"OC Episode #4"

[Phoenix]

Nemesis' thrill over having disarmed the tiger so easily, turned out to be a short-lived one. A moment later he had managed to grab his weapon again, from his position on the ground nevertheless, which had provided him with just enough distance to take aim at the female's knees.

The first shot was a direct hit to her left knee joint, causing the female's leg to buckle and give in. Nemesis winced as she dropped to her knee, barely avoiding the next shot that graced by the right hip.

Clutching the wounded and seemingly bleeding knee (although the 'blood' was shimmering in a faint bluish color), her free hand gripped more tightly onto the sai still remaining in her grasp.

"So the kitty wants to play rough, eh?," Nemesis groaned while glancing down at her wounded leg. She then brought the hand that had been resting on the knee up to her face, briefly studying the shimmering substance that remained on her fingers. A faint smile appeared on her face again as she proceeded to lick the substance off the tips of her fingers, allthewhile keeping her gaze fixed on Tigatron.

"Very well.."

Just then, she leaped back up on her feet, her knee still a little roughed up but the open wound appeared to have closed. She immediately tapped the sai in her hand, before hurling it straight at the white tiger.

"Let's play then!"

The tapping motion had set off the countdown to the explosives concealed in the shaft of the sai.

[New Moon]

Feralnight hadn't gone that close to the Predaocn ship when she saw the Predacons had indeed come. She watched from afar as they talked with someone inside the ship, more then likely this Cecaelia Icebreaker had been talking about. Thinking it might be safe the fuzor turned to head back tot he Nomad, only to look bad as the ship began to fly again. "Oh no!" With wide optics Feralnight turned and flew quickly, transforming to beast mode and hurrying to the Nomad, "Rattrap!Icebreaker!Get the Nomad going we got trouble!" She called over the com link.

[NaitoKage]

Glowstick blinked floating back from Cecaelia as she called him cute, it was a unnatural feeling to a creature that only was repulsed. His optics then moved looking towards Starshadow holding a gun towards him, he sighed as one of his lasers fired at low power knocking her plasma rifle away, he then twisted his body upright and landed on the floor as the ship started moving It's fine if you want to quit.. but why did you lock me in here with you two?! I'm not going back to that slag heap of a home planet!

Glowstick then tilted his head slightly noticing the ship was heading in the direction of the Nomad What the.. why are you flying us towards that?! he then sighed, assuming it was likely to be the start of a battle. This is going to be a bad day isn't it?..

[Night-Hunter]

Nightstar-sama eh? Okay then.. so I guess you two know each other..well that makes some things easier I guess..

Great, the two psycho's know each other. Sonar thought with a small sigh.

Sonar ignored most of the conversation then some thing caught his attention and he narrowed his optics.

"I guess you can call me a traitor."

"Two cute boys in a day. Commander, how do you even get to know the cute ones~?"

"By bad luck.."

Sonar bared his teeth but smiled moments later, oh Megatron was going to enjoy hearing this. He then noticed that the ship was moving toward the nomad.

Oh, no you don't. He thought.

He then fired a sonic blast at the windshield of the cock pit, shattering it.

"Sonar, terrorize!" He shouted before going into the broken cockpit window.

"Well, should I call you Nightstar or Starshadow?" He smirked ignoring the other female. "I find it hard to believe that you are a commander."

[Alak]

"Maybe one person should stay with Rhinox as me and another could meet the Predacons ahead to delay them. There are alot of cliffs and geysers we could use to our advantage. We could give them a surprise attack."

"Good idea," replied Orcariner, "Cheetor's our best scout here. Have him take point, and if he needs back-up you can be right behind him. I'll stay here with Rhinox and act as a sentry while he works. I should be able to maintain the radar up-link as long as you stay within roughly 500 meters or less. There's a lot of energon eruption, so my numbers may be off."

