Chapter 3
As the Decepticons started their attack, the Autobots who were guarding the space port had appeared and were trying to hold them off. They had taken cover behind a few broken walls and tried to fire on the Decepticons from a distance. One of them shouted at the others.
"Borebit, Corkscrew be careful, dig yourself in the underground and try to attack them from the other side. Try to hold them off till reinforcements arrive."
"Yes Mainframe", they answered. The two Autobots transformed into drilling vehicles, dugg a hole in the ground and vanished.
Galvatron and Scourge landed on the ground, surrounded by a group of other Decepticons.
Meanwhile Trypticon was attacking the neighboring city and stomped a number of buildings. To the luck of the Autobots, the city was never heavily populated and the most inhabitants were able to flee before the Decepticons landed. The Combaticons were fighting the Autobot Skylinx who had just arrived and the Terrorcons were busy ripping one of the parked shuttles and a side building of the space-port apart.
Suddenly Corkscrew and Borebit reappeared behind the Decepticons and opened fire at them. Gunner one of the ground troopers from Galvatron´s group was shot several times in the spark chamber and fell dead to the ground.
Galvatron however only looked at the counter attacking Autobots and smiled.
"Yes Autobots that is the way. Come, I offer you a way to die fighting", he shouted at them. With that he jumped right into the firing line of the Autobots, took aim and shot Borebit cleanly through the chest. The blasts of the Autobots glanced off of his body without even leaving scratches.
Then he turned around and shot Corkscrew´s head off. More and more Galvatron seemed to fall into a wild rage during the battle.
Scourge who was standing right next to him and the other Decepticons fired at the remaining Autobots.
At the other side of the battlefield Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus and Springer arrived. The Airialbots and Dinobots flew in and engaged the Terrorcons and Trypticon. Rodimus and the others transformed and joined the battle. The Airialbots and the Terrorcons merged into their combined forms Superion and Abominus.
Rodimus shot one of the attacking seekers with two shots directly through the cockpit. The already dead jet crashed into a building that completely exploded.
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At the same time on the other side of Cybertron.
Astrotrain flew in shuttle form over the planet. In a height of a half kilometre he opened his air lock and released Soundwave, Blitzwing and the Constructicons.
"So Blitzwing, where is now the lab you have told us about?" The Constructicon Hook asked him that question.
"Less than a klick from here, let´s go."
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Galvatron transformed into his artillery gun mode. He fired a shot at the main building of the space port, which was reduced to ashes in a giant explosion. The spaceport was now only a field of rubble.
The Decepticon leader was laughing.
"Look Scourge, Cyclonus, we are standing over the destroyed remains of our enemies. This is war, this is triumph. Do you see that Cyclonus?"
"Cyclonus?" He looked around. Scourge was right next to him but Cyclonus was not close by. Then he saw him in jet form about a kilometer from him. Cyclonus was firing a salve of missiles at Rodimus Prime and Ultra Magnus.
"Ah it looks as if Cyclonus found something to keep himself busy", he remarked. "There they are Rodimus and Ultra Magnus, attack." At his order the Decepticons around him charged forward.
Cyclonus transformed into robot mode and shot the Autobot Springer. Then a strike with his fist was enough to send the damaged tripple changer to the ground.
Next he confronted Ultra Magnus.
"Our last fight was sadly interrupted Magnus. Now is time to continue", Cyclonus told the Autobot and landed a punch at his face.
Ultra Magnus countered with a hit in the Decepticon´s stomach.
"Yes", Magnus answered him, "let us start again." The two fighters were now gripping each other in a direct struggle.
"I told you once warriors like us deserve to die in battle. Now I will give you that chance."
"Yes and I remember that you have saved my live then", Magnus said to the Decepticon second. He remembered how Cyclonus had dragged him back into a ship to save him from dying in space because he thought he deserved better.
The Combaticons had formed the super robot Bruticus to fight Skylinx off. At first they succeeded but as other Autobots were attacking them too, they were slowly forced into the defensive. Trypticon had easily the upper hand against the Dinobots and the other Autobots who were fighting him but they were avoiding his attacks and keeping him busy.
