"Fallen Comrades"

[Dalgaroth]

(( OOC: Apparently, this never posted a few days ago. >_>; So I' mrewriting and posting it now. BTW, I'm working on Rattrap, OOP.))

"Mm, yes. But they will still make an attempt," Megatron replied, his temper cooling as his plotting continued despite the fliers' idiocy. "Ahh, a land party, yes. I'm doubtless the leftover fliers and aquatic Maximals have taken flight to battle our forces in the west, the rest of the MAximals scrambling for the pod in the North, leaving only Optimus and perhaps a couple others to guard the base. Waspinator, Terrorsaur, Venatrix!" His tone sharpened suddenly, causing Terrrosaur to snap into a rigidly attentive stance. Of course, the salute ended in a slump when the crimson bot realized he wasn't being yelled at. "You will proceed north immediately to the location of the stasis pod. Ensure that the protoform robot inside is reprogrammed as a Predacon."

Terrorsaur nodded and went beast mode, flapping back out of the ship and into the skies once more.

Megatron was left with a few leftver Predacons, but they wouldn't be sitting around the base with an opportunity like this.He turned to Tarantulas and Scorponok.

"As for the rest of you, you shall not be idle, nooo, for with the Maximal base almost unguarded this is the perfect time to strike, yeess." He hit his hand with his weapon to emphasize his point, manic glee in his optics at this chance to take out Maximal base once and for all. "Follow me!"

Wit that, he too left the base and started up a quick jog towards the Axalon's location.

[Alak]

Scorponok transformed into his beast mode and crawled after Megatron. The faint clicks made by his legs were nearly drowned out by the thundering footsteps of the purple dinosaur ahead of him. Tarantulas was not too far behind, and the three of them would surely outnumber those at the Axalon. Scorponok was unsure of how his leader would go about dismantling the Maximals. He was armed with heavy weaponry, something not exactly specialized in covert combat. Nevertheless, the Predacon would follow orders and try his best to succeed.

[NaitoKage]

Tarantulus soon exited the Predacon base, transformed in his spider mode he silently crawled soon to catch pace with heavier types like Scorponok. He didn't like the idea of going to the maximal base, feeling he had better things to do with his time. But refusing was not an option he had at the moment. His mind wandered as they moved, thinking of his research and of previous events like the mysterious standing stones. What was the agenda of the aliens on this planet? The instrument scans earlier showing one of the moons being hollow.. he didn't like it. But he still didn't know what all of it meant.. it would require more research.. and more time.

[Blazemane]

Cheetor had now been running, but he was far from tired. In fact, he was getting restless- he knew well enough to stay in line with the other two, but he wanted to go faster.

So badly.

This frustration was compounding by his main frustration- his concern for Big 'Bot. He just got trashed, and now they were leaving him behind.

"Man," Cheetor decided to vent his concern, "I just don't think it's a slick plan- leaving Optimus back at base."

[Venatrix]

Venatrix saluted Megatron and quickly transformed to her beastmode, and sprinted out of the base, not waiting for Waspinator and Terrorsaur.
She figured the Maximals had a head start, and after studying the map, it would be logical the would cross a large crack in the glacier over a small piece of ice between them.
Waspinator and Terrorsaur would head in that same direction.
To avoid that first battle, and the possibility to either reach the pod first, or meet the Maximals and slow them down a second time, she needed to travel to another crossing.

[Lady_Jet2]

"Well it's not like we have a choice, pussy-cat." Rattrap said looking over at the cheetah. "Besides. they're plenty of protection around him, so i seriously doubt that he'll be in any trouble while going through repairs." He was trying to keep a cool demeanor, but he was a little concerned as well. After all Dinobot was there and regardless of the time they had spent he was still of Predacon stock.

[NaitoKage]

Rhinox looked towards Cheetor and Rattrap while running, the rocky dirt terrain seen converting to snow ahead of them He's right, and we gotta run. If that pod was cracked in the crash, the protoform robot inside will be exposed to the planet's energon fields. he then stated charging a head towards the snow.

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Long off into the distance, the stasis pod opened slightly as red lights flashed on it. A hand reaching up towards the sky for a moment, it then surges with energon falling down.

[Alak]

The trio eventually arrived at the Axalon in which a lone figure was present on top of the dark vessel. Still in beast mode, Scorponok scanned his surroundings and found it possible to quietly trespass. Not wanting to step out of line, however, he looked at Megatron with anticipation.

"What are your orders?" he asked.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: So incredibly sorry for the delay, guys!! Got real busy again. I'm posting for Waspy now. ))

"Don't underestimate their ability to adapt to situations where they are at a disadvantage, and still prevail.
"I expect them to have a party already en-route for the pod, and have Optimus Primal already in in their CR tank."

Waspinator only glanced over at Venatrix. She was probably right but he was trying to give his undivided attention to Megatron.

"Mm, yes. But they will still make an attempt," "Ahh, a land party, yes. I'm doubtless the leftover fliers and aquatic Maximals have taken flight to battle our forces in the west, the rest of the MAximals scrambling for the pod in the North, leaving only Optimus and perhaps a couple others to guard the base. Waspinator, Terrorsaur, Venatrix!"

