Chapter Five – The Decepticon's New Mission
Out beyond the mountianous region, standing on a platau over looking a
large valley, Megatron and the other Decepticons gaze the world as the
sun shines an orange filled cloudy sky, morning has finally come.
Megatron looks lost in thought, while the Decepticons behind him look
around and notice how organic the planet seems. Starscream steps
up beside Megatron as does Soundwave. Staring at the sky,
Starscream speaks to his leader, causing him to break from his
concentration.
"One sun....and one moon? This is not the same planet we came
too...is it?", the irratating voiced air commander asks his leadter.
"The stars are much different then I remember them. I don't recognize
anything from our star charts. Soundwave search the data
extracted from Telatran One and explain this."
The blue colored soldier nods, as his yellow eye flashes at the command
given, "As you command Megatron. Searching
data....Searching.....Searching...."
While Soundwave looks for the data in his memory chips, the smaller
Decepticon called Rumble walks over to Megatron and points out to the
human settlement below.
"Look Megatron! More of those creatures! Man they seem to
be all over this place...."
Megatron looks down at the mini Decepticon, "Who cares! They're
no threat to us, if those weapons they used back at the ship are all
they have at their disposal, then this world is ours to do with as we
see fit!"
Soundwave finishes his research and gives his leader a rundown on what
has happened, "I have completed the search. It has been nearly
over one hundred million years since our collision, this planet has
evloved since that time and spawned the main speices of this world
called the Human race."
"One hundred million years huh....", the leader contimplates, "Much
time has passed my Deceptions, no wonder the stars don't seem familiar
to us anymore."
Starscream looks at Megatron, "Does that mean Cybertron no longer
exsists?"
"No...it must exsist. Shockwave would have found a way to keep
our kind energized, he's a loyal Decepticon and one that I could always
count on to wait for my return."
Starscream shakes his head, "Impossible Megatron...our energy supplies
were dangerously low when we left, it's very possible that Cybertron
burned out long ago...even your precious soldier Shockwave!"
"If that is the case....then we are all that remains of a once proud
and mighty Empire.", Megatron says with remorse, "Curse those Autobots
for doing this to us!! Perhaps now that they are all gone, the
time to return to our home world is fortuitous, we can go back and
rebuild the Decepticons back to their former glory....a new age for
Cybertron!"
The others had heard their leader's words and cheered about the
possiblity of going home to begin the Decepticon rule. But as
they all rejoiced, Soundwave detected something on his internal
scanners and looked out at the sky. Megatron saw Soundwave perk
up a bit and knew the communications officer had heard something.
"What is it Soundwave? What do you hear?"
"Airborne crafts are approaching at rapid speed.", Soundwave says in
the monotone synthizied voice.
As Megatron gazes out, he has trouble seeing what lays beyond the
horizon, he looks back at his group of warriors, "Starscream,
Thundercracker, Skywarp! Transform and investigate...."
All three bow at his command and transform, Starscream transforms into
his grey toned F-19 stealth jet mode, Thundercracker transforms into
his F-18 blue angel mode, and Skywarp transforms into the black F-22
Raptor. Together they all blast off straight into the sky and put
on their thrusters to speed up to the target. Starscream takes
point lead and moves slighty ahead of his fellow air armada.
Inside his cockpit, all the normal instruments and design of the human
built make up of that model are seen. The monitor sitting in the
middle of the dashboard shows that the Decepticon is locking on to
their position, a quick flip of the screen soon shows a zoom in of the
objects in question. It's the military helicopters carrying the
General and his troops. Inside of them, the General and the two
agents soon are soon informed by the helicopter pilot of something
heading their way.
" Sir! We've got three un-identified aircrafts heading our way."
The General gets up from his seat in the back of the helicopter and
leans into the cockpit to have a look, "It might be the air support I
called in...give them a shout on the radio."
"I did sir...but I'm getting no response back.", the pilot says.