Far away from the fighters the group of Decepticons had managed to find a hidden complex under the survace of Cybertron.
"The lab is here", Soundwave told them as they were standing before the entrance.
"And you say here are a number of Decepticon personalities stored?" Mixmaster asked Blitzwing.
"You should better hope that they are truly here", Bonecrusher added.
The Dinobots were starting a combined attack on Bruticus and caused great trouble for the gestalt. A well placed shot from Skylinx however forced the Combaticons to separate.
Galvatron and a few others were slowly reaching Rodimus.
Cyclonus shot at Magnus and hit the Autobot in the shoulder. He on the other hand fired back and struck Cyclonus in the side.
"It looks like we are about even", Ultra Magnus pointed out.
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The Earth solar system at the same time
The Decepticon flagship appeared out of hyperspace near the planet Earth. Earth, the second great showplace of the Transformer war was now for more than a half year guarded by a number of so called Earth Defense Platforms, large, armed space stations.
This stations were run by Earth Defense Command and supported by the Autobots, who are often part of the crew. In this stations was right now the alarm going of.
"What is it?" The commander of ED platform one asked the present Autobot Tailgate.
"It doesn´t look good human. A Decepticon battleship had just arrived in earth orbit." As useful as the platforms were, they knew they had no chance against a truly strong Decepticon assault.
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Inside the Decepticon ship Sweeps were sitting on the controls. The Sweep with the number three was currently commanding the vessel. He knew what he had to do. As the space station came into weapon reach he said only one word.
"Fire."
The ship fired one salve of missiles, shortly followed by a second.
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"Oh by the Matrix." Tailgate called out. He knew it was to late.
The first salve hit the station and sent it into flames, the second completely destroyed it. It exploded in a giant ball of fire.
Then the most Sweeps left the ship and transformed. They and the ship were attacking the second defense platform, which was already been evacuated.
It was only a matter of minutes.
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On Cybertron
The battle continued. Galvatron was standing close to Rodimus but than Superion came in his way. The Autobot gestalt was still fighting Abominus but was able to smash his opponent into one of the ruins of the space port.
Galvatron transformed into cannon mode. He took aim at Superion and fired with full power. The blast hit the Autobot combiner right into the chest. Superion just fell apart. The incredible amount of energy damaged all systems of the Airialbots and forced them apart. They all fell unconscious to the ground.
Galvatron was now standing right before Rodimus but when he was struck by a blast. The Dinobots were approaching.
"Rodimus Prime." He smiled at his opponent. "I have longed for this."
Cyclonus was separated from Ultra Magnus but now he was seeing the Dinobots coming. They were dealing quite easily with the weaker Decepticons around. He was now confronted with their leader Grimlock. The Dinobot bite Cyclonus in the arm but he managed then to throw him over the shoulder.
Galvatron was now standing before Rodimus and Ultra Magnus. They all had already gone through a hard fight.
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"Here is it", Blitzwing told the others, "personalities for ten new Warriors. Like I told you."
"They are in good state", Scrapper confirmed.
"Good", Astrotrain said, "we have what we wanted. Now get out of here."
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"Mighty Galvatron!" Cyclonus called. "It is enough. We have won. We have reached what we wanted." Galvatron didn´t react to what he said.
"Galvatron we are damaged and low on energy. Trypticon run already out of energon and needed to retreat. We had known that we wouldn´t have enough for a long fight. We have what we wanted but we need to go now. Even you can not win this fight."
This time Galvatron turned around and looked on him. He stared at him for a few moments. Then he called out.
"No you have told me before but I won´t retreat. We can win here.
I know that the Quintessons retreated but who cares?" He told Cyclonus.
Galvatron looked around on the battlefield.
"Don´t you see it? We are winning. I know we can win. No I won´t listen to you. Not this time, do you hear me Blitzwing?"
Cyclonus stared back at him. And he somewhat realised that the two Autobots were staring as well.
"Blitzwing?" he asked.