He could still detect the Predacon forces, but Orcariner was unsure whether or not his body would be capable of maintaining two streams of radar at the same time. The geysers did not help the situation, but they would have to make the best of it.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

The attack on Megatron was all Optimus expected it to achieve; stop his opponent's erratic firing and catch him off guard. He knew it wouldn't do much more than that, besides give Primal a different position to Frilla and the pod. Pushed off of Megatron, Optimus stumbled to his feet, feeling some pain in his left foot that had been hit during his stunt. While the larger leader took his time getting to his feet, the Maximal took the opportunity to assess the situation with the pod. He thought he had heard Manterror screaming earlier but he didn't see him now. Instead, Tarantulas was at the controls of the stasis pod and Frilla was trapped under his webbing on the ground. No! Primal shouted in his head. Unsheathing one of his swords, he turned back to Megatron when he heard him speak.

Ug..That reckless behaviour will get you no where Primal! Give up and maybe I'll be so lenient to let you live!

"Now where's the fun in that?" Optimus said, grinning for only a split second before he saw the t-rex head moving at him. The commander fired a shot at the head, and whether it made contact or not, Primal instantly spun around putting his back toward Megatron. He knew this made him vulnerable to his nemesis, but he had to help Frilla; it was a sacrifice worth making at the time. Swinging his arm back with the hand that wielded his sword, he thrusted it forward and threw the weapon at the electrical or energonic webbing over the trapped lizard. The large sword somersalted through the air at a downward angle, slicing a hole in the web that caused all of it to malfunction and fall apart. Primal's blade ended up vertically piercing the ground not far from Frilla's head, with the handle sticking up. Although she had her own blade, and Optimus' may have been too large for her to wield easily, it was there at her disposal. If Tarantulas was concentrating on the pod, he may not have even noticed what just happened. Frilla was free now, so she could handle the spider and the pod. Optimus turned back around to face Megatron's next attack, knowing his luck with his tactics was probably running out. Not to mention he could feel the energon fields beginning to buzz in his electronics. He had probably been in robot mode the longest out of everyone there now.

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"So the kitty wants to play rough, eh?," "Very well.." "Let's play then!"

Watching Nemesis, Tigatron scrambled to his feet, his scathed abdomen aching. Witnessing her wounds healing almost immediately, a wave of fear washed over him. How...? How were they supposed to stop her if she healed so quickly? The white tiger in robot mode began backing up. Maybe if he regrouped with Dinobot, they'd have a better chance of their combined firepower to take her down. Maybe. Out of all of them present, Optimus had to most powerful weaponry, and he was currently occupied with Megatron who desperately wanted that Maximal turned into a Predacon.

Suddenly, Tigatron felt something behind him. He had unknowlingly backed into a tree, and a second later, Nemesis' sai stabbed his shoulder. "Argh!" the tiger growled in agony. Grabbing the shaft, he went to pull it back out but he did not know that she had armed it with explosives. Painfully lifting his arm with the injured shoulder, he tried firing more shots at her. This Decepticon was too large and too powerful for him to fight her off on his own. He needed help!

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Which has me concerned if Megatron got ahold of it, but..maybe she'll just fly off the planet is what I'm hoping.

"I'd rather we steal it and fly off of this dirt ball!" Rattrap threw in.

It's problematic to increase the Pred numbers, but we also have to think of this seriously.. we don't want to terminate the Predacons..but how do you win a war by beating an enemy and letting them go to come back at you another day? Eventually they'll just destroy us if we do things like that.. but we're not really the police.. so putting them in stasis lock and shoving them in stasis pods seems a bit much.. though then again......

The rodent raised a brow at Icebreaker thinking outloud, impatiently waiting for him to make a conclusion.

I did notice that when I first came to this planet, I met up with a group of Maximals, Orcariner and Nightmist. We had others as well.. and other cybertronians, Predacons.. it was quickly found that a majority of them were criminals,though a few weren't.. I always found it a little weird that the Axalon had so many of them..Never found an answer on it either, they aren't on the personnel records, well.. other then Frilla and Glowstick.

"Yeah, well, I'm bettin' a lot of 'em are under lock an' key in our fearless leader's head. I sure as heck don't know who's in all those pods we released, and who keeps flyin' here in their own slaggin' ships and then crash landing on this place just to give us more head aches," Rattrap explained. "Leave it to the boss monkey."

"I wouldn't be surprised in the slightiest if this Cecaelia was related to Starshadow."

"Heh! Me either," he agreed with Saber-Fang.

