"Aftermath: Part II - Resurrections"

[Phoenix]

Aurora watched through the grid as the battle between Whitegrazer and Umbra got more violent, cringing as her friend and mentor was slammed into the console and then through it. Unable to simply sit by and watch any longer, Aurora poured some of the chemical onto the arrowhead and took aim with her bow. This Umbra character was about to get a hefty dose of a tranquilizing agent, strong enough to knock out someone even larger than him.

She poked the arrow through the grid and released the firing mechanism, sending the arrow straight at Umbra's backside.

As soon as she had fired her weapon, she immediately opened the latch so that she could get out of the shaft.

"Whitegrazer!," she called out, running towards the other female in an attempt to get to the bomb so she could deactivate it.

Megatron grinned as the large Maximal got overwhelmed by the incoming fire from Tantrum as well as that produced by Megatron himself. Once they had eliminated this over-sized fool of a Maximal, the others would fall easily enough. They relied on the protection of this Orcariner, as he had chosen to call himself, so without him there would be nobody left to oppose them.

Yesss... This was indeed turning into a glorious event! With dawn fast approaching, the light of the new day would bring about the change Megatron craved and had been working towards. The elimination of those puny Maximals was at hand!

The tyrant prepared to fire his weapon again, gleefully so, aiming his large cannon directly at the Maximal's head. "Say hello to Optimus for me!," he called out triumphantly to Orcariner as he prepared to fire.

An incoming shot from his bovine minion landed way too close for comfort, disrupting Megatron's aim enough for the shot to stray to the left a bit, just enough to miss its intended target. Glowering at the incoming tank, Megatron felt obliged to yell at him again but thought the better of it as the war machine was approaching rapidly. Instead he decided to back up enough to get out of the way and allow his inane friend to finish the job.

[NaitoKage]

"Stay your hand. I just put the shields back online. The tremors I felt originated from the second half of the ship. If a stray missile had hit a vital system or the computer core, we could be drowning in water or drowning in flames. It would be dishonorable for both of us if either of us won not by our own power, but by stray gunfire and their resounding consequences. "

"I do apologize for not explaining myself first, but time I don't have a lot of."

Umbra raised his arm as the tentacle like fist opened I see.. However.. putting the shield up poses a problem for me in the long run..As you understand. his optics returned to their normal purple dim glow while his color scheme also returned to normal.

As he was about to rush forward for an attack, the eye on his right leg shifted as he noticed something fly through the air and hit him in the shoulder. He reached up pulling the crossbow bolt out as he looked at it, then dropped to one knee. It'd seemed he'd been poisoned. Though it would take a bit even with the huge amount in his system, due to the poor circulation a Octopus's body has, his own anatomy requiring 3 fuel pumps just to move energon around. He looked towards Aurora tending towards Whitegrazer, giving a slight smirk and laugh darkly A child on this pleasure cruise? Well.. it seems you've raised a fine assassin..she's managed to kill us both..But a child knows nothing of discipline nor honor.. so I will not hold this against you.. miss pony.

His vision started to blur as he tilted his head down activating his comlink Lady Cecaelia, it has been an honor being by your side..But my last selfish request is you retreat to regroup with the others..My pod is yours as.. pay..ment... the com then cut out as he fell to the floor with a soft thud.

Dark light flicked out of his optics as he went into stasis lock,the black and gold color scheme fading from his form to a more cream and dark brown striped scheme like a natural mimic octopus. His body started to deflate as his system relaxed, looking less like his original form and more like a giant blob on the floor.


00:00:45

(Happy birthday Darkspark.

Hm.. with the shields up.. Manterror and Cecaelia can't really get out.. Oh well. went in doubt.. shoot stuff!)

(Edit:oops, forgot the timer. )

[WorpeX]

((Sorry for the MASSIVE delay. I hate making you guys wait but i've been so darn busy lately...))



