It was currently the middle night at some local military base as Agent Fowler drove out of military base. Planning on heading home and having himself a nice hotdog, some chips, and slice of that left over mini cake he brought a few days ago.
On the drive home, Fowler got bored and decided to turn on the radio, putting on a rather banger of a song."They sure don't make music like this anymore." Said Fowler as he then hums to himself as he enjoys the song.( Guess the song :3)
However, as Agent Fowler was driving, something unexpected happened. Things started to shake quite a bit, along with the sound of something big and heavy coming after the agent from behind. And then something nudge his car a bit, almost knocking him off the road.
Agent Fowler very quickly takes a Quick look at his review mirror to see what the hell was going on and was shocked by what he saw. It was big robot T-Rex! Since there was only one robot T-Rex Fowler knows he assumes that it was Grimlock." What the hell has gotten into him?!" Asked Fowler as he does his best to get away from who he thinks is Grimlock.
While this happened, at autobot base one, Optimus and Ratchet were discussing some plans about who to send out with who on some Energon scouting missions. But they didn't get very far as they suddenly got a call from agent Fowler." Agent Fowler, what have you ca-"
"Prime! Do you know where your second in command is right now?!" Asked Agent Fowler, sounding like he was under some stress and a bit in a panic.
Optimus did in fact...not know where Grimlock was currently since ever since Grimlock and his team stationed themselves at the second base, communications between the two bases were not frequent." No Agent Fowler, I do not know, why do you ask?" Asked Optimus, curious to know why agent Fowler is curious about Grimlock.
"Well I do! He's right behind me trying to kill me!" Yelled out Agent Fowler. The sound of something hitting his vehicle was heard the next second, along with him screaming.
They wanted to ask if what he said was true, but from the sounds of it, Agent Fowler doesn't have the time for questions. So it was time to act, and lucky for him some of team prime was already in the room, having overheard what was said.
So while they prepare to roll out and save Fowler, the agent was currently driving for his life as the Grimlock lookalike was getting closer, almost getting Fowlers car in his jaws. A few more seconds and the Grimlock look alike smacked his face against Fowlers car, Causing it to swerve around like crazy before it crashed almost all the way through a bridge railing.
Fowler groans a hit as he recovers a bit and then tried to reverse out of the situation he is now in." Come on!Don't fail me now!" He said as he leans back, trying to get the back wheels onto the road, oh but that is futile as Grimlock snatched the car in his jaws, lifting the agent up a bit, preparing to drop him.
But before Grimlock could drop the agent, a groundbridge appeared and out comes Optimus prime, Bee, Ironhide, and Crosshairs. They all were in vehicle mode and were speeding towards Grimlock.
Spotting this, Grimlock drops Fowler off the bridge and then ran off, which is very unlike Grimlock, but that didn't matter right now cause Agent Fowler was falling. Because of this, Optimus drives off the bridge so he can transform and catch Fowler.
While the boss bot does that, Ironhide and Crosshairs go after grimlock." I should have known he'd try something like this! First it was fleeing his post back on cybertron and now this!" Said Ironhide, confident that this is the real Grimlock doing this.
"Yeah...it definitely makes sense that one of the most ruthless autobot ever would run away instead of fighting us all." Said Crosshairs, not really believing they are driving after the real Grimlock since Grimlock is very well known for not running from a fight.
There drive after Grimlock got them to an abandoned gas station, with no one around...that is till Grimlock came running out of nowhere and backed into the two Autobots, Knocking them both out, making everything go black for the two.
Later...
A light was being shined on Crosshairs face, trying to wake him up." That's it...follow the light." Said Ratchet, unaware of how messed up and hilarious that sounds.
Hearing this caused Crosshairs to wake up." What?! Oh, next time say something else doc." He said as he rubs his face a bit, feeling like he got run over by a train...a train with big teeth.
"What happened out there? Did you really see Grimlock out there?" Asked Ratchet, only asking this cause of what Ironhide and the others have said so far.
Crosshairs nodded a bit." Yeah, I saw him, but he didn't rip me apart, which doesn't fit him." Said Crosshairs, just reporting what he saw and what he thinks.
"See! I told you!" Said Agent Fowler, pretty confident that the real big guy tried to kill him.
