A/N: Hey guys, sorry this took longer to release than the last one, I was just busy with personal things, a mix of work and other stressful stuff, I wanted to release this chapter as I have been working and has been done for a while. I also want to ask people to please stop either PM or leaving reviews or comments about asking me if I would be interested in an art commission, like I said in my bio, if I want to do an art commission I'll find and contact an artist myself. I am sorry if this comes off as rude, but I am just being careful.
I don't own the series The Loud House or the Transformers or any car brands, make, and models in this story. The Loud House is created by Chris Savino for Nickelodeon, Hasbro owns Transformers, and all vehicles named or described are owned by their proper companies.
Disclaimer: This is a spin-off mini-series between the events of Volumes 1 and 2
Chapter 6: Hit them where it hurts
Story summary: While trying to defend the convoy from the Terrorcon subgroup, Mayhem, along with MECH the Wreckers reunited with an Autobot spy changer named Punch who was after the former Decepticon, Counterpunch.
Scotland, known for myths and legends, is rich in beautiful lands with landscapes. Beautiful places to be with pretty friendly folks, such as an elderly couple running a shop, packing some food before handing it to Ronnie Anne. "Here ye go lass, enjoy this treat." The elderly lady said while receiving cash. "Yous visitin' for break from school lass?"
"Something like that, thanks again for the food, I was just visiting because a friend recommended this place to see with my family." She then looked around at the story she was in, it seemed like a covenant store or a place that sold mainly foods, and a lot of the shelves seemed to be nearly empty of food. "My family has a store just like this back where I'm from, you guys must be busy?"
"Aye, some blockheads orderin' a month's worth of scran, always orderin' enough to feed an army but never know where." The old man answered.
"Was it an old man with scars on his face?"
"Scars? No, usually a young man, but the odd thing is, he never comes and goes through the roads, just takes a boat, big cargo one and goes into the sea, the food would spoil if not eaten soon or stored, but the ship is wee small." The Old man answered. "Anything else for yous?"
"No thanks, again thanks and bye." Ronnie Anne then leaves the story waving her hand, going into an alleyway next to the building to find Hot Rod in his alt mode waiting for her, next to him was a man in nearly all black clothing faced down in a pile of trash out cold. "What happened to him?" Ronnie Anne asked.
"This guy was trying to break in so I opened my doors for him, not my fault I knocked him into some trash. So what did you learn?" Hot Rod said with Ronnie Anne entering his alt mode before they started to drive off.
"Well, it seems they are taking supplies to that rig O'Neal told us could be their main base." Ronnie Anne suspected as they started to drive off before a ground bridge opened, the moment they entered it they ended up back at the Wreckers base before closing it. "Though I wonder why they picked that place anyway?"
"I think I know," Hot Rod responded before the ground bridge started to open again, this time to take them to a different location. "Far from anyone who was seeking to snoop and no one is using it too." Once the ground bridge reopened, Hot Rod sped up, driving through it and entering the deck of a large red jet carrier, the secondary Alt mode of Broadside. "Welcome aboard the S.S. Broadside!"
"Hey, that would be my line since I am both the captain and the ship." Said the voice Broadside from a speaker system on the ship that was indeed the Wrecker Broadside as a red jet carrier. "Anyway, we're about a kilometer from the rig just out of any radar sensors."
"Good to know that." Ronnie Anne said as she exited Hot Rod, who transformed back into his robot mode, they looked around, and a few people were looking over their weapons and equipment for the mission. The duo walked over to the other Wreckers and Punch, huddled together as they discussed how they would do this. "So, how are we going to get close to them?"
"We have a few ideas, Ironfist had- wait? We?" Punch sounded confused, he then turned to the Wreckers, all equally confused. "You agreed to have a human accompany us on a dangerous off-the-books mission where she could be stabbed or blown up?"
Kup then stepped forward to speak on the matter. "First I am hearing about this." He then turned to Hot Rod. "You want her on this mission?"
"Um, well…" Hot Rod was trying to find his wording, the judgmental look Kup didn't help. "Yeah, she offered to help and she does have that Powermaster suit."
"Along with an A.I. with controls overall functions of the suit," Minerva spoke up from the bands on Ronnie Anne's wrists, she used the comm links to speak to each of the Wreckers. "The Powermaster armor both gives her a physical boost in agility, nearly bullet proof, and with weapons that could defend her."
"Yeah, I could help sneak around before you guys Wreck & Rule! I could actually help out." Ronnie Anne started with a smug smile, her arms crossed. The Wreckers looked at each other before nodding, all agreeing that this could help them out. Ronnie Anne fist pumped in celebration. "Alright! Let's do this, Ironfist, what is the plan?"
"Right, about this plan," Ironfist started to explain before pulling out a gun, pulling the trigger to project what seemed to be a large oil rig, four times the size of a normal one. "This is the rig, an abandoned weapons storage base over the seas in the 1980s that shut down after a year, it seemed to have a radar for in the air or over the sea, luckily we have an idea for getting onboard by sinking to the ocean floor, their radars won't pick us up if we stay close to the ground, there we'll have to either walk or use our alt modes."
"Wait, can the human breathe underwater?" Ruin asked with Rack turning to them. "What's breathing?"
"No, but we did pack an oxygen tank for them." Hot Rod then pulled out a diver oxygen tank, handing it to Ronnie Anne who put on her Powermaster armor and the tank on her back. "So, what are we going to expect?"
"So far," Ironfist then moved a dial to change the image to show different images. "We had sent a drone that stayed in the water, it took some pictures from the ground but we still had satellite, but the looks of it there is a part of it that has a way of parking smaller ships and lifting them out of the water for maintenance so that could be our way in, as for defenses, looks like it is mainly on the outside with anti-air turrets and a few Terrorcons, such as Blackout, Ruckus, Rampage, Battletrap, Berserker, and Thrust in the air." The moment that name was mentioned, Alpha Bravo clenched his hands into fists, Ronnie Anne thought she was the only person to notice this. "So, once we get there, Ronnie Anne could sneak on board to disable any security details for our entrance. Now that we have her helping, once the defenses are down we strive to cause a distraction while Ronnie Anne finds and steals the data key."
"Alright, everyone, we all know what to do. We sink into the water, march, and wait!" Kup announced, leaning right into Alpha Bravo's face, he knew what he was thinking before continuing. "Once we get clear, we attack and take back the data key, once we get it, we evacuate out of there, nothing more or less, understood?!"
"Yes sir!" The Wreckers and even Ronnie Anne agree on giving them all too much space to get ready to dive, leaving Broadside behind.
Location: Half a mile away from the US 50
The US 50 is known for near flatlands, it took time to clean up nearly everything that had happened just earlier that day in the afternoon, it was nighttime with Impactor looking around with Roadbuster, using spotlights to look around. Just close by, Agent O'Neal along with a few other men were watching or helping them look for something. "Alright, I'll bite, what are you all doing out here?" Agent O'Neal asked as from the looks of it, it was nothing all around.
"Reconnaissance, I asked Recon to find where they came on the road," Impactor informed O'Neal.
"Wait, "They"? You mean Punch and the Terrorcons that attacked him?"
"Yeah, an emphasis on "attacked" The most damage he got was a few dents." Impactor replied before stopping, looking down he was viewing three pairs of tire tracks, then of them, he then started to look around. "I just feel it in my circuits, like what you call a "gut feeling" if you will."
O'Neal raised an eyebrow before asking. "Feel what?" He looked around, grabbing a flashlight to see absolutely nothing, there wasn't anything out here, no signs of activity or a fight. He started to understand what Impactor meant by his gut feeling. "Look around everyone, look for anything!" O'Neal ordered, all the soldiers started to fan out.
