Chapter 26

A plot uncovered

Once teletran one had finished Processing Both the Avengers and Autobots rallied next to teletran 1. A display appearedon teletran 1's screen showing the exact position of the Decepticon compound.

Both the Avengers and Autobots looked on with all As they gazed upon the most heavily defended Decepticon structure On the planet. "Sweet Primus, that thing's more fortified than Kaon!" Jazz said.

"And I have a feeling it'll take a lot more than just a painted job to get in there." Tony said, still in awe of the fortifications. The walls were taller than Avengers Towerand as thick as it as well. On the walls overlooking the main gates were two massive guns that looked like They could destroy both The Avengers and the Autobots in a single shot. With guards patrolling on every angle it would be impossible to get in there quietly.

Bumblebee beeped a couple of times and updraft said, "He's right If that place is producing the tox-en, Then the amount in there will kill us instantly."

The Autobots processed this for a moment while Ratchet scanned the The compound, "Strange."

"What is it Ratchet?" Vision asked as he Floated up Next to ratchet.

"I'm not detecting any tox-en within a 5-mile radius." Ratchet explained.

"But if that place was really producing the tox-en The entire area would be toxic," Arcee Said, looking on with disbelief.

Optimus kept a completely stoic face as he asked " Is there anything else Ratchet?"

Ratchet conducted a more Thorough scan and then said "I'm now detecting a large energy signature," Ratchet looked back at everyone and said "A space Bridge."

Tony put his hand to his chin and said "A space Bridge would make sense,It would explain why there is no Tox-en In the place where it produces the stuff. The Question is where did they transport it to?"

"We will find that When we have captured The Foundry," Optimus spoke up. Everybody turned to face Optimus as he laid out the battle plan, "The Avengers Will head towards The space Bridge, You must recover the logs and then destroy it,"

Tony stepped forward and said "You can count on Us Optimus."

Optimus continued to speak, "The Autobots Will draw the Decepticons' attention away from the Space Bridge, Once the Space Bridge is destroyed the Avengers will regroup with the Autobots and together we will destroy The Foundry."

Once The Avengers got their suits on They stood in front of the ground Bridge Side by side with the Autobots Autobots Avengers roll out!" Optimus said as Ratchet activated the ground bridge and everyone ran through.

As soon as they exited the ground Bridge they came under immediate fire From the Decepticons. Everyone found cover while Optimus Swang the Star saber creating a large Arc of energy That Took out a large amount of vehicons, The Autobots took out their blasters started to return fire, Arcee fired off a shot And a Vehicon's Head exploded But she was forced to talk down behind cover as a three more shots nearly tore her to pieces, "There's too much fire!" Arcee shouted over the noise.

An Explosion Rock to the ground exposing The Avengers, "What the hell was that!" Tony Shouted as The Avengers scattered for cover.

"Up there!" Arcee shouted, as she pointed up at a gun that had Swiveled around to face them.

"Another one over there!" Clint shouted pointing at another gun That had also swiveled around to aim at them.

"We won't last long with those guns operational!" Ironhide shouted Barely ducking under a blast Before returning fire.

"Jazz, Updraft, Get up there and shut those guns down! we'll cover you!" Optimus ordered.

"You can count on us Prime," Just said before turning to Updraft, and Challenged him "Race to the top!"

"Oh you're on!" Updraft accepted. before laughing and Transforming Before flying up.

"Hey no Fair!" Jazz shouted after him as he shot his Grappling hook at the top of the wall He pulled himself on top of the wall, and kicked a Vehicon Off the wall.

Updraft shot a vehicon that was behind Jazz and quipped "What took you so long?"

"Hey, You're the one with the Aerial vehicle mode!" Jazz retorted as he Dodged under a vehicon's blast, grabbed the con's rifle, Pointed it upwards and shot him in the stomach a few times before Shooting him in the head. "You take care of one gun, I'll take care of the other." Jazz Ordered.

"On it." Updraft said before both Autobots rushed off in the opposite direction.

Jazz blasted one con and used him as a shield To protect him from more fire. He waited for the cons to let up before he popped out And instantly shot two, he rolled Under two more blasts and fired away, killing two, And knocking the Blasters out of two of the cons hands, the two looked at each other Before they both rushed Jazz. Jazz guned down The one in front And Dodged a punch from the second one, Just turned his hand into a Blade and stabbed it through the arm Of the second one, Before shooting him In the head.

Three more vehicons appeared behind him. He swung around and used the vehicon's body as a shield Before strapping a detonator On to the corpse and Throwing it at the three vehicons Destroying them in a fiery explosion. Jazz Jumped through the explosion And landed on a vehicon, he shot two more Before Shooting the one he had landed on in the head.