The whole time everyone was saying that Grimlocks basically gone rogue, Optimus was silent for a bit. He personally did not think Grimlock would turn on the autobots like this or at all due to his morals." Though Grimlock has shown to be...difficult at times. I know that he would not betray the Autobots." Said Optimus, confident in his Second in command's loyalty to not betray the Autobots.
Before anyone could say anything else, the ground controls activated by themselves and then a groundbridge opened up. This caused everyone to turn to it. Someone from the other autobot base must be coming over, but the question is...who?
Turns out...it was Arcee. She was coming through, But not just her, pushing a cart full of Energon behind her was the one almost every one of them were a bit worried about, Grimlock." Optimus, we found quite a bit of Ener-...What's going on?" Asked Arcee, noticing everyone was a bit on the edge, and they all were staring directly at Grimlock.
Grimlock noticed this and then started to get a bit mad." What?" He asked a bit aggressively. That caused Ironhide, Bee, and Crosshairs to aim their weapons at him out of slight fear.
This caused Grimlock to growl in anger and then was about to bash them all into scrap metal for daring to pull their weapons at him for no reason. But before he could, both Arcee and prime step in. Prime gets the others to lower their weapons while Arcee try's to get Grimlock to calm down.
Arcee is successful in this and Grimlock does calm down, now she gets to be the angry one. Arcee turns to the others, looking pissed off." Wanna explain yourselves?" She asked, waiting for someone to say something.
Before Prime could say something, Ironhide spoke up." This traitor tried to kill us and Fowler last night!" Said Ironhide, still confident that Grimlock is a no good slagging traitor.
This confused both Grimlock and Arcee a lot." What are you talking about?" Asked Arcee, now more confused than angry cause that just doesn't make sense.
Seeing Grimlock look genuinely confused just confirmed what mostly everyone thought...there's an imposter grimlock out there, attempting to use Grimlocks appearance to either ruin him or something else." What they're talking about is that someone who bore a striking resemblance to the big bots Dino mode, tried to toss me off a bridge and then knocked out two bots." Said Agent Fowler, explaining what happened with the Fake grimlock.
Before Grimlock or Arcee could ask more about this imposter, Agent Fowler suddenly got a phone call. So the agent answered it and was immediately shocked by what he was hearing." What? That's impossible! I can bet my fifty star spangled shorts it isn't him!" After that, Agent Fowler ends up hanging up and turns to the Autobots, who are all confused a bit.
"That call was from a military base, said there under attack by Grimlock." Said Agent Fowler, the news caused everyone to look over at Grimlock to see his reaction.
Grimlock...several angry to say the least." Coordinates.Bridge.Now." That was all Grimlock said as he turns and face the groundbridge, waiting for it to open up so he can head on through and rip his copy to pieces.
Not wanting to keep the angry big guy from a fight, Fowler quickly gave the coordinates to Ratchet who then immediately activated the Ground Bridge. Once activated, only Grimlock went on through to take care of his copy, this was very personal...
At the Army base, an almost perfect copy of Grimlock in robot mode as destroying the place. There was only a few things off that made it not a perfect copy. The colors were a bit rustic, its hands were blasters, and had yellow lights where Grimlock usually has orange lights.
The imposter continued to cause destruction to the army base, that is till a groundbridge appeared and out comes Grimlock. Once the two Grimlocks spotted one and other...the faker transformed to Dino mode and then ran off like a coward. This only further angered Grimlock." Get back and Fight!" Yelled Grimlock.
Before Grimlock could go after the faker, some military helicopters opened fire at Grimlock. There bullets didn't do anything to the big guy, But they were irritating. So Grimlock just heads on back through the groundbridge.
Later...
Grimlock and Arcee had returned back to Autobot base two, explaining the situation and the mission to find and destroy the fake Grimlock to Team Demolition Force." So that's the situation. Mech managed to create a fake Grimlock that can actually transform and have been using it to frame you and get the military to turn on us?" Asked Caydtronus, wanting to make sure he was correct.
Grimlock and Arcee nodded a bit. Everyone was rather angry by this news." Those dishonorable butchers! They should be eradicated!" Spoke out Skyquake, everyone in the room felt the exact same way.
"Yeah, but we gotta find those bastards first." Said Sol, reminding him and everyone in the room that before they all can just go out and cause some damage, Mech has to be found first.
