I would just like to tell everyone before the charter starts that I will be working on this story and my other story at the same time. So I can't promise update speed for either one.
"Talking"
"Radio talk"
"Sentinel/Computer"
"thinking, weapons names, and flashbacks"
Disclaimer: I do not own either Beast wars or RWBY
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Chapter 4
The web
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
It has been quite since Yang joined up with the Maximals. Currently everyone was getting ready for whatever could come their way. Rattrap and Dinobot were getting energon stockpiled, Optimus was going over all news report he could get to see if there was any Predacon activities involved, Ruby was working on the base guns (Something she really enjoyed doing), Rhinox was working on a way to commutate over long distances after hearing about the CCT system, and for Yang she just entered the bases perimeter via ground bridge riding his motorcycle Bumblebee.
'No matter how many times I do that it's still freaky.' Thought Yang as she drove her bike to the garage area of the Axalon and started to walk over to the command centre to check up on Ruby. As she walked into the command centre, she saw both Optimus and Rhinox looking at a computer chip of some sort.
Getting curious Yang walked over to them. "Hey guy what's that thing?" Asked Yang as the two looked over at her.
"It's Rhinox latest invention. With it we can communicate with each other over long distances. Good job Rhinox." Said Optimus as he gave Rhinox a pat on the back.
Yang got interested in the little chip "How does it work?" Asked Yang as she looked at the chip closer.
"Well when I heard of your CCT system I figured if I could piggyback the signal while masking it so they didn't even know it was there and we could use it full time. We could use the towers as a way to communicate with each other over long distances just as you do." Said Rhinox as Yang had no idea what he just said.
"What did you just say?" Asked Yang as she tried to figure out what Rhinox, luckily for her Ruby walked by with a belt of tools on her waist, a safety harness around her body and some goggles on her head.
"It means this chip can hack into the CCT system and no one will know about it." Explained Ruby as she checked her tools. Yang then got a knowing look on her face as Optimus smiled.
"Like I said Rhinox good job. With this we can finally fix our long-distance communication problems." Said Optimus as he patted Rhinox on the back again.
Rhinox on the other hand was still not so sure about it. "Well, it still needs a field test." Said Rhinox, but as he said those words Cheetor came running up to them (in beast mode) and jumped onto the table in front of them.
"Test, I'm your bot. What you got?" Said Cheetor excitedly as Optimus wasn't so sure about letting him do it, but he decided to give him a chance.
"Rhinox created a chip that should help the comm's links and solve our long-range communication problems." Said Optimus as Rhinox had to remind him once more of something.
"If it works. If something goes wrong Cheetor could become a beacon that everyone could track. And that the best-case scenario" Reminded Rhinox but Cheetor didn't care.
"Then let's find out, I don't mind the risks." Said Cheetor as Optimus took the Chip and moved over to Cheetor head and opened it.
Optimus then started to install the Chip into Cheetor. "Cheetor it's a valuable piece of equipment, take care of it." Said Optimus as he finished installing the chip.
"I copy big bot." Said Cheetor before he got a curious look on his face "What do I do?" Asked Cheetor wondering how the chip works.
"The chip integrates with you comm. link so just uses you comm's like you normal would." Answered Optimus as Rhinox gave another comment.
"We hope." Said Rhinox as he turned his head, but Ruby then walked over to him and patted his back.
"Even if it doesn't work, at least you're on the right track." Said Ruby as it lifted Rhinox sprits.
"I guess you're right. Also, as soon as I'm done here I'll help you with the energy flow for the main guns." Said Rhinox as Ruby gave him a nod.
Meanwhile Optimus was giving Cheetor instructions on what to do. "Head away from the base to vector Ogema and check in every ten mirco-qauds. We'll see how far we can track you." Said Optimus as he active one of the computers and brought up a map of Patch.
"That seems simple enough." Said Yang as she thought she could do it.
But Optimus wasn't finished yet. "And if you encounter any Predacon's return immediately." Ordered Optimus as Cheetor just laughed at that last part.
"I'll be moving too fast for them to see me." Said Cheetor as he ran off causing Rhinox to shake in head in worry.
"He'll do fine." Reassured Optimus but it did little to quell Rhinox worries. Meanwhile Ruby walked over to the centre console and pressed a button and opened up the ceiling.
Ruby then looked over to Yang. "Yang can you keep an eye on the sensors? I don't want to be on the roof if the Pred's attack." Asked Ruby as Yang sat down in a chair and moved it over to a console.
"I've got your back sis." Said Yang as Ruby then went to the roof to work on the guns, meanwhile Yang was trying to try turn on the sensors, but she couldn't get the console to work for her. "Come on work!" Said Yang as she was ready to hit the console only for Rhinox to stop her.
"If you break it, I have to fix it." Said Rhinox as he looked at Yang with a stern look.
Yang then rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment. "Sorry but I can't get the sensor to turn on." Said Yang as Rhinox pressed a couple of buttons and the radar appeared on the screen.
Rhinox then turned to Yang with a blank look. "You did read that manual on how the consoles work, right?" Asked Rhinox as Yang just chuckled.
"I skimmed it." Replied Yang when in reality she didn't even look at it yet.
"Right." Said Rhinox who knew Yang was lying, but the test was more important than this. Rhinox then went over to were Optimus was and looked at the screen and checked in on Cheetor progress.
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Vale, Patch, Scorponok Location
Scorponok was mad, no he was furious ever since that organic Adam cut off his arms no one was taking him seriously any more. Whenever anyone had the chance, they would remind him of his loss and make jokes at him expense, like 'don't fall apart on us' or 'don't breakdown on us'. He knew he had to do something to get back into Megatron's good graces and fast.