Airazor heard no response from the stranger outside of her prison. An unknown presence just made her situation even more terrifying. The thought had crossed her mind that the noise she heard was from the gunfire outside. That would explain the crash, yet, it didn't comfort her at all. She still felt as if someone was watching her... waiting to prey on her. Silence had fallen beyond the inoperative CR Chamber doors now. Dread washed over the falcon's body. Slowly, Airazor backed herself into the wall, as far away from the doors as possible. If something was coming for her, she had no intention of letting it get her.

Manterror's facial expression went from a smile to a huge grin as he stood in front of the CR Chamber. His blades ready to strike the pathetic maximal inside. He wanted to taunt the lowly life-form in front of him, but felt as if that would break the horror his opponent was feeling. Without warning, Manterror activated the blades under his massive claws and began to cut at the metal door which would soon serve as Airazor's coffin. A deafening scream of metal being shredded erupt from the destruction.

And then it stopped. Airazor's heart sunk as she saw the slice in the CR Chamber in front of her. It wasn't even close to being large enough for her to walk out through. It was only enough for her to see the outside... but her enemy had moved. He no longer was standing in front of slash he had just created. Silence again filled the Hanger but a faint linger of the loud buzzsaw still filled her mind as if it never stopped. It was torture. Airazor was clueless what to do. Instinctively, she activated the machine gun on her right arm and left it out. Ready to strike if she saw a target.

About to make a second swath in the metal, Manterror readied his claw... but a clang not far away from him broke his concentration. Without moving his weapon, he looked to the direction of the noise. He saw nothing. Perhaps it was nothing.

"Hey, Blades-for-brains! Eat dis!"

Or perhaps it was something. Caught completely off guard, the mantis took a blow on his left shoulder and roared in pain. His first thought was: Why this maximal not outside the base fighting Megatron!?. Coming to his sense again, the Mantis ducked the remainder of the shots and ran to safety behind a metal cart which was carrying canisters marked "highly flammable". "One filet of RAT coming right up!!" He said aloud. He grabbed two nearby canisters and skillfully threw them towards his attacker. "I'll take mine well done. HAHHAHAH!!!" As they neared their destination, he eyed up his shot and fired one of his spinning metal discs towards the first of the two canisters. If it hit, they explosion would ignite the both of them and set flames to the Hanger... and rattrap.

[New Moon]

((Sorry to keep you waiting Starshadow, I was waiting to see if Darkspark was going to post first for Terrorsaur's reaction with Feralnight but seeming as he's busy I can wait. Which by the way Happy belated Birthday Darkspark! And if I saw that right Happy Birthday to you Star! ))

"Whoa!"Frilla quickly jumped from one wall to the other, wincing as a few shots grazed her armor and one or two penetrating her side from Cecaelia's shots, although her complaining made the frilled lizard a little bemused. "Your obviously not very observant are you. It's not actual spit Cecaelia it's an acid that seems rather corrosive on armor which means you likely just lost a few layers of your so called pretty armor."Frilla stated in a matter-of-fact tone as she dropped from the wall while transforming and drawing one of her own newest weapons, which she was quite pleased with it being an Electro-scrambler knowing it could probably prove vital in future battles since a majority of their weapons would likely be affected by the electrical impulse it gave off. Man, wish I had had this from the beginning, Frilla thought to herself as she raised her weapon and fired a few shots towards Cecaelia really hoping it'd deter her from trying to attack again or take out some of her systems functions and her weapons.

[Wintersong]

Wintersong looked at Silverbolt thoughtfully, taking just a few brief moments to let his words sink in after he gave his name. It seemed for once her instincts were right unlike many other times, the fuzor was nothing like most of the Predacons and actually seemed genuine with what he said...until his last words made the tigress do a double take at Megatron's full intentions. A low growl escaped her at this,"That explains why he's going full out this time instead of retreating."She said darkly but perked up when hearing Dinobot's orders,"I'll activate mine in a few moments Dinobot."She replied over the coms before looking towards Silverbolt as he transformed and offered his help with getting to her teammates faster.

