Megatron was taken off guard how quickly and efficiently his troops were destroyed.
It was like they weren't there at all, like their weapons can easily penetrate our armor. Megatron thought. Then, he got an idea.
"Send Knockout and Breakdown down there," Megatron ordered, grinning.
Then, a second wave of drones came, this time from the ground. Jack, Raph and Miko started engaging, as did the mechs. The drones were easily cut through, falling one after another from the onslaught of heavy weapons fire. They thought they were done when two vehicles popped up. One was a Red sportscar, and the other one was a heavily-built SUV. Jack immediately recognized them. "Knockout and Breakdown," Jack said coldly as the two vehicles transformed in front of them. The Mechs actually seemed surprised, even though they were autonomous. Little did they know Luke already set up Point Defence turrets behind the mechs in case of flanking maneuvers. Those PDs will be useful against them, I'm sure. Luke thought to himself.
"Uhh, Knockout? What do we do now?" Breakdown asked.
"We go at them from both sides. You run to the left, I run to the right," Knockout said, unaware of the turrets hidden behind the wall of metal.
They started to execute their tactic, with an equal amount of fire coming at both of them.
"Uh, Megatron. Send another wave of drones," Knockout said.
Another wave of drones came in, firing at the mechs. The energon just bouncing off the shields like they were nothing. The drones kept charging, covering Knockout and Breakdown as they started to flank the mechs. Then, Knockout was sent flying back by a newly-discovered group of automated turrets. Armor chipping off, Knockout screamed and started driving away. Breakdown still charged, thinking Knockout was taking out some of the mechs. Suddenly, a hail of high-explosive rounds hit Breakdown head-on, causing his chest plates to almost break off. He landed a football field away, only to see what looked to be artillery firing at him. Breakdown screamed as he was torn apart from heavy artillery barrage.
"Uh, I think we got one of them," Jack yelled, seeing the smoking wreck of Breakdown 100 yards away. He heard jet engines ignite, turning to see the drones retreating. Jack breathed a sigh of relief. "I think thats all of them. Is everyone alright?" Jack yelled, getting replies from both Miko and Raph.
"Wait, where's the commander?" Raph asked, confused as to where it is.
"I'm right here," a human walked over to the group. He was a brunette with short, brownish-black hair and looked skinny for his age. He also was wearing a set of armor, but it looked more like the ones Jack and the others were wearing. The armor had a black primary color, with blue secondary and yellow trim. There was the same weird symbol on his shoulder-guards. He also had glasses on.
"Don't worry, the ACU is on the other side. I just came over to thank you for helping," Luke said, with a smile on his face.
"Uhh, no problem," Jack said, a little tired.
"We should get to the base, everyone's waiting," Raph said, his helmet off.
The group started walking to the groundbridge, when Megatron flew out of the nemesis, and landed 50 meters away.
The mechs immediately turned around, looking at what appeared. Megatron was almost up, the mechs started backing away a little.
Megatron smirked, "So, you got more than just a giant robot to play with, now you got more," Megatron said in a disgusted tone.
"Guess what? You're not getting either of them, so don't try." Luke said, thinking Megatron was after the ACU.
Megatron laughed, "You really think I was after that robot? No, I am going after YOU!", and with that, Megatron lunged at the group.
Immediately, everyone started to get back to the ground-bridge, with the mechs backing up, holding off Megatron. Megatron charged at one of the front mechs, tearing it in half with his sword. He blasted another, but the mech didn't go down. The Mechs started to concentrate fire, making it even more difficult to get up and fight. Megatron got up, and screamed in rage as he charged again. This time, taking out 3 more. Before he could get to the last ones, though, they walked through the ground-bridge, which closed behind almost immediately.
"NOOOO," Megatron yelled as he lost his only chance of getting a commander.
At the base, everyone was frantic as everything went through the ground-bridge. Mechs were still shooting out at megatron until the ground-bridge closed. The mechs literally had to crouch in order to fit inside the bridge, as Ratchet still hadn't upgraded it. Optimus walked in, seeing that everyone was fine.
"Wow, that was a little difficult," said Jack, chuckling nervously.
"Tell me about it. They just kept coming," Raph said.
"I'm glad you all came in one piece. So, what happened?" asked Ratchet. Jack described how the battle went.
"Hmm, why would Megatron want to have a commander?" Ratchet asked no one specific.
"Megatron was most likely after the ACU and the pilot, but since the ACU was already through the bridge, he went after the pilot, instead." Optimus said in a cold tone.
"That explains why he was trying to get to Luke, but why didn't he go into the ground bridge and try to grab the ACU?" Ratchet asked.
"He must have thought that the pilot knew how to build an ACU, but that doesn't answer one question: Why go after them in the first place?" Optimus asked.
"He probably wanted to have a new army, just like we're building: always follows orders, and never stops fighting," Luke said coldly.
"Then we're lucky he didn't catch you, otherwise we would be in the Nemesis, being tortured until you say yes." Luke felt a cold wave go down his spine.
Silence filled the room for a bit, the mechs just standing there, waiting for further orders.
"I'm going to start setting up perimeter defenses and shields on the outside of the base, in case if the decepticons find us," Luke said, with the mechs following him out the door.
Luke noticed how everyone was looking at him and the mechs.
"Don't worry, these things won't shoot at you. They have been programmed to take orders from me, and me only. The decepticons can't even hack into their systems, since their firewalls are strong enough to hold off hundreds elite hackers," Luke said, in a reassuring tone.
Chase and Jade followed, and headed to their ACUs to begin construction of their base.
"Hmm, I still don't trust them. What if they aren't actually our allies?" Ratchet said.
"We have to trust them, for now. They might come in use later," Optimus said.
Just then, Smokescreen came in, with wide optics.
"Holy shit, do you see those giant robots? Their fucking HUGE!" Smokescreen almost yelled.
Everyone ignored his statement and told him to get some rest. Smokescreen obliged and went to his room. Everyone was dismissed a few minutes later after the team got debriefed.
Jack was in his room, again, putting his stuff away and getting ready to just relax. It's been a rough day, today. Almost got stomped on by a decepticon. Jack thought to himself as he put his suit in his pretty big closet.
"So, you made back in one piece," Arcee said, walking into his room, again.
"Uhh, I thought I told you to knock last time," Arcee rolled her eyes.
"Hey, when we like each other, we don't need to knock," Arcee said.
Arcee moved over to where Jack was and sat down.
"So, how was the fight? How many decepticons did you kill?" Arcee said, excitement in her optics.
"I got about 6, that antimatter rifle is really useful against drones," Jack said, grinning at the thought of shooting a fist-sized hole into the chest of a drone.
"How much did everyone else get?" Arcee asked.
"Raph was building sentries with the turrets in the back, and he built some assault drones that actually are quite effective against drones. Miko got at least 10, if not more," Jack said.
"Wow, didn't know there were that many sent at you. Megatron was serious about capturing him," Arcee said, frowning a little.
"Yeah, he was." Jack said. Silence enveloped the room for a few minutes.
"Well, I got to get going, Ratchet wants me to scout out an energon pocket we found," Arcee said while walking out the door.
"Hey, good luck. Also, come back in one piece, will ya?" Jack told Arcee, smiling.
"I will. See ya in a few," Arcee said as she walking out the door.