The Intergalactic Highway

Steelclaw heard the shocked "what" emanating from his leader and passively allowed it to end its echo around the Darksyde walls before responding.

"Do you want me to have the others converge on his position, boss?"

Blazemane wrote:Steelclaw heard the shocked "what" emanating from his leader and passively allowed it to end its echo around the Darksyde walls before responding.

"Do you want me to have the others converge on his position, boss?"

"Yesss,and keep me posted on any further events."

Megatron cleared his throat before activating his comlink.

"Attention all Predacons. The Maximals have been spotted in a grassy clearing a short distance form you. Regroup at Waspinator's current position and wait for futher instruction. Megatron out."

With a satisfied grin,Megatron turned to Steelclaw.

"Shall we go,Lieutenant?"

((OOC:I hope I did ok on Megatron's command to the Predacons[Which is not in the episode by the way]. Also, I gave Steelclaw a promotion. I thought that if Megatron was especially excited[First spotting of the Maximals in terrain that would make them fairly vulnurable],and had a soldier who was a cause for victory near by,he would do something like that. ))

Saber kept her gaze locked on Waspinator's movements she readied her self to pounce if needed, but right now her main objestive was to make sure that Cheetor was to get out safelt.

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Some distance from the Maximal base a stais pod hand landed the top of the pod was opening to reveal a large cat that looked both like a lion and tigter only the mane was missing.
Dagger jumped out of the pod to streach her legs, she heard distance gun fire but didn't want to check it out, instad she entered a jungle and started to exploir and see if she could find shelter.

Megatron wrote:"Shall we go,Lieutenant?"

Lieutenant. A strange word to be certain. They used to spell it leftinant.

Either way it symbolized more power. For the few who had found the grand fortune, or perhaps misfortune, to taste better, it simply meant less power.

In the end though, it was just another name. Perhaps Megatron meant true reward in it. Perhaps not. Either way, Steelclaw knew he would fall out of favor with his leader at some point for being imperfect, and then the name would be revoked or take on the new definition of "primary stress-release target."

...So long as he wasn't as high on the ladder as Scorponok.

Steelclaw had not come on the mission- the theft of the golden disk, the acquisition of energon, the conquest of Cybertron, for the glory of promotion. There were positions which he had never touched, but in his history, he had seen enough of ranks and their proud veneer to understand that, were he truly desirous of power, nothing would satisfy him until, perhaps, he reached the top. And struggling to reach the top was an inefficient and rather perilous use of time.

No, he had two priorities: one, to bring justice upon the corruption of the Maximals, and two, to stay alive doing it. Of course, verbally denying Megatron's trinket of a promotion would likely place his second priority in extreme jeopardy, and therefore, he took it in stride. And at any rate, there were more important things to worry about now.

"Immediately, boss." Steelclaw replied with as little emotion as he could muster. He transformed into a large black bear and headed for the door.

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Waspinator wrote:"Wazpinator butt on fire! Wazpinator butt on fire! Wazpinator butt on FIRE!"

Cheetor looked up from his gun. The bug had obviously been taken care of by Valkyrie. He gave a thumbs up.

"Nice shooting!"

(The Maximals may or may not need to say "Get to cover- we'll swat that pesky Predacon", since OC's change the course of canonical events anyways, but either way, Waspinator may or may not be down for the count- Cheetor presumes he is.)

Winterong paused,the scent of Maximal much stronger now.She crfouched and moved slowly then peered from around a boulder seeing the Axalon surprisingly it was closer then she had expected."That's where the scent is coming from,must be an exploration crew or something."She said to herself still staying hidden.Her white and black pelt could easily give her away so she waited to see what would happen.

Blaze's ears perked up at a nearby rustling in the grass. She sniffed,but the scent she caught was so weak(The wnd was affecting it)that she knew it was nothing to go on.

"Blaze,Maximize!" Her front legs became strong furry arms as fingers sprouted out from inside her paws. She stood,much taller now,on her hind legs,which had become her only legs in robot mode. Her tail was an energy whip which she attatched to her side. Her metal parts were gold,adorned with red,and her torso was red as well. Her face was gold,with a black area surrounding her yellow optics,giving her a "masked" feel. A scruffy growth of fur,similar to a mowhawk,ran down the back of her head,behind a crest at the top which boasted a Maximal symbol. Her canine ears,with their many piercings,stuck out on either end of this. Also,a belt with a buckle almost twice the size of her own head adorned her waist.

"Alright! Who goes there?" she demanded,pointing her rifle at the surrounding vegetation,and trying her best to look and sound meanacing. In reality,of course,her Brooklyn accent,which was extremely strong,and odd apearence only made the whole scene more laughable. Clearly,she needed to study up on her tactics.

Wintersong paused her ears going back and she gulped silently then move on more quietly so not to alert someone else.But this hope was shortly lived,as careless as she was Wintersong's paw hit a pebble causing it to hit the ground and few larger rocks.Crouching closer to the ground the she-tiger fembot stayed stalk still not moving a muscle,or what would have been muscle.

All of the sudden, something was descending from the clear sky. It appeared to be a large black stasis pod.
After it crashed landed, the pod laid on the ground silently, waiting for someone to fetch it

When Skyfire had turned to Agui to inform her about the stasis pod, she noticed that the Hyena was missing as wel.

"Hey Agui, do you know where the stowaway went?"

Then the monitor bleeped again.

"Another pod already?!"

Deep in the jungle,
The pod scanned a beast mode, it was still motionless until there were three loud bangs from the pod's door.
A sound was heard through it saying ,"SLAG IT! The entrance is jammed! How am I suppose to get out of this slagging pod? I've to just wait for someone to open it !! Damn...WHY MEEE?? "

When no one said anything about the sound Wintersong assumed it was alright to move.Standing in a half crouch and still walking silently as possible Wintersong made her way slowly to the Axalon.It definately was an exploration ship but why had it crashed?Could the other Maximals be alive?There was still more things that puzzled her about this but she kept her jaws clamped shut just in case.

Another thing she noticed was that she no longer had any cover where she was standing.She now looked like a patch of snow with black stripes,an easy target if mistaken.

"Slag!"She said to herelf then searched for a better place to look and hide from.

Dagger heard pounding and she followed it few minutes later she found a pod like her's only this one was closed tightly and she heard a voice. What ever the creature was it was trapped.
"Hold on i'll try to get you out of there." She told the thing inside the pod.
Then to her amazment she transformed and took out what looked to be like a blow torch.

((OOC : yep she is...just waiting for a predacon to retrieve it))
The creature in the gave a few hard pounds until the pod's door was dented with her fist marks. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!", screamed the creature.

Dagger raised an eye brow when she saw the dents appear. "Listen to me, you need to calm down." She said.
Then started to saw work on getting the seals broken after a few minutes on working on breaking the seals, she was almost finished. "Ok i think you can break it open now." She said to the creature.

The creature's hand burst out of the door and kicked the door hard.
The door flew out disconnected to the pod and hit against a tree almost making it collasped with the door bent.
Then, a black armored femme with vampire wings and a demon tail appeared with cold white smoke surrounding her. She was stretching herself and wings out of the pod.
"Ahh...fresh air always taste good...Thanks for getting me out of the pod. I'm Starshadow. What's your name? Are you a maximal or a predacon?", asked the femme.