One soldier walked over to O'Neal, they had to ask one thing about all this. "Sir, what are we looking for?"
"Anything that proves something happened here, I want to find a sign for a fight here!" O'Neal told the soldier who saluted and started to join in, so did he before looking to Impactor. "What do you know?"
"Kup knows more possibly," Impactor replied, looking around before finding footprints, the size fits Cybertronians for sure. Kneeling he noticed how they weren't shifted around or stretched out, they were standing not fighting. "He pointed out a few things, like how Punch still had a lot of ammunition when we ran into him, what are the odds we would run into him in the middle of nowhere not more than a mile away from a fight, he goes missing for a long time so he shows up out of the metaphorical blue, and he is chasing Counterpunch who just so happens to be a Terrorcon now?"
O'Neal was putting the pieces together, nothing is making any sense, when they think one thing made sense another thing didn't, contradictions left and right with every turn. "We should have called off the mission, I'm calling them to call it off or getting Punch back and-"
"Don't." Roadbuster blurted out, O'Neal was confused until he started to add his own sense to this matter. "You call and get them back here, they'll get suspicious then turn tail and run away at the first chance he gets."
"Roadbuster has a point, we can't stop them and we don't know the state of the mission until we know everything is alright we wait, if things go south, we go in guns blazing," Impactor stated as he kept looking around. "I don't like this, it all seems too much to be true."
"Sounds like pessimism."
"More like realism, I am looking for the facts to keep my team safe O'Neal, I don't want to be the one who ruins the party with a down mood but I need to be like this for the Wreckers," Impactor added. "You know how many I've lost? There are too many to count. Some were lost because things looked too good to be true so better safe than losing another Wrecker again."
"Well, that's something I can agree with, looking out for your own is a hard thing to do and after everything you've been through, I even know about things looking too good to be true, like with Silas, he was one of us, an ally before becoming a traitor… We'll keep looking as much as we can." O'Neal stated before he kept looking.
Impactor smirked. "Hmm, thanks for understanding, I knew you would have to be a leader and all."
"Oh here we go again- I am a temporary director! Until they find someone more qualified I'm here and in charge but it is only for a short time."
"Hehe, sure, but so far you're one of the only humans that tolerated us and you're doing a good job at it, watch later on you'll be stuck with us."
"I hope not."
The two Wreckers went back to look in as well, they kept looking around the area for a few minutes and the results turned out nothing, there were no signs of a fight or anything. Impactor didn't like any of this, they didn't enjoy this at all. They then felt a vibration in their ear as if they were receiving a call. "Ratchet, this is Impactor, did you get the message that- Oh, Optimus, sorry, I thought you were… what?"
"Impactor, what is it?" Roadbuster asked with his leader looking uneasy about the matter.
Location: Miles off the coast of Scotland, abandoned rig
The rig was indeed larger than any normal oil rig, most would always be bigger than some structures, some even complaining sizes with the Eiffel Tower nearly matching it in height if out of water. This particular structure was built as a storage area for particular weapons or even missiles, unfortunately, it was shut down decades ago, now being used as a base for M.E.C.H. the Mechanical Enhancement Cybernetic Hunters along with the Terrorcon unit, Mayhem, such as Carnivac watching the sky on a helicopter landing pad, seeing seagulls flying overhead, then the alt mode of Thrust heading towards them, Carnivac looked down, shaking his head in the disappointment of what happens next. Thrust then started to fly down, landing on the pad laughing like a maniac.
"Haha! I love it when I ram into things that fly too slow." Thrust spoke with a twisted-sounding voice.
"They're slow because they don't have a jet engine like you, you psycho flyer!" Carnivac growled at the jet.
"Watch it Fido! I can take you out and I can do what I want, those birds suck anyway." Thrust looked up, saw a few birds, and aimed his weapon up getting ready to fire. "If they didn't want to know what it felt like to be hit by something moving over half Mach speed they should have moved, too bad they were too slow and-" Thrust stopped talking before feeling the barrel of a gun pressed against the back of his head, turning around he saw Rampage with Bludgeon. "Um, hey sir wh-why are you-?"
"Stop. Being. An idiot!" Rampage ordered with Thrust lowering his own and turning around to face them. "Your job is to watch the area for surveillance, not play around! Did Blackout allow this behavior?!"
"Well, um, he didn't mind and-" Thrust was then grabbed by the scruff of his neck, pulling them closer. "Sorry, really I am, heh, I'll do my job properly… Look you can sympathize with me, I am just relieving some stress from being cooped up all the time, you know what I mean since you're also a former-" Thrust was then tossed to the ground, the barrel of his rifle pressed to his head.
"Don't finish that sentence, we're not the same! You'll get no sympathy from me." Rampage then put his weapon away before slamming his fist into Thrust's chest, phasing into them, Thrust's body started to twitch and glitch out, moving almost like a possessed person, even screaming in pain before the fist was pulled out. "I am not like Blackout, he'll let you do what you want as long as it doesn't expose you, Mayhem, or to our mission but I won't allow this! Step out of line again and you'll be missing your head, understand?"
Thrust was on his hands and knees, nearly curled up in pain, he groaned in pain before speaking. "Y-yes, I-I am- I'm sorry sir, forgive me for overstepping…" Thrust kept his head down, only looking up as he heard Rampage walking away, he saw both Carnivac and Bludgeon looking down at them, both metaphorically and literally, he could see it in their eyes that they just looked at him pathetically before walking away leaving Thrust alone. He looked at his hand, it was slightly shaking from pain and anger, once the pain subsided, it just hated in his body, seeing a bird land on the pad probably to rest, Thrust raised his hand before slamming it down.
Rampage entered the rig, the interior was much larger than anyone would expect but they would move supplies and other materials around using these paths, some areas were cut off for them but they were mainly areas they didn't need to be in such as the mess hall or the quarters for resting. So much of Rampage was fuming at Thrust's accusations of saying they were the same, they weren't, they would have just ripped off the Terrorcons head if it wasn't for the fact they needed everyone they could to guard this place. Their forces weren't much, around most of them such as himself, Carnivac, Bludgeon and Thrust were just a few, others such as Berserker, Battletrap, Ruckus, Blackout, and Octopunch, speaking of that last one, they reserved a call.
"Octopunch, what is it?" Rampage asked before hearing what their ally was saying. "Oh, I see, hold your position until I give a signal." Rampage then started to continue his walk before calling someone else. "Silas, do you know the expression "gatecrasher" well…" As they spoke, Carnivac listened in, without letting both Ramage and Bludgeon know that someone was listening in on what they were saying to someone else.
Under the rig, deep in the water, Hot Rod with Ronnie Anne inside of him, Kup, Ironfist, Rack'n'Ruin, Whirl, Alpha Bravo, and Punch made it to one of the legs of the rig, practically hugging the building size structure, Hot Rod opened up, releasing Ronnie Anne who started to swim upwards before reaching top side, breathing fresh air, looking around she founded a latter that led to their entry point. "Okay, here we go, wish me luck guys." Ronnie Anne said as she started to climb up.
"Be careful Ronnie Anne," Hot Rod said to her as she left them, as she was getting closer they were discussing how they would breach in, who was going where and strike when needed, unaware that someone was watching them.
