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Tagan Heights – Energon Refineries

Cyclonus streaked over the Tagan Heights. At the speed he was moving and the relative surprise that occurred with their assault meant that anti-aircraft fire was of little concern to him and his two companions. Soon he was flying over the vast energon refineries where various forms of energy were collected and processed into energon that was safe to consume by the populace.

With all of the energy being funneled into and refined in this sector, it was literally a powder keg. The aerial warrior fully intended to be the flame that would ignite the powder. He targeted what appeared to be an energon warehouse. Its destruction would likely set off numerous secondary explosions, and draw the attention of whatever defenders and emergency workers the Autobots had here. Then they would be among his next targets.

Cyclonus dropped his altitude and reduced speed as he neared the warehouse. He unleashed a series of his incendiary bombs down onto the warehouse. Firing his engines to full he rocketed away from the building as it exploded in a fireball that lit up the entire district.

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Sixshot dropped down to street level as he entered the refinery district of the Heights. In an instant he transformed into his siege tank mode and began rumbling down the streets. He opened fire on any Autobots who randomly crossed his path along with any defenses or vulnerable buildings he encountered. Being on the ground, he knew he would be the first of the three to encounter the largely ground based Autobots. He looked forward to hopefully finding a fighter worthy of challenging him among their ranks.[/b]

Tagan Heights-Outside the Energon Pub

Even from his position, Nosecone could hear the explosions coming from the energon refineries. "Slag!" The Technobot muttered, grip tightening on his X-ray laser. "Looks like if we don't get over there soon our repair work will have been for nothing!" The Technobot was notorious for being slow moving, and over thinking things somewhat. Even now, as the Technobot ran alongside Scattershot and the other Autobots that had joined them to defend the heights, Nosecone was plotting out the quickest route to the refineries in his mind, and somewhat lacking complete focus on the situation. Regardless, the methodical Technobot's mind would be fully on combating the invaders when the time came.

Tagan Heights – Energon Refineries

Sunstreaker grabs up his gun

"Blasted Cons!"

He looks over to see the two in coming air craft

"Those Seekers are seeking to get their nose cones knocked in!"

As they come closer he gets a better look at them

"Hmm those aren't Seekers....the Cons are sending prototypes at us now?"

He transforms and heads over to a anti-air guns that start to open fire. Sunstreaker transforms and pushes one of the bots out of one of the guns

"Move over, if you miss you'll hit the energon."

He takes up the gun. He moves it to target Cyclonus and opens fire.

Tagan Heights – Secondary Launch Bay Beta

Stormfire raced through the hallways opening a channel to the command centre
‘Command this is Stormfire, requesting information on the Decepticon strike force’
Reaching the hanger he raced over to the controls, lowered the hanger doors and transformed.
‘Stormfire launching command’
With that he ignited his engines and shot up high, instead of levelling out he continued straight up high into Cybertron’s upper atmosphere, it never hurt to surprise the enemy.

Autobase Tau Command Center

"This is slagging ridiculous!!" Roadbuster growled as he slammed his fist down onto the Command Console in front of him, making several nearby Mechs jump "We've got no solid info on just who or what is attacking us" he continued, talking to nobody in particular.

Standing up and turning around, he called over the 'Bot who had been running the images of 2 of the attackers through the Database to see if there was a match "Have you identified either of those 2 'Cons yet?" "I'm afraid not Sir.." The mech replied "..I cleared the images up as much as possible and ran them through the databse, but there were no matches on either one" The Mech finished, taking a few steps back in anticipation of Roadbuster's reaction.

"Well did you run it through the database just the once?" The Wrecker asked, keeping as calm as possible "Actually Sir, I ran it through our database twice, and also requested the images be run through Iacon's database as well, which was why I was so long, still no matches Sir, sorry" The Mech finished before taking his leave.

