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Chapter 46: Battle For the Allspark, Part 3

Barricade groaned as he picked himself back up after crashing into those rocks. He looked around and saw that the area around him had erupted into a massive battle during the time he was out.

He turned on his comm right away. "Megatron?" he asked.

Megatron was in the process of punching Optimus away as he got Barricade's message. "Yes, Barricade?" he asked.

"I'm up. What do you need me to do?" Barricade asked.

"Find out who has the Allspark and grab it!" ordered Megatron. He then prepared himself for Optimus's incoming counterattack, as the Autobot leader charged right at him.

Barricade nodded and began to look around the battlefield.

Sunstreaker couldn't help but think to himself about how easy this was. Spinster was skilled, but he was outnumbered; he and Chromia had the edge on him for sure.

Sunstreaker punched Spinister to the side, and then Chromia kicked him to the other side. Spinster dropped to his knees in pain.

"I think we got him Chromia." Sunstreaker laughed.

Spinster looked up and glared at the Autobot.

"Think you can handle this?" asked Chromia. "I should go help the others."

"Yeah, don't worry." Sunstreaker said as he cracked his knuckles. "I can take care of the rest."

Chromia transformed into her bike mode and raced off, leaving Sunstreaker and Spinister alone.

Sunstreaker turned back toward the incapacitated Spinister and wound up his fist to punch the con out; before he could, he heard the sound of a jet engine roaring and Sideswipe screaming.

Sunstreaker turned to see what it was and just in time saw Sideswipe being thrown onto the ground near him by Starscream.

"Sideswipe!" Sunstreaker cried out. "You okay!?"

Sideswipe picked himself up and shook his head. He looked pretty badly hurt. from his joyride with Starscream. "Yeah, I'm fine," he muttered. "I can take care of—"

Starscream shot Sideswipe in the chest before he could finish, and the red bot screamed in pain and staggered backward.

"Hang on!" Sunstreaker yelled as he ran right at Starscream and tried to tackle him, but Starscream just slapped Sunstreaker back with the back of his wrist.

"Foolish Autobot!" Starscream declared. He raised one of his wrist-mounted nullrays and started shooting at Sunstreaker.

Sunstreaker transformed into his lamborgini mode and started to circle Starscream, the con continuing to fire his weapon.

It was the distraction Sideswipe needed. He got up and brought out his wirst swords and slashed at Starscream. He managed to make contact, and his swords tore into Starscream's chest.

"GAH!" Starscream growled.

"More where that came from!" Sideswipe said as he launched his shoulder-mounted missile and aimed it point blank at Starscream.

"OW!" shouted Starscream as he was knocked back several feet.

"Nice job, bro!" Sunstreaker cheered as he drove more circles around Starscream. "Let's finish him off!"

Starscream recovered and smirked.

"What's with the smug look, Starscream?" Sideswipe asked.

"Take a guess." Starscream said mockingly.

Just then a barrage of missiles came out of nowhere, right at Sideswipe, and hit him directly in the back. Sideswipe screamed in pain and fell to the ground.

"Sideswipe!" cried Sunstreaker in terror. He transformed into his robot mode and looked around. There, behind Sideswipe, was Spinister in helicopter mode, who had now fully recovered from the beatdown Sunstreaker had given him.

"Oh no…" Sunstreaker muttered.

Spinster launched another round of missiles at Sunstreaker, and the Autobot narrowly managed to dodge them.

"Ratchet!" Sunstreaker screamed over the comm.

A few short miles away, Ratchet took a moment from slashing at Skytread with his knives to answer the call he was getting.

"What is it, Sunstreaker?" he asked.

"Sideswipe's hurt bad!" Sunstreaker explained frantically. He dodged another barrage of missiles from Spinister, then had to dodge again when Starscream shot at him with his null rays. "He needs you now!"

"Damn it…" Ratchet muttered. "Get him as close to me as you can! I'll try and reach you."

Skytread made an attempt to tackle Ratchet, but the medic merely sidestepped the Decepticon's advance and grabbed him by the head from behind. Then Ratchet slammed Skytread down onto the dirt floor.

To make absolutely sure Skytread wasn't going to get up anytime soon, Ratchet pulled out his pistol and shot a nearby giant rock Skytread was near. The rock collapsed into a heap of smaller rocks that buried Skytread.

"That should keep him busy for a while." Ratchet murmured to himself. He turned on his comm again. "I'm on my way, Sunstreaker. Ratchet out.". With that, Ratchet transformed into his ambulance mode and started driving towards Sunstreaker's location.

