"Aftermath: Part II - Resurrections"

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: Well played, DarkSpark. Well played. XD And Terrorsaur will be number one on Primal's come-back hitlist. ))

[DarkSpark]

(( OOC: Well played, DarkSpark. Well played. XD And Terrorsaur will be number one on Primal's come-back hitlist. ))

OOC: Thank you , I actually look forward to that , Optimus' season 1 aerial battles with the flyers were always fun, and I admit the kid in me is eagerly looking forward to that crowning moment of awesome when Primal emerges from the base, shocks the beaten maximals, scares the preds shitless, and then proceeds to kick so much ass the only way it could get any cooler is if you turned it into a music video

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: Trust me, DarkSpark, I can't wait to play Primal again and bring him back to life. It'll be fun. I plan on revealing him like they did on the show, and injuing some of the Preds right off the bat. After that might be a bit different.

WorpeX, I just realized that I had Rattrap scurry through the hangar when he probably should've noticed the hole and Manterror being in there. My bad. Should I edit my post and have him engage Manterror? ))

[Phoenix]

Nemesis' engines roared as her afterburners set in once she was close enough to be confident her enemy would not have time to react, much less get out of the way in time, increasing her speed at a rapid rate. Her foe had not yet moved from his hiding spot, still hovering above the clouds as if clueless of his swiftly pending doom. Albeit something seemed a bit off, enough so to catch her attention. For an ever so brief moment she noticed a slight movement of the Maximal's weapon system, a turning motion to aim the weapon at its target.

Her.

Well, wasn't that just prime.. (hah!)

The Decepticon-turned-Predacon was moving much too quickly to successfully avoid impact at this point, forcing her to rethink her strategy in the very short time frame she had available to her. She made a sharp tilt sideways, converting back to robot form as she did in an attempt to slow down her speed enough to avoid the incoming fire. Her speed decreased rapidly as she threw out her wings in an attempt to slow down, and for a moment it looked as if her desperate plan was going to succeed.

Less than a second later the sharp burning pain that swept across her chest and abdomen proved her wrong. Nemesis screamed in agony and fury as the powerful beam sliced into her armor, tearing into layer upon layer of metal and melting it away in a straight line before the beam moved past her. Some smoldering pieces of the armor separated from the rest, falling to the ground, as the owner struggled to maintain her flight capabilities.

For a moment everything seemed eerily quiet, the mere shock of this sudden change of events and the horrific pain almost numbing her to the point of paralysis. A large gash appeared in her armor now, if the beam had been allowed to continue it could have sliced her in half. Only the sound of the female's thrusters coughing a few times broke the silence, bringing her out of her state of shock and snapping her back into reality.

Her optics flashed in hatred as she eyed her foe, her system diagnostics warning her of an imminent shut-down which would certainly mean doom if falling from this height.

Well.. she was certainly not planning to go down alone!

Using what little power remained before the entire system failed, the female grabbed her sai in her hand and diverted as much energy as she could into the thrusters. She could see that her opponent was already damaged, but she had no intention of risking him getting out of this confrontation alive. Forcing her thruster speed up to maximum, she angled herself straight for her foe. The impact came quick and painfully, her spontaneous reaction being to wrap her limbs around the male to avoid him getting free. Upon impact her sai penetrated the metal of his weapon system before sinking into the avian Maximal himself, Nemesis using as much strength as she could muster to force the sharp weapon as deep as it would go. Still holding onto the weapon, she then snarled at the Maximal as they went into a spiraling plunge towards the ground below.

"I hope you said your prayers, Maximal, because nothing will save you from damnation now!"


(ooc: Just waiting for Alak so I can respond with Megs)

[Wintersong]

((Making a quick response for Warwulf since it may be a few days before I can post again. Blaming my summer course for that one. ))

When hearing someone land beside her Wintersong turned her gaze towards Silverbolt, tensing slightly as she didn't know what to expect from him now. Would he finish her while she was still trying to get her wit about her? Much to her disbelief he was actually asking if she was alright! "I'm a little shaken but I'll be alright,"She answered him with obvious disbelief in her expression before she transformed with being in a partial crouch before taking his hand as she stood. "You know you got to be the most indecisive Predacon I've ever come across wolf, but least your not crazy like the rest of your comrades."Wintersong said, at the moment seeing no immediate danger as she relaxed, but only just slightly as even this could be a trick and not realizing the mech was actually not so keen with what Megatron had planned for the Maximals. "Don't suppose you have a name do you? The names Wintersong, just in case you know...we don't meet again after this."Wintersong at least could be a little courteous to the fuzor, considering she might not learn his name later. And who knew, maybe he wasn't as bad as she really thought.

