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October 1985

On Board Nemesis…

Many of the mechs on board Nemesis walked into the command centre grumbling in annoyance as the intruder alarms continued to blare throughout the ship, with many wanting to shatter their audio sensors because of the racket. The Constructions stood apart from the rest, to consumed in their own discussion of the chaos.

"Someone seriously needs to turn that thing off. Can't a mech plot destruction in peace"

"That slaggin' alarm must have taken a bashing in the crash. It's not like any Autobots know where we are"

"Wonder why Megatron isn't up here yet…"

"Heh… really Hook, you should know by now that when Megatron is in recharge almost nothing can wake him"

"Yeah we wouldn't even wake up if Optimus Prime suddenly appeared in his quarters and danced around with his spark chamber open, begging to be offlined"

"Well what about 'Screamer or Soundwave, shouldn't someone in charge be up here?"

"You know Starscream hasn't left his lab since we got back to Nemesis. As for Soundwave, well…the telepath is probably in the security centre working his processor overtime to work out what's going on"

"Yeah well something needs to be…."

BOOM!

"What in the realm of the Unmaker was that?"

"Looks like we can be expecting visitors real soon"

"Gee Mixmaster, you don't say"

"Shut it slag-face"

Meanwhile in the command trine quarters…

Starscream was working in his lab, making modifications to his Null-rays, hoping to make them more powerful. After all, any advantage against Megatron was better than no advantage at all. Unfortunately, he had a hyperactive Skywarp leaning over his shoulder and it was starting to annoy him greatly. At least Thundercracker had enough common sense not to disturb him whilst he was working.

"Aww…come on 'Screamer, you haven't been out of your lab in eight joors. You could come flying with me and T.C you know…or maybe you could lend me some chemicals to use to prank the triple-changers"

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me 'Screamer you imbecile, and I haven't been out of my lab because I am busy. I will not leave either until I have finished here or something so spectacularly interesting happens that I am forced to leave. Now get out of here 'Warp….", growled Starscream, suddenly turning to Skywarp and adding, "and you can forget about borrowing any of my chemicals. I refuse to be drawn into any of your pointless pranks"

Skywarp looked at his commander , a mischievous grin planted on his face, before giving a mock salute and warping out of Starscream's lab.

"Finally," Starscream sighed, "I can work in peace"

Little did he know, that was not going to last long

Back in the Command Centre….

Skywarp appeared just in time to hear and see the explosion that ripped through the command centre. Now instead of a blank purple wall to one side of the ship, there was smoke and debris. Upon seeing the damage, Skywarp gaped and gave a low whistle.

"Wow Megatron's gonna blow a gasket when he sees the redecorating you guys have done,"Skywarp commented as he made his way over the the Constructicons.

"Can it you winged menace,"snarled Scrapper, "we didn't do this, the ship's being invaded"

"Invaded by who?,"questioned Skywarp

"How in the name of Primus should I know? There is nothing to indicate who could possibly be boarding Nemesis. There is no one else on this miserable planet except us, the Autobots and the squishies"

"No need to fry your processor groundpounder. I was just asking," Skywarp muttered bitterly.

Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on each mech's perspective the discussion was halted by the sound of many footsteps coming from the newly blasted hole in Nemesis.

"Oh brilliant….this is where we all get offlined", muttered Scrapper darkly.

The footsteps grew louder until through the clearing smoke emerged four femmes and two mechs, all wearing the Decepticon insignia. Well, even though the crew of Nemesis did not know what to expect from their invaders, this was certainly not it. Primus, femmes had been thought extinct for millions of years, yet here were four standing right in front of them. Decepticon femmes at that!

As it was, Skywarp's wings were twitching up and down in excitement!

"I can assure you," spoke a purple and grey femme with 'coptor like blades on her back, "no one shall be offlined today as long as you cooperate with us. Be aware that we have trained snipers still in the boarding tunnel awaiting our signal if you decide to attack"

The mechs of Nemesis stood shellshocked (with the exception of Skywarp of course, he warped himself right back to the command trine quarters), still none quite believing that here right in front of their very optics were femmes.

The invading party stood scrutinizing the Nemesis crew, waiting for them to make some sort of reply. They did not have to wait long for the silence to break as Soundwave and his cassettes entered the command centre, having witnessed the invaders enter Nemesis (Good old 'wave, he doesn't miss very much).

"Hey Soundwave are those femmes? I thought good ol' Megs wiped them out," shouted a small but loud and obnoxious cassette aka Frenzy

"Can we talk to em'boss? They're pretty," the cassette known as Rumble asked as he looked up at Soundwave hopefully.

Soundwave did not reply, to busy surveying the situation at the lack of movement from any of the Nemesis' soldiers, Soundwave sighed and turned to the invaders, attempting to see what his personnel files relating to all known Decepticons could reveal. Coming up empty, Soundwave decided that as TIC it was up to him to determine the origin and plans of these unknowns.