In all honesty Wintersong had never in her life flown or gotten a lift from a flier, but with a brief glance towards the battle field she decided it was better then risking her boosters or wasting the energy. With a nod she moved over and climbed onto Silverbolt's back, finding it a little odd to be given a ride from someone when she might usually be the one to give the ride to smaller members of the Maximals. "Silverbolt do you think you can get me to Orcarnier first? Right now he needs the help more then anything and I know it'll be risking your life with Megatron but we can't let him suffer either."She asked, hoping he would be willing to take the risk while she also tapped a place on her arm with the plating sliding back to reveal a small keypad and she typed a quick command to activate the mines. With that done she could only hold on and hope they wouldn't be too late.

[starshadow]

Cecaelia fell on the floor when she saw Frilla's shots and fired her gattling lasers at them but one of them hit her on the waist. She felt a surge of electricity trying to scramble her systems, making her shriek. This somewhat discouraged her from attacking again.

Lady Cecaelia, it has been an honor being by your side..But my last selfish request is you retreat to regroup with the others..My pod is yours as.. pay..ment...

"Umbra, what is going on there? I'm...a little busy." No response,

"Umbra?" Nothing. Nothing was louder than the silence of the comlink. Cecaelia glared at where Frilla was hiding and stood up, using the wall to support herself, "I'll be back...to turn you into a purse.."

She ran back to the bridge only to find out that he was defeated...by a crossbow bolt or rather a young child. Cecaelia picked up the bolt with a tentacle, breaking the middle section and tossed them back to the kid. "You will face death today even if it's not by my hands." Cecaelia's tentacles coiled around Umbra's and started dragging him out of the Axalon. She would expect a lot of yelling from Megatron.
((Well..it seems the princess gets to play Paladin. ))


Starshadow snarled when Saber bit her tail. Out of anger, she charged up aa high voltage of elwctricity through her tail. The pain she would feel will be much more than just a bearable sting. An idea popped in her mind. Since her energy would be wasted because of her tail, why not steal it from the ugly cat like a simple electrical circuit. Starshadow's fangs glowed brightly and sank into Saber's shoulders, draining her energy each second.

[DarkSpark]

OOC: Thanks for the Happy B-Day wishes guys, I really appreciate it

Sorry for the wait NewMoon, I was waiting for Una & Blackrose to post first, but I guess I can post for Terrorsaur now and post for Tarantulas later. Be warned, this is gonna be a bit convoluted since two maximals were firing on Terry at the same time...And granted I don't think Aerostriker should have been able to fire at Terry at all given what he was going through at the moment and the distance and what not, but meh. Also, what type of Fuzor is Feralnight btw? And does she and Terrorsaur have a long history of rivalry or anything like that? Just wanna know how he should react to her if they're bitter rivals or if she's just another random maximal to him.

Naitokage wrote: 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.

Terrorsaur ducked to the side as a sudden volley of laser fire went off ahead of him, quickly turning around to face whoever had dared to try and shoot a predacon in the back, again no less, and instead facing four micro missiles heading straight towards him!

"Nice try! But not good enough!" Terrorsaur yelled as he quickly destroyed all four micro missiles with his eye beams, blowing them out of the sky spectacularly, watching as the new maximal flyer went crashing down to earth.

"I'm gonna enjoy recycling that little cheapshot into a trophy for my wall when this is all...Oh what now?!" Terrorsaur groaned in frustration as he picked up a new maximal energy signature sneaking up behind him...Since when did maximals prowl around like, well, predacons?

NewMoon wrote: 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.

Terrorsaur eyes glowed with fury at being called a chicken, he was a pteranodon, not a chicken! How could anyone get the two confused?!