Although her attentions turned towards the fact things were getting bad once again and she was too far away to give aid to Orcanier in time, which frustrated her to no end. But she also had to probably deal with this indecisive, or what appeared to be indecision, fuzor in front of her.

((EDIT:Or in the next few days New Moon will return, if it's not too late.))

[NaitoKage]

"Why do you hide yourself?"

Considering you conceal your name.. I could ask the same of you. he responded turning back and to the left as he watched her, he then moved forward slightly as suddenly his fist went forward in a fast three knuckle punch towards her stomach while four tentacles projected out at her with curled ends for blunt strikes, almost like being punched at by five arms at once.

As he was about to pull back to repeat the chain of attacks, the bridge started to shake violently from Terrorsaur's bombardment, Umbra let out a sigh I'm not sure if I should be happy that idiot is doing his job right, or annoyed that he still manages to get in the way.. he muttered to himself.

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Aerostriker was caught by surprise as he was attacked by the heavily injured Nemesis, even worse she was now putting him on a death spiral. A spray of sparks coming out of his arm and Stag's lower back as they fell.

"I hope you said your prayers, Maximal, because nothing will save you from damnation now!"

Aerostriker coughed a laugh I already ride with a devil,so there's no hope for either of us. Right? he grabbed onto Nemesis with his damaged left arm as Stag spoke up A-a-a-firm-ative-tive the drone responded in a mechanical stutter.

Aerostriker's back thruster and leg raised their output working with his body flaps to alter and take them out of a spiral, but they were still going down aiming towards the river bellow. It at least gave a few seconds of extra time.

He looked upward as his head guns aimed out towards Terrorsaur, while Stag locked onto Terrorsaur with the four remaining micro missiles, then fired all four in a swarm. As they closed in towards Terrorsaur,he fired a rapid spray of laser fire slightly just in front of Terrorsaur to stop and startle him,or even possibly lead him into the missile swarm. The shots soon cut off hitting the cliff wall as they fell closer towards the water.

On impact, a violent explosion could be heard, Aerostriker's system went to stasis lock with pieces of himself scattered about the shore and river bottom.

[DarkSpark]

OOC: Naitokage, does Aerostriker really have time to be targeting Terrorsaur while struggling for his life against Nemesis and a plummet to the ground? Also, I figured the battle between Aerostriker and Nemesis is taking place some distance away from where Terrorsaur is at this point since they went off flying in a different direction from Terry and his battle with Rattrap (Terry is flying towards the Axalon at the moment)

[NaitoKage]

( Considering they were falling from cloud level and Aerostriker went straight up above the battlefield instead of away and on his fall was using his remaining thrusters to control and alter the fall, probably does have a good amount of time to extend the fall which was furthered by going over the waterfall and river.

Also, Stag does improve Aerostriker's combat performance by alot to further account for such an action, which is why Aerostriker's skill stat is so high, and also why he lasted so long even against all the fliers he was fighting. Otherwise he would of gone down when Terrorsaur swung his swords at him. )

[starshadow]

Starshadow noticed the change in Saber's appearance... again. If that was what she wanted to use as a last resort, she would make sure that she would send her back to the Matrix for good. Although Starshadow loves fighting dirty a lot, this battle have to fair since both of them are bringing out their full strength, a battle to their deaths. Transforming back to her beast mode, Starshadow let out a snarl and lunged at The Beast, biting her shoulder.

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Cecaelia was slowly walking, being catious at the same time. So far, no one was around except those three Maximals with Umbra. "Cecaelia to Umbra", she radioed him, "I don't think there are any Maximals around other than the ones you're with now." she let out a sigh and scratched at the back of her head.

