"Tangled Webs & Muddle"

[una]

Sugarbot!! Are you okay?!" "Here,let me take some of that thar load off for you little lady."

Her little two front legs hugged together as she let her eyes flutter at the fuzor, "Oh! I'm all right now!" Her voice changed into a woman who had been saved by her prince, "Thanks to you, Quickstrike." She fluttered her eyes alittle more for encouragement as Quickstrike was fixing her cart for her. When he wasn't looking, she went back to rolling her optics and her expression went back to a frown, looking out to see Tarantulas and Arachnitron still on the move. She gazed back at Quickstrike, who was still busy putting her stuff back up there, and smiled deviously. He was dumb as rocks like a wild cowboy, but he had his uses.

As he finished loading her stuff, she came to him and had one of her front legs graze against his chin, luring the Predacon even more under her little web of manipulative seduction, "You are a life saver. Now, we should catch up with others." Her voice sounded preppy and let her optics gaze at Quickstrike once again.

[Blackrosefencer]

OOC:

You do know that you don't have to post ALL of them in one post right?

Yeah.....that is probably good for me to note as well. I was doing that too. In hindsight, it may have been better to just post for each character when their turn came up since some of the scenarios involve more people than others and thus take longer to get to each characters turn. So, sorry about that. In the future, I will post for my characters when it is their specific turn instead of waiting to post for all three at once. Sorry again.

However. I am NOT late for Arachnitron and should not have been skipped over for that particular scenario. NK didn't post for Quickstrike until YESTERDAY! Therefore, if it was my turn, then I still had time to respond for Arachnitron.

BIC:

Inferno stood quietly listening to the others babble on together. He was expecting more action, but each team seemed set on taunting each other. Maximal and Predacon alike took turns threatening and hesitating as if they were just waiting to see who would shoot first. Inferno wanted to be the leader the Royalty knew him to be, but hesitated as well. He wanted to know whose side the newly awoken protoform was on before shooting at the Maximals.

And finally...what he had been waiting so very long for happened....

"Uh... Cybertron, right. I guess that's why you're stranded on this rock with the rest of us, bro. If I'm gonna be stuck here, I might as well be well fed. Nothing personal.”

The llama opened fire at the Maximals cuing Inferno to ignite his flamethrower in the direction of the rat, but before the flames could reach his location, a screech caught his attention. Airrazor flew in from out of nowhere, swooped towards Inferno and snatched his weapon!!

Inferno hid his surprise behind an ear to ear grin. He hadn't even heard her coming! He was a bit impressed that a Maximal could have performed such a stealthy feat. The falcon dropped his weapon a few feet away from him before transforming and aiming her weapons at Inferno.

"Your move, sparky"

She taunted him. She seemed to forget that the ant had another weapon.

“If you insist,” he answered pulling his rocket launcher weapon out of its holster and firing at Airrazor.

“FOR THE ROYALTY!” he announced.

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Dinobot's plan had been effective. He had hoped to draw Sonar out of his hiding place. Much to his chagrin, he realized that the Predacon was no where near where Dinobot had been aiming initially. He snarled, displeased with his lackluster performance of deducing the location of the bat.

Sonar didn't waste any time returning fire. He shot off a sonic blast towards Dinobot's location. Dinobot dove away from the rock he had been hiding behind, but not without getting thrown by the impact of the blast. He sailed a few extra feet than he had intended, but rolled away safely. He scrambled to his feet quickly just in time to see Sonar banking away presumably to circle around again for another shot at the raptor. Well, he'd see about that! He pulled out his shield to be properly prepared for the next attack. Then, leading the target a bit, he fired his eye lasers again at the flying rodent.

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Arachnitron was pleased to see that slowly but surely, Blackarachnia was falling more and more behind her. Arachnitron didn't make any attempts to catch up to Tarantulas. She didn't want to give Blackarachnia the satisfaction of seeing her scurry towards the spider.

Arachnitron stifled a giggle when she heard the cargo from Blackarachnia's cart tumble to the ground. She turned around just to satisfy her own curiosity and spied everything littering the sandy soil. She sighed dramatically.