Roadbuster turned back to the Command Console and the various monitors, with Trailbreaker sitting at them, working his circuits off to keep up with the situation. Hearing Stormfire's request for an update on the situation, Roadbuster opened a return link "Acknowledged Stormfire, information is limited at the present time, all we know is that there are 3 unknown Decepticons, all with the ability to fly and significant firepower, making their way across the Tagan Province towards the Energon Refineries, make your way out there and engage them, don't try and be a hero and take them all on by yourself though, do what you can until Scattershot and his team get out there, Roadbuster out"

Standing up straight once more, Roadbuster cursed once more that he was seeing this conflict out from the HQ rather than out on the 'Battlefield' and then opened up a link to the only fellow Wrecker assigned to the Tagan Province, Rack 'N Ruin "Rack, Ruin, Roadbuster. We've got a little situation going on at the moment, and your presence is required, so I would appreciate it if you would get your combined afts up to the Command Center, now"

Tagan Heights-Outside the Energon Pub

Strafe was running towards the noise when he ran to Nosecone "what happened?" The skittish gunner seemed even more skittish that normal as his trigger finger seemed over reactive with how it was continually switching positions on his gun. He didn't like where this was going; he'd been patroling for ages and hadn't seen anything, now he really wasn't like the prospect of actually fighting someone.

Tagan Heights – Skies over the Energon refineries

Cyclonus had begun strafing a few targets after his initial bombing run. He didn’t want to use up his entire load of bombs on just this one target. His initial damage was spreading around the refineries anyway, so any more massive attacks here would simply be a waste of energy. He wanted to save most of that energy for terminating Autobots.

The Autobot defenses at last began coming to life as anti aircraft fire began lighting up the sky above the energon refineries. Most of the fire was automated and fairly predictable. It wasn’t too hard for Cyclonus to avoid. That was until he took a hit to one of his wings. The Decepticon warrior grunted in pain, but the damage wasn’t too severe. Apparently an Autobot with some amount of skill had taken control of one of the guns. He would have to make the acquaintance of this Autobot.

Cyclonus dropped down low to the ground, racing towards the source of the fire that had hit him. He spotted a yellow Autobot manning the gun, Sunstreaker. He fired off a few laser blasts at the Autobot and his gun emplacement before transforming into his robot mode a short distance in front of him. “Come Autobot, let us see if you have any skill as a warrior in close combat.” He motioned for Sunstreaker to try and take him on in hand to hand combat.

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Tagan Heights - Refinery district

Sixshot spotted that anti air fire going up into the sky, trying to shoot down the other two Decepticons. Apparently they hadn’t noticed him on the ground yet. He was just going to have to announce his presence more loudly. He swung the turret of his tank mode around and opened fire on a nearby anti-air turret. The gun exploded in a shower of sparks. The sixchanger would just keep destroying these defenses until someone finally came to challenge him.

Tagan Heights: Outside the Energon Pub

"Well from the looks of it, Strafe..." Nosecone began, "The Decepticons are attacking us. I mean, that's not really surprising but we've never seen any 'Cons like this before. It looks like Megatron has been up to more than we know. Whatever they are they're really doing a number on the refinery district. If we want the repairs we just completed to mean anything, then we have to get over there, and soon!" Nosecone could tell that his fellow Technobot was nervous- even more so than usual, and he had to admit that he hardly blamed his high strung companion. Facing Decepticons was bound to put fear into the spark of any mech, and with never before seen warriors like these, any mech would be nervous. Except for maybe Scattershot, their fearless leader.

"Don't be afraid Strafe." Nosecone muttered. "We can take these slaggers. It won't be easy but nothing in this war ever is."

Tagan Heights: Outside the Energon Pub

Strafe nodded absent mindedly at Nosecone's explination his hands fidgeted even more that they had before. "Well what are we waiting for then!" he exclaimed. Trying to appear ready and confident; however, the gunner knew it was obvious otherwise. Nosecone always could see right through him and his next words meerly confirmed it. New con's always meant troubble and he seriously doubted that this lot would be any different. Well at least he had the other technobots; even if sometimes they were rather irritating.