Jazz Could see the gun now, It was still firing down on his allies. And he had an idea instead of destroying it he was going to Commandeer it Unfortunately he still had to fight his way to it And there were about 20 cons Standing in his way, Jazz When do the why he wasn't currently being overwhelmed with numbers, He guessed there were two reasons: one These were all the cons on the walls plus the two Manning the guns Which heavily doubted or two: Optimus and the Avengers were doing some damn good cover fire. But right now it did not matter. He had to fight.

Jazz Stood up up facing the vehicons And asked the vehicons "So do we have to do this cuz I won't stop you from walking away?" In return he got no response "Okay let's dance!"

Jazz fired at two killing them, In response all the other Vehicons opened fire, Jazz returned fire, Downing one and hitting another in the knee, But before he could fire anymore his Blaster was shot out of his hand. He used his grapple to bring One towards him. Jazz Grabbed the vehicon by the arm and twisted it around while also grabbing the cons rifle. He as a shield as He felt Two Shots impact the con So he tossed the con away and fired twice killing two, Before firing a third into The con he threw aways head, Jazz Ran forward and grabbed a con's Blaster forcing him to shoot another vehicon Before he shot the con in the head, The con he shot in the knee made a desperate grab for a rifle and shot jazz in the back, he Screamed as he Fell to his knees and shot the con in the head. Jazz tried to get to his feet As another con charged him, Jazz Swept legs Out from under him and elbowed him in the face as he fell before he shot him.

10 Left. Jazz Forced himself to his feet as he shot Another con. 9. Jazz Ducked under a blast as he Returned fire killing two.7. A vehicle and went to throw a grenade but Jazz managed to shoot it in his hand killing three.4. Jazz Shot three dead.1. The vehicon in a panic rushed Jazz but Jazz managed to muster enough strength to tackle the con to the Ground, Jazz somehow managed to pick the con up over his head and throw him off the wall. 0.

Just wanted nothing more but to lie down and fall asleep, But he knew if he did that he'd die and he had a mission to complete. He managed to limp his way over to the gun, Open the door and shoot The Gunner dead.

Jazz Tossed Gunner from the seat as he got in. Jazz So long the gun around it to face the gun off draft was supposed to have dealt with to see it was still operational so he fired, And the gun exploded in a fiery explosion. "Jazz you piloting that thing?" Primes' voice came through the comms.

"Yeah Prime That's me." Jazz Spoke through the pain.

"Jazz What happened?" Optimus asked as he pulled the star saber out of a vehicon.

"A con Got off a lucky shot,got me in the back, Nothing I can't handle." Optimus wanted to call in a grand bridge to get him off the playing field but Jazz was a tough bot it would take a lot more than a single shot to take him down Plus if Optimus did call in the ground Bridge Jazz wasn't going to go in it unless they had finished the mission or he was dead.

"Understood we're About to go in. Use the gun to cover us." Optimus said as he watched the gun Jazz was in a swivel 180 and started facing the facility.

Optimus looked Around at everyone as he swung the Star Saber Creating an arc of energy that When it impacted the wall cost a mass of explosion causing a good fourth of the wall to come down and Everybody charged in.

Optimus Swung the Star Saber Cleaving for several vehicons. He then stabbed a vehicon through the chest Before spending around and slicing Another one in two. Optimus used the cosmic Shield to block several blasts. That was when he noticed a Piece of the wall was barely standing so he swung the star saber at it sending an arc of energy Bringing that piece of the wall down crushing Several vehicons.

Bumblebee blocked a punch and retaliated with a kick To the knee, before shooting the vehicon, Bumblebee spun around and dodging two blasts before Shooting and killing two more, Bumblebee turned around as a vehicon and grabbed his gun and tore it away from him, So Bumblebee Turned his hand into a blade and stabbed it into the vehicon's knee Another Vehicon ran up attempting to catch Bumblebee off guard, Instead Bumblebee elbowed him in the face arm stabbed him in the arm Has the same blade he had used to stab with the other vehicon. Bumblebee pulled the blade down severing the arm Before slashing at the one behind him slicing him in two, Before spinning around again And stabbing the vehicon through the head.