As Ronnie Anne was getting closer she looked at the entrance, it was meant to pick boats out of the water, mainly small ones either for ship repairs or for certain cargo, near the edge of the entrance was one lone man keeping guard. "Ah, what a nice day, fresh coffee and I get to guard the most unlikely area where someone would break into, there is no way anyone could attack here. Man, I got the easy job-" The guard was about to take a sip from a mug before Ronnie Anne leaped into the room via the opening and delivered a drop kick to the face, knocking them down and out.
"Sorry, today isn't your day." Ronnie Anne then looked over the guard she knocked out, taking his weapons and radio while handcuffing them to what looked to be a crane for lifting supplies in and out of the boat. She then found a button that fully opened the platform more than the crack it already was, she then pressed a button on her helmet before several of grappling hooks came from the ocean hitting the ceiling and the Wreckers all started to rise from the water, each entering the rig from the opening, the breach was complete now they needed to make a proper plan. "So, what's next?"
"Well, this is where we each take a position, each of us hiding in certain spots, once you cut off the major power we'll cause some slight damage, Me and Rack'n'Ruin will be on the east side, Hot Rod, Kup, and Punch on the west, Whirl and Alpha Bravo will wait here and once the lights go out, you'll both go in the air, draw attention. We can't hurt humans so all we can do is slight property damage." Ironfist explained getting a slight "Boo!" from Whirl before Kup slapped the back of his head. "Ronnie Anne, Minerva, I am so sorry that we're asking to do this but- Wait, I just realized something."
"What?" Ronnie Anne said sounding confused, the others looked worried, was it important?
"You need a codename for your safety," This claim relieved the Wreckers.
"Yeah, good point I think if anyone here hears my name then I'll be attacked at some point so that means no using my name then huh?" Ronnie Anne then thought hard, it was true she might lose her head or something if one of these guys knows who she really is, some teenage girl from Illinois, her family could be attacked too. "Well, I do have a few nicknames but if I go by any of them then I'll be figured out. Any suggestions or something?"
"Um, how about… I've got nothing." Hot Rod replied, almost none of them had an idea unless it sounded complex or out of her style such as Ruin suggesting "Breakcheck".
Then the voice in her head spoke, Minerva suggested one. "If I may, I don't see any issue using my own name for the mission."
"What? Minerva, I can't just use your name it would be-"
"It wouldn't be too confusing since both you and I would be using the same body, i.e. the Powermaster suit, since we're inside the suit we can both identify as my name when in use, I can handle any medically needed tasks for the Wreckers while you handle combat while I limit the functions of the suit when fighting humans. So therefore, we can identify as Minerva when in the suit." Minerva explained, her program had some sense to it.
"Alight, I'll call myself Minerva when I'm with you guys on any missions," Ronnie-Minerva said in confidence as she cracked her knuckles, getting ready to go and roll out.
"Wait, more missions?" Whirl said in total amusement. "Haha, alright kid, you want to be a Wrecker welcome to the team known for losing members, going on dangerous missions, and breaking everything we don't like."
"Whirl, you break everything." Ironfist retorted.
"Yeah, because I don't like everything, I am an equal opportunity hater."
"Alright," Ironfist then pulled out something, a box-shaped object on the side of his fingertip, gave enough to fix in a person's hand, and handed it to Ronnie-Minerva. "This is an EMP, just place it near the generator, set the time, and get out of the room. It is short range so you both won't have to worry about it affecting you. Once it goes off and shuts down the power we'll go out, while we make some noise you take the vents to the lab where the data key is, by the looks of the map it looks to be in a part of the rig that may be a lab, grab it and roll out." Ironfist pointed out, showing several routes in the vents, showing her what route to take.
Ronnie-Minerva nodded then walked to the wall just under an air duct, jumping up with the power of the suit to get to it in a single leap, ripping it off the wall and turning to the other Wrecker, giving a thumbs up to give the okay before leaving them. Kup then turned to the others nodding to them all to get ready, but Kup turned to two flyers, Alpha Bravo and Whirl, pointing at them and then to the ground, implying that they needed to stay put. Whirl looked at Alpha Bravo, he was clearly not liking the fact that he had to stay put when Thrust was there, the crazy flyer just chuckled at this.
Within the ducts, Ronnie-Minerva was crawling about, moving without making any sound as best she could making her way to the target, the generators of the rig. As she was moving around, they found what seemed like the mess hall, dozens of M.E.C.H. soldiers, all without their masks eating, some just have their masks rolled up for their mouths to be freed as they ate, this got her hungry as she did miss breakfast or was it dinner since it was late at night back home by now. She kept going as far as she could, unknown to her the soldiers all seemed to have checked something on their ears, a message about something, they all then started to leave the room.
After a short time, Ronnie-Minerva made it to her location, the generator, upon reaching it there was something odd as she noticed something, well more of a lack of something, soldiers being seen fewer and fewer. Once she entered the room, she looked around, nothing, no guards or anything, she didn't see anyone. She made her way to the generator and placed the EMP, entering in the timer of a few minutes before running to the vent and making it back, this time she was to go and look for
"Ronnie Anne?" Minerva called out, Ronnie Anne nearly had a heart attack as she started to talk out of nowhere in this tense situation. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you, just wanted to ask you if you're alright?"
"It's fine," Ronnie Anne replied before she continued, just like before there was little sight of soldiers from the vents. Her next goal was to find the data pad, if the map was right then use the highest amount of energy to power up and scan the data pad for its information. "Why do you want to ask?"
"I want to ask because there is a slight uneasiness from you, you seemed worried."
"Yeah, there was just something off," Ronnie Anne said to Minerva, seeing there were little guards or anyone as she made it past some points. "Shouldn't there be some guards or something? There is almost nobody where we go."
Ronnie Anne looked at a vent entrance where she saw almost no one, only about two or a few guards. "Hmm, I think I see what you're talking about, this does seem odd, even though this isn't an official army they do function like one from what we learned about them." Minerva pointed out.
When Ronnie-Minerva continued to keep moving she stopped to feel something odd, a vibration on her back and shoulders. "What was that? Was… was that a massage?" Ronnie Anne asked.
"I am using some vibration in the suit to relieve stress, is it working?"
"Um, not rea- well, actually it is relaxing but this isn't the time, I'm not stressed just wondering what was going-" Ronnie Anne stopped talking before reaching her target, the lab with the data key, but unlike other places, this room had a few people, such as soldiers all moving supplies other things, along with them were two people she could recognize from the photo back in the cabin, Silas and Arkeville. "It's them," She then noticed something, a large monitor with some cables connected to the data key, scanning it for information with the screen showing it was about 50% complete, slowly rising. "And this is what we're looking for."
"Come on! Move faster, I want everything to move out in the next five minutes!" Arkeville announced, clapping as he walked about. Behind him was Silas along with someone in the M.E.C.H. combat uniform but with some modifications, such as the Decepticon symbol on their shoulder shattered in pieces along with the Terrorcon symbol spray painted in silverish blue paint along with red glowing lenses on their goggles. "We're moving out now! We need to before it is too late!"
"Before it is too late?" Ronnie-Minerva spoke in confusion.
The large doors to the lab opened with Rampage, Ruckus, and Berserker walking in. "Doctor, how are things?"
"I would say "good" my friend, but I don't want to lie!" Arkeville shouted at some of the soldiers who started to move faster. "Are things set up?"
"Yes, we'll be ready but it is for the best to get out of here just in case things go south. If the Wreckers attack, we'll take them on." This caught Ronnie-Minerva's attention, not in a good way, they were expecting the Wreckers? How? "Also, Arkeville, if we terminate any of the Wreckers, you wouldn't mind them being slightly or extremely damaged?"