(Writer's block...Ughhhh...)

[Blazemane]

Steelclaw stopped trying to fire at Orcariner after his own laser fire bounced back at and almost hit him. His optics shut off for a moment in reaction to the sudden explosion of Tantrum's rounds against the shield, and he guarded his face with an arm, rather unnecessarily. Then he waited, silent and still, ready to turn his weapon back the instant Orcariner's defenses were lowered. But in the mean time, as much as he wouldn't want to admit it to anyone else, he found himself fascinated by the look of the impressive force field.

While he waited, as if out of nowhere, a dagger suddenly buried itself deeply into his side, and he grunted in surprise. Turning swiftly to his left, he found Silverstreak some distance away, and realized he had heard her shouting something at him and his allies just before he got hit. So much for situational awareness...

Steelclaw pulled the throwing knife out of himself and then brought the barrel of his minigun to face Silverstreak directly. "Thank you for the blade, miss," he said with a smile. "You won't mind terribly if I keep it, will you?" Then, without giving himself the chance to hear her replies, he opened fire.

((OOC: I will try to post for Cheetor and Dinobot tomorrow. To answer you, DarkSpark, I think... I have no clue how many mines Cheetor and Dinobot put down, and I really have no clue how many were put down by other characters. We're just winging it. Also, I think they have to be activated first to pose any risk to anyone, but I think the whole process of setting them might have gotten a bit convoluted, and anyways, the fact that you had one go off with Tarantulas can totally be explained by something I'm planning with Cheetor. I would post, but, it's incredibly late now, and I have tons of stuff to do tomorrow, and to do some it earlier than I would prefer to be awake, and... good night all.))

[Night-Hunter]

The creature snarled as Starshadow sank her teeth into its shoulder, its eyes flashed. Then quicker then Starshadow could blink, latched onto what appeared to be the other cat's scruff and gave her a good shake before tossing her aside like a piece of meat. The creature was going to enjoy ripping the runt apart, as well as anything else that was foolish enough to cross its path!

[una]

Considering you conceal your name.. I could ask the same of you. he responded turning back and to the left as he watched her, he then moved forward slightly as suddenly his fist went forward in a fast three knuckle punch towards her stomach while four tentacles projected out at her with curled ends for blunt strikes, almost like being punched at by five arms at once.

As he was about to pull back to repeat the chain of attacks, the bridge started to shake violently from Terrorsaur's bombardment, Umbra let out a sigh I'm not sure if I should be happy that idiot is doing his job right, or annoyed that he still manages to get in the way.. he muttered to himself.

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She opened her optics, stepped out of the line of the punch(which also put her out of the attacks of his tentacles), trapped his hand with her left hand, bringing up his hand and inside in a lock, stepped right back in the center to turn his torso facing the ground with her hand holding down his shoulder and the other had a firm grip on his wrist. It was a technique Diffusion practitioners used this to render their attackers unable to attack, but Umbra had more arms than she did. Her guard couldn't be down for even second and seconds is all she had. The base was shaking from a blunt attack, probably a missile type of attack. She needed to get the shields back online, but not before Umbra was defeated.

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"Quickly! See if any of the data can be recovered"

What do you think I'm doing, gruesome?

The green screen was full of zeros and ones. Many files she had encrypted were useless, but she realized that the files were very recent. There must have been earlier tracks she hadn't seen yet. She scanned the files again, passing those she had examined over and over again until she came to a file locked with heavy security. She smirked as she clicked on it and hacked through the firewalls and traps. This had to be it. It had to be.

As she typed the last algorithm, the image of the Golden Disk and immediately, she let out a surprise at what she had saw. This was..this couldn't be real. But it was.

"So the legends are true..." her thoughts were wild and she couldn't help but laugh.

[Mystrea]

(I'm going to have Ironclaw come back when Optimus does. Me and OOP have also disscussed that it would be a nice character clashing thing for Ironclaw to partially save the day. I think (I may be wrong) that Optimus is pretty much going out side straight away to do his thing, while Ironclaw can take care of what's going on within the Axalon. Now I know that some people have plans, mainly NK and Whitegrazer. So if Ironclaw could intervene some how and have his heroic/op moment. Can people oblige just this one time plz? Would be most appreciated.