“If you couldn't handle the load, you should have said so. We don't want to keep Megatron waiting for his refueling station, do we?" Arachnitron chastised using Blackarachnia's own words against her.

For a split second she actually considered heading back to help the other widow put everything back on her transport cart. Not to be nice just because she knew it would irritate Blackarachnia immensely. But she didn't have to. The fuzor came skittering up behind Blackarachnia to help her.

Sugarbot!! Are you okay?! Here, let me take some of that thar load off for you little lady.

Arachnitron flashed Blackarachnia a smug smile before turning away to head back towards Tarantulas and the site of the refueling station. She surprised herself actually. She suddenly didn't feel like herself.

Eventually, she did catch up to Tarantulas and he murmured something to her as they continued forward.

"That was sneaky and underhanded by dear...Well done"

She grinned pleased with herself and pleased that Tarantulas had been pleased as well. Perhaps she had more of the Predacon within her than she initially thought.

[starshadow]

Cecaelia was swinging from tree to tree but still no sign of the golden bird. It was rather annoying though. But what if...That was it. She switched her gun's mode from gattling to buster and aimed it randomly, hoping probably somewhere near Megatron's coordinates.

"Here goes nothing!" the gun started charging up and fired a long and huge laser beam, clearing every tree in its way but the recoil made her fall off the branch she was stepping on and the laser burned the tree top. Thankfully that she did not vaporize herself.

"Oww oww oww..." she rubbed her rear and stood up. At least a path is made and less muddy. Now she could walk without complaining.

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"Well, I don't wanna know!""Dis mission is a lost cause, guys! I'm callin' a retreat!"

"Awww...Is the big bad cat scaring you little mousey?" Starshadow smirked but it was wiped off from her face in seconds as Rattrap's shots got in contact with her, making slow down and snarl, especially with the dirt and dust temporarily blinding her. That vermin was going to get a bad cat scratch fever! She rubbed her face with a paw and looked around to see where he went.

"There you are you little pest!" she transformed into her robot mode and pulled out her gun, "say hello to my boyfriend, Mortem! And he's not happy with you!"

and with that, she fired.

[Mystrea]

Ironclaw kept his eyes fixed upon his foe as she started to circle around him. He could tell she wasn't stupid, he knew she was trying to assess his prowess.

Then she struck first, delivering a kick to his throat. The badger brought both his hands up to his neck and blocked her foot with a thud. He tried to take hold of her leg but she pulled it back swiftly. This resulted in Ironlcaw swinging out again but she evaded his attack once again. The sword then decended acorss his chest. The shine of the blade caught his eyes then it cut deep into his chest armor, sparks flew as he reacted. Ironclaw threw one fist up against the handleof her sword. The back of his hand force her arm up. While the sword swung into the air he reached out with his other hand and grabbed her other arm which was clutching the sai. He dragged her closer and moved his whole body forward, head butting her straight to the face. Next he went for the sword arm.

[Night-Hunter]

Sonar hadn't been expecting Dinobot to recover or retaliate so quickly.

Is the shield really necessary? He wondered, failing to notice that Dinobot's eyes had turned green until it was to late.

He tried to avoid the lasers by
banking up sharply but that didn't stop the lasers from slicing one of his wings.

Unable to fly properly, the bat dropped from the sky like a rock. He landed a few feet away from Maximal base, the impact had knocked him out cold.

[Phoenix]

Nemesis' optics narrowed as the slower but bulkier Maximal managed to snag her arm by the wrist. She attempted to resist as he yanked her forward but, alas, the male's strength gave him a slight upper hand for that brief moment. Gone was her grin from earlier, now replaced with a stare cold as ice. Nemesis loathed being restrained in any shape or form and she sure was not about to let this Maximal upstart get the better of her.

Then came the blow to the head, causing her head to snap back due to the force of the blow and leaving her dazed and a bit disoriented for a moment.

