Transformers Prime: A New Adventure.
Chapter 111: Forest Battle, The Crow Style.
In the forest, Fortressimus was meditating on focusing his anger to his physical attacks and firepower, and in an instant, the nineteen Decepticons known as Fieryrunner, Rhinoboom, Groovecrack, Retroglide, Grizzmine, Rhinobot, Megahorn, Topkick, Cannonclash, Skytracks, Botanisling, Autolight, Slipcrush, Meltstop, Hightwitch, Photonhead, Lazerload, Shockcycle, and Heatclash showed up.
Shockcycle fires her blasters at Fortressimus, but his armor absorbs the energy blasts.
Shockcycle frowns before moving to metal ammunition, and the bullets flatten against Fortressimus' armor before falling to the ground.
Heatclash fires his machine guns and cannons, but Fortressimus is still unfazed.
Fortressimus then looks up with his eyes abruptly opening, and he roars as he charges.
Heatclash charges and Fortressimus brings out his sword before stabbing the Decepticon hunter and then slicing off his head.
Then Fortressimus catches a sword strike and he stabs Lazerload multiple times before stabbing him in the neck.
Then Fortressimus dismembers Photonhead before decapitating him and then bisecting Fieryrunner.
Then Fortressimus blocks a sweeping roundhouse kick from Shockcycle before knocking her out and then slicing up Rhinoboom's primary Energon conduit, the Cybertronian version of a human throat being slit open.
Groovecrack tries to deflect Fortressimus' next sword strike, but her blades shatter upon being struck by Fortressimus' sword, and then she wound up sliced in half down the middle and then losing her spark, as Fortressimus ripped it out and crushed it.
Hightwitch tries to fire his acid bullet blaster at Fortressimus, but he deflects the acid bullets before slicing up the front of the blaster.
Then Fortressimus brings out his Quad Barreled Shotgun before saying, "Swallow this!" and he fired, taking Hightwitch's head off.
Fortressimus then slices Meltstop to pieces before riddling Slipcrush with bullets.
Fortressimus then accesses his Jetpower Armor and he crushes Autolight underfoot before firing his jetpack thrusters at Skytracks, blowing the upper parts of his body to pieces.
Retroglide tries to attack Fortressimus' jetpack, but she wound up with her head, arms, and legs burned to ashes.
Grizzmine tries to fight Fortressimus servo-to-servo, but Fortressimus burns her to molten metal and other not to be named parts.
Botanisling tries to use his plant control power to tear Fortressimus apart, but Fortressimus proves he's the true Transformers Prime master of plants.
Rhinobot, Megahorn, Topkick, and Cannonclash tried to quadruple team Fortressimus, but they got their heads, chestplates, spark chambers, and brain modules blown to pieces.
Shockcycle then tackles Fortressimus, but then, using the moves taught in the final battle of The Crow, Fortressimus manages to kill Shockcycle.
Fortressimus then roars like a combination of Godzilla and Toothless the Night Fury dragon from How To Train Your Dragon, and the Guardian Knight was roaring in victory.
Just then, a familiar voice calls out to him, "Fortressimus!"
Fortressimus whirls around and sees Downshell looking at him in fear and in shocked tears.
Fortressimus takes a few calming breaths and his armor returns to normal.
Downshell takes slow steps to her sparkmate, and he meets her halfway in a hug where Fortressimus pours out his sadness, grief and regret.
After Fortressimus has his moment, Primus arrives to take them back to base.
On the Nemesis, Megatron was watching the live feed from Cat Cloud, one of Soundblaster's Mini-Cons in light of Buzzsaw, Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, Ratbat, Autoscout, Beastbox, Wingthing, Slugfest, Overkill, Garboil, Enemy, Flip Sides, Glit, Howlback, Squawktalk, Sundor, Uriad, Uruaz, and Doombox rejoined Soundwave, in shock and horror.
In all of Megatron's existence, he had never seen a demigod Autobot fighting nineteen stronger and more skilled opponents all at once in such a horrifying, monstrous, and murderous way.
He was instantly reminded of his dead mentor, Ghost Saber, who taught him the warrior code. Because of her popularity, some of the Alpha Class Cybertronians rigged her last two fights before she went offline, where the first one was against five hundred Insecticons all at once, and just before the second and final fight, they put a chip in her chest compartment that controlled her mind, and this forced her to fight Megatron himself. It lasted sixteen hours in Earth time, and just before Ghost Saber passed onto the Allspark, she gave Megatron her arm blade, the same one he carries underneath his Fusion Cannon and had duplicated for using in his left arm when he has no other choice and if he has been disarmed of his Fusion Cannon, his original sword, and his ability to transform.
Megatron then says, "Gather the corpses and prepare to revert them back into protoforms, then have them multiplied by our Matter Duplicators. We will use them as clones, as new Decepticons, and as new Cybertronians overall who would willingly help our cause."
Soundblaster replies, "Yes, Lord Megatron."
Soundwave nods.
In the Autobot base, Fortressimus was attending to any damages on him, and he found that his Eric Draven inspired armor was not invulnerable, so he decided to remove that armor and upgrade it to become more durable than before once he finished his self repairs.
Just then, he heard Optimus approach him.
Fortressimus then says, "I know engaging even nineteen opponents is foolish and suicidal, but the thing is, my rage had increased to the point where I chose not to call for backup and to the point where normal rules of right and wrong didn't apply in my rage-filled mind, even in the Cybertronian version."
Optimus then says, "Nevertheless, I am glad you found peace and repentance in the eyes of your God."
Fortressimus then says in reply, "Also nevertheless, I am never going to do anything as horribly stupid as that ever again.
In Fortressimus' quarters that night, he had a dream where the younglings reached out to him from the afterlife and they showed him the Allspark Matrix and the actual Revenge of the Fallen Matrix of Leadership reviving some dead Autobots and Primeverse Predacons who were either zombified by Dark Energon or who were destroyed by other means. Including the Predacons in over thirty burial grounds being rendered extinct by the Great Cataclysm.
Fortressimus' dream self says, "I understand, girls."
The younglings group-hugged Fortressimus.
In the real world, Fortressimus says in his sleep, "I will not fail you, my children and my surrogate nieces."
The End.
(Author's notes: How do you like them apples? And also, the depictions of the nineteen Decepticons being horribly mutilated as they get murdered was something I cooked up as a belated Halloween tribute. So, Happy Belated Halloween and Happy Early Thanksgiving to those of you in my reading audience who live in the United States and thus celebrate Thanksgiving on the third Thursday of November.
See you all in chapter 112: First Divine Revivals.)