"It's not only the crazies you have to worry about, it's the silent ones you have to worry about as well."

"Silent or not, if they're Predacon, then they're all crazy. Especially Starshadow and this Cecaelia femme."

"I say we blow it up, it will keep Megatron from getting the upper hand later on in this war."

"He's always got the upper hand 'cause he's he bad guy! He's the one makin' all these problems for us," said the vermin. "So either we blow it, or we steal it. I'd prefer stealin' it 'cause it might get one of us home to Cybertron and send for help. Icebreaker, you're friends with Cecaelia, think she'd let you into her ship and give you a tour? Or would she just-"

"Rattrap!Icebreaker!Get the Nomad going we got trouble!"

"Now what?" he asked after Feralnight interrupted him. "What kind of trouble, Feral? The Predacon kind?" Rattrap left Icebreaker and hurried over to the scanners and monitors. After typing in a few codes after the systems rebooted, things began running smoothly and the monitor flickered on-line. Calibrations began running quickly.

[Venatrix]

Arriving at the sector Megatron ordered her to embark to, Venatrix opened a communication channel to Megatron.
"Megatron, this is Venatrix. I've arrived at the coordinates you ordered me to go to. What's the situation, and whats my mission here?"
The black panther heard a few shots in the distance, but it didn't concern her at this moment.
She already disobeyed orders for more then she would under any circumstances, and didn't intend to push her luck with Megatron.
So the black Predacon female waited patiently for her commander to give her an order.

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Valkyrie passed mountains when she finally saw some movement down on the ground.
She could see Rhinox with the stasis pod quite clearly, but stayed hight above the scene.
The maximal bird of prey needed more intelligence before she decides what tactics she would use.
She needed to know who she was dealing with and what the situation was before she could form a strategy.
Valkyrie contacted Rhinox on a secure channel, to gain much needed information.
"Rhinox, this is Valkyrie. I'm high above you right now, so i can assist you in any way you need me to. Please give me an update on the current situation."

((OOC: i'll be entering like this, assuming it was planned this way by both commands ^^))

[NaitoKage]

Tarantulus noticed Primal's blade wizzing through the air, nearly giving the spider a heartattack as he assumed it was for himself. He then looked towards the pod inserting the predacon chip, then pulled out a small device soldering a few connections quickly. My part of the bargin is done.. So I think I'll be taking my meal and leaving.. he then let out a dark snicker, turning as he became surprised to see Frilla was cut free.

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Megatron stumbled back from the shot, becoming more enraged from Primal's tactics and retaliation. For the course of the situation, the only thing on his mind was Optimus Primal, even forgetting about the Stasis pod, momentarily at least.

The tyrant then stepped forward while thrusting his left arm and tail weapon towards Optimus in something between a stabbing punching motion aimed for Optimus's face. He then heard Venatrix on the radio Enter the fray Venatrix, we've almost have this stasis pod!

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Icebreaker walked towards the bridge as he noticed the ship floating towards them, with the canopy suddenly shattering on it It's always the Predacon kind.. Looks like Cecaelia isn't alone. Not sure she'll give me the tour, but I'll see about hijacking that thing at least..

Icebreaker transformed to his robot mode, then drew his gun loading a grappling hook into it. Feels a little weird holding back against one of these things though..Ah well! That just makes things more interesting! he then walked towards the door and headed outside, climbing the recessed ladder on the wall of the Nomad going up onto the roof.

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Glowstick blinked as the glass on the canopy shattered, shielding himself from some random glass. He then saw Sonar float in, strangely happy to see the bat in this situation.

"I find it hard to believe that you are a commander."

Glowstick nodded You know.. I find that hard to believe as well, you don't really seem the plan or strategy type..
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Rhinox nodded, thinking over the situation. He then heard Valkyrie on the radio.

"Rhinox, this is Valkyrie. I'm high above you right now, so i can assist you in any way you need me to. Please give me an update on the current situation."

Rhinox activated his radio The situation.. is not good. This stasis pod is dieing, I don't think I have the spare parts to repair it.. unless I can get ahold of a locking chip..

