Chapter 6: Let them try

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"What do you mean we are going to let them leave!"

Starscream roared, The high command Decepticons are currently gathered in the throne room, discussing the report that was retrieved from Hubcap. Megatron is on his throne and glares at Starscream. Beside him are Soundwave, Shockwave, Zarak, and Sky Shadow.

"Are you insulting me Starscream!?" Megatron barked back. He sat up in his throne, adjusting his arms in a way for his fusion cannon to be facing Starscream in a subtle way.

Starscream sighs, crossing his arms. "Of course not M-.."Lord" Megatron. I am simply asking why? We know the autobots exact plan. We know they have the location of a planet to harvest energon. And we know they have a ship ready for take off. Why would we possibly let them go?"

Megatron leans back, and changes his arm position. "...Hmm fair question Starscream, I'll admit I considered that plan at first but let me ask you a question…why?"

Starscream looks confused "Why…what master?" Megatron smirks and answers. "Why should we bother to fight them here? To waste resources, bots, and what little energon we have to take their ship and the having to do the labor ourselves? The autobots aren't aware we have this information. We can use that to be prepared and organized so when we arrive at their energon mine, all the work will already be done and we can catch them by surprise."

Starscream gets quiet and nods "..Well thought Lord Megatron, but one thing…we don't have the means to follow them."

Megatron nods at that, "You are completely correct. We don't have a ship, right now, Shockwave?" Shockwave nods and steps forwards. "Cycles ago, I allowed 2 autobots to steal the plans to the Gigastorm prison. I predict the autobots will launch an attack on one of our facilities as a distraction and a cripple for their space launch. So I fed them information to narrow their attack on Gigastorm.

"Wait wait wait!" Storm Shadow interjected "You want to sacrifice MY prison to the autobots? Why?" Shockwave continues. "Gigastrom is a waste of resources as it currently stands and holding autobot prisoners at this moment is a waste of energon. Most of our supplies go towards keeping them on life support."

Sky Shadow grumbles but relents. "Fine,but then where will the resources go? And again, just how are we supposed to get a ship? What are we going to do, make on-" Sky Shadow gets cut off with a blast to his shoulder, sending him to the floor. Megatron moves his arm down as smoke pours out of his fusion cannon and stares at him.

"Yes Sky Shadow, that's EXACTLY what we are going to do! And we will make one from what is left from Giga strom when the autobots are done with it. And if you stop whining like a sparkling, you will be in charge of what's left here when we leave. Now you are dismissed! And get that arm fixed, you're wasting energon."

Sky Shadow gets up and leaves the room, and runs down to the medbay holding his shoulder wound, dripping energon. The doors close and Megatron turns his attention back to the others in the room. "Soundwave, start organizing a crew list and get some engineers to begin planning on reforming Gigastorm."

Starscream then interjects "One last question, Won't making Gigastorm prison into a ship also a major use of energon?" Megatron then nods at Soundwave to answer. "Most of the skeleton of a ship is there from the old golden age when it was a ship in Nova's fleet. It would only need to be cut out from the structure made around it"

"Ah right. Apologize I didn't do well in Cybertronian History" Starscream snarks while rolling his eyes, Zarak gives a small laugh at that. Instead of getting mad Megatron also laughs. "Understandable Starscream, I could figure that out by looking at you. You and Zarak get your teams ready for a defense on Gigastorm. We have to make it believable after all, Dismissed"

Starscream and Zarak leave the room, Starscream scowling at Megatron's insult. After a great distance Starscream lets out a sigh. "He is somehow getting more and more insane." Zarak nods with that statement. "Did you talk to Roller?" Zarak asks him.

"I did, he won't interfere but he won't help us either." Zarak nods at that "Unfortunate but expected, well oh well. It would have been nice to have him with us but that's fine. We still have my monster bots and most of your seekers… Thundercracker is still being.. Distant?"

"Sigh, yes. He talks to me sometimes but he is still… conflicted. It's like he's not even my spark mate sometimes. Are you sure this is the best call Zarak?"

Zarak pauses before grabbing Starscream's servo. "We both know the Megatron we initially looked up to is gone. He NEEDS to be relieved of his command and we are the only 2 able to do that. Trust me, we will save Cybertron from him."

Starscream sighs but nods, squeezing Zarak's servo before letting it go. "Thanks for the reassurance. Your right, Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost…"