The 'Cons observed their surroundings. They were standing on a huge slab of solid rock with a river of glowing lava surrounding it, save the walkway to the evil mastermind sitting in the throne. Armahdon looked like a twisted version of a lizard combined with a human. He had human like arms, legs, and torso, but he also had claws, a tail, and a line of vertical scales down his back and tail. Most of his jet black skin was decorated with red war scars and he had a huge, muscular build, like a bodybuilder gone horribly wrong. Even when sitting he looked twice as big as Megatron.

There were many vertical rock cliffs around the river which were jam packed with huge, disgusting creatures, all with six red eyes like their leader. Some looked like purple, armor-plated cats with extremely sharp, black claws, huge teeth, and three scorpion tails. Some looked like vampire bats with no eyes, smaller ears, black skin with claws at the ends of their wings, and were crawling on the ground instead of hanging upside down. Others looked like purple and black striped lionfish with six legs and were climbing up the walls. There were several cliffs with a little bigger than human-sized creatures that looked like purple, hunch-backed, overgrown lizards with four arms and standing on two legs. They, too, had claws and black scales lining their spines and tails with black cloth wrappings around their wrists, ankles, waists, and thighs. There was what looked like a copy of Armahdon standing to his right that had the smaller purple creatures' features, including the skin, and four scorpion tails coming out of his back. There was another cliff holding hundreds of more human-like creatures that looked like the Grim Reaper; black hooded cloaks, invisible faces, and scaly, bony hands holding twisted swords instead of scythes. On the cliff to the left of Armahdon, there were about a dozen humans wearing black jumpsuits with a dark-haired, medium-build female standing at the front with her arms crossed and an evil smirk. She looked to be about seventeen or eighteen.

All of the creatures were roaring and growling menacingly, almost looking like they were prepared to attack the Decepticons at any given moment.

Skywarp and Starscream were preparing to fight them, weapons glowing and at the ready.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Thundercracker warned. "We're outnumbered. You wouldn't stand a chance in Pit."

Megatron and Shockwave just kept looking around, speechless at the horrendous, disgusting sight surrounding them. They both knew better than to attack a huge army without many other Decepticons to help them.

"He is right. And there are plenty more than what you see here."

All the Decepticons turned to look at the Gorian leader like they had just noticed he was there.

"This is my army, Megatron. Your weapons will not do much damage to them, or those in the Supreme Earth Force. Only certain weapons and creatures can do an outstanding amount, but we can tend to that later. To my right is Mahkahloh, my Second-in-Command. And the human female to my left standing at the front is my favorite; her name is Vahlinthra." He pointed to them as he introduced them then pointed to the smaller lizards.

"Now I'll introduce you to the different kinds of warriors you see. Those are the Shredders. They do to the enemy what the name implies." He pointed to the cloaked beings and said, "Those are the Rippers, experts in torture. Those-" pointing to the cat things "-are the Snarlers, used to track then destroy. Their tails contain a poison that can paralyze whoever is stung and can puncture some of the toughest materials, same as Mahkahloh's." He pointed to the bats and continued, "Those flying creatures are the Screechers. They can make sounds at a frequency that can destroy the enemy's hearing and render them immobile. They can fly at speeds faster than that of a human fighter jet and can take the form of black smoke to make injury to them very difficult."

"Kinda sounds like an organic version of Soundwave." Skywarp whispered to Thundercracker.

"How can they see if they don't have eyes?" Shockwave asked, incredulous.

"Sonar and scent." was the simple answer.

It's impossible for a blind organic to be as good a fighter as he claims, Shockwave thought.

He finally identified the last creatures. "Those things crawling up the walls are the Demolishers. They are ruthless and destroy everything in their path. I created them so their poison can kill instantly and their spit is a very powerful acid."

"My aft. Like their body fluids can melt this." Skywarp spat, pointing to himself with his thumb.

"How much you wanna bet?" Vahlinthra countered, obviously not liking him.

Armahdon nodded his head toward her and she looked to closest one.

"Show him what you're made of." she commanded.

It jumped off the wall right across from Skywarp and slowly advanced toward him, baring its serrated teeth and growling.

"He wasn't being serious." Thundercracker cut in, pulling Skywarp back.

"Yes I was!" he yelled as pushed his blue comrade out of the way. "Come on; hit me with your best shot!"

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Mahkahloh warned in a similar voice to Armahdon's, an evil smile spreading across his face.

Suddenly, the creature spit and hit Skywarp straight in the chest, causing him to scream in agony and clutch his quickly deteriorating cockpit. The other creatures roared louder, as if cheering for their brother-in-arms.

"Skywarp!" Thundercracker yelled and ran to his side.

Megatron took a few steps towards him, charged one of his arm weapons, and then turned to Armahdon.

"I thought you wanted an alliance, but instead you let your filthy creatures attack us!"

Armahdon smiled. "One thing we practice here is hard discipline. And don't worry about him."

He turned to Mahkahloh and nodded. The purple creature then walked over to the seeker and stood over him. He was easily ten feet taller than the Decepticon and had more bulk. Thundercracker glared at him and Starscream shot at him with his null ray.