Forcing herself to ignore the discomfort, Nemesis immediately retaliated by bringing her knee up into Ironclaw's abdomen with as much strength as she could in an attempt to break his focus. Her sword arm retracted out of his reach before dropping the sword so that she could grab him by the shoulder. With her sai wrist still clutched by her foe, she made a sudden jerk backwards. Shoving her feet roughly into the male's abdomen as she went on her back, she then used her momentum to yank him forward in an attempt to send him flying over her to the ground.

She swiftly rolled, grabbing her sword as she got back to her feet.

Staring at him, optics glowing with hatred, her tone was much more menacing as she spoke again.

"Very well, Maximal.. If you are that eager to die, so be it."

With the push of a button, her sword ignited, leaving a trail of fire in its wake as she again swiped it at him.

[WorpeX]

“FOR THE ROYALTY!”

Airazor was prepared for Inferno's attack. Just as he whipped out his second gun and fired, Airazor was already moving to sidestep. The first shot missed to her left and she ducked low to dodge the rest. She could feel the burning of his rockets on her head feathers, but her speed far exceeded that of her opponents. She moved as if she was a leaf on the wind. In the same movement, Airazor readied her own weapons and was just about ready to fire, but was stopped by another transmission on her comm link.

"Dis mission is a lost cause, guys! I'm callin' a retreat!"

Looking towards Rattrap, she quickly realized the full gravity of the situation. While she had been handling Inferno well enough, the rest of the team hadn't been doing nearly as well. Silverbolt and Ironclaw were actively engaged in a battle and Rattrap was not fairing well either. They no longer needed to be here, as their target had already chosen to be a Predicon. It was time to go home. Despite the amount of Maximal's needing help, she set her sights on Rattrap as he was the only one she could carry effectively.

Turning back towards Inferno, she spoke calmly. "We will dance next time, creep." Her voice clearly reflecting her disdain for the predicon. "Beast Mode!!" She continued, transforming back into her Falcon disguise. Without a second thought, she spread her wings and took off towards Rattrap - dodging Inferno on the way. Her speed allowed her to catch up the rat quickly and she spread her talons out as she was nearing him. Her timing was perfect. Just as she grabbed Rattrap by the scruff of the neck and lifted him into the air, StarShadow's shot exploded on the ground where he had previously been. Not turning to look back, Airazor took off towards the Axalon - still carrying Rattrap in her talons.

[Warwulf]

"Dis mission is a lost cause, guys! I'm callin' a retreat!" Rattrap said over his comm.

"You've failed, LOSER!! Manterror screamed in Silverbolts face. They were still locked together as the Mantis struggled to get his blades closer to his prey. He thought about simply firing them at point blank range but immediately realized that he would suffer collateral damage. Besides, that's not nearly as fun. "I will let you leave with your friends." He said finally, with a strange tinge of sincerity in his voice. His grip on Silverbolt loosened just a little, but he didn't let go. But it all changed again in a split second! "BUT ONLY AS A HEADLESS BIRD/DOG!! BAAHAHAH!!!" He screamed and made one final push to get his saw blades to sink into Silverbolts metallic flesh. He used all the strength he could muster, hoping that his opponent had let down his guard enough for him to capitalize!!

"AROOOOH!" Silverbolt howled as Manterror's saw blades made contact with his chestpiece -- sparks shooting out from the metal on metal contact. He had lowered his guard ever so slightly as Manterror spoke, but enough for Manterror to be able to make one final push with his saw blades. Silverbolt gathered himself and kicked Manterror off and over with a powerful blow from his hind legs. As Silverbolt rolled to his feet, he pulled out two wing missles and took up a defensive stance with them.

Silverbolt was mindful of his orders from Optimus to secure the pod and protoform within. And though the new arrival hadn't turned out exactly as he had hoped, Silverbolt felt the battle was far from over. "But, the mission! The battle is not yet decided!" he yelled to Rattrap.

With that he threw the wing missiles at Manterror, their propellant igniting mid air launching them at the Predacon.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: Just an update; una and I are still working on our joint post between Optimus and Whitegrazer. ))

"Awww...Is the big bad cat scaring you little mousey?"