Ironhide pulled out his minigun And began firing at any and every Decepticon in sight. Three Vehicon stupidly rushed him, Ironhide quickly fired upon them the first one losing an arm and a leg before finally his head exploded, the second one quickly Had a several holes put through his chest and his left arm shot off before he finally fell down dead, The third one tried to turn and run but His legs were shot off before he's spark chamber was replaced with a hole. A shot hit Ironhide in the back So he quickly turned around and shredded the Decepticon who shot him. He guned several more Before he was finally out of ammo, Behind him several more vehicons charged him, so He quickly spun around and tossed his minigun At them pinning two to the ground. He then pulled out his shotgun And blasted a Decepticon who got too close, he racked the shotgun Before blasting another one.

Arcee pulled the trigger again and again, With each shot a con fell. Behind her a con got close so she activated her arm blades and Spun around before Cutting clean through the con's throat. She Drew her pistol and shot A con that ran towards her The body fell limp onto Arcee so She rolled backwards and kicked the body into three more.

Updraft flew above alongside Iron Man Taking down Seekers with ease, Updraft Got behind one Seeker and peppered the con destroying its engines and causing it to fall to the ground, a shot Flew right to buy updraft. So he went into a steep nose dive with the con following close behind Have a right before he hit the ground updraft pulled it directly up the con crashed face first into the ground in a Fiery explosion, Tony Flew up and over a vehicon blasting it with his repulsors. A blast flew right over Tony's head and when he looked back he saw two Vehicons close on his tail So he cut power to the thrusters And watched as the two vehicons flew right past him Tony reactivated his thrusters and gave Chase. He fired a repulsar blast at one cutting off his wing Causing the vehicon to Spiral out of control and crash into the other vehicon. And they both turned into a fiery explosion.

Steve and Natasha Stood back to back Fighting back against the seemingly endless vehicon army. Steve ducked under a punch and Natasha shot the vehicon in the head Before spinning back around And shooting another in the chest. Steve blocked a punch and kicked the vehicon into another. Steve used his newly Forged Shield To stab a Vehicon in the throat Before he used it to block A punch from another vehicon But this time the shield Shattered Nearly But Steve managed to punch the vehicon In the head and use a piece of debris to stab it in the face. Natasha Helped Steve up and with a quick nod they both reentered the fight.

Clint was the first to admit it but using a bow as a giant robot Has its disadvantages first you run out of Arrows way too quickly And since they were made for a giant robot it's really hard to get more. Clint Ducked under A punch and jabbed the vehicon in the gut with his bow before pulling out an Arrow And stabbing it Into the Vehicon's face. He pulled the arrow out and shot it at Another vehicon Hitting him in the chest.Clint spun around and whacked another vehicon and in the head with his bow Before he Kicked the head off The vehicon.

Both teams continued their assault eventually the last vehicon fell. They all stood in front of a massive building Ratchet Through the comlink said "I'm detecting a massive amount of Space Bridge radiation In there. be ready."

"Understood ratchet. Get Jazz out of here We will complete this mission." Optimus said.

"Got it." Ratchet said over the coms.

Optimus silently signaled Arcee to open the door. Instead of opening the door she kicked the door down And inside was nothing Except for the space bridge and A large screen That flickIered on Revealing the faceplate of Starscream. "Hello Autobot scum." Starscream said with his usual sarcasm and disgusted tone.

"Starscream, The coward returns again," Tony Shot back, "You know I thought you would have gotten your face Prepared after I blasted you Point Blank By now."

Starscream Tried to hide his anger after that but didn't do very well. "Listen here are you Arrogant little-"Starscream tried to say but was quickly cut off by Arcee.

"What do you want, Starscream?" Arcee said angrily.

"Why All I want is to help," Starscream said sarcastically.

"Why Should we trust you?" Ironhide accused.

"Well you shouldn't but I figured you might want to see this anyway." Starscream said. As he moved to the Side revealing a Decepticon, all silver and Grey. He wasn't a full bot, however. He seemed torn apart, practically limb from limb. His arms and hands, legs too had points on them, similar to blades. But that's not what they were. But something was off every limb and body part looked shiny and new it wouldn't add up If he was truly torn apart. On his right hand there were six indents one for each of the knuckles and then a big one in the center of the hand the way they were fashioned it was almost like they were made there to hold something.

"Megatron." Optimus said coldly. Megatron did not look anything like he did during the battle for the allspark Especially not in his current state But Optimus knew it was him.

"That's Megatron. If that's Megatron we have nothing to worry about." Clint remarked.

"Not Dead. He was put into a stasis Lock." ratchet said over the cons with an increasingly worried voice.

"A stasis what?"Steve asked.

Ratchet explained "a stasis lock. It is a process of shutting everything down in a cybertronian except for the spark chamber allowing serious operations to take place,Such as repairs or," Ratchet's voice trailed off as he realized what was going on. "Full body upgrades. They're upgrading Megatron!"

