The Intergalactic Highway

WIntersong hurried around one of the rocks looking for a good target, but then she foudn who she'd been looking for. Starshadow. "Hey Starshadow!" She called coming from hiding and firing her side pistol towards the winged panther. The tigeress wanted nothing more thne to get back at the female Preda on, after the last battle Wintersong had been thinking of hwo to better improve her skills but besides that her mind had gone blank since then so she wa sjust using the chance she had.

((WOW!!! CATFIGHT!! XD))

Starshadow's left shoulder got hit by Dinobot's laser. Two of Wintersong's shot nicked her arm. The predacon kitty growled as she was not expecting surprises, plus, she hated it.

The fur on Starshadow's tail spiked out. She pulled some spikes off from her tail and threw it at Wintersong's side pistol. "Coming for more I see...haven't learn your lesson yet since our previous battle, stripes?" she smirked.

WIntersong hissed as one spike knocked the pistol from her grasp, the other cutting ehr palm. But she only narrowed her optics, a glint in he reyes like a predator about to pounce on it's prey came to them. "Guess you can never tame the wild Starshadow, and trust me it'll take more then injuring my hsoudlers ot stop me!" With a snarl WIntersong ran forward, claws coming fromt he tips of her fingers as she swiped one hand at the winged female predacon trying to hit her shoudler and swinging he rleg up to give Starshadow a hard kick to the side.

Starshadow moved aside in the right time as Wintersong charged towards her and blocked her kick with her arm.

"I don't tame the wild...I go wild..." and with that, she went behind the wild maximal tigress and stepped on her back, grabbing her wrists, pulling them back.

"Let's see how pathetic you look after I rip both of your arms out!!" Starshadow laughed like a crazed psycho and continued pulling Wintersong's arms backwards while increasing the pressure of her foot. She was going to show her how she killed maximals back on Cybertron step-by-step, slowly and painfully.

Dinobot, noticing that Starshadow's attention was obviously occupied with malicious intent, decided he had the easiest target he had seen in his life and fired full force at her again.

"This," he shouted to Rattrap, "is becoming more hectic than I anticipated!"

Starshadow got knocked back by Dinobot's laser again. The pissed off cat stood up with hot pink mist coming out from her mouth.

"FOR THE GLORY OF ZIRA!!"

She charged up a giant plasma ball from her mouth and fired it at Dinobot. Then, she pulled out her gun and fired at Wintersong.

Wintersong growled as her arms were being pulled back, Starshadow's foot puttign pressure on it. Though the tigeress gave a grateful glance towards the raptor before rollign out of the way and pushing herself to her feet. "You go wild Starshadow? More like a psychotic maniac." She growled and fired her wrist launchers at the panther.

Starshadow took a missle on her left arm and snarled. Slag that sneaky lizard !! she thought as she gave the stare of hatred at Dinobot.
"That's what I am.." she smiled evily and did a round house kick in Winter's face.

Icebreaker swung up his board as the missile hit knocking him into the air from the impact, he landed on his stomach Ow.. Glad I'm used to crashing into things... he then says to himself, his feet detached from the smoking board as he leans up on one knee,pointing his frost launcher at Megatron. He fires off one of his micro missiles at Megatron's feet.

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Tarantulus leaned out of the way as a few of his Spider legs take hits from Rattrap's barrage, he then hisses pointing his launcher out firing an anchor style missile at the rodent commander. This battle once again seeming to go out of hand he was finding.

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Rhinox looked around, then looked at the device This whole area is full of stable energon radiation from the probe..Like this whole place is a single device..

He then looked up noticing Terrorsaur's reflection in the pod forming a wicked smirk, he then makes a swift turn whipping out his chaingun with his left arm pointing it towards Terrorsaur and firing non-stop into the sneaking Predacon.

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Glowstick watched as Cheetor spoke, it was apparent they could detect him in the waterfall and even detected Steelclaw as a Maximal. He then noticed Cheetor leaving the area, making things more troubling. Cheetor just left the bridge, they know a Predacon and Maximal are here but seem to think the computer is glitched. The base shield seems to be up as well. If I can get the shield and Autoguns down, I can help you with the computer work.. I'll keep you posted.

Steelclaw quickly ducked into a room when he heard Cheetor was moving. He noticed to his surprise that it was Primal's quarter, but there didn't seem to be anything worth stealing. After a few moments where Cheetor had not walked down the hall, Steelclaw calculated he must have been taking a different route.

Steelclaw considered Glowstick's proposition for a second, but decided against it.

"Negative. If you take down the shield, they're both gonna be in the bridge working to fix it."

He got out of the room and continued walking down the hall with his rifle pointed out, ready for anyone he might meet up with.

"I need something to get the bird out of the room, but the less clue they have that we even exist and that their scanners aren't messing up, the better."

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Cheetor was almost at the back of the ship, and after opening a hatch, he poked his head out tentatively to have a look around himself. He searched the river, the waterfall, and even the side of the ship. But the cameras hadn't lied. There just wasn't anything out there.

