"OC Episode #4"

[New Moon]

Frilla was a bit concerned when hearing the explosion in the distance, hoping the reckless tigeress had not been caught in a fight already. "Think this victory is too early to be celebrating." She sighed ad kept up with Optimus while watching for any further activity from the Axalon.

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Feralnight looked at Rattrap, shrugging her shoulders, "Well it's very likely. Considering not all of the heavy hitters were with this group it is likely one of our groups will face some heavy artillery with one of the pod missions. So yea we may very well meet some damaged teammates when we return." She pointed out. So the idea was a bit depressing but at the same time it was true. Megatron may have been insane but even he knew the advantages to certain situations just as much as Primal did. "All in all someone is going to return with some serious injuries our be lucky to have escaped with no more then a dent."

[NaitoKage]

(Heh, Ninja eh? My nickname in real life.. )

Icebreaker walked up from the ladder, then laughed slightly Well, hate to break it to you Feralnight. But You,Rattrap,and myself are sort of part of the heavy hitters in the Maximals. Least when it comes to firepower..which we all have ample amounts of. Hmm.. Probably going to be awhile until the CR tank is done repairing and analyzing Saberfang.. Ah! I forgot! Icebreaker then pulled out the strange device Glowstick gave him, which appeared to be a holographic recorder, used for messages and even sometimes like "birthday" cards on cybertron. Not entirely sure I like the idea of giving this to Frilla like Glowstick requested. Maybe we should show it to Optimus if it's some sort of Predacon scheme..But then again if it was to relay hidden information.. why would he give it to me..?

Icebreaker then simply looked at the device puzzled.

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Glowstick sighed Yes, I know, she's dieing.. I could fix her, but what's the point in that? She doesn't want to return to our side, she's a menace to your side, and you wont even disclose to me what the heck is wrong with her mentally so I could at least try to treat the problem. So unless you want to start opening up a bit more about your psycho commander there, all I can do now is let her die with dignity in clean armor..well I mean I could repair and brainwash her into a puppet, but that really isn't my sort of thing.. Even for a creepy medic.

[starshadow]

Cecaelia sighed with her rings dimmed. "Nobody knows what happened to her as my buddies and I were playing games in prison..All we know is that after the escape, she's acting weird and blah."

She kneeled down on the soft sand and poked Starshadow's cheek with a tentacle.

"Hmm...it's a good time to fix her without painkillers." the next second she poked the feline's cheek, Starshadow's right optic glass broke.

"EHHHH!! FRAGILE!!" the octopus moved away from her just incase she did any more minor damages.

[NaitoKage]

Glowstick sighed So basically you want me to clean this mess up? Fine. But I'm hacking her data tracks. No point in fixing her if she tries to kill me again, so I may as well fix her mentally as well.. I'm assuming you can pilot ships, so your flying the Leviathan, we need to get back to the Darksyde. I can stabilize her, but she's going to need a run through the CR tank.. my sword probably melted and fried half her vital components.. he then floated out of the Leviathan, his tentacles wrapping around and lifting Starshadow from the sand, then floating back towards the ship setting Starshadow's body down on a table.

He transformed to robot mode with a narrowed look on his optics, his limbs started to work disassembling Starshadow's armor and body revealing the internal components, he pulled out a voltage tester checking some contact points and voltages, then adjusted a table power supply and plugged Starshadow's spark chamber into it to support energon for her core. His limbs started to pull the now junked parts from her body, blackened circuit boards with exploded transistors and caps, charred metal and fuel lines. He was beginning to doubt he'd even be able to fix this just from the sight, but he couldn't give up just yet. ... Guess I went a bit overkill.. he then said to himself.

He stretched one of his arms picking up some parts out of a "parts" bin next to the table, mostly scrap from the other predacons left behind, in this case, they'd be donor parts.

[starshadow]

"Hai (yes)...." Cecaelia went inside the Leviathan, putting Starshadow's armor on the bench.

"Hmm..this shouldn't be hard to pilot." she said and pushed the gear stick. The Leviathan lifted in the air and took off to the sky. "Glowstick-san, what about that ugly winged fluffy err..furry house pest?" she asked.

