TLY - Sunday, January 26, 2003, 4:56 PM Cerrius - Destroyed Foundry Ten kilometers west of the city stands the once proud foundries of Cerrius City, once the home and work place of over 1000 mechs and femmes who created the strongest known artillery pieces of all of Cybertron. However, unknown raiders hit this city with a power far worse than a neutron bomb... they triggered a massive overflow of molten ore from the main foundry. The remains of it are now a barren tangle of twisted girders and fused metal, with only the metal skeletons of the largest buildings standing. What are first thought to be grotesque statues are the bodies of the mechs and femmes that were caught in the inital flood of ore, immortalized forever as twisted metal statues of pain and agony. Byline [Humanoid] [U] Enfilade [Robot] [D] Silhouette [Robot] [A] Obvious Exits: -E- East leads to Cerrius - Courtyard -Sapphire speeda along the roads of Cerrius, looking for her next drop off -Moonlight shakes her head and moves closer to Enfilade. "I told you to be careful around here. My advise still stands...." She gives Enfilade a long, searching look and shakes her head again. -Starfire is still in cover, peering around for any signs of movement and dreading the possibility of finding one... -Enfilade says, her voice low, "There's some guy out there. We just gotta find him..." -Whiplash has heard word around Darkmount that there's a project going in Cerrius, and so decided to expand her usual patrol route to check up for herself. Keeping to the shadows, she moves deeper into the destroyed city, having passed the ruins of the clock tower, and now seeking signs of life. -Moonlight nods. "That's not /too/ surprising." She looks around. "Do we have any idea who it might be?" -Sapphire sings to herself as she dodges potholes and crumbly old ruins, her speed climbing up past the 100's as she neers the senter of Cerrius -Enfilade says softly, "THat shadow looked like Scattershot.' Enfilade hears the noise from Sapphire's engines It's coming in the wrong direction but... "Moonlight, go see who that is. Carefully." -Whiplash slips between the "statues," not taking time to contemplate them closely, as she hears soft voices up ahead. There's a tense sound to the barely-detectable words that keeps her flattened close to the ground and in the shadows as she edges forward for a better view of the area. -Moonlight arches an optic ridge. "Not quite who I expected..." She nods to Enfilade upon hearing some orders. She turns and quietly slinks off towards the singing...though she has a pretty good idea in mind who it might be. -Starfire has heard the name, maybe seen the mech once or twice, but she doesn't know much more than that he's an Autobot. Shadows lurking everywhere, which is normal for the afternoon, darn it. She doesn't say anything, just watches nervously. -Enfilade eyes the statues. They're really gruesome, when you think about it--so she tries not to, not wanting to contemplate how she added to the decor of the former clock tower. She moves forward, hoping Starfire doesn't undrestand what the statues are. -Silhouette herself is taking cover amongst the would-be statues, optics set upon the approaching Decepticons, grinning to herself as they seem to follow into her preset trap. The silhouette of Scattershot seems to be edging backwards slowly while keeping it's front towards the Decepticons, as can be picked from the shadow of the rifle held in its arms. -Sapphire starts to slow as she neers the foundery, though she still moving a quite a clip, her blue car form streeking along -And as if this situation were not annoying enough...guess who pops up, seemingly out of nowhere, in a clatter of noise right behind Starfire. -Byline grins in greeting to the pink femme. -Whiplash turns sharply toward the clatter, a faint scrape of her claws against the ground marking her location, if one were listening for it. -Starfire hasn't had the time to perceive the statues as anything but shadow-casting distractions and good cover. There's a noise behind her and she rolls over frantically, bringing her arms up to fire at the Evil Lurker in the Darkness. She fires too soon, though, and the laser bolts go over the head of the encroaching Byline, who she recognizes an instant later. -Moonlight approaches Sapphire. "Well, well. What are you doing here?" she asks, her voice low but not threatening. -Silhouette picks the noise of Whiplash's claw scraping, causing her to tense as she didn't expect anyone to be in the same area she's at, the main danger being for that uninvited person to trigger some of the traps she set about the statues, intensifying the cloak of shadows about her, the Scattershot silhouette suddenly disappears from sight and she starts to slowly draw back, creating distance between herself and the source direction for the scraping sound. -Byline throws himself flat on the ground. "AAAAA!" he screams, announcing his presence to anything within earshot for miles around. -Neelsaan comes more slowly out of cover and snaps, "Byline, you idiot." She looks at the group of Decepticons. "So, how's things?" As if she had every right to be in a newly occupied city. -Whiplash for her part isn't happy that she's inadvertently made a slight noise, and starts to skulk away in the opposite direction, lest something or someone come to investigate - but she freezes at the scream, and glares at its source, her glowing-purple optics glinting out of the shadows for the briefest of moments. -Sapphire jurks as she sees Moonlight and lockes her brakes, "Moonlight?", she slides sideways as her backside fishtails and comes to a stop at Moon's feet.... " -Moonlight nods. "That would be me." Then she goes for her radio, sending a message. -Enfilade grumbles to the Avaiins, "Get lost. This isn't a good time." Most of her attention is on trying to cover the unwelcome guests, not to mentoin the rest of her troops. -Starfire mutters something about snipers and being sorry, but then again Byline brought it on himself by sneaking up on a... well, she's being trained as a warrior anyway, even if she's not one yet. She rolls back to her original place, wincing at the yell that gives away her position. -You transmit 'It's Sapphire again...the neutral from before. What do you want me to do?' to Enfilade. -Sapphire blinks as she watches Moon Enfilade says, "Tell Sapphire it's not really safe to be here, but frag...if she wants to stay, I don't have people here to make her leave." Lieutenant Moonlight says, "Right-o." -Neelsaan saunters up to Starfire. "So, what's goin' on here?" -Moonlight folds her arms. "I'm supposed to warn you that it isn't safe here. We've had shots fired already from the sounds of it. Was there anything you needed Sapphire?" -Silhouette's own attention is shifted at the scream, but unlike Whiplash, she has the advantage of knowing someone is in her near vicinity, and looks back in time to get a hint of the other's presence due to the glint of the optics, allowing her to slowly draw away from Whiplash's position. -Whiplash continues her forward motion, noticing Starfire now, and wondering why the kid is out here in this rather eerie situation. Keeping close against the "statues," she shifts direction to make her way toward her - but as her clawed forefoot comes down at the base of one of the metal remnants, a sudden blast goes up, a burst of light and sound! Almost at the same