"As long as I can still get some information or reverse engineer their equipment and technology, I won't mind." Arkeville dismissed the statement, brushing off any complications.
"Understood, we'll get ready for the Wreckers my Mayhem!" Rampage said to both the two with him and any Mayhem members on a certain communication line.
Ruckus then raised his arms to speak, or shout, like a higher active sports jock. "YEAH! LET'S DO THIS!"
Berserker, who was just two feet away from Ruckus as the two were side-by-side, covered his ears in pain. "Agh! Ruckus! I swear to Primus if you shout right in my audio receptors again I will rip out your vocalizer from your neck and shove it in your tailpipe!"
The three Terrorcons then started to leave, once they were gone the M.E.C.H. operatives all went back to working and storing away anything and everything they could grab. Ronnie-Minerva had to act fast, she thought of contacting the other Wreckers to warn them that this was a trap of some sort, that their enemies knew they were coming then get ready to steal the data key. Yeah, it could have worked if it wasn't for the creeping feeling that something was watching her from behind, looking behind her she saw darkness followed by two glowing yellow eyes. "What the frag?" Was all Ronnie-Minerva could say before or whatever was in the shadows lounging at her.
A rustling sound could be heard in the vent, everyone stopped and looked to it before Ronnie-Minerva crashed out of the air duct along with someone, they seemed to be in a robotic magenta diver suit with the chest are being white with blue equipment and blue cooper blue legs, their back had purple tentacles coming out. "Well, well, well, it seems the Autobots come in small sizes too!" The diver spoke with tentacles launching towards Ronnie-Minerva, some wrapped around her arms and they tried to pull her close to them but she held her ground. "This should be fun!"
Ronnie-Minerva held their ground, not moving an inch as they displayed their strength. "Ronnie Anne, you might want to watch out for the others guard." Minerva said to Ronnie, she looked and saw two of the soldiers running towards her with a shotgun, aiming and firing. Ronnie Anne wanted to dodge but Minerva did something better, slipping her left arm free to block the shot, but it wasn't just the armor but something else: a shield made of the same energy of her Ion energy blades. "Good thing the shields work."
"Note to self, do more testing with this suit." Ronnie Anne spoke with her and Minerva forming a blade on her hand to slash the tentacles of their foe, harming them. Ronnie-Minerva then got close to the soldier with the shotgun, once they cocked the weapon she kicked it out of their hand with a rising front kick then the soldier themself with an axe kick, grabbing their weapon, snapping it in half, tossing both pieces at the other soldier, hitting them in both the face and chest.
Three more soldiers pulled out their weapons, shooting at her but she used both her arms to block with two shields forming in front and mixed together to make a larger shield, dashing towards one of them, crashing into the soldier and sending them flying towards a wall. One of the other soldiers had pulled out a baton, swinging it towards Ronnie-Minerva from behind but she delivered a roundhouse kick knocking them down and for the last soldier who threw a punch but she grabbed the fist, pulling them towards her and tossing them with a judo throw. She looked around seeing the five soldiers she just beat, she felt like she was invincible, that was until she was hit by a laser from the diver, knocking her down. "Ow…"
"Foolish little pest! Get ready to feel the wrath of Octopunch!" The diver said confusing Ronnie-Minerva, she thought he was larger but then again maybe he did things to himself where he could go smaller? She has heard of Mass compression before.
Octopunch
-Terrorcon
-Water Hovercraft
-Enjoys ripping things apart too much
Octopunch ran towards Ronnie-Minerva, leaping in the air to slam into her but she rolled to the left, he aimed his weapon at her but she blocked the shot with the shield and aimed her fist her forearm popped out with a pipe extending out and fired a shot of her own knocking Octopunch across the room. "Whoa! I have a gun in my arm?" Ronnie Anne said in total surprise and amazement at this discovery.
"Actually it is a concussion launcher, non-lethal," Minerva explained.
While Ronnie-Minerva was getting back up, Silas, Arkeville, and the elite soldiers next to them were watching all this, the said soldier took a single step to join the fight but Silas stopped them. "Hold it Nemesis, let our friend here do the fighting both to weaken our foe and so we'll know how useful they actually can be." Silas started with the soldier stepping back, watching and observing.
Octopunch got back up and screamed as loud as they could, energy almost like electricity covered his tentacles before whipping them at Ronnie-Minerva that she blocked every blow she could with shields but every hit was powerful. The Terrorcon then got ready for one powerful strike with all his tentacles pulling back to be unleashed, Ronnie-Minerva couldn't just block this one, when Octopunch was about to strike the lights went out, the power was out, the EMP was set off wiping the structure of power. "SCRAP!" Ronnie-Minerva shouted, almost everyone was blinded, the only light was from Octopunch's glowing tentacles
Ronnie-Minerva used the darkness of the room to move around, her visor giving her night vision, she really should have asked for a manual after all this for the armor, she then grabbed the Data key and ran toward the exit, unaware that something, a wire coming out of her wrist and entered into the data key. The soldier called Nemesis blocked her path, did he have night vision too? He then swung a punch that she ducked to avoid being punched in the face, but as she avoided the punch her black legging-like armor started to undo itself, flipping to the side of her legs only held on her feet and slid closer to each other, forming a board that started to hover over the ground. "Whoa! Whoa! Hoverboard? This is awesome!" Ronnie-Minerva shouted before reaching the exit and then remembering something, the Wreckers she needed to call them but it was too late as she heard explosions. "SCRAP!"
A few moments ago, above ground, the Wreckers were all in position, on the east side of the rig, Kup, Hot Rod, and Punch were hanging on the side just out of sight, on the opposite side Ironfist and the twins Rack'n'Ruin were on the east side while Alpha Bravo and Whirl were below for the ready to attack, they were all looking at anything that used electricity, mainly lights that once they went out they got out to strike. Hot Rod, Kup, and Punch rose up, and leaped over the edge to make their way on a large platform with creates around the area but once their feet touched the ground, the Terrorcon, Berserker came out of nowhere and bashed Punch with his shield knocking them off the rig and fell into the ocean. "PUNCH!" Hot Rod shouted before getting a punch to the face by Rampage who just came out of nowhere and Carnivac tackled Kup to the ground in his wolf beast mode, biting on his shoulder.
On the opposite side of the rig, both Ironfist and Rack'n'Ruin leaped over the edge of the rig to get onto another platform to be met by Battletrap, Ruckus, and Bludgeon, both ready to fight. Ironfist pointed his weapon as fast as he could before Battletrap threw his flail about knocking it out of his hand then aimed his machine guns and opened fire forcing the Wreckers to take cover. "Both of you take on the weapons expert, I'll take the twins," Bludgeon ordered with Battletrap and Ruckus nodding their heads, they then separated to take on their assigned foes with Bludgeon drawing his sword, once they came close they started to slash at the twins, Ruin blocked it with his hammer weapon while Rack got ready to swing with his but Bludgeon caught with one hand and kick the twins away from them.
Below deck both Whirl and Alpha Bravo leaped off the platform to attack in their alt modes but had to quickly dodge a barrage of missiles that were aimed at them, luckily they missed but had to swerve around as the alt mode of Thrust and Blackout were charging at them. Blackout came close to transforming into his robot mode to grab Whirl's tail boom to swing them into the side of one of the legs of the rig, he luckily transformed into his robot mode where he was still slammed into it but Whirl aimed his gun arm right into Blackout's face and fired, their helmet took most of the damage but was forced to let the Wrecker go who transformed, turned around, and aimed to fire again but Blackout dodged out of the way with Whirl chasing them.