[starshadow]

Starshadow simply smiled at Glowstick and quickly gave him a punch in his face. "Err we're so not going back to that planet. I want your head as a pr-" she looked at the window and realized they have been flying towards the Nomad.

"CERULIA ARE YOU CRAZY?!"

"NO I'M NOT! I AM SHOWING YOU THE NICEST BOT I'VE MET TODAYYYYYYYYYY!!!"
The two femmes looked at Sonar who had just broke the cockpit glass.

"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, FURBAG!!" Starshadow grabbed her gun and fired at his wings a few times.

"Sometimes mechs like you are easily fooled by femmes." Cecaelia put a tentacle on her face and sighed.

[Venatrix]

((OOC: Who's playing chopper-face? Might be a fun, but short face-off before the next ep, or is there somebody else?))

Venatrix ran towards Megatron's location, seeing him battling Optimus Primal.
In front of the stasis pod she transformed to robot mode, drew her blades.
She was standing ready for anything or anyone who wanted to reach the pod who wasn't a Maximal.
The black Predacon femme was very motivated to score a few favor-points for Megatron.
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Rhinox activated his radio The situation.. is not good. This stasis pod is dieing, I don't think I have the spare parts to repair it.. unless I can get ahold of a locking chip..

Valkyrie dived down, and landed next to Rhinox, and transformed to robot mode. "Where can we find one?"
She couldn't help it but feel a pang of guilt about losing that last stasis pod to the Predacons.
She must do everything she can to save this protoform!
However, if Rhinox wasn't to sure about turning this situation around, what could she do to help?

[NaitoKage]

Glowstick shaked his head, the situation was getting way out of hand for his tastes. Take my head as a prize? My head has no value off this planet.. ug. I'm tired of this nonsense..though with the canopy destroyed you can't even leave the planet now.. and telling me you that you want to kill me, I certainly wont help you fix it now.. Sonar,I think this is a waste of- He was then cut off as he heard a sound hit the ship, then noticed a grappling hook latch onto the cockpit. Eh?...


A moment later a loud clang was heard on the front of the ship, a second grappling hook was seen grabbing onto the open canopy as Icebreaker climbed up Yo! Is this party Predacons only, or can I join in? {/color] he then said, moving his shield forward incase of any sudden fire, surprised how many were on the ship.

Glowstick's optic twitched, he then pointed to the side with his tentacles Ah..I was just leaving anyway.. You do know how high this is right?

Icebreaker responded simply Yeah, why?

Glowstick's optics dim .. Yeah.. that's what I thought..

Glowstick then looked towards Starshadow I think his head might be worth more then mine, after all.. he did nearly try to kill us all, not to mention knock the lubricant out of you in the past.

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Rhinox shaked his head It's dangerous, but we have them inside of ourselves.. however, without a locking chip if your exposed too much energon in robot mode you might go offline.

[Blazemane]

((OOC: I am that chopper-face!

Wait... that's not how it goes.))

Dinobot saw the whip coming for him and allowed it to snap right into him. He ignored the pain and closed the distance to his enemy, slashing sideways at her with blinding speed.

Steelclaw was a bit disappointed that his assault hadn't stopped Wintersong, and even as she ran for him in beast mode, he switched his weapon's settings to be able to fire incendiary rounds.

"I really don't like to waste these," he muttered as he brought his weapon up to his optics to aim. Suddenly Wintersong transformed, and Steelclaw knew what was coming next.

Rolling forward, he went far under where Wintersong was going to place her shot and then came to a stop on his knees just out of her reach, aiming dead center. After he fired, he stood up, reloaded and pulled the trigger once more, though he hoped the first round would do the trick.

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The situation.. is not good. This stasis pod is dieing, I don't think I have the spare parts to repair it.. unless I can get ahold of a locking chip..

Cheetor, who was feeling a bit worried over talk of sparks "extinguishing" and "ceasing to exist", thought about the suggestion for less than a nanocycle before he volunteered.

"Take mine," he said. He then looked to Ocariner. "I'll get right out to scouting afterwords, I promise. But our new budbot there deserves some chance. Rhinox knows more about protoforms than any of us, and you, Valkyrie and Whitegrazer are probably better suited for defending an actual attack than I am."

