The Intergalactic Highway

"Yeah I know. Don't remind me..."

He saw what he thought at first was a fish... but scans determined it to be a mammal... But it was huge...

"Any good news then Glowstick?"

SNow Trix listened clsoer but after a few moments nothing happened, it must have been a branch fallign froma tree.Wiht ntohing interesting happening she turned and walked back towards the ebac, "Iw as coming back. Unless you count scouting ahead as running away." She said guessing they thought she would have run off.

'Who knew these bots would jump to conclusions.' She thought with a roll of her eyes.

Xzuk looked around at the new squad of bots..

The first one he noticed was the other Fox.

"Interesting choice for a beast mode..."

Xzuk smiled and sat comfortably watching as Glowstick slowly descended back to Earth.

Glowstick folds his legs and rubs his chin as he desended to a low float. Hm.. Good news.. well, I may have thought of methods to find a direction to search at. It's a long shot mind you. During jettison, the pods may have recorded video of where the ship may have went. We could then try to figure out where we are, and try to figure out where they are from it.

The other option is even more of a long shot, this planet has an ionosphere, radiowaves can bounce and skip off those even in interference like this for hundreds of miles. If we detect something like that, we could calculate a course of where to investigate. Glowstick then started to turn floating upside down Ofcourse, I'm open to suggestions. I have a feeling our whale friend here may come in handy as well, he seems to be equipped with some form of long ranged radar.

Glowstick then looked towards Snow trix I see, welcome back then. Did you find anything? he then said while floating right side up again.

Sitting down, tail curled over her paws SNow Trix merely twitched ehr ear as she looked at Xzuk, "Nice form yourself....for a maximal." She said with a curt nod. "No nothing of any other suriviors or the crashed ships." She adde dot GLowstick turning her gaze to the squid. She thoguth for a long a moment about the radiowaves and interferences...maybe if they could...."Glowstick what about thsoe who can track on land? Wiht our beast forms we ahve a good sense of smell, maximal and PRedacon scents are different and easyt o follow." She said.

Glowstick shakes his head That could work, but we'd have to be near the target. Olfactory sensory is very limited even in the best of smells they would of had to of been within atleast a 5 mile radius of us. Also taking into account is how long a smell will last, which if the weather doesn't effect it could only be a week if your lucky.

So It could work.. but you'd want to combine it with recon flying to increase your odds. From the looks of things.. we only have two fliers.. Glowstick then transforms to his beast mode landing on the ground with a slight squish sound and I can't sustain flight in my beast mode..

"Well, before I just start calling people bot, I do believe introductions are in order."

"I'm Xzuk. Scouting specialist of the Axalon."

He looked at the other Fox, the Eagle, and the Whale.

"I don't believe we've met."

"I was just an idea but you have a point at elast." Snow Trix sighed, it was frustrating wiht things being so limited. "As for introduction my name is SNow Trix PRedacon Spy and hacker at your service." She bowwed her head slightly at Xzuk, the lion, and the eagle.

Having returned to his beast mode in order to converse energy, Orcariner replied.

"Hello there, Xzuk! My name is Orcariner, Maximal sentry of the exploration vessel Axalon."

Yes! he cheered inside, For sure, I will not be the only Maximal here. Although, the bird hasn't identified her affiliation, she behaves like one of us. Thank Primus for that.

Nodding in acknowledgment towards the translucent squid to his right, the killer whale continued.

"My scanners are able to reach well past 200 kilometers. Unfortunately, it seems I have some kinks to work out seeing how I was unable to detect high altitude fliers such as Moonshine before her appearance. I picked up a feint signal earlier near the beach, but as soon as I arrived the blip retreated and disappeared soon after. My guess is that we're all being spied on, and our stalker must have a base with jamming equipment."

He paused, wincing, after the scent of the dead meat reached his nostrils.

"Here's my ideas," he said, "The topographic grid shows two rivers east and west of our current location. If we follow the east route, we might be able to find the other signature but we can't go much further than that since Glowstick and I are water dependent. If we follow the west route, we can cut right through the inland and see what else this planet has in store for us. Any suggestions?"

"Well. Nice to meet you lot."

Xzuk thought for a moment...

"I've got one. There's only two people here that can begin to use their tech to trace things. That's Glowstick and Orcariner."

He looked back at the group.

"Now. If we were to split into groups of three each, and go seperate rivers, we are bound to find something... Any objections?"

Glowstick sent his feeder tentacles out latching onto the stasis pod, dragging himself to it he started to examine it No problem by me Fluffy. Hm.. Wonder if there's any parts I can get off this thing.. parts not required for it being a meat locker of course.

His tentacles started to open panels on it examining the pod's circuit boards and other parts.

Xzuk wrote:"Now. If we were to split into groups of three each, and go seperate rivers, we are bound to find something... Any objections?"

Orcariner turned to face Xzuk, "Sounds like a plan. What are the groups?"

"Go with who your most comfortable with I suppose. "

The last we need is conflict... and I'm not gonna go with that big bot alone on any day. I'd be scrap in no time flat...

This might simply divide up into Maximal and Predacon groups...

Glowstick's large eyes shift looking back at the others Difficulties selecting hm? Then lets divide the teams up by their skills and physical traits.

Glowstick then draws a image of a whale and image of a squid in the sand with a line under both. Now, since I can already fly.. I don't think my group will need bird girl.. as disappointing as that is..She'll be of more value to Orcariner.

As Orcariner already has great strength, the lizard here will make of great use to my group as I'm just a bit above average in that sorta thing.

Now I've noticed your pretty well armed from the equipment on your back Xzuk, and already my group is well armed.. But from what I've seen of Orcariner all he has is a light automatic rifle. Plus your speed would be vital to him.

That leaves Snowtrix who also has great speed and stealth for my group.

Glowstick finishes as the animals are seen drawn under the lines representing the characters, he crosses his feeder tentacles looking at them Are there any complaints? I believe these split us up rather logically.. don't you agree?

"It proves a good idea,we would cover more ground in that way. As for the grou[ pickings I'm not compalining." SNow Trix said with a slight shrugg and stood ready to head onwards. The female fox sniffed the air but wrinkled her nose at the strench of the carcasses. That was one scent she couldn't wait to get away from!