The wasp suddenly stood at attention when their leader bellowed his name. Then he relaxed a little when Megatron continued.

"You will proceed north immediately to the location of the stasis pod. Ensure that the protoform robot inside is reprogrammed as a Predacon."

Waspinator saluted their mighty Predacon leader and followed immediately after Terrorsaur took off. The bug converted to his beast mode and zipped out of the base. To Waspy, this was another opportunity to show his worthiness to the team. If he could distract the Maximals from reaching that pod and reprogram the protoform inside, he'd certainly be praised for a job well done.

Quickly he flew with Terrorsaur, not really caring what Venatrix was up to. They weren't far from the small Maximal ground unit now but they had hit a minor snow storm. Brisk winds blew and heavy snowflakes fell from the clouds in the dark sky.

[NaitoKage]

The maximal ground unit charged on ahead through the snowstorm, though which seemed like a long endeavor cleaned up in moments (thanks to the magic of television), soon the maximal trio made it towards a ice field with a large canyon, the only thing allowing them to cross appeared to be a narrow strip of ice, rather uncommon naturally but this planet was far from suited to having normal geographic structures.

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Tarantulus caught up with Megatron and Scorponok outside of the Maximal base, he remained silent listening to the two. His green spider eyes glancing towards Megatron in wait.

[Dalgaroth]

(( OOC: >_> Umm... ))

Megatron scanned the Axalon with his eyes, making sure to keep to the shadows. His little fingers wiggled in anticipation.

"Scorponok, Tarantulas," he said quietly, just in case. "Move around to the other side of the ship. If they are going to do what I expect, they'll be putting their shields down any moment and I need you two to lie in wait for an ambush. On my signal only."

He gestured hsi small arms towards the ship to shoo them off and settled in to watch the ship a little longer, waiting.

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Terrorsaur shivered. The wind was picking up and snow was starting to fall. He kept an eye out for Maximals and Venatrix, simply keeping track of the other Predacon from the skies as long as he could before a blast of snow blinded him. He didn't expect any betrayals from her, but it'd be useful to know where she was should they get into a fight.

He kept flying, his systems working over time to combat the cold. Overall, however, it wasn't much energy loss. Te extremes Cybertronians could withstand varied greatly and this cold, while it was annoying and prolonged exposure could mess with his energy supply, wouldn't do much damage. For now, it was just nice to be out of that slagging ship.

Suddenly, he was pulled from his thoughts as he spotted movement below - little black dots quickly taking on shape as the fliers flew overhead. The Maximals had gotten a good head start, but that ice bridge...

"Well, would you look at that?" Terrorsaur commented slyly, a smirk in his voice. "We have competitors for the stasis pod, Waspinator."

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[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: Anyone else still around? Get ready to transform! ))

"Well, would you look at that?" "We have competitors for the stasis pod, Waspinator."

With the small snow storm subsiding and their visibility increasing, the giant wasp chuckled with excitement before he said, "Wazzzpinator not think so!" He saw the long, narrow bridge just ahead of the Maximals. How great it would be to blow that to smitherines. The filthy Maximals would have to waste their time searching for another way across to get the pod. Victory would be in the Predacons' grasp for this one! The protoform would be theirs for the taking and Megatron would reward Waspinator. Happy days!

[Alak]

"Scorponok, Tarantulas," he said quietly, just in case. "Move around to the other side of the ship. If they are going to do what I expect, they'll be putting their shields down any moment and I need you two to lie in wait for an ambush. On my signal only."

Nodding in understanding, Scorponok disappeared into the darkness. His black armor provided the perfect camouflage at night. As Megatron predicted, the shields of the Axalon faded which meant someone was bound to exit the vessel soon.

"Terrorize," he whispered.

[Dalgaroth]

(( OOC: Kyehehehehhehahhahahaa! ))

Terrorsaur grinned with evil glee. This'd be piece of oil cake!

"Leeet's TERRORIIZE!" The dactyl screeched and a moment later he was in robot mode, diving towards the canyon. He wondered if the Maximals would catch on. It wasn't hard - the bridge, the only one around for a good distance and sticking out like a sore wing, was practically begging to be destroyed.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: I'll handle Rattrap since LJ hasn't been around. Not sure what she's up to but no worries. ))

"Leeet's TERRORIIZE!"

Waspinator followed his partner's lead and converted to his robot mode, immediately drawing his weapon and diving toward the Maximals.

The rodent, hitching a bumpy ride on Rhinox's back, caught the noise of Waspinator's buzzing. His ear twitching in the direction, he turned his head to look up at his right and saw the Predacons flying right at them. Holy cheddar cheese, they were already too close! "INCOMING!" Rattrap shouted to alert the rest of the group. Suddenly, Rhinox jammed on the breaks, and Rattrap was tossed forward, flying right off of the rhinoceros. Rolling in a couple somersalts above the snowy ground, the rat landed and stood up, automatically crouching from the shots that surrounded him and Rhinox. "Shred those lousy flyers!" he hollered, shaking his tiny, pink fist at Terrorsaur and Waspinator. He himself maximized and drew his gun, targeting the aerial-bound Predacons and opening fire on them in the night sky.