He actually did know where most of his friends' strengths lay, and where his own strengths and weaknesses were. But he always charged into things head long because he wanted to make sure they turned out the best way they could, and because he wanted to be sure he'd been part of the effort- not seen as some worthless tag along.

In a way, he was doing the same exact thing now. But the number of problems in this new pod's situation were making him choose where his efforts should be put.

[Night-Hunter]

"Heh! Me either,"

"Silent or not, if they're Predacon, then they're all crazy. Especially Starshadow and this Cecaelia femme."

"That's true." Saber replied.

"He's always got the upper hand 'cause he's he bad guy! He's the one makin' all these problems for us," "So either we blow it, or we steal it. I'd prefer stealin' it 'cause it might get one of us home to Cybertron and send for help. Icebreaker, you're friends with Cecaelia, think she'd let you into her ship and give you a tour? Or would she just-"

Saber sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Rattrap!Icebreaker!Get the Nomad going we got trouble!"

"Now what?" "What kind of trouble, Feral? The Predacon kind?"

The only kind of trouble we've had is Predacon trouble. Saber thought shaking her head.

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You know.. I find that hard to believe as well, you don't really seem the plan or strategy type..

Sonar was rather surprised to see Starshadow punch Glowstick in the face.

"Err we're so not going back to that planet. I want your head as a pr-"

"CERULIA ARE YOU CRAZY?!"

"NO I'M NOT! I AM SHOWING YOU THE NICEST BOT I'VE MET TODAYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, FURBAG!!"

Sonar growled then grabbed the gun from Starshadow and tossed it at the wall shattering it on impact.

Take my head as a prize? My head has no value off this planet.. ug. I'm tired of this nonsense..though with the canopy destroyed you can't even leave the planet now.. and telling me you that you want to kill me, I certainly wont help you fix it now.. Sonar,I think this is a waste of-

Sonar could only stare at the grappling hook, seconds later the flightless bird showed up. He ignored the coversation between the Maximal and Glowstick.

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"New programming accepted, scanning for compatible life-forms... compatible life-form found. Beginning replication." The pod computer said.

The door of the pod flung open with a blinding white light, moments later it died down and it was soon moving as the creature within the pod began to stir. Five seconds later two large legs appeared followed by a fire ants head, it lifted it's head and let out a freakish animal like scream before fully leaving the pod.

((And Inferno is born, let the maddness begin!! Mwahahahaha! *cough cough*))

[Wintersong]

Wintersong growled as she rolled, using her shoulder to come back to her feet and turned to face Steelclaw once more which unfortunately found was already prepared to fight again. Though his next shot caught her off guard and she backed off when it hit her chest, feeling a slight pain hitting her chest. "Beast mode!" Transfomring the tigeress withdrew from trying to go after Steelclaw, knowing she wouldn't stand much of a chance against the sniper. But as she was moving away the screech from the pod made her pause, staring at the large fire ant that emerged.

Snow Trix winced as the sword sliced through her side but shook off the pain and once again brought the lasso around and tried to hit Dinobot again with it. Though she hoped the screech from the ant was on their side because they didn't sound too pleasant.

[New Moon]

Frilla looked up in surprise as Primal's sword became embedded just a little bit from her head but definitely giving her the chance to escape. pulling the web off she stood, glaring at the now surprised Tarantulas but it was too late to save the protoform. Dismay showed in Frilla's expression but she focused on the situation, "Leaving without a meal is more like it you creep." She growled and began to fire her acid pellets towards the spider now, stepping forward as she did so.

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Feralnight growled when she saw the Predaocn ship come towards the Nomad and was sure they would harm her comrades...well so she thought. Grapling hooks caught her attention, only knowing one cybertronian who had them and sure enough she caught sight of Icebreaker. Now that was abit crazy, least the fuzor thought and she quickly flew closer to the ship, catching a few words they were daying but not much and she flew near the cockpit of the ship Cecaelia was piloting. "Maximize." Feralnight muttered and transformed trying to get closer and be quiet at the same time.

From where she was though it sounded like the Predacons were arguing which was nothing new by now. What she was most curious about was why Icebreaker was there.