instant, a startled tentacled black shape darts forward, as though propelled by the explosion, but more on her own momentum as dust and debris rains down in a small radius. -Enfilade snaps around, the big gun held to her shoulder, ready to lob a grenade at... "Whiplash!" she exclaims, and switches the gun to laser mode to provide cover for her friend should there be an attack. "What'dja do, step on a mine?" -Starfire grrrrrrs at the distraction and whispers urgently, "Snipers and bombs and fighting and stuff. Please go away." Her words are punctuated with an explosion, and she starts nervously and returns her attention to peering out in that direction. -Byline has his ever present cameras taking footage of a running MedusaSaur. -Neelsaan grins, "Excellent! This is the Autobots attacking, I take it? And why are you, as a Neutral, working for the Decepticons?" -Whiplash spins around, having been carried right out into the open and full view, and looking for something to attack in turn, but she sees no ready target - except perhaps Byline. She doesn't appear greatly damaged, but her plating is covered in dust now, and there might be some small metal shards in the outer armor, hard to tell amidst the thrashing tentacles. "Something like that," she growls in response to Enfilade's question, but she locks her gaze onto the Avaiin. -Sapphire sighs as she looks at Moon, "but i need to drop this packedge off for Onsy" she says "i still have my pass" -Enfilade sighs and snaps, "Sapphire, get over here /now/ before you get shot. The place is crawling with hostiles so stick close." -Byline whines, "If it's crawling with hostiles why can't I see any?" -Someway to the side of events, a mecanoid watches the situation unfold down the scope of a rifle under the depths of ruin that mark this area. Slowly he pans from the explosion and checks back, finger resting in the trigger guard of his weapon for targets to become more obvious and more one shot kill viable. -Silhouette stops still and goes low against the ground as in the explosion one might have seen an eerie spot of shadows that didn't light up with the explosion, however with most glances probably preoccupied with the Avaiin or the explosion itself, Silhouette might be lucky this time. Slowly, and silently, Silhouette crouch-walks to stand behind a safe statue and remains there, peering out to see if the Decepticons would approach to investigate, optics especially focusing on Whiplash, the one who nearly caught her own position inadvertantly. -Moonlight blinks. "Why would he need a package dropped off in the middle of this ruin? Did he tell you to bring it here?" She thinks for a moment...."And, not that I disbelieve you, but can I see your pass? The hi-ups would kill me if I wasn't thourough." -Whiplash gives Byline a full view of her bared fangs. "I could help you there." -Byline grins at the Medusasaur, "Greeeeat! You find one and Ill keep my camera on you the whole time!" -Starfire grumbles, "I don't know who's attacking, and it's none of your business if I'm getting trained in combat and stuff, and you're distracting me, and if I'm distracted, then someone is going to kill me, so shut up!" -Enfilade snaps to Neelsaan and Byline, "If you two stick around it's your own funerals." -Neelsaan looks miffed and goes to pester Moonlight. -Sapphire blinks as she hers Filly yell at her and runs to her side -Whiplash leaps forward and takes a swipe at Byline's camera with her claws, more to scare him back than to really damage it. -Enfilade looks down at Sapphire. "Stay close so I c'n cover you, an' fer frag's sake stay away from those reporters. If lots of shooting starts, duck down and take cover." She has no idea what Sapphire is like under fire.... -Byline says, "Hey, careful! That thing cost eight hundred galactic credits!" -Whiplash hisses, "Then don't stick it in my face and maybe it'll stay in one piece. Now back off, I got Autobots to kill." She turns away from the alien abruptly and peers toward the shadows near the "statues." -Starfire has to think about it, but figures that everyone and his siblings know where she is now, thanks to Byline and Neelsaan, so she tries to figure another place to take cover. -Moonlight shrugs and moves to follow Sapphire. She hears Enfilade's command and nods encouragingly to Sapphire. "Just listen to her. We don't want you getting hurt. Stay as calm as you can." She looks around and spots Byline, to whom she gives a big smile. "Aren't you even a little worried that you might get hurt?" she inquires. -Sapphire blinks and hides..., her smaller then avrage size a blessing here -Byline says to Moonlight, It's the /story/ that matters," as if this were self evident. -Moonlight pats Byline on the shoulder. "And that's why Avaiin media productions are the best, right?" she says with a wink. Her conversation with Byline is serving to calm her nerves. She runs a hand over her bald head, dearly missing her hat. -Silhouette frowns as she notes the Decepticons are not coming to investigate and meet more of her surprises and so projects the same image of Scattershot's silhouette, appearing to crawl out of the statue area just slightly, seeming to take aim at Enfilade, and then suddenly the beam of his shot emits towards the Decepticon Field Commander. -Whiplash snarls and immediately fires a return barrage of electric bolts into the shadows, toward the seeming point of origin of the shot, lighting up some of the darkness for brief moments. -Sapphire watches what she can while hudled up behind Filly, -Enfilade reels backwards as suddenly a laser bites into her left shoulder. She reflexively pulls teh trigger, sending lasers blasting, knocking the heads or limbs off of some of the statues but not hitting much of anything, as she has nothing to aim at. -Oddly enough, the direction of Whiplash's electric bolts is *not* exactly aligned to the shadowed shape that seemed to loom out of the darkness, but a little over.... -Moonlight pulls out her gun and moves to stand in front and off to the side a little from Byline. She doesn't want the alien to get shot, but she knows that standing in front of the camera and blocking the view would cause the Avaiin to get really annoying, and she'd rather not deal with it right now. She looks around, trying to find the source. But she's not really good at dealing with hidden enemies. -With Whiplash's barrage of shots, some of the area lights up and the silhouette of Scattershot fades from existance, Silhouette herself have moved her body to fit in precisely behind the "statue" of a mech about her size, making it easier to cover, waiting for the shots to cease. -Starfire starts again at the sound of laserfire and tries to concentrate, to focus on her surroundings. She's shaking, she feels sick, but she's looking for whoever is shooting at them. Movements, whatever. -Scattershot growls to himself in his pit of sniping as his aimed shot for someone's head gets royally messed up by their reflexive movements. "Aw, the blazes with it..." He drawls to himself and deftly switches his rifle from single shot to full auto. Exactly one second later a hail of heavy caliber bullets loom out of the darkness and start to rain around the Decepticons in a lose, heavy barrage. -Sapphire blinks "Fill... er Enfilade?, do you need repair" she asks as she stands -A few last electric bolts sizzle against the "statues" and die out, leaving the