The General looks confused, "No...wait a second. They can't be
the air support, I just called for them only four minutes ago and the
air base isn't even near here....then... who the hell are they?"
The Decepticon jets go screaming past the helicopters causing a major
wind tunnel in their wake, the choppers all struggle to keep airborne
and balance out from the aftermath. Starscream and the other turn
around to make for another pass, he contacts Megatron and reports on
what they've discovered.
"Starscream to Megatron...Come in Megatron"
"Megatron here, report Starsceam...", the leader's voice responds back
to them.
"It appears these humans have the technology to fly. They have
strange, primitave looking vehicles that are armed with those inferior
weapons again. Perhaps that is were Telatran One aquired our new
bodies from..."
Skywarp flying behind him booms out his voice, " Ugh...what a
disgusting thought. To think we have them to thank for our new
transformations."
Thundercracker also gives his opinion, "You mean we're stuck with these
forms? Great...I'm beginning to hate this planet already."
Megatron laughs, "Foolish flesh creatures, they dare challenge us in
the skies? Starscream, teach them a lesson in flying."
The leader's evil laughter makes Starscream and the other jets laugh as
well.
"As you command Mighty Megatron! Alright guys...lets give them a more
proper hello...Bwahahahahaha!!!"
Inside the helicopter, the pilot warns the old commander again, " Sir,
they're coming round for another pass!"
"Damnit I want to speak to those pilots! Just who the hell is
flying those things anyway?"
The agents look at one another and Connors makes a wild guess, "The
aliens! I'll bet you they took control of some of our aircrafts
and pitted them against us!"
The General looks back with doubt, "Stop your stupid guess work
Connors, it's done nothing to help us so far."
Connors shouts back at him, "Hey anytime you want to relieve yourself
from command is fine with me General, I'll gladly take over this whole
operation from you! So back off old timer..."
The pilot interrupted all of their conversations by screaming back at
them, "Here they come!!"
Starscream rushes in first and does air stunts around the small
helicopters causing them to shift about and lose control, next is
Thundercracker and Skywarp, they rush in and just narrowly graze the
crafts as they come streaking by. One of the helicopters looses
total control and crashes to the ground in a fiery explosion. The
rest return to normal and try to fly down lower to the ground in an
attempt to give the jets a harder time to start it up again. The
General, cursing up a storm, gets hold of his head set again and radios
in to the air base.
"This is Alpha leader calling Air Base One....where are my damn
Fighters?!"
A crackled message comes over his head set as someone responds to his
distress, "This is Red Eagle One to Alpha Leader...have no fear the
calvery is here."
Coming in from the distance is a group of five fighter jets, the lead
jet has the marking of a red eagle on the side of his cockpit and the
pilot inside sees the three attacking jets on his monitors.
"Red Eagle One to all fighters, lets take'm down y'all"
They all dive down to attack the Decepticon jets, but Starscream sees
them and laughs with joy, "Terrific!! Thundercracker! Skywarp!
They've sent us our target practice!! ATTAAAACCCK!!!"
Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp slam into over burn and zoom
straight for the on-coming jets piloted by the humans.
Starscreams weapons on either side of his wings, usually sitting
attached to his arms when transformed, now lock themselves on the lead
jet and fire a rapid burst of his null rays at it. Unprepared for
the barrage of devastating impacts from the weapon, the pilot screams a
blood curling scream as each of the hits destroy pieces of his jet
fighter. With one last shot from the Decepticon air commander, the
human jet explodes in a fiery ball of flame, as the debris scatters
across the sky and defecting off of the other jets now scrambling to
get out of the way. Starscream laughs in triumph as he streaks
through the area where the jet once was, but then Thundercracker comes
racing by and follows two human jets trying to shake him off their
trail. The blue Decepticon F-18 rolls around in the air behind
them, an almost taunting gesture, and then fires his two side missiles
that were attached to his wings. The two human pilots barrel
rolled, dived and did every maneuver in the book to out do the missiles
that were inching up to them, but they couldn't seem to lose them no
matter what they did. Before either one of them could eject, the
missiles struck them and exploded both jets on impact.
