NCC Central Hub

 

     This is the very center of New Crystal City, and serves as the gateway to the other areas of the base. A feeling of claustrophobia exists here despite the fact that this part of the city is open to the air. Now in Battle Station Mode, the Central Hub has far less buildings than usual, as many have transformed themselves into huge laser defense cannons and missile turrets. There are very few positions one can take to hide from the weapons without being forced to take evasive action. The roadways have laser point-defense systems protecting them. The important buildings, including the medical ward and the command center now have a huge layer of thick metal protecting them, covering up the facilities and protecting them from harm.

 

Contents:

Spade

Trypticon <T>

Decepticon Sensor #1792

The Powerbase

Obvious exits:

North <N> leads to Mount R'Lyeh.

Northeast <NE> leads to NCC Dungeon.

Northwest <NW> leads to NCC Medical Ward.

South <S> leads to NCC Coastline.

Southeast <SE> leads to NCC Residential Plaza.

Southwest <SW> leads to NCC Spaceport.

East <E> leads to NCC Arena.

West <W> leads to NCC Central Command.

Fly <Up>

 

As has been noted in reports, New Crystal City is currently experiencing a tiny bit of a crisis. Where there used to be a beautifully metal flooring simulating the Decepticons' home planet of Cybertron, there is now a new section of the ocean. Where there used to be roadways running along the ground, there are now only raging rivers. Where there used to be tunnels leading undergound to other facilities, there is nothing but a watery tomb for those entering without the ability to withstand the elements. It is with great fortune that much of the city is still above water. The raised command centre, the tall spires, the elegant sky-road ways. There are weapon systems out, as the city is in battlestations mode, but none seem particularly functional. The Decepticon fortress isn't exactly functioning as normal, but it's better than nothing... presumably. Scrapper is currently hip deep in the water, accessing a panel partway up one of the tall gleaming spires that stretch up into the sky. Sparks fly as he wields a lasertorch on the open circuitry.

 

Spade wanders into the area, looking quite perturbed. These are certainly not the conditions in which Decepticons should be functioning in. Where's the prestige in this? Spade steps into the water which rises to about his knees. He shakes his head, his optic visor flashing in lights of the broken down city. He spots Scrapper, recognizing him from his briefings. "Ah, finally," he mutters as he wades towards the smaller Con.

 

The sparks continue to fly as Scrapper tries to make his repairs. Scrapper has been working for quite some time now on this attempt. "Blasted thing!" he shouts in frustruation, giving the wall a good kick. Nothing becomes of it, however, other than a wounded toe. Whirling about and splashing water everywhere, Scrapper peers at the newcomer. "Ah, finally indeed." he replies. "I take it you're looking for me? Wait, no let me guess, power's gone out in another sector and you want to know when it's going to be back up."

 

Spade looks startled at Scrapper's wry attitude. "Erm, actually, sir, I was looking for something to do." He pauses, looking panicked. "Oh, I apologize, sir. I'm Spade, from Cybertron, sent to Earth to aid in the Decepticon cause! I just got here, to Earth that is, and I've yet to receive any orders. It appears I've arrived at a time of chaos." He looks about at the collapsed city. "You wouldn't happen to know what I'm suppose to do, would you?" He looks down at Scrapper, lost.

 

Arachnae descends to the Sky above New Crystal City above.

Arachnae has arrived.

Arachnae slips quietly into the area.

 

Jet Helicopter descends to the Sky above New Crystal City above.

Jet Helicopter has arrived.

 

Arachnae descends from above, lowering herself towards the waters below. Coming to a halt just over the water itself, she peers about, optics flickering behind her visor.

 

Scrapper sighs and glances back at the open panel he was trying to repair. Already, water is beginning to splash into it, and Scrapper slams the panel shut in frustration, figuring that this section of the power grid is a lost cause. But at least he has what appears to be someone interested in helping out. That can be surprisingly rare nowadays. The Constructicon returns his laser torch to a hip compartment and folds his arms. "Well, yes, it is a bit chaotic. But believe it or not, most of this is going according to plan... even with the repairs we're going to have to make, we're going to come out very much ahead on energon." Scrapper frowns behind his faceplate, "Unless the city sinks, of course. But no matter... you were asking what you should do: Er... what skills do you have? What division were you assigned to?" Oh that Scrapper, always on top of his command duties.

 

Scrapper and Shade are standing in hip/knee level water, for you newcomers.

 

Jet Helicopter arrives somewhat later than Arachnae. Last minute check of the supplies in Antartica to make sure they're continuing production of the port/vent components. Those are still burning out at a set a day times 13. In fact, she's probably brought a cargo net full of parts. Production, though, has slowed down. Makeshift facilities just aren't as efficient.

 

Spade arches a brow. "Division? Erm... you see, I was sent to Earth after a cycle of history vid-feed with no orders besides to help in any way possible." He looks slightly embarassed. "I wasn't exactly allowed to inquire about the superiors' motives." He shrugs and shakes his head. "But I've lots of useful skills. I taught myself electronics and circuit repair when I was in... Er, back on Cybertron. Will that be of any help, sir?

 

Arachnae looks up and watches Airwolf come in. Her wings shift behind her as she nods to herself, mentally noting the delivery of yet more additional componants needed to maintain a semi-unstable status quo. A headtilt.. and she glides towards where she thinks she hears words filtering out of a sightly higher point of the city itself.

 

Scrapper ahhhs and nods, "I'm familar with that technique," he says, refering to the art of superiors never bothering to give information to the troopers. He usually does it when he simply doesn't know what orders to give... matter of fact, he seems to use this technique quite often. "Ah, a technician!" Scrapper says, throwing his arms out wide, clearly pleased at that list of skills. Here in the field of construction, at least, Scrapper makes a fine leader. "Perfect, perfect. This is exactly the sort of thing we need - not more warriors with empty CPUs. Yes, that will definitely be of some help." Scrapper gestures around to the beautiful city, such as it is. "Are you familar with New Crystal City's design specs, by any chance?" Scrapper cannot hear the two fliers over the roar of the river formerly refered to as '3rd avenue'.

 

Spade glances about. "Only vaguely, sir. I've explored the city a bit since my arrival, yet I've not delved into the specifics of it's workings." Unlike Scrapper, Spade senses the incoming Cons. He turns slightly, not taking his optics off of Scrapper, but peripherally spotting Arachnae and a chopper.

 

Jet Helicopter drops her supplies off with the weary, battered crew maintaining the vents on R'lyeh. That should last another day or so, assuming the still-rising water isn't threatening any more of the ports. Which would be too much to hope for, actually. Yes, she recalls that there are three ports that will be flooded in a day or two, and that's the end of it. What's that spot of lime green and purple down there? Why, it's a Constructicon, nay *the* Constructicon Supreme (at least in his own mind). More importantly, there's Arachnae. Another, a stranger.

 

Spade turns on his radio.

 

Airwolf is incorrect about that third last comment. Scrapper does not consider himself the best Constructicon. He's far too modest for such a belief. But he does know that Hook is damn annoying, and that's enough for Scrapper. Shifting his weight around as Scrapper notes the water has climbed an entire centimetre since he began his repairs on this power spire, Scrapper makes a few calculations and figures NCC should be able to hold out. Barely. Maybe. Hopefully. "Well, I wouldn't take your recent exploration and think that this is the way this city normally is." Scrapper sighs, genuinely hurt at how the Constructicons' creation has suffered from this latest plot. "I'll get you started on the more basic things. Essentially, our biggest concern is that Mount R'lyeh might burst due to the foolish way this planet was constructed. The vents we usually have are being flooded. But if we can get the power grid back online, we can bring back up the forcefields that'll protect it. I'm not having much luck. Any experience with electrical systems on a mass scale?"

 

Spade straightens up coming to attention as he gets ever-so-much-closer to receiving his first Earth-based orders. "Not too massive, sir. What I had to work with was very limited and thus most of my experience has only encompassed smaller scales. I've researched much about electrical systems and I believe any task that you assign to me will be successful." This is how a proud Decepticon is suppose to act. Finally, Spade will have the opportunity to right his wrongs and help push the Decepticons to victory! (Or just do some menial fix-work and hopefully not screw it up.)

 

Scrapper isn't used to such military custom and formality when people get his orders. He's in charge of the /Constructicons/, the biggest bunch of screw-ups when it comes to battleplanning in the history of Cybertron. "Consider this on-the-job training," he replies to Spade. Not that the Decepticons ever really have extensive training for recently reassigned troopers anyhow. Scrapper sloshes through the water, leading Spade to one of the sky-roads that thankfully leads upwards out of the water. The road takes them to another spire and another panel. Tossing Spade a datapad, he says, "This is New Crystal City's power grid." The pad has an overlay of the city with lights representing the grid. "And this is New Crystal City's power grid on flood." The image changes to another overlay, but this time only half the grid is lit up. Some of the lines are blinking, indicating that it is only partially functional.

 

Jet Helicopter has exceptionally good scanners. That's why she was formerly in reconnaissance. That hideous combination of lime green and purple resolves into... Scrapper. She was hoping that she was wrong, but... we can't always have what we want. Why such antipathy towards poor Scrapper? Because this present situation is entirely his fault. Moving Mars has implications that only a geologist - like her - could imagine. If she had been asked, she would have explained that not only would the oceanic tides be affected, but the Earth's molten core as well, disturbing the balance of the tectonic plates, generating a massive increase in volcanism, and possibly even partially melting the southern ice cap. You think *this* is a lot of water? Wait until Antartica contributes a share of meltwater.

 

Arachnae glides slowly towards where she believes a certain Constructicon is heading, taking time to land with wings mantling neatly behind her. With footsteps falling on a dry portion of the city proper, she pads towards Scrapper and the mechanism that he is speaking to, optics glinting thoguhtfully. "Ahh Scrapper. Just the mechanism I wanted to speak to."

 

Spade watches Arachnae silently as he holds the newly acquired datapad. He glances professionally at Scrapper and then back to Arachnae then back to Scrapper. "So I am to complete the grid? Tis quite a task, but one I am willing to accomplish. I shall report to you when I complete your orders." Spade walks around the fembot and begins work on the spire, becoming oblivious to eveything around him. He's a robot with a purpose and with these golden orders he will devote himself to this spire until the job is done or the city sinks into the depths.

 

And had Scrapper consulted Airwolf and been told of all this, Scrapper would not have given a damn. Damage to the environment? Who cares. Disturbing the balance of yadda yadda yadda, whatever. NCC is taking it bad, but everyone else on this planet has it just as bad. This was Mixmaster's idea, and despite the risks it was brilliant. Yes, New Crystal City is suffering, but it is worth it. The energon being pumped out is proof enough for Scrapper. Still, that does not make the hurting to his city any easier to take. He nods to Spade, "You aren't alone in this, don't worry. Feel free to ask questions... well, feel free to ask any /MSEers/ questions. Don't bother asking them from MilOps or DCI. They'll just hit you." He advises. Sage words. He's about to offer more encouragement, but Nae's arrival means Scrapper has to suck in his gut and try to look busy. "Well, ain't I popular today? What can I do for you, Arachnae?"

 

Arachnae has disconnected.

 

Spade removes some tools from his hip compartment and begins working. He daren't ask any questions. A good servant asks no questions, only follows orders. There's really nothing he needs to know anyhow. Why is the city sinking? No matter, so long as it gets fixed, right? Why was he sent to Earth? Do the Decepticons really need help here? When is he going to see some Autobots? None of it really effects Spade's future, so he discounts it as trivial thoughts, not to plague the mind-circuits of a noble Decepticon.

 

Unfortunately, Scrapper is overlooking a very important fact. There's no if about it; R'lyeh *will* erupt, because no force in the world can keep up with the pressure building beneath it as Mars comes even nearer. What was that quote Airwolf heard on Terran television? 'You cannae deny the laws of physics?' She says nothing, though. It's time the Empire had a sharp lesson in overconfidence, its most serious flaw.

 

It isn't really sinking... just that the water keeps rising. Small point that doesn't matter, but knowing that it isn't a flaw in his city that's the cause of it makes Scrapper feel just a tad better. Scrapper shall just have to be better than Scotty... crap. Nothing is better than Scotty. Well, we're in trouble. He wanders over and looks at Spade's work over his shoulder, nodding as it looks like it's all being done right. Spade wouldn't be the first Con who padded his resume.