shadows in darkness again. -Enfilade says to sapphire, "How about when we're not getting shot at?" She turns to the others. "Where the frag is it coming from?" -Byline chimes in, "Yeah, where's it coming from?" looking about iwht his camera. -Enfilade tosses herself to hte ground as the barrage comes in, rolling until she drops into the open foundation of a former building. From this cover she can try to trace the direction of the shooter. -Neelsaan grabs Byline and drags him behind a pile of building materials, from which his camera still pokes up, filming. -Silhouette slinks low with her back to the statue, relaxing a moment as she was far too tense than to function properly in these circumstances, she noted some of the shots were actually close by her hiding place, meaning someone out there is more clever than she'd expect. Luckily for her, she can hear Scattershot has finally made his move, taking away some focus from here. She doesn't act for now, letting herself calm down first. Lieutenant Moonlight says, "Okay, now what's the plan?" -Whiplash very much doesn't like standing out here in the open like a target, and her dislike is reinforced by the barrage of artillery, which sends her leaping aside toward one of the building remnants - *not* toward the statues. Seeing Enfilade drop down into the foundation with no ill effects, she follows. -Starfire curls up behind her scant cover as bullets rain out of nowhere. She's just not at the proper angle to see where any of this is coming from. The occasional bullet painfully scores her pink armor, and she has the distracting thought that Elita One must find herself an easy target, just because of her colouration. -Sapphire blinks as Filly dives for cove, leaving Sapph standing alone.. she then fallows Filly as she runs for cover Enfilade says, "Find out where the shooting is coming from and lob grenades to spook him out. Leave the Avaains alone. They're on their own. Watch your backs' there may be several of them out there." Lieutenant Moonlight hmmmmmmmms. -Enfilade murmurs to sapphire, "Keep your head down...Got any weapons, kid?" She pops up to lob a few grenades into the statue field, seeing if she can spook someone out of cover. Enfilade sees who else is in her makeshift trench...Whiplash. Hm. But the middle of a war zone is no time to be bringing up little quarrels. She does not believe that Whiplash would try to kill her here and now, not when there are autobots to fight. -Moonlight decides to take a gamble. She doesn't hide, although she knows it's a foolish course to take. Perhaps, if she's the easiest target the enemy will shoot at her, giving her fellow Cons a good lead to their position. After that she can run and hide as well. She might not like pain, but the battle won't go anywhere with everyone hiding. -Sapphire blinks as she looks at Filly "i..i have a few" she mermers as she looks at the battalfield -Whiplash transforms for the added height, barely glancing at Enfilade, as she carefully peers up out of the trench. -Enfilade replies, 'Then get 'em out an' get ready to use 'em. Whoever it is out there might mistake you for a Decepticon.' -Scattershot continues his barrage of shots from his little self made bunker, following the Decepticons into their cover with a stream of high speed shells. As the barrel of his rifle starts to get near its maximum temperature he deftly ceases fire and crawls quickly to his right. Moving into a slightly different firing position and wraps himself around his acid pellet rifle, which was already in position and commences a second rain of hot molten death on the area. -Whiplash is for a moment irritated by her lack of ranged weaponry beyond her tentacles, her speciality being up-close-and-personal killing, which she's not very well positioned for at the moment. If only she could circle around somehow toward the source of the attack, and avoid the rigged sections at the same time... Out of the corner of her optics she notices Moonlight still as an easy target, and wonders what she thinks she's doing. -Sapphire blinks and looks at her rather weak arm mounted lasers... and swalows hard "Onsy.. we have got to talk about hazerd pay -Enfilade calls over to Whiplash, "You got a gun?" -Whiplash shakes her head, trying to see where the shots are coming from without sticking her head far enough up to have it blown off. Starfire has lost track of the others. The occasional murmur of a voice is heard, but not long enough to get a direction, which is pretty logical. What to do... There are sounds, but nothing nearby. Good thing, 'cause she'd probably shoot whoever it was without seeing 'em first. Maybe. This is the first time she actually *wants* to hear those reporters blabbing, just for a sense of direction. She rubs at a black scorchmark on her side and waits... -Moonlight wishes /she/ knew what she was doing. For all she knows her dumb plan won't work, but she's never been a battle tactician. Shrugging she paces back and forth, looking for a sign of enemy. She knows she isn't worth much in a battle, so she wants to give the 'real' fighters a chance to do their thing. Enfilade says, "Decepticons, try to regroup on my position. Congratulations--as of right now you are all official soldiers, and if you want to get out of this alive you'll act the part." -Enfilade looks up. "Moonlight, are you TRYIN' to get shot! Get under cover!" -As Enfilade lobs a few grenades into the statue field, a winged dark form can be seen suddenly standing up and rushing, taking a quick leap in a vain attempt to get completely out of the area before the detonation. Whoever that would be, disappears in a cover of a series of light and loud explosion as the whole area of the "statue garden" seems to blow up all at once, as though some shuttle tried to launch from underground, a torrent of pieces of metals and the ground itself gets scattered into the air, raining down at everyone in the vicinity. As for Silhouette who tried to escape in time, her scream gets drowned in the loud explosion as all of her trap assembly ignites in a chain reaction due to Enfilade's grenades. -Whiplash hurriedly pulls back down into the trench as burning pieces of metal rain down on them. Lieutenant Moonlight tries to sound as calm as possible, but isn't doing a perfect job. "Look....I'm never going to be a soldier. I'll run for cover when you fighter types know where to point your guns. I can handle a bit of hurting for the sake of giving you guys an edge. And hey, if things don't go so well, I end up in Repairs again. No big deal. -Enfilade can't figure out who the frag that was, but whoever it was, they're probably real sorry now. Sure as frag wasn't the decepticons planted those fireworks in the foundry area. The blast is horrific, reminding Enfilade of Quanticus. And Quanticus, while hell on earth, was somewhere where Enfilade really proved her worth. She waits for the debris to stop raining down, waits for her optics to stop ringing. After that they'll go see how many little pieces of Autobot are out there. Enfilade says, "Moonlight, this is a DIRECT ORDER. TAKE COVER. I know other ways to get an edge. If things don't go well, kid, you end up DEAD." The hail of bullets stop a moment after the explosion, as if whom ever was shooting in the area also got taken out, or suddenly stopped in a fit of concern for a comrade. -Byline screams as an arm from a statue...now visible inside