Thundercracker rolled and flew back down to where Starscream was
cruising.
"This is fun! Nothing beats my Heat Seeking missiles! Those
humans never stood a chance...hey...where's Skywarp? "
The last two human pilots flying away in their jets where making a
break back to base, suddenly they could hear a loud voice coming over
their communication radio.
"Where ya going? This party ain't over yet...” Skywarp's
sarcastic voice said to them.
A few laser shots came raining down on top of the jets, as the humans
looked up they saw the black F-22 Raptor coming down on top of
them. The two swerved to get out of his path, but as he came past
them the jet began to vanish from their sight as they looked at it.
"Now you see me...” Skywarp said in a playful mood, " Now you don't!"
The Decepticon had indeed vanished into thin air, as if a cloak of
invisibility suddenly was draped over him, A whooshing sound came off
of him when it happened, for a few seconds it looked as if he had
blurred almost as if he was increasing his speed. As the pilots
looked around frantically, they didn't notice how close they were to
one another, still they whipped their heads around as they stared out
the cockpit window. They struggled to see where the jet was, then
Skywarp's voice boomed out again at them.
"Comin' Through!!"
The pilots looked straight ahead and saw the Decepticon F-22 come
streaking out as he materialized directly in their flight path, the
human pilots freaked out as they saw Skywarp fully coming into view and
on a direct collision course with them. Just as Skywarp looks as
if he's about to crash into them both, the once again blurs and
vanishes into thin air. But the humans panicked as it occurred,
which made them crash into one another as they both tried to move out
of the way. The planes exploded and debris once again littered
the sky. The wreckage spilt down to the ground and impacted on
the surface, fire and smoke billowed out of it as the rest of the fuel
began to burn. As Starscream and Thundercracker flew overhead,
Skywarp came streaking out to be seen again and flew beside the two of
them. The black sleek Decepticon jet was chuckling as he pulled
up.
"Humans are the dumbest creatures I've ever encountered. Megatron
is right...this world is going to be a pushover!"
Starscream continued to laugh in an irritating tone, "Time to head back
to Megatron boys! We're done teaching them not to mess with us."
The evil jets all cranked their boosters and headed back to their
leader, the three of them laughing and doing incredible aerial stunts
as they vanished off into the distance. On the ground, the
General and the remaining helicopters sat out of sight, the survivors
looked on as they all realized the aliens were going to be tougher to
stop then they thought. The two agents also looked on, Connors
looked at his buddy Drakemore and he in turn looked back with the same
deadpan stare. The sound of a cell phone flipping open and a dial
tone ringing could be heard, Connors had it in his hand and raised it
up to his head.
"This is Agent Connors, tell Area 51 to prepare the weapon...oh and
have the Project N leader contacted. I don't care if he's
busy in the arctic; just tell him get down here right away. We're
going to need his help on this as well...Tell him that the sleeping
giants are awake..."
The General looks back as he over hears the agent's call, the look of
deep concern on his face doesn't even faze the agents as they see him
gazing in their direction.
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Inside the Ark, the repair laser is still hard at work bringing the
Autobots to life, while the humans help drag in the rest that were
scattered down the hallway. Ironhide, Prowl, Wheeljack and Hound
all check to see their limbs are in working order. They stand
there watching the humans help bring in the rest of their friends,
Wheeljack looks more interested then the rest of them, eyeing the
species very carefully. Ironhide huddles over to Hound and Prowl
and whispers to them.
"What are these things? They look kinda weird and funny
looking..."
Prowl whispers back as he continues to look over, "Maybe Optimus
adopted them as our new pets or something?"
"Not likely Prowl", Hound snickers, "I know Prime, he'd never take any
alien life and make them slaves...face it guys, these our new allies."