Currently he was digging in some rubble trying to bring something out, while two White Fang members just stood nearby and watched him. Soon Scorponok moved enough rocks to reveal what looked like some sort of pod.
Scorponok was very happy with what he found. "Megatron will reward me for finding this." Said Scorponok was he tried to pull out the object that he found. Meanwhile the two White Fang members looked at him like he was crazy.
"Hey how'd we get stuck with this guy?" Asked one of the White Fang members causing the other to shrug his shoulders.
"Hell, if I know man." Replied the other guy, meanwhile Scorponok was still trying to pull the object from out of the rock but was having little success with it.
Scorponok then turn to the two annoyed by their talking. "You two give me a hand with this!" Ordered Scorponok as the two looked at each other before they started clapping their hands.
"That's not what I meant, and you know it." Said Scorponok as the others just stop clapping.
"What are you going to do fall apart on us?" Mocked one of the White Fang members causing Scorponok to shake in anger and walk behind the two members as they laughed.
"Scorponok Terrorize!" Screamed Scorponok as he transformed into robot mode and pointed his claw launcher at the two members. Both members saw this and jumped out of the way as Scorponok fired at the rocks behind them.
The blast was so loud that Cheetor who was running nearby head it and stopped because of it.
Knowing something was up Cheetor active his comm's. "Cheetor to Optimus, do you read me?" Asked Cheetor hoping the chip worked.
Meanwhile back at the Axalon both Optimus and Rhinox heard Cheetor loud and clear. "Yes," Said Optimus as he turned to Rhinox "And he's five micro quads away, looks like it's working." Said Optimus with some small glee in his voice.
But Rhinox didn't share his joy. "So far" Said Rhinox like he was expecting something to go wrong.
"I just heard some kind of explosion. I'm going to check it out. I'll talk to you in a minute" Said Cheetor bring both their attentions back to the comm's and even caching Yang's attention as she look over.
"Explosion?! Wait Cheetor don't." Said Optimus worried about his second youngest crew member.
"He's moving again." Said Rhinox as he looked at the screen.
"What are we going to do?" Asked Yang from her console as Optimus got up from his seat and walked over to the roof hatch.
"I'm going after him. If he calls in tell him to get out of there now!" Said Optimus as he activated his jets as flew out of the base. He was so worried about Cheetor that he failed to see that his departure was so fast that the wind he made knocked Ruby of the roof, luckily for her she had her harness attached to the roof so she didn't fall far. Unfortunately for her she was hanging off from the Axalon.
"Yang, Rhinox as little help here." Said Ruby as she hung upside-down while Optimus left her field of sight.
Meanwhile back with Cheetor he was racing off to where the Explosion came from, not knowing what he could find there.
At the same time with Scorponok he saw that his prize was now freed from the rocks as he reverted back into beast mode. The two White Fang members were fine but pissed off at Scorponok.
"What the hell!" Yelled one of the White Fang as both of them stomped over to Scorponok.
Scorponok gave them a glace before looking back at his prize. "I gave you a warning, maybe your ears are broken." Replied Scorponok with a coy smile as he pulled out a cannon from the rocks. While he was inspecting the cannon and the White Fang members were trying to get him to listen to them, they failed to see Cheetor sneaking up behind them.
Cheetor hide behind some rocks and looked over at what they were doing. "Oh no this is trouble. Cheetor Maximize" Said Cheetor as he transformed and then contacted the base.
"Cheetor to Optimus." Said Cheetor as he waited a second for a response.
"Optimus is on his way. He said you should get out of there." Said Rhinox hoping Cheetor would listen to him.
"No can-do baby blue, Scorponok here with two Faunus and they found a mega cannon. It must have come from their ship. I got to stop them before they get it back to their base. Cheetor out." Said Cheetor as he got his gun ready.
Meanwhile Scorponok and the White Fang members still didn't know that Cheetor was there. "Um, still operational, Megatron will be pleased." Said Scorponok as the White Fang members stopped and looked at the cannon.
"If that thing still works, I can't wait to see what it can do." Said one member as the other nodded.
"Yeah maybe we should point it at the Schnee's." Said the other member as they thought about it.
"Too bad you'll never get the chance." Said Cheetor causing the three to turn around and see Cheetor standing there with his gun pointed at them. Seeing this Scorponok started to click his pincers together fast.
"Clicking makes me twitch and there's a full charge in this beauty." Said Cheetor as he choked his gun. One of the White Fang tried to get to the cannon but Cheetor saw him.
"Aw, aw away from the big boomer." Said Cheetor as he moved them away from the mega cannon.
Seeing that things were under control Cheetor decided to call the base. "Cheetor to base I've got the gig in hand. Tell Optimus to home in on my signal." Said Cheetor but he got no reply. "Cheetor to base." Said Cheetor again trying to contact someone. As he was trying to get a hold of someone, he failed to see that Tarantulas sneaking up behind him.
Seeing this Scorponok took a step forward, but Cheetor saw it. "Aw, aw, aw you're making me twitch again." Said Cheetor failing to see the threat behind him.
"And I'll make you scream." Said Tarantulas as he made himself known while laughing. Seeing him appear out of nowhere startled Cheetor causing him to blindly fire at Tarantulas only for each shot to miss.
Meanwhile Scorponok saw his chance. "Scorponok Terrorize." Said Scorponok as he transformed and fired two missiles at Cheetor who just turned around and took the blast right in the chest.
"Yes." Said Scorponok as pumped his fist at the perfect shot.
"Good shooting boss." Said one White Fang member.
"Yeah, way to show him." Said the other one as they both praised Scorponok.