as a former Robot's arm...lands in his lap. "ew, ew EWWWW!" he shrieks. -Enfilade comes out of her crouch and emerges cautiously, warily, wanting to press the advantage before the Autobots regroup. -Starfire flinches at the huge explosion, even getting bounced around a bit as the ground shakes from the force of the blast. She desperately grabs hold of a girder, only to have it pull loose from the ground. There's not much she can do until the ground stops shaking. Looks like that was the Autobot bomb... She's tempted to call out to the others, but... he or she might still be out there. -Moonlight winces...that could have hurt. Actually, it does. Flying bits of stuff hitting her isn't exactly friendly. She shakes her head resignedly...she's getting those order things again. Quickly she dives for cover finally. Mentally she reminds herself to stop being so impulsive...it's going to get her in serious trouble one of these cycles. -Sapphire trys her best to cover Filly with her arm laser.. her right arm razed and slowly sweeping the ariea -Whiplash transforms again into a mode that remains closer to the ground and climbs out of the trench herself, but she moves sideways almost immediately. Where was it she had last seen Starfire? -Enfilade barks, "Decepticons, on my flanks!" This is her element, not sitting around some desk in headquarters as she has been for the past few months. This is where she belongs, and she doesnt' hesitate, leading the way forward into the field, her cannon at the ready. -Byline blurts suddenly, "OH MY GODS AND HEROES, WE COULD ALL DIE!!!" -Moonlight doesn't hesitate either...she figures she's in enoguh trouble as it is. She glances back at Byline. "A bit of a slow learner, aren't you? That makes two of us." Making a face she moves to flank Enfilade... -Sapphire slowly steps away from her cover, moving rather unstetaly -Starfire has nothing in her experience or three weeks of training to tell her what to do. She *hates* this hiding and boobytrapping and sneaking and stuff. Why can't people just fight openly? Because it's idiocy, a familiar voice whispers from her memory. War isn't a game, it's survival of the fittest. Finally, a familiar voice, a *real* voice, and she orients on Enfilade. -Whiplash breaks off her search for Starfire quickly at Enfilade's orders, and moves into position, each step as though moving on coiled springs, ready to leap in any necessary direction. -Silhouette has to do her best and press her systems till she's out of there, and so hasn't a time to tend to her injuries, oh how she would have loved for a Spectre exit just about now, instead she settles for a distraction, hoping to gain enough minutes of rest to be able to transform and fly out of there, and so she focuses. Suddenly from the direction of what little remains of the statue field, a dark form can be seen rushing as fast as it can to the left, and away from Silhouette's position. -Neelsaan looks hesitant, but she follows in Enfilade's wake. She'll never get her story otherwise. -Byline snaps his camera around to follow the dark form, but his hands are shaking too much to hold it still. -Whiplash's head snaps toward the dark fleeing shape. "There," she hisses, trying to draw Enfilade's attention. She does not, however, break formation on her own initiative. -Enfilade moves forward, expression grim, a war machine in action. She swings her cannon around and begins firing short bursts in a sweep, a swath that would cut through the figure which is on an intercept line iwth her shooting, and then she keeps going...spraying the entire area with a swath of gunfire. These shadows are odd....something not quite right here. -Starfire doesn't see the form, as she's still making her way towards the sound of Enfilade's voice and keeping to cover as much as she can. The sound of a firefight makes her pause, but she continues on more carefully. As if that were possible. Eventually, she comes into sight of the Decepticons, at least, but who is Enfilade shooting at? -Moonlight is just going with the flow right now. She knows enough to know that she knows too little to be effective. But that doesn't stop her from trying...she really believes in her luck, which isn't rational or smart, but she doesn't care about that...too much. Her optics scan the area, but she doubts she'll find anything. -Whiplash bares her fangs and lights up her tentacles again, adding to Enfilade's weapons barrage a shower of sizzling-blue electric bolts, aimed in the general direction of up-ahead, but also aiming several tentacles toward the dark figure, seeing as she's not been given the go ahead to pursue. -Enfilade is a grim and commanding figure now, and it's hard to imagine how anyone might take this heavy war machine for a glorified freighter. -Sapphire blinks and watches the cons fireing at the shadows... distracted off her own guard -Neelsaan snaps, "Are you getting this? This could be the climax of our show if they actually hit something!" -And as the shadow runs, the plates and spires of rubble a little way to the distance start to shift and full as with the very familiar sounds of a Transformer, transforming, something large emerges. Something with very, very, big gun. The cannon tip starts to glow as power cycles up and starts to collate in the chamber, spilling out a eery blue glow before the atmosphere screams as a massive bolt of collated energy springs forth from the emplacement and travels right towards the ground where the Decepticons stand... -Enfilade snaps, "There he is!" as she throws herself down and puts the huge cannon to her shoulder. -The dark form is hit several times but doesn't stop, only keeps going and then dives into the ground? That at least what seems to happen, it dives into the ground, perhaps there's a secret passage there? Silhouette meanwhile, rolls behind a barely standing remanent of a statue, getting hit a few times by Enfilade's rapid fire, clenching her hands in fists as she doubts she'll have the capability to fly out of there, she needs for Scattershot to distract those Decepticons and fast. -Moonlight looks up at the big gun. "Now that is decidedly unfriendly," she says to herself. Whiplash too flattens herself and directs all her electricity toward the obviously glowing target. -The third and final Avaiin plods around the corner of one of the now gutted buildings, finally catching up to the duo already on the scene. He's much slower to enter into the fray, knowing better than the other two just how dangerous getting a good camera angle can be. Sapphire turns to see what everyone is scatering from, and blinks as she sees the huge gun... "oh my" she whispers n freezes -Neelsaan beckons Guerrius over to join them. "Where do you think is the best angle to get some blood and gu...I mean, oil and guts shots, or whatever these robots have." -Moonlight notices Sapphire freezing and tries to shove her out of the way. It's never a good thing when the closest medic type gets blasted. -Silhouette is relieved slightly as fire seems to stop focusing on her way, she waits a few moments and tries to gather herself, running a quick system check she starts to transfer resources in her systems, optimizing herself for a quick getaway flight, later she'll have all the time in the world to collapse. She first wait to hear Scattershot's attack before she takes flight. -Starfire closes with the others, staring at the battle