"You don't scare me, Tarshadow," Rattrap returned at the Predacon cat as he sped off. "The Vok scare me!"

"There you are you little pest!" "say hello to my boyfriend, Mortem! And he's not happy with you!"

"Hate to break it to ya, but yer boyfriend's an inanimate object. Sorry, but somebody had ta be honest with ya before yer wedding day," he joked as he swerved to narrowly dodge her shot, pieces of the ground exploding in all directions. It wouldn't have surprised him if she really thought "Mortem" was real. And if she did, Rattrap hoped he disappointed her.

"AROOOOH!"

The dragster-like rodent heard Silverbolt howl of agony and sighed to himself. Why didn't anyone ever listen to him?

"But, the mission! The battle is not yet decided!"

"Yeah, it is, 'Bolt! He's a Pred! He's made his choice! If dere's a time to convince him otherwise, it ain't now," RT explained over a comm. link transmission with Silverbolt, annoyed that everyone except Airazor was ignoring his orders. "We ain't here for a battle that ain't worth fightin'. And we got no communication with the base to call for back-up, so we're leavin'! Hug yer new mantis friend there good-bye and get yer feathered butt outta here!"

Glancing up, he saw the peregrine falcon swoop in, latching her talons on the back of his TransMetal rat neck and lifting him off of the ground. He wasn't quite expecting that since he hadn't been injured yet and was still able to drive around, but at least it got him away from that crazy cat. While his wheels kept spinning, he retracted them to be only in his beast mode while in Airazor's grasp. "Hang on, Airazor, I gotta make sure everybody retreats," he told her with an irritated tone that he implied toward Silverbolt, Ironclaw and Wintersong, so she wouldn't fly off out of site. If they were to leave without helping the others who were refusing to stop fighting and returned to the Axalon without them, it would look pretty bad on their part and selfish. On the other hand, hopefully him leaving the battlefield would trigger the others to follow, realizing that they're outnumbered and outmatched against the Predacons.

Just in case it wasn't clear before, "Retreat NOW! Dat's an order!" he demanded over all of the Maximals' comm. links.

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"Who knows Aurora, for that maniac scientist it could be anything, even Saber he could be after. Sometimes he just does these things out of boredom or just to cause some trouble from what I can remember." "Course, he could just have a few wires crossed up in the processor, so could be some glitched programming,"

"Or maybe he has a strange obsession being in our brig as our prisoner," Rhinox commented. "It's a vacation in paradise here compared to what they live with on the Darksyde." He knew from first-hand experience, as well as Frilla and Dinobot.

"I hope they weren't the ones who made the first move,"

"Even if they were and found out that the protoform was not a Maximal, they should have retreated immediately. There's no point in wasting ammo and risking their lives for a battle that doesn't need to happen because they will gain nothing from it," the engineer said. "We've seen Megatron's intentions and the lengths he will go to to stop any one of us, so we have to be a lot more careful in situations like this."

Looking back at the monitor that was airing what was going on outside between Sonar and Dinobot, Rhinox watched the bat plummet to the ground and appeared to be unconscious. "Well, that wasn't difficult." Now what? Take him as prisoner again? ...But if that was what Sonar wanted? Hm... He waited to see what Dinobot would do out there and make sure he was out cold.

[Wintersong]

((Sorry for not posting before guys kept getting an error message and been busy trying to finish classes.))

Grudgingly Wintersong backed off, seeing Buster had made up his mind and watched as he reverted to beast mode which was more than enough to give the feline a sign he was not going to be willing to come with them. Turning as she heard Rattrap calling a retreat she began to follow the rat for a retreat before realizing Ironclaw and SIlverbolt weren't looking to end their fights at all making her skid to a halt and hating disobey the rat at the moment but it seemed the boys would need some incentive. But looking between them she could see she was closer to Silverbolt than Ironclaw quickly turning tail slightly and coming beside the fuzor and giving him a gentle push, "Silverbolt this mission isn't on our side and Rattrap is right, this fight is lost, the new bot is with the Predacons we were too late to make a change." She told him, trying to make the wolf fuzor understand that they couldn't win this time, "You can't win every mission Silverbolt we just happened to be unfortunate this time."