[NaitoKage]

Glowstick raised an optic ridge What about Sonar? He'll be fine. though I guess it would take him longer to fly to his lair.. he then responded, using a grindor on some parts to reduce their size or how they fit as he started to insert them. The scene was probably rather ghoulish looking by Cybertronian standards. His arm lasers then fired up as his tentacles started running wire and soldering it, while another set of arms started to disassemble her faceplate, then pull out the damaged optic replacing it with a spare he had on the shelf. He was glad she couldn't possibly wake up in the current state she was in, as she was a pile of parts on the table at this point. Lets see.. spare vitals parts modeled for Tarantulus, Terrorsaur, one of my spare optics, some parts of Venatrix I found laying around..and luckily alot of her own spare parts since she gets blown up so often I almost have as many bits of her laying around as Waspinator.

He then started to work on putting her back together, welding up some of the structural damage and attaching her superficial armor accessories, though her stomach was still open with her spark exposed and two cables leading from his table power supply to her spark chamber, she looked undamaged on the outside at least, with the exception of now one of her optics defaulted to a blue glowing color at the moment.

With all of that realitively finished, he pulled out a datapad and ran a cable from it to attach it to her open torso, then started started Starshadow up in repair mode, running diagnostic on her vital systems before attempting anything further.

[Phoenix]

Although it might have been difficult to see from Wintersong's perspective, a slight grin appeared on Nemesis' face as she heard the Maximal approaching.

Oh those self-righteous Maximals.. Autobot or Maximal; it did not matter to Nemesis. Both had that same flawed sentimentality that were bound to cost them victory in the end. Although she questioned this Megatron's abilities as a leader as well, at least she found the majority of Predacons a bit more tolerable than the self-proclaimed 'good guys'.

"Don't you have a rock to hide under, Maximal?," the avian female inquired, almost appearing oblivious to the fact that with one Maximal present there were bound to be more around the corner.

Without removing her hand with the missing digits from the locking mechanism, she then turned to face Wintersong to see whom she was dealing with. The grin on her face certainly did not get any smaller as she eyed the cat. Nemesis' appearance as she stood there was a rather grim one at that. Repairs from the encounter with the sentry gun were still ongoing, leaving Nemesis with a number of wounds all over that were all shimmering with a faint blue light. Her right optic appeared cracked, with a seeping rift running down that side of her face, the wings had holes on either side, and a large wound was apparent on her chest along with her hip and thighs.

The Predacon tilted her head, making no attempts at hiding the wounds. The only thing she held back, however, was a painful grimace due to the many wounds on her body. She had never been one to show weakness like that, not wanting to give her opponents any edges if she could at all help it. At least at this point the repairs had already set in, so the worst of the pain had subdued already.

As Wintersong watched, the mutilating wounds on Nemesis' face and body began closing up and disappearing, not even leaving as much as a scar. Her deformed hand was regenerating as well, with the fingers appearing as soon as the glowing mist surrounding her hand and the lock faded away. As a result, the locking mechanism had almost disappeared, only leaving some rough edges to witness of the lock that was once there.

Nemesis' smile grew wider as she brought her hand up to her face, opening and closing her reformed hand a couple of times.

"Now then.. I think this show has lasted long enough.."

With those words she suddenly whirled around, placing a hard, well-aimed kick at the now unlocked door. As the door slammed open, she grabbed her firearms with the other hand and shot a couple of rounds at Wintersong.

[Wintersong]

As bad as the wounds looked Wintersong's eyes widened at seeing the wounds closing, disappearing as if there was nothing there. So that was nano technology? This wasn't going to be an easy win in the least or to keep her from getting something. "I thought that's where Predacons lived." She retorted before Nemisis faced her and she was prepared for the avian to attack only to watch with slight surprise when she kicked open what must have been a previous locked door. But the tigeress was still on the alert and leapt to the side as Nemisis fired, luckily avoiding the shots this time.

"Wintersong maximize!" With a growl Wintersong transformed, turning back to Nemisis with a snarl. "You won't get far slag heap!" Sprinting forward the tigeress had no choice but to try a straight forward attack and when close enough used the claws from the tips of her fingers to lash out at Nemisis then aiming a side kick towards her hip.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: I'm trying not to post too much so Venatrix and Blazemane have a chance to actually spar with their characters before this episode is over. Vhere are you, Ven?! ))

Approaching the Axalon, Optimus slowed down and stopped, catching his breath and listening quietly. Looking around from his location, he couldn't spot Wintersong or Nemesis. And Sentinel wasn't firing at anyone, which meant either some guns were taken out, the intruder was subdued, or she left. "Sentinel, disengage autoguns," he commanded the ship's computer. This would keep the shields up to protect the base but also keep any Maximals from accidentally getting stuck in Sentinel's crossfire in case it could target Nemesis again and start firing.