"Allies?? Them?! Don't make me laugh Hound.” Ironhide now says
raising his voice, " They don't even look like they could withstand a
strong wind."
Suddenly Cliffjumper comes running over to them, " Hey fellas!
Long time no transform huh? Hahaha!"
"Cliffjumper you lil' titanium hardnosed scrapper, good to see ya back
in the land of the living!” Prowl says to him.
"Hey Prowl, I hear these humans found us...and the Decepticons
too! Apparently they're the ones that let them loose."
Ironhide grumbles, "What? Why those idiots! Now how are we
supposed to win the war with that lot running around again?
Stupid humans..."
Some of the men stop to look at the metal giant, his words where loud
enough to ring out to most of the bridge; the human workers looked
offended by Ironhide's comment and tried to work away from him.
Optimus Prime came over and stood right in front of the insulting robot.
"Ironhide, I wish you would keep your opinions to yourself. These
humans have much to be thanked for by us..."
The cranky red robot soldier just chuckled at Optimus, "Thankful?
For what? They let out the Decepticons Optimus! Megatron
and his goons are gonna stop at nothing to get back home...hell, we
don't have enough energon to fight them boys again full on. It
would have been more fitting to leave us where we were before...at
least then Megatron would be gone from Cybertron for good."
Prime shook his head and folded his arms together, "Ironhide...it would
have made little difference if Megatron was dead or not. Someone
would always be there to replace him and keep the battle going.
I'll agree that these humans made a terrible mistake opening up this
ship and freeing the Decepticons, but they couldn't have known what was
in here, nor could they have realized the impact of what they had
done. I've told them enough for now, they seem pretty willing to
help us get back on our feet, but don't underestimate these
humans...like every intelligent creature in the universe, there always
two sides to their nature."
Wheeljack looks over at the leader, "Tell me Prime, where are we?
Telatran One isn't giving out too much information right now, I think
Ratchet and I need to over haul its systems."
"When the rest of the Autobots are repaired, I'll give a full
briefing...but for now I'll tell you this, we're on the same planet we
tried to get the energy core from and it's been some time since we
crashed here."
Hound looks at Optimus, "How do these humans know our language?
Or how do we know theirs? Can't just be a coincidence."
Wheeljack lifts his finger up, "I'll field this one.... you see
Telatran One must have downloaded the human information network and
deciphered the linguistic communication, as we were being repaired some
of the language files must have imprinted onto our brain
functions. They have a wide variety of dialects on this planet,
but this one form called, English, must be the most common form of
language to speak. Telatran must have figured we would need to
communicate with this form of life and given us the necessary skills to
do so. You follow?"
Hound scratches his head, "Uhm...yeah.... sure."
Ironhide raises his hand up to Wheeljack as he sees the robot ready to
continue his theory, "Stop. He gets it...No need for you to
explain it any further. I know you...if he doesn't give you yes
or no, you'll yap on until we're all bored to death. We speaky
they lang-ish, Ok?!"
Wheeljack looks a bit taken back by Ironhide's harsh response and
shrugs his shoulders. It is true that if Wheeljack doesn't hear a
straightforward answer, he'll continue to talk on and on about the
subject until that person does understand. Wheeljack loves
science and technology, so much so that he can often get lost in his
work or even his own theories. Many can tolerate his never ending
rambles, like Optimus Prime, but many others believe that Wheeljack
only does it because he likes the sound of his own voice. So
rather then explain the rest, Wheeljack walks away from Ironhide and
the others continuing to study the humans walking around. Optimus
Prime looks at Ironhide in a stance of disapproval of his actions; a
deep look with folded arms and a slightly closed eye on the right.
"I know, I know...” Ironhide says backing down, " Control that
temper. Sorry Prime, I'm just frustrated that’s all."