 

Jet Helicopter peers in the direction of the sullenly-smoking Mount R'lyeh. Frequent earthquakes shake the island as the uneasily sleeping titan twitches and grumbles. It built this island; it can destroy it. She calculates perhaps two days left before the Apocalypse. Despite her resolve to let events take their course, she radios the oblivious Scrapper, "Trypticon has an evacuation plan; you might establish one for the rest of us. Once again, I advise against going east. North to Africa is probably our best bet. There's a base there somewhere, and the nanites should be mostly finished."

 

Earthscorch arrives from the NCC Residential Plaza to the southeast.

Earthscorch has arrived.

Earthscorch enters the area heavily.

 

Shockwave has arrived.

 

Earthscorch walks in, looking more or less like hell. He's dirty, looks a little out of it, and is walking a little funny. He stops to look over those he finds gathered here, narrowing his eyes at the jet helicopter...

 

Jet Helicopter is hovering overhead, not at too high an altitude, but not in normal speaking range.

 

Scrapper is on one of the skyroads over the city watching Spade work on one of the spires, and given that Airwolf is talking to him, she is probably around that high as well. Scrapper sighs and peers at the busybody. "The evacuation plan for us is to go to wherever Trypticon goes and use him as a base. It's his slagging /job/, afterall." Scrapper doesn't give Airwolf anymore of an answer than that, as he's mad at her. And like a total wiener, he handles things in a passive aggressive manner.

 

Jet Helicopter idly wonders how they'll do that, if Scrapper doesn't even know where Trypticon is to go. Or does anyone else, for that matter? Does Trypticon himself know where to go? Welcome to the Decepticon Empire, bulwark of efficiency, planning, and order.

 

Shockwave vanishes out of reality.

Shockwave has left.

 

Earthscorch kind of stands idly watching the two, though he can't actually hear what they're saying. He relaxes a bit, looking interested.

 

Scrapper peers at Airwolf a bit longer, but it would seem that the femme has no more followup questions. And so, he asks one of his own after taking a step towards the helicopter. "So... I hear that you seem to be, ah, upset. Galvatron mentioned to me that, awww, you feel bad that Omega Supreme's gotten all sorts of gifts and you've gotten absolutely nothing." Scrapper smiles behind his faceplate, waiting for a reply here. He doesn't notice ES nearby anymore than he would any other Con. If he's listening in, so much the better.

 

Vertigo emerges from the city that is Trypticon.

Vertigo has arrived.

 

Earthscorch is standing, unabashedly watching Airwolf and Scrapper, and looking a bit of a mess. He's dirty and worn-down looking. He seems oblivious to Vertigo.

 

Jet Helicopter wonders where Scrapper got that notion. She's not spoken with Galvatron in months, and not concerning anything that wasn't Imperial business. Oh. It's rather obvious, isn't it, to anyone besides her; he's lying. "I'm afraid that you are... mistaken, or that Lord Galvatron was referring to someone else."

The entire city is also flooded, natch.

 

Scrapper is not lying. Galvatron did indeed mention it, but did not identify the person who 'worked on his secret Crystal City project, and was pissed off'. Arachnae, perhaps? Or maybe Galvatron simply knows what Airwolf is feeling. "Yeah yeah, maybe. So, have you spoken with the big fella in a while?" He asks, just sounding oh so innocently curious.

 

Alas, either Scrapper or Galvatron is lying. Airwolf's never mentioned anything about Omega to either of them. "Not since the city was completed."

 

*dun dun. dun dun. dun dun dun dun.* Unlike most Decepticons, Vertigo is a pretty agile swimmer in the water, and watertight to boot. Seeing figures above her, she scans them over, and lays her sights on a particular seeker, and swims closer. *dun dun* Earthscorch is not payin attention. Fatal error. Because, suddenly a pair of blue hands break the surface and attempt to drag Earthy under. *cue Jaws theme! Or Psycho... WHEE WHEE WHEE WHEE WHEE!*

 

Vertigo succeeds in grasping Earthscorch, throwing him off-balance.

 

Perhaps Arachnae, then. Or Galv is just a liar, yes :-) He is mean like that. The Constructicon ahs and tsks, "That's a shame, then, a shame." Airwolf can't lie, and she said Scrapper was mistaken about her being ticked off. "My, ahem, apologies for the mistake then, Airwolf." he says. "As for the evacuation, Aether has been in control of most of it. We should speak to her and find out her plans, I suppose." Scrapper glances about just in time to see hands reach up and grab Earthscorch. "Guh?" he asks intelligently.

 

Earthscorch jumps and starts flailing his arms like a human with a spider in his hair. "Gah! What the slag...?" He falls back with a nice dull thud, before wriggling free (not an easy task for a big bulky lug on his back). "What's the meaning of this?" he asks, flying up and back.

 

Jet Helicopter might be upset if she actually knew what Scrapper was talking about, but she doesn't. As she said, she's not been in communication with the Guardian for over half a year. His words give her pause, though. The gloating tone was clear, and knowing the mech, she can guess at what he might do that would supposedly anger both herself and Omega. Her train of thought is interrupted by the slow spreading of oil in the water where poor Earthscorch just was. Not. Just the flailing and flapping of the mech after apparently slipping and falling. Or something.

 

Vertigo breaks the surface of the water, and chuckles. "..you looked like you could use a bath." the seeker femme responds with a grin, pirouetting in midair to shake the water off.

 

Earthscorch's face hardens, looking disappointed. "Oh. You. Where have you been?" It seems like she just shows up once in a great while to torture him... "You could have made me shoot you... or something."

 

<Autobot> Rodimus Prime says, "Autobots, we're going to mars shortly.  Gear up and meet me on the landing pad."

 

<Autobot> Streetwise says, "Heading there now Rodimus"

 

Scrapper actually laughs as Earthscorch gets snagged. He needed a good chuckle after all that's happened to his beautiful baby. Still snickering as the pair banter a bit, Scrapper returns to a slightly better than crap mood. "Nice try, Vertigo," he says with a grin. "Better luck next time."

 

Vertigo shakes a little bit more, and pumps some water of her thrusters, "It's not all that bad down there.. plenty of open spaces.. but it's going to take a -lot- of work."

 

Jet Helicopter falls silent, maybe because Scrapper is no longer addressing her, maybe because her attention has been drawn to something else. Without another word, she spins on her rotor and makes her way northward to R'lyeh, her self-assigned duty post.

 

Shockwave anti-gravs down out of the skies, eyeing the water-soaked land with his Goldeneye. Scrapper's audio-piercing laughter draws his attention, not all together unfortunately. "Scrapper; what are the chances of a successful trip to an energon station under present conditions within the city?"

 

Jet Helicopter moves north to the Mount R'Lyeh.

Jet Helicopter has left.

 

<Autobot> DepthCharge says, "Autobot DepthCharge, presently making a landing trajectory for Autobot City. Will arrive in 3 minutes. Just need to try and get around this flock of ducks.. <sounds of wind and then scuffling with terrible, angry duck yells and thuds>. Err.. this is Autobot DepthCharge reporting there will be an update on the terran menu in Autobot City tonight. We will now be serving duck. That is all."

 

Scrapper jolts upon hearing Shockwave's droning. * 1,000,000 astroseconds until the spacebridge will be ready, Megatron * Scrapper snickers softly to himself for some reason. "To an energon station? Well..." Scrapper looks left and right. "For a typical Decepticon... I'd say about nil. For, ah, a high commander." Scrapper looks left and right again, "Around 100%." Scrapper leads Shockwave down the correct set of sky-roads to the heavily fortified energon production area. "I wasn't kidding when I said we were making a ton of energon, nevermind the inconvenience..."

 

Earthscorch dribbles and watches Airwolf fly off, intently. Then he turns his attention back to those closer. "I suppose we shouldn't really expect a permenant base, should we? Is this salvagable at all?"

 

Vertigo gives a shrug. "I'm not an engineer, but hey, I think it's doable."

 

Shockwave glances at Scrapper and follows his lead to the production facilities. "And this has all been refined for proper consumption?" That darn Shockwave, always paranoid about some Limey poisoning his supply. For what reason, who knows. The Constructicons are a rambunctious sort.

 

Earthscorch smirks. "It will take a lot of Decepticons with a lot of water pumps. I'm glad I don't spend much time here anymore. Seeing my home based in ruin always depresses me."

 

Scrapper quickly snaps back to Earthscorch, "Salvagable? This city is going to weather it just fine and come out with no trouble. It was designed to last for all of eternity, and nevermind a little bit of rain or... excess H2O, this won't be changing that particular design specification." Back to Shockwave, "Well... refined, not refined... it's all about the same. I figure you can hold your low-grade energon anyway, Shockwave. I mean, we all have to make do with what we have right now."

 

Earthscorch chuckles at Scrapper. "Superior in every way to the original eh? Was that Airwolf you were talking to?"

 

Vertigo shrugs, "Anyplace you can sit at for more than five minutes without being shot at ranks as home for me."

 

Earthscorch gives Vertigo a droll look. "I prefer more stability than that... Unfortunately stability and being on Earth seem to be mutally exclusive. Even this place can't last forever in the face of all our enemies..."

 

In a far-off corner of Shockwave's mind, a scenario unfolds where he reaches out with his hand, grabs the Constructicon up by the neck and decapitates him by simply closing his hand into a fist with Scrapper's neck firmly held within. Ah, such excesses... will have to wait. Outwardly, Shockwave nods to Scrapper and begins refueling himself. He turns his massive back to the greatest number of Decepticons, not caring to let them all see his method of ingestion considering the general absence of a proper face.

 

Vertigo has disconnected.

 

Scrapper takes a step towards Earthscorch, "Superior in every way to /the shoddy replacement/ they have up there." he corrects. "The original Crystal City was..." Scrapper's gettin' all choked up now. "It was... majestic. New Crystal City is comparable, but our best work was no doubt in the first, true Crystal City." And from here we enter Shockwave's fantasy: "And furthermore, I- ULP!" Scrapper suddenly gets snagged by a certain SOMEONE. "Gnnngh," he protests. "Gnnnngh!" he repeats. But thankfully, this is only in Shockwave's mind, and in truth, Scrapper is still blathering on about the original city and how wonderful it was.

 

Earthscorch ponders. "I never saw the original Crystal City. I've only known Cybertron as it is today... Perhaps the original Crystal City can be rebuilt as it was someday, though probably not any time soon."

 

Shockwave finishes his refueling atop the somewhat airborn portion of the city and motions to Scrapper to follow him back to the rest of the Decepticons. "With NCC successfully 'boarded up' as it were, we shall return to Mars to continue our work there; especially, to repair the damage done to the LASER done by the Autobots in our last encounter."

 

Arachnae wades out of medical, holding a hand scanner above the waters.

 

Scrapper sighs at Earthscorch, "Oh you have no idea how much I would love that to be. But for that to happen, Omega Supreme must die." He doesn't really explain why this is so, however part of it should be obvious in that Omega has just as strong feelings about the original as he did. Scrapper turns to Shockwave and says, "Fair enough. However, I, ah... I'd better drive, Shockwave." Friends don't let friends over-energize and drive, folks.

 

Earthscorch says, "Eh, are our shuttles in an accessable location?"

 

Scrapper snorts, "If you aren't afraid of a little water." Oh, man, where the hell is Recoil when you REALLY would love to RP with him?

 

Cheap! Very, very CHEAP!

 

Shockwave appraises Earthscorch's comment as well as his physical ability in an instant, then turns to Scrapper. "I am not intoxicated, contrary to your best wishes. However, feel free to handle the travel arrangements, Scrapper. Quickly."

 

Scrapper leads Shockwave (and anyone else. Spade! Earthscorch!) to the shuttles. "I know you're not intoxicated," Oh no? I saw the way he was eyin' Airwolf. "But I, ah, just wouldn't mind trying my piloting hand again."

 

Earthscorch has disconnected.

 

*** TRAVEL SPAM. THE CONS TAKE THE SHUTTLE TRIUMPH TO MARS ***

 

Outside,

      You soar downward to the Compound on the planet surface.

 

Outside, Promontory Point, Mars

Outside,

     The vast red planetscape of Mars extends for thousands of kilometers, uninterrupted by little more than dust, rocks, and the occasional geological feature, at least until this particular area. Formerly the site of the Terran compound, it was the resting place of the massive city-Transformer Trypticon for a time, and of the compound itself, there are few traces; Trypticon parked himself right on top of it. To the southeast is the largest canyon system on the planet, Valles Marineris, dwarfing even Trypticon himself.