"How we gonna find them? It's not like there secret base has a big glowing sign near it that says bad guy base right here." Said Whirl, pointing out a slight problem. How are they gonna locate mech?
While the others continued to discuss this, Caydtronus had an idea on how to possibly find them. He walked over to the computer and started to type a few things. After a bit more typing, the others started to notice this." Whatcha doing kid?" Asked Swoop, curious to know what he's doing.
Caydtronus didn't say anything till he finally completed his task." Well why you all were trying to think of a possible location of Mech, I believe I have located two possible locations for where they may be located." Said Caydtronus as he pushed a button on the computer, causing two coordinate to appear on the screens.
Everyone stared at the coordinates, already ready to go to either of them first, but Grimlock had a better idea." Dinobots, you and Whirl will search those coordinates. The rest of us will search these coordinates." Said Grimlock, pointing at one set of the coordinates for the Dinobots plus whirl and then the other one for Everyone else.
Everyone nodded, accepting this." You got it Boss." Said Slug as he banged his fists together a bit as Caydtronus opened up a groundbridge for the Dinobots and Whirl.
Once they all went on through, it was then time for the rest of team demolition to head to the other coordinates...
So after a quick groundbridge, the others arrived at the second coordinates. There were at the entrance at some abandoned refinery." So...what's the plan? Split up and see who finds Nemesis Grimlock first?" Asked Sol, hoping that's the plan.
Grimlock had a feeling that Mech would not send out Nemesis Grimlock immediately unless each and every one of them were alone." Yes, but be on the look out for Mech and be on your guard if you see me." Said Grimlock as he walked away, heading off on his own, hoping he finds his double first so he can tear it apart.
"Alright you heard him, Everyone split up." Said Arcee as she brings out her blasters as she headed off in a direction by herself.
Everyone does the same thing, splitting up and bringing out their main weapons. While everyone went looking around for signs of Mech and or Nemesis Grimlock, Grimlock was walking around with his sword out , ready for anything.
Surprisingly however, it did not take long for Grimlocks fake to arrive, confronting Grimlock first to see who will be the superior one." Greetings Grimlock, it's an honor to meet the old model before I destroy you with the new and improved version." The voice of Silas came from Nemesis Grimlock.
So either Silas was piloting the fake Grimlock remotely from some secret location or Silas was inside of it and the fake Grimlock robot is actually a mecha suit. Grimlock hopes it's the latter so he can put an end to the leader of Mech permanently with his own hands.
Grimlock didn't say a word...he was just standing there...menacingly. So having had enough of Grimlocks silence, Silas makes Nemesis Grimlock transform its hands into blades and then had it charge at Grimlock. Nemesis Grimlock raised its hand blade ,about to strike Grimlock ,who doesn't even try to stop it...
The blade connect against Grimlocks chest...and then shattered completely. This of course caused Nemesis Grimlock to look at its broken Blade before looking back at Grimlock, who is smirking under his battle mask." I'm gonna rip your head off now." Said Grimlock.
Immediately after that, he very quickly grabs Nemesis Grimlocks head then and then tore its heads off its body, causing everything to shut down, which severely pissed off Silas. But Grimlock was not done with the fake version of himself. Grimlock lifted up Nemesis and then tossed him away at some random storage container.
But it just so happened to be the one where Silas's fragile human self was. The whole ceiling collapsed and The last thing the mech leader saw was his supposed perfect creation coming down on top of him, crushing him...
Grimlock walked over to see what damage he caused and was a bit surprised by what he saw. And he was not the only. The other arrived after having heard the noise and came running to see what happened. Everyone was staring down at the destroyed fake Grimlock and the other broken stuff by it." Huh...well that was easy." Said Caydtronus.
Indeed it was...or was it?
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/ Skipping armada cause Airachnid is dead, the Insecticons will remain asleep, and the Nemesis still goes down but by hound/
So...things have taken a sudden turn for the worse for the Decepticons. The con warship suddenly had a major malfunction and ended up crashing, causing even more to the ship, making them sitting ducks and very vulnerable to the Autobots if they wanted to attack right now.
Megatron was pissed, one moment things were going well, killing off some starscream clones, and then the next thing that happened was his ship crashing." Damage report, Onslaught." Megatron waits for the combaticon tacticians report.