"Better grab that weapon while you can and get it back to base. Optimus is coming." Said Tarantulas but no one could see where he was.
"Don't give me orders, I will soon be second in command." Said Scorponok as they waited for a response only to hear the wind and the roar of jets in the sky. Seeing he had no choice Scorponok transformed back into beast mode and moved the cannon with the help of the White Fang members before Optimus could see them.
Optimus currently was trying to get a fix on Cheetor location and tried to contact him again. "Cheetor, Cheetor." Said Optimus only getting static in return.
Optimus was starting to get very worried at. "His signal stopped. It could be energon interference." Said Optimus but he knew better than that. "Better use scan mode."
Soon Optimus field of view changed and he started to scan everything that he saw.
"Target spotted, locking in." Said the computer in Optimus head.
"Cheetor!" Said Optimus with worry as he hurried to the location.
When Optimus got there he saw nothing at first but as he looked around he found something he wished he hadn't. Lying on the ground with a big hole in his chest was Cheetor.
"NO!" Yelled Optimus as he hurried over to his side as rushed him back to base.
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Cheetor's dream, Cybertron
In Cheetor's dream there where large weird looking buildings all over and aircraft flying everywhere. The most interesting thing was that there was a rooftop that Megatron, Terrorsaur, and Wazzpinator all on and all of them were pointing their weapons at something. It turns out it was Cheetor who was sitting on a higher roof and looking down at them while laughing.
All three of them growled at Cheetor before they started to fire at him. All their shots didn't even come close to hitting Cheetor, all the while Cheetor just sat there watching them try and failing to hit him. Soon Cheetor just flipped his gun in his hand and shot at Terrorsaur and Wazzpinator sending them flying and leaving Megatron by himself. Seeing this Megatron growled at Cheetor, but was blown forward due to an explosion from behind as he got up, he saw Cheetor was aiming at him.
"Now it's just you and me mega jerk." Said Cheetor as Megatron just screamed in frustration. Cheetor then fired causing a huge explosion and saw Megatron head flying away.
"They never learn." Said Cheetor feeling pretty good about himself, until he heard someone else.
"And when will you learn pussycat?" Said a voice causing Cheetor to jump up and look around. Soon Cheetor saw a hole in a building and looked at it. Soon Cheetor saw green glowing eyes that started to laugh at him. Cheetor then fired wildly at the eyes only for none of the shots to hit. Soon the eyes appeared again with the laugh, scaring Cheetor even more.
Soon Cheetor heard another voice. "Scorponok Terrorize!" Said Scorponok as Cheetor saw him transform, but Cheetor was frozen with fear and couldn't move. Soon Scorponok fired a missile at Cheetor who did nothing as the missile came at him.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
Cheetor then shot up screaming on the bed he was lying on and saw that he was in the surgery bay in the Axalon. He was then pushed down by Rhinox who was still fixing him. Looking around Cheetor saw that everyone, but Dinobot was in the room looking at him worried.
"There good as new." Said Rhinox as he finished his work on Cheetor.
Rattrap (in beast mode) then jumped onto Rhinox shoulder. "Yeah and twice as loud." Said Rattrap as cleaned his ear only to get a slap to the back of the head by Yang.
"Ease off Rattrap you saw the shape he was in when he got here." Defended Yang as Cheetor got up and saw a pissed of Optimus looking at him.
"Hey big bot. What happened out there?" Asked Cheetor nervously as he knew he was in trouble.
"You took a Predacon missile right in the chest place." Answered Rattrap as he ate an apple. "Guess you aren't as fast as you thought kid-oh." Insulted Rattrap causing Ruby to glare at the rat making him look away in fear at the look he got.
"At least he confirmed that the new comm. chip works." Said Ruby as she continued to glare at Rattrap.
Meanwhile Optimus wanted to get down to business. "Rhinox said you reported something about a mega cannon?" Asked Optimus wanting to learn more.
"That's right it must have blown off their ship in the crash. Scorponok and two Faunus found it, so I catted in and got the drop on them." Replied Cheetor as Ruby and Yang got curious of the Faunus Cheetor mentioned.
"Wait, what were these Faunus wearing Cheetor?" Asked Ruby hoping she was wrong with what she thought.
Cheetor thought for a moment before answering. "They had mostly black on with white vest and they wore masks that looked like Grimm." Answered Cheetor causing Ruby to frown at that, something Optimus picked up on.
"I'm guessing you know who these people are." Said Optimus wondering who they were dealing with.
"They're called the White Fang. They are a group of Faunus they want Faunus's to be treated better. But they've taken extreme measures lately to achieve it. And worse no one knows their numbers and it looks like they've team up with the Predacons." Said Yang as Optimus took everything in.
"That's just prime." Said Optimus as he shook his head before looking back to Cheetor with a frown.
Rattrap then finished his apple before looking at Cheetor. "While this is interesting, looks like you where the one that got dropped." Said Rattrap like he was rubbing it in Cheetor face. Ruby was about to do something until Yang put up a hand stopping her.
"Hey Tarantulas was there too, he got behind me and when I tried to take him out..." Said Cheetor until he was cut off.
"Scorponok capitalized on your mistake." Finished Optimus as he stared down at Cheetor.
"Yeah I guess so." Said Cheetor in defeat.
"You're lucky that the chip survived that whole disaster, with it we have an advantage over the Pred's and the White Fang. But it's only good if we can work as a team and follow orders. Not hot-dogging things like you did." Said Optimus sternly as he kept his gaze on Cheetor.
"Well I couldn't let them get away with that cannon." Defended Cheetor.
"Oh yeah you took care of that real good kiddo." Said Rattrap as he stared to laugh at Cheetor.