station with sick fascination. She herself would think about retreating at this point, but there's Commander Enfilade charging right towards it. It suddenly occurs to her that she'd be a lot safer in her alt mode. Should she transform now? -Sapphire eeps as she gose sprolling -Enfilade holds her ground, optics narrowing at Scattershot. "Get outta my city." IT doesn't have the same effect as when she calls Crystal City "my city," but the intent is clear...she considers this her territory and she wants the Auotbots out of it. -Guerrius makes his way toward the other crewmembers, though his eyes and suit's scanners never leave the battle. "That depends on what you wanna see..." he replies to his boss, "If you want gore, you gotta get up close and personal... Wouldn't recommend that this time around. If you don't wanna miss a thing, take the high ground." -"Good idea," Neelsaan says. "Byline, get up to the top of that shed"--she points to a battered old building, "and see what you can zero in on.' -Byline's survival instincts seem to hvae kicked in at last. "But Boss, I'll get shot! -Neelsaan snarls, "And you'll get FIRED if you disobey me!" -The pulse of concentrated excited atoms that is the discharge from Scattershot's main cannon rips through the air towards the Decepticons position, but slams hard into the already torn up ground, turning it into a churning sea of molten metal and shards of white hot shrapnel, having a far wider and more disconcerting effect had the shot been aimed to take out any one. At least, that was the hope. -Moonlight would feel sorry for poor Byine if she had the time. She twirles her gun on her finger while she waits to see what happens. It just isn't her thing to shoot unless everyone else is doing it already. But it seems as though Enfilade is taking the verbal route right now. Of course, that shot by Scattershot was a bit unnerving...okay, more than a bit. She's pretty sure it won't be long before the other Cons fire back. -"Just do it, kid... Keep low, and run if you gotta... But right now, it's probably the safest place there is." Guerrius adds. -Byline eeps and scrambles up onto the shed....still shaking. -Whiplash takes a leap backwards as the ground turns to hot slag beneath her feet - inadvertently connecting with Starfire rather hard, which throws off her own balance a little - but the flash of pink armor in her peripheral vision assures her of who this is, and she sends a renewed barrage of electric bolts toward the cannon. -Enfilade realizes that Scattershot's blast may terrify some of the non-warriors here, but after how many centuries on Quanticus, she's learned that a miss is as good as a mile as far as a trench warrior is concerned. She puts the cannon to her shoulder and fires. -Moonlight sees that the attack is happening and joins the club, firing away with her piddly little gun. -Starfire is further back than the others and has more time to see it coming, but Whiplash nearly sends her sprawling. That makes her decision for her, she's transforming. Straight up, a large pink starship rising lightly into the air, then nosing over once she's clear of the ground and the others. She heaves a sigh of relief and hovers on her maneuvering thrusters. -Byline nervously commences filming again. -Starfire isn't *quite* clear of everything. She kinda forgot the Avaiins, and didn't know where they were anyway. A large wing brushes against a certain shed, and as her construction is far better than anything here, the shed collapses. -Silhouette can't wait any longer and leaps into the air, transforming, and soaring high and fast, her last action is to release a few air to ground missiles just to distract everyone further of her escape. Having done that, and much aware of Starfire hovering there, she takes on her maximum velocity and aims to get out of there, activating her stealth technology, a rather costly move that taxes on her quickly depleting resources, a check out after the events are over would reveal her previous hiding spot by the little puddle which is a result of her flowing wounds. -Moonlight does the evading dance as Silhouette attacks the general area. -Sapphire blinks and slowly stands.. something about her seems difrent as she walks tword the battle -Enfilade's head glances upwards. Who the hell is that jet-craft flying out of Cerrius like a cyberbat out of the smelter? -Enfilade radios, "Tetrajet, this is Field Commander Enfilade...Respond." Is it a Decepticon? Its form suggests it is.... -Whiplash is aware of the jetcraft, she saw it earlier, but the more immediate threat remains the cannon. The tentacles thrash around her in a halo of sizzling blue light, though she holds the barrage in check until the next indication that the cannon is readying another shot. Starfire is startled as well, as her attention was on the battle station. She immediately fires up her scanners and radar. -The gun emplacement seems rather non paused as the return fire hits its frame and heavy armour, denting and pot marking it but doing little else it seems. A deep, cut voice full of a heavy accent and hard hatred for those he opposes booms back to Enfilade's claim. "I'm sorry, what did you say? I couldn't hear you over the sound of my weapons recharging!" And of course with that the obligatory return fire happens, by the dish that surrounds his main weapon glows and starts to emit a high pulsing sonic blast over the area. -Enfilade tries to decide between pursuing the odd tetrajet and leading teh fight against the battle stattion. Scattershot is the more immediate threat; but she's dying to know who the jet was. Something to find out later, she supposes. -Suddenly, the floor of the foundry starts to shake.. cracks appear in its surface... and just like in that cartoon with the mutant reptiles, a huge drill tank emerges from the underground! ONe of those cracks causes the shed nearby to quake and then to fall...dropping Byline off the roof, and right onto Guerrius and Neelsaan! -As the jet zooms eastwards, and reads on Enfilade's raio transmission it returns a transmission of its own "All's clear, Autobot vermin hiding amongst you are terminated and chased off..." the voice is scrambled, apparently due to injuries, and seems more reminiscent of computer monotone, devoid of personality. The jet continues in its streak out of the area. -Moonlight gets a sinking feeling...she knows that sound by now. She glances about wilding, trying to figure out where Nosecone is... -Sapphire growls under her breath as she watches the small city being toren apart "my City.. my city -Byline's optics narrow. That jet sounds very suspicious. The Autobots are evidently /not/ gone if nosecone is any indication. -Enfilade s optics narrow. That jet sounds very suspicious. The Autobots are evidently /not/ gone if nosecone is any indication. -Starfire is still hovering, puzzled now at the result of her scans. The departing jet has some rather conflicting readings. Enfilade says, "Don't trust that tetra jet. Watch your backs, and advance on Scattersho tand Nosecone." -Enfilade , right in the front line, takes the brunt of the sonics attack. She lets her weapon sling take its weight as she claps hre hands oveer her audios and goes down on one knee behind a burned out hut, taking cover until her audios clear. -Whiplash is pretty certain the departing jet is up to no good, certainly not one of theirs by its actions, but the