"Thanks; but I can't help it" he muttered. "Just watch my back okay; I don't like this one bit" Strafe tried to disperse that rising nervousness that threatened to overtake his cortex.

Tagan Heights – Energon refineries

Cyclonus moved to fast for the anti-air gun to reposition to target him. It being stationary it couldn’t dodge the fire from Cyclonus who let loose on it. Sunstreaker however, was not stationary. He leaps from the seat as the shots impact the gun. Before he hits the ground he transforms into his car mode. His tires hit the ground as the gun he was on exploded.

Sunstreaker didn’t waste time. As his tires hit the ground he quickly took off. As Cyclonus transforms and touches down on the ground Sunstreaker turns to the side and comes to a squeaking halt. Before the smoke cleared he transforms back into bot mode, and turns towards Cyclonus.

As he face off with them a near by anti-air gun hit and destroyed. Still keeping an eye on Cyclonus Sunstreaker turns his head a to spot Sixshot out the corner of his eye. He starts to think about the current situation.

“A Decepticon tank as well? Where did he come from? Ug, there was three jets, where did the other two go?”

Things didn’t look good. He tries to think things through.

“Wait, Blitzwing? That tank doesn’t look like him, but he can turn to a tank and a plane. That would explain it just showing up, and the missing of one of the jets.”

He turns back towards Cyclonus. He seems to want to go hand on hand. Just to Sunstreaker’s liking. It would be smarter to go all out and start blasting know, but Sunstreaker couldn’t turn down a challenge.

“Haven’t seen Con models like you before. You just off the assemble line? Hope you got your warranty still.”

He charges towards Cyclonus. Right before reaching him he would side step to the right and throw a left hook.

Tagan Heights - Energon refineries

‘Roger command Stormfire moving to engage the enemy.’
Stormfire had chosen his target, the large tank that was systematically destroying all the anti air defences. Stormfire rolled into a dive and targeted the tank, releasing two missiles, which went streaking down towards the unsuspecting tank. Pulling up out of the dive Stormfire caught sight of Sunstreaker engaged in combat with another of the Decepticons
‘Command this is Stormfire, have engaged the enemy, patching through a visual link now, I have the location of two of the enemy but I have no sign of the third.’
Stormfire flew on to hunt for the missing assailant.

Refinery District

Cyclonus was pleased to see that he had found an Autobot willing to fight him in personal combat. He had feared that all these Autobots would do is fire at him with their automated defenses. He wanted to be able to see how well they could fight face to face.

Sunstreaker charged at him. The Decepticon air warrior braced for the attack but was slightly surprised when the Autobot sidestepped at the last moment and hit him in the face with a left hook. The blow struck Cyclonus, turning his head to the side, but he was quick to reply to the attack. As the Autobot ran up next to him after delivering his blow he lashed out with a kick to his back, hope to send the Autobot down or staggering past him.

He turned to face the Autobot once more. “You have courage Autobot, and some skill, but it will not be enough to defeat me.” Cyclonus launched a punch with his right fist at Sunstreaker’s head.

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The missiles slammed into Sixshot and exploded on impact. The sixchanger was consumed by the flames and smoke, until he roared out of it in his fighter mode. The missiles hadn’t done much damage to him.

Sixshot quickly flew after Stormfire. Much as he suspected, these Autobots weren’t going to offer him much of a fight. This one apparently thought he could fire some missiles at him and be done with it. Unfortunately for him, the sixchanger had been desperately seeking out a fight, and he wasn’t about to let this little Autobot get away. He opened fire with his hypersonic concussion blasters while trying to keep a close pursuit on him.

Refinery District

Sunstreaker felt the impact of the kick in his back, which causes him to stumble forward. Before he could regain his balance the Con catches him with a punch to the side of the head dropping him to his left knee.

At this position it made a good opportunity to do a quick transform and ram. This thought crosses Sunstreaker's head, but he doesn't. There was pride in this. He was the best of the Autobots. A newly shown up Con just took him down to the ground. Sunstreaker will enjoy this fight.