 

Outside, Contents:

Outside, Starfighter <Defcon>

Outside, Autobot Shuttle <Alpha Trion>

Outside, Chimera

Outside, Decepticon Shuttle <Relentless>

Outside, "Death Star 2" Self Destruction System

Outside, "Death Star 2"

Outside, Mars Sensor 1

Outside, Memorial Plaque

Outside, Obvious exits:

Outside,  Northwest <NW> leads to Ares Rail Station.

Outside,  Southeast <SE> leads to Valles Marineris.

Outside,  North <N> leads to Martian Lake.

 

Huh?  (Type "help" for help.)

Huh?  (Type "help" for help.)

Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>

 

     The latest in Cybertronian space technology, the interior of the Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph> is an impressive display of technical knowledge. At the front of the ship is the cockpit, with seats for the pilot and co-pilot and ringed by wrap-around screens. Inside are a variety of sensitive navigational and weaponry controls and monitors, constantly displaying information like system checks, long and short range scanners, and weapons targeting systems. Behind the cockpit is a seating section and in a separate section in the rear is a large cargo bay.

 

----------------------------< Vessel Commands >----------------------------

     Objooc <say or :pose>......... Does an OOC say or pose by you personally

     Speak <message>............... Broadcasts <message> outside the vessel

     View.......................... Shows what's outside of the vessel

     Viewobj <object>.............. Shows the desc of an object outside

     Audible <on/off>.............. Sets broadcasting to the outside on or off

     +password <name>.............. Shows the vessel's pword to officers

 

----------------------------< Pilot Commands >-----------------------------

     Command <vessel>=<passwd>.....Takes command of the vessel

     Pilot.........................Show more pilot commands

 

               < Current Location: Promontory Point, Mars >

Contents:

Spade

Arachnae

Shockwave

Extended Radio Equipment 60

 

Outside, Okay. So there's this green seeker type, and she's been on Mars for a while. She missed a big fight the other day because she was off exploring the planet. And Chimera doesn't normally like to miss fights. Especially when they involve soundly kicking the tail of an Autobot.

 

Anyhow. The sight that would meet the optic of any silly ol' being that would just /happen/ to come into this particular area, not that anyone really would, is poor little Seeker Kimmie doing her darndest to keep from getting bored while she hangs around the shuttle. It's too bad she's green, else she'd be an indistinguishable bump on the planet, just like ...er... whatever that is over there. Debris from something that happened a whiiiile ago.

 

"So then I said, 'You can keep Prowl's carcass, I'll take Ironhide's!!' Ah ha ha ha ha!" Scrapper laughs, very nearly doubling over in his pilot's chair. Oh yes, he's been entertaining the three unfortunate Decepticons within with his nerd jokes for the entire trip over. Thankfully, it doesn't affect his driving any. "Oh, oh, Arachnae, have I ever told you the one about Sho..." Scrapper coughs, "Ah, about Megatron and his trigger? Oh, no, wait, that's the punchline. Forget I said that." The Triumph soars majestically through the cosmos from one planet to another, strangely close planet. "Anyway, it goes like this. Soundwave, Megatron, and Starscream all walk into a bar on Monacus..." The giant red planet can be seen in the viewscreen getting closer and closer, and the Decepticon shuttle angles itself for an approach vector to the ruined Mars Engines and the partially dismantled "Death Star 2". And yes, the "Death Star 2" has a gaping hole in one the sides of the main platform. Hmmm.

 

Arachnae has spent the trip reading reports and ignoring Scrapper as is usual for her.

 

Shockwave has indeed been having a gay old time in the shuttle with Scrapper. The Decepticons have the lion's share of technological advancement in the universe, but yet there is still 1) no cure for cancer and 2) no cure for Scrapper's sense of humor. Listlessly, Shockwave awaits for the landing and, were it not for an enormous amount of self-discipline, he would be beating against the nearest airlock and crying to be let out.

 

Spade sits curled in the corner, his large legs tucked close to his chest as he attempts to fit comfortably someplace near the back.

 

Since nobody is complaining about his jokes, Scrapper figures he's doing a fair job. "So anyway, in the bar they see the Insecticons hanging out with... you know that blue femme that always shows up at the Olympics? Yeah, her." Scrapper continues onward, only paying partial attention to the scanners. Shockwave's no doubt in charge of something as dull as that. "And so the Insecticons are sitting in their favorite spot, which by the way was one of those bar stools that they have on Monacus, which back in the day we refered to as 'recharging chairs'. We didn't have any recharging chairs in the undersea base on Earth, on account of always being at war. But sometimes we'd go to Monacus, just for the recharging chairs. Back then, the fare to go to Monacus was three energon sticks. 'Three sticks to Monacus!', you'd say, when you were trying to get to the bars in Monacus, which had bar stools called 'recharging chairs'. Now when we were going to Monacus, we'd have to ask Megatron for the energon. 'Can we get three sticks to Monacus?', we'd say. Because that's what it cost to go to Monacus back then..."

 

Outside, It's go time, kiddies. Inferno slams the door panel violently and begins to scream the charge...

 

"GO GO GO GO GO! HIT 'EM, DAMMIT, NO QUARTER! NOTHIN' BUT SMOKE, BURNT STEEL N' VICTORY! GO GO GO GO!!!"

 

Outside, Rodimus Prime is raring and ready to go. As soon as the last autobot leaves, he runs out, transforms, and burns rubber. The semi looks out of place on mars oddly, but that's not the point. 200 tons of red fury is barreling down on the cons. What do you do...what do you do?!

 

Shockwave snaps his head saidelong to Scrapper. "I suggest, Commander, a significant decrease in non-relevant conversation and a proportional increase to attention paid to the sensors. The Autobots were here once... they may return. We do not need Autobots making this any more difficult than it already is."

 

Outside, Streetwise lets the others head out of the shuttle ahead of him. He follows quickly pistol in hand and looking for cons to smite.

 

Outside, Yes, and now this time DepthCharge actually /does/ jump out of the shuttle, anti gravs carrying him gently into the Martian atmosphere. What happened last pose? Didn't he already pose doing this? That was just.. umm.. DepthCharge thinking about what he'll do. Yeah, that's it. DepthCharge was planning and thought that the best thing to do once the shuttle lands is jump out through the door. Which is what he did! Good thing too as we know how ticked Prime gets when Autobots jump through the shuttle walls instead of the doors. Good planning DC. You deserve a medal.

 

Outside, "Yeeeah!" Foxfire hollers, jumping from his seat and onto the floor, teeth bared and claws fully extended. "Let's buuuurn!" He's quite the enthusiastic little cassette, isn't he?

 

Outside, There she is. Mars. Ripe and ready for the uncorking of an ungodly rumble for the ages. Pumping one fist Patton-esque while using the other to shove the shuttle's contingent out the door, Inferno continues to bellow at the top of his audializer, barking the orders as zero hour finds the day. Let's bring the nasty. Pain, Book I, chapter one. As the last of the group leaves the shuttle, the Big Red Machine pauses for a moment, turning to Rodimus with a smile...

 

"Time fer it, chief. Like they's say... The Few, the Proud... The Chumps. See ya awn th' other side." That said, the Scarlet Titan disgorges himself from the shuttle, his own sidearm bucking violently against his shoulder with a torrential scream. "RRRAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!! IT'S OUR TIME, AUTAHBOTS! LEAVE 'EM SMOKIN'!" *BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM!!!!*

 

Outside, There's no getting out of the shuttle for Defcon. Instead, the Autobot bounty hunter just blasts into the scene, thrusters flaring, flying in formation with the Autobot shuttle. Defcon remains in starfighter mode and without waiting for any kind of orders engages his weapon systems, his sensors searching for the first Decepticon presence that comes into range.

 

Shockwave continues, "... for example, that red fool announcing the Autobots' presence here already," he notes, pointing on a screen at the emerging form of Inferno from the Autobot shuttle.

 

The limousine splits down the middle, legs fold out from the rear end, the front end bends down, revealing a robotic head. The sides fold out into arms and extend, pushing the robot upright into a standing position. What's left is the ominous figure of Spade.

 

Outside, Foxfire looks to Inferno, out of the corner of his optic. "So much for the element of surprise," he comments, but can't resist grinning. The little tape crouches down, like an Earth predator stalking its next meal. He's as ready as he'll ever be.

 

Arachnae has disconnected.

 

Scrapper pauses in his story, "Oh don't worry, Shockwave. I was just getting to the good part. Now as I was saying, we'd have to take our three energon sticks to the spaceport so we could go to Monacus, which we did so we could try out the recharging chairs. Now on Monacus there's an old joke involving the Insecticons and the blue femme, wh- wha?" Scrapper jolts out of his beautiful story. "Autobots! Going after my "laser"!" Scrapper takes his hands off the controls momentarily so he can do the quotes. The Triumph soars over top of the charging Autobots. "Blast it... Shockwave, get ready. I'm takin' her down near the "Death Star 2". You boys, lock and load, get out there and kick some Autobot tailpipe!" Scrapper activates the ventral electron cannon and quickly targets for, oh I don't know, RODIMUS PRIME. There's a great flash as twin barrels of electrical justice streak through the heavens down to the soon-to-be battlefield, aiming for Rodimus. Hit or miss, the Triumph quickly wheels about and touches down on the ground. "Everybody out!" Scrapper shouts."

 

The Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph> launches an attack on Rodimus Prime with Electricity.

 

Outside, Tricked out Semi-rig evades your Electricity attack.

 

Shockwave blinks passively at Scrapper. "I am pleased to see that your experience in non-relevant conversation was not permanent." He rises from his chair and hits the airlock while the shuttle is still in the air, firing at RODIMUS PRIME. Shockwave follows suit and cuts a small, red beam at Rodimus's tires. It's not so much that Rodimus is the enemy, as it is that awful color scheme. Who goes out in public looking like that?

 

Shockwave disembarks from the Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>.

 

You paged Recoil with 'Not to like, totally add in a topic that we shouldn't bother talking about right now, but I think we should talk to Shellshock at some point about his suckiness. Sit him down, hash out why his character is annoying, and resolve it one way or another.'.

 

Spade gets excited about being able to finally confront the dreaded Autobots. They've plagued Decepticon life for far too long, and it is time that somebody did something about the evil Autobots! Spade draws his sword and readies his shield. "Time to play." He jumps out of the shuttle through the airlock and engages his anti-gravs, floating toward the ground.

 

Outside, Oh... Slag. That'd be an Autobot shuttle wouldn't it. And the poor innocent little seeker is all by her lonesome up here. Of course, Inferno popping out and running at... well.... since there's no one up here but Chimera and a shuttle at the moment...

 

Chimera manages to start yelling a list of some ancient and very nasty words. Alphabetically, of course. And Kimmie is VERY glad to see the shuttle landing, and the ... oh. There aren't that many of them. Better than nothing. "Yeah!" She calls, "'Bout time you got here!" Sarcasm laced, and pissy, she's stepping out to take a shot at.... Who else but Defcon is a freakin' big starfighter, and a badass enough to have a laser strapped to his head? Yeah, we know Scourge has one too, but Defcon's the original. And he's going to get a handful of ineffective laserfire at his aft.

 

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Outside, Foxfire dashes away from the shuttle, and jumps onto a particularly large rock, trying to see if he can spot the laser. It would be a good idea to pinpoint its location while the Autobots still can. Scanning the area, he does not find it, and thus runs off even further, hoping to locate the laser before the Decepticons find HIM.

 

Outside, Defcon's sensors inform the 'Bot that a target is making himself... uhm, rather herself available. Before the bounty hunter has a chance to open fire, Chimera does it first and actually hits the hunter with some good ol' lovin'. "What the..." Defcon mutters to himself and after having tried to avoid the fire and having miserably failed, Defcon flies around and unleashes a deadly barrage of... laser lovin' back at the 'Con femme!

 

Outside, Starfighter <Defcon> misses Chimera with his Tip Laser! attack.

 

Outside, Assuming the laser is of the gigantic variety, and pointed upwards into the Martian skies, Inferno continues to run across the hardpan martian landscape, each footfall sending a large puff of red tinged dust into the already thin, clawing air. Sending rifle blast after rifle blast toward the (again, I'm assuming) gigantic laser that pierces the sky, the Big Red Machine pauses for a moment, fanning his hand out and barking the charge. "MOVE! Fan out, form skirmish lines, 20 yards! Direct yer fire at that damn laser n' take it OUT!(assuming it's of the gigantic laser variety)".