"This will be the LAST time you stain MY sky with your presence, maximal filth!" Terrorsaur spat back, firing his eye lasers to block Feralnight's cannon shots, before firing several shots from his own shoulder cannons, hoping she'd either be blown to bits by the missiles, or distracted by trying to avoid them, allowing him to move in for the kill.

He brandished his blades as he closed the distance between them, deciding that she would be the first maximal to die by his new weapons, swinging one downward towards her head while the other went for her torso, intending to gut her like a fish.

Una wrote:
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.

"You've found something of importance? What is it?" Tarantulas inquired, sensing Blackarachnia's excitement as he slipped into her head again to see her discovery for himself through her own eyes.

"Tell me what you've found" Tarantulas repeated, the task of evading enemy mines and communicating telepathically with his servant becoming more irritating by the minute.

Blackrose wrote:
Arachnitron covered her head as a land mine exploded behind them.

"The Maximals were expecting us," she pointed out as she resumed firing at the raptor. What other explanation could there be? As far as she knew there were no other life forms with these kinds of weapons. The Maximals had to have set them up in preparation of the Predacons' attacks.

Despite the impending doom, Tarantulas continued to sail through the mine field relying on his speed to get them past the mines. Arachnitron thought maybe they ought to just find someone else to play with, but she knew how important recovering that data was to Tarantulas. She continued to shoot her energon pistol at the Maximal without questioning Tarantulas' intentions. Though, she couldn't help but flinch every time a new mine was found and exploded just a few inches away from them.

Dinobot continued to race through the minefield, though he seemed a bit hesitant to do so. Could it be that the Maximals hadn't yet had the chance to inform each other of the location of the mines? The Preds must have shown up earlier than the Maximals anticipated.

Suddenly, Dinobot hit one of the mines, fell forwards, set off one of the other mines, and ended up trapped on all four sides by fallen debris.

It wasn't long before Dinobot began sending cannon blasts at them from somewhere inside the fallen rubble.......

Coming to a halt a safe distance before the fallen rubble Dinobot now used as cover, a number of smoking craters behind him from the mines he'd set off, Taratulas said to Arachnitron "Ride's over, get off. Tarantulas! TERRORIZE!"

Transforming into his transmetal robot mode in battle for the first time, Tarantulas wasted no time showing off, instead opting to fire his newly acquired cluster bombs from his shoulders, the projectiles dancing through the sky like fireworks before crashing down upon their target, Dinobot's hiding place!

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Tarantulas sang, his inner serial killer seeping through as he watched for signs of Dinobot, his intention being to bury him alive or flush him out of hiding.



OOC: Hope this post is okay Newmoon, I'm unaware of Feralnight's weapons or her connection to Terrorsaur, so if I handled anything wrong or if you'd rather they fight farther apart let me know.

[NaitoKage]

( Terrorsaur doesn't really have much history with Feralnight other then a few battles as she is a main flier of the maximals, but I believe Terrorsaur was present went Glowstick captured her when she went to the Predacons earlier to join, which Glowstick put that bug/virus in her. Feralnight's notability however is she is one of the first fuzors in the game, a wolfraven fuzor. She has predacon origins, though none of the maximals or living predacons know about this, and is fairly well armed with two shoulder cannons I'm assuming quazar/plasma type, and some feather daggers.. like miniature version of Silverbolt's Feather rockets. She's similar in design to Silverbolt but different colors, different head, more weapons, and smaller. Her firepower is a bit lower then Terrorsaurs, and her speed, but her skill is on par with him and has extremely high courage.

Profile link for more info. Feralnight scroll to the second part, she posted both profiles at the same time.

Star:*LOL* I only refered to certain characters as Paladins because of how their characters are built. Though Ironclaw is far from the personality type of one, he's basically a tank with healer capabilities, like Orcariner. But if Cece wants to be the knight that rescues her dark prince, no problem! )

[Blackrosefencer]

OOC: Sorry for the hold up....I am dog-sitting for my aunt while she is on vacation and she left earlier than expected. So instead of posting in my spare time, I've been working on getting some stuff to my aunt's house to stay there while she is gone. And I am on day 7 of 8 straight days working without a day off....so it's been a little crazy....

