The Legend of Elita

by Cydra

The Decepticon army has invaded Cybertron and a mech from every family must serve in the army. To save her aged and wounded father, Elita impersonates a mech to take his place. Will she bring honor to her family or face her doom? Based on Disney's Mulan.

6. The Battle of Tygun Pass

The Legend of Elita

Chapter 6: The Battle of Tygun Pass

Troops:
For a long time we've been marching off to battle

Brawn:
In our thund'ring herd we feel a lot like cattle

Troops:
Like the pounding beat our aching feet aren't easy to ignore

Bumblebee:
Hey, think of instead a femme worth fighting for

Blagarak:
Huh?

Bumblebee:
That's what I said:
A femme worth fighting for

I want her paler than the moon with eyes that shine like stars

Brawn:
My femme will marvel at my strength, adore my battle scars

Bulkhead:
I couldn't care less what she'll wear or what she looks like
It all depends on what she cooks like: Beef, pork, chicken ...

Troops:
Mmm ...

Brawn:
Bet the local femmes thought you were quite the charmer

Bumblebee:
And I'll bet the ladies love a man in armor

Troops:
You can guess what we have missed the most
since we went off to war

Bumblebee:
What do we want?

Troops:
A femme worth fighting for

Brawn:
My femme will think I have no faults

Bulkhead:
That I'm a major find

Blagarak:
Uh, how 'bout a femme who's got a brain
Who always speaks her mind?

Trio:
Nah!

Bumblebee:
My manly ways and turn of phrase are sure to thrill her

Brawn:
He thinks he's such a lady-killer

Perceptor:
I've a femme back home who's unlike any other

Brawn:
Yeah, the only femme who'd love him is his mother

Troops:
But when we come home in victory they'll line up at the door

Bumblebee:
What do we want?

Troops:
A femme worth fighting for

Bumblebee:
Wish that I had

Troops:
A femme worth fighting for
A femme worth fighting-

The troop's marching song came to an abrupt halt when they came over the curve of the next hill. In front of them, they saw that remains of a village, devastated to the point that only burnt structures remain, a few still on fire. The sight of it easily humbled the soldiers with the magnitude of the Decepticons' brutality. As they entered the village, it looked even worse. Burn marks where energy weapons have it, broken remains of family possessions, mech fluid soaked on the ground.

Optimus turned to his men and said, "Search for survivors." The soldiers nodded and spread throughout the village, though their hopes weren't high. The Decepticons' mercilessness seemed pretty much absolute. However, they couldn't find any bodies of all, living or dead. Hopefully it meant that most of the villagers escaped the Decepticons' wrath. The alternative was not something you'd want to think about.

Blagarak scurried through the ruins in spider mode. Her several eyes looked in all directions as she went. However, she couldn't detect any lifesigns any better than in robot mode. She went inside the remains of one house and paused when she spotted the only intact item she had seen yet: a small cloth doll of a little girl's. She shifted to robot mode and gently picked it up. It wasn't hidden in some small nook or cranny, but was lying in the middle of the floor, completely undamaged. If was as if the Decepticons, for whatever reason, had just left it right there.

Optimus walked into the ruined house and looked around. "I don't understand," he said, "My father should have been here."

"Captain!" called Perceptor. Optimus and Blagarak walked out of the house and up towards the small hill Perceptor was standing on. Perceptor pointed down the other side of the hill. When the two of them got to the top of the hill, they stood in shock. The plain below was littered with the remains of Autotroopers, their weapons, and equipment. Quite clearly, the entire battalion had been massacred in one fell swoop.

Just then, Bulkhead walked up the hill, carrying the Magnus Hammer in one servo and a blue helmet in another. He walked over to Optimus and said, "The general, I think Megatron might have taken care of him personally. You shouldn't see the rest of him."

Optimus numbly took Ultra Magnus' helmet and looked at it. The mere thought of him shook him to the core. He turned and walked towards the edge of a cliff. Blagarak watched him go as the other soldiers came looked at the carnage the Decepticons had left behind. She could clearly see that Optimus was feeling badly. She had entered the war for the sole purpose of preventing the exact thing from happening to her father, but there was nothing Optimus could have done.