"Back off rat face." Said Cheetor angrily as he transformed into beast mode and got into Rattrap face. "Or I'll have a little vermin on a stick for lunch." Threatened Cheetor only to be pulled away from him and put right in front of Optimus face.
"You back off, now!" Ordered Optimus getting tired of Cheetor attitude.
"Sorry Optimus." Said Cheetor only to get cut off again.
"Sorry isn't enough. We are in a war for survival and you treat it like a game. If you had obeyed orders all this could have been avoided." Said Optimus as Cheetor head his head down in shame.
"I'm going to call Dinobot in, were going to need his knowledge of the Predacon base to do something about that mega cannon, Ruby you're with me." Said Optimus as he walked out of the room. Ruby was about to object only to see Yang telling her to go. Seeing that her sister was going to look after her friend, Ruby walked over to Cheetor and put a supportive hand on his shoulder before walking out.
"I'd better come up with a plan, if I know Optimus he'll want to move fast." Said Rhinox as he got up.
"Yeah with me in front. No thanks partner, the pussycat got us into hot oil. Let him dance into Pred HQ." Said Rattrap as he blamed Cheetor even more.
"At least I'm not afraid to do it." Said Cheetor as Yang gave him a worried look.
"You know that is why you mess up kiddo, you don't have the sense to be afraid." Said Rattrap as he pointed at Cheetor.
"Oh yeah, I'll show you what I have the sense to do motor head. You and Big bot." Said Cheetor as he then ran out of the room. Yang then went over to Rattrap and punch him, knocking him down.
Rattrap then got up and looked at Yang. "Hey what was that for!?" Asked Rattrap as Yang just looked down on him.
"Cheetor was already feeling down and with what you were saying, who knows what he'll do." Said Yang as Rhinox agreed with Yang.
"Someone should make sure he doesn't do something he'll regret latter." Said Rhinox as both him and Yang looked down at Rattrap.
Rattrap got what they were saying but didn't want to do anything like that. "Oh no I'm not going to be his babysitter." Said Rattrap as he held up his hands.
Yang then walked over to him and picked him up. "I'll go with you." Said Yang as she walked out of the room and went to the garage to grab her bike.
Rattrap gave up on trying to get out of her grasp and wanted to know something. "Why do you care so much about the pussy cat, you barely know him?" Asked Rattrap curious to what the answer was.
"Your right I don't know him that well, but he's Ruby friend and the two of them are a lot alike from what I see." Answered Yang as she put Rattrap down as he walked on his own following her.
"What do you mean they're a lot alike?" Asked Rattrap as they entered the garage.
"That's easy, they're both wanting to move and prove themselves to others. They care for their friends and will do what they care to protect them." Said Yang as she climbed onto her bike and Rattrap jumped up behind her.
"Never thought of it like that." Said Rattrap as he thought about what Yang said and how Cheetor acted.
Soon the doors where opened and Yang looked back at Rattrap. "Hang on Bumblebee is a fast bike." Warned Yang as Rattrap remembered that was the name of warrior form the Great War.
"Wait did you say bumblebee!" Said Rattrap as Yang gunned her bike out of the Axalon with Rattrap barely holding on.
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Vacou, Darksyde
Things at the Darksyde were busy with Wazzpinator, Scorponok, and some White Fang members installing the new mega cannon into its new position. Meanwhile Adam was watching from nearby as they installed the cannon. He couldn't believe that just over a month ago he and his men were living in tents in a forest, now they were in a real base and had real power. He still wasn't sure about working with that Roman Torchwick fellow, but even he had to admit he did good work. He took men that had animal traits that could be hidden or could be retracted and had them wear black suits and red sunglass. When he asked Roman about it, he said to throw off suspicion about who they really were. So far they had done three jobs and have made off with tons of dust, energon, and lien.
Adam was so in his thoughts that he failed to see Terrorsaur fly over to him. "Adam, Megatron wants to see you in the command centre now." Said Terrorsaur as Adam gave him a nod before heading over to a hover platform and turned it on. Soon the platform rose up and Adam flew it to the command centre.
When he got there he saw Megatron on his command chair and Roman on another platform. Behind Roman was a girl Adam never saw before and she was an odd site. Her hair was pink on the right side and brown of the left and her eyes matched his hair. She had on a white jacket with a pink interior, brown pants and gray boots. Under her jacket she had on a black corset that was curved in the middle. She had many necklaces on and was carrying an umbrella. All in all Adam wondered why a thief would have someone who stood out so much, but he would deal with it latter.
Adam knew something was wrong when he saw the looks on their faces. "What happened?" Asked Adam as he glared at Roman thinking it was his fault.
"Before you started blaming me for something just know that the job went off perfectly." Said Roman as the girl behind him just grinned at him.
Knowing something was up Adam looked at Megatron for answers. "Then why are we here?" Asked Adam wondering if they were wasting his time.
"It turns out we've been made." Answered Megatron causing Adam to look at him with confusion.
"What do you mean?" Said Adam not sure what he meant.
"Allow me to explain." Started Roman as Adam looked at him. "You see it happened while we were at Haven…" Trailed off Roman.
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Flashback, Mistral, 3 hours ago
Roman was standing on top of a building as he looked down at a train yard that had energon that was going to the Schnee dust lab for testing. Taking one last whiff of his cigar before stomping it out, Roman then activated his comm's.
"Terrorsaur are the sky's clear?" Asked Roman as he looked out at the train yard and waited for an answer.
Soon Terrorsaur answered him. "The sky's and the yard are both clean. Looks like your Intel was right once again." Said Terrorsaur as he flew over the yard and used his eyes to zoom in on the yard.