 

Outside, At the time of the Decepticon's emergence from the shuttle, DepthCharge is soaring through the Martian skies, Trident held securely within his grasp with the prongs of the sea-fork already energized and ready for battle. The Aquabot medic bares witness to both the Decepticon shuttle and Shockwave focus their attention on Primus' Chosen One and DepthCharge says, pressing a button on the hilt of his trident that causes the glowing prongs to flare brighter and brighter, "Two against one. That doesn't seem very fair to me.. no, not fair at all." Drawing the trident weapon back, DepthCharge then swings it about in the air once, flicking the weapon in Shockwave's general direction. And as he does so a discharge of energy flies from the tip of the trident and arcs its way through the air towards Shockwave. Let's see if that will distract Mr. Logic from Prime. And then all Prime will hopefully have to worry about is that Decepticon shuttle.

 

Outside, DepthCharge strikes Shockwave with Trident Energy.

 

Outside, Streetwise sees an unfamiliar con enter the area and decides to tackle the unknown. He runs toward the unrecognized con and shouts " Hey you try this on for size." as he looses a round or two from the Photon pistol.

 

Outside, Streetwise misses Spade with his Photon Pistol (pain) attack.

 

Outside, Tricked out Semi-rig charges forward as a blast from the shuttle blows a nice chunk of the landscape into the air next to him. He swerves to avoid the pot hole, which puts him in Shockwave's sights, but as he has more tires than just four, he'll be ok. The tire gets shred as chunks fall off behind him. Rodimus grunts however, that fused that axal on that side. Meaning he'll be needing some body work by some fine femme nurse later. He sees who fired the laser that took down his tire and says, "Shockwave, I should have known you'd be here..." he does not transform to meet the purple people eater however. He continues on, not for the laser, but for what's driving this thing. He clicks on his radio and says, "Foxfire, recon mission. Let's find whatever's pushing this rock near earth and shut it down. The others can handle the cons."

 

You disembark from the Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>.

Promontory Point, Mars

 

     The vast red planetscape of Mars extends for thousands of kilometers, uninterrupted by little more than dust, rocks, and the occasional geological feature, at least until this particular area. Formerly the site of the Terran compound, it was the resting place of the massive city-Transformer Trypticon for a time, and of the compound itself, there are few traces; Trypticon parked himself right on top of it. To the southeast is the largest canyon system on the planet, Valles Marineris, dwarfing even Trypticon himself.

 

Contents:

Spade

Shockwave

Streetwise

Inferno

DepthCharge

Foxfire

Tricked out Semi-rig

CPT

Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>

Starfighter <Defcon>

Autobot Shuttle <Alpha Trion>

Chimera

Decepticon Shuttle <Relentless>

"Death Star 2" Self Destruction System

"Death Star 2"

Mars Sensor 1

Memorial Plaque

Obvious exits:

Northwest <NW> leads to Ares Rail Station.

Southeast <SE> leads to Valles Marineris.

North <N> leads to Martian Lake.

 

"Death Star 2"

This beautiful weapon resembles its ancestor quite closely, but in actuality there are many internal differences. The "Death Star 2" is a huge phallic looking weapon in the middle of a platform that aims upwards into the heavens, somewhat resembling Galvatron's cannon mode, but with a bigger barrel and a chair at the base of the gun for targetting. The "Laser" can swivel about, aiming each and every way. The platform has a control panel for remote firing, and a powerful forcefield generator to keep it safe from stray shots. Oddly, one section of the platform seems to be unfinished, and you can see right through that part of it. Strange. Thankfully, it does not affect the firing of the "Laser".

 

Decepticons' Turn

 

Shockwave scores a hit on Rodimus' tire, but does not go unnoticed for his acts of heroism and dedication; DepthCharge, his most ultimate arch-nemesis EVAR appears to sail through the Martian skies and lances him with a small shock through his man-boob. "That was foolish..." he comments, however movement from the peripheral catches his attention. It is Foxfire, darting to and fro. Immediately, Shockwave recognizes the unit as that which was allowed to get all the recon on the LASER in their last encounter. Such an action is not permissable this time, unfortunately. Offering DepthCharge a morse-code blink of, "You're next," Shockwave angles away and heads toward the LASER as well, drawing a bead on the tiny turbo-fox. With his cannon arm, he fires a small burst to get the cassettibot's attention. With his hand-arm, he clenches his fist. Oooooooooh.

 

Shockwave strikes Foxfire with Disruptor.

 

Spade scans the crowd of delightfully colorful Autobots. Disgusted, he sneers and takes a swing with his sword as he touches down onto the Martian surface, rising a small dust cloud in his wake. As he lands he instinctively raises his shield deflecting a blast from a small little Autobot. "Hmm..." He shifts his shield to his shoulder and draws his laser blaster, returning the volley at Streetwise.

 

Spade strikes Streetwise with Laser Blaster.

 

Scrapper parks the shuttle in front of the "laser", shielding it from people too stupid to go around. Scrapper flicks the ship into auto-idle and draws out his pistol. Scrapper pauses and takes a deep mechanical breath for air ventilation for his coolant systems. Once more, he needs to go out and defend what he has created. Other artists get up in arms when people discredit their work and look down upon it. Scrapper has to worry about it being destroyed in a war. Battle is always a nerve-wracking experience for Scrapper, and it's times like this when it gets even worse. But he is a Decepticon, and so he summons up all of his courage, his inherent Decepticon cruelty, and his loyalties to the Empire striving to conquer all beneath its heel.

        With these thoughts in mind, the Decepticon charges out of the airlock and slams into the red Martian landscape. His green colour scheme making him stick out on the battlefield just as much as Scrapper feels like he sticks out in a battle. But he pushes that away and immediately becomes aware of Inferno, leading a charge of Autobots towards his baby. "Spade!" he shouts. "Destroy the Protectobot. I'll... I'll deal with this minor interference," he hisses, sounding braver than he really is. The Constructicon, using the Triumph's landing strut as cover, fires a blast at the red avenger making his lone charge on the weapon.

 

You strike Inferno with Mixing it up with a Masterful shot.

 

Of course the lower gravity on Mars isn't going to hurt what Chimera just did in order to evade Defcon's version of laser love. She's got the moves. She's got the look. And she's smirking at the big ol' spacecraft. "Bet you couldn't do that." She tells him, finding another gun to play with. He's got a nice paintjob. She'd certainly like to scratch her name into his chassis. "Let's see..." she says, as the dust settles. And fires a bit of lead lov-- er. A few gauss rounds. No lovin' this time.

 

Chimera strikes Starfighter <Defcon> with gauss.

 

Autobots' Turn

 

*WHAAAMMM!* The impact of weaponsfiore on armor sounds a resounding clarion call across the harsh martian landscape, and apparently, from the violent twisting of his upper body and subsequent stagger mid-sprint, the source of that loud claning was none other than Inferno. The lucky recipient of a dose of Scrapper. Through a clenched jaw, fierce determination and 20 tons of good ol' fashioned Detroit rolling steel, the Scarlet Titan sees his aggressor... tucked in neatly behind the Decepticon shuttle and right in line with that damnable laser. This particular Autobot has felt the wrath of this maniacal device... and it's fury, along with it's maker, ends here, in a puff of red martian dust.

 

Continuing on course, shoulder still smoking from the blast, the Big Red Machine smiles at his target, taunting across the thin air... "Alright, ya sonofabitch... Ah c'n work ya in before ah stomp that damn laser. Ah'd absolutely LOVE to!" *BLAMBLAMBLAM!*

 

<Attack:> Inferno used laser. (&combatspam me=1 to stop this.)

Inferno strikes you with Treetop Cat Remover for 7 points of damage.

 

DepthCharge unfortunately does not understand Morse code. So, he either thinks that Shockwave's optic was badly damaged from the trident blast. Or he thinks Shockwave is simply coming onto him. Whatever the case, it simply means DepthCharge needs to press his attack harder! Lest he wind up defeated and chained in NCC Dungeon with Shockwave saying 'Bring out the Gimp!'. Scary image indeed. Sending more power to his anti-grav as 'Foxfire target practice' keeps Shockers occupied for a moment, DepthCharge starts to speed towards the Decepticon Guardian of Cybertron, spinning his trident in a swipe as he draws close. You really have to admire the sheer lunacy of DepthCharge attacking someone who is way more powerful and way more deadly than himself.

Admire or pity.

 

DepthCharge misses Shockwave with his Trident slash attack.

 

Tricked out Semi-rig would blink if he could. He shouts, "Foxfire!" He transforms turning towards the tape and charging him in order to shield him from any more attacks. Still, while he does that, Rodimus takes a weak potshot at Scrapper, just because he can. No one should need to hide behind a shuttle and pick off autobots, unless it's an autobot picking off decepticons behind a shuttle. Then it's ok.

The tricked out semi-rig seems to leap in the air. The trailer behind it falls away into nothing while the front of the rig folds and forms a torso and arms. The underside of the whole thing forms into a pair of treetrunk like legs. Finally, a head rises up into place. Where a tricked out rig once was, Rodimus Prime stands.

 

<Attack:> Rodimus Prime used electricity. (&combatspam me=1 to stop this.)

Rodimus Prime strikes you with Photon Eliminator <Warning Shot> for 12 points of damage.

 

It seems that Chimera's just faster than good ol' Defcon. The bounty hunter attempts to avoid the femme's attack and yet again, he's tagged. "This is getting annoying," the hunter mutters and dives down, spinning and then Defcon pulls up and aims for the femme again. "Come on girl, stay freaking put." And there go the lightning emitters aiming for the femme's aft.

 

Starfighter <Defcon> misses Chimera with his Lightning Emitters! attack.

 

Streetwise is already cursing himself and his targeting systems, then bam, right on the shoulder he is pegged by the return fire from the new con. He keeps running though and begins to close the distance, as he does he raises his other arm straight out in front of him and the tazer pops out, fires, and returns to its hiding place. He keeps running and yelling most of it unintelligible cursing that he has picked up from teens on earth. He shouts "Is that all you got CON! cause your gona have to do much better to stop me!"

 

Streetwise misses Spade with his taser attack.

 

"Got'cha, Prime," Foxfire mutters into his own radio, and starts moving faster; unfortunately, he's hit by a blast before he can go much further, and skids along the ground for a few feet, on his side. Growling, the cassette gets to his paws, glaring at Shockwave, and...doesn't attack. Instead, he runs AWAY from the 'Con, eager to find the laser, which, incidentally, comes into his view a few moments later.

 

CPT

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Name            Last pose  Idle  Last non-area attack                  Off/Def

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Foxfire                1m   19s  ---                                      /  0

Streetwise             2m    1m  missed Spade w/ taser                   4/  2

Defcon                 2m   33s  missed Chimera w/ electricity           6/  7

Rodimus Prime          3m    1m  hit Scrapper w/ electricity             4/  2

DepthCharge            4m   26s  missed Shockwave w/ sword               6/

Inferno                5m    2m  hit Scrapper w/ laser                   2/  2

Scrapper               6m    0s  hit Inferno w/ laser                    2/  6

Chimera                6m    6m  hit Defcon w/ gauss                     7/  6

Spade                 12m    6s  hit Streetwise w/ laser                 2/  4

Shockwave             14m    7m  hit Foxfire w/ disruptor                2/  6

Decepticon Shuttle <  19m   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp  56m   ---  ---                                      /

Decepticon Shuttle <  ---   ---  ---                                      /

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Decepticons' Turn

 

Scrapper takes a step back. Not from the laser fire that's going to be sent his way, but because of the determination that his assailant keeps coming towards him. Inferno, hard soldier of impeachable courage that nobody can doubt. Scrapper, barely holding it together in a battle but driven by the need to protect his only means of expressing himself in the Empire he has sworn to fight for. "I'm always willing to make another chair out of your worthless hide, Inferno," Scrapper snarls back. The three bolts from the muzzle of the fiery Autobot's weapon hurl towards the Constructicon. One strikes him in the chest, leaving a smoking patch of armour. One strikes the landing strut of the Triumph, not damaging it, and the last strikes the powerful forcefield around the partially dismantled "Death Star 2". Scrapper lunges forward, charging the Big Red Machine and trying to smash the bigger robot backwards with a shoulder bodycheck. Hit or miss, Scrapper gets blasted from elsewhere, blowing off a chunk of armour and sending him falling backwards.

 

You strike Inferno with Bonecrushing Smash.

