by Smokescreen85 » Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:44 am
- Motto: ""A look can be deceiving; a touch can be lethal.""
- Weapon: Twin Shoulder-Mounted Rocket Launchers
Orbital Bounce Platform
Once the first batch of energon cubes were away successfully, Smokescreen moved back over to his hover cart just as Brawn entered with a cart of his own. Smokey quickly removed the remaining cubes from his own container and placed them on the floor as the minibot offered to relieve him.
“Okay, Brawn. Will do,” the diversion expert responded. “I placed the remainder of the cubes from my cart on the floor. Once your batch is through, you can send these, as well. Meanwhile, I’ll take these two carts back down to storage and fill them up.” Smokey then grabbed a hold of the two empty containers and quickly exited the chamber, heading back down the corridor as fast as he could.
Storage Bay
Smokescreen entered the bay, pulling the two empty hover carts behind him. He placed them near a large stack of energon cubes and immediately began loading them up as carefully as he could. He wanted to move fast, but not too fast as to risk an explosion. The Decepticons would be there any astrosecond and they had to get as much energon back to the Ark-19 as possible before the inevitable battle began which would make things much more difficult. Hopefully, the Autobots outside would be able to hold the ‘cons at bay and prevent them from entering the ship. If the enemy managed to get inside, Smokey and Brawn would most likely be forced to turn their attention away from transporting energon and start fighting the ‘cons, instead.
Once both carts were filled to their rims with energon cubes, Smokescreen began pushing one cart in front of him while pulling the other from behind. Since he wasn’t exactly the strongest mech the Autobots had, Smokey was forced to move slowly as he exited the bay and headed back down to the bounce chamber.
Orbital Bounce Platform
The diversion expert was happy once he had reached the bounce chamber again. His circuits had really begun to feel the strain as he pulled and pushed the two hover carts down the long hallway. Smokey brought the carts to a stop and began unloading the contents. Each cart contained twelve energon cubes, so Smokey made four neat piles of six cubes each next to the bounce pad and then placed one batch on the platform, itself. Once he was done he straightened himself up and turned towards Brawn.
“Well, I brought down twenty-four more cubes for transport. I divided them up into four piles, each to be transported separately. And I’ve got one batch all ready to go. There’s still plenty more down in storage, so I’ll keep ‘em coming while you bounce them back to the Ark-19.” Smokescreen smiled at Brawn, as he grabbed the empty carts once again and exited the room in order to repeat the process he had just done.
Ocean Floor – Crash Site
Hardhead continued to wait patiently behind the coral reef he was using for cover. The fish had finally left him alone, but only after he had gotten done swatting at them repeatedly. He assumed that since Ironhide had not responded to his earlier request, that meant he wasn’t allowed to shoot at the tiny undersea creatures. At least they were no longer bothering him.
As Hardhead peered through as small hole in the coral, he immediately saw Blitzwing, Hellion and Ramjet at a distance along with several other ‘cons slowly making their way towards his position, using rock formations as cover. Ahh, finally some action! The war veteran thought as a smile crossed his face plate. He readied his two shatterblasters and waited for the enemy to be within firing range.
For a brief moment he considered alerting Ironhide and the other Autobots that the Decepticons were approaching. But, he knew that breaking radio silence could alert the enemy of their presence, so he remained quiet. The others would know what was happening in a few astroseconds, anyway, and they were more than capable of taking care of themselves.
Once the approaching Decepticons were in range, Hardhead jumped up from behind the reef and opened fire with his shatterblasters, spraying diamond-hard projectiles at Blitzwing, Ramjet and any other ‘con that was unlucky enough to get in his line of sight.
Nearing the Crash Site
Skywarp continued his slow approach towards the crash site alongside Thundecracker as they remained further back from the rest of the team in order to provide the ranged support Starscream had ordered. As the ‘cons ahead of them neared the site, the Autobots still had not shown themselves. Heh. Those stupid ‘bots are probably not even here yet, ‘Warp thought, shaking his head. An astrosecond later, a diamond-hard shard pierced through his right wing tip, startling the teleporter back into the reality of the situation. The Autobots were, in fact, here and they were now on the attack!
“Take cover! It’s the Autobots!” Skywarp shouted as he engaged his anti-gravity drive to allow him better maneuverability underwater. He quickly took cover behind a tall rock formation and then propelled himself to the top where he peered over and saw that the enemy fire was coming from behind a coral reef up ahead. Due to the murkiness of the water, he couldn’t quite make out which Autobot was attacking or how many, but it didn’t matter. He still had a job to do.
“Thundercracker, the shots are coming from that reef just before the ship. We should concentrate our weapons there!” Normally, Skywarp would’ve just teleported behind the reef and taken their attacker by surprise, but Starscream’s orders were for him and ‘Cracker to provide ranged support, so that was exactly what he intended to do. 'Warp then took aim at the coral reef with his rail guns and returned fire, hoping to pin down the enemy while the others got closer to the crashed ship.