Though now she looked worriedly towards Ironclaw and Nemesis, watching the femme's sword ignite in flames which made her worry even more. 'Come on 'Claw, don't be hardheaded this time.' Wintersong thought to herself hearing Rattrap yet again and quickly began to follow, "Silverbolt come on!"She said over her shoulder and she transformed to her vehicle form and raced off after Airazor, "Right behind you two Rattrap."She said over her com. link.

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Spineback growled as she was struck continuously, having to move to avoid many other shots by Cheetor and apparently a traitor among them but beginning to realize she had a burning sensation upon her shield, arm, and some of her body optics widening at realizing she was on fire. One of her opponents had a Friction Rifle! They weren't exactly a common weapon and the last she had seen anyone use them was back during the Great War making the dino femme wonder how the mech had obtained such a weapon for such a voyage meant for space exploration. Though a little interested she now had to deal with the flames that began to heat up and melt away at her armor, something she was trying to get out with using the water but it was difficult to get out right away when she had literally began to combust in many places of her armor, leaving her unable to attack the Maximals there. She wasn't even worrying for the little maximal Megatron had fired upon shortly before and was having to worry about the oncoming fire and worrying about being on fire.

Three minutes passed before the flames died down, her armor already scorched and blackened, though only having minor injury thanks to her thick armor. In all her struggling with the flames Spineback turned to see all the chaos unfolding, seeing that the Maximals were still something of an issue and she quickly focused her attentions back upon them and began firing at any of her new found enemies within sight, not quite caring if she ended up hitting one of the other Predacons, except her commander, as long as she could take down at least one of the Maximals.

[Wildfire94]

Cheetor knew Rhinox was right but for now he turned off his com-link, trying focus on rescuing Feralnight and SIlverstreak and backing up Aerostriker the best he could alongside his unexpected ally. But with seeing the transmetal bird's strike on Megatron that sent the Predacon leader flying some feet away and finally seeing Feralnight free of Terrorsaur Cheetor saw it was now or never, "All Maximals retreat at once! We're too out numbered and this protoform has made her allegiance clear, let's move out now...AAGH!" Cheetor barely avoided a strike from Megatron's fusion cannon, seeing the tyrant was becoming incredibly angry and his fire power was maxed out to it's fullest, which meant they had to move fast! But first there was the matter of helping the injured equine getting free of the ninja Umbra. "Hang on Onyx, I got you!" He called, ducking a shot from Spineback as he began firing upon the octopus, moving close as he could within the shallows but not enough it would affect his systems.

Onyx meanwhile found himself struggling against Umbra, quite surprised at how strong this mech really was with the tentacles he had and his Friction Rifle would prove useless as it had dropped when he was caught in the "jaws" of the crocodile and was being dragged towards the murky waters. "This is nothing personal Umbra but I cannot follow a leader such the likes of Megatron, and if that means having to cut you down to size I will." The black mech stated as his swords ejected again from his wrists and he began slashing at the tentacles dragging him down into the water as Cheetor was firing upon his soon to be former teammate. Though even if he held high respect for Umbra in the short time he worked with the cyber ninja for now he had to view the mimic octopus as an enemy, finding that for now his place would be with the Maximals until he would return to Cybertron.

Both mechs for now began workig to try and get Onyx free, striking or shooting upon the aquatic Predacon in hopes he might get the message to let go.

For Silverstreak the shot from Megatron had sent her flying slightly, hitting a tree in a similar fashion to Feralnight which left her in pain and her shoulders punctured by Megatron's shots. She groaned slightly as she eventually began to stand, though turned when she heard the sound of trees beginning to fall and yelped as she ducked, barely missing being a target for Cecaelia's careless shots and forcing the young vixen to quickly duck to the right to avoid the collapsing tree and making her shake her head, "Never met such a ditzy Predacon before." She muttered but growled as she was blasted off her feet by Spineback's next round of shots, sending her flying into the brush behind her and landing hard enough it knocked the wind out of her. For now the entire world seemed to spin around her, faintly hearing Cheetor's yell that they needed to retreat but found her body not responding to her dazed state.