Sunstreaker’s eyes caught Stormfire moving in to attack the tank Con. He seemed to hit him with a clean shot, but from the flames a jet appeared. So it is a double changer. Was it Blitzwing or another newbie? It was good to know your opponent, but now was not the time to worry about him. That was Stormfire’s opponent. Sunstreaker’s opponent was the Con in front of him.

Sunstreaker lowered his right shoulder and pushes up with his left knee aimed to ram into Cyclonus’s chest.

“You seem new, so I’ll fill you in. You’re messing with the wrong Autobot!”

If Sunstreaker were able to connect with his right shoulder his weight would be mainly on his right leg since he pushed up with his left leg. If this were the case then Sunstreaker would swing his left leg to hopefully catch Cyclonus before he could recover from the shoulder ram.

Tagan Heights – Skies over the Energon refineries

Stormfire took the hit to his left upper wing, sending him spiralling to the left, instead of trying to correct his flight path Stormfire used the momentum to swing round in a far smaller arc than he could have achieved on his own. Briefly he examined his wing, it was a bit dented but he wouldn’t lose much manoeuvrability. Stabilising, Stormfire targeted his assailant, a jet, this then must be the third attacker, Stormfire opened fire with his laser cannons, firing two short bursts towards the con before diving under him and beginning a roll that would bring him round behind his opponent.

OoC: I hope no one minds that I temp Lightspeed and Afterburner for a few bits of time... I can't let all you posers have all the fun now can I?

Skies over Energon Refinery

Scattershot was remiss that it had taken him so blasted long to get from the northern territories of the region to the southern tips. He was even more pissed that they had started the party with out him. Scanners were now on full alert as he barrelled forward through the stray shots. And immediately his scanners picked up something rather odd. It wasn't a full operational force that was attacking. No it was much smaller, couldn't be more than a dozen if that.

It didn't take long till he was with in visual range of the battle between the vaunted yet overmatched defenders of the southern refinery. His scanners and gun sight camera's swivelled an locked in on the vaunted Sunstreaker and his battle with some three Decepticon's. None of which he really recognized, and two of them were uglier than sin. With a shift of energy, he patched his observation down to the four trailing Technobot's. "Well well, Hey get a load of that down there Lightspeed, good ole Sunstreaker's getting his paint dirty."

Lightspeed's computer systems went into high alert as he processed the incoming information from Scattershot's scanners. He really did not have time to deal with his leader's comments or his bloodlust at this point in time... mainly because he figured that they were going to need a relatively good battle plan in order to ensure victory and the survival of the entire energy refinery. "Scattershot, I must admit I am a bit worried about those two new profiles. There is no mention of them in my data banks nor are there any records of them in the Intelligence Network."

"Who cares... I'm going ta have fun crushing each of'em under my tires." Afterburner chimed in as he dodged a falling piece of debris from one of the damaged onings. "Of course if little brainiac doesn't want to get big booboos all over his fantasy world. I'd be more than happy to take your share of the action while you cry to big bot."

"Knock it off Afterburner or I'll see you rust in the brig for a vorn."

"You don't have the bolts Lightspeed."

"ENOUGH." Scattershot's voice boomed over the comm terminal. "Afterburner shut your vocalizer or I'll shut it for you, permanently..."

"... you got lucky Lightspeed, saved by the hotshot." The cycle's voice was low enough that it was not picked up by the team communications.

"Got any plan's yet Speeder?"

"Not yet Scattershot, I need more data as to what these new figures can do. What they are capable of, their weapons of choice... the basic details." The second in command of the Technobot party shifted into high gear and attempted to get ahead of a falling chunk of concrete. "If I could get that data perhaps I could...."

Scattershot dove down under a few banners and wires in order to get closer to the ground. "Data huh, well then I suppose thats where all my fun gets to start. Take your scans as we engage. Afterburner will keep you covered. Nosecone and Strafe will take the big ugly dude."

"Umm which one's the ugly one?"

