The Dinobots watched as Grimlock walked up to the ship and entered it and the others stayed outside concerned for Grimlock "should someone go talk to him?"Slam asked looking between the group for volunteers "I will."Sludge said as he began to approach the ship Slash looked towards the direction in which Abominus threw Paddles,she refused to believe Paddles is dead, not without seeing his body first.

Slash pressed a finger to her com link "Paddles, Paddles can you hear me?"Slash asked hoping Paddles would respond but all she heard was static, Slash began to walk away from the group "Where are you going?"Slug asked "I'm looking for Paddles, he's still online I know he is."Slash said with determination as she transformed into Velociraptor mode and then she ran off in the field. The Dinobots stood there for a moment before Snarl began to follow her transforming into Stegosaurus mode and ran after her, "ok so now what do we do?"Swoop asked curiously "well we need to figure out how we are going to beat Hun-Grrr and his team."Scorn said "let's strategize."Slug said as they stood in a circle and began talking.

Sludge entered the ship and then he entered the bridge of the ship and saw Grimlock sitting slumped in a chair facing the broken windshield Scorn took a seat next to him,both of them sat in silence for a few moments until Grimlock spoke "we almost had him."Grimlock said with distress making Sludge look at him "we were this close to ending him and then...why...why is it that every time we corner Shockwave something happens that delays us and we go back to square one?!"Grimlock asked frustrated.

Sludge didn't exactly have an answer to that question "I'm sick of it I'm sick of all of it,why can't things go our way for once!"Grimlock exclaimed stomping the ground causing the ship to shake a little. "Grimlock I know we have a minor setback..."Sludge Grimlock glared at him "Minor... Minor?!!!"Grimlock said in rising outrage "it's major Sludge, we now have 10 enemies to combat plus a combiner is thrown in the mix!"

"We faced combiners before Grimlock and we always came out on top,sure this is a curve ball with a team of Predacons doing this,but we can beat them I know we can."Sludge said Grimlock didn't say anything he just stared at him before looking away. Then Sludge stood up and looked his leader dead in his red eyes "Grimlock I know you're frustrated right now but the team needs you, the team needs your leadership right now,Slash and Snarl have gone to look for Paddles,pray to Primus he's still online and the others are coming up with a new plan on how to deal with the Predacons,they could use your input."

Grimlock glanced at Sludge after hearing that then he proceeded to walk out of the bridge with Sludge following him.

Meanwhile in the Ocean

Slowly sinking in the blue ocean water was Paddles his eyes were black as the impact of crashing into the water knocked him unconscious, Paddles sank lower and lower until he reached the ocean floor,his metallic body gently touched down on the Marine sediment, and then after a few seconds his eyes slowly turned red and he moved his head from side to side looking around at the environment.

He then sat up and shook his head as everything came back to him, Abominus tossed him like a football into the ocean, that was when he remembered his teammates were still there with Abominus, Paddles didn't know what's become of them now, could Abominus have killed them, captured them or they have escaped. Right now all Paddles knew that he had to get back to them immediately Paddles looked up at the surface of the water and saw the sun shining through the water.

Paddles saw that the surface was a little far away, but Paddles wasn't going to let that stop him so he got up and then he was about to attempt to jump back to the surface until his attention was brought to a school of fish swimming 20 yards away from him, then he felt something pass him and saw a massive creature with a broad body,four flippers and a long neck, Paddles watched as the creature swam towards the fish before catching some of them in it's jaws causing the fishes to scram.

Paddles studied the mysterious creature and saw that it looked similar to his dino mode Shockwave gave him and everything started to click with him as he remembered the tank he was placed in and how easily he moved in the liquid and saw that this environment was the same thing. Paddles saw how the others Dino mode fared on dryland and thought his dino mode could be devastating too but now he sees that's not the case, Paddles mentally slapped himself for being so stupid and not seeing it before.

Paddles was a soldier who specialized in underwater combat and he's good at it but he's proficient in dryland combat as well and he's spent 90% of the war in dryland and nearly forgotten about his underwater combat prowess but it seems that Shockwave hasn't forgotten that's why he picked that form for him. Paddles began to question why he agreed to be an undersea specialist in the first place as not much combat happens underwater anyway,he figured he had a lot of stupid decisions in life and decided to stop.

Paddles transformed into Elasmosaurus mode and then he began to move gracefully through the water,it was as easy as walking or running, Paddles looked down below and saw a reef filled with fish as well as a Nothosaurus hunting below him, Paddles then swam over to a large rock formation that had a hole in it big enough to fit him so he swam through it and he past a Ichthyosaurus and began swimming a lot faster the water rushed past his vision as he continued swimming.

Paddles had to admit to himself that this felt freeing, to be able to stretch his sea legs in wide open water like this,it felt like he was flying in the water, Paddles saw that he still had his sonar something he had in his old alt mode. Just to see what's down here in these waters Paddles set out a pulse that traveled forward into the wild blue yonder, Paddles then froze as he got something back an object over half a mile away.

Paddles didn't get it to full detail but he knew that whatever it was it was massive, Paddles considered checking it out further but decided that he wasted enough time playing around in the water. So he quickly swam up towards the surface and broke the water exposing himself to the fresh air and blue skies and sun, Paddles saw that he wasn't that far away from the shore which was 100 yards away so wasting no more time Paddles made a dash towards shore.

Meanwhile with Shockwave

Shockwave and Hun-Grrr were inside the ship having a bit of small talk so to speak "Abominus,not exactly the kind of name I would have chosen for a combiner."Shockwave commented referring to their combiner form "It just meant big and monstrous, perfect for striking fear into the sparks of Autobot forces."Hun-Grrr said with evil glee.

Shockwave found himself unable to argue with that logic but with the mention of Autobot forces reminded him of the task Megatron sent them to do "So what happened to the autobot forces stationed here,needless to say you killed them all,right?"Shockwave asked Hun-Grrr frowned a little bit "all but one,he's been a real pain to us for years worse yet a Predacon that was on my team defected and joined him,kept him safe...from us."Hun-Grrr growled in growing fury Shockwave found this a surprise and slightly disappointing, as their mission was not yet complete as there was a single autobot left standing.

More so of the fact that one of his Predacons he created to be the ultimate asset of the Decepticons, ruthless and hungry for autobot sparks had switched sides and joined up with the Autobots. However Shockwave didn't consider this a complete loss as Shockwave was sure they were able to acquire the most important thing What about the energon they were guarding you have it yes?"Shockwave asked.

"Only half,the traitor and the autobot took some of it with them."Hun-Grrr said with visible anger in his voice although his face isn't going to show Shockwave was getting more and more irritated with the so called Predacon traitor and the autobot every passing second and he realized that they were going to be a thorn in his side as well possibly more than the Dinobots. Shockwave knew he had to deal with the traitor and the autobot soon but one problem at a time, Shockwave stared at Hun-Grrr intensely with his one red eye glowing "Can you show me where you stashed the energon?"