"WHAT?" Starscream yelled when he saw he made a small and definitely non-life threatening scratch in the creature's armor-like skin. Shockwave was astonished, but made no reply. Megatron was too, at first, but then became very impressed.

This might be a worthwhile alliance after all, he thought. He powered down his weapon and took a step back in the direction of Armahdon, still watching for what the Gorian was going to do next.

The lizard then spit into Skywarp's wound which had the reverse effect of the Demolisher's.

"Return to your place." Vahlinthra commanded and fish-wannabe obeyed without any form of protest.

Starscream shot again, but only succeeded in pissing off the taller Second-in-Command.

"It's no use, Starscream. If it didn't work the first time, it's not going to work a second." Shockwave said.

"No organic can be that strong! Organics are weak and helpless!" he cried.

Every Gorian in the room growled and took a menacing step forward, including the humans. Vahlinthra was shooting him a death glare, head lowered a bit and a black, smoky energy pulsing from her hands, causing Thundercracker and Skywarp to stare at her in amazement. Armahdon was furious.

"You will not revile me or any of my minions!" he bellowed. He got up and walked towards the silver F-22. He actually was twice the size of Megatron and every step he took shook the ground and stirred the lava. The roars were deafening. Starscream took a step away from the fast approaching lizard, transformed and tried to fly up but Armahdon caught him in his enormous hands. He threw Starscream to the ground, who transformed upon impact, and placed his giant, clawed foot on him, threatening to crush him.

"Armahdon." Vahlinthra called.

He turned his head in her direction, as did the rest of the Decepticons, and seemed to calm down a bit.

"I don't blame you for wanting to kill that pathetic excuse for a life form-," she continued until Skywarp interrupted her.

"Hey! We're the same thing as him and I can easily cru-"

Thundercracker backhanded him and cut him off, "You better shut up unless you wanna end up like Screamer."

She glared at him then finished, "But with little Decepticons left, we'll need every one that we can get."

"She has a logical point." Shockwave agreed.

Armahdon slowly lifted his foot, sat back down in his black throne, and shot Vahlinthra a brief, almost unnoticeable smile.

"So, Megatron, do we have a deal?" he asked, facing him.

Megatron thought it over one more time then replied, "Yes."

Armahdon gave an evil smile then announced, "This shall go down in history as the most powerful alliance ever made. With the Supreme Earth Force and the Autobots as weak as they are, nothing shall stand in our way!"

Amidst the loud, roaring response Megatron turned to Shockwave, "Inform all of the Decepticons, and tell them to get to Cybertron immediately."

Megatron had a good feeling about this and felt unstoppable. He didn't even notice Vahlinthra conversing with Armahdon in a low voice, saying, "It's all going according to plan."


"HOLY SHIT YOUR ASS IS ON FIRE! STOP, DROP, ROLL! STOP, DROP, ROLL!" the twins, Seth and Red Schema, yelled to Chakri Levitas as he ran into Altus Lake, outside the ring of mountains surrounding the hidden kingdom of Caelum. The lake started glowing faintly from the small wave of electricity flowing from Chakri's body into the water.

Saul, being the "newly discovered" Warrior of Fire, sneezed a fireball that happened to land on Chakri's ass and make the day's training an official disaster in their leader, Leila Bellator's, mind.

She stood next to a dumbfounded Saul Flamma with her face in her palm. Her boyfriend, Doug Silva, stood next to her with his arm around her shoulders, giggling like the twins who stood on the other side of Saul.

Kefira Ventus walked over to the shore as Chakri stumbled out, his jet black hair no longer standing on edge.

"Are you alright, pupule?" she asked in a mild, but understandable Hawaiian accent.

"Yes. I mean, it's all good, dude." he replied, trying to sound "cool" and giving a thumb up.

"Dude, I know you're still learning English, what with being from Thailand and all, but don't you ever say that again, okay?" Seth asked, causing Red to have a harder time hiding his laughter.

"Okey, dokey." Chakri answered in his own personal accent. His hair started to stand up again from the constant electricity pulsing throughout his body that he still had to master control over.

Leila finally pried her hand from her face and looked over everyone until her eyes met Doug's.

She waited a few seconds before finally saying, "Kill me. Just kill me."

Doug laughed, pulled her closer, and kissed her on the forehead. She looked up at him. She just couldn't resist those deep green eyes and crazy dark brown hair with dark green highlights. She especially loved how he always held her close to his mildly scarred body that got stronger and stronger everyday just like everyone else's due to the training they all went through. He was the best comfort to her whenever she got depressed from time to time, thinking about her lost family and friends.

They heard a hoot and looked over at the huge forest surrounding the lake and mountains. On the nearest tree sat a snowy owl, watching them intently.

Its bright yellow eyes turned white then a woman's whispering, echoing voice came from it, saying, "I wish to speak with you, Leila, at the Well of The Heart." Then it flew off towards Bicallis Cave, the only opening in the Arx Mountains and it led straight to Caelum, but only if you were allowed by its guardian.