 

Shockwave makes no visible reaction as his burst strikes home on Foxfire, the most logical of all Transformers content with the success of the act as its own reward, if one needed such a thing to do one's duty. His attention focused solely on Foxfire, Depthcharge's swipe behind him goes unnoticed, or at least unresponded to. With Scrapper engaging Inferno, Shockwave is free to press his advantage against the wily coyote, as it were. Foxfire's perilously close proximity to the LASER must be stopped, lest his political advantage in the empire be ruined versus a certain bunny-shaped First Officer. Unrelenting, Shockwave draws closer to his Autobot target and loads a single photon torpedo into the cannon's chamber. A moment later, a small red explosion erupts as the torpedo makes its way towards the Autobot.

 

Shockwave strikes Foxfire with Photon Torpedo.

 

Spade starts charging Streetwise, putting his blaster away and moving the shield back down to a ready position. Spade holds his sword out in front of him, pointing at the Bot. He barely notices the 'Bot's attack and side-steps in the nick of time. "Little rat!" Spade bellows as the gap is closed and he brings his sword down and then forward in an attempt to slash the little guy's mid-section.

 

Spade strikes Streetwise with sword.

 

Yet again, Defcon's shots hit the surface of the planet, rather than the Decepticon femme Seeker. And she's giggling. It's not a very nice sound. "Now now, Defcon. You're getting slow." She tells him, as one hand dives into the sand in front of her. She's looking for something. And then her face lights up with a bigger grin as she finds it. With one smooth motion, Chimera winds, and pitches a nice sized chunk of rocky debris towards Defcon's cockpit window.

 

Chimera strikes Starfighter <Defcon> with random vandalism.

 

Autobots' Turn

 

CPT

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Name            Last pose  Idle  Last non-area attack                  Off/Def

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Scrapper               3s    0s  hit Inferno w/ smash                    4/  6

Chimera                3m    2m  hit Defcon w/ punch                     7/  6

Spade                  4m   11s  hit Streetwise w/ sword                 4/  4

Shockwave              5m   41s  hit Foxfire w/ plasma                   8/  6

Foxfire                8m    1m  ---                                      /  6

Streetwise             9m    3m  missed Spade w/ taser                   4/  4

Defcon                10m    8s  missed Chimera w/ electricity           6/  7

Rodimus Prime         11m   44s  hit Scrapper w/ electricity             4/  2

DepthCharge           11m   58s  missed Shockwave w/ sword               6/

Inferno               13m    6m  hit Scrapper w/ laser                   2/  4

Decepticon Shuttle <  26m   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   1h   ---  ---                                      /

Decepticon Shuttle <  ---   ---  ---                                      /

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Streetwise curses another miss and then is hit with a sword on the side of his shoulder. he screams again anger welling up as the battle is not going his way at all. Now that the con has closed the gap he comes to a sudden halt and spins on a heel sending the opposing heel toward the head of his misery maker. He shouts "Ok guns not working lets try a good ol' boot to the head!"

 

Streetwise strikes Spade with Boot to the Head.

 

Foxfire cries out in obvious pain as he is again struck, the torpedo sending him flying some yards away, and he lays on his side for about a minute, before trying to get to his paws. The side of his body is ripped open, and bleeding energon; dispite this, he still makes an attempt to reach the laser, knowing that the fate of the planet Earth depends on it. The foxbot, now standing, tries to start running again, but is slowed by his injuries, and limping. Poor little guy. "Damn you," he growls to

Shockwave without looking at him, focusing solely on the laser.

 

Distance closes in a rapid pace as the Big Red Machine thunders across the martian landscape, each successive footfall leaving a sizeable dent along with its concurrent *WHUMP!*. Dust also begins to rise into the air, hanging in the thin atmosphere in a dangerous game of clinging to air more thin than the edge of the finest razor. And that is the edge Inferno walks as he continues his own course headlong into the belly of incoming weaponsfire, each shot chipping a chunk of the surface, whizzing past his head, or even striking home, much like the previous shot. And it is this course, this course of madness, abject deliverance of the duty above the deed, that locks his optics on the laser and NOT upon the charging, lime-green juggernaut that promptly sinks a shoulder right into his gizzard. Windshields explode in a shattering of knife-edged glass, the crunch sounding like the most vicious of automobile accidents. And momentum stops instantly as the proverbial line is drawn, Inferno staggering back, face already shifting from a look of shock to the all too familiar look of unbridled, tempestual rage...

 

Crouched and defensive in stature, the Autobot firefighter finally locks his optics upon the Decepticon, a lip curling defiantly before a slightly opened jaw. Fingers open and close slowly... Fists tighten, then open... The next movement is a blur, speed unfounded from the once slower machine as a deadly blackened sledgehammer of coiled fist finds its home behind an ear, only staying long enough to piston itself outward in a thunderously mighty shot of power, heroism, and destruction contained.

 

<Attack:> Inferno used punch. (&combatspam me=1 to stop this.)

Inferno strikes you with Punch for 9 points of damage.

 

DepthCharge internally grahs as he can't seem to distract Shockwave from Foxfire, with the big purple lurple launching a photon attack on the little cassette that could. If Foxfire is damaged beyond function then who will destroy the laser? If only Jazz was here, he has demolitions too. Oh well. Can't be helped. It seems it is up to DepthCharge to do what he can to get Shockwave's attention. Even at the risk of making Shockwave decide to rip DC limb from limb. The Aquabot sets himself into a hovering position not too far away from Shockwave and says, as panels along his chest slowly slide open, "So this is him.. the fearsome Decepticon Shockwave. To be honest, I never understood why you were meant to be such a threat. I mean, aren't you just a rather poor copy of former Decepticon leader Megatron? One that had to be locked away on Cybertron for millions of years so as not to embarrass him by walking around within former Decepticon Leader Megatron's sight? Ah well. With a personality like yours I can kinda understand it. Anyway.." and to further try an annoy Shocks from the panels on DC's chest a few rocket-torpedoes launch.

 

All right, this is getting rather annoying for the bounty hunter. This time, though, instead of trying to dodge the femme's next attack he takes in stride. "Time to get out the bigger guns," he muses, and the cannon under him begins to glow. Just as it seems he's about to hit Chimera, Defcon unleashes a group of plasma volleys at the Decepticon. All his weaponry is not that useful if he's unable to hit the enemy and keeps receiving potshots in return.

 

Rodimus Prime growls up at Shockwave and says, "Leave Foxfire alone Shockwave!" After all, he's just a wittle ittle tape. Rodimus Prime points his silver shiny weapon towards Shockwave and pulls the trigger. A thunderclap sounds as a beam of intense energy spews out of the end of the weapon towards Shockwave. Intent on its one purpose. To make him have a very bad day. Even in the hands of Rodimus Prime, the blast causes his arm to get a nice dose of back kick.

 

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Rodimus Prime          0s    0s  hit Scrapper w/ electricity             4/  2

Defcon                 4s    1s  missed Chimera w/ electricity           6/  7

DepthCharge            8s    4s  missed Shockwave w/ sword               6/

Inferno                2m    1s  hit Scrapper w/ punch                   2/  4

Foxfire                2m    1m  ---                                      /  6

Streetwise             2m   10s  hit Spade w/ kick                       4/  4

Scrapper               3m    0s  hit Inferno w/ smash                    4/  6

Chimera                6m    6m  hit Defcon w/ punch                     7/  6

Spade                  7m    2s  hit Streetwise w/ sword                 4/  4

Shockwave              8m   54s  hit Foxfire w/ plasma                   8/  6

Decepticon Shuttle <  29m   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   1h   ---  ---                                      /

Decepticon Shuttle <  ---   ---  ---                                      /

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Decepticons' Turn

 

Starfighter <Defcon> misses Chimera with his Underslung Plasma Cannon! attack.

 

Rodimus Prime strikes Shockwave with Photon Eliminator <Medium>.

 

DepthCharge strikes Shockwave with Torpedo Missle thing.

 

Spade grunts as he catches a small metallic foot to the face. He turns, back to Streetwise and drops to one knee, tucking his sword in front of him. A moment later and Spade spins back towards Streetwise sweeping his sword in a wide horizontal arc in front of him, attempting to remove the Autobot's head from his body.

 

Spade strikes Streetwise with sword.

 

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Spade                 16s   11s  hit Streetwise w/ sword                 6/  4

Scrapper               6m    0s  hit Inferno w/ smash                    4/  6

Rodimus Prime          6m    5m  hit Shockwave w/ cannon                14/  2

Defcon                 6m    1m  missed Chimera w/ plasma               12/  7

DepthCharge            6m   19s  hit Shockwave w/ rocket                11/

Inferno                8m   16s  hit Scrapper w/ punch                   2/  4

Foxfire                8m    4m  ---                                      /  6

Streetwise             8m    5s  hit Spade w/ kick                       4/  6

Chimera               12m   12m  hit Defcon w/ punch                     7/ 12

Shockwave             14m    4m  hit Foxfire w/ plasma                   8/ 21

Decepticon Shuttle <  36m   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   1h   ---  ---                                      /

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Shockwave certainly has become the target of much Autobot hatred; his torpedo knocking the fox onto its side and into a prone position probably has something to do with it. Shockwave lowers to the ground overtop the Autobot as it tries to get its bearings again and reaches back with his hand to simply slap the fox away from the LASER. Rodimus Prime and DepthCharge have other ideas, however. Rodimus connects first, with DepthCharge hitting cleanup. The two blasts most assuredly knock him to the ground and take a good chunk of armor with him. Energon leaks from the lens over his chest and as he computes the damage received, certain minor systems seem slow in responding to the query. However, he is completely out of position to get a pick-me-up from Scrapper at this point. Propping himself back up to his knees, he makes a diving lunge at the fox as it tries to get past him once again, his hand outstretched to deliver momentum in addition to strength. Rodimus' whining to leave poor little Autobots alone goes unanswered, except to continue with this most logical course; sabotage the sabotuer.

 

Shockwave strikes Foxfire with Slap.

 

And so green meets red on red's home turf. Scrapper feels the impact of hitting Inferno, hearing the shattering of glass in the thin atmosphere, and the brief elation upon seeing his hated foe halted in his tracks. Scrapper hunches down low to use his smaller stature to the best advantage, trying and failing to ignore the whizzing bolts of crimson enregy flying past him and his adversary. Inferno's expression of shock and rage incites satisfied revenge and fear, respectively. "Come on, you treacherous sick slaggin' bastard. We should have killed you when we had you in our grip." Scrapper's only experience in being horrifyingly cruel is with his dealings with Omega Supreme, but it transfers well to here, and he tries to hit home at Inferno's will and drive emotionally. "Still trying to make up for what you did with us?" Scrapper laughs nervously, "You should join us again, Inferno! Blitzwing misses you."

        Scrapper advances, preparing to plant a green fist on Inferno's chin, but suddenly feels a thick *THUD* and the feeling of his faceplate cracking. Scrapper stumbles, falters, but remains on his feet. Carefully, he draws out the sword stolen from Springer. He ignites the electro-sword and hacks at Inferno's offending arm. "One way or another, your carcass is going to serve the Decepticon cause!" He wants that arm.

 

You strike Inferno with Instrument of Construction.

 

If only Jazz were here, but Cyclonus made sure that Jazz was not going to be able to be running around for a while. Sword through the chest usually does that. Herss for Chimera, she stands her ground with the plasma canon... then, as she judges it is about to fire, she dodges. Not just dodges, but jumps straight up. Flying. Oh yeah. She can fly. She giggles for a moment, then transforms, buzzing around Defcon, then firing at his aftquarters again. "I'm almost getting bored with you..." She tells him.

 

Green Pyramid Jet misses Starfighter <Defcon> with her Bored Now attack.

 

Foxfire again cries out, goes flying once more, and falls, digging his claws into Mars' surface. Didn't someone say that Autobots don't fly? "Leave...me alone," he gasps, as he begins to pull--yes, PULL--himself, toward the laser. He's not having much success, though.

