The Intergalactic Highway

When the light fromm the pod vanished, Waspinator returned to the task at hand, he couldn't find the other Maximal flyer.

Where'd did she go? He wondered.

He got his answer when he felt sharp talons sink into his back, he cried out as pain shot up his back and he knew that he was scrap. But with a last act of desperation he pointed his plaster behind him and fired at point blank range.

If Wazzzpinator's going down that she is going down with Wazzpinator. He thought then fired hoping to his attacker.

Blackarachnia's bullets ricocheted over countless places in the rocky terrain, but Cheetor made it behind cover fast enough to avoid any damage.

An idea came to the Maximal- he'd wait a while for Blackarachnia to put her guard down, and then he'd spring out and take her by surprise.

After the firing stopped, he waited... and then waited...

With a shout, he turned around the rock and fired where he'd seen her last.

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Megatron wrote: Well, I believe we are in agreement then. You can have that traitor's frilled neck to slit.

That was that. Megatron wanted her dead, and Manterror wanted her dead even more. There'd be no getting her back.

Steelclaw watched the two of them start to head back to base, and he turned to Inferno.

"You might want to change into beast mode soon."

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Dinobot decided they'd moved far enough away from the Predacons at the same time Venatrix did.

He observed the battlefield- completely flat and very dusty. The nearest greenery to be seen was the forest they'd exited a while back, and that was in the distance. The sun was already setting, and that meant natural visibility would continue to decrease. Of course, his sensors would adjust.

He turned around to face Venatrix.

"This should prove a suitable battleground," he said before transforming to battle mode. "Are you prepared?"

Alak wrote:((OOC: @ WorpeX: no worries on the godmoding. I know how the episode goes and we're talking about two canon characters here.

@ una: I have no problems with the section, it's very entertaining ))

Scorponok grunted from the palm strike and fell back. Quickly recovering, he checked his chest plate and found no visible injuries. For such a heavy hit, it left no mark on him.

"How am I supposed to buff my chest out when you're the one pounding it in?!" he yelled.

((OOC: Cool! ))

"I apologize but my palm strike wasn't as devastating as your missile to my shoulder. My palm strike did exactly what I needed and I'm glad it didn't harm too much. As I was going to say, you should buff your chest out more, makes you more tougher. Instead of relying on your missiles, maybe you should use your claws and tail more when in a fight especially with a hand to hand expert like myself. You will do better. Long range missiles won't help you with a person with close quarters attacks and another thing..."

Why am I still telling him what to do? Stop it, Whitegrazer. He is the enemy. Stop teaching him." her soldier side was literally yelling at her to stop.

Whitegrazer shut her mouth and looked behind to hear Terrorsaur's yell and the new Maximal fighting him. It looked like she was winning, "It looks like you have failed to get what you came here for anyway. Shouldn't you order your troops to retreat and go back to base since a continued fight will be meaningless?"

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Blackarachnia's bullets ricocheted over countless places in the rocky terrain, but Cheetor made it behind cover fast enough to avoid any damage.

An idea came to the Maximal- he'd wait a while for Blackarachnia to put her guard down, and then he'd spring out and take her by surprise.

After the firing stopped, he waited... and then waited...

With a shout, he turned around the rock and fired where he'd seen her last.

Blackarachina stopped shooting immediately after she realized that the kitty cat was hiding from her, "Awww, are you hiding from me, kitty cat? Don't worry. I won't hurt you much."

She quickly rushed over to the rocky pillars, sneakily going to get the young cat from behind. As he was firing unaware, she grabbed his hand and headbutted him.

The two fliers collided in mid-air. Both bots grabbed onto each other, attempting to throw the other off balance. Airazor was surprised to notice that her opponent was not much stronger. She was unable to get the upper-hand, but neither was he. So far, they both appeared to be equal in almost every area. However, she had no plans on letting the defenseless creatures below her down. She would win this battle... somehow.

