The Intergalactic Highway

Glowstick shaked his head No, it's still on there. All I did was remove the hatch and jury rig it over the busted window. I was going to peel the metal off around the pod to patch up under the ship to make us more.. air worthy, or at least not flood everything again if we end up in the water. Your planning to make the cannon out of the interface tube? I suppose that is possible. If necessary we can take some parts off the pod up top as well..it appears to be damaged anyway, so it can't activate out here unless we take it to base.

Hmm.. You know.. I do know where a cache of parts is located around here.. even has a CR chamber from what I saw before the Maximals started shooting.. I'm pretty sure I can get us there with time to get some parts and get StarShadow's damage fixed..

He then leaned back with a sigh as he drove into the woods Starting to think I should of made this thing.. bigger. Oh well, I'll rack my brain on that later. he then drove into some heavy foliage, to attempt to give the vehicle some cover, with the thick trees in the air to block it's view from above.

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The desert wind blew calmly over the two fallen maximals, the smell from their bodies drawing the attention of a small wild canine, a Coyote. The animal stalked silently towards Icebreaker's body, then sniffed it. He leaned in towards his open chest cavity biting at a few of the exposed parts, a sudden jolt ran through the animal as it leaped back with a yipe. Icebreaker's body spasmed, his optics then came online as energon was seen washing over his body. He got up slowly moving to get his gun, then looked at his hand noticing the energon effect. He looked over the area, then noticed Orcariner on the hill. He sighed in frustration of the situation. His friend was down, the stasis pod was gone.

He pulled the harness gear he had before out dropping it on the ground, then moved towards his shield stepping on it Beast mode.. he jerkily transformed to his penguin mode. He found it strange that his internal computer systems were not whining at him like they usually would, then realized they must of been damaged by the animal that attacked him. Ofcourse.. that animal probably also saved their lives.

He walked towards Orcariner, then looking over him, he opened a panel on Orcariner's arm hiting a few buttons with his flipper, the Gravity lifts on Orcariner's body started up causing Orcariner to be flipped onto his back and floated on level ground. Icebreaker then spoke up looking at Orcariner Computer, Access Maximal mainframe, pass code Icebreaker. he then stated, a sound of sparking noises was heard coming from Icebreaker's head. Beast mode.

The massive robot transformed, into a massive unconscious whale. Begin internalized repair sequences. he then stated, walking towards Orcariner slowly, he started to attach the harness to him. After which he looked over the situation, the tire tracks and missing stasis pod obviously meant the Predacons got it and ran. His best bet would probably be to try to contact Valkyrie.

"Really?" Steelclaw asked. "A cache of parts? Whatever from?"

Glowstick put the vehicle into park as he got up More stasis pods of course.. and something else. There's some weird things in that area. While trekking through that area with the other Predacons.. we were under attack by these remote turrets. Glowstick then walked to the back of the craft, opening a bench. He reached inside, then pulled out a collection of strange broken artifacts They seemed to detect cybertronian energy signatures while in robot mode, but we were safe in beast mode. The maximals probably know more about it since it was near by their little base. They found a cave under a waterfall, it seemed to be shielded from Energon radiation. Possibly some sort of dense minerals.

He set the artifacts down, then reached up for the stasis pod starting to unhitch it from the ceiling I had someone examining those for awhile, but she kinda.. just went insane and ran off into the wild mumbling something about "Mother Nature" and "Flower power". Not exactly promising.. Glowstick then turned looking at Frilla Hmm.. You could probably figure these things out..Data analysis is your specialty.

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Icebreaker placed his flipper on his head, then activated his com link Icebreaker to.. what was the code name again? Ah screw it, Valkyrie. The Predacons have the pod and escaped. Orcariner is in stasis lock and I barely managed to come back online. Tracks seem to be heading south by south west, the stasis pod is damaged so I don't think they can activate it out here. Over.

Frilla glanced up hearing Glowstick and puther notepad away, eyeing the artifacts for a moment before stnding and coming to examine a few pieces. "I could see what I can find out from these, but they certainly are different then anything i've seen before." She said raising one to look at it for a moment then looking at Glowstick. "Where exctly did these come frm anyway?" She asked.

When Starshadow heard these words, "stasis pods", she opened her optics wide and tried to sit up.

"Glowstick, did you say there are stasis pods somewhere I don't know?" she asked.

Glowstick looked towards Frilla, he seemed slightly happy that she was interested in something for once. He then heard StarShadow Hmm.. hang on. he then stated, then stopped messing with the securing on the pod on the ceiling. He moved towards the front of the craft and pulled down a flat monitor much like the ones seen in the bridge of the Darksyde.

He unfolded the pad, then typed into it to start up a display of the map, then moved out of the way. Alright. This is a map of the planet that we know so far. He then drew his sword pointing towards a dot on the screen which was displaying at North America, near the gulf coast. This is where we are currently.

He then moved his sword down pointing towards South America, near the Amazon This is where the turret artifacts were found. Finally.. he then moved the sword taping the enter key on the keyboard, the screen flashed as multiple Maximal and Predacon stasis pod markers appeared on the screen in dozens across the world. From what information I could gather about the "Great fall", the debree from the initial Maximal Predacon battle was so great, that it knocked a large amount of Stasis pods out of orbit. I can't calculate on how many however as both sides seemed to have sustained so much damage that their scanners didn't detect any of us.

Glowstick then put his sword away Of the pods that fell, alot of them were Predacon criminals sentience to banishment on random planets. As we know, these Predacons either went insane, or went off to their own devices having little interest in our group or anything else. The maximals from what I can tell.. seem to be wandering lost amidst the wild. So there's always a possibility of a random Maximal attack or Predacon just wandering about. I suppose there is also possibility there are other pods out there that haven awaken, not to mention the supply of Blank pods Maximals use for Medical purposes.