 

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Foxfire                1m   27s  ---                                      /  6

Scrapper               3m    0s  hit Inferno w/ energy_axe               9/  6

Chimera                4m    3m  missed Defcon w/ plasma                13/ 12

Shockwave              6m   17s  hit Foxfire w/ slap                     8/ 21

Spade                  6m   26s  hit Streetwise w/ sword                 6/  4

Rodimus Prime         12m    1m  hit Shockwave w/ cannon                14/  2

Defcon                12m    1m  missed Chimera w/ plasma               12/ 13

DepthCharge           12m   41s  hit Shockwave w/ rocket                11/

Inferno               14m    5m  hit Scrapper w/ punch                   2/  9

Streetwise            15m    4m  hit Spade w/ kick                       4/  6

Decepticon Shuttle <  42m   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   1h   ---  ---                                      /

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The usually methodical Defcon is kind of hitting a boiling point here. Chimera is added to the hunter's 'MUST HUNT DOWN' priority list. Said list is quite full anyway, and in fact as a Decepticon Chimera IS already there. The starfighter banks a bit to avoid the incoming plasma shot and continues on in a collision course towards Chimera. Except, the 'Bot transforms just at the last moment and prepares to deal some pain to the femme.

 

The starfighter's components start shifting around as it transforms into Defcon.

 

Streetwise lands after a successful jumping back kick, he really should have paid more attention to those martial arts movies the remember to duck after suck a move, Streets is not paying close enough attention and is just able to sacrifice a chunk of his shoulder armour as a spinning duck saves his head, but not the armour. He rolls up now extremely ticked as this fight is not going well, time for drastic action. He take out the pistol once again and this time switches the setting and looses the blinding charge at the much taller con, as he does he shouts "Hey ugly smile for my camera!"

 

Streetwise strikes Spade with his Photon Pistol (blinding) attack.

 

Defcon misses Green Pyramid Jet with his Crushing Arms! attack.

 

And the Constructicon's strike lands true, true as the gospel. And his taunting has an effect as well, yet maybe not the effect intended as the firefighting firecracker of furious fervor tries to sidestep, taking the blade deep into the shoulder already assaulted by the lime-green Decepticon's previous assault. It twitches momentarily, a long stream of hydraulic fluid escaping to cast an evil, red-hued arc across the sky. It is only herculean strength and sheer desire that pulls the Big Red Machine free from the blade's grip, and stepping back out of the immediate range of the sweeping blade, he growls, even as his own hand slips to his back, fingers curling around his OWN Weapon of Mass Destruction...

 

"Yer right, stumpy. Ah shoulda stuck aroun'. N' ripped th' Primus fersaken guts right outta ev'ry last damn one of ya. Now, ya gonna run yer flap..." The brilliant, piercing light of justice emerges from behind Inferno, its almost heavenly glow shattering the dull haze of the dusty martian landscape. "...'Er are ya gonna lemme through?" The light mentioned earlier swings a dangerous arc of its own, revealing the source of the glow as the gleaming, stainless steel head of a fireman's pick headed axe. It lowers as if possessed, tearing a course for the Decepticon with nothing but malicious intent... "NNNNGGGH!"

 

<Attack:> Inferno used energy_axe. (&combatspam me=1 to stop this.)

Inferno strikes you with PROBATIONARY EXAM(To the face!) for 14 points of damage.

 

Alright. Seems as though with Prime's help they are making progress with Shockwave. But Shockwave is like a dog with a bone (or a Terrorcon with a Technobot limb) and won't be swayed from his course. It looks like the only thing that can be done is to make to so that Shockwave isn't physically capable of going after Foxfire. But DepthCharge doubts his own abilities are up to the task. Still, you have to try. Do or die. If only Shockwave would back off for a second he could aid Foxfire medically. Wait. That's it. Cause Shockwave to back off Concentrating, hoping Prime is going to press the attack on Shockers, DepthCharge begins to reroute power through his form. Arcs of blue, glowing energy suddenly begin to swirl out of DepthCharge's chest and rather than forming a protective forcefield around himself it rips towards Foxfire and grows into a large glowing dome around the cassette, moving as the cassette moves. Hopefully that will by the fox some time.

 

DepthCharge successfully activates a powerful protective forcefield around Foxfire, shielding him from the next attack.

 

Rodimus Prime switches his weapon over to another setting and says, "You want to pick on an autobot Shockwave, pick on me!" He pulls the trigger sending out a huge burst of white noise and flashing lights, designed to confused and blind an opponent. If hanging around the protectobots has taught him one thing, it's that there's always a non-violent way out of a situation, that always leads back to a more violent solution. He calls out, "DepthCharge, get him safety, that's an order. I can handle Shockwave."

 

Rodimus Prime strikes Shockwave with his Stun Beam attack.

 

Decepticons' Turn

 

Spade takes several steps back, waving his sword out in front of him and trying to keep his shield up. "Arrrrgh! You won't get away with that." He shakes his head, trying to clear his optics and having little success, and with all of the battle noises around him, Spade can't tell where Streetwise might be coming from. Regardless, he holds his shield near, fear never touching his emotional sensors.

 

Shockwave is able to get some good metal on Foxfire apparently and sags in somewhat close proximity to where the Autobot went down, spent for the moment. He hears the *snap-fizz* of energy-shields going up around the Autobot, but such a move is redundant at this point, as is Rodimus' stun-beam; Shockwave probably wasn't going to much more harm considering the nature of his nubile body. Under the guise of Rodimus' stun beam, Shockwave can only lie in wait for whatever may come.

 

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Shockwave              1m    1m  hit Foxfire w/ slap                     8/ 26

Spade                  2m    1m  hit Streetwise w/ sword                 6/  9

Scrapper               5m    0s  hit Inferno w/ energy_axe               9/ 11

Rodimus Prime          5m    2m  hit Shockwave w/ special               19/  2

DepthCharge            6m    2m  hit Shockwave w/ rocket                11/

Inferno                7m   19s  hit Scrapper w/ energy_axe              7/  9

Streetwise             9m    1m  hit Spade w/ special                    9/  6

Defcon                 9m    1m  missed Chimera w/ crush                20/ 13

Foxfire               11m   17s  ---                                      /  6

Chimera               14m   30s  missed Defcon w/ plasma                13/ 20

Decepticon Shuttle <  52m   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   1h   ---  ---                                      /

Decepticon Shuttle <  ---   ---  ---                                      /

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Of course that last minute transform trick really doesn't work unless you have the speed to back it up. And Chimera . . . Does. Of coures Kimmie's on Defcon's list. Maybe she just moved up a notch from the bottom. Or something. As the big ol' hunky-- hunk of Autobot, that is-- suddenly transforms, she barrel rolls away, making a quick attempt to use her wingtip blades to scratch paint. Or something. "Trying to be tricky?" The smirk in her voice is obvious. "Not very good at it."

 

Green Pyramid Jet misses Defcon with her blade attack.

 

Scrapper pushes his advantage, trying to drive the blade as deep into Inferno's arm as he can. What a lovely trophy it would make. What a lovely token of what this firefighter has taken away from the Decepticons time and time again. Battles many times over, Rodimus Prime's life which rightfully belongs to Galvatron in that fateful battle over Metroplex. The Big Red Machine didn't pay nearly enough for robbing the Empire of that glorious prize, and there isn't a Decepticon alive who wouldn't do anything to make that price rise higher and higher. The blade digs into Inferno's arm, and Scrapper can only raise his own free one in protest as Inferno draws out his own and swings down. Scrapper draws back his sword and raises it over his head to block the overhead blow. The instrument of righteousness strikes the instrument of destruction, and Scrapper's blade is forced away, leaving the axe to hack into Scrapper's chest, ripping off a terrible chunk of tough Constructicon armour plating and sending it to the ground for good.

        Scrapper, in a look more of shock than pain, stumbles back and falls, unable to keep Inferno from persuing his goal of the ultimate weapon. Scrapper, peering up through hazy optical sensors, views Shockwave. "S...Shockwave..." Scrapper mutters, "Save my weapon." With what little time he has, Scrapper tries to make Shockwave just a little more capable of carrying this fight on.

 

You have healed Shockwave for 12 endurance.

Scrapper takes a few moments and patches up Shockwave.

 

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Scrapper              32s    0s  hit Inferno w/ energy_axe               9/ 11

Chimera                1m    1m  missed Defcon w/ blade                 13/ 20

Shockwave              3m    3m  hit Foxfire w/ slap                     8/ 26

Spade                  4m   58s  hit Streetwise w/ sword                 6/  9

Rodimus Prime          7m   42s  hit Shockwave w/ special               19/  2

DepthCharge            9m    5m  hit Shockwave w/ rocket                11/

Inferno                9m    2m  hit Scrapper w/ energy_axe              7/  9

Streetwise            11m    3m  hit Spade w/ special                    9/  6

Defcon                11m    5s  missed Chimera w/ crush                20/ 13

Foxfire               13m    2m  ---                                      /  6

Decepticon Shuttle <  54m   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   1h   ---  ---                                      /

Decepticon Shuttle <  ---   ---  ---                                      /

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Autobots' Turn

 

DepthCharge moves quickly as Shockwave is disabled by Rodimus, concentrating and dropping his forcefield for a moment, only to step towards the fox and protectively crouch over him. Concentrating once again, DepthCharge brings the forcefield back up over the two to shield himself for the next minute and he says as he quickly pulls out his soldering iron and medical scanner, "I don't know how long Decepticon Shockwave can he held off for, so I'm going to try and patch you up as best I can Autobot Foxfire. This isn't going to be pretty and it is going to hurt a lot, but we don't have time to do anything else. So I do apologize in advance for what I must do." And, not bothering to look back as he hopes his forcefield will shield them from the advance of any other Decepticons, DepthCharge starts to operate. His soldering iron moves straight into open, sensitive wounds, melding wires together and sealing leaks. As he said, it isn't pretty but it will do.

 

DepthCharge takes a few moments and patches up Foxfire.

 

Streetwise mutters to himself 'bout damn time that worked' as he transforms and slams on the gas heading back toward the shuttle at top speed to put some distance between himself and his much larger foe. As he approaches the shuttle he does a 180 and lines up a blast of compressed air to knock the oversized con even farther away from him.

Streetwise folds down as legs, arms and his head merge smoothly into a sleek police car.

 

Police Car <Streetwise> strikes Spade with compressed_air.

 

Did that just happen? Did this constructicon, this creator of all things unholy, truly just up and run from the domineering, overpowering presence of Inferno? That's... Hell, that's just wrong. And as his legs begin to carry him in pursuit of the Decepticon as he crawls to his master, insight, and the true purpose of being here once again dawns upon the battle fogged mind of this Autobot firefighter. There is a prize to be won. It lies upon the horizon, fireman. Go get it.

 

Exploding from the ground and into a headlong sprint, Inferno screams almost hectically into his radio, the axe swinging a scary arc with each pumping of sprinting fist. "THE LASER! WE GOT US A HOLE, DAMMIT, CONCENTRATE YER FIRE AWN TH' LASER!"

 

Foxfire, lying on his side at this point, winces as DC begins to work on him. "Th-thanks," he murmurs, starting to feel helpless as he lies there like a wound dog on the operating table. But once the other Autobot is done, he'll make another run for it...that laser is going down!

 

Rodimus Prime does a quick check on his energon level, not too shabby. While he does that, he notices Scrapper working on Shockwave. Damn, he can't have that. Rodimus says, "Get your damn dirty hands off Shockwave, constructicon!" He grabs Shockwave, since he's not moving at the moment. With a grunt he lifts the decepticon commander up over his head then as he's done with Galvatron so many times before. He throws him. But not just at any random point, oh no. He throws Shockwave as would a pitcher throw a fast ball. Through the Triumph's narrowest point and to the laser. All of his energy goes into this throw as he says, "Let's find out if the Triumph is armored or not! Nnnnnygh!"

 

Rodimus Prime strikes Shockwave with Caber..... err... Cannon tossing.

 

As Chimera does her little stunt, Defcon reaches to try and grab that same wingtip and get a hold on the Decepticon femme. In doing so, Defcon swings with his fist as well, hoping to force Chimera off-course. That's as much as his hold on Chimera is able to carry him and he lets go, falling back and down.

 

Defcon strikes Green Pyramid Jet with Badass Punch!.