BIC:

Cheetor just barely dodged the first of the rockets that Inferno sent in his direction. The next volley the red ant sent off towards the Maximal zoomed underneath him thanks to the cat flying higher to avoid the shots. This didn't deter Inferno in the least. He laughed in delight and then laughed louder as Cheetor raced off. Inferno loved a challenge! And what a challenge this was proving to be!

On the ground, the cheetah was the faster bot, that was for sure. Probably in the sky too, but if he thought he was fast enough to lose Inferno completely, he had another thing coming. Inferno may not be able to out run the cat (so to speak), but he'd definitely be able to keep up.

Cheetor sped away at top speed. Inferno sailed after him matching his every move. If Cheetor dipped down towards the ground, then Inferno dipped down towards the ground....if Cheetor sailed upwards towards the clouds, Inferno did the same. Though, Inferno was several feet behind the Maximal, he was close enough to do the one thing the cat could not: Shoot.

"HAHAHA! You are learning well, but you can't run forever, feline! There are some things that are even faster than you and they tend to catch up to what they are chasing!"

With that he fired two more well-aimed shots at the cheetah, but this time he aimed the second rocket lower than the first. If Cheetor dodged the first, he'd most surely get hit by the second. But even if he did manage to dodge the second shot, then that was okay too. After all, Inferno hated a quick victory. He enjoyed a long battle and this one was turning out to be so much more fun than the Royalty had promised!

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"Hhhmmm, its unlike him not to face his enemies directly, tact and guile was never his strong suit, he always insisted on fighting with honor and other such nonsense...Megatron was a fool for recruiting such a bot into his otherwise criminal fold. So either he's running low on power, is preoccupied with something else, or..." Tarantulas began to say as a patch of earth he'd just driven over erupted like a mini volcano going off.

"He's aware of the landmines planted within this area!"

Arachnitron covered her head as a land mine exploded behind them.

"The Maximals were expecting us," she pointed out as she resumed firing at the raptor. What other explanation could there be? As far as she knew there were no other life forms with these kinds of weapons. The Maximals had to have set them up in preparation of the Predacons' attacks.

Despite the impending doom, Tarantulas continued to sail through the mine field relying on his speed to get them past the mines. Arachnitron thought maybe they ought to just find someone else to play with, but she knew how important recovering that data was to Tarantulas. She continued to shoot her energon pistol at the Maximal without questioning Tarantulas' intentions. Though, she couldn't help but flinch every time a new mine was found and exploded just a few inches away from them.

Dinobot continued to race through the minefield, though he seemed a bit hesitant to do so. Could it be that the Maximals hadn't yet had the chance to inform each other of the location of the mines? The Preds must have shown up earlier than the Maximals anticipated.

Suddenly, Dinobot hit one of the mines, fell forwards, set off one of the other mines, and ended up trapped on all four sides by fallen debris.

It wasn't long before Dinobot began sending cannon blasts at them from somewhere inside the fallen rubble.......

[NaitoKage]

( Er.. I think it depends on just how fast Terrorsaur's current lasers work. Are they like his old lasers which fired similar to Dinobots, or do they fire more rapidly like Aerostriker's which are more.. comparable to a machine gun? I assume it'd be possible to counter one of the shots, though considering Terrorsaur already seems to be making himself go crosseyed to take out all these missiles, maybe possible to counter both.