"Good." Said Roman as he then contacted the White Fang. "Ok the yard is clear. You know the drill, grab what you can carry and don't get too greedy." Ordered Roman as one of the White Fang called him back.
"Hey, I've got a bomb here that will blow this train sky high. Can I use it?" Asked the member as Roman massaged his temples.
"If you blow up the train people will know we are here. Which defeats the purpose of all this sneaking around." Answered Roman as the member said something else.
"It has a timer. We can set it and then make a break for it." Said the member hoping he would say yes.
Roman just sighed and knew he wasn't about to give up on the matter. "Fine set it for 30 minutes after we leave." Said Roman as he turned off his comm's. "Fifthly animals." He said as he grabbed another cigar.
"Problems Roman?" Said Someone behind Roman causing him to turn around and point his cane at where the voice came from. Standing half way in the shadows was a woman wearing a red dress, but the shadows covered her face.
"Sorry, but what do you mean?" Said Roman playing it cool, only for the woman to laugh at him.
"I'm sure your Faunus lackeys down there are the source of your headache or maybe it's the fact you now work for machines." Said the woman as she tossed Roman a picture. Looking at the picture Roman saw it was him, Adam, and Megatron the day they all meet.
"Nice Photoshop job. I really like the robot." Lied Roman as he was sweating a little.
"Don't lie to me Roman if you don't want these pictures all over the place, you'll meet me with Adam at this address at the specified time." Said the Woman as she walked into the shadows tossing a piece of paper at him.
Knowing this, Roman needed to talk to Megatron Roman turned his comm's back on. "Terrorsaur we're heading back to base, gather the men." Said Roman as he looked at the picture again and then the piece of paper.
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Present, Vacou, Darksyde
"So that what happened." Finished Roman as Megatron had the picture in his hand before he crushed it.
"If this organic thinks it can bribe or black mail me it has another thing coming." Roared Megatron causing the others to move their platforms back in fear.
Adam was the first to recover as he got closer to Megatron. "Then what do we do?" Asked Adam as Megatron scratched his chin, before smiling and pressing a button on his chair.
"Scorponok report to the command centre at once." Said Megatron as they waited for Scorponok to arrive.
After a minute of waiting Scorponok arrived. "You wanted to see me lord Megaton." Said Scorponok thinking he was going to get promoted.
"Yeess, I have a task for you." Said Megatron as his voice lowered as he told Scorponok what to do. By the end everyone was smiling at his plan.
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Vale, Patch, Cheetor's location
After leaving the Axalon like he did Cheetor just kept running and running until he stopped near some rocks in an isolated area. Finally, Cheetor just stopped and thought about what happened.
'I know I goofed with the cannon, but big bot didn't need to react that way.' Thought Cheetor as he walked around the area.
'But I got lucky. If he didn't show up when he did in might not be processing right now. If only I acted differently none of this would have never had happened.' Thought Cheetor as he failed to hear one of the rocks behind him move.
'I should go back and apologies to Optimus.' Thought Cheetor as he was going to go back only for something to hook his back leg and pull him back. The last thing Cheetor heard was the crackling of a spider that he was starting to hate.
When Cheetor came to he saw that he was in some sort of cave and attached to a giant spider web. Soon laughter caught his attention and looking down Cheetor saw Tarantulas in beast mode standing next to some sort of control system.
"Welcome." Said Tarantulas in an ominous way.
"Oh brother, you need a maintenance bot badly." Said Cheetor as Tarantulas just laughed and pushed a button on the console next to him. The next thing Cheetor knew he was in pain like something was draining the energy… no the life out of him.
"You're in a statis web." Explained Tarantulas as Cheetor moved in pain as Tarantulas continued. "It drains away the energy but leaves the flesh alive. At its current setting it will only a few moments." Said Tarantulas as he laughed and Cheetor looked on in fear.
But then Tarantulas turned the machine down. "But I find a slower pace makes the vitals fluids taste so much better." Said Tarantulas as he rubbed his fangs together in joy and hunger as Cheetor regained a little strength.
"Wow your one space happy spider." Said Cheetor between breaths. Soon Tarantulas walked toward Cheetor and climbed up the web till he was face to face with Cheetor.
Meanwhile Cheetor tried to transform to get away, only for it to fail. "I'm afraid the web makes that impossible. Cat you are and cat you stay. And when your energy gone, I feast." Said Tarantulas as he started to laugh at Cheetor situation, while Cheetor could only look on in fear.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
Meanwhile back at the Axalon Optimus, Rhinox, Dinobot, and Ruby were standing around the conference table with a projection of the Darksyde on. Currently they were planning on a way to attack the Predacon base and take out the mega cannon, but so far they were having no success in coming up with a plan.
"Frontal assault now! Before Megatron has a chance to us the cannon against us." Suggested Dinobot, but was more like an order.
"Impossible the modifications would be too extensive. He's more likely to implicate as a defensive weapon. The question is where?" Countered Optimus as Ruby gave her opinion on the situation.
"But the White Fang are the wild card here, we don't know how many of them are there. We could be outnumbered five to one." Said Ruby causing both to stop and think about it.
"Your right we can't rush in there blind, but we must do something about that cannon." Said Optimus as Dinobot thought about it a little longer.
"Then perhaps we should send in a scout and check out the area." Suggested Dinobot surprising Ruby with that idea.
"I thought that you would say something like 'we must attack now while their guard is down' or something like that." Said Ruby with a Dinobot type voice gaining chuckles from both Optimus and Rhinox.
Dinobot just shook his head at Ruby's actions. "While I do enjoy a good battle, even I wouldn't rush into such a situation without intel on the enemy." Explained Dinobot as Ruby agreed with his reasoning.