With Alpha Bravo, it was a dogfight, both fighting in the air with the jet moving fast and evading anything thrown at them Alpha Bravo wasn't as fast but was a good shot but his head wasn't in the game, he was fighting a foe hated with all his being. Thrust got out from underneath the rig with Alpha Bravo following them like a bloodhound picking up a scent on a hunt, the Terrorcon then turned around to charge at Alpha Bravo but before they crashed they flew up just missing the edge of a helicopter platform. Alpha Bravo ended up following them, flying up before being grabbed by his landing skids and tossed to the platform; he should have had his blades facing the platform to avoid what happened.
The Aerialbot transformed into his robot mode, he tried to shoot with his rifle but it was shot out of his hand by Thrust, their hands embedded in his wrist that looked like the thrusters of a jet. Alpha Bravo then just fired his arm-mounted missiles, Thrust of course, he shot back hitting the missiles but the Wrecker used the smoke to charge towards them, tackling the traitor into the ground Thrust was no amateur in combat, he pushed them off then fire two rounds into the Wrecker's chest, knocking them back a bit.
Thrust then performed a backflip but mid-way he transformed to try and crash into them, hitting their head with the butt of the jet knocking their balance off to make them fall on the back, Thrust slowly rose up before transforming into robot mode and landing on top of the Wrecker, smothering their foot onto his face like wiping dirt or a bug off their foot. "Haha, whoa, you really hate me huh? I can tell… Wait, you look familiar, have we met?" Those words from Thrust made Alpha Bravo's anger reach a point that would explode with anger if he could. "Whoa, pushy."
"Are you Friggin kidding me?! I was an Aerialbot!"
"Aerialbot? Oh right my old- Wait, no way, you survived that attack? I remember a member with a hovercraft or Helicopter alt mode, it was Bravo?"
"Alpha Bravo! I am Alpha Bravo! The last surviving Aerialbot! The Bot that was hunting you down before you were thought to be dead for eons you-"
"Right! The slowpoke, Alpha Bravo…" Thrust started before kicking Alpha Bravo in the face. "Thought I killed you guys and that it was you who was chasing me down?" Thrust then extended his hands out from his cannon wrist to grab Alpha Bravo, pulling them close before punching. The Wrecker tried to reach for his weapon but was kicked in the side then stomped on by Thrust. "Ahahaha! For the longest time, I thought it was odd why I heard an Autobot was after me, taking out the squad I got, you took out Ramjet and Dirge? For a while, I thought it was someone threatening but it was you? The Aerialbot sniper who only got on an elite team because of your aim. If I knew that I would have dealt with you instead of running off and getting on that fragging list by the DJD." Thrust then had his hands turned to cannons yet again, aiming them at the Wrecker's head but before they could shoot, they were hit in the shoulder knocking them back, Whirl flew by transforming into his robot mode to drop kick Thrust off the platform.
"Get scraped, idiot!" Whirl insulted the Terrorcon before getting Alpha Bravo on his feet. "You can still transform and fly?" Whirl's teammate just nodded the universal sign for yes, he then pushed them off the platform, just in time to avoid a barrage of missiles from Blackout. "Good, then turn that blade, burn your fuel, and move your aft!"
On the deck of the rig, Hot Rod was fighting Rampage, using his sword to battle while burning the blade to slash at the Terrorcon to add energy in case they did whatever they did whatever it was they did during the highway fight. As he was struggling to even hit Rampage, he saw Kup was trying to hold his own in the fight, pushing Carnivac off him, taking a chunk of his shoulder's armor, a blue fluid leaking from his body, Energon. Kup rose back onto his feet, seeing his rifle was across the ground while Carnivac transformed into his robot mode, drawing a knife from his side. "Ready to finish where we left off?"
Kup just gave a serious look, turning his gaze to his rifle, too far away, then to Carivac, too close, he then pulled out something, his own knife. "Alright, let's do this." Kup switched to a confident smile as he held the knife in a reverse grip, the blade facing down, the perfect fighting stance, his smile died when Carivac did the same with the follow of a click as the blade started to glow a burning color. "Hmm, you kids these days with fancy tools… But I've seen better." With that Kup charged with the two fighting in close-quarters combat, blades merely brushing the two as they attempted to trade blow for blow.
Hot Rod and Rampage's fight wasn't like the fight happening close by, both Transformers had nearly similar speeds, but Hot Rod had a single sword and shield while Rampage was just using twin batons to swat at the Autobot who blocked with his sword, Rampage then took a back step before transforming to ram towards Hot Rod but he performed a front flip to dodge them, aiming his arm mounted pipes to unleash flames into Rampage, harming them and blinding them before crashing. "Scrap," Hot Rod then pressed his fingers to the side of his head. "Ironfist, Rack'n'Ruin, we need backup can you-" Hot Rod couldn't finish as he could hear fighting on their end.
Elsewhere with the others, Ironfist was hiding behind a cargo created as shielding from being shot at while Rack'n'Ruin were barely holding their own against Bludgeon. "Sorry Hot Rod, we can't get to you, it turns out they were expecting us and-" Ironfist couldn't finish as he needed to get away from Ruckus who snuck around, before unleashing a powerful scream that he drove away from. "-And they are ripping us apart like before."
Hot Rod could only shake his head, things were not on his side. Rampage had gotten back up, brushing dust off of him before turning to Hot Rod, twiddling the batons like drumsticks before striking at Hot Rod who once again blocked with his shield. The striking then came to a halt, seeing this as a chance he thought of striking before seeing something in the corner of his eyes, Ronnie-Minerva going down a hallway through some windows with Octopunch following her. Was Rampage thinking of attacking her? He couldn't let that happen, he would stop them. This silent vow was put on hold as Rampage's back slightly opened up before launching Skar from his back. "Skar, recover the data key, attack the human."
Skar transformed into his robot mode, screeching like a banshee to fly towards Ronnie-Minerva, Hot Rod tried to stop this, aiming his pipes to shoot down the mini-con only to be whacked in the arms and then the head. Ronnie-Minerva kept getting further away, using her new hoverboard to get some distance, looking out the window she saw both Kup and Hot Rod, they seemed to be struggling with who they were fighting, she wanted to join the fight but couldn't especially with her struggling to deal with Octopunch who was slowly catching up with her, she then saw Skar ramming into a window just barely missing her and joining in the chase.
She kept it up, trying to avoid being caught or, worse, taken out by her assailants. A part of her wanted to look back to see if she had enough distance away from them, but looking back would slow her down. Possibly the best option as she avoided a filing cabinet thrown at her, most likely from Octopunch. She then busted through a set of doors into what seemed to be a mess hall, seeing a large table, she picked it up and tossed it to the doors to block it off, after throwing the table she turned around to see several M.E.C.H. troopers all looking at her in silence.
Ronnie-Minerva looked around, it was an awkward silence with no one moving, seeing a bagel on a spread table, and picked it up. "Hello boys, things are wild out there right?" She said to the room full of fully armed men, all pulling out weapons from seemingly out of nowhere, or out of view, these were added as to why she should start running away, along with Octopunch and Skar busting down the doors. "Booking it out of here!" Ronnie-Minerva then started to hover towards the other set of doors.
"She took a bagel! Stop her!" One of the M.E.C.H. operatives yelled as they started to shoot at her with various weapons.