As for Maximals with missile usage.. Here's the list offhand. Wintersong, Tigatron, and Aerostriker use missiles. Though guidance is unknown on Wintersong or Tigatrons. Silverbolt has rockets. Airazor seems to use darts or bolts as her main projectile. Only other Maximals that can projectile attack during flight are Aurora who uses a crossbow and tazer, and Frilla who spits acid and only able to glide in her beast mode. Optimus and Orcariner seem to be strictly melee in flight. )

[Phoenix]

(ooc: I'm just waiting for Alak and Una to reply. Unfortunately I work this weekend, my 4th weekend in a row, so I figured I'd even out the odds a bit as the Predacons have suffered greater losses than the Maximals thus far. The Maxis are supposed to be overwhelmed when the time comes for Oppy to return to kick tails after all. )

The surface of the water remained as vibrant as ever, easily hiding the fate of the two now submerged combatants who had impacted a few moments before. One of them had already gone offline, whereas the other one was getting close to that point as well.

Nemesis lay wedged between some rocks, looking strangely peaceful despite her battered frame. Her body was covered in wounds throughout, armor pieces missing, what remained was bent and scorched from the battle that raged, and she seemed blissfully unaware of her surroundings and the battle that was about to break out.. from within.

Dying held a certain uneasy tranquility about it. The once-Decepticon warrior had been been at this point before, back in a time when a battle in space had rendered her damaged and her systems inoperable to the point of death. She felt no fear, the pain numbed to the point of non-existence, and the world around her seemed more like a haze or a dream than anything else.

And yet it was at this point, when her body could no longer take the abuse that had been exerted on it and she was simply ready to let go of it all, that her internal mechanisms took over. The nanotechnology within her, functioning as a single unity with self-preservation as their main goal, started coming back to their normal functioning state. It started with but a few, swiftly multiplying as they began an internal repair on each other and then their host, their core programming assuring the survival of the host to benefit their own colony.

Within a few short moments, Nemesis' fiery red optics flickered back to life and she gasped as the overwhelming sensation of pain flooded her senses. Feeling the intense hunger for fuel for her nanites to finish the repairs, she wiggled herself free from her resting spot and eyed the nearby body of her opponent. Her wounds all shimmered blue, engulfing the female in a blue aura as she moved, if shakily, over to the fallen warrior. Her hunger was simply too strong to resist. She reached out and grabbed her foe's still form, allowing the shimmering blue light to transfer over for a few moments as her nanites fed on as much as they required to finish her own repairs.

Then she let him go, watching in disdain as the remains sank to the bottom. Through a hole in her foe's chest she could see the spark still glowing, if a little thready and weaker than normal. It would terminate on its own shortly. Nemesis let the Maximal be, assured he was in no condition to survive the ordeal before anyone could get to him, and swam to the surface. Once she was back on solid ground, she shook the water out of her feathers and looked up at the Maximal base where the battle was still raging. The last few repairs were finishing up, leaving her looking like she had just been assembled once again. Her nanites certainly did a thorough job, for better and for worse. Shaking her head, Nemesis ignited her thrusters and took to the air, heading towards Terrorsaur.

[NaitoKage]

( Man, Aerostriker has to have one of the worse days of coming out of a stasis pod ever. Two battles, and he ends up Nemesis food. And OOP wondered why I wanted a drone battle computer.. To pick up the body. *LOL* Maybe Aerostriker has Icebreaker's badluck.. )

After crashing into the water, the impact had knocked the small Targetmaster offline. Sinking to the bottom, the creature's internal systems started to recalibrate. His systems rebooted causing him to awaken, looking over the underwater environment. Unlike a regular cybertronian, water didn't bother Stag, he didn't breath for organic components, he didn't contain a spark either, though this didn't matter to him, even though he had a will, he still only followed his programming and directives.

Directive one. Analyze the situation to deal with the problems at hand with current information.

Stag looked around with his optics and thermal sensor. Since he was underwater, radar was useless as water absorbed and interfered with radio waves so easily. Internally his structural integrity had been compromised slightly, as he detected damage to his Electron beam rifle. He also appeared to still be clutched in Aerostriker's now dismembered arm, and impaled to the arm through the beam rifle and storage path of the weapon by a primitive looking weapon.

