Legend of Bruticus (Chapter 3)
Battle of the Colossi
Starscream and Sandstorm could not believe their optics; a living legend was standing before them: Metroplex. He was the former guardian of Cybertron centuries ago, but went offline when he saved the planet from an oncoming meteor. The giant rock pushed him deep into the metal planet and nearly disintegrated him. Optimus only recently discovered his shattered remains and, with some help, rebuilt the titan and sent him to earth to hopefully destroy the war machine Bruticus.
"Stand Bruticus! Stand and fight a true legend!" Metroplex mocked in his low, deep voice. Bruticus lay on the sand, starring up at the colossus. "Only one legend here!" Bruticus replied. "Then prove your worth Decepticon; stand and fight me like the monster you are." The Decepticon began to rise to his feet, and now he was looking into the optics of his nemesis. "Bruticus crush you!" he said as he and Metroplex grappled each other. As Bruticus appeared to be winning the battle and pushing Metroplex onto his knees he yelled, "Fall Autobot!" A burst of strength shot through Metroplex, and he started to stand back up, pushing Bruticus onto his knees and said, "You first." With those words, Metroplex threw up the Decepticon's arms and wrapped his hands around his waist. The towering Autobot lifted the war machine over his head and held him there, "You're quite light for a hunk of metal," and tossed him forty feet and back onto the sand. "AH!" the Decpeticon screamed as he hit the desert hard. "Bruticus hurt…Bruticus get revenge!" he returned to his feet and charged after his opposing titan, clenching his fist and bringing it back to charge it for a devastating attack. Metroplex did the same and swung his arm back as Bruticus moved closer. The Decepticon unleashed his fist and so did his nemesis. Their knuckles collided, causing a massive shockwave that blew the other two minor transformers far, far away. The seismic wave also parted all the sand around them, and now they were standing on the bare ground beneath the desert. Bruticus grabbed ahold of Metroplex's head and proceeded to beat his head till it cracked. The Autobot responded by landing a strong and mighty blow to his enemy's stomach, causing his chest plate to break and fall off. Bruticus stepped back, grabbing his stomach in pain, and fell on one knee. Metroplex pulled his arm back again, but this time swung it forward in a vertical motion, uper-cutting the beast. The blast knocked Bruticus's helmet off, but he still stood back up, readying for more fighting. The Autobot took a few steps forward, only starring down the sparking and barely standing Bruticus. "You don't know when to give up." Metroplex then grabbed both of the Decepticon's arms and raised his leg and kicked Onslaught in his cracked abdomen. The arms were ripped off in the process and now the once tall and mighty Bruticus was once again lying before the titan. Metroplex took some steps back and said, "Now you will feel my full power!" Cannons flipped over each shoulder, one flipped across over each side of his waist, the antennas attached to his head were also cannons that rotated forward, and to add on to his eradicating firepower, he carried two large guns. All his weaponry was focused at the barely living Decepticon lying on the ground, and he began to charge them. Just at the moment he was about to fire, Starscream came from behind and dropped multiple bombs on the colossus's cracked skull. "BLAH!" he yelled in a very angry tone, "Starscream!" "You want me? Come get me!" Starscream taunted, "If you insist Decepticon." Metroplex then jumped high into the air, transforming in the process. Metal folded over metal, steel collapsed against steel, and soon the gigantic starship was once again flying. "He may be huge, but I'm sure he's slow." Starscream thought to himself. The gargantuan thrusters on the back of the ship ignited and he began to fly forward at high speed. "Guess I was wrong." Starscream said as he was then splattered onto the front of the monumental starship. He couldn't fly faster than his enemy so he was forced to submit to Metroplex's sense of direction. He looked forward and saw a pyramid out in the distance, "No…no…no no no no no! Stop! Stop you adamant monster!" When they were about to make contact with the stone mountain, time almost stopped for Starscream. But time went on in Metroplex's realm as he pushed right on through the pyramid and not even slowing down. When he came out on the other side, Starscream was no longer on the ship's front. "Hahaha! Pathetic Decepticons, I forgot how much I loved my job!"