Sunstreaker got the message and ran over to where Sideswipe was lying down in pain on the ground. Another shot from Starscream narrowly missed him.

Sunstreaker walked over and picked Sideswipe up over his shoulders. He grunted as the weight of his brother weighed him down. "Primus, it's times like this; I wish Brawn hadn't died," muttered Sunstreaker.

He tried to run, but Sideswipe was heavy, and it slowed Sunstreaker down considerably.

"You know Sideswipe. It wouldn't kill you to ease up on the energon snacks." Sunstreaker growled.

Sideswipe gave a weak laugh. He looked like he wanted to respond with a witty comment, but his strength failed him.

Behind him, Sunstreaker could hear Starscream transforming into his jet mode. No doubt ready to open fire on him some more. He did his best to speed up even with the weight.

There was no way he was dying here, like this.

After inspecting all the combatants in this battle from a distance, Barricade had finally found it. The Allspark. He saw it in the hands of that new Autobot, Nightprowler. He was currently locked in battle with their new recruit, Quicksand.

Barricade didn't even wait. He started to move to a position behind Nightprowler, where Quicksand could see him.

Nightprowler slashed from above at Quicksand, and the blade hit it's mark. It sank deep into Quicksand's shoulder. Quicksand made a weak motion to try and shoot Nightprowler point blank with one of his pincer-stored missiles, but Nightprowler was faster. He kicked Quicksand into one of the nearby rocks, causing the Decepticon to stagger and collapse onto the ground.

"Well, as they say in this time," Nightrprowler said to himself, 'I think that takes care of—"

Before he could finish, Barricade made his move. He leapt forward and shoved his fist into Nightprowler's back. The surprise attack caught Nightprowler off guard, and he dropped the Allspark to the ground.

"Thanks Autobot." Barricade said as he grabbed the Allspark faster than Nightprowler could react. Then he transformed into his police car mode and ran off.

"What! No!" cried Nightprowler. He lifted up a rock from the ground and flung it at Barricade, but it was too late. Barricade was too far off in the distance.

Nightprowler didn't waste any time after transformed into his leopard mode and started chasing Barricade. Quicksand likewise transformed into his scorpion mode and started digging into the ground.

Thundercracker reached for the human known as Annabeth Chase as the chaos of the battle continued around him as Skywarp fought Prowl and Soundwave fought Hot Rod.

"I've got a score to settle with you, human!" Thundercracker growled as he swiped his arm at the young girl, only for Annabeth to nimbly dodge out of the way.

"Technically, that was my dad." Annabeth pointed out.

"You'll do." Thundercracker said. He made another reach, only for Annabeth to slip out of his grasp again with a sidestep. "It gives me no pleasure to end the life of a weaker species. I am truly sorry, young human."

"If you were truly sorry, you wouldn't be doing this!" Annabeth shouted.

"Justice must be served.' Thundercracker stated bluntly. "It's only fair—ARGH!" he screamed as an electric jolt hit him from behind. Thalia had come to the rescue.

"Annabeth!" Thalia cried. "You okay?"

"I'm fine!" Annabeth assured.

Meanwhile, Skywarp was getting dominated in his fight with Prowl. The Autobot tactician leaped into the air and kicked him right in the face. Skywarp gave a bleh and stumbled backwards.

Skwarp was relieved when he heard Megatron's voice over his comm unit. "Skywarp!" the voice of his leader called.

Skywarp grunted as he turned his comm on. "I'm here, boss. What do you need?" he asked as he deflected an incoming blow from Prowl's fist.

"Barricade has the Allspark, but the new Autobot Nightprowler is on his heels." Megatron explained. Skywarp heard Megatron grunt over the line. Optimus must have gotten a good hit in. "Assist Barricade!" he ordered.

"I'm kind of in the middle of something here, Megs." Skywarp pointed out. The words had hardly left his mouth when Prowl slashed him across the chest, causing Skywarp to call out in pain.

"Use your teleportation dummy!" Megatron shouted.

"Oh yeah, right!" Skywarp noted. As Prowl came in for another hit with his sword, Skywarp teleported away with a VOP.

Prowl cursed under his breath.

As Barricade drove away with the Allspark, he could feel Nightprowler hot on his heels. He heard the Autobot behind him as he got closer and closer.

Once he was close enough, Nightprowler leapt into the air and tackled Barricade. The two tumbled through the canyon head over heels with a massive crashing sound as they rolled.

They came to a stop and lay together in a jumbled heap. Both instinctively changed into their robot modes.