She started walking over to Optimus. The Autobot captain pulled out his axe and stuck it in the ground. Then he placed his father's helmet on top of it. Blagarak recognized its significance immediately. It was a marker for a fallen soldier, for when the body could not be buried and there weren't materials around for a holographic effigy to honor their passing. Optimus knelt in front of the small memorial in solemn silent. Blagarak walked up to him and said, "I'm sorry."

Optimus sighed and stood back up. "Well, he did say he'd rather go out in battle than rust away in retirement. But I had hoped his final battle would have turned out better." He then walked over to his steed, a Dinobot that resembled a Tyrannosaurus. He paused for a moment before mounting him. He turned to his troops and said, "The Cons are moving quickly. We'll make better time to Iacon through the Tygun Pass. We're the only hope for the Emperor now." He took the Magnus Hammer from Bulkhead and said, "Transform and roll out."

The soldiers followed their captain with renewed determination. They quickly turned into vehicle mode and drove after Optimus Prime. Blagarak got ready to follow, but paused for a moment. She took the doll she had picked up and placed it at the base of Ultra Magnus' marker. She bowed to it before following the others.

The troops slowly made their way through the Tygun Pass. While it was the safest and quickest way through the mountains, it was still not easy. Snow lay deeply across the mountainside, forcing them to trudge through it in robot mode. Not to mention there was an uneasiness of the cliffs looming above them and the thought that the Decepticons may not be far away.

Suddenly, the silence was broken when a rocket suddenly shot out of the munitions cart being pulled by Snarl. It flew up into the sky before exploding. Blagarak glared back at Draco and Chip, who were standing inside the new hole in the cart. Draco looked rather surprised before pointing at Chip, who glared at him reproachfully.

Then Optimus rode back and demanded, "What happened?"

"Uh…" started Blagarak.

"You just gave away our position!" said Optimus, "Now they'll-" Suddenly, an energy blast hit him on the shoulder and knocked him off his mount. The soldiers looked up as a small hail of lasers, missiles, and energy blasts started raining down from a nearby cliff. Optimus got back up and yelled, "Get out of range!" The soldiers quickly ran as fast as they could. Fortunately, the Decepticons seemed more interested in scaring than actually harming them. The soldiers ran down hill towards an outcropping of rocks that will provide shelter.

Suddenly, several blasts hit the munitions cart, causing it to catch on fire. Snarl began to panic as the flames got too close for comfort. "Save the cannons!" shouted Optimus. The soldiers quickly ran over and started unloading the cart as fast they could. They wouldn't be able to save all the cannons before the fire made their fuel explode, but they need to save as many as possible.

However, Blagarak was too preoccupied with trying to get Snarl loose. The Dinobot was too spooked to allow her to get a proper grip on his harness so he could uncouple it. Then deciding a more direction approach was needed, she took her sword and slashed at the harness until Snarl was free. She then jumped on his back and rode towards the rocks. And it was just in the nick of time as the cart exploded shortly afterwards. The explosion threw Snarl forward and tossed Blagarak into the snow. Draco and Chip landed not too far away. Draco poked his head up and gave her an annoyed look. "Oh sure, save the triceratops," he said before falling over.

Blagarak picked up Draco and Chip and started running towards the rocks as the Decepticons were still firing. The Autobot soldiers had managed to get there and were getting their cannons aimed. They started shooting their payloads at the Decepticons on the cliffs. Every Bot was actively working except for Perceptor, who was hiding under a small ledge. The Decepticons didn't let up their fire, but the Autobots cannons did create significant explosions when they hit the cliffs they were on. It wasn't clear whether the shots were effective, but the Decepticons did stop firing at them.