Prime reaches over and pats him on the shoulder, "We all are
Ironhide...Just learn to cool it down a shade for the sake of the
others, hm?"
On the far side of the room, down near the bridge's exit, Spike stays
out of the way and watches the others work. He feels guilty for
being the one that let those evil robots out and killing the two
guards. Even though it was only an accident, he can't help but
realize if it hadn't been for him, none of this would be happening at
all. Sparkplug comes walking over to him and grips his son's
shoulder in comfort.
"You know, when I heard that you dropped out of university.... I was so
mad. I kept hoping you'd be the one to go on and do great things,
my dad never gave me that chance, he wanted me to get a real job and
not pursue hopeless dreams. I guess I was hard on you, I know
your mother would have told me so..."
Spike giggled, "Yeah, mom would have...but she would have ripped into
me as well. It's funny, but when I did leave I could almost hear
her say, ' don’t throw away your whole life because of me! '. I
miss her dad."
Sparkplug's lip quivers a bit and tries not to show his tears, overcome
by his emotions he rubs his son's shoulder, "I do too, son.
But...I want you to know that I'm not angry at you anymore, seeing all
of this...the ship, the aliens...it would have been something your
mother would have looked on as you have. Amazement and wonder,
with so many possibilities.... now I see what I've been missing for so
long, it makes me realize that life is too short and it is full of
surprises. If we don't cherish the time we have together day by
day...those...wonderful surprises could end. And I don't want
them to end.... ok? Give us a hug son."
The two share a loving father and son embrace, Spike had waited so long
to hear his father say those kind words, it was almost like a miracle
to the both them. A few sniffles from their noses and they pulled
away from one another, the father cleared his throat and started
composed himself again.
"Ok...uhm...Bill over there needs some help lifting that...whatever it
is...and I'm going to go check to see if the aliens need any minor
repairs."
Spike nods and also comes back into focus, " Right...right...ok."
The father walks off and Spike turns around to go find Bill, but as
soon as he turns a fairly tall yellow robot stands behind him.
This one wasn't as large as the other Autobots hanging around; in fact
it was almost half the size of the others. A large red Autobot
symbol was sitting on the robot's yellow chest and his head had small
horns protruding out from on top. The bright blue-eyed robot
looked down at him curiously and spoke to the startled boy.
" Wow, are you humans always that emotional?", the young sounding robot
said.
"Uh...not all the time. Who are you?"
The yellow Autobot smiled and shook Spike's hand as gentle as he could,
"The name's Bumblebee, I'm...ah...just a junior officer, but I can put
up fight like another Autobot here."
"Bumblebee? I thought that was a human name for an insect?"
Bumblebee put his arm around the back of his head and rubbed it in
embarrassment, "A well...you see, there is another insect in the galaxy
that has a name similar to you pronunciation. The fellas kind of
gave me the name because I stepped in a nest of them one time and
well.... the name stuck."
"Really.... so you've traveled to other worlds before?", Spike asks him
curiously.
"Well, before the war we did...there was lots of energon before those
days."
Spike squinted his eyes, not understanding what he meant,
"Energon? What the heck is that?"
Across the room Optimus could hear what the two were talking about,
like a scolding father Prime gave a warning to the young Autobot.
"Bumblebee...."
The yellow transformer turned his head and saw the leader shaking his
head not him not to utter another word about it. Bumblebee's eyes
squinted and he turned back to Spike with a nervous grin on his face,
he mildly chuckled and tried to change the subject.
"Aaaaah oh hey! Wanna see what I can do?"
The yellow creature began transforming in front of Spike, the sound of
it could be heard as he folded and contorted into his new form.
It looked like current model of the Volkswagen Beetle, the interior was
all leather inside or simulated at least, and the dashboard looked like
something out of the future. The standard steering wheel
remained, but more monitors and computerized components filled the
dash. Spike was amazed by the transformation, never had he seen
anything like it before, not that he sees thing transforming before his
eyes on a daily basis. The other men working near by also stopped
in amazement, Sparkplug's mouth hung open as this robot turned into a
car in front of his son. Spike's eye lit up with excitement.