"Took you long enough to figure it out." Starscream responded to ratchet. Shocking all of the Autobots and Avengers Before anyone could say anything Starscream spoke up "yes yes I have hacked your comms Now I can hear every little thing you guys are saying. Now that we've got all that out of the way. Skywarp, kill them." And the Transmission Shut down.

"Who's skywarp?" Tony asked and at that very moment A cybertronian appeared In front of Tony and kicked him sending him flying out The building Before Tony even had a moment to think. Soon everyone else followed him. And then the building in front of them exploded.

Steve raised his shield to try and hold back the explosion but it shattered the moment the force of the explosion hit the shield It shattered Sending shrapnel back into his suit. Everybody forced themselves on their feet and looked up at their assailant Who is currently floating above the wreckage.

"Let me guess. skywarp." Arcee said.

Skywarp, like all the other Elite Seekers, looked almost exactly like Starscream except for the purple and black color scheme. "The one and only." Skywarp said.

"good."Arcee said as she fired her sniper rifle At skywarp Who in turn vanished. The shot Went directly through where he was a second ago.

"What the-" Tony said in complete shock.

Skywarp reappeared right behind Arcee looking over her shoulder asking. "Did you get him?" Arcee Spun around but Skywarp grabbed her sniper and tore it from her hands Before hitting her in the head with it. Skywarp disappeared again and this time reappeared behind Natasha. Natasha tried to kick him but skywarp just caught it and shot the leg off with his Arm mounted null-ray. Skywarp kicked Natasha to the ground before disappearing Taking the leg with him.

Skywarp appeared in front of Optimus and hit him in the face with the leg Before he disappeared again And reappeared next to Steve. Skywarp pulled a large piece of debris out of the Suit and stabbed it right back into The suit's chest, stopping right before It pierced Steve. Steve Pulled out the piece of debris and swung it at skywarp Who vanished dodging it Causing Steve to slash through Tony's hand cutting it off.

Skywarp reappeared Behind Clint and grabbed an arrow From his quiver And stabbed him in the back Clint spun around and tried to punch Skywarp but he vanished causing him to accidentally punch Cap in the face shattering half of the helmet. Skywarp reappeared and threw the arrow at Bumblebee Who failed to dodge and got the arrow stuck in his chest. It didn't do any serious damage but it Infuriated Bumblebee. He pulled the arrow out And threw it right back at skywarp.Skywarp vanished and the arrow Lodged itself in Clint's arm.

Tony fired a Repulsor blast at Skywarp with the one hand he had remaining But skywarp vanished again causing the blast to hit Optimus in the face, "Sorry!" Tony shouted. Skywarp Reappeared behind Tony and spun him around. Skywarp turned his hand into a blade and stabbed into Tony's arm then pulled it down tearing it off. Tony tried to Defend himself with the other arm but skywarp quickly severed that one as well. Tony saw skywarps blade coming straight for the helmet So he yelled out "Eject!" And Tony in a suit was launched out of the helmet right before skywarp Stabbed Into the helmet and tore it off. "That was a close one!" Tony shouted in the Escape.

Skywarp disappeared And reappeared on top of Natasha who was still on the ground, Skywarp grabbed a hold of both of her arms and activated his thrusters flying up, tearing them off. Natasha managed to climb out of the suit Right before skywarp started firing missiles into what remained of the suit. Tony flew in and grabbed Natasha and carried her out of the blast radius as skywarp deactivated his thrusters and he slammed into Natasha's suit With enough Force to cause an explosion.

Skywarp vanished and reappeared Right in front of Steve who managed to throw a punch but Skywarp caught it and shot it off. Skywarp Steve across the helmet breaking the helmet completely off. Tony flew down and grabbed Steve by the arms and pulled him out just as skywarp punched down on where Steve would have been and fired with his arm mounted null-ray Causing the suit to explode from the inside out.

Clint already knew he was up next so he began to get out of his suit when Skywarp appeared in front of him.Skywarf plunged his hand into the chest of the suit just as Clint managed to scramble out. Skywarp yanked out the power core and crushed it with one hand Before kicking the suit over.

With all the Avengers suits destroyed, Skywarp turned to Face the Autobots. As the cybertronians began their brawl The Avengers Met up Far away from the Fight As they began to question why Skywarp had gone after them. "Why us?" Natasha questioned.

"We were the weakest. He destroyed us first so he wouldn't have to deal with us later." Tony answered, watching the fight closely.

"Yeah that's obvious but it would be the reverse to get the strongest so you wouldn't have to deal with them while you're taking on the weakest." Steve pointed out.