Optimus Prime held up his servo and said, "Hold the last cannon." Brawn paused, but got ready to set it off just in case. The cannons were designed to fire when a significant amount of heat was applied to a certain part. It was a failsafe to prevent accidental firing. This is why the Autobots kept a piece of flint on them.

The Autobots as the smoke started to drift away. However, their attention was not focused on the cliffs, but the tall hill near them. As the smoke clear, a lone figure could be seen standing there, with a cyber-hawk on their shoulder. The sight of Megatron alone would have been enough to fill them with dread. But quite rapidly, many other Decepticons appeared along the top of the hill. The soldiers started feeling very insignificant. There had to be at least a hundred Cons up there, maybe three hundred, compared to twenty of them. "Prepare to fight," said Optimus, "If we die, we die with honor." Just then, Megatron transformed to his space jet mode and started flying down the hill, with his Decepticon army following behind him. Optimus turned to Brawn and said, "Brawn, aim the cannon at Megatron."

The other soldiers unsheathed their swords, but Blagarak knew it was futile. There were way too many Decepticons to fight off, it was going to be a blood bath. But then she noticed something reflected on her sword. She looked up and saw a mountain overlooking the battlefield. Not only was it really high, but it was densely covered with snow. A plan quickly formed in her head. She sheathed her sword and transformed to spider mode. She ran over and knocked Brawn aside before grabbing the cannon. "Hey!" yelled Brawn.

Optimus saw Blagarak running onto the battlefield with the cannon. "Blagarak, get back here!" he shouted, "Blagarak!" Optimus growled with frustration before running after him.

Draco started to feel a little nervous as he looked out of Blagarak's backpack and saw the Cons charging straight for them. "Uh, why are we running straight into certain doom?" he asked.

"I need to be closer to aim," said Blagarak.

"Aim at what?" asked Draco.

"No time to explain," said Blagarak before changing into robot mode. She quickly focused the aim of the cannon until it was pointing right at the mountain.

Draco gulped as Megatron was getting closer. "Alright, you might want to light that about now. Quickly! Quickly!" Blagarak pulled out her flint and tried to get a decent spark from it to trigger the heat sensor. Suddenly, Laserbeak swooped down and knocked into her before flying away.

Meanwhile, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Brawn were watching their friend trying to pull off a seemingly suicidal ploy to bring down Megatron. "C'mon, we gotta help!" shouted Brawn before the three of them pulled out their swords and ran out onto the battlefield.

When Blagarak got up, the flint had fallen out of her servos and was somewhere in the snow. She looked frantically around for it, but there was no time as Megatron was about a couple dozen yards away and rapidly closing. Then she spotted Draco and grabbed him. He faced him towards the cannon and pulled his tail, causing him to spit out a flame at the cannon's heat sensor. When she let go, Draco was sprung forward onto the warhead of the cannon's missile. Megatron was right on top of them when the cannon went off, shooting high into the air. A voice could clearly be heard from it calling, "YOU MISSED! HOW COULD YOU MISS? HE WAS THREE FEET IN FRONT OF YOU!"

However, the missile landed on the top of the mountain with a boom. The snow on it started to quiver before it began falling off. Megatron paused and shifted to robot mode to allow better vision with his optics. The snow was falling off in bigger clumps, creating a domino effect and the start of a titanic avalanche. The snow that was being sent flying was blinding the Decepticons navigation sensors so they couldn't fly away from it in robot or vehicle mode and there was no way they'd be able to outrun it from that small distance.

Megatron realized this was going to cost him a significant portion of his army and turned upon the soldier who started the avalanche. With a roar of anger, Megatron sliced at the soldier with his sword. The soldier winced as the sword hit 'his' side before transforming to spider mode and running away. Megatron would have chased after him, but the avalanche was quickly ganging speed and he had to get moving too. He transformed to space jet mode and tried to outrun it as much as he could.

Optimus had nearly reached Blagarak when he saw the avalanche coming. He was frozen in surprise before Blagarak ran by and yelled, "Don't just stand there, run!" Optimus quickly turned around and started running away. At about the same time, the trio was getting close to the bottom of the hill. But then they noticed the avalanche that was rapidly eliminating the Decepticons and heading towards them. They promptly turned tailpipe and ran straight back for the rocks.