A few moments past though that she finally could bring herself to move, shifting back to beast mode and stumbling a bit at first as she moved to make her retreat until finally making her run for it.

((Also if it's that big of a problem for Onyx's Friction Rifle I don't mind changing the firepower. I'll be honest I was guessing on his firepower with that and a simple Laser pistol, so in this case if you guys think this is going to be an issue at the current number I can shift some things away and increase it just need to tell me what you think is better and there we go.))

[Blackrosefencer]

OOC: I liked the "leaf on the wind" line! I'm a leaf on the wind!!!

BIC:

Dinobot watched as Sonar tried to avoid his lasers unsuccessfully. He sailed downward to the ground below and landed a few feet away from the Axalon.

Dinobot lowered his shield and waited for a counter attack, but it never came.

"Hmmm...." he mumbled to himself thoughtfully. He stood for a few more seconds waiting for the Predacon to do something....anything!

Finally Dinobot shrugged. "Having nothing, nothing can I lose," he mumbled to himself philosophically deciding at once to pursue the Predacon.

"Dinobot to base," the raptor said into his comm link. "It appears I have taken down the flying vermin. I will approach the Predacon to check his status. Should he be unconscious, shall I collect him so we can imprison him yet again?" Dinobot asked.

Not waiting for an answer, he left his cover to approach the felled Predacon and see what had become of him.

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Inferno watched the Maximal dodge the shot from his weapon and cursed quietly under his breath. He had underestimated the female falcon.

Airazor readied her wrist weapons, but did not fire them. She was called away by the vermin who was obviously the unit commander, much like himself. Inferno narrowed his optics as he watched her lower her weapons.

"We will dance next time, creep."

Inferno chuckled at her comment, but he left her fly away....at least for the moment. Swiftly, the Maximal flew away from him towards her comrade and, with her talons, lifted him into the air. He pulled his rocket launcher weapon up to aim at the falcon and then let off a shot that sailed through the air towards her. It was time for this Maximal to meet her maker!

[NaitoKage]

"Should saved that shot for me maximal"

As the swing came down towards Aerostriker, his chest and back released a small burst of thrust turning him sideways away from Terrorsaur, causing part of the barrel of Stag to be slashed in half from the hit. As he started swinging more wildly, Aerostriker raised an optic ridge floating back with a few bursts of thrust from the different RCS vents on his body to dodge and move out of Terrorsaur's range, the scene looking somewhat odd as standing still while swinging his broadswords didn't seem as fluid as someone more used to using a sword would move.

"RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG!"

"Ooooh boy...You REALLY should have saved that shot for me"

Aerostriker smirked as he heard Megatron coming, he wasn't too scared of the commander. Megatron was well armored, but slow. Take out the head and the chain of command falls.. isn't that what you guys did?

"All Maximals retreat at once! We're too out numbered and this protoform has made her allegiance clear, let's move out now...AAGH!"

Stag then suddenly spoke up Evade!

A sudden burst of thrust came from his shoulder, side, and leg as he evaded Megatron's fusion blast. He then started to climb in altitude flying straight towards Megatron, before pulling off in a strafing arc to Megatron's left as his head guns flipped down firing a few rapid bursts of laser fire at the tyrant's upper body and side (Firepower:6), it wouldn't penetrate, but it was likely to irritate him further.

After the attack, he flew backwards swiftly above the destroyed trees piled from Cecaelia's beam attack. Using the situational data from Stag, Aerostriker became aware of Feralnight's attack on Terrorsaur,having likely damaged her, as well as Cheetor still being functional. He activated his comlink on Feralnight's frequency Feralnight, can you still fly? he then asked, keeping his optics on Megatron, starting his system's lock ons for his micro missiles, but not firing them yet.