"Agreed then. While we make a plan, we will send in a scout to do recon." Said Optimus as he looked around the room for someone. "Where are Rattrap and Yang, I need them to scout?" Said Optimus as his anger was starting to return.
Rhinox knowing what they were doing, knew he had to cover for them. "I believe Yang took Rattrap out for a ride of her bike." Said Rhinox telling Optimus half the truth.
"Yang does love showing off Bumblebee." Said Ruby agreeing with what Rhinox said as Dinobot looked at Ruby with surprise.
"Did you say your sister named something Bumblebee?" Asked Dinobot with a little bit of shock.
Not knowing the importance of it Ruby answered him. "Yeah, why is it important or something?" Asked Ruby not sure why Dinobot was interested in Yang's bike.
"No, it's just that, that's the name of one of the legendary Autobots from the Great War." Explained Dinobot, but before he could go any farther with it Optimus cough brought them both back to the reason they were there.
"We can talk about this later, but right now we need to focus of the task at hand." Said Optimus as they went back to examining map.
Optimus looked over to Rhinox. "Rhinox call them in, we need some Intel for a proper attack." Ordered Optimus causing Rhino to think up a lie to cover for them.
"Um, the comm. might not get through with the energon fields and I only had time to make one chip so far." Said Rhinox hoping they would buy it. Ruby agreed with Rhinox until she remembered that both she and Yang gave the Maximals their scroll numbers so they could contact them if they needed to.
Ruby looked at Rhinox and wondered what was going on. 'Rhinox why are you lying to Optimus and for what reason?' Thought Ruby but her thoughts were interrupted by Dinobot.
"We have wasted too much time talking. Since scouting is out of the option then we must act." Said Dinobot as he slammed his fist on the table.
"Rushing in head strong won't help." Said Optimus as he and Dinobot started to argue on what to do, again.
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Vale, Patch, Rattrap's and Yang's location
While the others were planning a plan of attack Rattrap and Yang drove through Patch trying to find were Cheetor went off to. They've been driving for a while now and still hadn't found a hair of Cheetor yet. Soon they came to a rock formation and decided to stop there and stretch their legs.
"I can't believe that I'm out her looking for some kid." Whined Rattrap as he hopped off Yang's bike.
Yang then got off her bike and gave Rattrap a look. "We wouldn't be doing this if you knew how to keep your mouth shut." Countered Yang as she stretched her legs.
"Oh yeah let's all blame the rat." Said Rattrap as he started to grumble before he stopped and smelled the air.
"What are you doing?" Asked Yang as she watched him move around smelling the air.
"I can smell the pussycat. He was here." Said Rattrap as he continued to smell around.
Soon he came to a rock and started to push it a little, moving it a bit. "Something not right here." Said Rattrap as he moved the rock a bit more.
Seeing this Yang moved over to Rattrap and stood beside him. "Here let me." She said as she punched the rock away surprising Rattrap.
Seeing his shocked face Yang only shrugged. "Ruby got the speed, but I've got the muscle." Said Yang as they both looked to see a hole. They both looked at each other and then went down the hole.
Meanwhile things weren't going good for Cheetor as his energy levels were dangerously low and it didn't help that Tarantulas was just standing there watching him.
"Not long now." Said Tarantulas with joy in his voice as he laughed.
"This is a dumb plan web face, I don't have any real blood just mech fluid." Said Cheetor hoping that would change the spiders mind.
Unfortunately it didn't. "Oh my filters will adjust. It is the act I enjoy more than the nourishment." Said Tarantulas freaking Cheetor out and scaring him.
Luckily for Cheetor help had arrived. "You know your one sick bug eight eyes." Said Rattrap causing the two to look over and see Rattrap and Yang.
"Let Cheetor go and we won't hurt you too badly." Said Yang as she activated Ember Celia.
Tarantulas jumped around and looked at his intruders." The rat and another human!" Said Tarantulas in surprise before he laughed a little.
"I was hoping for the red caped girl, but I suppose you'll have do." Said Tarantulas causing Yang eyes to turn red as her hair started to smoke at that.
Tarantulas didn't see this and kept on going. "After all, if I could grab her maybe I could find out more about your auras and semblances. She might not make it, but for the sake of science so be it." Said Tarantulas as Yang had heard enough causing her hair to ignite causing both Tarantulas and Rattrap to jump back in surprise.
"Stay away from my baby sister." Said Yang as she fired at Tarantulas sending him into a pillar near the web.
Rattrap meanwhile looked at Yang with worry. "What the!? What did you just do?" Asked Rattrap as he looked at Yang.
"I'll explain latter." Said Yang as she got Ember Cecilia ready for a fight.
Tarantulas got up and wasn't pleased at all. "Why you! Frist you interrupt my feast, now you've shot at me. Tarantulas Terrorize!" Cried Tarantulas as he transformed and shot at Yang with his machine gun legs. Yang jumped out of the way and hid behind some of the nearby rocks.
Rattrap knew it was time to get involved when he saw this. "Rattrap Maximize!" Said Rattrap as he transformed as brought out his gun and fired at Tarantulas. The shot distracted him giving Yang and Rattrap a chance to regroup and find a better place to fight him so they could avoid hitting Cheetor in the cross fire.
Seeing the two of them move away, Tarantulas knew they wanted to move away from their comrade and keep him safe. Tarantulas then went over to the machine and turned the setting up, causing Cheetor pain to worsen.
Tarantulas then started to walk away from his trapped prey. "Thermal scan." Said Tarantulas as a visor went over his eyes, allowing him to see heat signatures.