"Alright. Training's over, for now. After dinner I want you all to run laps around the castle and I'll go with you. Make sure you inform Maricela, Taj, Matrix, and Lizeth, too." she commanded, starting for the cave.

The twins, Doug, and Chakri followed closely, but Kefira went straight up to Saul, placed her hand on his cheek and said, "Bless you, nohea."

Saul's face turned brick red and he almost stopped breathing as she shot him a seductive smile, and then followed the rest of the group.

He stood there for a little bit before collecting himself and running to catch up with the group.

When they got up to the cave entrance a little ways away, they stopped dead in their path, except for Leila who took a couple steps forward.

A gust of warm air shot past them from the giant cave, like someone just exhaled. And, indeed, something did.

A huge lizard's snout with rows upon rows of saw-like teeth slowly showed itself from the dark tunnel, but never showed anything past that.

Saul gulped and the twins gawked like they do every time, even though they've had to do this twice already. And like Leila's said before, who wouldn't piss their pants when they're asking a seventy-five foot tall, three-headed, nohfohndt-breathing Hydra that you've never even fully seen for permission into a heavily guarded and secret kingdom, especially when one beam of nohfohndt can clear half of the United States if the one using it wanted to. Nohfohndt is the energy of the Mother of Earth after all.

"Zehkeiynahloh," Leila shouted to it, "we request entry into Caelum."

He sniffed the air to confirm their identities and replied, "Permission granted," in a ground-shaking voice.

The giant muzzle then disappeared into the smoky darkness.

Leila gave a quick nod and the small group followed her into the cave. No light was needed for them to find their way out. Bicallis Cave was blessed so that anyone who is allowed to enter will always find their way.

Approaching Caelum, the group separated, Leila following the faintly luminescent Fides Stream flowing inside the mountains, and everyone else going into the castle for a break and dinner.

After ten minutes, Leila got to the end of the stream, the sacred place known as the Well of The Heart. It was a perfectly round pool, glowing brightly blue, but not blinding. It was rumored that at the bottom of the Well lies the even brighter heart of the Great Mother of Earth, the only remaining part of her physical form which was sacrificed to trap a great enemy, Armahdon, in the center of the Earth.

In the center of the pool, on top of the water was her scepter, the Staff of Ages. The part she held in her hand looked like glass that twisted around itself until it got to the top where it looked like four fingers gripped a round orb that was a smaller version of Earth.

And sitting on top of that was the white owl from before.

Leila approached it, and as she did, her own eyes turned white and she bowed on one knee, saying, "Great Mother Sylvia, creator of all, I have come to you as you have commanded me."

"Rise." she responded, eyes white again, "there is no need to fall to the ground in my presence."

Leila did as she was told and was blinded when the owl gave off a white light. When the glow got softer, Leila could see that Sylvia had changed into a ghost of her human form. She was seven feet tall at the least with pale skin and flowing black hair. She wore a sparkling white dress with long sleeves that drooped at her wrists and a white blindfold over her eyes. She had a silver and white gold crown on her head that looked more like a tiara, which was her way of showing that she may be Queen, but she's very modest. She wanted to show her people that there is no hierarchy, and that she created every human to be equal to each other and every living thing on her planet is equal to her.

"I bring you news about the Gorian forces." she continued. "Mahkahloh, the one who weakened your forces severely five hundred years ago, has now been identified as a human Gorian."

Leila's eyes went wide in disbelief. Mahkahloh, of all people, was traipsing around as a human?

"What the fu-," Leila started quietly then asked louder, "Why the hell would he be doing that? And more importantly who the hell is he going as?"

"I know you are shocked and frustrated enough, hon, but all I can tell you is that he is in a high ranking position in the American government and that he's not the most liked." Sylvia responded in a soothing tone.

Leila sighed and looked down. It was Mahkahloh that almost completely wiped out all the dragons, making Moulin, her friend and guardian, the last of his kind. It was also Mahkahloh that put the seemingly unstoppable Guardians, all of them, in the Dark Void, their prison cell, with no hope of escape. The only way they could get out is if Mahkahloh is killed, but the human members of the SEF are just not experienced enough or even capable of fighting someone of his rank or power yet. And there aren't many more members of the SEF that have shown themselves yet. Considering the little progress they're making every day, it would take years before they could defeat him, and who knows what'll happen before then?

Leila opened her mouth for one more question when Sylvia answered, "And he's not the president."

Leila sighed again and looked up when she saw that Sylvia was "standing" in front of her, with her ghostly hand on the sixteen year old's shoulder.

"You need not worry yourself too much, my child. In the end, all shall be right. You will find help in unexpected places and friends in unexpected people. But beware, for I fear the Gorians shall have help from unexpected sources as well."

Then Sylvia took the form of a snowy owl again on top of her scepter and said, "Keep working hard, Commander Bellator, and sooner than you think, you shall have grand warriors at your side. Also, use much more nohfohndt than you normally use."

Leila perked her head up at this and furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "Why?"

"More nohfohndt a day shall keep the doctor away." was the owl's reply.

Then she flew off again, right past Leila, to who knows where.

Leila just stood there, confused and exhausted, wondering, "How are we ever going to do this?"


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