Gundam Seed: Killer's Realm
Omake: Decepticons got Screwed
Earth, Northeastern Africa
January 30, 71 CE
12:21 PM Local Time
Optimus stared, aghast, at the strange machine before him. It was humanoid, like the Transformers themselves in their non-vehicle forms, but it towered eight meters over him, for a total of eighteen!
The machine was black from head to toe, with piercing golden optics and a head design strangely not unlike that of Optimus'. It's back sported long angular wings, and sections of its legs flared slightly outwards. The blade the mech held against his face was just as black as its owner, except for a pinkish-red plasma strip that constantly cycled along the blade, and as long as Optimus was tall. On its other limb, the mech sported an equally large wedge-shaped shield, with twin barrels on the underside and a sharp, silvery edge.
Off to the side, Optimus witnessed further action by the Decepticons.
A Brawl-baseform roared, bringing its cannon about to fire at the silvery machine, which ran straight into the blast, the shell only stopping its run for a moment before the machine almost eagerly leaped up and forward, blue-white plasma flaring from the thrusters ensconced in its back and legs. The machine dropped down onto the Brawl, a foot smashing into the war-loving Decepticon's shoulder and crushing the frame down, before a clawed appendage sliced down and into the Brawl's torso, ultra-keen claws cutting all the way through to its back. By luck or design, Brawl's Spark was left intact, as the machine stepped off of its shoulder and lifted Brawl until it was level with the silver machine's optics. And was summarily torn apart in an instant, the machine's other claws tearing into Brawl's waist and slicing outwards until its legs fell, as the claws embedded in Brawl's chest closed and crushed its Spark.
Off to the side, a pair of Protoform Decepticons, sealed before they could acquire their vehicle forms, jerked suddenly as gold-hot blades stabbed through them, slicing through layers of alloys that had managed to protect generations of Transformers from lesser bladed weapons. as they fell, a black machine similar to many of the others appeared, before flickering back into invisibility.
Behind the machine that currently arrested Optimus' attention was a primarily dark gray, rusty red and white machine with an excessive amount of heavy armaments, firing volleys of ordnance into the crowd of Decepticons and 'enemy' machines, mechanical limbs and liquid energon flying everywhere as explosions from both the dark gray machine's munitions and the explosions of the white enemy machines erupted again and again. A group of Constructicons were practically vaporized when the artillery machine targeted them and fired a rocket from an exceedingly large launcher clutched in what looked like a secondary arm attached to its hip!
At this point, some of the Decepticons were taking to the air, the jet ones lifting up on clouds of exhaust as the helicopters shifted into their aircraft form after leaping into the air. They died almost instantly, a white and silver machine flying above firing missiles from hip-based missiles at them before they could get much in the way of velocity. This machine was notably different from both the ones Optimus was close to and the ones the Decepticons startled, especially in the head, with two cameras that moved around the head and a visage that reminded Optimus of the raptors he had seen in his time on Earth.
More Decepticons perished, the white aerial machine firing actual beams of cohesive plasma and a blue machine darting forth with a wide sword made completely of plasma in hand, hacking apart any Decepticon or enemy machine that came into its path.
By now, the opposing sides were in complete disarray, some of the Decepticons actually unnerved enough to try and dig back under the sand, while the enemy machines were attempting to retreat.
Megatron had now recovered from the crunching kick the black machine had given him, slowly and almost painfully crawling back up to his feet. It was apparent he was having some trouble moving his torso around, and Optimus really didn't think he'd be able to transform with his armor all mashed together like that.
Then Megatron roared, raising his right arm, the limb shifting into a configuration any Transformer knew all to well, some from horrible first experience.
The Fusion Cannon.
The most as yet most powerful weapon any Transformer could have, the Fusion Cannon could annihilate anything with a good direct hit. It required a few seconds to charge as it gathered surrounding gases and compressed and heated them until fusion was achieved, at which point the ball of superheated plasma was shot out of the cannon at a good size of the speed of light.
"You must run." Optimus pleaded with the machine before him. "Megatron is charging his cannon! It-" The machine withdrew its sword and smashed Optimus aside with its shield, before holding the barrier between it and Megatron
Who then fired, the golden bolt of energy and plasma blasting apart the air to reach its target. And when it did...The heat and radiation from the impact forced Optimus' optics to temporarily off-line for safety. And when they came back on...
The black machine stood there, its shield none the worse for the experience it just went through. Then, the machine simply raised its right arm, so that a structure on its forearm aimed directly at the leader of the Deceptions.
A flurry of plasma beams shot the Fusion Cannon to pieces, smoldering, melting fragments of Cybertronian alloys dropping to the hot sand below before the rest of Megatron's arm followed, with the dark Transformer gaping in mixed horror and awe.
Then the machine leaped forth, beam-saw sword slicing through Megatron at the waist as it's wielder came to a stop assisted by the thrusters in its wings and legs, the machine pivoting about to slice at Megatron twice, thrice, four times more. The flurry of swipes continued until Megatron fell to the ground in five pieces that were barely capable of recognition as his parts.
Optimus had once seen Megatron dead, and indeed had died himself, both of them only to be resurrected by the power of the AllSpark and the Matrix of Leadership, respectively. But they had been mostly whole, Megatron being slain by the AllSpark and Optimus 'merely' with a large hole in his chest.
There really wasn't much you could do for a 'bot that had been sliced into several pieces.
- The Author -
Continued from the Transformer's Omake in Chapter 19.
I really don't get why people were angry about us humans having a bigger role in the movies than in the older shows. I mean, you'd think that being shown us solidly trouncing several Decepticons with minimal aid from the Autobots would be good, right? Especially given the premise of the movie Skyline, which uses one of Stephen Hawking's premises as its inspiration (If you're curious, go look up 'Stephen Hawking Aliens'.) To sum it up here, humanity are Native Americans, and Aliens are the Europeans.
I only truly got started with Transformers in the middle of the Beast Wars era. That was awesome. I mean, Megatron transformed into a freaking T-Rex. And later on, a OMFG DRAGON. And both of them could spit fire. I think Megatron is one of my favorite characters in the series. Except for the one that transformed into a Luger (That was weird. Seriously. He has a Fusion Cannon attached to his arm, and he transforms into a WWII pistol?)
Speaking of the Fusion Cannon, my depiction of it here is mainly based off of my impressions of it during the Transformer's Revenge of the Fallen video game (PS3). I had a lot of fun with that thing. I one-shotted many Bumblebees from halfway across the map.
("Dude, you're rambling.")
Hmm...so I am.
Review Replies (Wow, either my readership is dropping or people don't review anymore):
Alex Yamato: Velshard does some good tech.
I believe that was pretty much what the Seed people were going for, basically Newtypes, only they're not as big of a deal as the whole Coordinator angle.
Up to a point. A very limited one.
Gimme a break, I just reached the age where I can buy certain games without parental supervision.
I'm looking forward to writing them. It's a work in progress, but both me and Velshard have big plans for it.
Kojiro Kun: wait until I hit everyone with the real plots involving this info. That's going to be a doozy.
Mathiasosx: I took me a few reading sessions to absorb it, so I don't blame you.
Here you are!
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