 

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Defcon                 2m   39s  hit Chimera w/ punch                   20/ 13

Rodimus Prime          3m   46s  hit Shockwave w/ blow                  22/  2

Foxfire                4m   50s  ---                                      /  6

Inferno                5m    1m  hit Scrapper w/ energy_axe              7/  9

Streetwise             9m    2s  hit Spade w/ compressed_air            12/  6

DepthCharge           10m    2m  hit Shockwave w/ rocket                11/

Scrapper              10m    0s  hit Inferno w/ energy_axe               9/ 11

Chimera               12m   12m  missed Defcon w/ blade                 13/ 20

Shockwave             14m   47s  hit Foxfire w/ slap                     8/ 29

Spade                 14m    1m  hit Streetwise w/ sword                 6/ 12

Decepticon Shuttle <   1h   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   1h   ---  ---                                      /

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Decepticons' Turn

 

Spade Hears the Autobot retreat and curses to himself which is soon replaced by much more cursing as his vision begins to come back just in time for him to get knocked to the Martian ground by a blast of air. Never has he felt so much like a dirty keyboard being pelted by canned air. Woe is Spade. After a short recovery time, Spade sees that his target is much farther away and that his fellow Cons aren't fairing so well. He turns towards his fallen commander. "Commander Shockwave!" He rushes towards his oh-so-purple leader as Shockwave is picked up like a rag-doll and thrown several hundred feet... Wow, that sucks. Angry now, Spade sheathes his sword, draws his pistol and fires at Rodimus.

 

Spade strikes Rodimus Prime with Laser Blaster.

 

Green Pyramid Jet has no problem with Defcon grabing that specially sharpened wingtip. She does have a problem with him putting a freaking hole through her freaking cockpit. Knock her off course? You might say that. She's a bit pissed off right now-- low boiling point and all. She can, however still shoot, even if she's heading towards the ground nosecone first. But she's not. She's too busy following Defcon at the moment. Hopefully she'll land on top of Defcon. That would be satisfying.

 

You can almost hear Harry Calas making the call... "Prime gets the sign, and starts his motion. You know, Wheels, Rodimus has a 3.39 ERA this season with 19 walks against 54 strikeouts and is 7-3. Here's the pitch..." Shockwave sails through the air towards the Triumph, but takes a freak bounce off of the hull. It's one helluva bounce though, as he ends up crashing into Inferno from behind. Unaware of what just happened, Shockwave's systems clear the stunning effect from Rodimus' Gay-Gun, sending him back towards Scrapper to return the favor of the battlefield fix-me-up. Of course, he props Scrapper's body up between himself and the Autobots in case anyone tries to shoot him. In the meantime, he does what he can for some of Scrapper's wounds thanks to Inferno.

 

Shockwave has jury-rigged you for 9 endurance.

Shockwave takes a few moments and patches up Scrapper.

 

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Shockwave              2m    1m  hit Foxfire w/ slap                     8/ 29

Chimera                4m    3m  missed Defcon w/ blade                 13/ 20

Spade                  8m    2m  hit Rodimus Prime w/ laser              8/ 12

Scrapper               8m    0s  hit Inferno w/ energy_axe               9/ 11

Defcon                11m    1m  hit Chimera w/ punch                   20/ 13

Rodimus Prime         12m    6m  hit Shockwave w/ blow                  22/  4

Foxfire               13m    4m  ---                                      /  6

Inferno               14m   35s  hit Scrapper w/ energy_axe              7/  9

Streetwise            18m    8m  hit Spade w/ compressed_air            12/  6

DepthCharge           18m    3m  hit Shockwave w/ rocket                11/

Decepticon Shuttle <   1h   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   1h   ---  ---                                      /

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And so, red meets green, but this time it is on green's home turf. The Constructicon, after doing what little he can to make Shockwave's life a little bit better and crawls away from Rodimus's vengence, quite pathetically. Propping himself up against a rock, Scrapper reaches into a hip compartment. "So it comes to this, Inferno..." he whispers to himself, resting his head against the wounded man's chair. "You may have beaten me with brawn, where /you/ have the advantage..." Scrapper draws out a remote control and traces his mech fluided stained finger around the firing mechanism, still hissing to himself, "But now it's the brain of a Constructicon versus your brawn, and I think there can only be one victor from a contest like that." He barely even registers that Shockwave is working to put a halt to his damage.

        He presses in a code into the remote, and suddenly the ultimate weapon, the prize of all this, springs to life. Still partially dismantled, the weapon swivels on its base and points sideways. "Now," Scrapper whispers, his voice growing stronger with each word now either due to the repairs or the emotional glee of what's going to happen, "Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battlestatoin!" The "laser" adjusts its position in an awkward mannre given the circumstances, but clearly focuses on the sole Autobot to break through the rapidly thinning Decepticon lines and make a charge for the endzone. There's only a brief whirl to signal what's coming before the awe-inspiring beam that crippled Metroplex fires. SHEEE-WHOOM!

 

Autobots' Turn

 

Chimera succeeds in grasping Defcon, throwing him off-balance.

 

With his patch up work on Foxfire finished, DepthCharge scrambles back and lets the little doggie start running again, doing its stuff. Awww. How cute! Go Lassie! Save timmy from the well. Save Earth from the laser. Use the Force! Zooooom.

With those clichés out of the way, DepthCharge then turns his attention back on the 'con meanies. And why, look at that. The Decepticons are daring to JURY RIG too! And who bets they are better at it than DepthCharge. Why, that's so not fare. Curse you jury rigging Decepticons! Curse you! So angered at this terrible turn the jury rig war has taken, DepthCharge raises his right arm towards Scrapper. And up slides the Aquabot's 'electro-booster' weapon. With a crackle of electrical energy a few arcing spheres of Ball Lightning are expelled from DepthCharge's weapon and sail towards Scrapper. He cares not that Scrapper is attempting to blow up the Earth with the 'laser'. He only wants to show the Constructicon that NO ONE out jury rigs the Autobots.

 

Police Car <Streetwise> takes a postiton from which to provide cover fire for the assault on the laser and transforms back to robot mode. He sees spade take a shot at Rodimus this only adds to his growing dislike of this new con. He pulls his pistol from subspace and surveys the battle field thinking 'now who gets the first of my pot shots' Scrapper becomes the lucky one as he activates the laser.

 

Streetwise flips up as his legs, arms, and head appear he lands on his feet with laser in hand as he scans the area for trouble.

 

<Attack:> DepthCharge used taser. (&combatspam me=1 to stop this.)

DepthCharge strikes you with Ball Lightning for 2 points of damage.

 

<Attack:> Streetwise used electricity. (&combatspam me=1 to stop this.)

<Admin> Airwolf says, "Try typing @scan ram Defcon and tell me what you get."

Streetwise strikes you with Photon Pistol (pain) for 8 points of damage.

 

Rodimus Prime gasps and sees the laser being fired. He does not even notice the pistol making a small dent in his shoulder from Spade. Better luck next time. He says, "That laser's going down!" Now that old one eye is out of his way, he transforms and charges under the shuttle's landing gear towards Scrapper and the laser. His red screaming semi mode looks like a fireball of justice and it's going right for the laser! Oh my god no!

 

Rodimus Prime falls forward. His arms compress and fold backward as a trailer comes out of subspace to connect with the back of his legs. Where the vanguard of the autobots once was, a tricked out flaming semi-rig appears.

 

The impact of the would-be Decepticon Commander is one Decepticons will be telling their children of for ages to come. What was once a headlong sprint to victory, a dash to the finish to complete the destruction of this hellish construction of distant death, turns into a comedy of errors, even as the warhead snaps into place in the firefighter's forearm. It is slow motion as this turn of events takes place... Freeze frame, Zapruder-esque as each successive flash of film alights before the screen...

 

Shockwave falls as the missile, intent on the destruction of the gigantic laser, begins to search for tone... The impact knocks the firefighter to a knee, violently shifting his line of sight to the right, toward the assembled attack force. *TONE* Missile lock. The snapping of magnetic releases clicks harshly against the tumbling of steel on steel, and even more so, the assault of burning solid fuel as the missile fires... tracks... and sails for its target. But alas, this target is NOT massive, a target that has wreaked havoc across the terran landscape... The target is Earth's protector, Earth's very own champion, Rodimus Prime.

 

But that's not all. As the missile fires, hope dwindling with every split second, the laser makes its dangerous turn, locking in on a target with all its intended fury. That target is Inferno, and as providence swings and divine intervention turns its head from the stalwart knight, the laser fires... Leaving nothing but a blackened frame and a barely twitching hand.

 

Inferno has fallen. Long live The Inferno.

 

Inferno strikes Tricked out Semi-rig with Hellfire Warhead.

 

Defcon's not going to just stay put and have Chimera land on him. Then again, he doesn't have a choice. He was hoping to transform and get out of the way, but he ends up with a lot of Chimera all over him as he hits the ground, hard. So there's Defcon, on the ground with Chimera on top of him. "We need to stop meeting like this," Defcon muses and just kicks at the femme to get her off him.

 

Defcon misses Green Pyramid Jet with his Sweet Chin Music! attack.

 

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Defcon                 2m   26s  missed Chimera w/ kick                 20/ 13

Inferno                5m    5m  hit Rodimus Prime w/ missile           15/  9

Rodimus Prime          5m    3m  hit Shockwave w/ blow                  22/ 12

Streetwise             6m   17s  hit Scrapper w/ electricity            16/  6

DepthCharge            7m   57s  hit Scrapper w/ taser                  11/

Scrapper              12m    0s  hit Scrapper w/ grasp                   9/ 15

Shockwave             15m    1m  hit Foxfire w/ slap                     8/ 29

Chimera               17m    2m  missed Defcon w/ blade                 13/ 20

Spade                 21m    1m  hit Rodimus Prime w/ laser              8/ 12

Foxfire               26m    1m  ---                                      /  6

Decepticon Shuttle <   1h   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   2h   ---  ---                                      /

Decepticon Shuttle <  ---   ---  ---                                      /

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Spade retreats back to shuttle.

 

Spade has left.

Spade boards the Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>.

 

Foxfire begins work on a dangerous explosive device.

 

Now back on his feet, Foxfire snarls, angry, his blue optics glowing with hatred. He's angry at the Decepticons, at everything they've done, and even at himself for falling so easily. He takes off as quickly as he can, right for the laser, intent on putting it out of commission once and for all. "Till all are one!" he yells, before he reaches the laser and quickly sets up a bomb, then darts away. He's just plain pissed off. "Take cover!" he calls to his friends, and the bomb detonates.

 

Foxfire completes arming Explosive! and sets the timer to go off in 20 minutes.

 

Foxfire deliberately triggers the detonator on Explosive!.

 

*ping*

 

Explosive! bursts in a violent explosion.

 

You fortunately evade the bomb blast.

 

Scrapper does not see the correlation between out-+jury-rigging someone and shooting them. Unless DepthCharge plans to kill all the Decepticons and then freely +jury-rig to win. In which case... curse that aquabot. But lets back up a bit.

        Scrapper sees Inferno charging towards the "laser", as Inferno's missile is sent hurling off, but not towards Scrapper's art, but towards he who would destroy it. He watches Rodimus get blasted by Inferno, and then watches as Inferno is obliterated by the "laser". Scrapper feels more strength entering his chassis than he did with Shockwave patching him up. He staggers to his feet. "Primus!" he shouts, feeling renewed with a passion to keep the good fight alive. "I don't know why that happened... but by all that is sacred I'm damn glad it did. Scrapper shouts out a call of his own, "Decepticons, rally! We have our fighting chance!" He cannot BELIEVE who gave it to them. Pistol out, Scrapper scans the battlefield, and it doesn't take him long to spot the little mech also making an attempt on his weapon.

        Fast forward now to that taser shot. "You, DepthCharge! You have also wronged the Empire. There's always more of your armour I can use on Fulcrum's statue!" Scrapper activates his boot jets, climbing into the air, fist first towards the aquabot.

 

"It's mutual, Autobot." the femme says, as she immediately transforms, trying to get away from the bounty hunter. Yeah. Whatever guys. They're big metal robots. They don't make out. Chimera, in fact, is actually too much of a bitch to be friendly to Defcon for longer than five seconds. Which is punctuated by a foot-- one of hers, actually, heading towards his head. Of course, that explosion, and subsequent fireball just might make her miss. Might.

 

The pyramid jet unfolds into a female robot.

 

The "Laser" then automatically swivels to focus on its next target, going for those without a Decepticon insignia that is closest. The gun locks onto FOXFIRE. And just before the the weapon fires, the bomb goes off. And with the blinding flash of the explosive, the "Death Star 2"'s powerful shields overload and collapse within seconds. The fiery plume envelops the weapon. Charred bits of metal fall from the tall bonfire.

        And on the moon of Endor, people cheered.