The Decepticon army went as fast as they could, but they were one-by-one swallowed up by the irresistible torrent of snow. Megatron was the last to go and let out an angry cry before he was engulfed.

Snarl noticed the peril his master was in and tugged his reins out from the Bot who was holding him. The Dinobot charged up the slope towards Blagarak. Blagarak saw him coming and hopped onto his back, changing into robot mode as she did. She then held out her servo to Optimus. Optimus grabbed it but then the first wave of the avalanche hit them, burying them both in the snow.

The soldiers saw the avalanche coming and quickly dived behind the rocks for cover. Very fortuitously, the rocks were sticking out an angle that caused the snow to ramp off over them and the avalanche hadn't picked up enough speed to tear them away, creating a shelter from the natural disaster.

Higher up the hill, Draco was riding down the avalanche, using the torn-off Decepticon hubcap as a bobsled. "Elita!" he called as loud as he could over the roar of the avalanche, "Elita!" He saw a piece of helmet armor sticking up out of the snow and asked, "Elita?" before pulling it up to reveal a snarling Decepticon face. Draco quickly pushed it back under and said, "Nope." He then resumed looking around and yelled, "Elita!" He then spotted a small metal arm sticking out of the snow and picked it up, revealing Chip to still be attached to it. "Man, you are one lucky bug," said Draco.

"Ugh, never wanna do that again," groaned Chip.

Further down the hill, Snarl suddenly burst up out of the torrent of snow. Blagarak coughed out some snow before looking around. She spotted Optimus further down. Apparently, the blow from the avalanche had knocked him out and he was drifting towards the cliff. "Optimus!" she shouted before making Snarl turn and move to Optimus. The Dinobot had some difficulty moving through the avalanche, forced to use a cross between galloping and swimming. But he was able to get Optimus and Blagarak pulled him onto Snarl's back before trying to make the triceratops fight against the icy torrent.

At the sheltered section, the trio was standing on each other's shoulders with Bulkhead at the bottom and Brawn at the top. "Do you see them?" called Bulkhead.

Brawn's working optic looked around before spotting Snarl and his riders in the avalanche. "Yes!" he called. He aimed his grappling line gun at them and fired. "Perfect! Now I'll pull them to safe-" said Brawn but the line was gone before he grab onto it, "-ty…"

Snarl was doing his best to fight through the avalanche, but he was steadily losing ground. Just then, Draco sled up to them and called, "Hey Elita, I found a lucky cyber-cricket!"

"We need more than luck," said Blagarak, "We need help." Just then, Brawn's grappling line landed next to them and Blagarak grabbed it. "Perfect," she said before she started using her spinnerets to tie strong cyber-silk around Snarl and to lengthen the grappling line's rope.

Draco and Chip hopped onto Snarl's backside and Draco said to Chip, "Ooh, nice, very nice. You can sit by me."

"Er, it just comes to me?" said Chip. Then the two of them looked down and screamed. They were moments away from going over the side of the cliff.

"We're gonna die! We're gonna die!" shouted Draco as Blagarak fitted the grappling hook to her energy bow, "Definitely gonna die. No way we can survive this. Death is coming!" As Snarl fell over the cliff, Blagarak fired the grappling line up towards the sheltered zone.

The other Autobots were trying to comfort the despondent Brawn. "I let them slip through my fingers…" moaned Brawn, holding out his servos only for the grappling hook to land in them. He barely had time to register its presence and grab it before he was dragged towards the edge of the cliff. The other soldiers dogpiled on Brawn, their added weight keeping him from being pulled over. "Pull!" yelled Brawn, but the Autobots lacked the leverage and strength to start pulling up. Then Bulkhead walked over and calmly picked them all up before he started walking backwards, pulling them away from the cliff with the grappling line following.