"Cooool!!"
"Are you cold?” the yellow bug car asks.
"Huh? Oh, no, no...ahaha.... it’s a human expression. It's
what we say when something is amazing to us or fun."
The Beetle revs up his engine, "Ooooh I get it. Cool!"
Optimus Prime walks over to the little Volkswagen, "Bumblebee I told
you not to transform...you could have scared the humans doing that!"
" Come on Prime...I can't stay in robot form forever.
Besides...they think I'm cool! Hey Spike, you wanna go for a ride?"
Bumblebee’s driver door pops open on its own and Spike again is amazed
by that small fact. He looks over at his father and gives him a
look as if to say, " Can I?". Sparkplug thinks about what the
military would do if they let him go, but figured they were in deep
enough...so why not go all the way. He reluctantly nods in
agreement.
"Just don't go too far...we don't know what will happen outside the
area."
Optimus Prime agrees with Sparkplug's suggestion, "Alright...you can
go, but just like this human said Bumblebee, not too far."
Spike hops into the car and takes a seat, suddenly a large seatbelt
harness slaps across his body as the door closes.
"Sorry about the restraints, I don't come with a Gravity Interlocking
Motion Device." Bumblebee says to Spike.
"No biggie Bumblebee, neither do humans."
The yellow Volkswagen screeches its tires and zips right out of the
room as high-speed, Spike gasps for air as the little bug car dodges
and narrowly misses people, objects and debris. As soon as they get to
the doors, the car flies out and lands hard on the ground
outside. Bumblebee continues to speed down the mountainside and
right past the military checkpoint. The guards sitting in the
checkpoint room snap out of their boredom and rush out to stop the car,
but as they look beyond the road, all they can see is the backside and
a large trail of dust behind it. Spike and Bumblebee laugh out
loud and both let out a youthful scream of freedom. As the car
below races along the dirt road, high above a group of beaten and
smoldering helicopters come back towards the spacecraft site.
Inside the main helicopter, the General, agents Drakemore and Connors
all look out and see the yellow vehicle speeding along. Connors
whips out a pair of binoculars and sees the Autobot icon sitting on the
top of the car's roof. Gritting his teeth hard, he lowers the
binoculars and starts yelling at the General.
"Damnit! There's more of those things coming out of it...we've
got to contain this thing."
The General was too busy listening into his headset, he was having a
conversation with one of the men on the ground as he and the others
were approaching.
"What?! Are you crazy? I don't care if you didn't have
enough men to hold them off...no one was supposed to go in there!
You met whom? Listen.... no shut up...I said Listen.... come to
the helipad and talk to me there once we've landed. I want a full
briefing and then you and your men are going to reassemble in two
hours."
The General paused as he continued to listen to whomever he was
speaking too on the ground, his eyes shifted over to the agents as they
both gazed out of the helicopter with a look of amazement. As the
General looked over to see what they were looking at, he uttered his
last words to the soldier below.
"You've got two hours Lieutenant, tell the men... and then pray to God,
because we're about to go to war!"
Taking off the headset from himself, he could finally see what the two
agents were looking at. Down below on the ground, just near the
spaceship, stood a bunch of Autobots looking around. The General
and Drakemore had never seen what they looked like before, they noticed
the massive Optimus Prime come walking out and were rendered
speechless. Prime watched the helicopters fly by and land on a
small patch of dirt next to the mountain; he noticed the considerable
damage on their primitive machines and instinctively knew they had come
into contact with the Decepticons. It would seem that the civil
war between the Decepticons and Autobots has now restarted, with the
humans caught in the middle of it all.
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Returning back to Megatron and the other Decepticons, Starscream,
Skywarp and Thundercracker transform as soon as they reach them.