"The big Purple Ugly."

(ooc: don't mind at all)

Skies over Energon Refinery

Strafe just listened to the two bicker right now he was very; very skittish. It showed in the way he flew. Still listening to Afterburner and Lightspeed argue did help keep his mind off of all the possibilties that could happen; which did quite effectively calm him down a fraction.

Nevertheless as Scattershot's command Strafe waggled his wings in response and dove towards the enemy firing in his own way as he went past. This unfortuantly meant that it was more than likely that half his shots actually missed their mark. Nevertheless Strafe was keen enough to live up to his name; something that tended to cause a little more damage than it was worth. He just hoped no one would kill him for it later.

Remains of Outpost B-13

The silence that had descended on the destroyed outpost remained as the lone figure of Jedishen lay underneath what remained of the guard tower that was present before the Decepticon attack on the outpost. His inactivity wasn't without reason, it allowed the Scout's internal systems to assess the damage he had recieved and for his other systems to stabilise and recharge after the brutal attack.

His systems reading acceptable levels of energy once more, the Scout grabbed one of his Energon Sabers from his right side and activated it "Time to get the pit out of here" He mumbled to himself as he sunk the blade into the metal girder that was pinning him down and began to cut through it. Already weakened by the earlier firebomb, the girder didn't offer much resistance to the blade and was quickly slice in half, allowing Jedishen to pull his legs free.

Replacing his Saber to it's mountings, the Scout began sliding backwards until he had enough space to stand up. Grabbing onto the crumpled debris, he began to hoist himself up to a vertical base, finding out that his left leg was somewhat less than fully functional in the process, a result of one of the shots he took earlier. Finally standing up once more, Jedishen looked off into the distance where he could see flashes of gunfire and explosions in the area of the Energon Refineries.

"Just as I thought.." he mumbled to himself "..Frag it, I don't care how much pain I'm in, there's no way I'm letting this lie" The Scout decided as he looked at his damaged armor and blown out knee joint. Transforming into his alt mode, quite gingerly it must be said, Jedishen set off towards his attackers, revenge firmly in his thought processes.

Refinery District

Cyclonus grunted at the impact of Sunstreaker slamming his shoulder into him, but the attack did little damage to him. The air warrior was simply too strong for such a blow to send him heavily off balance. He was ready for the follow up attack, deflecting the kick with his right arm.

“You are right Autobot, I am new. I am faster, tougher and stronger than any other Decepticon the likes of you has ever faced. I represent a new beginning for the Decepticons, and the end for the Autobots.”

Cyclonus took a step closer to they yellow Autobot, ready to continue their fight, when Strafe fired down at him. He flung his arms up to protect himself from any shots to the head, but most of the shots impacted around him. He should have known he wouldn’t be allowed to finish this fight one on one. The Autobots were too weak to fight him individually, so they would attack him in groups. It was just another reason why they were unfit to rule this planet.

“Autobot cowards!” he shouted before transforming. The yellow Autobot wasn’t worth the trouble any more, not with an Autobot in the air and, from what he could see, more of them in bound. He wasn’t going to be a sitting duck for the Autobot hordes to pour their fire down on. He roared up into the sky, launching off in pursuit of Strafe, his lasers blazing at the Technobot.

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Sixshot continued firing at Stormfire as the Autobot rushed back at him. He did some juking to try and avoid the incoming fire from the other flier, taking only a couple of glancing hits. The smaller Autobot was very nimble and was able to dive under the larger Decepticon. The sixchanger looped after him, trying to get on his tail but only with partial success.

He was growing tired of chasing after one lone little Autobot when he knew he could take numerous Autobots at once. He longed for a battle that would challenge his strength and skill. It looked like the only challenge he was going to have in this battle is chasing down his opponents.