cannon in closer range proves once again that *this* is the target to contend with. Despite also the reinforcements crashing up through the ground. As Enfilade crouches down, Whiplash jumps forward, taking a flying leap over the cooling molten metal to lunge right for the tip of the huge cannon, her jaws gaping. -Guerrius collapses under the sudden addition of another suit's weight to his own, forming a jumbled pile of mechanized limbs. He picks himself up slowly, cursing in Avaiini the entire time. "I think this'll be enough..." He notes to Neelsaan, "If it ain't, then the execs can come back and get the footage themselves..." -Sapphire's optics slowlt turn from a warm amber to a burning red, her head twiching as the crack in her core sparks to life... -Neelsaan mutters, "There's no way what we've got is going to top Galaxy Wars 3. We need to make this show the /best!." -Byline whimpers and nods to Guerrius. He's ready to leave. -Starfire is tempted to follow, just out of curiousity, but there's shooting and stuff going on down below. She goes to instruments as well as visual, using her scanners on the raging battle to try to identify everyone and what they're doing. In her alt mode, she's more detached, more the scientist she was trained to be. Ouch... they're going after that battlestation again, looks like. -Nosecone slowly executes a 90 degree turn, as if taking in the scene. His independantly guided missiles swivel, selecting a target.. a target that's going straight for his squad commander. That's just plain rude. -Moonlight manages to evade Scattershot's attack, mostly because she had already been heading towards Nosecone. She idly wonders how the Bot would feel to know he had indirectly saved Moonlight from his ally's attack. She grins at Nosecone. "So, we meet again," she observes, bringing her gun level with Nosecone's side. She fires... -Whiplash's forward momentum saves her from Nosecone's attack, and she continues right toward Scattershot's cannon. Whiplash's powerful jaws snap shut with a sound like a steel trap springing closed, over empty air, as one hindfoot slips on a patch of fuel and brings her just short of her target. -Guerrius replies calmly, eyes still fixed on the battle before him, "Do I really have to remind you that the film crew on that one got killed while making it? Yeah, they won an Graznax Award for it, but it ain't much good to you if you're dead, is it? The kid's about to wet himself, and this is gettin' messy. I've seen worse, but the footage isn't worth the risk. That's my 'professional' assessment. I'm here for advice, an' you just got it." -Byline tugs on Guerrius' suit. "Guer, let's go. If she wants to stay, we can send a ship for her later." Yes, he's scared of the boss, but he's scared of the war more...as a lazer xaps above his head. -Sapphire seems pissed at something as she walks into the city squair, looking at the damage -Starfire begins to circle; she hates being stationary. As she does, she debates herself on the meaning of neutrality and one of the many reasons why she wanted this training: that cold detachment she's seen in her cousin. The distance that would make it easy to watch a friend die and not interfere. But it's not working... if anything, she feels even more inclined to join in the conflict. Her friends are down there, hurting... -Nosecone hardly notices the laser impacting into his side. But it does set off proximity warnings. Transforming, he turns to face his assailant, frowning as he recognises her. "Moonlight" he states. "We gotta stop meeting like this." Nosecone reluctantly raises his rifle and returns fire. -"You get movin', I'll catch up in a bit," Guerrius replies, "Keep your head low, and don't stop till you get back to the shuttle." -Byline nods eagerly, and doesn't need to be told twice as he high-tails it out of there without even snapping a few pictures for souvenirs. -Neelsaan gives Guerrius an icy stare. "Who's in charge here?" she demands. -Enfilade emerges from cover when her optics stop ringing, and surveys the battlefield. -Moonlight winces as a laser comes back at her. "Yeah, tell me about it. But it /is/ sort of in the job description." She shrugs and closes the distance, pulling out her whip as she speaks. Once near enough to Nosecone she raises it above her head and strikes forward at Nosecone. -Sapphire shivers as she takes in the distruction, Moonlight n Nosecone fighting... "stop this" she hisses as her core sparks again... her fingers clinching into fists -Scattershot notes with some bemused detachment that it rather looks like Whiplash has come to the stop of an invisible leash, but it quickly passes as the danger of the situation he's in takes prescience and he quickly opens up with his battle stations forms small arms fire, just suited for this sort of anti personal work. All the while he keeps a radar tag on the large cruiser up above, just in case it starts to act hostile or anything. -Guerrius raises one of the suit's arms, gesturing to the battling robots down the street, "They are... And it'd be really healthy for you to get that through that thick skull of yours now..." Guerrius, it seems, has reached the limits of his patience... -Nosecone catches the whip in one hand, grimacing a little as it cuts into him. "Ya don't think they'd let us settle this with a drinking contest?" he mutters, yanking on the whip and attempting to drive his elbow into Moonlight's midsection. -Whiplash may have fallen short of her target, but she's continually on the move, allowing her to duck under the retaliation as it sears past her. She rakes out at the base of the cannon in the hopes that it can't effectively aim for her when she's that close - but none the less she remains in motion just in case, reaching out with a glancing swipe of her claws. -Neelsaan shrieks, as shrapnel pelts her suit. Convinced at last. "Okay...okay...grab the equipment and let's get outa here!" -Moonlight is yanked forward from the force of the much bigger mech pulling on her rope, not having enough time to drop it before Nosecone's elbow comes smashing into her tummy. "Oooof!" she says in response...but her comment is accompanied with a move of her own. She pulls her leg back and lets her foot fly right at Nosecone. -As she debates, Starfire notes that Whiplash is too close to the battle station for her to fire on it. Everyone else is clear. Frag it, why can't those dumb Autobots just leave so she doesn't have to make this choice? -Guerrius collects a few pieces of Byline's forgotten equipment, concentrating on the more expensive pieces of equipment, and anything which may be of use in the final edit of the show... leaving anything which isn't vital or overly difficult to replace. He may not want to be here, but if he's gotta risk his life for something silly, he's going to be practical about it. That done, he begins to push Neelsaan down the street, telling her to get moving. -Scattershot notes some annoyance as a slice of his corner armour is taken off, although that's about it as far as pain goes. "Ya gotta be kidding me." He drawls out and quickly transforms back to his robot form. Drawing out his two rifles as he moves in the fluid of transformation he sends out a cascade of shots towards Whiplash while noting the general battlefield position. -Neelsaan hesitates only long enough to pack up one last roll of film, and then she's runing off right beside