They touch down near the leader and discuss how the encounter went.
"Report Starscream." Megatron commands.
Starscream smirks, "Better then we could ever hope for mighty
Megatron. The humans are no threat to us what so ever, it appears
they lack the sufficient weapons to even dent our metal."
Skywarp adds to the conversation, "Yeah, I had no problem taking those
wimpy jets of theirs out of the sky. My teleportation was a waste
of time on those things."
"Good, then the human threat isn't even worth our attention.” The
sliver polished leader says, "That human settlement down below over
there seems perfect for us to begin..."
"Begin what Megatron?” Thundercracker says in his lumbering voice.
Megatron points down to the small town below the cliff they're all
standing on, "Begin building our ship to get back home
moron! Down there is the perfect spot...nothing around for miles
and enough resources for us to start construction."
Rumble, the small mini-robot looks down at the sleepy community that’s
totally unaware of their presence, "You've got to be kidding!
There isn't enough steel and materials to even make the ship."
The leader looks down at his small soldier and flashes his red evil
eyes at him, "Be silent! I meant we need to clear out the area to
begin, all of buildings and asphalt the humans have will be enough to
make the base. Then we'll go out and rip out as much metal from
this planet we need to make our ship!"
The small robot flinched as his leader scolded him, Rumble took a few
steps back as he recoiled away from Megatron and stood by Soundwave's
side again as if to seek his protection. Beside the towering
mini-disk player robot was another mini-bot, similar to Rumble in every
aspect of design. Frenzy was the clone of Rumble; the only way to
tell them apart was that Frenzy is red and black, while Rumble is the
pale purple and blue. The red and black version of him laughed and
pointed at him.
"Ha, ha...Megatron totally ripped in to you! "
"Dah...shaddup!” Rumble shouted back at his laughing doppelganger.
Megatron controlled his anger and looked at the two micro creatures,
"Now if there are no more stupid remarks to be made.... Rumble, you and
Frenzy fly down and shake up the foundation. Soundwave launch
Laserbeak and Ravage to survey the area...I want no more interruptions
from these human dolts."
"As you command Megatron!", the blue robot's voice harmonized in it's
resonating tone, " Laserbeak! Ravage! Eject...Operation, Surveillance."
He then pressed a button on top of his chest, a built in grey push
button that made a quick whooshing noise as he touched it. As it
made the sound, his clear plated chest opened up and ejected two flat
mini-disks, both looking equal in size. As they came out, each
disk transformed and revealed their true forms. Laserbeak, now
looking more like a machine made Earth hawk, screeched and flapped its
wings as they unfurled. Ravage, a black and grey colored Earth
style panther, landed to the ground on all fours and growled away as
its tail calmly swung behind him. The two quickly left the area
and began their spying from both the ground and the air. Megatron
looked proud of his two most loyal spies, the only ones that seemed to
know their place under his command. Rumble and Frenzy both
quickly jumped off the cliffside and flew down to the small town below;
their arms began a quick transformation, from regular arms that had
hands to large shoulder attached pile drivers. Both robots were
capable of this transformation; they were the pile-driving duo that
shook many Autobots from their combined talents. Looking
back at the rest of his menacing evil warriors, Megatron walked over to
them all as they stood around casually.
"Now Deceptions...together we shall drain this planet dry of it's
resources, we shall conquer all who dare stand in our way...but
first...we will rebuild our ship and prepare to return to our home
world. The time for our destiny is at hand! "
The cheers from all of them made the leader smile, the sound of them
chanting his name proudly gave him an ego boost he felt he
needed. Starscream turned away while the others praised the
leader, he didn't think Megatron deserved this shameless self-morale
booster, a passing streak of jealousy that the air commander seemed to
dwell on. Megatron rose to the air and hovered over them.
"Forward Decepticons! Let us begin the slaughter!!"
They all transformed and rushed down the cliff, the town was about to
get the rudest awakening they'd ever known.