Dangling from the end of the line, Snarl was slowly being dragged back up. "I knew we could do it," said Draco excitedly, "Never doubted you for a second. You're the mech." He then hid back inside Blagarak's backpack with Chip. He popped his head back out for a minute and added, "Well, sorta." Blagarak had been feeling good about her victory, but Draco's last remark slightly spoiled it.

The soldiers hauled Snarl and his passengers up to the top. Snarl quickly climbed up the closest ledge he could climb and Blagarak and Optimus were taken off of him. Not long after Optimus was on solid ground again, he woke back up.

"Are you okay, sir?" asked Bumblebee.

"I'm fine," said Optimus, "Just shaken." Then he turned to Blagarak and said, "Blagarak, you are the craziest Bot I've ever met. For that, I owe you my life. From now on, you have my trust."

The other soldiers started cheering. "Let's hear it for Blagarak! The bravest of us all!" shouted Bumblebee.

"You're king of the mountain!" shouted Brawn.

"Alright, high five," said Bulkhead before trying to slap servos with another soldier, only to send that soldier into a rock. "Oops, sorry," said Bulkhead.

Optimus was helping Blagarak stand up only for Blagarak cry out in pain and hold her side. "Blagarak, what's wrong?" Blagarak winced pulled her servo away, mech druid staining it. "He's wounded! Get help!" shouted Optimus.

The world seemed to swim in front of Blagarak's optics. The last thing she saw before passing out was Optimus' face saying, "Blagarak, try to hold it out, hold it out." However, to her partially-delirious mind, it seemed like he was saying, "Elita-One."

After a first aid tent had been set up, the team's field medic had been working hard with Blagarak. The soldiers waited outside with worry, particularly Optimus.

Eventually, the medic came out, wiping off his hands. "Well, is he alright?" asked Optimus.

The medic hesitated before saying, "Blagarak will live."

Optimus would have smiled, but he noticed the hesitation in the medic's voice. "Is there something wrong in there? Did you have to amputate?"

"No," said the medic, "that techno-organic armor speeds up the healing process. It turns out it was only slightly more than a flesh wound."

"Then what's the problem?" asked Optimus.

The medic was silent for a cycle before saying, "Er, I can't really tell you, doctor/patient confidentiality, you know?"

Optimus frowned and said, "I'm going in there," opening the flap of the tent.

"Wait, you shouldn't go in there!" shouted the medic, but Optimus ignored him.

He saw Blagarak lying on a mat covered with a blanket. His breathing rate seemed normal to him, but he was clearly exhausted. Blagarak winced and slowly opened his optics. He sighed with relief and sat up. However, when he did so, the blanket fell down. That allowed Optimus to see her bandaged chest. Optimus' optics widened. "What in the name of Cybertron?" he said.

'Blagarak' quickly laid back down and said, "Uh, I can explain."

Perceptor walked in and said, "Captain, we must keep moving. We must tell the Emperor…" Then he saw 'Blagarak's' bandaged chest and his expression hardened. "So it's true," he said in a hard voice.

"Optimus," pleaded 'Blagarak', but Optimus just stormed out, a confused and angry look on his face.

A few nanokliks later, Perceptor dragged 'Blagarak' out, the blanket still wrapped around 'his' body. "I knew there was something wrong with you," he told 'him'. He turned to the soldiers and said, "Gentlemen, we have been infiltrated."

"Blagarak's a spy?" asked Bulkhead.

"Worse," said Perceptor, pulling off 'Blagarak's' helmet and revealing 'his' more feminine face, "A femme!"

The other soldiers gasped in surprise. The comrade they had trained with and saved them was a completely different person than they thought.

Perceptor cast 'Blagarak' down onto the snow, "Treacherous snake."

She glared back up at him and said, "My name, my real name, is Elita-One. I did it to save my father."

"Irrelevant," said Perceptor, "This is high treason."

"I didn't mean for it to go this far," said Elita.

"Ultimate dishonor!" snapped Perceptor.

"It was the only way. Please, you have to believe me," said Elita.