She tried to reach the doors but had to change course as some of the soldiers started to shoot at the doors, forcing her away from her exit and taking cover behind some warming cabinets for holding food. Four M.E.C.H. operatives started to move forward with Octopunch and Skar, looking over the cabinets to find a large hole in the ground, recently carved as the edges were red hot, recently burned. Octopunch stuck his head into the hole to see underneath the floor showing the deck below the mess hall, there was Ronnie-Minerva just a few feet away cutting into the floor from below the mess hall, the two made eye contact before Ronnie-Minerva threw the bagel she took, the force made it explode into chunks and butter that blinded him. Octopunch screamed in fury before he started to chase her again with Skat following suit.
Once they reached the hole, Octopunch entered what seemed to be a hallway looking around to see Ronnie-Minerva, when Skar was about to go through the entrance, he was grabbed into a headlock forcing him to spit out some of the acid from his mouth. The acid was spread all around, some of it landing on Octopunch's tentacles, burning and melting them. The tentacles started to melt with it showing metal pipes, the bones or frames of the tentacles slightly burning them too. Ronnie-Minerva then tosses Skar into the hole where he was falling down, crashing into some pipes.
Ronnie-Minerva then faced Octopunch, he tried to whip his tentacles like he did before but the burns caused damage, his movements were slower than he could, so in a last-ditch effort, he started to throw punches like an amateur boxer. Ronnie Minerva quickly dodged any punch thrown at her, wanting to take them down she swerved around, avoiding every blow thrown at her, she then had an opening, throwing one powerful jab right into Octopunch's face into the visor of the diver's helmet, breaking the glass and hitting them right in the face. She then grabbed the brims of the helmet to toss them down the hole, hitting Skar he tried to get back up by flying but crashed into Octopunch the two falling into the water. The two were sinking before a sudden speedboat started to float right over where the two with a tentacle exiting the water to hold on, Octopunch pulled himself and Skar out of the war and onto the boat.
Ronnie Anne looked down, the two were too far away for her to see them. "Did you see that?!" Ronnie Anne shouted in excitement, she just punched an enemy, an alien threat, right in the face. "I just punched them square in the face!"
"Yes, you did, excellent work Ronnie Anne." Minerva replied to Ronnie Anne as she was excited about what just happened.
"Yeah, that was-" Ronnie Anne then noticed on her hand to find a purple ooze on her hand. "Ew! Ew! Ew! Gross! Gross! What is this?! Is this blood or something?!" Ronnie Anne said in disgust at the ooze, trying to brush it off.
"That would be mucus from Octopunch's body, he really went all out with his organic parts and Cyber Graphing his horrifically impressive," Minerva admitted. "Also, there is a towel that was in the box there." Upon seeing the towel, she grabbed it and started to wipe off as much of the ooze off her hand for sanitary reasons. "That was great work getting away, now what should we do?"
"Contact the others of course," Ronnie Anne then started to reach for her close friend and remember she failed to warn them about everything that had just happened. "Hot Rod, Kup, anyone I-"
"Ronnie- Minerva, sorry, now isn't a good-" Hot Rod spoke up, elsewhere on the rig Hot Rod was dealing with Rampage, his back to a wall with the Terrorcon swiping his weapons around nearly landing a blow. "A good time to talk but are you alright!" Hot Rod asked as he threw a punch, Rampage suddenly turned intangible like he always did before getting hit in the back.
"I'm fine, I got the data key but before I did I overheard them attacking you guys, it was an ambush and-" Ronnie-Minerva tried to explain but Hot Rod interrupted her.
"It's fine and good, get that key away, Whirl, Alpha Bravo, one of you get to Ron- Minerva, to get her back to Broadside, once she's safe we're leaving and-" Hot Rod was then hit from behind again, he then unleashed a flurry of flames right into Rampage's face. "And then we are out of here!"
"Couldn't agree more!" Kup replied as he and Carnivac were on equal terms of skill.
Ronnie-Minerva also agreed and started to move while checking, she did still have the data key, it was around the size of a tablet, running towards what seemed to be an exit. "Alright, I'll be out in the open and-" Once Ronnie-Minerva made it to the exit, it seemed like a large platform, some sort of a helicopter pad, this rig had several of them for some reason. Once she was out in the open, she heard a crashing sound, turning around she saw someone standing right next to the entrance, a transformer who slammed a fist down, cutting off her exit, it was Counterpunch. "Oh scrap!"
"Listen here human, hand over the data key, it's too dangerous for you." Counterpunch told Ronnie-Minerva, confusing them, they actually sounded concerned.
"How about no Terrorcon!" Ronnie-Minerva replied as she started to run towards the edge of the platform, her idea? Run off the edge and jump off, tricking Counterpunch and getting away, she just needed to get away, too bad it wasn't even halfway across the helicopter pad. Counterpunch had transformed into his alt-mode, a similar alt mode to Punch's, it even had similar dents that Punch had, such as one of the headlights being damaged, the same one Punch had, Ronnie-Minerva tried to jump over them but he transformed back and grabbed her. "HEY! Let me go!" She tried to struggle out of his grip before remembering she had laser knight hands. "Right, laser knife hands."
Ronnie-Minerva then raised her hands, twin blades emerging from her knuckles to stab into Counterpunch's wrists. "Wait, let me- AGH!" Counterpunch then dropped Ronnie-Minerva, she released her hoverboard to get away but the moment she was about to reach the edge she was knocked back, an explosion hit her from below the shot didn't come from Counterpunch but from the boat that Octopunch and Skar were riding on, using a mounted missile launcher that did some damage. "Ow… Minerva, am I okay?"
"According to my scans you're just fine. The blast was mainly covered from the platform, but it seems you dropped something," Minerva spoke out , seeing the data key on the ground and Counterpunch picking it up.
"Hey! Give that back!"
"Forgive me for my rudeness, but I need to keep hold of this for a while," Counterpunch replied, putting the data key in a compartment in his chest. Ronnie-Minerva charged towards them, laser knife hands to slash their leg but he swiftly moved and looked like he was about to deliver a kick, she formed a shield but the kick never came as he instead moved quickly to reach out and grab from behind followed by pushing her to the ground, placing their hand on her back. "Alright, how about we take this moment to talk about Punch and-" Counterpunch tried to speak but Ronnie-Minerva had a better idea, slashing his wrist yet again forcing him to let go in pain. "AGH! PRIMUS FRAGGING-AGAIN!"
Ronnie-Minerva rolled to the side before jumping off the ground, taking a stance to fight, then remembering that she didn't know the limits of her shielding if any of her weapons could actually seriously harm the Terrorcon and that he was faster and stronger so maybe fighting wasn't a good idea. As she thought this, she could hear something coming, looking close to the edge she saw Octopunch managed to climb up from the legs of the rig to reach them. "Scrap, not this guy again!" Ronnie-Minerva said in total disinterest, she did not want to deal with this guy right now, luckily she didn't before a sudden missile was fired and blasted Octopunch off the side of the platform. "What the what?"
Turning around they saw it was Counterpunch who blasted them off, a double barrel gun that was used to fire the missile, they holstered the weapon before turning around to start walking. "Look, I don't know if you'll believe me or not but I am not your enemy, we're both on the same side after all."
"What are you talking about?" Ronnie-Minerva asked before Counterpunch began to walk away but was stopped as he took a missile to his shoulder knocking them down. Looking up she saw Alpha Bravo and Whirl flying at the platform, both transforming into their robot modes, the two firing some shots in the air at Blackout and Thrust who flew by, Whirl then aimed at Counterpunch. "Whirl, wait!"
Whirl fired another shot only for Counterpunch to transform to avoid the shot and drive off the edge of the platform. Whirl ran over to the edge to chase or shoot the spymaster but the moment he looked over the edge there was no one, the water didn't show any shift in the water and he heard no splash and by the time he reached the edge he would have seen the hit the water. "Scrap, he might have got somewhere below."