Not so much of a surprise anymore. )

[New Moon]

((Hope this post will be alright with getting back into the game, if not I'll gladly edit. ))

Frilla was quite shocked at how quickly the Predacons had converged onto the Axalon and now it seemed everyone from both sides were having to fight to survive, primarily the Maximals. At the time Frilla had found herself doing more work on the shield she planned to try and make while also trying to crack any of the information she had on the Vok, the very ones who tried to destroy them but failed and unfortunately she was also failing to make any sort of progress on the symbols. They were nothing of Cybertronian origin , no symbols she was familiar with which made it quite difficult to know more about them. Though it was quite obvious they were intelligent life forms who seemed to hold a great love for experimentation and a great dislike for Cybertronians now, not to mention they seemed to have a vast knowledge on the transformers which made Frilla wonder if they had come across them before.

Another matter though was the frilled lizard had found herself a little uncertain of joining the fight, still being somewhat of the cowardly type and really meeting an end to her life if she ever came across Megatron. For now she was moving along the walls, using her now sharply curved claws to hold onto the metal sides of the ship, grunting as it shook from the attacks it took each time. "Ugh, why do I have a feeling this won't end well."She muttered as she moved, carefully moving about the halls since she could hear what sounded like voices from the bridge. Much to her surprise however she heard someone just ahead, it seemed familiar but no one from the Maximals for certain. Moving further ahead the source of the voice turned out to be Starshadow's friend, or possibly just a lacky, Cecaelia. "Hey octo-girl, looks like you have a little something on your armor there, maybe a little 'spit' shine will help."Frilla said as she came into sight before she spat some acid like she would have originally with the ink towards the octopus femme when she was close enough knowing it would sting and melt through a layer or two of armor.

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Meanwhile another certain fuzor had also been absent so far, having comeback early from her mission to give a bit more help at the base before having accidently fallen asleep earlier. Not that it lasted long as the ship had been shaking so much Feralnight had been on her feet, realizing the Axalon was under attack by none other then the Predacons but she had stopped to make a quick modification to her arsenal, losing her laser gun to replace it with a secondary shoulder cannon on her right shoulder instead of just the left. Now in beast mode the female fuzor worked her way to the back of the Axalon and to the hanger, ears going back when she heard Terrorsaur's missiles going off making her growl a little with being so late into the fight. "Man, Primal would have my hide for this one if he was here."She sighed,"Better late then never."She muttered before she ran from the hanger and spread her wings taking flight.

Even with his new upgrade Terrorsaur wasn't hard to miss and Feralnight had every intention of making sure to take him down or fend him away from the ship. "Well, well if it isn't the big shiny metal chicken, been a while since I ran into you!"She called out as she transformed in mid-flight followed by her shoulder cannons popping up, firing at the now transmetaled Terrorsaur.

[Alak]

The countdown was approaching zero, and Orcariner was still limited on his options. Megatron had his cannon trained on the giant as did Steelclaw. He had no doubt that Tantrum would also open fire without hesitation as soon as the bright, impenetrable dome dissipated. Orcariner's new armor was strong, but even he doubted that he could withstand of the combined firepower of the Predacons' three most powerful gunmen. Something then caught his attention. Steelclaw had turned around and proceeded to engage another target.

Thank Primus.

The Maximal's headset began to emit a series of alarming beeps as Tantrum fired yet another volley at the shield. Since the first barrage was rather danger close to the other two Predacons, Orcariner figured that he could use this second shot to his advantage. The cow had never bothered to change his firing trajectory, so the orca might have a chance to escape his predicament while his other assailants were too busy taking cover from the bombardment. As his shield began to collapse, Orcariner redirected all power to his thrusters. It was going to be rather close.

The sentry's body propelled upward just as Tantrum's shots struck the spot where he was just standing. The explosion was rather immense, sending a shockwave that knocked the airborne Maximal off balance. Not having the chance to gain much altitude whatsoever, Orcariner felt himself flail through the air as he crashed back down several meters away from where he was before.