 

Shockwave's player can't even remember what was going on here before the Inferno dies/Foxfire hurts everyone deal. Oh, yes. He fixed Scrapper up, a bit. With that task completed, somehow, he turns his attention to Rodimus Prime, the bastard that cannoned him a few minutes ago to ruin his momentum versus Foxfire. Revenge is illogical, but payback is still a bitch. Rising painfully from his squat over Scrapper, who takes off for DepthCharge, Shockwave transforms into orbital cannon mode and flips up the cool sight that does so much good on the top-back side. Bringing the chosen one into focus, Shockwave impersonates Rodimus' voice as best he can. "Rodimus Prime, leave Shockwave alone!" The voice used is decidedly feminine and weak, but loud enough to be heard. All this time, the wonderfully lethal energies that power Shockwave have been powering up, set to unleash a whole lotta pain on the Autobots' last, best hope. As he fires, Foxfire detonates his bomb and sends Shockwave floating back into the side of the Triumph. He must really love that ship as he's spending a whole lot of time backed up against it.

 

Shockwave brings his arms and legs together to BRING THE PAIN!

 

Chimera misses Defcon with her Boot to da head attack.

 

Orbital Cannon strikes Tricked out Semi-rig with Ultimate Shockwave.

 

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Shockwave             58s   13s  hit Rodimus Prime w/ cannon2            8/ 29

Scrapper               1m    0s  hit Scrapper w/ grasp                   9/ 15

Chimera                1m   50s  missed Defcon w/ kick                  13/ 20

Foxfire                8m    3m  ---                                      /  6

Defcon                20m   28s  missed Chimera w/ kick                 20/ 13

Inferno               23m    1m  hit Rodimus Prime w/ missile           15/  9

Rodimus Prime         23m    4m  hit Shockwave w/ blow                  22/ 12

Streetwise            24m    2m  hit Scrapper w/ electricity            16/  6

DepthCharge           25m   57s  hit Scrapper w/ taser                  11/

Decepticon Shuttle <   1h   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   2h   ---  ---                                      /

Decepticon Shuttle <  ---   ---  ---                                      /

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Inferno lies on the ground, smoking at the Decepticons with mighty might. With a last, final, amazing effort, the firefighting Autobot flakes some charcoal onto the ground, then moves no more.

 

Dispite keeping his distance, Foxfire is immensely damaged from the blast, which sends him flying even further than Shockwave's attacks had. He skids along the rough Martian terrain, rolling several times before he finally stops, lying on his side, leaking fluid from wounds all over his mangled body. He doesn't get up. "Well..." He coughs a bit. "That went...pretty good..." Even in his wounded condition, the fox is still making weak attempts at jokes, but then he falls completely silent, and lies still.

 

DepthCharge is fortunately far enough away from the detonation that he only receives minor damage (also probably due to the fact that he now has special SPACE Armor to protect against heat so that he can fly in space in ROBOT MODE (no space subs for him!)). But it is then that Scrappy Doo turns his attention to DepthCharge, mentioning his accursed foe and swinging a punch. DepthCharge ducks to the side, retorting as he swings his own fist towards Scrapper, "You need to construct a statue for deceased Decepticon Fulcrum? Well, might I suggest you look in the scrap yards. There is more than enough garbage there to make use of. A garbage statue for someone who existed as garbage and died as scrap." Oooh. What harsh words. The hatred of Fulcrum still runs deep!

 

Defcon attempts to grab the foot in order to push Chimera away. Whatever the case, he moves out of the way. But that's where it all stops for the bounty hunter because the explosion, even though it doesn't reach this duo catches some of the 'Bot's attention. "What the heck was that," the words are more a statement than a question as his optics blink for a moment.

 

Defcon succeeds in grasping Chimera, throwing her off-balance.

 

<Attack:> DepthCharge used punch. (&combatspam me=1 to stop this.)

DepthCharge strikes you with punch for 7 points of damage.

 

Streetwise is blasted by the explosion (even though he is on the other end of the battlefield), now he is getting really mad. He loads another photon charge and lets it fly at Scrapper, he will pay for building that laser.

 

Tricked out Semi-rig looks back and says, "Inferno? Arugh!" The semi gets nailed by an autobot missile. Explain that one. He's been blown up to bejesus and back. Rodimus's backside becomes as flaming as his front, only with moving flames instead of painted on ones. These hurt as well! He transforms back into robot mode and sees Foxfire drop a bomb. He blinks and runs back behind the Triumph, hopefully that'll protect him, and it does! Still, he looks up, what's that crackling sound? Oh damn! The blast from Shockwave rips into Rodimus's chest plate and sends him sprawling. He sits up shaking his head and clearing the smoke. "Slag...that hurt!" he says before he jumps up to his feet. He's hurt, but not too badly. Prime calls forth his photon eliminator and says, "If it's not Shockwave, it's friendly fire, that's it, I've had it." He cranks the selector switch over to 'max pain' then points it at Shockwave with both hands gripping the silver weapon. Then he pulls the trigger. A beam of intense energy shoots out the eliminator while the heat sinks work over time to vent the huge amount of heat. Steam pours from the vents as the weapon finally cycles down and the beam finally disperses and stops leaving just a crackle of energy.

 

The tricked out semi-rig seems to leap in the air. The trailer behind it falls away into nothing while the front of the rig folds and forms a torso and arms. The underside of the whole thing forms into a pair of treetrunk like legs. Finally, a head rises up into place. Where a tricked out rig once was, Rodimus Prime stands.

 

<Attack:> Streetwise used electricity. (&combatspam me=1 to stop this.)

You evade Streetwise's Photon Pistol (pain) attack.

 

Rodimus Prime misses Orbital Cannon with his Photon Eliminator <High> attack.

 

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Shockwave              1m   36s  hit Rodimus Prime w/ cannon2            8/ 29

Rodimus Prime          2m   14s  missed Shockwave w/ cannon2            22/ 12

Streetwise             2m    2m  missed Scrapper w/ electricity         20/  6

Defcon                 5m   29s  hit Chimera w/ grasp                   20/ 13

DepthCharge            5m    1m  hit Scrapper w/ punch                  11/

Foxfire                5m   22s  ---                                      /  6

Inferno                9m    8m  hit Rodimus Prime w/ missile           15/  9

Scrapper              10m    0s  hit Scrapper w/ grasp                   9/ 19

Chimera               12m    3m  missed Defcon w/ kick                  13/ 20

Decepticon Shuttle <   1h   ---  missed Rodimus Prime w/                 0/

Autobot Shuttle <Alp   2h   ---  ---                                      /

Decepticon Shuttle <  ---   ---  ---                                      /

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Decepticons' Turn

 

<Decepticon> Scrapper says, "I'm bugging out of here. Chimera, join me on the Relentless if you need a ride. Shockwave, I leave the Triumph in your capable... hand."

 

<Decepticon> Shockwave says, "Your attempt at humor is not becoming, Scrapper."

 

Scrapper hisses back at DepthCharge, "I've already -made- the statue, fool, with parts from YOOUR hide! But I could always use more." He misses DC, but hovers around to face the aquabot once more. "Guess you could say I /did/ use garbage for th- ugh!" Scrapper gets a rude punch, and thanks to his shoddy flying skills in this mode, can't do a damn thing about it other than hover pathetically to the ground. "That's it..." he mutters, "SHOCKWAVE!" he shouts upon witnessing his "laser", his "Death Star 2", his creation, his baby, his wonderful art go up in flames. Although avoiding the fires, Scrapper touches down on the ground and is about to start shooting madly when a laser bolt narrowly misses him, snapping him back to reality. He's lost his art, again. "I'm taking the Relentless back. Stay here if you want." Shifting down into his payloader mode, the heavy construction vehicle roars over the landscape towards the second Decepticon ship.

 

Scrapper falls forward, folding his legs up onto his back. His arms slide into his torso to let the wheels grip the ground. From his back, his shovel folds up into the payloader's front.

 

Scrapper begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots from Orbital Cannon, Rodimus Prime, Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>, Autobot Shuttle <Alpha Trion>, Decepticon Shuttle <Relentless>.

 

Orbital Cannon flips over the top of the Triumph, unaware of whether or not his shot hit Rodimus, nor the fact that Rodimus returned fire with a death shot of his own and missed like a little girl! Nevertheless, with Scrapper in a fairly predictable retreat-mode, Shockwave has little to gain by being outnumbered here. Wordlessly, he floats down and enters the shuttle he was left with by Scrapper's machinations. Transforming, he enters the ship without so much as a glance back at the Autobots, the destroyed LASER or any troops left on the battlefield.

 

The Orbital Cannon breaks apart at the handle and barrel; a moment later, Shockwave appears in its place.

 

Shockwave begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots from Payloader <Scrapper>, Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>, Autobot Shuttle <Alpha Trion>, Decepticon Shuttle <Relentless>.

 

Chimera takes a moment to... well... consider the options. She could stay here, and continue to try and smack Defcon around. Or, as the opportunity is now presenting itself, she could follow Scrapper into a shuttle, and get out of here before she ends up as a nice charcoal briquette, like Inferno. Because the Autobots really don't have any use for her. Defcon pushed her away, so... She grins at him, "An explosion, sweets." She pauses to make that human gesture of blowing him a kiss before heading obediently towards the shuttle that Scrapper's going to pilot. "Until next time." Hah. "We'll see who comes out on top then..."

 

Chimera begins retreating, leaving herself vulnerable to parting shots from Payloader <Scrapper>, Shockwave, Streetwise, Inferno, DepthCharge, Foxfire, Rodimus Prime, Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>, Defcon, Autobot Shuttle <Alpha Trion>, Decepticon Shuttle <Relentless>.

 

Autobots' Turn

 

DepthCharge sighs and watches as the Decepticons all begin to run and doesn't move to follow. He is tired, he is low on energon, and he wants to work out why Mars is moving in the first place. And so he doesn't raise a finger to go after them, instead scanning the battle field for wounded that need assistance. And boy I bet there will be wounded.

 

Streetwise watches the cons retreat and realizes that now is the time to go get the fallen ones. He transforms to car move and heads over to where Inferno is lying on the ground and waits to see what he needs to do.

 

Inferno continues to smoke. Smoking like a smoky smoker, the FDA slaps a warning label on his face while numerous state governments begin civil proceedings to acquire compensation for lost expenditures for health care from indigent persons and wards of the state that have incurred personal health problems because of his smoking.

 

Defcon's instincts are to go after Chimera. But if we didn't find a way for Defcon not to follow his instincts, we would be here all night until someone falls. So instead, the Autobot bounty hunter tilts his head towards the field of battle just as he's about to jump after the Decepticon femme. "Damn it," he says, deciding yet again that he's just spent too much time with the Autobots. Instead of just heading off after the Decepticons, the bounty hunter decides to stick around and help his... comrades.

 

Rodimus Prime does not attack. He watches the cons leave and takes a few pot shots at the ship, which means he'll miss but just to look good. Rodimus holds a hole in his arm which was bleeding energon. Now that the fire fight is over, he can look things over. "Good job bots..." he says over the radio, "...tend to the wounded. Defcon, search for the device that moved this rock out of its orbit. We need to put it back if we can." He then goes over to Inferno and says, "Common Inferno..." he picks the big guy up and starts walking with him over to where Foxfire is so DC does not have to walk all over mars to help mechs. "...Primus, you need to loose some weight big guy." he says softly.

 

Chimera has left.

Chimera boards the Decepticon Shuttle <Relentless>.

 

Within the Decepticon Shuttle <Relentless>, Chimera has disconnected.

 

Police Car <Streetwise> arrives and transforms back to bot mode. He walks over to where Rod has carried Inferno and asks "Anything I can do?"

 

Streetwise flips up as his legs, arms, and head appear he lands on his feet with laser in hand as he scans the area for trouble.

 

Shockwave has left.

Shockwave boards the Decepticon Shuttle <Triumph>.

 

DepthCharge kneels over Foxfire and removes his medical scanner, running it over the cassette. He says, looking to Rodimus Prime as he drags Inferno over, "Looks pretty bad. I don't have to tools or parts up here to be able to fix him. I'll see what I can do to stabilize Autobot Foxfire until such time as he can be given proper medical treatment." Removing his soldering iron, the Aquabot begins to quickly patch up all the leaking conduits he can see so as to ensure Foxfire does not bleed to death. Damnit Prime, DC is a doctor, not a Junkion. He can't magically turn scrap into a working Cybertronian.

 

DepthCharge pulls out a medical scanner and runs a check on Foxfire.

 

DepthCharge takes a few moments and patches up Foxfire.