As he observed the situation, he noticed Nemesis as she seemed to glow a unusual blue, thermal activity having risen around her. With his current situation, he was unable to fire or attack her, so he simply observed while not raising her suspicion. Zooming in, he noticed the strange blue glow seemed to be consuming Aerostriker's damaged form at a surprising and horrifying rate, even to the artificial intelligence. Then after she had finished her repairs and "feeding", took off out of the river leaving skeletal remains.


With his chance to move, Stag deployed his manipulator cable, having it wrap around the grip of the Sai and slowly pull it out. A very small burst was then heard as a explosive bolt went off on his body, causing the beam rifle upper receiver and barrel to disconnect from Stag's body. Transforming to his beast mode, he rolled along the river bottom towards the remains of his partner. His mandibles clicked together, seeming almost frustrated at the scene. As he came to a stop, he analyzed the remains of Aerostriker. Over 70% of his body had been damaged or destroyed, at the moment all he had were some parts of the upper torso,half a head, parts of an arm.

Prognosis.. bleak.. he spoke aloud, though no one was around to hear. After finishing his scan, he noticed traces of Positrons detected in the water. Aerostriker's spark was still functional? It must of been from pure will of it's own.

Directive two.. Protect life when possible.
His mandibles latched onto Aerostriker's chest cavity and lifted it up, his wing shell fluttered slightly under the water, then opened as his energon rocket thrusters came online.

Rising up from the water's surface, Stag hovered looking over the area, and reconnected to Beacon 2.0 for an update on enemy and ally positions. It was lucky the Maximals had such a capability, as the awareness easily allowed Stag to map out a course to avoid detection. Then made his way towards the Axalon. He had little time to stabilize Aerostriker's condition, and somehow figure out how to push back the Predacon invasion with the current resources at hand.

[una]

I see.. However.. putting the shield up poses a problem for me in the long run..As you understand. his optics returned to their normal purple dim glow while his color scheme also returned to normal. As he was about to rush forward for an attack, the eye on his right leg shifted as he noticed something fly through the air and hit him in the shoulder.

He reached up pulling the crossbow bolt out as he looked at it, then dropped to one knee. It'd seemed he'd been poisoned. Though it would take a bit even with the huge amount in his system, due to the poor circulation a Octopus's body has, his own anatomy requiring 3 fuel pumps just to move energon around.

Whitegrazer understood, but it at least gave them enough time to finish their fight and see who would win. She braced herself for an attack when his dash slowed and he became loose, "Umbra?" She asked in concern. Was he exhausted?

"Whitegrazer!,"

Running towards her was her student with her crossbow, "Aurora?" How long had she been there? Was she watching the fight, waiting for the opportunity to strike him? She must have been and she got that chance when he was too busy smashing her face into the console. Part of her was proud of the move Aurora did. The other was disappointed that her fight with Umbra was cut short. Also, she wanted to give Umbra the chance to undo what he had done.

He looked towards Aurora tending towards Whitegrazer, giving a slight smirk and laugh darkly A child on this pleasure cruise? Well.. it seems you've raised a fine assassin..she's managed to kill us both..But a child knows nothing of discipline nor honor.. so I will not hold this against you.. miss pony.

"There would be another time for our duel and maybe then, you will know my name." She smiled at him before he soon went unconscious. She looked at Aurora still keeping that warm, tender smile, "Great shot. Rattrap would be proud." Rhinox could disarm the bmb if Aurora couldn't, but she had faith that Aurora could. There was still time. Not much, though. "I wonder if Rhinox and Tigatron are okay."

Cececila came inside and seemed hurt by Umbra's status, threatening Aurora. "Easy. Umbra would be all right after awhile." She reassured the Predacon as she started dragging Umbra, but she held up her hand, "Wait, the shields are up. And with the console broke... Wait, Rhinox set it to response to us. Of course, opening it now with so much happening outside might be a problem." The Predacons were close to the Maximal Base, too close. Any Predacon make take an advantage of such an opening. She couldn't allow anyone else to enter inside.