Meanwhile Yang and Rattrap moved farther into the cave. Yang was about to say something to Rattrap but Rattrap cover her mouth and put a finger to his mouth. Yang then got what he was saying and kept quiet. Just then a shot landed near them making them landed on their backs. Rattrap then quickly put his gun away and grabbed Yang and pulled her away. Once they were far enough away Rattrap opened up his under arm and pulled something out. Yang looked on in wonder as Rattrap placed the object behind them and turned it on.
Meanwhile Tarantulas was slowly walking around trying to find his prey, soon his thermal scan picked up a large heat source. Slowly moving towards it he reloaded his gun and hid behind a pillar before he jumped out and saw the object that Rattrap left on the rock. Tarantulas then turned off his thermal scan to take a better look at it.
Little did he know that both Rattrap and Yang were behind him until he heard their guns. "Fell for the old hot box." Said Rattrap as Yang just grinned for him.
"Guess you're not doing so hot right now." Quipped Yang making both Tarantulas and Rattrap look at her in disbelief at the bad joke.
Yang was the first one to act and shot at Tarantulas's arm holding the gun making him shot upwards, while Rattrap shot at his right leg taking it off. Luckily for them the ceiling started to fall on top of Tarantulas because of he shot he fired.
While Tarantulas was being buried, Yang and Rattrap rushed over to where Cheetor was. "Hang on kid-o." Said Rattrap as he started to push buttons on the machine hoping to turn it off.
"UNABLE TO RESPOND, INCORRECT ENERGY SIGNATURE." Said the machine making Rattrap angry, but then Yang pushed him to the side.
"What we need here is a female touch here." Said Yang as she pulled her fist back and fired at the machine destroying it as fell over. Rattrap just shook his head at what he just saw, as he was going to do that.
Both of them then rushed over to Cheetor as Rattrap pulled out a knife and cut him free of the web. Cheetor then fell, but Rattrap caught him.
"Hey rat face what the good word?" Asked Cheetor weakly showing he was ok but just weak. Soon both were walking away only to be stopped by Tarantulas.
"Game over vermin and pest." Said Tarantulas as he stood on one leg as he aimed his gun at them. "Give my rearguards to the inferno." As he fired at them.
The two of them were able to jump out of the way causing the shot to miss and hit the web. The result caused the web to explode and caused the cave to fall apart on top of them. Tarantulas cried out in frustration while Yang, Rattrap and Cheetor made their way out of the cave as fast as they could. Unfortunately for Tarantulas this time he really was buried under all the falling rock this time.
By the time the Maximals made it out of the cave the shaking stopped, and Tarantulas was able to free himself from the rocks a little. "I hate that rat and human." Said Tarantulas as a rock fell on his head.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
By the time the three of them made it back to base Cheetor regained enough strength to move around on him own. They then made their way over to where the others were still having their meeting. Ruby was the first to see that they were back.
"Yang where were you?" Asked Ruby as the other looked their way.
"Oh, you know just driving around with Rattrap." Answered Yang as Cheetor stepped forward.
"Big bot I just want to say I'm sorry. I've should have listened to you from the start. I just wanted you to know that I could handle myself out there." Said Cheetor as Optimus looked at him for a minute, before he said something.
"The reason I held you back is because I worry about you then most. I couldn't live with myself if you or even Ruby got hurt. But I guess I need to let you grow at your own pace as well. I'm sorry as well." Said Optimus as Cheetor got a huge smile on his face.
"Any way we have a plan to take out the mega cannon, come here." Said Optimus as the other joined them at the table.
"So, what's the plan?" Asked Rattrap as Optimus nodded to Rhinox to explain.
"It quite simple really we have Optimus with Ruby in the air with Ruby being our eyes since she has a sniper in Crescent Rose. When the two find out where the cannon is the rest of us will attack the base from the other side. While their forces are focus on the other side Optimus and Ruby will head over to the cannon and attach explosives to it and detonate them destroying the mega cannon. Then we fall back and head back to base." Explained Rhinox as the others followed along.
"So, when do we go?" Asked Yang wanting to see some more action.
"Right now, so gather what gear you might need." Answered Optimus as they headed for the ground bridge.
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Mistral, Abandoned warehouse
Meanwhile at the same time both Roman and Adam were waiting for the mysterious woman to show up. If Megatron plan worked then they would get answers on what this person wanted and if it didn't… well then, they would have an interesting show. But right now the two were just standing around waiting, both would look to see what the other was doing but that was it.
Finally Roman broke the ice between them. "So, see last night girfball game?" Asked Roman tired of the silence.
"Yeah, that green team needs to learn how to play." Said Adam as Roman waved his hands in the air.
"Finally, someone who agrees with me. Everyone else say they're just waiting for the right time to show their skills." Said Roman as Adam just smirked at that.
"Yeah they're waiting, waiting to score on themselves." Joked Adam causing the two of them to laugh at the joke. But they couldn't continue due to a red seal that appeared under them. The two weren't sure what it was until he ground under them exploded sending them flying.
Stepping out of the shadows was the woman from earlier but now her face was in the light, showing her gold eyes and long black hair. Adam and Roman both got up and glared at her.
"You know how hard it is to clean these suits?" Said Roman as he still dusted himself off.
Adam put a hand on his blade as her recognised the woman. "It's you." Said Adam causing Roman to look at him.
"You know this crazy lady?" Asked Roman as Adam never took her eyes off her.
"Not really, she came to our camp before our associate did, wanting the White Fang help. But she seems different now." Said Adam as he watched her, as she had this weird air around her.
"That's true I'm stronger now." Said the woman as she held out her palm and a flame appeared. "Now then onto business."
"And that would be?" Asked Roman curious as to what she wanted.
