At any rate..)
Aurora glanced around as the ground beneath their feet kept shaking violently, the tremors suddenly increasing tenfold as the very surface began to crumble. The fuzor's mouth dropped open, her ears flattening against her head, and that unruly white lock of fur draping across her face as was so often the case at the most inopportune times. Not sure whether to believe her own optics, her gaze shifted over to Rattrap, only to let out a scream a moment later when the ground seemed to swallow the rodent whole.
At that moment, Aurora dropped the carriage holding her equipment, frantically looking around to see.. nobody. The rest of the Maximals had all scattered, or perhaps they too had disappeared into the ground. She didn't have long to ponder it, however, before the ground she stood on shattered as well. The wagon holding her equipment, being heavier than she was, fell first with the fuzor following a mere second later. There was no time to react, no time to holler for help, no time to do anything! Still, as she plunged through the depths she tried her best to halt her fall by spreading her thin butterfly wings and using them as a parachute. All the rocks that came crashing down at the same time made quick work of her act of desperation, hitting her and her wings alike and even piercing them a few times.
The impact against the hard floors in the underground chambers came a lot more abruptly than she hoped for, literally knocking the wind out of her as she slammed hard against the strange alien structure. Aurora whimpered and made one futile attempt at pushing herself up before she collapsed back onto the floor, succumbing to the pain and the stress of it all.
In those last few moments before she blacked out entirely, she noticed a familiar shape hovering in the center of the room. It was Whitegrazer, or at least she thought it was, due to the injuries the white mare had sustained to her face it wasn't quite obvious. Not until..
Oh how badly the fuzor wanted to heed Whitegrazer's word at that exact moment, but her body ached too much from the injuries she'd sustained from the fall. And in the haze that filled her mind right now, her instincts were to run towards Whitegrazer rather than away.. To clamp onto her and make sure she wouldn't simply fade from their existence yet again."R-r-r-r-r-ruuuuuun!"
But she couldn't.. Not now.
Finally Aurora's head fell back onto the floor, drifting off into unconsciousness. She only vaguely heard Primal's call for her before everything went completely dark.
There was no response."Aurora?" "Where are you and Rattrap?"
Meanwhile Megatron had fought his way past the army of alien vines that had been attacking them, leaving a carnage of plant life in his wake, as he lead his Predacons towards what seemed to be the epicenter of everything that had been going on. It couldn't be a coincidence that the traitorous former shapeshifter and Primal had left the others to head down to the underground chamber, nooo, so if anything could be recovered from this place of horrors it would be found there. He was sure of it. Besides the dome that now covered the alien site, preventing others from getting in, was also keeping him, the mighty Megatron, trapped here. And that was unforgivable. The aliens were going to learn whom they were dealing with here, as were all his foes.
His already grim outlook soured still as he stepped on the remnants of some vines, grinding it into the ground as he moved on. He signaled for his Predacons to remain quiet, wanting the chance to sneak up on his foes and take whatever they were hiding for himself. The determination to leave this place behind in ruins only got stronger as they got close enough to hear voices coming from within the room, prompting Megatron to hold up his hand to halt his team from proceeding any further.
Nemesis was wisely enough lingering a bit behind the rest. She wasn't nearly as sure that this was the best approach but she certainly knew better than to try to persuade Megatron otherwise. Still.. this place was simply humming with energy produced by the alien gadgets that surrounded them. Even she was not unaffected, her nanomachines having grown far more active than they normally would. They seemed.. uneasy.. The usual chaos now replaced with a solemn sense of.. doom. And with the dome that had now descended upon them all, sealing them inside this place, Nemesis' sense of claustrophobia was increasing as well. Still.. she managed to keep it under control.. for now.
"R-r-r-r-r-ruuuuuun!"
Megatron's until now grim appearance lit up into a toothy grin as he listened to his sappy foes inside the room without making his presence known. Oh, it delighted him to find his enemy in such a predicament, but even more so than that.. and the fact that it was evident his foe was in danger.. was the fact that the two of them were otherwise preoccupied. With any luck the same applied to the aliens as well. Leaving Megatron with ample opportunity to turn this disaster into an opportunity of victory. It was a chance the tyrant was certainly not going to let slip out of his grasp, noooo."I'm not leaving you,"
Gesturing to the Predacons to follow, Megatron slipped away.
Zodiac remained still even as Optimus started addressing him, as if expecting confirmation that what he believed about the shapeshifter's condition to be true. Yet Zodiac didn't respond, instead he spent those few moments conserving his energy and battling the intense burning sensation in his gut while his systems all rebooted at once. A quick check using his self-diagnostics systems, however, revealed that he was okay.. no.. better than okay.. All his systems were back to being operational, not just the audio-synthesizers he used to mimic voices. Yet he didn't want to reveal the truth just yet.."I've kept my word,"
A moment later he was glad that he hadn't, since all of a sudden the surge in the room increased again and Whitegrazer appeared floating in mid air as if the very energy was carrying her. He only caught a glimpse of her from his present location and she certainly looked worse for wear, her face almost looking like part of it had burned off, but it was her voice that truly revealed just how dire her situation was.
His nanomachines started stirring as well as soon as she appeared, likely due to the massive surge in power present in the very room. Yet something didn't feel right.. There was an odd familiarity in the air, a rather frightening one at that.
Slowly Zodiac stirred before forcing himself up on his knees so that he could see what was going on a bit better.. see her .
Fortunately Whitegrazer's link hadn't re-established itself upon her sudden return, but it really didn't have to. Zodiac already knew what she was about to say, he could sense it in his innermost circuits. They were here.."R-r-r-r-r-r-r,"
"Whitegrazer!"
"R-r-r-r-r-ruuuuuun!"
Ever so briefly Zodiac cast a glance over at Optimus, ever unwilling to give up on his loved ones. Even when it would surely cost him his life. Not Zodiac's though. The shapeshifter had every intention to heed Whitegrazer's warning this time. Yes, he was capable of amazing feats with his nanomachines now restored. But he knew fully well that even his powers couldn't outmatch a team of Vok. Their technology had created him, after all. And he had seen their capabilities up close before he escaped."I'm not leaving you,"
Slowly he forced himself up to his feet just as Primal dropped to his knees.
Zodiac knew. He felt it. Normally he'd describe the sensation as blissfully welcome, but right now he was more concerned with putting some distance between himself and these aliens.."Ours is disconnected as well."
He stopped as he reached the doorway as he turned to Optimus. Why he said what he did, he couldn't tell.. But the words still flowed out of his mouth.
"There is nothing you can do at this point," he told the other male.
but the fact I have a hard time processing information. Sometimes, it takes me a bit to understand what I just read and figure out how to respond. I hate that so much combined with the fact I'm such a sloooow writer, have the attention span of a goldenfish and have a hard time expressing myself. Ugh, makes it difficult and sometimes, I instinctively avoid it despite the fact I can't. So... My brain is hell. All the time. Everytime. 
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Trouble articulating myself there. 
About Depth Charge, maybe, if we don't have other players return. Hopefully, there will be. After all, he doesn;t come until season three.... unless we want him earlier. ))