Author's Notes: Same as the last chapter. Jojo the Lion belongs to Jojoker boy. Siren belongs to me.

Also, Dr. Nefarious is a good guy in this story (due to All 4 One) and his appearance has changed. To find out how his appearance changed, read my "Dreadzone 2" story.

Chapter 9: War

The group gets up but all fall down as an explosion rocks the building.

"What is going on out there?!" yelled Crash as he slowly left his Dark Form.

A hologram suddenly appeared on the table.

"Ratchet! We got a problem! There's too many for us! They're overwhelming our position! Hey! Watch it! Annihilate them! Need reinforcements, NOW!" said Dr. Nefarious who now looked like Shellshock (body-wise, intelligence-wise still the same) before the hologram went away.

"I'll take care of this." said Siren as he walked towards a Grind Rail and he jumped onto it and slid down it at very high speeds. After several miles of Grind Rail he came upon a massive battlefield. Galactic Rangers, Crimson Clones (Clone Troopers wearing red armor that makes them almost invincible), and Dr. Nefarious fight Ant-bots and Droids.

"We're gonna die!" screamed one of the Rangers.

"Shut it tinny! We may be outnumbered, but we don't need a cowardly robot downgrading our morale! Now keep shootin'!" yelled a Clone as he ducked behind a barricade. Siren then appeared near the outnumbered squad, threw off his cloak, removed his mask and hood, and charged with two swords drawn.

"Blast the fast one!" yelled a Super Battle Droid.

"Roger, roger." replied the Battle Droids.

"That all you got? I ain't even trying!" said Siren as he cut up the droids and avoided their blaster bolts. He decapitated a B1 before he threw one of his swords into a B2, grabbed it and sliced upwards. His tail blade then morphed into Ol' Painless (watch Predator) and decimated the droids. One tried to crawl away but got a sword rammed through its head.

"And stay down!" said Siren as he removed his sword and placed both swords back into their sheathes on his back.

"Thank you sir!" said one of the clones saluting.

"Oh, you don't have to do that with me." said Siren.

"Actually, we do. You're the son of our previous commander, Skyler, and we serve you now." said the clone.

"So what's going on?"

"Clankers suddenly came online even though it's been years since any have been seen and with Megatron out of the picture, his Decepticons have gone into hiding. We've been fighting them for weeks."

"Incoming Bunker Buster!" yelled a Crimson before he ducked and the rest of the squad followed suite.

*EXPLOSION!*

"*Cough! Cough!* Everyone alright?" asked Siren getting up.

"My leg! My leg!" screamed a clone as he clutched his bleeding leg.

"You, help him!" said Siren pointing to a medic and said medic went over to the injured clone.

Siren turned around to come face-to-face with a droid that resembled a Terminator but it wasn't, it had two buzz-saw like arms and it tried to decapitate Siren who dodged the attack and kicked the EA (Elite Assassin) droid off the platform.

"Fall back! Fall back! EAs!" said Siren pulling out a HMG (Heavy Machine Gun) and open fired on the advancing EAs.

"Not these things again! I've heard about them and they're nasty!" said a clone as he helped up the injured one.

"Run for your li-" screamed a Ranger before its head was blown off by a EA.

"Thank you." muttered the injured clone.

Nefarious fired threw missiles at the advancing EAs and only took out two before he was forced to retreat also. A gunship then appeared overhead and began firing upon the EAs, unaware of a Bunker Buster EA aiming for it. The missile impacted with the gunship and it exploded in a fiery inferno and crashed onto the platform, blocking the squad's retreat.

"We're trapped!" said a clone shooting an EA as it slowly advanced.

"Everybody hold onto something!" said Siren and everyone grabbed onto Nefarious.

"Really?" said the war-machine mad scientist robot.

Siren then spit copper fire onto the platform in a circle around the group and the floor gives way.

Clones and Nefarious: "AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

The clones and Nefarious fall through the hole but Siren remains floating on air.

"Bye-bye!" says Siren before he back-flips into the hole.

*CRASH!*

Crimson clone: "We're okay!"

END CHAPTER

Sorry if this seems to deviate from the original storyline, but it doesn't. The next chapter is the squad trying to meet back up with Crash and company but things...don't go as planned...at all. Besides, I think the earlier chapters didn't spend enough time in the other worlds.

Also, Crimson Clones can be shot in the head (with helmet on) and live, regular clones no.

Next Chapter: Red Snowstorm