Starscream remained motionless on the ground, missing his legs and one arm along with the two wings that were on his back. "Soundwave…move faster…Bruticus down and so am I…" were the last words that Soundwave ever heard of Starscream. "Megatron, we must move more swiftly. There are Autobots in the vicinity." "Autobots out here? Ha! We shall crush them all!" "Sir, they took out Bruticus and Starscream." "…what? Bruticus was invincible." "Sir, what about Starscream?" asked Astrotrain who was standing behind them. "He can be replaced, but a war machine like Bruticus cannot. Astrotrain, get us over there now that we have a lock on Starscream's position." "Yes, sir." He immediately switched to his previous form, a shuttle, and loaded up his fellow Decepticons and left straight for Bruticus.
Flying over the vast desert, they eventually came upon the wreckage of an ancient pyramid. Lying on the Sahara floor, under a large pile of rubble, was the shattered and broken Starscream. He was motionless, almost offline. "What could've done this?" asked Megatron. "Possibly a rail gun, sir." Answered the communications expert. "Let me out!" said Starscream's close brother, Sunstorm. "Stay here, we will need you for the upcoming battle!" ordered his leader, Megatron. "That is my brother down there, and I do not take orders from a coward like you!" "How dare you…I will rip the steel from your chassis!" "You can try, Megatron, but now I must save Starscream." He opened up Astrotrain's side door and transformed to his yellow and white jet and flew from his safety to retrieve his fallen brother. "Forget him! We have a more important duty to attend to. Astrotrain, quick, move faster. I think I see Bruticus out in the distance, but…who is that?" "Scans indicate that it is the Autobot that I detected. It is not in our recent database; I will check older files." Answered Soundwave. "Autobot file located, his name in Metroplex, an ancient guardian of Cybertron." "So this is the legendary Metroplex…I've heard much about him but only shrugged them off as myths. Is this your new weapon Optimus? This is how you counter my own war machine? Hahaha! Bring it on!" "Sir, Bruticus is on the ground…in pieces." "You two deal with that, I want Metroplex! Take us down, Astrotrain."
Metroplex heard the sound of incoming thrusters and turned around to find the Decepticons heading straight for him. Astrotrain flew about twenty feet away from the giant. Megatron leaped out the door after Metroplex while Astrotrain kept flying toward his fallen comrades. "You're mine Autobot!" screamed Megatron as he gained momentum and landed a hard kick to the face of the behemoth. "RAWR!" the beast screamed in agony as the crack grew larger and more sparks flew out. Megatron, still standing on Metroplex's shoulder, noticed the growing crack and took aim at it. With one charged shot from his fusion cannon, the leviathan gave way and collapsed onto the solid ground. "Hahaha! Is that the best you have Optimus?" "Sir, we have the Combaticons. Let's get out of here." Megatron took his time to gloat about his amazing victory and then boarded the shuttle. Sunstorm, with Starscream grappled to the bottom of him, caught up to Astrotrain before he left the atmosphere. "Open up!" "Get away, you chose your path when you left the shuttle." Megatron replied. "Fine. I will find another way to fix my brother. We never needed you Decepticons. I and my brothers were better off without you." With those last words to Megatron, Sunstorm flew off in the opposite direction in hope of finding help.
Sandstorm, who was blown miles away from the battlefield, began to come back online. "Ah…what happened? Where's Metroplex and Bruticus." The Autobot peered off into the hazy desert and found a giant mountain of metal. "Optimus, this is Sandstorm, come in." "What is it? Did our new weapon prove effective?" "Kind of, sir. Bruticus is gone, but Metroplex is down and appears to be offline at the moment." "Hold tight, I'm sending Ratchet your way." Sandstorm approached ground zero and the fallen titan. He was lying flat on his face in the hard ground. "Why is there no sand here? Could that shockwave blow away all the surrounding sand like it did with me? I guess it doesn't matter now. Just hold in there big guy," Sandstorm laid his hand on the ancient Autobot's metal, "Help is on the way."