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Chapter 7: Rescue Mission, Part 2
Almost immediately as the Autobots started charging in, Thundercracker flew forward, and a massive BOOM erupted all around them. The shockwave sent the Autobots scattering in all directions.
Luke and Thalia felt the massive noise rupture their eardrums and moved to cover them. "GAH! What is that!?" Asked Luke, grimacing in pain.
"Thundercracker's sonic boom ability!" shouted Hound. "Get out, kids!"
Luke and Thalia jumped out, and Hound transformed into his robot mode; all the other Autobots present did likewise.
"Eat this, flyboys!" Chromia yelled as she brought out her rifle and started shooting at the Seekers. The three cons dove and dodged the shots.
"Autobots! Get ready!" Ordered Optimus as he brought out his rifle.
"Yeah! Ready to lose!" shouted Quake as he emerged from the Nemesis along with Soundwave.
"Ravage, eject, operation, defense," Soundwave ordered as he pressed a button on his shoulder. His chest compartment opened, and out of it popped a robotic jaguar, which pounced at the Autobots.
Meanwhile, Quake transformed into his tank mode and started firing artillery shells all around the surrounding area.
"Scatter!" shouted Prowl, and the Autobots began to disperse.
Thalia barely managed to avoid being hit by one of the shells. The subsequent explosion that came from it was deafening and threw her forward.
She hit the ground and looked up. When her vision started clearing, she saw a smaller-than-average tank coming right at her.
"Move!" shouted Luke, grabbing Thalia and rolling them out of the way just in time. They could hear the roaring of the treads as they passed them.
When Thalia looked back, she saw the small tank turn around and face them. Thalia expected it to turn into a robot like all the others, but instead, it transformed into a pair of legs. Just then, a smaller-than-average jet flew overhead and transformed into a robot's top half. Then the two halves merged together.
"More organics," he spat. "Well, guess it's time to see what happens when one of you is crushed." He started to reach for them.
Thalia put on a determined look. "Fat chance!" she said, and she slapped the watch on her left arm. "Aegis!" she shouted, and the watch expanded and grew until it was a shield emboldened with the head of Medusa.
"What's that puny-"Before the Decepticon could finish, he found himself forced to stagger back. "What...what is that?!" he asked. He tried to fight it, but whatever that thing the organic had was, he just couldn't look at it.
"Not so brave now, huh!?" Luke asked as he brought out his baseball bat and whacked it against the con, but like with Thundercracker, it just bounced off ineffectively.
Thalia gave a nonplussed expression: "Luke, you really need to get a new-"
"I KNOW!" shouted an exasperated Luke.
"GRR!" the con growled as it reached for Luke, only to be interrupted when Sunstreaker ran up and punched him in the face.
"Eat this Skytread!" Sunstreaker taunted, and the two robots started to brawl.
No one was targeting them at the moment, so Luke and Thalia looked around the battlefield. The Autobots were outnumbered but fighting valiantly. They watched as Optimus was thrown to the ground by a huge gray con with a cannon attached to his arm, as Prowl slashed with a katana at a black and white con with the words "To Punish and Enslave." written on his side, as Brawn fought Quake fist to fist. as Hound punted the robotic jaguar into the nearby lake and as Chromia used one arm to shoot at the three jet Decepticons and the other to fight off the dark blue Decepticon with a huge screen on his chest. The sounds of metal clanging and crunching against each other echoed all around.
"Luke, what did we step into?" Thalia asked.
"I wish I knew Thalia. I wish I knew..." Luke murmured.
Prowl kicked Barricade off him and swung at him with his katana again. "Shouldn't have left the force, Barricade." Prowl taunted, "You would have made a great Autobot."
"Eh, it was good work, but this is more important." Barricade responded as he brought out twin pistols and shot them at Prowl.
Prowl dove under the shot and launched from the ground to deliver an uppercut to Barricade. He then did a leg sweep, knocking the con on his back.
"Prowl!" shouted Optimus as he swung his fist at Megatron. "Get inside! Find the human!" he ordered before grabbing Megatron in a chokehold.
"Sir!" Prowl said before rushing to the Nemesis.
Prowl engaged the booster jets on his back door wings and flew up to the Decepticon ship.
"Stop him!" shouted Megatron as he broke free of Optimus's chokehold and swerved around to shove his shoulder into Optimus's gut.
"At once, Lord Megatron!" Starscream declared. He stopped shooting at the various Autobot combatants and made a beeline for Prowl, who was currently standing on the Nemesis hull.
Starscream flew straight at Prowl in jet mode, firing his guns at the Autobot.
Prowl didn't flinch at all. "Wait for it," he muttered. "Wait for it..."
Starscream approached closer and closer until Prowl swung his sword in a forward arch, slicing off Starscream's wing.
Starscream screamed in pain and terror. "Can't steer, ahh!" he cried as he fell towards the nearby treeline.
Prowl sneered before prying open one of the ship's hatches and leaping inside.
Annabeth hated having ADHD sometimes. Sure, the combat reflexes were good in a fight, but right now, strung on a chair with no way to move? It made her feel more restless than ever.
She looked at the Decepticon guarding her, the one known as Spinister. He hadn't said a word since Megatron had given him this assignment, and he was currently glaring at nothing in particular.
"So... do you talk?" Annabeth asked, trying to relieve the boredom.
Spinister continued to say nothing.
"Should have figured...Annabeth muttered.
All of a sudden, Spinister seemed to perk up. He pulled out two guns and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.
Annabeth started getting more and more nervous. What was going on?
