jazz, Sideswipe and Corsshair fired their guns on the flyers, crawlers and underground Insecticons. As Insecticons were closed to their enemies, they combated, battled and attacked the Autobots, who quickly dodged the attacks at once before they get slammed.

Crosshair continued hovering and dodging back while fired his Twin Pistol Blaster at his enemies. Jazz rolled over while firing his Shotgun Blaster at his enemies while avoiding the attacks from them. In high speed, Sideswipe dodged the Insecticons' attacks while swinging his gauntlet-blades at his enemies one-by-one. The Autobots continued battling and firing at Insecticons.

Succeeding in typing and pressing the buttons on the console, the greenish toxic waste entered and pumping through the long pipes to the sever core of towers. The bluish Energon was filled and flooded by the greenish Energon. The greenish fog emerged from the ground as it covered the area. The sever core was flooded. It started in electrocuting and shocking as the system was slowly overloading.

Cliffjumper smirked, "Oh yeah! It's good to go!"

Sensing the danger and toxic wast overloading the system, Insecticons screeched and screamed in fear as they transformed into their Hercules Beetle Modes. They flew into the sky, digging on the ground and climbed on the walls. They were escaping and running from the danger.

"Guys, we've gotta go now!" Cliffjumper exclaimed in fear.

Jazz nodded his head in agreement, "Autobots, roll out!"

Jazz and his team transformed into their car modes. VROOM! They drove in high speed through the highway route. They were escaping and running away from the exploding and falling apart of the Space Bridge Facility. The tower slowly falling apart while exploding into pieces.

For nearly a minute, the whole facility's building blown in pieces while some of its bricks and walls fell to the ground. The entrance was about to get covered up. VROOM! Four Autobots drove out from the entrance. They transformed into their robotic modes. They looked up as they witnessed the falling of facility.

Crosshair breathed and panted heavily, "Let's not go through that again."

Jazz nodded his head, "Agreed... We'd better contact Prime about the big news. We're on the home run!"

"Yeah..." Cliffjumper nodded his head, "I wonder what happen to Grimlock and his team. Something tells me that they were not here."

Sideswipe nodded his head, "Yeah... I wonder where they were. I doubt Grimlock and his team were killed easily. And I had the feeling something bad is going to be happen to them. I can only hope they're okay."


0 hours before Jazz and his rescue team's arrival at Polyhex...

Insecticons and Decepticon Troopers held Lightning Strike Coalition members. Hardshell and Sharpshot held Grimlock. Starscream, Shockwave and Kickback were looking at Grimlock and his team. They found out about Shockwave's plans in harboring the Energon while researching and experimenting the Space Bridge Tower. They were about to win and defeat Shockwave but defeated and captured by Insecticons.

"So, this is the strongest and powerful Lightning Strike Coalition," Starscream chuckled darkly, "More like Lightning Defeated Coalition. Lord Megatron had always been interesting in capturing and recruiting them to be his finest warriors. But it will be difficult to persuade or control them."

Shockwave shook his head, "Not likely. During my researching and searching on any sign of planet for Lord Megatron's interest, I came across the primitive water planet. That world was filled with strange yet interesting reptilian creatures. They were inspiration specimen. They reminded me of... Predacons."

Starscream chuckled in amusement, "You're not actually planning to remodel them to primitive beast modes for you to control?"

"Indeed, I do," Shockwave nodded his head, "and what of Airachnid? I do not trust her. She had usurped the leadership of Decepticon. This was yours to take and command. Should we abandon the mission Lord Megatron had requested us to do?"

"No. We shall continued in following Lord Megatron's plan. However, if Airachnid proved to be... incapable and rogue from listening to any Decepticon Officer, then she cannot be trusted. I had Blackout, Thundercracker and Skywarp keeping their eyes on her."

"Your reason of spying Airachnid... is logical and reasonable. You are indeed worthy to be Megatron's Second-in-Command, and perhaps his Successor. But your loyalty to him... is yet to realize, unlikely Blackout or Dreadwing. There is more to you than meets the eye, Commander Starscream. I will find and learn of your true objective."

Starscream chuckled in amusement, "I aim to please, Shockwave. In the meantime, what should you do with Grimlock and his team?"

Shockwave turned and glanced at the weakened and defeated Lightning Strike Coalition members. He spoke, "I will have my spare time in studying, researching and experimenting the reptilian creatures on them soon. The Decepticons will have the great army of magnificent and powerful super soldiers. For now, they are my prisoners and test subjects."

Starscream smirked darkly, "I can't wait." He turned to Insecticons and Decepticon Troopers, "Take them to Shockwave's Laboratory of Kaon."

Decepticon Troopers and Insecticons saluted as they took and brought Grimlock and his team out to Shockwave's Laboratory for studying, researching and experimenting on 'reptilian creatures'.

Grimlock looked up and glared at Shockwave and Starscream. He growled in pain and anger, "Shockwave... Shockwave... Must pay..."

What specimen Shockwave had in his mind for Grimlock and his team? What primitive water planet Starscream and Shockwave were talking about? What plans Megatron had in his mind before his death?

To be continued...

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Author's Notes:

Thought Sludge died in this chapter, didn't you? Sorry to disappoint you because he was too important to dispose. Sorry, folks.