At the corner of his optic on his hud, his fuel gauge continued to drop. Just from his evasive maneuvers, flight, and firing the charge shot he was going down to 65% fuel.

Meanwhile Stag activated his comlink Situational assessment, Silverstreak what is your vital status, do you require evac?
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"This is nothing personal Umbra but I cannot follow a leader such the likes of Megatron, and if that means having to cut you down to size I will."

Between the shots fired from Cheetor, as well as the swords being released cutting through his tentacles, Umbra let go of Onyx. He transformed in the water drawing his two short swords with a reversed hold to them Ug, got some tricks yourself hm? Well I can't blame you for not wanting to follow Megatron, I just go where the money is offered. My hands are too stained for their tastes,But I can't say I'd trust this particular group of Maximals any better.. After all, you came out of one of their pods as a prisoner didn't you? With every source of light, shadows are cast.. So if you want to find what darkness lurks in Primal's shadow, so be it. But I can't make it too easy on you either buddy.

Moving towards Onyx with his swords held up in a stance more common to a empty hand style guard mostly as a distraction, he then shifted into a sidekick to Onyx's stomach hidden under the water,while discharging a sudden blast of water from his siphon to add more force to the kick launching both out of the deeper water and onto the shallow muddy shore.

Coming to a landing, Umbra lowered his arms Give my regards to Miss Whitegrazer when you see her. he then gave a slight laugh.

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"Oh! I'm all right now!"

"Thanks to you, Quickstrike."

Daww, was nothin' ma'am. he responded while loading her gear up.

"You are a life saver. Now, we should catch up with others."

Alright, if you need anythin' just hollar now you hear? he said looking towards her, seeming to be blushing and smiling as she caressed his chin with her legs.

(If you want to up Onyx's firepower, that's fine. You probably could reduce the length of fire for the hits from three minutes to one minute, raise firepower to 5 or 6 which is the average for most Maximals, not to mention any higher just seems unusual for Onyx as he isn't really that violent.)

[WorpeX]

((Thanks Blackrose!!! Also, I really like this Mantis image... think ill use it. hahaha))



One of Silverbolts wing missles hit Manterror straight in the chest and he fell backwards from the impact. The mantis lay on his back, slighly dazed. He hasn't been expecting the fuzor to do that move! Slowly, he got back up to his feet again. His chest had a huge black hole in the middle of it. "So you want to fight dirty, huh?" He said to Silverbolt. His body was just barely keeping him sustained, one more hit and he would be down for good. Still, he pressed on!! In a frisbee like motion, he moved his body so to launch a saw blade towards Silverbolt from both claws. His blades launched towards his victim at full speed and hoped to end this battle once and for all!!

"Hang on, Airazor, I gotta make sure everybody retreats,"

"We'll be slagged if we go back!" She yelled back to her passenger. They had escaped the battle just in time. They were both sitting ducks if they were to go back! Neither of them were in a position to defend themselves effectively.

"Retreat NOW! Dat's an order!"

Realizing that the others were not heeding the command, Airazor turned back towards the battle. The others just weren't giving up. Wintersong had successfully broken off her attack, but Ironclaw and Silverbolt were being stubborn. Rattrap was right, they couldn't just leave them.

Then, from seemingly nowhere, blackness. Airazor was knocked into stasis lock within a split second. Inferno's rocket had blindsided her - causing her to drop Rattrap from her talons and fall to the earth. She made contact with a loud thump. Her feathers littered the ground and she fell in the center of them, completely motionless.

[Night-Hunter]

The bat's optics were dark which indicated that the impact had indeed knocked him into stasis. His wing was sparking which also meant that he wouldn't be flying anytime soon as long as it was unrepaired.

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They're going to find out about you and Sonar sooner or later, its best that they hear it from you before they hear a twisted version of it. She thought with a sigh.

She hated lying to them, she wanted to clear the air and be completely honest with them. She knew they wouldn't kick her out, however a small paranoid part of her thought otherwise.