Spinning out of control, the two almost crashed to the earth together until the Predicon activated his jets. Taking the opportunity to get away, Airazor pushed herself back away. Doing a backflip from the force, she regained her balance and looked down. They were dangerously close to hitting the ground, she had gotten lucky. Looking back up to find her target, she noticed him still trying to regain his bearings. Seeing it as an opportunity to finish the fight, she stretched out her left arm and mounted her wrist missiles. Acting quickly, she fired two shots at her foe in hopes that he would never see them coming.

Well, I believe we are in agreement then. You can have that traitor's frilled neck to slit.

"I don't slit. I dismember."

Inferno smirked at the other bugs reply, it seemed he wasn't the only one who liked to see enemies of the colony slowly suffer.

"You might want to change into beast mode soon."

"Beast Mode?" He asked not quite understanding what the bear meant.

He let out a startled cry when he suddenly shifted into his orginal form, in his beast mode, he was still taller then the bear. He could easily bite Steelclaw in half with his powerful pinchers.

Enemies of the colony will feel my wrath and feel the searing pain of my pinchers. He though with an inward smile.

The barrage of missile fire struck Terrorsaur in the back. Feeling a bit disjointed, pieces of his body proceeded to fall apart. Red and white metal slammed into the ground, and finally his head.

"Whoah," said Orcariner.

Looking up into the sky, he gave the new Maximal a thumbs up. His attention then turned to the sound of Scorponok's voice crying for a tactical retreat. It appeared that the Predacons would return for Terrorsaur's body. For now, they would run.

Airazor watched as her bullets shredded the other flyer to pieces. She hadn't actually thought that her weapons would be that powerful! It appears, she didn't know her own strength. The fight was over, and the maximal's were victorious but even still, she felt a little bit sorry for the other bot she had blasted. She had never0 meant for her weapons to completely destroy him. In the future, she would have to be more careful. She had no intention to kill or cause serious injury to anyone, even if they may deserve it.

With the fight now over, Airazor flew back towards where the other Maximals were located. From a distance, she thought she saw the larger one give a thumbs up, but wasn't entirely sure. Descending slowly, she gracefully landed in front of Rhinox. The female glanced at both bots briefly. Somehow, she knew the name of the one, but hadn't been quite so sure about the other. "You're Rhinox! She said in a surprised tone and speaking purely from instinct. She couldn't be sure if the name was right, but it felt as if it were. It came to her as if someone whispered it into her ear, but then left without a trace. "I don't know how I know this... but I think I owe you both my life."

Cheetor reeled back from the headbutt and dropped his gun without even realizing it.

A barrage of close quarter hits soon followed, and he couldn't figure out how to react to them. Not long after, he was on his back.

Your pals are leaving without you he though of saying. There wasn't any point in winning this fight anymore. But he hated to sound like he was pleading, so he said nothing.

Many cycles passed and Starshadow was still asleep. She was growling and hissing with her optics closed. Then..

"NOOOO!!" her optics were wide open, her spark was beating fast. She tried moving her arms and legs but the cat's movements were restricted. "GRRR!! AGGGHH!!" she struggled and tried to sit up.

"Nightstar-sama!" Cecaelia said when she went back to the ship.

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?" she bared her fangs. "UNTIE THESE IRRITATING THING NOW!"

"Um..I.." Cecaelia was hesitating to help or ignore her.

Whitegrazer was surprised but grateful that Scorponok took her advice.

Sounded reasonable enough. She looked around to check on everyone when she saw Blackarachnia and Cheetor still fighting...

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Blackarachnia launched several kicks and ended with a knee to the face, knocking the cat over. She didn't know that she was the only Predacon in the middle of many Maximals.

Taking out her cybervenom weapon, she aimed it right at Cheetor and fired.