Glowstick then crossed his arms Now then, are there any more questions?

Starshadow focused her attention on what Glowstick had said. The location, the items, everything.

This could be an opportunity to escape this planet, to accomplish my goals.. but I'm going to need all help I can get. she thought and looked at Sonar. Hmmm...maybe he could if I sweeten a deal.. she smiled to herself and looked at the map.

Sonar listened to the whole conversation even though he was taking a nap, nothing really caught his interest not even the stasis pods orbiting the planet.
Why would i want to waste my time waiting for a slaggin pod to fall when i have other things to do. He thought before yawning.

Once Glowstick stopped working on the pod's securing, Steelclaw stepped in and continued freeing it, listening all the while to Glowstick's talking.

He was particularly intrigued by the comment about Predacon criminals. He had known that Frilla and Glowstick had arrived at the same time- essentially in that same band of pods- along with Ocariner and Icebreaker, he believed.

Whatever, then, were those two Predacons doing aboard the Axalon? He was fairly certain Glowstick wasn't actually a criminal. At least... probably. But then was he a Predacon who was going to work for the Maximal crew? And what, then, made him decide to fight for Megatron when he came to Earth?

And what had Frilla done to achieve criminal status? Or was she, too, meant to have helped the Maximals? Steelclaw's curiosity was peaked.

Finally freeing the pod, Steelclaw set it on the ground and began disconnecting the interface tube.

"Alright then. I'm getting to work on this thing."

Frilla looked at the monitor as Glowstick explained where they were, where the turrets ahd been found, and about the other stasis pods. Looking back at the turrets she wondered where they had come from or who had put them here, and why. She frowned then. How could others have been here before them? Unless there had been some other type of being to have been there before. "This seems a bit...off doesn't it?" She asked them examining more of the turrets.

Glowstick nodded looking towards Frilla Normally I would agree, but recently the Predacon army has come in contact with a Alien probe at a strange stone ruins. The probe captured the enemy leader Optimus Primal, then later released. It was assumed possibly for scanning.. but what or why, is unknown. So from that conclusion.. those turrets are probably from an alien culture that has interacted with this planet in some.. unknown way. From what little studying I have done, they appear to be made entirely organic materials..

Glowstick then folded the keyboard and display back into the ceiling, he moved towards Steelclaw assisting in in removing the interface tube from the pod, after which he started to disassemble the pod into parts and panels, as he needed some of the pod's frame work to repair the damaged frame of the transport floor. His body seemed to work well at the task, much like a real cephalopod, his tentacles almost acted on their own. Splitting up the work and collecting plates into a pile on one of his shoulders, winding up tubes and wires on another.

Steelclaw took the disconnected pod and quickly but carefully excavated the hardware from inside, setting those pieces near Glowstick for whatever purposes he'd have in mind.

He went outside, and after setting his PPC on a relatively low setting, Steelclaw began to torch both of the ends off of the tube, making the hollow construction open-ended. Then he walked back into the Leviathan, scouting out a good place to actually anchor the cannon, whenever it'd get constructed.

He noticed the stasis pod's component parts on the ground and then eyed a pile of magnetic reactors which had been used to power its field dampening.

"Hey," he said to Glowstick, pointing to the parts he wanted, "did you have a specific goal for these?"

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Glowstick looked towards Steelclaw Hm? Not really. I have so many of those things laying around now, I could make a proper Rectifier coil for the craft now. Go ahead and use them, they'll be needed anyway or else the plasma will destroy the tube anyway..You know.. I also have alot of rocket motors laying around.. They're kinda inefficient.. but I bet I could make a jetpack or something with some tweaking.. Really should make some proper Jet engines though. Just more things to do when I get back I guess..

Glowstick then stepped outside of the vehicle, crawling under it he started work on repairing the frame and haul with the parts he collected. He knew this would have to be done rather well, as they would probably be using the water ways if they investigated the southern area he mentioned earlier. The jungle was just too thick for the transport to move around through and would probably gum up the wheel wells.

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While waiting for Valkyrie's response, Icebreaker became completely fed up with the desert. He grabbed the lines to Orcariner's harness and started to walk back in the direction of the ocean, along side the tracks of the Predacon's transport.

An alien probe? So the turrets weren't the onlything anlien on this planet. Someone had been there before them and seemed to be trying to potentially protect something. But what could it be? Was it possible they did not want the organic life to be destroyed and for this dirtball to remain as it is. Now the question remained to who had exactly been here and left these turrets and probe behind.

Valkyrie raised an optic ridge at Skyfire.
"That doesn't look to good dear. You'd better get back to beastmode, and start internal repairs."

She then turned to Feralnight. "You and I should also convert to beastmode, as this planet's energon fields will disrupt our systems when we stay to long in our Cybertronian forms. Valkyrie, beastmode."
Valkyrie transformed and stretched her wings for a bit.
Orcarenier took much to long to reply to her transmition, and was about to send an other one, when Icebreaker's message came in.

Icebreaker to.. what was the code name again? Ah screw it, Valkyrie. The Predacons have the pod and escaped. Orcariner is in stasis lock and I barely managed to come back online. Tracks seem to be heading south by south west, the stasis pod is damaged so I don't think they can activate it out here. Over.

Valkyrie thought for a moment, then replied.
"Icebreaker, this is Valkyrie. I'll come to assist you and Orcariner. We where successful in recovering the pod we where aiming for, and as a result we have reseaved reinforcements in the form of Feralnight. I'll make sure you will meet her soon, but for now we should try and reclaim the pod we lost to the Predacons. Skyfire and Feralnight will try and slow them down, unless you think you and Orcariner can make it to the ocean without my help, then i'll take command of the aerial assault team. I await your reply. Valkyrie out."