"Acknowledged," Sentinel responded, and all of the weapons deactivated.

After that, it wasn't long before Primal discovered where the tigeress and the Decepticon were. Hearing a door slam in the direction of the storage unit, the gorilla then heard Wintersong's voice.

"Wintersong maximize!" "You won't get far slag heap!"

"Come on!" Optimus told Frilla and hurried toward the small facility. She must be after Nightmist's body, but why? For what purpose? he thought. What could she do with those nanos? The leader stopped not too far from the entrance that had been broken into and said, "Optimus Primal, maximize," transforming into robot mode. Being in beast mode as long as he had had replenished much of the power to his energon dampers, so hopefully this encounter with Nemesis wouldn't last long. His vision was as much a mess as the side of his face from which Megatron had smashed earlier with his tail weapon. The damaged optic sensor was still cracked and very dim compared to his other brightly lit optic. It looked worse than it felt now, but it still compromised his eyesight. In any case, he was more concerned about Wintersong subjecting herself near Nightmist's hazardous body now that the containment unit was breached. Primal got there in time to see Wintersong attacking the female 'Con, and he noticed the sentury-gun that she must have obliterated. If Nemesis had acquired any damage from it, he couldn't see her injuries now. Tigatron was right; she would be very difficult for someone to stop her on their own. What is the weakness for someone like her?

"Nemesis!" Optimus called to her. For the moment, he appeared to be unarmed. He wanted to distract her from Wintersong and find out what she was doing there before indulging in another battle. However, that may have been too late with the female cat already attacking her.

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Well, hate to break it to you Feralnight. But You,Rattrap,and myself are sort of part of the heavy hitters in the Maximals. Least when it comes to firepower..which we all have ample amounts of.

"That's the answer I was lookin' for," Rattrap said, glancing at the penguin.

Hmm.. Probably going to be awhile until the CR tank is done repairing and analyzing Saberfang..

"I just hope she doesn't go bonkers in there, whatever Batsy injected her with," the rodent frowned.

Ah! I forgot! Not entirely sure I like the idea of giving this to Frilla like Glowstick requested. Maybe we should show it to Optimus if it's some sort of Predacon scheme..But then again if it was to relay hidden information.. why would he give it to me..?

Rattrap looked at the device in Icebreaker's hand and shrugged. "The Preds probably want Frilla dead for betrayin' them. It's probably some kinda trick, or a weapon disguised to look harmless. I don't trust it," he said, glaring at it. "No way would that squid try passin' on information to help us. It's probably a threat to our newest Pred-dition. Heh. Get it? Pred addition? Probably tryin' to convince her ta get information from us an' pass it to them 'if she values her life'," he mocked at the end. "Better let the Boss Monkey take a look at it before you give it ta Frilla."

[New Moon]

Frilla stopped, catching her breathe for a moment and looking around. Where were they? Or had Nemisis already gotten inside and Wintersong had followed? Yet the questions were answered when hearing a door sounded from nearby and the frilled lizard followed behind Optimus. "Frilla Maximize!" Transforming she came beside Primal, watching with dismay at seeing a fight already breaking out between the Decepticon turned Predacon and their teammate. "This can't end well."

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Feralnight only shrugged, "You have a point Icebreaker was just saying that's all. Most of the hard hitters for the Preds must be on the other missions." She said before looking at the device Icebreaker had, tilting her head. Why would Glowstick still be reaching out to a traitor to the Predacons? "Could be but as you two said may be best for Optimus to see it first, or all of us to see it at once. Even if Frilla says she changed sides it might just be a plan to get in close." She said.

[Venatrix]

((Hold your banana's monkey ))

Dinobot drew his sword, but left his shield stored away. It seemed better suited for keeping attackers and their assaults at bay, and if he was truly going to give Venatrix a fight, he would have to engage her.