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Dinobot saw the plasma shot coming, and his shield had already been up. But he was surprised by the blast's power, and his shield was knocked out his hands.

And still the cat persisted to attack Wintersong. So he opened fire again. This time his shots were more sporadic. It would provide less chance of hitting the target, but more chance of sending her away from the tiger.

Starshadow quickly grabbed Wintersong's neck and used her as a shield to block the nasty green lasers. Then, she threw the tiger to Dinobot.

"Have a nice day, Frosty the cat!!" Starshadow laughed and fired her gun while finding cover.

Wintersong snarled as she was kicked in the face at first and forced to step backa bit. "Why you...." She stopped mid-sentence at being grabbed by the throat, used for a shield to block Dinobot's next attack then thrown towards the raptor.

Glowstick pondered for a moment, then responded Your limiting my options on distractions, but I think I have an idea. I can send a radio message to call the flyer from the bridge to the back of the ship... Maybe the engine room. I can then tell you when she leaves and you can sneak in there quick.

Glowstick then goes silent for a moment, his internal system replaying some recordings of Cheetor captured from the Spider drone's earlier encounter, then analyzing the voice and loading into an onboard voice changer.

He then responds activating the voice changer Unless you got something up your sleeve?

Saber managed to dodge the attack then once again slashed at Venatrix. Her ears went back and she bared her teeth.

"It does not matter who I battle, nooo! For all of you Maximals share the same fate!"

Megatron's threat caught her attention but she had to focus on the two Preds she was fighting.

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"Miss catgirl to Sonar, get your aft to my co ordinates. NOW!! Megatron would appreciate more help."

Sonar growled deeply in his throat he was enjoying himself but the half breed just had to ruin his fun.

"Alright fine i'm on my way." Sonar said then went into his beast mode and headed toward the coordinates that Starshadow had sent him.

This whole area is full of stable energon radiation from the probe..Like this whole place is a single device..

Terrorsaur had to be careful since Orcariner was right there with Rhinox. And Rattrap and Dinobot weren't too far away either. Quietly he snuck around like a snake, then approached the big green Maximal from behind, careful with each step, his gun targeting his back. Closer... just a little closer...

Suddenly, Rhinox had grabbed his heavy gun and the Predacon was hammered nonstop with bullets, the red aerial 'bot squawking in surprise and pain. The force and damage pushed him backwards, bullets sparking against his armor and pieces of his body flying off. The 'dactyl couldn't see anything as his vision was disrupted by the amount of firepower. He only stopped moving when his back met one of the standing stones. The firing from Rhinox's weapon and the energy produced with Terrorsaur being subjected to the energon fields made each stone glow a very bright white. Terrorsaur couldn't move, like he was glued to the rock that was using him to energize. He squealed in pain as energon surged through him.

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Seeing Icebreaker's missile and not really certain what the Maximal's abilities were, Megatron leaped out of the way and rolled across the ground. He ended near a standing stone and found cover there, crouching behind it and watching the aftermath of the penguin's released ammunition. That was, until he noticed all of the stones beginning to blind the area. By the Pit, he thought. What was happening?!

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"This," "is becoming more hectic than I anticipated!"

"Ya think?!" Rattrap replied to the velociraptor. And he agreed; this battle was way out of hand. What made it so was Megatron and Starshadow. Starshadow, who seemed to be an uncontrolable and insane weapon of herself. And Megatron who never held her back. Well, why would he? He wanted to kill the Maximals and Starshadow was psychotic enough to do just that. It was as if nothing stopped her. She was definitely a problem that Rattrap noticed they had to deal with every time.

"Whoa! Fire in the hole!" the small commander announced to warn Dinobot when Tarantulas fired one of his missiles. Strangely, the Predacon arachnid didn't appear to be as agressive as the others. Rattrap was only quick enough to fire at the incoming missile right before it hit, so the explosion blew up right in front of him just before Starshadow had tossed Wintersong at Dinobot. Wait. Wintersong? She's back? He rolled backwards until he stopped and laid on the ground on his back. "Definitely a hectic battle," he exhaustedly agreed with Dinobot's earlier statement. His face was all black, charred from the explosion. Slowly he got to his feet, right when he saw Rhinox shooting the slag out of Terrorsaur, who then apparently inadvertently activated the standing stones. Activated? Just like when he blew up that raw energon that used to be under the pile of rocks where the alien probe now hovered. He watched in horror as the stones shone so bright, he had to turn away. He was scared because he didn't know what was going to happen now. Either something was going to blow up and take them all out, or the pod was going to leave, taking Optimus with it!

A humming began as the large standing stones illuminated and started surging. For whatever reason, Terrorsaur's battered body triggered the alien site to do something big. But what? The scene began to interfer with the battle, causing most, if not all of them, to stop firing and pay attention to the area.