Guerrius. -Whiplash is quick and agile, but even she can't avoid a scattered rain of shots at such close range. She takes several hits that slam into her armor plate and leave smoking punctures, though she keeps her feet and now is *really* mad as her target transforms to robot mode. Rather than taking this as a signal to continue in the opposite direction, she lunges right for him. -Sapphire shakes, her armor rattling as she reaches into subspace and pulls out a huge gatlin chain gun, "This is my city.. my city.. my city" she repeats as she jucks the canon up and jurks the triger, the big gun werrring to life -Scattershot back tracks, rolling back on his heels as Whiplash leaps for him, taking a good sized chunk of his think armour out and leaving a trail of oil leaking across his frame. With a growl at the injury and the affront of being attack he tries to slam his weapon buts down on the creature. -Nosecone staggers back slightly, releasing his grip on Moonlight's whip. "Don't like doin this" he says, thumbing his rifle's power setting up a notch. "But if I don't finish you off, your friends are gonna jump all over 'Shot's head. Not that he can't deal with that, but..." he's interrupted by a hail of fire from Sapphire, bullets *ping* ing and richocheting from his armor, some leaving deep holes and craters. Calmly raising an arm to sheild his optics, Nosecone ducks behind a pillar and finishes his statement. "But...he'll get pissy at me for not providin backup." Explanation delivered, it's time for the hurting. -Sapphire's chain gun starts spitting bulistic hellfire as Sapph aims blindly as anything that moves... sparks spewing from where her neck joins to her chest plate "MY CITY!" she screams as she as the bulits fly past con n bot alike..(well she hasnt hit anyone yet thank god) -Moonlight cries out this time, falling to her knees from the shock of the blow. She peers up at Nosecone with unshielded optics. She manages a wry smile. "Believe me...I like this less than you do...I know I'm going to be doing all the hurting. But, just like you, I've got to fight this out." Steadying herself, she lets loose with her gun at Nosecone. -Maybe it's the distraction from Sapphire's unexpected berzerker barrage, or maybe Whiplash just didn't leap out of the way quite fast enough, but the blow from Scattershot flings her backward with considerable force, actually flipping her over, though she manages to land on her feet a few paces away, leveling her burning-violet optics on the Autobot. -Whiplash's dark plating has the advantage of showing very little damage, and she herself seldom admits to pain, so it's really hard to tell her condition. From the looks of her, she's ready and willing to lunge for Scattershot's throat once again, though she does glance aside at the odd neutral screaming something about her city. -Starfire sighs inwardly and heads groundward, transforming. It looks like people will be needed medevac shortly, and that she *will* do, neutrality or not. It's a partial payment for the Autobot life she once accidentally saved. -Nosecone ducks back behind his pillar.. too slowly, it would seem. Moonlight's beam attack burning the nice shiny Autobot symbol in the middle of his chest to a crisp. "Slaggit" he says, diving from cover and advancing on the now kneeling Moonlight. "Best if ya just stay down" he mutters, .raising his rifle and bringing it down towards her head. -Starfire makes her way towards Moonlight, since she looks the worst of those left. Whiplash, she expects can take care of herself. -Moonlight falls once more at the force of the punch. It wasn't the worst of the damage she had taken yet, but she's pretty worn out by now. Unlike the fight in the arena, she knows that her actions could lead to something much more serious than time spent in repair bay. She lies still where she is...hopping that playing dead will work as well as it did in the Crystal City fiasco. -Sapphire grits her teath as she swings the bairoge of bullits past Scattersot, kicking up lose rock n debress as she spins the gun in a wide arck -Scattershot quickly levels both his heavy rifles at Whiplash's position, his light blue visor glinting with a hard edge as he regards his opponent for the briefest of seconds, then a rain of heavy bullets ripples across to his side, causing him on instinct to turn and snap a shot off... At the wrong person it seems as the closest one to trigger his battle sense is in fact the rather amiable and so far non combatant, Starfire... -Nosecone looks down at Moonlight.. noting a few small signs that suggest that she's not quite unconcious. Good to see someone taking his advice. The driller glances around, quickly assessing the situation. Whiplash is still the most dangerous opposing element here.. ignoring the approaching Sapphire, Nosecone snaps off a quick shot at the dark femme. -Moonlight betrays her position as one of the unconscious by crying out as someone else shoots at her. She does nothing for the time being except just lie there and writhe back and forth. -Starfire apparently came a little *too* close... She knows about warrior reflexes, but this guy is fast, too fast for her to dodge, though she does try. Instead, a massive hit strikes her with enough force to knock her off her feet and send her rolling violently in the opposite direction. After the rolling stops, she is still. -Whiplash notices Moonlight go down, and snarls - she now must make a split-second decision - rip out Scattershot's throat, or save Moonlight? The brief instant of indecision costs her the unexpected laser strike from Nosecone, which scores her side - but it *does* send her leaping into motion. Barrelling right toward Nosecone, she makes as though to lunge at him, but spins around to stop in front of Moonlight as though to defend her - only to see Starfire go down as well. She hisses to herself, optics blazing bright in fury. 2nd Lieutenant Blitzwing says, "Blitzwing checking in...anything going on out there?" Lieutenant Moonlight says, "Yes....OWWWWWWWWWWW!" 2nd Lieutenant Blitzwing says, "*growl* Who? Where?" -Whiplash's angry glare is suddenly directed at Moonlight - not so damaged after all, is she? She leaps away again toward Starfire. -The werring hellfire that dances from Sapph's canon punches holes in the streets and sidewalks, quickly making their way to Moonlights gray form, Sapphire dosnt see friend or foe in her blind rage, only the enimy as the bulits strike 2nd Lieutenant Blitzwing says, "Location? Anybody?" Whiplash says, "Blitzwing! Get out here to Cerrius and get Starfire and Moonlight outta the way. And kill that crazy fence-sitter while you're at it! I want the Autobots." -Scattershot glances at his unintentional handy work, shrugging slightly as at least he shot a Decepticon, rather well it seems. "Nosecone!" He barks out in that rough, commanding voice, looking to his team member as he brakes into a jog. "Get your slag together and get underground, we're leaving this heap of trash! For now." He mutters to himself in a more quiet tone, glancing a quick reassuring glance over the battlefield. -Nosecone erks, spinning to one side in a clumsy attempt to avoid the attack from Whiplash that never comes. Not knowing whether to strike out at the scary apparition in front of him or return fire at the crazy femme who shot Moonlight, Whiplash makes the descision for him as she leaps away. "On it" he yells in