Without another word, he took a step forward and swung his sword at the side of her which was opposite of the hand with which she held her front sword. This would force her to parry across her body with the front sword- and thus make the back sword useless for a moment- or to react very quickly and block with the back sword instead.

Of course for her, that would not be impossible.

Though she saw Dinobot's attack comming, she didn't expect it.
In a quick reflex, she twirled the blade in her right hand from the upperhand position into the reverse position and slammed it down against his sword's path, block it.
While doing this, she already had the blade in her laft hand and behind her back twirl into the upper position.
When blocking Dinobot his attack, she leaped up, twisted her body around, giving her the chance to use the blade in her left hand as an extention in a powerful downwards slash.
If Dinobot was a slow bot, he would've been cutt clean in half.
But she knew better.
She used the force from this attack to twirl a full 360 and ended up on her feet again with the blade in her right hand following the attack with her left with an equaly powerful downwards slash.


((OOC: No Waspy post yet? *sniff*))

[Night-Hunter]

((OOC: No Waspy post yet? *sniff*))

((OOC: Sorry about that, i've been kinda busy and been feeling a little under the weather. Last time I'm doing that.))

Waspinator knew that his shots had hit the bird and he smirked a little, but the grip on his back didn't loosen which caused his spark to sink with dread. He was fully aware that they were in a free fall and they were falling at an alarming speeds. He heard the sounds of transforming and figured that he could fight his way out of the brids grip, but that plan was soon torn apart when he felt the Maximal grab his wings, he knew that he could still at least try to escape but it would damage his wings if he tried.

It was hard to focus on what was going on as he continued to fall to earth, he narrowed his optics slightly when he saw some thing blue in against the tan earth. He quickly realized that the blue object in the tan, dusty ground was an energon geyser and they were heading straight for it! Unfortunately, he didn't have the strenght to put up much of a struggle, his fight with the Maximal Second in command had drained most of his energy.

He felt the claws leave his back, which meant the she had let go of him, but right now that didn't matter, he was defeated... again.

Why doezzz universe hate Wazzzpinator? What did Wazzpinator do to deserve this? He thought as the gesyer erupted.

White hot pain hit him like a fright train, luckily he was in stasis lock before he hit the ground, several feet beside the gesyer.

[NaitoKage]

Icebreaker nodded in agreement with the crew, he then put the device away. Well.. if Saberfang starts.. having unusual side effects, Rhinox warned me about some.. health issues of Saberfang and asked me to start carrying a magazine of some specialty made ammo..

He pulled out a blue colored magazine, then pulled one of the missiles out of it holding it up. At first it looked like one of Icebreaker's normal micro missiles, he then depressed a button as the missile transformed into a claw like state with a large needle sticking up from it, the side stablizers unfolded revealed a clear container with a glowing green fuild inside This tranqualizer missile is stronger then the stuff Nightmist was using, so I have to be careful how I administer it, but it's enough to take down Megatron in one hit in theory.. he then had the missile transform back to normal reloading it into the magazine and putting it away.

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Finishing with his exam of Starshadow's vitals, they seemed stable for now but she required work in the CR rank to be back to normal. He then unplugged the datapad and two cables from her torso closing her stomach. He rolled her onto her stomach and put her hands behind her back cuffing them with a pair of handcuffs, then bound her legs with restraints as well, then attempted reactivating her Well, lets see how your fairing..

[starshadow]

Starshadow's optics flickered, slowly glowing light blue like Glowstick's optics. "Ughh...did we just had energon party or-" she realised she was cuffed up. "HISSSSSSS!!! HOW DID I- GAHHH!! ....." she looked at Glowstick while struggling.

"WHY DID YOU REPAIR ME?! I'M BETTER OFF DEAD!!"

Cecaelia heard the cat's shouting and activated the autopilot mode. "Now now Missy, you should be appreciative if someone fix your body even he's reluctant to do it so quit having a bad temper and relax. We're going back to the...whatever base you're staying in." she said as she walked towards the table Starshadow was lying on.

"You know this isn't our war Cerulia-"

"Call me Cecaelia for err..now until this war or whatever you guys are in, is over."

"Okay...Cecaelia. As I said, this isn't our war so why are you involving yourself in it?"

"We don't have a choice, our supplies cannot last us for a year. I don't have any energon mining machine and this planet is as good as "Planet Death Trap. You almost got yourself killed there and Thanatos have to waste his time to save your aft. I'm not sure if this dirtball has any nasty little parasites running around and will uhh...eventually eat our circuits."