Dazed and confused, Nightprowler looked around. A few feet away from him was the Allspark.

Nightprowler moved as fast as he could. He rushed forward, only for someone to appear right in front of him at the last possible moment. Skywarp.

"Hi." Skywarp teased. He grabbed the Allspark and transformed into his jet mode.

"No!" cried Nightprowler. He made a grab for the cube, but Skywarp was too fast; the con flew into the air where Nightprowler couldn't reach him.

Before Nightprowler could fully process what had happened, Barricade came up from behind and grabbed the Autobot. He dragged him over to a rock wall and pummeled Nightprowler's face into it over and over again; each time came with a sickening crunch sound, until eventually, Nightprowler stopped moving and slumped onto the canyon floor.

Barricade gave a satisfied scoff before moving to help his teammates.

Optimus managed to slam his axe into Megatron's shoulder, but he knew if Skywarp got back with the Allspark, it soon wouldn't matter if he could beat Megatron in this fight.

"Autobots! Get the Allspark back!" he ordered. The words hadn't left his mouth before Megatron's flail struck Optimus's face, pieces of his combat mask flying off.

Sunstreaker heard Optimus's words as he dragged Sideswipe closer to Ratchet, Spinister, and Starscream, both hot on his heels.

He looked around the area and saw Skywarp flying nearby.

An idea started forming in Sunstreakers head; he turned to his half-conscious brother. "Hey Sideswipe. I need to put you down for a minute. Can you handle yourself?" he asked.

Sideswipe coughed. "Yeah...go save the day," he said weakly, doing his best to smile

Sunstreaker smirked and put Sideswipe aside on a nearby rock. He ran out in front of Spinister and Starscream. "Hey Con! You want me?!" He then transformed into his Lamborghini vehicle mode. "Come and get me!". Sunstreaker revved his engine and, with a roar, sped off.

"After him!" ordered Starscream, and he and Spinister started following the yellow Autobot.

So far it was all going according to Sunstreaker's plan. He just had to get a little bit further.

Another round of missiles and lasers came right at him from Spinister and Starscream. Sunstreaker tried to swerve to avoid them, but it was tricky on the rocky canyon floor. A rock jammed itself into his undercarriage.

Sunstreaker growled in pain, but he had to keep going. He had to keep moving.

When he finally felt it was close enough, he made a hard left turn. Spinister was following close behind and moved in the same direction…

..right into the path of Skywarp.

"OH SLAG!" screamed Skywarp.

There was no way either of them could brake. Skywarp and Spinister slammed into each other with a massive CRASHing sound that echoed all over the canyon. The two changed into robot mode and, with the sound of scraping metal, collapsed onto the ground, heavily damaged.

The Allspark slid out of Skywarp's hand's and landed on the ground.

Sunstreaker transformed back into robot mode and made a move to grab it, but before he could, Starscream swooped down and grabbed it.

"NO!" cried Sunstreaker.

Starscream let out a sadistic laugh as he flew into the sky. "The Allspark is mine!" he cheered.

Hound braced himself for another attack from Quake as the Decepticon threw another punch at him. Unfortunately, it was too much, and Hound found himself staggering backwards from the hit.

Luke charged in to try and slash at Quake, but the Decepticon kicked Luke backwards through the air.

"You're pathetic, you know that?" Quake said as he grabbed the still dazed Hound. He grabbed the Autobot by the neck and laid several punched into his face. Before Hound could react, Quake grabbed him by the shoulder and by the leg and raised him into the air above his head.

Luke recovered from his impromptu trip through the air just in time to see Quake raise Hound up. "Hound no!" cried Luke.

Quake smirked as he prepared to slam Hound into the ground. "Should have killed me when you had the—"

Just then a volley of lasefire flew out and hit Quake in the back. Quake winced in pain and dropped Hound back onto the canyon floor.

Hound looked to see Chromia with one of her rifles out firing rapidly at Quake.

"Damn it!" Quake muttered.

"You alright, Hound?" Chromia asked. She ran up to him and offered a hand to help him get up.

Hound took it groaning. "Yeah, I'm fine."

"Not for long!" Quake said. He turned to face Chromia and Hound and raised his fists in the air. "I'm going to rip you–"

Once again, Quake found himself interrupted. Something small flew through the air and right into his neck. Quake screamed in pain and agony before collapsing forward with a thud.

Hound and Chromia both looked to see what had knocked Quake out. In the middle of his neck was Luke's sword.

Luke walked over and took his sword out of Quake's neck. It was covered in energon and oil. "I didn't know my aim was that good…" he admitted.