"Originally I wanted you two to… assist me in my plans. But now I want those robots as well." Said the woman as Roman just laughed at that.
"Why should we work for you? We already have a boss and he's offering us a lot." Asked Roman as the woman waved her hand causing two people to appear out of nowhere behind the two.
The first one was a thin woman with brown skin and dark red eyes and she had mint green hair. She was wearing white pants with brown chaps that end at her chaps and an overlong belt that was twice wrapped. She also had a green tube top and is inside a white top. On her hand are green glove at only cover the middle section of her hands. On her back were to guns that had blades attach near the top.
The other was a man with silver hair and eyes. He had on a gray and black jacket and black pants. His arms were cover in reembraces and vambraces that allow his arms to bend freely. On his waist was sash or a bandana with a symbol on it.
"Gentleman meet my associates." Said the woman hoping that they would be surprised at their appearance, but was she was surprised that they were calm about them.
Roman looked over to Adam with a smirk on his face. "Do you want to do the honors?" Asked Roman as Adam just smirked at him and pulled out a detonator switch. The other though he was going to blow them all up, but when he pressed it a green vortex appeared surprising them.
The next thing they knew they were surrounded but White Fang and two of the Predacons. The woman was about to attack them to show her power but stopped when she felt something attach itself to her neck. Looking down the woman saw a metal collar around her neck surprising her and her associates. Soon they heard someone laughing and then out of nowhere Megatron and Roman's partner appeared out of thin air.
"Foolish girl did you really think you could control me!" Said Megatron as the woman was about to attack him only to get shocked before she could do anything as she fell to her knee's. The other girl rushed to her side to make sure she was ok.
"What have you done?" Said the woman as he tried to regain herself.
"Nothing really just attached a bomb to your neck is all." Said Megatron as he acted like it was nothing at all. "Now you work for me! And don't think about trying to take off the collar or something silly like that or else you'll lose you head, and I don't think humans can function without a head like we can." Smirked Megatron as the woman looked at him with fear and anger mixed into one.
"What do you want?" Asked the woman knowing she had to plan her cards right and that meant working for this guy for the time being. But when she had a chance, they would pay dearly for this.
"Your servitude that also means your allies as well or would you rather have your head blown off?" Smirked Megatron knowing she had no choice but too.
The woman glared at him knowing she had to or else. "Very well." Was all she said as she got up causing her allies to look at her in surprise.
"What is your name?" Ordered Megatron liking how she knew her place.
"It's Cinder Fall, this is Mercy Black and Emerald Sustrai." Said Cinder as she pointed to her allies.
Megatron then looked over at Roman. "Roman since they are human, they shall be under your command. Consider it a present snice you have yet to fail me." Said Megatron causing the three of them to glare at Megatron while Roman smiled.
"Does that mean I can blow off her head if I want to?" Asked Roman making Adam smile at the thought.
"But of course." Answered Megatron with a smile of his own, but it was short lived with his comm. went off.
"Megatron here." Answered Megatron wondering why he was being contacted. Soon Scorponok voice came though the comm.
"Um, lord Megatron we had a problem." Said Scorponok with fear in his voice.
Megatron picked up on the fear and knew something went wrong. "What is it?!" Demanded Megatron waiting for the answer.
"Um, the Maximals just attacked us and destroyed the mega cannon." Answered Scorponok causing Megatron the grind his teeth in anger. Meanwhile Cinder and her crew wondered who these Maximals were and if they could be useful to them.
"Why didn't you stop them?!" Said Megatron as he thought about killing Scorponok for losing the mega cannon.
"You took a lot of our forces with you and they came with a very good plan of attack." Answered Scorponok hoping that it would keep him online for a while longer. Megatron then looked at the forces he had with him two Predacons and 27 White Fang members, he should had known better then take so many with him, but he wasn't about say it out loud.
"Everyone back to base. Scorponok I will deal with you later also where is Tarantulas." Said Megatron as the ground bridge activated in front of them as the White Fang walked through it.
"I don't know he hasn't been at the base for a while now." Answered Scorponok as Megatron rubbed his eye in frustration. Meanwhile Cinder was smiling at the sight before her but couldn't enjoy it because something hit her butt hard. Turning around she saw Roman swinging his cane with Adam and a girl with multi-colored hair near him.
"Let's go. We have work to do and you're now going to help me, isn't that right Neo." Said Roman as he looked at the girl with the multi-colored hair as she nodded. Meanwhile Adam just smiled as he turned around with Roman and Neo as they went through the bridge.
"What do we do now Cinder?" Asked Emerald only for Megatron to answer her.
"You now work for me and if you do a good job, I won't put a collar on either of you." Said Megatron as he then grabbed Cinder head with his t-rex head. "And if you try anything, I will end you that is something you can count on." Said Megatron as he tossed her through the portal. Emerald and Mercury glared at him for a second before rushing after her leaving Megatron alone.
"Things are moving very interesting right now." Said Megatron as he slowly headed for the portal while he continued to talk to himself. "With more of these humans on our side the Maximals and their allies won't know what hit them. But one must never get to over confident or it will be your own undoing. These are just the opening acts right now, future battle will prove to be most interesting." Finished Megatron as he walked into the portal leaving no one in the warehouse.
I hope everyone enjoyed the bomb I put around Cinder's neck. After what she did in volume three I felt it was fitting that something like this would happen to her. But I don't think that Pyrrha is died. I have a feeling in volume four she'll reappear but as a puppet for Cinder or something like that. Anyway I have some idea what roman will have Cinder do and I think others may like it. And as for Ruby's eye power I might bring it in, but I need to find out more about them before I do it.
Well until next time.