"Pfft..are you blind? This planet's local lifeforms are weaklings and just because Thanatos saved my aft doesn't mean I'm wasting his time. He just likes me because I look like the original Starshadow before. You're just jealous."

"SAY WHAT?! He didn't lay an optic on you in every big occassion, especially missions!!"

"Ooooh...Cece's jealous because she can't get Thanatos attention."

Cecaelia growled and slapped a hand on her forehead."Why are we even talking about this..? Look cat-face, join us or die of starvation.."

"I would just follow Zira's answer to every stupid question. NONE-OF-THE-ABOVE!"

"GRRRRRR YOUUUU!!!" the octopus femme just gave the feline a slap.

Starshadow chuckled with her optics glowing brightly. "LOOK TENTACLES, WHATEVER YOU SAY OR DO WILL NOT CHANGE MY SLAGGING MIND! YOU'LL BE A LIABILTY TO THE PREDACONS LIKE ME BECAUSE YOU'LL BE CLINGING TO YOUR SQUISHY FRIEND HERE THE WHOLE TIME! I SHOULD'VE LET YOU RUST IN YOUR STINKING BRIG!! I CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY ZIRA WOULD HIRE YOU! YOU CAN'T EVEN GET PROMOTED TO A HIGHER RANK OR DO SOMETHING RIGHT IN ANY MISSION BECAUSE YOU ARE ALWAYS CLINGING TO BOYS, BOYS AND MORE BOYS! YOU CAN JUST GIVE UP AND FOLLOW YOUR NEW GANG YOU SICKENING SLAGGING UGLY LITTLE SUNSHINE GIRL!!"

Cecaelia's optics widened, turning into dark blue with tears rolling down her cheeks, starting bawling.

Starshadow's gaze on her soften. As a leader, everything was her fault. It was her fault that she could not get Cecaelia back to Cybertron to see her only sister again. She sighed with her optics dimmed. The shorty is right..I can't get out of this planet without any help.. she thought then spoke, "fine..I'll stop being a selfish leader and continue my duties as Megatron's house cat...everything was my fault.."

Cecaelia stopped crying and screamed with joy hugging the silent Starshadow.

[Phoenix]

(ooc: Sorry if post seems messy.. Heading off to work, and was unable to post yesterday due to my baby shower.. Hope I am not stepping on anyone's toes, I just wanted to set something in motion here for later..)

As the Maximal tigress approached, Nemesis stepped to the side and whirled around to use her wing as a shield to deflect the attack against her hip. This move was followed with a knee kick to the midsection, now that the Maximal was within reach.

Through the corner of her optic she noticed two more Maximals approaching. One of them was Primal, whom appeared a bit roughed up, and the other, smaller one she recognized as the turncoat Predacon Frilla.

Yet her main concern was not the Maximals at all, and certainly not the body of the dead medic. After attempting the kick, Nemesis took a rapid step back and thus into the storage facility behind her. Her hopes had been that this unit would host a craft capable of space travel, or at least parts that would allow her the chance to leave this dustball of a planet. The Decepticon-turned-Predacon simply had no interest in the Maximal/Predacon war taking place here, nor did she especially care about the natives of this planet nor the energon here. She felt trapped in this new body and was longing to return to her former self.

"Always a pleasure, Primal," she called back to the Maximal commander, while keeping an eye on the movements of the tigress as well. "Love the new look!," she continued, acknowledging Primal's battle scars.

With that she took a glance around for any hidden treasures in the storage unit, only to find her hopes shatter as she stood there.

The room was not filled with anything that even resembled a space craft, or parts she could use to build one. Instead it merely contained some small storage units that looked like freezers, along with some fuel tanks and other useless equipment.

Realizing this was a futile cause, Nemesis decided to cut her losses and be on her way. Muttering under her breath, the avian female suddenly aimed her weapon at a console near some of the freezers and fired a series of shots at it. The console started sparkling before it burst into flames, and the overhead lights began to flicker before finally shorting out. Smoke rapidly filled the pitch black room as the fire continued towards the stored fuel tanks.

Content the Maximals would rather save their burning base rather than go after her, Nemesis decided to make a run for it.