Transformers War for Cybertron: An Old War.
Chapter 7: Ruination vs. Bruticus.
(Author's notes: Need I say anything other than the obvious about this chapter's title? Enjoy chapter 7: Ruination vs. Bruticus.)
(Metroplex City, Outseek's POV...)
I stood alongside Currentracer and Ultra Magnus as we watched Impactor, Roadbuster, Topspin, Twintwist, and Whirl emerging from the Combiner Maker machine.
Currentracer asks over the P.A., "How do you feel, fellas?"
Impactor replies before asking Roadbuster, "Surprisingly, I feel good. What about you, Roadbuster?"
Roadbuster replies before asking Topspin, "I feel a little tingly in my joints, but other than that, not that much has changed. How about you, Topspin?"
Topspin replies as well, "As a matter of fact, I actually feel like I got a tune up from Ratchet."
Currentracer asks, "Twintwist, Whirl, what about the two of you?"
Twintwist answers first, "Aside from feeling my chestplate being automatically repaired, I don't feel like anything else has changed."
Whirl answers last, "I feel fine. In fact, aside from my CPU receiving instructions on how to recuperate from the effects of the machine, I don't feel anything that needs to be examined by Ratchet."
Ultra Magnus states, "Well, that is wonderful news."
Currentracer then says, "Okay. Now, Wreckers, see if you can try combining."
Roadbuster and Twintwist went first, forming the legs in the exact same arrangement as Swindle and Brawl forming Bruticus' legs. Then, Impactor became the torso unit, and Topspin and Whirl became the arms in the exact same arrangement as Blast Off and Vortex forming Bruticus' arms.
The combiner mode head emerges, and the Autobot combiner rumbles, "I am Ruination."
Currentracer then says, "Nice choice for your name, Ruination. Now, we are going to do some tests to make sure your systems are operating at 100%."
Ruination replies, "Understood."
One joor later, Ruination finished all the tests before decombining back into Impactor, Roadbuster, Topspin, Twintwist, and Whirl.
Ultra Magnus then says, "All right, Wreckers, get ready to recharge for a few joors; we will be engaging Bruticus at the next battle that Tailpunch described."
(Some time later, Outseek's POV...)
We were at the city of Ultirex and getting ready for when the Decepticons show up.
Suddenly, they all showed up, and much to even my surprise, there was an assortment of Decepticon Tank Soldiers leading the charge.
I guess Tailpunch was right again about one thing: one of the ways that the Decepticons tend to win some and/or most of their battles is because portions of their forces take on the forms of Cybertronian military vehicles, such as fighter jets, helicopters, and tanks.
We started taking them out 300 at a time because of us combining our Energon Harvesters with my Mournblade Sword and Corvowing Prime's Weaponizer Mini-Cons, especially since Corvowing Prime was leading this battle against the Decepticons himself, under Optimus' orders.
Suddenly, Onslaught spotted me and charged towards me!
But I predicted what he was going to do, and I smacked him hard in the face with my foot, sending him crashing into Soundwave.
That's funny; I didn't think Soundwave would be joining his comrades on this mission.
Soundwave gets up and says, "You fight well, but it'll take more than intuition to defeat the superior Decepticons."
I smirked evilly at that as I replied, "Intuition ain't got nothing to do with our numerous victories."
Soundwave deploys his axe and charges.
I held tight to my Mournblade Sword and we clashed blades.
We clashed blades up to 20 times before we were in a blade lock.
Soundwave was a gladiator before my stellar cycles, but I calculated how he fights and I started to find ways on how to counter his moves without him catching on to it. Even though I know Soundwave is one of the smartest strategists Megatron has ever recruited.
Soundwave was about to kick me in my gearbox, but I struck him in the face and right shoulder, making him skid back.
Soundwave looked furious, and that's saying something because he never lets his emotions get to him, unlike his lord and master.
Onslaught then tried to tackle me from behind, but I sidestepped him in time and he overshot both me and Soundwave.
I remarked while letting my anger show, "You'll have to try 200 times harder than that if you want to catch me off-guard."
Saberspear then comes up to me and shoots his Micro-SMG at Soundwave, who deploys a force field to deflect the bullets.
Onslaught then says, "It's time to take this battle to the next level! Combaticons, combine into Bruticus!"
Onslaught, Blast Off, Vortex, Swindle, and Brawl combined into Bruticus.
Bruticus rumbles, "Bruticus online! Ready for action!"
Impactor remarks in response, "The feeling's mutual, Bruticus! Wreckers, combine into Ruination!"
Ruination was immediately formed by the five Wreckers.
Ruination rumbles as well, "Ruination awakens!"
Bruticus growls as he charges.
Bruticus started throwing punch after punch, but no matter how hard he tries, Ruination managed to deflect and dodge all of the punches and kicks.
Bruticus then deploys a flamethrower in his right hand, unleashing fire on Ruination.
But the wind generated from Whirl's helicopter blades forming Ruination's shield blew out all of the flames.
Ruination then deploys his Phase Cannon before firing a shot into Bruticus' chestplate, sending him crashing to the ground hard enough to make him decombine into the Combaticons.
Soundwave calls out, "Decepticons, retreat!"
The Decepticons retreated, and Tailpunch started creating super soldier Autobots, including Aerialbot and combiner group super soldiers, to protect our latest territory.
I knew that it was only a matter of time before Megatron strikes back 3,000 times harder than before, and we needed to be ready. And with our unlimited source of intel, we can easily get Megatron on the ropes without becoming arrogant or feeling worthless enough to consider turning traitor.
The End.
(Author's notes: In the next chapter, we shall see how Tailpunch increases the Autobot forces a WHOLE LOT MORE than usual.
See you all in chapter 8: The New and Improved Autobot Army.)