reply to Scattershot, begining a cautious retreat towards his commander, shooting a final glance at Moonlight. -Blitzwing was convienantly on patrol when the skirish began, so the first sighting is of his fist coming through a nearby wall. " Evenin boys. Lets get reaquianted." He draws his blaster, optics glaring at the Bots. -Whiplash's tentacles thrash around her as she hears her target prepare to leave. She wasn't finished with him, not by a long shot, and yet - if she pursues, Starfire is left open to attack. Hard to tell how badly hurt the young femme is. The MedusaSaur stands her ground over her, like a hellhound guarding its most prized possession. Solar says, "Solar reporting in" -Sapphire lets out an inraged scream as her aim finds Nosecone.. "LEAVE MY CITY!!" she crys Lieutenant Moonlight just whimpers. -Scattershot draws his gaze over the field of fire one last time. Things haven't gone entirely to plan but good enough. "Stop getting shot and get outta here then!" He barks before laying down a burst of rifle fire to cover the retreat, then leaping up and transforming to his space cruiser form, making for the sky. -Whiplash lights up her tentacles and sends a barrage of electric bolts after the withdrawing Autobots, but she does not pursue. -Nosecone grits his teeth as he's once more peppered with shells, these striking home a lot harder than the last. Still, he's designed to lay seige to fortifications. A chain gun isn't going to stop him.. yet. Ignoring several wounds that spark and leak fluid, he picks up speed. "You mind givin me a lift then?" he broadcasts to the fleeing Scattershot. -Blitzwing transforms and locks his turret onto Nosecone. "Heya old pal. Somebody shot my lady, and someone's going to die!" He's ready to obliterate the mech with extreme prejudice. Whiplash says, "(Whiplash's voice over the broadband has the tone one hears from her after being denied her kill) The short version: two Decepticons down, Autobots heading out of Cerrius instead of staying to fight, and some crazy fence-sitter shooting everything that moves." Solar says, "Whose on scene and is reinforcements required?" 2nd Lieutenant Blitzwing says, "I think the Situatiob is resolving itself Sol...we may need an airlift for the injured." -Whiplash snaps, "Blitzwing, check on Moonlight! You can kill Autobots another day." -Sapphire fallows Nosecone with her chaingun, then sees a new target and smiles wickedlt to herself "yes leave.. go away..." she hisses Solar says, "Understood call if needed" -Whiplash zeroes in on Sapphire, her tentacles still lit up around her. -Moonlight screws her optics shut, hoping that she lives through this. Once again she tries to stay very still...hoping that no one else decides to fill her body full of holes. -Scattershot arcs up and away, winging over in his largest form and drawing some fire from --Sapphire it seems, which for the most part pocks and marks his armour. "Heh, right." He calls down to Nosecone as he arcs down sets up a run to pick up the drill tank. -Blitzwing transforms again...stalking not over to Moonlight, but to Sapphire. "Gimme that!" he grabs at her chaingun. "Your going to get /yourself/ hurt." -Nosecone says, "Damn crazy femme" Nosecone mutters, looking at Saphire. Blitzwing's threats.. well, he knows how much damage the triple changer can do. The driller leaps for Scattershot's ramp, glad to be retreating." -Whiplash snarls as Blitzwing gets right in the way of her intended electric blast to take down the crazed Sapphire. "Dammit, groundpounder," she mutters. -Sapphire turns to look at Blitz toth hot red optics, a wicked smiles plastered on her face and showing that she isnt in her right mind, "diediedie...DIE!!!" she screams as she swivles and aims -Scattershot large bore engines cycle up to full power as soon as his cargo's aboard and with a whips of burnt fuel in his wake, the Technobot commander leaves the scene of battle. -Sapphire turns to look at Blitz toth hot red optics, a wicked smiles plastered on her face and showing that she isnt in her right mind -Blitzwing looks down at the femme. "Your going to get yourself hurt. Now BEHAVE!" He snorts, turning his back to her, tucking her gun under his arm, and checks on the fallen Moonlight. "Heya Moonlight...you okay?" -Whiplash transforms to her robot mode, checking over the fallen Starfire. She doesn't seem badly injured, but she does have a considerable dent from her impact with the ground. "You want to finish off that crazy fence-sitter, Blitzwing, or do I have to do it? And decide quick, 'cause I need to get Starfire back to medbay. And Moonlight could use a lift too." -Moonlight cracks open a single optic. Weakly she smiles at Blitzwing. "I hurt....but I sure am glad to see you." She doesn't move from her place on the ground. -Ok, that was wrong, if Sapph was pissed befor, she's just went over the edge now, with a hiss of rage she pulls her energy sword... Whiplash lights up her tentacles again in robot mode, waiting for Blitzwing to step out of the way to give her a clear shot. She's had about enough of the crazed femme, even if some of her shots *did* hit Autobots. -Blitzwing takes charge because this is personal... "Moonlight which one shot you?" He glares to Lash. "Get Starfire back to base...I got this under control." He's still got his back to the lunatic. -Whiplash sends a sizzling shower of blue energy toward Sapphire. She's not trying to hit Blitzwing, but if he's close enough, he might catch some stray sparks. -Moonlight lies...though why isn't apparent at the moment. "Big gun...autobot," she mumbles, implicating Scattershot. -Blitzwing draws his sword...now decisively annoyed. He glares at Whiplash. "I said I got this dammit!" He turns to Sapphire. "Dont make me angry...you wont like me when Im angry." -Sapphire grips her sword tightly as she walks after Blitz, her hand raizing high to slice his back open.. her core spiting starks, then she jurks as electrisity corsess over her blue body.... woth a sigh she slumps forword as Lash's attack shuts her off -Whiplash glares back at Blitzwing. "You had it so well covered that she was about to stab you in the back." -Blitzwing watches Sapphire fall... and sheaths his sword. "I knew she was going to strike me. She wouldve managed to do nothing but make me mad. I appreciate the thought though, didnt know ya cared." He grins. -Whiplash says, "Don't flatter yourself." She turns away, gathering up Starfire, and carries her off to get her home. 2nd Lieutenant Blitzwing says, "What do you want me to do with the fence sitter?" Solar says, "Who is it and what condition are they in?" Whiplash says, "She's some kinda contact of Onslaught's. If not for that, I'd say finish her off. As it is .. hell, leave her there." -Moonlight curls up slightly, trying to get as comfortable as possible. -Sapphire shivers slightly as her optics fluter on with their origanal amber glow "huh... wh..where am i?" she asks -Blitzwing looks around. "Your both going home. Get in." He transforms into jet mode and pops open the cockpit. -Sapphire slowly sits up, trying to clear the riging in her head "Blitz?" she asks "Where did you come from? -Moonlight closes her optics and waits. -Blitzwing revs his engines. "In you two. We talk on the way. Im still supposed to be on patrol." -Moonlight winces as she slowly half-stands and hobbles into Blitzwing. -Sapphire skakaly stands and climes in "o..ok."