Optimus just frowned. He had just given his trust to this mech not one megacycle ago, and now it turns out she wasn't a mech at all.

Perceptor walked up to Optimus and said, "Captain, there is only one way to recover our honor and only one punishment fit for her." Optimus sighed before taking out Elita's spiral blade from its sheath.

Snarl growled and tried to charge forward. "Restrain him!" ordered Perceptor. Two soldiers somewhat reluctantly obeyed.

Draco and Chip were also watching. "Draco, we gotta do something," said Chip.

"You think I'd be standing here if I could?" asked Draco, "I can't do anything. The number 1 rule of the family guardians, the ultimate rule, is that no one outside the family can be allowed to see us. We're bound to only guide and assist from out of sight."

"Darn it, Draco, you know I can't do anything!" snapped Chip, "I'm only a cyber-cricket."

"I know," said Draco sadly.

Bumblebee, Brawn, and Bulkhead moved forwards, but Perceptor held out a servo. "You know the law," he said, "Interfere, and you share her sentence." The three soldiers reluctantly stood back.

Optimus walked up to Elita and held her sword high. Elita winced, waiting for the killing blow. Then the sword dropped in front of her. "A life for a life, my debt is repaid," said Optimus in a sour voice. He turned to the others and said, "The Emperor must know the Decepticon threat is gone. Roll out."

"But, but, you can't just-" started Perceptor.

Optimus glared at him and said in a harsh voice, "Roll out."

Perceptor still frowned, but he buckled under Optimus' glare. The other soldiers picked up their gear and head on through the pass. Elita did not follow. She could not follow. She had just laid the ultimate dishonor on her family, on the Elite Guard, on all of Cybertron.

The sun had set and Elita was still in that spot of the Tygun Pass. The only movement she made was to put her light armor back on. Chip had started a tiny fire going with small twigs, that was barely enough for even him. Snarl just sat behind Elita and put his blanket on her. Chip sighed and hopped under the blanket, hoping to get warmer.

Draco was looking for more firewood, mainly in the form of small combustible material leftover from the Decepticons' weaponry. "I was this close," he grumbled, "This close! Would have impressed the ancestors, gotten the top shelf in the entourage. Man, all my hard work…" He blew a small raspberry before sitting next to Elita. He pulled out a snack from Elita's bag and started roasting it on the fire. "Hi," he muttered to Elita.

"I should have never left home," said Elita.

"Ah, come on, you went to save your father's life," said Draco, "Who'd knew you'd end up shaming him and disgracing your ancestors? Losing all your friends? You know, you gotta, you gotta learn to let these things go…" Draco's voice started to choke up with tears.

"Maybe I didn't go for my father. Maybe I wanted to go to prove I can do things right," said Elita, picking up her helmet and looked at her reflection in it, "So when I look in the mirror, I'd see someone worthwhile." A tear rolled down from her eye. "But I was wrong. I see nothing." She tossed her helmet away.

Draco walked over and picked it back up. "Ah, that's just cause it needs a little spit, that's all." He spat on it and rubbed it until the surface was clear, "Just let me shine it up a little." He held it up and said, "I can see you, look at yourself. You look so pretty." However, Elita just turned her head away.

Draco looked at his own reflection in the mirror and sighed. He turned to Elita and said, "The truth is we're both frauds. Your ancestors never sent me, they don't even like me. Heck, I'm not even a family guardian. You know that empty spot in the family temple?"

Elita turned to him and said, "Where the Dragon Guardian was? But everyone said that it disappeared a century ago."

"Er, that's not quite right," said Draco, "The truth is I was sent to help your great-great-great uncle Sentinel-One about a century ago."

"But wasn't he-" started Elita.

"The one who lost his head, literally," finished Draco, "I didn't do a great job with him and got demoted down to incense burner/gong ringer. And your ancestors never let me forget it." He put down the helmet and said, "You risked your life to help the people that you loved. I risked your life to help myself. At least you had good intentions."