Skies over Energon Refinery

The Decepticon was fast, despite his bulky appearance, Stormfire nimbly wove through a series of aerial manoeuvres trying to get the con off his tail fortunately the mechs’ initial angle meant Stormfire was able to break the lock, his opponent did not seem impeded by the hits Stormfire had managed to land, and further more Stormfire had learned to be cautious of the cons weapons, he had taken a hit to his right side, grazing a layer of armour off of his frame. Instead of heading back towards his enemy, Stormfire dove towards the ground, he was going to find out just how good a flier hi opponent was.

Refinery District

Strafe somehow had a feeling that he was going to be in big troubble for that stunt later; but right now he was more worried about the decepticon rocketing behind him. Barely dodging the lazers Strafe slammed on his airbrakes and turned returning Cyclonus's lazerfire before ducking underneath him. Hopeing that Nosecone would get his act together and help him. Or failing that someone would shoot this guy. Still he really didn't have anything better to do.

Refinery District

One central skill any Autobot warrior had to have if he wanted to last one the battlefield was ground to air combat practice. Seeing as there were many Autobots who were stuck on the ground, and nearly every Decepticon could fly, the reason for the skills importance was quite obvious. Seeing Strafe firing desperatley at his foes, Nosecone just shook his head slightly. When would the gunner realize that if he slowed down and thought about where he was going to shoot he might be more effective. However now was certainly not the proper time to criticize his friends tactics- Strafe needed his help.

Nosecone got down on one knee, focused very carefully on the flying purple jet prototype that he'd never seen before (and the origin of which he'd be sure to try and discovered- after they stopped him functioning that is.) Taking careful aim not to hit his brother Technobot or any of the other Autobots, Nosecone began to lay down a heavy amount of surpressive fire with his X-Ray Laser whenever the jet was in range. If he could limit his foes mobility or even damage him, then things would go that much easier for the Autobots.

Refinery District

Sunstreaker jumps back as the fire from above comes down on Cyclonus, and nearly himself.

"NOOOO!"

Sunstreaker cliches his fist as he looks up towards the Technobots

"THAT WAS MY FIGHT! YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO GET IN MY WAY!"

He looks towards Cyclonus who was now out of his range

"Strongest Con, Ha! That doesn't say much."

He takes out his blaster and looks towards the other Con that Stormfire was engaged with. Still no sign of that third Con. He must of feel back.

Sunstreaker was mad. The Cons where now in the air, and out of his range. His battle was stolen from him. Oh he was going to make some one pay. He looks to see how best to get back into the battle.

Skies over the refinery district

The Technobot Strafe was indeed a skilled flier. Slamming on the brakes and turning to assault Cyclonus surprised the Decepticon flier, but only for a brief moment. As he passed over the Technobot flier, Cyclonus flipped and inverted his direction, flying upside down behind Strafe. He opened fire on the other flier, hoping to send him smoking down to the ground.

Since he was flying upside down, Cyclonus was just able to spot the incoming fire from Nosecone in time to avoid most of it. One blast singed his right wing. He flipped back over and released two incendiary bombs above the Autobot. Hopefully that would be enough to keep him occupied until his little dogfight was over.

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Sixshot was done chasing after the cowardly Autobot. He was a warrior and this Autobot was nothing more than a speck to him. He swooped down low over the city, flying towards where he had detected other Autobots coming earlier. He dropped down to street level and transformed into his armored carrier mode. He roared towards Sunstreaker and Nosecone, blasters blazing. Perhaps taking on two Autobots at once would prove a suitable challenge for him.

Skies over the refinery district

Hearing Sunstreaker shout Strafe mentally winced; yup he was going to be in for it later. Sighing he shifted his mind back on track in time to realise that Cyclonus was quite litterally on his tail.

With great trepidation Strafe performed and inverted loop, this did save him from getting shot down, even if he did get a few shots on his tail; slightly damaging his ability to manuver. "Just my luck" he muttered as he tried to dive down on Cyclonus, his manuvering was a little disorientated, but he did manage to open fire. He just hoped that he actually hit his target this time.

While performing his loop he noticed someone comming in...and he didn't look friendly >>Nosecone look out!<< he quickly radioed his friend.