Onslaught grunted a bit as he got up off the floor, having fallen during the crash. After getting up, he immediately checked the ship's computer to see how bad the damage was...it was very bad." The warship suffered great damage, it's gonna take weeks for repairs sir." Said Onslaught.
Megatron growls in anger." How did this happen?!" Demanded Megatron, seeking answers from anyone at all.
Luckily for him, Soundwave had the answers." Lord megatron, I have discovered the reason behind the ships crash." Asked Soundwave said this, he typed a few things on one of the ship's computers, showing video footage of the autobot known as Hound, several damaging the ships powercore.
This was bad, megatron needs his warship up in the air now before the autobots decide to come and destroy them all. If only there was a way to repair the warship and increase its pow-oh wait!
-Batman symbol spin transition-
"Are you slagging nuts?! You're really gonna use that crazy purple stuff on this warship?! For all we know it could turn the ship into a big uncontrollable monster!" In the ships powercore room was Megatron, Tarn, Nickel, and a few boxes of dark energon. Nickel was expressing her thoughts to megatrons plan.
Megatron just stared at her for a bit before turning to tarn." You were right about her having a high temper." Said Megatron, genuinely surprised by the small femmes temper and very high courage.
Tarn just nodded a bit." Yes, though as small as she is, Nickel gets quite angry." Said Tarn, always impressed by that and Nickel's skills.
"Yes, but, moving on. With Dark Energon, not only will the ship will be fully repaired, I will be able to control it as if it were a limb." Said Megatron, choosing to ignore Nickels warning and goes on ahead with using Dark Energon...
This is not good, especially for the Autobots, speaking of the Autobots. Back at the Autobot base, Hound was retelling his story of his small adventure on the con warship to the others of team prime." And then boom! Explosions left and right happened as I made my way off the ship!" Said Hound, telling his story to Cliff, Jazz, Bee, and Crosshairs while Optimus, Que, Ironhide, and Ratchet discussed plans to attack the Decepticons while they are vulnerable...a plan that involves using the spark extractor.
"Man, sounds like you had one hell of time." Said Cliff, still surprised to learn that all happened with hound.
Before the four could ask some questions, the computers went off, showing a lot of purple on the screen. That meant Dark Energon...
"Optimus, I'm picking up a large trace of dark energon from the Decepticon crash site." Said Ratchet, checking to see if what the computers were picking up were right, and they were.
Optimus stared at the computer for a bit, knowing that if the Autobots want to end the war here and now, then they must act now." Ratchet, activate the groundbridge." There was not time to call in Grimlocks team to join the fight, so it looks like team prime is on their own for this fight.
Ratchet nods and then immediately activates it. Once activated, all the Autobots of team prime, minus Que and ratchet, stood in front of the activated ground bridge."Autobots,transform and roll out!" Said Optimus as he runs towards the groundbridge, transforming once in.
The others do the same, transforming and then driving after there leader through the groundbridge. Once one the other side of the groundbridge, team prime was greeted by the sight of Decepticon warship, the Nemesis."Looks like Megatron has his ship working again." Said Ironhide as he brings out his cannons.
"Indeed Ironhide, but the mission remains unchanged." Said Optimus, activating his battle mask, ready for some confrontations today.
After that, the Autobots immediately began running toward the warship, this of course caused the warship to open fire at them, trying to terminate them. During the dodging of blasts, the warship brought out a new weapon. It was a Stasis beam, it puts Cybertronians into stasis lock as long as needed.
It fired a few times, getting Crosshairs,Bee, and Cliff first. This was a shock to the Autobots...and then Decepticons. In the warship, all the unique Characters were there, watching the computers, seeing what's happening below." Huh, I didn't know we had that." Said Breakdown as he scratched his head a bit.
"Neither did I..." Said Megatron, surprising the crew on deck. If Megatron didn't know about it, then that's probably a bad sign. But Megatron seems to be calm about it so there's no need to worry...right?
The cons continued to watch as the rest of the Autobots were soon put into stasis lock." Excellent, now land the ship. I want to tear out Optimus's spark before his very eyes." Ordered Megatron, wanting to finally end the Autobot leader.
