Chapter 14
SilverBlade tosses Firewing hard against the wall. Burn marks in the shape of Silver's fingers remain on Firewing's neck, as he coughs up some mech fluid from the electrocution.
"That's the brother I remember." Firewing sneered in pain. "But you're still not going to defeat me. You're still a Maximal. No Maximal has ever escaped death when fighting me. I do not intend to lose to you, as you are not worthy of defeating one like me." Firewing says as he still mocks his older brother.
SilverBlade's insignia shows signs of partially melting off, showing small portions of the Predacon insignia underneath. He uses his flight unit to deliver a hard shoulder-check into Firewing, partially burying him into the wall. "No Predacon has ever defeated me in battle. Every Predacon that has battled against me has died from my claws."
"Those were nothing but Predacon drones, but what matters is, you will not win. Maximals are weak. You are weak because you are a Maximal. You don't have the nuts and bolts to kill a Predacon general. Your Maximal programming will always seek the peaceful solution, even if it means you will never achieve true victory. That is why Maximals will never win, that is why Maximals were easy to conquer – Maximals never take the step needed to ensure victory!" Firewing continues to mock his older brother. SilverBlade's eyes spark with electricity as he grabs Firewing and tosses him into the air, followed by a few shots of his arm-mounted plasma launchers. Firewing lands on the ground hard, his armor littered with holes, sparks coming from underneath his armor.
Firewing gets to his feet, slowly. His hand glows red, when suddenly, a white and red stream flies towards SilverBlade's head from Firewing's arm, hitting his head, then spinning around to block the stream with his energetic wings. Firewing stops the stream and looks onto his older brother, who turns around, showing that his face is even more melted from the heat. He is hardly able to see from one eye, as some of the circuitry underneath the metal is showing. He can not find Firewing, when suddenly he hears a metallic sound behind him, he quickly spins around, extends his claws just in time to block Firewing's downward slash, blocking right above his head.
SilverBlade then grabs Firewing by the wrist and throws him towards the wall again, followed by a stream of electricity, causing Firewing to grunt and groan in pain. Firewing painfully launches a plasma burst at SilverBlade, who dives out of the way. Firewing speeds towards SilverBlade before he has a chance to stand up, grabs him, and slam him against the wall. "Like I said before, brother. You will not get to Megatron!" Firewing says in a growl as he causes his hand to turn white hot and he motions to slug SilverBlade in the face, but SilverBlade is too quick, and the claws from his left hand slice off FW's white hot hand – his right. Firewing kneels down in pain. He reaches for the severed hand, but SilverBlade kicked it away. "See what it feels like to be on the receiving end of torment and pain?" SilverBlade asks his younger brother. Firewing sends a minor flame at SilverBlade to blind him temporarily, as Firewing rushes to his severed hand.
SilverBlade turns around and wipes the soot from his optics, as Firewing grabs his severed hand, and holds it close to the separation point on his wrist. It begins to glow as liquid metal-like wiring stretches from the wrist to the hand, and the wound begins to heal. Once the repair process is complete, Firewing flexes his fingers to ensure that the connections are working properly.
SilverBlade turns to face Firewing, only to be slammed by a couple of white-hot streams of lava coming at his torso. His torso showing signs of extreme heat as part of it looks melted.
SilverBlade fires a few plasma shots right at Firewing, who rolls out of the way with ease. Thinking quickly, SilverBlade sent out an electric bolt in that direction and Firewing got hit square on in the chest and doubled over. SilverBlade quickly sprinted towards FW and aims to knee him in the face, but FW, fighting through the pain, stood upright to grab SB with white-hot hands and slam him against the wall right behind himself. Firewing them delivers a strong punch to SilverBlade's head, knocking him out.
Firewing taps a button on his wrist. Seconds later, part of the wall explodes, and a flood of Predacon troops under the room, and they surround the two brothers, each of the Predacons aiming their weapon at SilverBlade.
Firewing strolled out of the room, figuring that his mindless drones would outnumber his brother.
Two of the Predacon drones lifted SilverBlade by the arms, but his eyes flicker on. He quickly grabs one drones and rips the head off, using it to smash it against the head of another drone. He grabs the body from one of them to use as a shield against a barrage of blaster fire. He digs his claw-like fingers into the metal of the lifeless body to rip out a large jagged metal piece, which is then throws it like a spear to a distant drone in the head. He extends his claws quickly to slash off the arms off of a drone, and using the arms as blunt bats against a couple of other Predacons before thrusting them into the chests of 2 more drones.
Two more drones rush at him. SilverBlade grabs the closest one, grabbing the hand of the drone and causing the drone to fire and destroy the other rushing Predacon. Silver then quickly forces the drone's arm to aim the weapon at his own head. He sent a small electrical surge into the drone's arm – just enough to over-ride the circuits and cause the arm-mounted blaster to fire at the drone's own head.