Ronnie-Minerva ran over to see they were indeed gone, she then turned to Whirl to shout. "Whirl, what the frag was that?!"
"Whoa, what's with that attitude," Whirl said defensively. "I was just looking out for you and taking out a threat."
"Don't you remember what Punch said, any damage both him and Counterpunch take, the other takes it too and you shoot him in the shoulder, you trigger-happy psycho!"
"I prefer trigger-happy hazards." Whirl said before picking Ronnie-Minerva. "Anyway, you still have the data key?"
"No, I dropped it and Counterpunch swiped it, I'm sorry."
"Hey, we all make mistakes, granted you made a big one and should feel rather bad about screwing it up badly-"
"Whirl, I have laser knife hands and you're holding me, I can cut you." Ronnie-Minerva interrupted, setting up a laser blade which made Whirl stop talking, she wasn't in the mood. "I'm sorry I lost the data key… I might have messed this mission up."
"Negative Ronnie Anne for we can track it down." Minerva spoke up, confusing Ronnie Anne so she continued to speak. "After you grabbed it, I inserted a wire into the key, I couldn't grab any of the data on the key but it did have a tracking device signal, I can track it down once it is in a location for a short time."
"Wait, so we can find it again later?" Ronnie Anne asked with her visor showing a thumbs up, Minerva confirming it was current. "Yes! Alright, we can find out where they are and where the key is, this is great."
"Alright, guess you didn't mess up the mission you little-" Whirl stopped talking when Ronnie-Minerva formed an energy blade. "Shutting up, alright we should-" He was cut off by the sound of lighting in the sky, clouds forming and turning dark. "What the? A storm?"
Back on the deck, Hot Rod had several dents over his body while Kup was covered in cuts, Rampage seemed to have barely any damage, Carnivac only had a few cuts on him, and Berserker was mainly standing around, using his shield to block anything thrown at him. The fight seemed to be going hard with everyone going full out as much as they could, then the sound of crackling thunder could be heard, and everyone looked up with the clouds turning darker. Berserker took this moment, he charged at the two Autobots who dodged out of the way with him bashing forward with his shield and swinging his hammer about but missed the two, he stopped over the edge of the deck. "You both better just give up, you're outnumbered and outgunned."
"You think we would give up? You don't know scrap!" Kup shouted as he got ready for another round. Berserker just chuckled before starting to walk over to the Wreckers but was knocked down, a kick to the back of his head dealing damage to him. The one who kicked them was Punch covered in water. "Punch!"
"Sorry, it took a while climbing out of the waters when you sink so deep." Punch informed Hot Rod before he joined the fight, standing beside his fellow Autobots. "So, how's this fight?"
"Little half and half, focus on using energy weapons or attacks on him, he can phase through almost anything." Hot Rod told Punch who nodded.
Just away from the now two-on-one fight, Kup was still facing Carnivac, as the two faced each other the Terrorcon shifted his eyes to see Punch along with Hot Rod, mainly to Punch. When Carnivac shifted his feet to step closer he heard ringing in his ear, it was a signal and after hearing he charged at Kup but he swapped his he held the knife, switching the blade to face up for a stab but his movement seemed slower than he normally would move, jabbing forward Kup easily dodged moving to the right and grabbing Carnival's wrist, tossing them at a stacks of cargo creates leaving a dent in his, he then came close to have the edge of his blade to the Terrorcons neck. "What was that?" Kup questioned that attack, movement, everything was reckless, something a hunter like Carnivac would be.
Carnivac looked Kup dead in the eye, his expression changed to horror as the sound of thunder roared the sky, he shifted his gaze to look at Punch then back to Kup before telling him one thing. "You won't believe me, but don't trust Punch." Kup was confused before Carnivac whistled, Kup's senses acting up, his vision became static, the sound was muffled, he was shaking like a normal man in the cold.
Carnivac then grabbed Kup's wrist to push it away, the two seem to be struggling against each other but really it was all Carnivac, he was dragging Kup around to make it seem like a struggle for the two, but then Kup's senses returned to normal. When his senses returned, Kup was confused before the struggle started to look genuine, Carnivac smirked before telling Kup one thing. "You pushed me off." He said calmly before pulling, making it look like he pushed them, the old Wrecker didn't notice but they were close to the edge of the rig so Carnivac fell off.
Looking downward, he thought Carnivac was going to hit the water but saw a ground bridge open up, eating up Carnivac allowing him to escape, confusing Kup before it fully closed. "Kup! Join in our fight!" Hot Rod yelled as they had seen what he believed to be a fight. He then turned to Rampage with Kup walking over to them, three Autobots facing one angry-looking Terrorcon, his annoyance plain to see. "Looks like the fight in our favor for a change."
The three Autobots were ready, Hot Rod seemed smug, Kup was serious, and Punch it was hard to tell since a mask and visor covered his face and eyes, then lightning struck down but it kept going down as if it was a pillar of light, crackling and shifting before it disappeared and Thunderwing appeared before them, his arms crossed, his twisted looking face showing a scowl. "Who the frag is this guy?" Hot Rod questioned.
"My lord?! What-" Rampage could barely question Thunderwing's appearance, as if he teleported to appear before the Terrorcon, receiving a backhanded slap.
"You fool! I told you to contact me if the Wreckers arrived so why is it that Bludgeon sent me a message about them attacking just a minute ago!"
"For- Forgive me… I was-"
"You were fighting Hot Rod, what did I tell you… focus on the mission not on your vendetta." Thunderwing's words made Hot Rod question things, it made sense that Rampage had a vendetta but didn't understand why.
"Punch, who is this guy?" Hot Rod asked, he was a prisoner for sometime so he had to have heard something but the spy just looked at Hot Rod, then to Thunderwing, then to Hot Rod again to shrug in confusion. "Okay, hey!" Hot Rod yelled. "Who are you?"
Thunderwing just turned around slowly, looking at the three, towering over them. Hot Rod felt this presence before but could not put his finger to it. "I am many things…" Energy surrounded his hands, stomping to the Wreckers slowly. "Doom bringer, the torch of the darkest hour, the greatest creation of Megadeath, Chaos maker, the dark voice heard through the void… I am Thunderwing!" He then unleashed the energy from his hands forming pillars of energy.
Normally the Autobots would be brave no matter the foe but with this guy they were stuck, taking a step back and flinching. "Do you think he's bluffing?" Hot Rod asked the others, hoping this guy was just hyping himself up.
Thunderwing then turned to Rampage, and he saw Berserker getting off the ground. "Both of you get out of here, I will take care of the rest, everyone else was evacuating the rig, we don't need this location any longer. Same with the others…" Thunderwing then started to glow red, a wave of red energy left his eyes before a message could be heard not from his voice but as if he was speaking to them from his mind. "To all of Mayhem, we are leaving… that is an order."
Elsewhere, Bludgeon was standing over Rack'n'Ruin, his sword in the ground in between the heads of the twins who were covered in scratches, he aimed a cannon at Ruin's head, the barrel starting to glow but turned his head to see Battletrap being launched into the wall then seeing Ruckus being flung across the platform, his mouth covered in some sort of concrete. He then shifted his head to the other side to see Ironfist aim his turret he carried on his back point-blank on his side, but Bludgeon acted back, pulling his sword out and bringing it only an inch from the Wrecker's neck. The red wave came to them, brushing over everyone, Bludgeon shifted his hand slightly to slash down, cutting into the weapon then shaving his weapons and walking away. "Let's get out of here." Bludgeon spoke before a ground bridge appeared with the other two getting up and walking into the ground bridge, Ironfist then got to the others to help them.