Suddenly, she heard a pounding sound behind the door. The pounds got louder and louder until a giant white robot about Hot Rod's size was kicked through it and knocked onto the floor in front of her.
Without even a grunt or an ow, the white robot picked himself up. He pulled out a rifle as Spinister charged at him, knocking Spinister back a few feet.
"Try attacking from above!" called Annabeth.
If the white robot had heard Annabeth, he didn't show it, but he did leap into the air and deliver a flying kick to Spinister's head. The white robot's leg hit the back of Spinster's head with a bang, and Spinster was down.
The white robot turned to Annabeth. "Are you the organic specimen known as Annabeth I've been ordered to rescue?" he asked without even a smile.
Annabeth grinned, "Are you a friend of Hot Rods?"
"I'm an associate of his. The name is Prowl," the white robot muttered as he kneeled down and released Annabeth from her bonds.
The moment Annabeth was free from the restraints of the chair, she jumped up and gave Prowl a huge hug around his neck.
"Thank you!" she cried.
Prowl just stood there with a confused look on his face.
Annabeth just stood there hugging Prowl before his eyes widened. "Duck!" she shouted.
Prowl did it just in time to avoid a laser blast from the recovered Spinister.
"Hang on!" Prowl said. With Annabeth hanging onto his shoulders, he made a break for the exit, with Spinister in hot pursuit.
Outside, as the Decepticons and Autobots fought, Hound found himself firing rapidly at Soundwave, who was charging at him. Soundwave managed to get in close and grab Hound by the gut.
Soundwave growled as he lifted Hound up and threw him backward into an open field away from most of the fighting.
"Laserbeak, eject," Soundwave said as he pressed a button on his side. "Operation, restrainment."
Soundwave's chest opened up as a Cybertronian data disc flew out before transforming into a red robotic condor. Laserbeak flew forward his lasers at Hound.
"Aw great!" Hound muttered as he struggled to get up. Unfortunately, Laserbeak managed to score a direct hit on Hound's abdomen. Hound snarled as he dropped to his knees.
Laserbeak flew past the green Autobot and looped back around for another attack.
"Hey bird brain!" shouted Luke.
He jumped forward and lifted his baseball bat above his head. He brought it down onto Laserbeak's neck. With a CRUNCH and a bird-like SCREECH, Laserbeak fell down to Earth.
"No!" Soundwave cried. He rushed forward. Luke turned around just in time to see Soundwave's foot about to stomp on him.
"You will pay for that human-"
Hound grunted as he swung his leg under Soundwave's feet. Soundwave fell to the ground with a crash.
Hound shot Luke a smile and said, "Nice work, kid."
Luke gave Hound a thumbs up.
"Luke!" cried a voice.
Hound looked up and saw Prowl emerging from the Decepticon ship with another smaller human on his shoulders. If he had to guess, that was Annabeth.
Prowl leaped off the ship and used the thrusters on his wings to slow his descent to the ground. "I've got the native Prime!" he reported. "I think it's time for a tactical regroup!".
Optimus finished tossing Megatron off of him. "Sounds good to me," he said.
"Autobot! Transform! and Roll Out!"
On cue, all the Autobots disengaged from the fights they were in and converted into their vehicle modes. Hound grabbed Luke and Thalia so they could hitch a ride in his Jeep mode, with Annabeth riding in Prowl.
Starscream emerged from the treeline just in time to watch the Autobots retreat.
"Decepticons! Follow them!" he ordered.
"No," said Megatron as he picked himself up from the ground.
"No?!" Starscream asked in disbelief.
"I'm not wasting any more time and resources trying to secure an asset we've already mined for information," Megatron replied.
In a fury, Starscream ran up to Megatron. "You're just going to let them get away!? Again!?" he asked, enraged.
"Not forever. We just have to bide our-"
Starscream punched Megatron in the face, knocking the Decepticon leader to the ground again.
"You're pathetic, Megatron!" Starscream declared. "I, on the other hand, will not give up while we have a chance!" He turned to Thundercracker and Skywarp. "Brothers. Follow me!" he ordered. His wing was still clipped, so he couldn't use his jet mode, but his leg thrusters would be decent enough for a short-distance flight. Starscream activated his leg boosters and started to hover in the air, then he started heading in the Autobot's direction.
"I don't know Starscream." Thundercracker said hesitantly, "Megatron might be-"
"Ah, stow it, TC," Skywarp interrupted. "Let's go kick Autobot tailpipe," he said as he transformed into jet mode and followed Starscream.
Thundercracker sighed, but he followed his fellow Decepticon seekers into the air.
Megatron looked up in disgust at Starscream and the other two seekers as they flew off after the Autobots.
"Do you want to go after them, Megatron?" Barricade asked.
"No. They aren't worth the time." Megatron muttered. "Starscream will come back groveling soon enough..."
"So now what, sir?" asked Skytread.
"Get back to your stations and get the ship ready to launch."
"Ah, I was hoping for a fight," muttered Quake as he dispersed with the rest of the Decepticons back to the ship.
Soundwave returned Laserbreak and Ravage to his chest compartment and turned to join the other Decepticons before he felt Megatron grab him by the shoulder.
"Not just yet, Soundwave. I need to speak with you."
"What is it, Lord Megatron?" Soundwave asked.
"What did you find out by scanning the human's mind?" Megatron asked...
So in case it wasn't clear, Prowl has aspects of both his traditional G1 self and his Animated version. Design and personality of G1, but with the back-wing thrusters and ninja skills of Animated (just with a katana instead of throwing stars).
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