Chip walked over to the helmet and saw his reflection. He broke down and sobbed out, "I'm a poser too! I'm not lucky at all!"

"What? What do you mean you're not lucky?" demanded Draco, picking him up, "You lied to me?"

Chip nodded, "I was never a good luck charm. If I were, I wouldn't have made Elita blow it at the matchmaker's. All those good things were just coincidence."

Draco sighed before turning on Snarl and snapping, "And what are you? A sheep?" Snarl snorted in annoyance at Draco. "Never mind, the triceratops' clean," said Draco.

"I have to face my father sooner or later," said Elita, "Let's go home."

"Yeah, this isn't gonna be pretty," said Draco as he hopped up onto the helmet, "But don't you worry, kid. Things will work out. We started this thing together, and that's how we'll finish it." He and Elita pulled together in a hug. "I promise."

Meanwhile, lower down the mountain, Laserbeak was flying over the wreckage the avalanche left. He skimmed over the snow and squawked loudly in every direction. Not long after he passed over one patch of snow, a black servo burst out. Laserbeak noticed this and started circling back.

Megatron pulled himself out of the snow and looked around. His army was decimated, crushed to death by the raging torrent of snow and the fall from the cliffs. Only pieces of them remained on the surface. He growled loudly before lifting his head and letting out a roar of anger that echoed off the mountainside.

Just then, a small alcove bust apart. Starscream hopped out, nearly crushed by the avalanche forcing him into such a tiny place. Lugnut and Cyclonus, Megatron's top saboteur, climbed out from a large pit. Shockwave burst out from the wreckage of other Decepticons. Then Blitzwing melted his way out of his icy prison with his flamethrowers.

Laserbeak landed on Megatron's shoulder and chirped. Megatron turned around to see his five most loyal soldiers were still alive. "Well, it would seem we have suffered a setback," said Megatron.

"Megatron, it would advisable to turn back now," said Shockwave, "An army of three hundred strong reduced to six. Victory at this point is at an odd of 842:1 against."

"I am still Supreme Commander, I still give the orders," said Megatron, "And I say we still head towards Iacon."

"But master, we can't pass through the Autobots' defenses without being destroyed," said Lugnut.

"For once, he's actually talking sense," said Starscream, "I say we leave Cybertron and come back when we've got another army."

"True, we won't be able to storm Iacon like I had planned," said Megatron, "But taking it is not as difficult as you think."

"And how can six Decepticons hope to overcome ze most vell-protected city on Cybertron?" asked Blitzwing.

"Simple, we use our cunning," said Megatron, "Now you will either follow me now or join your brethren in their icy tombs." No Decepticon could say no to Megatron when he talked like that. The five of them followed their Commander towards the Imperial City.

This did not go without notice. Elita heard Megatron cry of rage and watched as his remaining troops reassembled and headed towards the city. If what she had heard about Decepticons, and Megatron in specific, were true, then there was still a chance for them to win. She ran back to Snarl, picking up her sword as she went, and got on before turning him around.

"Uh, home is that way," said Draco, pointing in the other direction.

"I have to do something," said Elita.

"Did you see those Cons?" asked Draco, "They just popped out of the snow. Like daisies!"

"Are we in this together or not?" asked Elita.

Draco hesitated for a minute. Chip turned to him and said, "Well, are we just gonna walk away after getting this far?"

Draco grinned and said, "Let's go kick some Deceptibuns!" He and Chip hopped onto Snarl's back as Elita rode him towards Iacon. They had to be warned before the Decepticons made their move.

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There's another chapter, and this one was undoubtably the hardest to write. I originaly wanted to title it after the song, but I felt it wasn't enough to cover all that happens in the chapter. You can see a couple of extensions I've made here and there, particularly with Draco and Chip and the Decepticons. I was a bit worried about how well I'd be able to fit this in Transformers, but I think I've done it as well as anyone could. Anyhow, now we've only got one chapter left to do and plenty of stuff to take care of. I should have it up by Christmas so look for it under your tree. Please review.