((OOC: Give her a taste of her own medicine, Cheetor. ))

Hearing the commotion, Glowstick got up from his seat putting the ship in auto pilot. He then floated into the room containing Starshadow, his arm extending as it picked up a camera taking a picture of her, he then lowered the camera from his face with a dark snicker Well well.. sleeping beauty woke up it seems.. I'm not exactly one for bondage, but the maximals.. they do a rather nice job I must say. So Star, your ship is broken, I spoke with your people.. they can't get you another ship. So you and your cute subordinate are stuck here with us.. In a rather creepy manner, one of Glowstick's tentacles moved caressing across Cecaelia's cheek as he spoke Now you can either become a enemy to the maximals and predacons suffering a rather.. grizzly fate with little Cecaelia here..

Or.. we can overlook your little insurrection. You return to your function under Megatron and Cecaelia joins our merry little band of trouble makers. Whats left of your ship I'll store away in a very safe place, since it'd be troublesome if the Maximals find it, or Megatron destroys it, since after all.. I do have the most experience with spaceships. However..

He then moved towards her as one of his feeder tentacles stretched and wrapped around her torso and neck lifting and moving her to optic level with his, his optics and photophores suddenly turning red If you EVER pull a stunt like that again...I'll personally reprogram you to think your a little girl running through a field of sunflowers for the rest of your miserable halfling life. His optics then turned blue again as he set her down Doesn't sound bad now does it?

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Rhinox nodded as he looked towards airazor as she spoke Yes, but there is another..ug.. he got up slowly walking towards the pod We'll need to get Cheetor's locking chip and get it back inside of him. As for oweing us, I think we also owe you our own.

"HISSSSS!!" Starshadow spat at Glowstick's face and looked at Cecaelia with a glare.

"Please Nightstar-sama.." Cecaelia said with a soft tone.

"Join them and you'll never see your cute little sister or your buddies again." Starshadow smirked and earned a punch on the face from the blue femme.

"YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO MENTION ABOUT THEM! IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT MOST OF US DIED! AND WHY?! IT'S BECAUSE OF YOUR SLAGGING PLAN!" Cecaelia's rings were glowing brightly including the tips of her tentacles.

Glowstick watched with some amusement seeing Star punched by Cecaelia, then listened to their conversation. He then raised one of his arms in front of Cecaelia Now now.. killing her wont do much of anything. However.. her actions have disgusted me.. so I believe I've come up with a more.. fitting arrangement. It's more of a line fitting of Venatrix but..StarShadow, I challenge you to a duel of honor.. if you have any.. The terms are simple. If I win, you quit your foolishness and work with us once again, if you win. You can take my life and the Leviathan. The Leviathan itself can function in space, so using the transwarp cells and power from the reactor of Cecaelia's ship is all it would need to return to your comrades, something even a barbarian such as yourself should be able to do.

Sonar had watched the entire thing with arms crossed and a smirk on his face. He bit back a laugh when Starshadow was punched in the face.

About time some one hit her. To bad it wasn't me. He thought with a small smirk.

Now now.. killing her wont do much of anything. However.. her actions have disgusted me.. so I believe I've come up with a more.. fitting arrangement. It's more of a line fitting of Venatrix but..StarShadow, I challenge you to a duel of honor.. if you have any.. The terms are simple. If I win, you quit your foolishness and work with us once again, if you win. You can take my life and the Leviathan. The Leviathan itself can function in space, so using the transwarp cells and power from the reactor of Cecaelia's ship is all it would need to return to your comrades, something even a barbarian such as yourself should be able to do.

His optics widen at what Glowstick had said.

"Whoa, red flag on the field!" He said finally speaking up. "If you two are gonna kill each other, then I'm gonna leave and head back to the Darksyde, if neither of you return to the Predacon base, I'll assume that you killed each other."

He transformed into his beast mode and headed for the hanger and out the hatch.

"I wish you luck, Glowstick. But I doubt you'll need it." He said over his COM link.

Starshadow just smiled after getting punched.
"Hmph. Coward.." she said after Sonar flew away then turned her attention to Glowstick.

"Very well..but use two arms instead of eight." her optics were glowing brightly with excitement.

Cecaelia sighed and untie Starshadow then headed to the bridge.

The catbot smiled and licked her mech fluid- stained thumb. "Ready?"