The ship started to move, but not in the direction megatron wanted. The ship got a new set of coordinates and then it started to take off in a different direction, leaving the Autobots and the spark extractor. This upsets the mass murdering warlord." I said land the ship!" Said Megatron.
A vehicon was trying to get the ship to turn around but was unable to." I can't my liege, the ship seems to be navigating itse-" The vehicon got shocked and was put into Stasis lock immediately by the ship.
This caused everyone to become shock." What the scrap is going on?!" Asked Brawl as he angrily looked around, being cautions.
Megatron growls a bit, realizing that with power of dark energon, he has awakened a once slumbering titan." Tripticon! I order you to la-" Megatrons orders were cut short as a bright purple energy went off above him, causing pain to him and him alone. This pain caused megatron to drop to his knees while holding his head.
After this was pain was inflicted, a deep laughter was heard almost throughout the entire ship." I take orders from you no longer Megatron. Now,do not interfere with my mission or I will terminate you now." Said the mighty titan Tripticon as he continued to fly himself in a certain direction.
Tarn and Onslaught help up their leader." Put that monster back into stasis and get control of this ship, by any means necessary." Ordered Megatron, not caring if it means this ship/titan goes down again so long as he gets control over it again.
The first one to do something was the ever loyal Soundwave, having two cable tentacles come out of his torso and connected them to a computer...but then got shocked into stasis lock immediately, along with his minicons.
This was not good." All hands! Cut power to the mainframe! And disconnect data relays at once!" Ordered Megatron to every Decepticon on board through the comms, not about to be defeated by a useless titan who can't even transform anymore.
Yikes, things are getting intense for the cons, wonder how the Autobots are doing...
The frozen members of team prime were placed in the center of the base by Sol and Caydtronus, the two of them are the only ones available at this time to help out." Wait, so you're saying the cons just did this to them and left? Even leaving this behind?" Asked Sol as she held up the sparkextracter before putting down.
"Well that's what we assume, neither one of us were there. But anyway, that's not even the weirdest part of this situation. The weirdest part is that We are currently able to track there warship." Said Que, pointing over at a monitor that was displaying the con warship's current location.
That was weird indeed, usually the con's kept there ship nice and cloaked." Well...since we're able to track them, then perhaps we can try contacting them?" Suggested Caydtronus, this being the only idea he's got right now.
Ratchet was about to dismiss this idea...but then thought it over a few more seconds before deciding to try that. While ratchet attempts to get in contact with the Decepticons...
Everyone on tripticon the living warship had tried to do as there lord commanded and get the ship back under his control, but almost every single one of them were put into stasis. Even the Combaticons, Tarn, Breakdown, and Nickel were put into stasis lock with the Vehicons. The only ones left active still were shockingly Knockout and not so surprisingly, Megatron.
Knockout casually strolls into a room, spotting a computer with what appears to be three relic coordinates for project iacon." Lord megatron, it would appear that Tripticon is doing a much better job with project iacon than we were, perhaps we should permit him to continue?" Suggested Knockout, unaware that a stasis beam was aimed him before it was too late and then got shot.
"The mighty Tripticon does not require permission." After that, it was now only Megatron...speaking of Megatron, he was currently booking it down a hallway, straight up should bashing a random vehicon that was in his path way.
Eventually, Megatron got to where he needed to go, which was the powercore. Megatron grabs another the lever, about to pull it." This mutiny ends now!" Said Megatron about to pull the lever...but then got shot in the back with a stasis before he could pull down the lever.
As this happened, back at autobot base one, Ratchet was still attempting to get into contact with the Decepticons." Megatron, are you there?" Asked Ratchet...still not getting a response from the leader of the Decepticons, but someone did responded.
"Megatron is no longer in command, I am!" Spoke out Tripticon, answering ratchets call. The four Autobots didn't recognize Tripticons voice, though it was a bit familiar to Ratchet.
This caused everyone to look at one and other before looking back at the monitor."Who is this? Have you taken complete control of the Decepticon Vessel?" Asked Que, curious to know who this mysterious con is that has supposedly taken command.
"I am the vessel! And I will neutralize any Cybertronian that gets in the way of my mission!" Said Tripticon, not saying who he is exactly cause it should be pretty obvious at this point after that drop of info. Oh and he also showed the four autobots images of all the cons in stasis.