The remaining drone at the opening to the room begins to panic, seeing how the others were quickly reduced to scrap. He fires his plasma blaster in quick succession at SilverBlade. SilverBlade ducks to the side and takes out the hilt to his energon sword, activates it, and flings it at the remaining drone. While in mid-air, the energon sword fades from a glowing red to a metallic silver color, hardening into a physical sword instead of an energy type. The sword impales the drone against the wall through the mouth area.
SilverBlade calmly steps out, and Firewing observes as his brother grabs the energon sword hilt, and deactivates the blade, causing the drone to drop lifelessly to the ground.
"That wasn't even a challenge, brother. I expected more from you." SilverBlade says mockingly to Firewing. "Did you really think that pitiful amount of drones would do anything against me?"
Firewing activates his plasma launcher and fires at SilverBlade repeatedly, round after round. SilverBlade re-activates his energon blade to deflect the shots, but steps backwards back into the room from the barrage of plasma rounds. Firewing then sends a small burst of flame at SilverBlade, enough to blind him. SilverBlade tries to swipe away the smoke in front of him when he is picked up from the ground, being held above Firewing's head by his leg and neck.
Firewing prepares to throw his brother against the wall, but SilverBlade quickly squirms out of Firewing's grip, falls so that his legs wrap around Firewing's neck, gravity causes SilverBlade to move downward and them upward, using centrifugal force to swing back up, and toss Firewing into the wall with his legs.
SilverBlade lands in a crouching position as Firewing lands on his head. SilverBlade stands up and activates his claws. Firewing begins to adjust himself to a standing position, when SilverBlade rushes him, elbowing Firewing in the jaw, then spinning rapidly and kicking Firewing in the head, knocking him down again.
Firewing ignites his own energon sabre and attempts to stab SilverBlade in the stomach, but SilverBlade moves his hands down and crosses his claws. The sword is just mere inches away before SilverBlade's claws stop it.
Firewing pushes with his might, and SilverBlade pushes back equally. SilverBlade then steps back quickly and releases his claws from Firewing's blade. Firewing's arms move upward and Silver takes advantage of the momentum built up in Firewing's arms, and he kicks the hilt of Firewing's energon sword out of his grip and up into the air, where it automatically deactivates. As SilverBlade was about to catch the twirling hilt, Firewing lunges forward and tackles his brother to the ground. The hilt falls harmlessly to the ground as Firewing pins his older brother to the ground.
SilverBlade's optics glow bright red, then a red plasma blast fires from his optics and directly towards the Firewing's optics, causing Firewing to crawl away as he becomes blinded.
Firewing feels around for the hilt of his energon sword, but is unable to find it. Once his vision returns, he sees SilverBlade standing a few feet away from him, with his energon sword hilt, activated.
SilverBlade walks slowly towards Firewing, and raises his hands to prepare to swing the blade of the energon sword down in Firewing's neck. Firewing hears the movement and rolls over to send a small flame upwards towards SilverBlade's face, causing him to step back and turn away until his systems recover.
As Firewing's own systems recover from the optic blast, he steps towards SilverBlade and his hand glows white hot, as he prepares to blast SilverBlade with white hot fire. But SilverBlade senses this, extends his claws, leaps up, slashing at Firewing's chest, spinning, slashing again, and spins a 3rd time, slashing once more, leaving Firewing's chest and abs shredded. SilverBlade finishes with a well-placed kick to the chest, sending Firewing flying towards the wall and falls onto his side.
Firewing weakly gets onto his feet again, to see SilverBlade walking towards him. He activates his plasma blaster and fires at SilverBlade, who easily deflects the blasts one by one. Firewing fired one more when SilverBlade was in close range, but SilverBlade deflected it with his claws, and slashed Firewing's arm off at the elbow. SilverBlade moves his claws in front of Firewing's face, as he sees the claws shift from a glowing energy blades to metallic, partly serrated blades.
"Please..Silver. I'm your brother…have mercy." Firewing says weakly.
"That's exactly what I plan on doing." SilverBlade says. His optics glow bright red as he thrusts his claws into Firewing's stomach, pointing upwards. He pushes his claws deep into Firewing's body as Firewing looks at him in shock.
SilverBlade removes his claws from Firewing's body, and mech fluid pours out of the wound.
Firewing looks at his brother, as if not believing that SilverBlade didn't kill him seconds ago. "Such a Maximal..showing mercy when you have the chance to end it." He says with heavy breating.
"Think again." SilverBlade retorts quickly as his claws revert back to energy form, and he swings down at Firewing's neck, slicing his head off, but in 4 pieces.
"Sorry brother..you left me no choice." He says with a hint of sadness to his voice.
"Computer, scan Firewing. Is his flight unit still operable?"
"Affirmative." Replies the computer.
"How about his fire generation system?"
"Affirmative, but there's an eighty percent chance your body will become unstable if you integrate a secondary elemental system into your body. A Cybertronian with more than one elemental ability has never been tested." Warns the computer.
"Override limitations. Prepare to receive a secondary elemental ability."