"Yes ideally but it would appear he is not the brightest," Tony Said "Come on the fights just getting good."

Skywarp reappeared behind Optimus and kicked him in the back of the head before Vanishing again. For reappearing again behind Ironhide who attempted to punch him but instead punched a bumblebee in the throat.

Skywarp reappeared in front of Arcee and grabbed her by the leg and swung her at updraft slamming her into him before he tossed Arcee as Optimus Who managed to Catch her and set her down. Updraft over at skywarp who vanished causing updraft to tackle Bumblebee to the ground. Skywalk reappeared above the two who quickly dodged as skywarp came slamming down.

"Prime, how the hell are we going to beat this guy?" Ironhide said Optimus knew he had a point: how could they beat someone they couldn't touch. Every time they would attack he would just teleport somewhere else. Plus his teleportation wasn't a device it was a very rare but some cybertronians were Forged with some incredibly rare and Powerful abilities Skywarps ability was teleportation so it was literally a part of him.

"We have to Predict Where he's going to- '' Optimus was quickly cut off by skywarp when he Appeared behind him and kicked Optimus in the back Sending Optimus to the ground. Hydreacted quickly and swung at skywarp who countered the punch and grabbed him by the throat RC ran into trying to save Ironhide but Skywarp just vanished with Ironhide.

Skywarp appeared very high above the fight And let go of Ironhide Letting him drop a terminal velocity, "I got him." Updraft said as he transformed and flew went into the sky. Ironhide Screamed as he tumbled towards the Earth he could feel himself getting hotter as his velocity ever increased. He was on the verge of bursting into flames when Updraft Seemingly appeared out of nowhere and Ironhide grabbed onto his wing as they made a more controlled descent onto the ground. It would take a while but they would get there eventually.

Meanwhile down on the ground The fight Grew more chaotic.The Avengers were forced to continue to watch, unable to do anything to stop it and assist. Skywarp grabbed Arcee by the head and slam her to the ground before throwing her away Using that as a distraction bumblebee somehow managed to run up from behind and leap onto skywarp's back Before he could do anything meaningful Skywalker grabbed a Bumblebee and slammed him to the ground stunning bumblebee I see compared to fire his Null-Ray. Right before he could fire Optimus Prime jumped in with the Starsaber and severed part of Skywarps arm Causing the Null-Ray to overload Optimus raise to the cosmic Shield in preparation for the explosion. And the Null-Ray did, causing a massive explosion that Nearly destroyed half of skywarp.

The Autobots Surrounded the Nearly destroyed skywarp The Avengers ran over to get a closer look at what had happened after the explosion. The right side of the skywarps face looked melted into nothing but sludge, his optic hanging out of its socket. His arm or what was left of it had turned into a puddle Of molten purple sludge Right side of his torso was slimy and in the process of melting.The only part that looked slightly undamaged you can.

"Surrender Skywarp and we will grant you Mercy." Optimus said although he knew it was Hollow skywarp at most had two Earth days left the least they could do was make it bearable.

Skywarp somehow Gritted his teeth as a purple Glow began to emanate from inside his body And he began to scream in pain. Optimus's Optics widened as he called out "Autobots fall back!" As everyone began to run from skywarp the glow got brighter and brighter until an explosion Rocked the Earth and a Purple light engulfed the area where skywarp once was. Leaving Nothing of Skywarp except the head.Which completely melted into nothingness only a second later. But Nobody asked any questions for what happened with obvious Skywarp had tried to teleport which was too much for his damage to body to take causing an explosion.

Updraft and Ironhide finally landed. Ironhide was still steaming his paint bubbled due to the extreme heat of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. Looked around the crater and asked "What happened here and where is skywarp."

Bumblebee beeped an obvious answer: Skywarp was dead. " ratchet open a ground Bridge." Optimus ordered and On Cue a swirling teal mass of energy appeared and all the autobots went in followed by The Avengers.

Tony stayed behind for a second longer and looked back at his hard work now steaming wreckage. "Rest in peace old friends." and Tony hopped through the portal.

When they Arrived back at the autobot base the first thing everyone noticed was Jazz laying face down On the medical table his back was blackened by the shot he had taken. "Ratchet."Optimus said he didn't need to say the Rest of his question because ratchet understood immediately.

Ratchet walked over and Stood beside Optimus who was staring at jazz and said, "He'll live."

"Very good." Optimus said plainly.

Optimus was about to walk off when Ratchet grabbed his arm and said, Before Starscream blew up the Space Bridge along with its logs blew up. I managed to get something out of it although it was just a name. Titan."