"Well, I'm glad it is…" Hound noted. "Nice job."

Luke smiled. Before anymore pleasantries could be shared though, the pair heard Starscream's distinctive sadistic laugh along with his declaration the Allspark was his.

"Scrap." Chromia said. "We gotta move!" She started running off to find Starscream.

"Yeah, let's go!" Hound said who moved to follow her

"What about Quake!" pointed out Luke.

"We'll worry about him later!" Hound shouted. "The Allspark is more important!"

Luke looked at the unconscious Quake, then he looked at where Starscream's voice had come from.

He cursed and started running after Hound and Chromia.

Prowl had just finished knocking Thundercracker to the ground when Starscream's words about having the Allspark echoed through the canyon.

Prowl looked back at Hot Rod, who was still fighting Soundwave. "Do you have this situation under control, Hot Rod?" he asked.

"Yeah. I'm good." Hot Rod grunted as he threw a punch at Soundwave. "I got Thalia and Annabeth watching my back."

"Go get Starscream!" Annabeth cheered, seemingly thinking what Prowl was thinking.

Prowl turned his attention back to Starscream and activated the jump jets on the car door wings on his back.

As Starscream hovered through the air in his robot mode, he looked at the Allspark in his hands. It glowed and pulsed with unimaginable power.

And it was all his.

"Starscream! Get over to me!" He heard Megatron order as he continued to fight Optimus by punching the Autobot leader in the gut and tossing him aside.

But to Starscream, it was white noise. The Allspark was his now, and nothing was going to–

His thoughts were interrupted when something slammed into him hard. Prowl had just flown up and was now hanging onto him by the back, reaching for the Allspark.

"It's mine, Autobot!" Starscream said as he struggled to keep it out of Prowl's reach.

Prowl was silent as he tried to focus and grab it. The two grappled in the air for a bit before the answer hit Prowl. He wrapped his two legs around one of Starscream's feet, and then he twisted them, causing Starscream's leg to bend the wrong way with a sickening SNAP.

Starscream cried out in pain, and with one of his thruster legs broken, he was unable to stay up in the air. He began to plummet towards the ground, and Prowl jumped off and landed nimbly on his feet. Starscream wasn't as lucky, and he hit the ground with a massive clang and a thud.

Prowl looked around and saw the Allspark just a few meters away, tossed to the side during Starscream's fall. He ran over and grabbed it.

"Autobots." Prowl said turning on his comm link. 'I have it."

"Not for long!" said a voice. Prowl turned and saw Barricade shifting into robot mode and coming straight for him. The con brought out his pistols and started spraying the area with laser fire.

Prowl thought fast and ran and dove straight for cover.

At that moment nearby, Skytread burst out of the rock trap Ratchet had left him in. He looked around and surveyed the area, and he saw Barricade shooting at Prowl.

"Hang on, Barricade!" Skytread called. "I'm incoming!". He split himself into his two distinct vehicle modes, and both the jet and the tank went over to the battlefield. The tank started launching shell after shell at Prowl while the jet started strafing the area.

Prowl winced behind his cover. A shot grazed him.

"I'm pinned down with the Allspark!" Prowl shouted over his comms "I need help!"

Annabeth heard Prowl's distress call, and her face took on a look of horror. "Guys," she said, turning to Thalia and Hot Rod. "Prowl's in trouble! We gotta save him!"

"I'd love too, Annabeth, but I'm a little—GRRRRR." Hot Rod winced as Soundwave punched him across the face. "Preoccupied!" he finished.

"Just get him to stagger for a second." Thalia said, running up behind Soundwave. "I'll take care of the rest."

"Got it!" Hot Rod confirmed.

If Soundwave had heard of their plans, he didn't acknowledge them. He stepped back and fired a blast at Hot Rod from his shoulder rocket. Hot Rod dodged by leaning backward and watched as the rocket soared over him.

Soundwave's momentary stillness after the shot was the opening Hot Rod needed. He jumped forward and slammed both his fists into Soundwave's chest. Soundwave lurched backward, and Thalia jabbed her electrified spear into Soundwave's back.

Soundwave gave a silent moan of pain as he collapsed on the ground.

"Got him!" said Thalia.

"Not forever, but it's the time we need." Hot Rod noted. He transformed into his Dodge Viper vehicle mode. "Get in, kids!" he ordered.

Thalia and Annabeth rushed into Hot Rod and once both were inside, Hot Rod revered up his engine with a roar as he started heading towards Prowl's position…

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