It didn't take long for the two elder Autobots to put it together who they were speaking to." Tripticon?! What are you planning?!" Demanded the shocked Doctor. Ratchet never imagined he would ever hear that Titan ever again.
"I plan to take the relics for myself, as for what purpose, that is none of your concern!" Said Tripticon before ending the call, leaving the four with so many questions.
This was not good, with Tripticon back and now after after the re-" Uh who's Tripticon?" Asked Sol, confused on who the hell that is supposed to be since she or Caydtronus have never heard of Tripticon before.
Ratchet and Que both looked at one and other before Que answered her question." Tripticon was a titan who fought for the Decepticons during the war for cybertron, but was quickly defeated by Optimus and a few other Autobots. After that he was stored somewhere far out of Megatrons grasp, but then the fall of cybertron happened and from what I heard, tripticon got turned into a warship thanks to that crazed lunatic, who somehow reclaim the titan. I didn't believe the rumors at first, but now…" Que's belief on that rumor has greatly changed now with Tripticons return and reveal to be the cons warship.
"Now it turns out the rumor is true…but maybe we can work with this somehow." Said Caydtronus as he began to ponder a bit, thinking of a possible solution to this problem.
"What? How?" Asked Ratchet, wanting to know what exactly is Caydtronus planning in that head of his.
Caydtronus just stands there a bit longer before smiling a bit, reaching an idea." Well it's a bit of a gamble. But hopefully one that works." Said Caydtronus as he then walked over to the ground bridge controls and began to type a few things.
Ratchet and Que were unsure about this, but sol was all for it." Sounds like you got something crazy in mind…do it." Said Sol with smile, being fully on board with his idea, even though she has no clue what that idea is.
Caydtronus grins upon hearing this and then activates the Groundbridge. After that he heads towards it, but before heading through he looks back at the others." If I'm not back in fifteen minutes, get in contact with Grimlock." Said Caydtronus before heading through the groundbridge alone, leaving the others alone with the frozen Autobots.
About fifteen minutes go by and so far, there has been no contact with Caydtronus, the worst can already be assumed. Ratchet was about to contact Grimlock, but then the unexpected happened, Optimus and the other Autobots that were put into stasis lock were now free and moving again." Optimus!" Ratchet said as he and the other two were relieved to see prime and the others moving again.
Not too long after Optimus and the others were out of stasis, the groundbridge activated and out came Caydtronus." Looks like it worked." Said Caydtronus, glad to see his plan worked.
"What exactly did you lad?" Asked Que, curious to know what happened and how caydtronus succeeded in freeing the others and stopping Tripticon.
Caydtronus just smiled a bit as he walked over to the computer and then pulled out a small device." That's a secret for now, but what I can tell you is that no only did I succeeded in freeing everyone and putting Tripticon back to sleep, I also managed to get my hands on these." He said as he plugs in the device, uploaded something rather shocking.
It was four of the iacon relic locations." Four coordinates…the race for the relics has begun." Said Optimus, having a feeling that they must win this race for the relics, no matter the cost….
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Team Decepticon:
Knockout- Tfp- 21 ft
Breakdown-Tfp-23 ft
Soundwave-Tfp mixed with foc-22 ft
Starscream-Tfp-21ft
Megatron-Tfp-27ft
Shockwave-foc-22ft
Tarn-idw-58ft
Nickel-idw-15ft
Combaticons-Foc-26ft
Bruticus-foc-80ft
Team Prime:
Crosshairs-aoe mixed with Tfp- 22ft
Jazz-foc-21 ft
Cliffjumper-foc-21ft
Ironhide-Tf mixed with Foc-23ft
Que- Tf dsotm mixed with Tfp- 22 ft
Hound-aoe mixed with Tfp 23-ft
Bumblebee- Tfp -21 ft
Ratchet -Tfp -22ft
Optimus -tfp -25ft
Team Grimlock:
Arcee-rotb mixed with Tfp- 20ft
Grimlock- foc -40ft
Skyquake-Tfp-24ft
Dreadwing-Tfp-24ft
Whirl-idw Mtmte- 23ft
Caydtronus- 60ft
Sol-50ft
Swoop-foc-28ft
Slug-Foc-28ft
Sludge-Foc-30ft
Snarl-Foc-30ft