"Cececila, you may remain here with us until we can get the access to allow you outside. I promise you wouldn't be harmed unless you attack us or our comrades in any way then we will have no choice but to defend ourselves." She hoped Cececila would take her proposal, "It's your choice."
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((OOC: It's okay, Darkspark. It was easy to look over with so much happening. ))

"You've found something of importance? What is it?" Tarantulas inquired, sensing Blackarachnia's excitement as he slipped into her head again to see her discovery for himself through her own eyes.

He crawled into her skull, searching. She shook her head in defiance. No matter what consequence, she couldn't allow him to see what she saw. The information was too valuable: with the Ark's codes, she could defeat every Maximal and Predacon who would dare cross her. Maybe even find a way to get off Earth. If Tarantulas knew about it, he would try and take it! And she couldn't let his slimy hands get it. He would destroy her and everyone else. Those images she saw in her mind. Though she couldn't comprehend it, her feelings as they flashed was something unnerving. Something she wished she didn't want to know.

"Tell me what you've found"

"No!"

She held her head, closing her optics. Wasn't Tarantulas in the middle of a battle? She hoped something would shut him up.

[Alak]

Orcariner blinked a few more times to clear his blurred vision as something in front of him appeared to have a purple glow. His auditory receptors were still ringing, but he thought he recognized Megatron's voice, albeit muffled. Activating his energy shield, the giant raised his left arm hoping it would be sufficient enough to soak whatever was being fired in his direction. To his surprise, however, nothing actually hit him. Instead, whatever Megatron had send his way actually struck the ground at his side, kicking up a cloud of dirt while swaying Orcariner's massive body.

I guess the regression to the mean just put luck back on my side...

His vision now becoming clear again, as well as his other senses, Orcariner looked ahead to find Tantrum barreling down towards him in his tank form. It appeared that the Predacon opted out of using his immense firepower in exchange for using physical force. The last time they fought head to head, the orca was able to stop Tantrum in his tracks. This time, however, he was injured and it was doubtful that his strength would be on par with his opponent's. His mind raced to find ways to counter the Predacon's approach. He knew he was much faster than Tantrum would ever hope to be. Yet, if he chose to run, then Megatron would still pose a threat due to his fusion cannon. This was the epitome of being stuck between a rock and a hard place, with Orcariner being forced to choose how he would die.

However, his attention was quickly turned elsewhere as his scanners brought something to his attention. Aerostriker was down and severely damaged. Orcariner's instinctive will for survival was immediately overcome by his will to protect others. He needed to get the Maximal flyer back to base or at least a safer location than the middle of the battlefield. Igniting his thrusters to maximum, Orcariner kicked off the ground and out of Tantrums path as he headed straight towards Aerostriker's coordinates. He knew he was giving Megatron and the other Predacons a clear line of fire, but if he could help a friend survive, then it would all be worth it. After all, Aerostriker saved his life earlier that day. It was only right to return the favor.

He caught a glimpse of an airborne body that appeared to be dripping with water. It seemed that Stag was carrying his host back to base. Unfortunately, most transformers were not designed to survive being immersed in water, especially when already battle damaged. The little guy was doing the best he could, but given the minimal speed, there was little hope that he could help Aerostriker get back to the Axalon on time without getting shot out of the sky.

"Hang in there Stag, I'm coming," he radioed.

Assuming I don't get shot down myself.

[Night-Hunter]

The Beast let out a startled yowl as a painful electrical current surged through its body. It went to release Starshadow's tail, when it felt fangs sink into its shoulder again. Growling, the creature lifted a huge paw and swatted the smaller cat in the face until she let. Once she let go, the creature grabbed one of her legs in its mouth and flung her towards the cliff.

That energy drain had weakened the creature, making it disorientated and in doing so, made it unpredictable and even more dangerous.