In the sky Thrust and Black were flying to chase both Whirl and Alpha Bravo, Whirl had Ronnie-Minerva inside, the chase seemed to be mainly the Wreckers evading anything thrown at them before the red wave reached them, the two flyers then turned around much to Alpha Bravo's chagrin, he wanted another chance but blew it with a ground bridge opening like an exit for the two flyers. Just below on the ocean, Octopunch and Skar were looking to the sky before the red wave washed over them, with Octopunch turned into a sphere or rather a diver's helmet that was the same size as he was then the hovercraft started to change with him becoming the head to the giant robot body with Skar staying on his arm. A ground bridge opened and he leaped inside of it.
Back with Thunderwing, he turned around with Rampage and Berserker running towards a ground bridge that appeared from nowhere. He turned to the Wreckers only to see Hot Rod holding his bow pulling back an energy string to launch two arrows made of energy but Thunderwing caught them with his hands and crushed them like twigs. Kup and Punch pulled out their main weapons, Kup had his rifle and Punch had an orange gun before unleashing many shots onto the Terrorcon, leaving no damage as he took every hit as if he was walking in the rain, he then stepped forward, raising his hand that bathed in energy before striking it down, unleashing the energy that launched the three flying away.
Before Hot Rod landed he transformed into his alt mode then drove with his engines on full throttle towards Thunderwing, transforming back into robot mode with the motion he gained from driving to slam a fish into his enemy's face. The punch did nothing, Thunderwing didn't even flinch, he then started throwing every punch he could even mixing his flame throwers with his punches. "You don't learn, you never do Hot Rod." Thunderwing shocked Hot Rod, both metaphorically for knowing his name before speaking it and literally by grabbing him and unleashing energy that hurt him then tossing him to the side.
Kup started to charge at Thunderwing with a knife to strike at the Terrorcon, it was what he felt like he could do before leaping up to strike. The result wasn't what he was hoping for as Thunderwing grabbed both his neck and wrist, holding the joint tightly and implying more pressure to crush his wrist, forcing him to drop the knife followed by him grabbing the weapon, stabbing the blade into Kup's leg. "I thought the wise ones knew better!" He then tossed Kup into the air before firing energy from his hand after tossing Kup, launching them further.
Punch took this moment, rushing to Thunderwing's blind spot to get beside them with his arm still raised to throw a punch at his side, only to receive his foe's elbow right to his face and knocking them down. Thunderwing looked to the side confused, he didn't actually see Punch, which would have been embarrassing for the spymaster. "Seriously, what are you doing here Punch?" Thunderwing asked, his voice didn't sound demanding but rather curious, this curiosity was cut short as he was being shot at by several positions, to his left it was Ironfist and Rack'n'Ruin who were using his torrent, to his right it was both Whirl and Alpha Bravo firing at them.
Thunderwing just slowly walked over to the edge of the rig, leaning off the edge followed by falling, as he descended closer to the water, he changed into a demonic looking jet that started to fly around the legs of the rig. He then started to unleash not missiles but yellow lasers that were fast as lightning, clashing into the legs of the rig to damage them, the entire structure started to stake violently. "Whoa! This guy is crazy!" Ironfist yelled as both he and Rack'n'Ruin helped the other Wreckers who were harmed.
Thunderwing kept up his assault, destroying anything below, Alpha Bravo chased them, but the demonic jet was far too fast, faster than a normal jet, they were practically moving so fast that they were at one end of the rig to another in just a second. He was destructive as he was fast and their speed in the air seemed unmatched, damaging the legs as if they were nothing, each blast breaking and shaking.
"Hot Rod, get off the rig! It's going to fall apart!" Ronnie-Minerva shouted over the comms, the five Wreckers still on the platform who needed to get away, the rig finally started to fall into the ocean with Thunderwing getting out from under the rig with Alpha Bravo still following. "Whirl!"
"On it!" Whirl then unleaded gun fire and missiles that he launched at the Terrorcon, who transformed into robot mode hovering in the air, arms opened to take the full front of the attack, confusing the Wrecker. "What?!" A cloud of smoke covered where Thunderwing was, as it cleared it showed the Terrorcon was completely unharmed.
Out of nowhere from behind they were hit by even more missiles and gun fire by Alpha Bravo. They then changed into robot mode, aiming at two different weapons, twin miniguns and a rifle before he continued to fire for about a solid minute before his weapons were empty. "Okay, I needed that…"
"Did you get him?" Whirl asked over the comms before Alpha Bravo holstered one of his weapons and responded with a thumb up followed by him reloading his weapons. "Great, as you humans love to quote, Yippee Ki Yay-" Then the smoke started to clear up before Thunderwing was yet again completely unharmed. "MOTHERFRAGER! How is this guy still standing? We hit him with everything we had!"
"Should we be more worried about how powerful he is and the now sinking rig!" Ronnie-Minerva pointed out before she looked directly into Thunderwing's eyes, she could see the glowing red eyes, there was something about him that was threatening yet painful, like he was keeping a straight face for some reason, she then realized what it was as he looked at his hand that was shaking violently before suddenly imploding on itself, like pressure built up within them. "What in the world?! Did you see that?!"
"Yeah, I did." Alpha Bravo stated over comms; he sounded horrified.
"Heh, what? I didn't see what happened. Do it again- What happened to his arm?" Whirl started, actually sounding confused.
Thunderwing then raised his arms, even the one that was highly damaged before bolts of lightning struck him, light blinding everyone before he suddenly disappeared.
"What the frag?" Whirl said, confused, that was an odd encounter no doubt.
"Why did he run away?"
"My guys, whatever it was that made him strong was affecting him, his arm did implode on itself." Alpha Bravo started before looking at the rig. "Scrap! The rig!"
Back on the platform that was just reaching the water, the Wreckers stayed close to the edge, there plan was kinda clear, they couldn't simply jump off as when they reached the water they would sink into the water straight to the bottom and the rig would have fallen on top of them, so their plan was to hang on for as long as they can. Once the rig entered the water, it started to sink like a brick just as Kup planned, letting the structure sink before they started to let go letting the platform sink faster than the five Wreckers. "Well, that was close." Kup spoke out before hearing someone, Ronnie Anne, over the comms.
"Hey! Is everyone okay?!"
"Minerva, we're alright, what about you?"
"I'm sorry, Counterpunch took the data key, but Minerva accessed the key and activated the tracker so we can find it easier than we did before."
"That's good kid, you and the flyers go back to Broadside, we'll head back and reach you all soon." Kup ordered with Alpha Bravo and Whirl flying away, the five Wreckers then leaped off the structure, using a mix of their weapons and such, like Rack'n'Ruin swinging their hammers like propellers, to move further, unaware that Kup was looking at Punch with unease, something wasn't right.
Location: Unknown desert
Within the middle of nowhere, the desert somewhere it was isolated and quite, it was anyway before a sudden boom with Thunderwing falling to the ground, his arm that imploded started to act strangely, it morphed back to normal but was starting to breakdown with cubic lines covered his arm then his whole body. "Too… t-t-too mu- too much… de- Deactivate pro… program UK-208:US-50, code: Dark Star… NOW!" Suddenly the lines that covered his body started to dissipate, returning him back to normal before his golden face fell off. "That was… too much… how did he not die from this power…" Thunderwing then fell on his back.
End of chapter