The Energon Pub

Autobase Nu - Command Center

"Prank?" Prowl echoed, staring at Springer incredulously and resisting the urge to squeeze the bridge of his external olfactory apparatus in pure exasperation. While probably not quite as dour and humorless as many of his fellow Autobots believed, the strategist was probably the last mech on all of Cybertron to attempt something so utterly contrary to all rules of logic and military discipline. And why was the Wrecker still standing there? "No, Springer, it's not a prank."

Rubbing idly at his shoulder where the burly Triplechanger had clapped him in his previous show of exuberance, Prowl returned his attention to the data that was coming in on the present situation along the shore of the Rust Sea. Unfortunately, there was very little of it to speak of. Hardly ideal grounds on which to construct a response, but Kup had been very vehement in his call for reinforcement.

"All I can verify at the moment is that there's been a significant energy spike in the area consistent with with an exchange of fire. And the report from the ground patrol leader that a full-fledged Decepticon invasion is underway." That still troubled him, as he was quite certain that a large assault force from Kaon would have been detected before it made landfall. Perhaps Megatron had developed some new form of stealth technology?

"I know we're short on mechpower," Prowl went on, "but we can't ignore this. Take any Autobot who can point a weapon and fire it and find out what's going on. I'll alert Omega Supreme to be on standby to return to Nova Cronum if things really are as bad as Kup indicated. Now, for Primus' sake, go, Springer!"

Highway Grid – Shoreline

Skullcruncher was far too slow to dodge the incoming missiles, so he twisted his body to take the blow on his heavier shoulder armor. He grunted as they impacted against him, but there small size meant they hadn’t done considerable damage. He was about to continue his attack on Orpheus when one of the Aerialbots landed and started shooting at him. The shots didn’t do much damage to his considerable armor. By the time he turned to face him he was busy shooting at Weirdwolf. All the more foolish of him to start an attack and not finish it.

Skullcruncher transformed and lunged at Air Raid, his jaws open and ready to clamp down on the smaller Autobot. Orpheus would require further softening up, but he was sure that he could chomp down Air Raid with little difficulty.

Highway Grid – Shoreline

Air Raid was busy, trying to keep Sub-Zero from dying at the hands of Wierdwolf when he heard the sudden lunge Skullcruncher had taken. Air Raid turned around to witness the massive crocidile coming down on him as Air Raid fell to ground. Air Raids torque rifle slid across the ground landing near Sub-Zero. Air Raid brought his hands up in an attempt to hold the top of Skullcrunchers jaw upright, trying to to avoid being a small meal, hopefully Orphesus would be able to lend a hand or Air Raids days could be numbered. "Little help over here!" Air Raid exclaimed while he struggled under the massive force that was Skullcruncher.

Autobase Nu ~ Medbay

"Nonsense.." Was the immediate reply from Archangel as he listened to Brewer explain his concerns "..I see little that you could possibly blame yourself for in that situation..." The Medic paused as he unhooked himself from the recharging station "..If you had resisted and fought back while behind enemy lines, you would right now be either scattered in little pieces around Polyhex, or stuck in some dark cell, waiting for the Medic with a few screws loose to come check you out, rather than where you actually were, which was helping out with the Search and Rescue mission when the battle was over"

Archangel paused again as he grabbed Brewer and pulled him round to look into his optics, his voice taking on a sterner tone "You did what you had to so you could do your job, and there is no shame in that, none whatsoever, I would have done exactly what you did..." Removing his hands from the shoulders of the green 'Bot, Archangel shrugged his shoulders as he continued speaking "..So what if they took some part of you and stuck it into that walking calculator, they would have put one back into him when they got him back to Kaon anyway, it's not like you helped them in some major way, they just saved themselves a bit of time, no need to beat yourself up about it"

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Highway Grid ~ Shoreline

Orpheus chuckled to himself as his attack hit it's mark and Skullcruncher's shoulder armor crumpled from the explosion of the 2 missiles, but he couldn't ignore the strange feeling that still gripped his arm. Shaking it out, trying to rid himself of it, the young warrior looked up to see his target lunge at Air Raid, disarming him of his gun in the process, and attempting to bite him with his huge jaws, only the Aerialbot's arms stopping that from happening.

As he heard the cry for help, Orpheus wasted no time. Slinging his chaingun back over his shoulder, the huge 'Bot began to run towards the 2 mechs on the ground, the ground underneath his feet shaking as his large mass gathered momentum, until the point at which Orpheus launched himself towards Skullcruncher, attempting to tackle the warrior off of Air Raid.

Autobase Nu - Medical Facilities

"But the guy said it was a special device, Archangel!" Brewer was stressing himself out now. The blur of memories filled his mind as he tried to remeber what the device was called. The attempt proved futile, though. "Wish I would have paid better attention to all of that information. I must have been to busy trying to think of a plan to attack them." He lowered his head and sighed. "But you're right. If there isn't anything terrible happening yet, then there isn't any use worrying over it." He looked back up to his medic ally, "But..." Brewer stared hard into Archangel's optics, "But what if Shockwave shows up somewhere and proves more powerful than ever?"

Highway Grid - Shoreline

As Air Raid's torque blasts impacted his extremely thick armor, Weirdwolf found his charge slowed. He was knocked a touch off-balance, but remained on his feet and relatively uninjured.

"That...bought for time you only!" the tracker snarled as he charged once more at Wheelbar with his thermal sword bared. "Autobot, die!"

Bringing the weapon down in a wild yet skilled chop, Weirdwolf had all intentions of splitting Wheelbar from shoulder to hip.


A hail of laser fire from Kup's musket-style weapon filled the air between the old warrior and Skullcruncher as he charged back into the fray, intent on saving Air Raid from a messy demise. It saddened him to leave Kralix - good-sparked old Kralix, best Priest of Primus I'd ever met - in the rubble farther from the shore, but there was an invasion to repel.

"Drive 'em back, lads! Drive these rebels back into the Sea!" he bellowed. "Let's make 'em swim all the way back to Kaon!"

There was something odd about some of the Autobots he saw around him. I don't recognize some of these 'Bots...must be all the new rookies. But wait...I train most of the rookies myself. Maybe from Ironhide's cadre? I...cranial unit hurts. Got bigger things to worry about, slaggit!

"Push 'em back! Do it for the High Council and do it for the old Priest Kralix, and all the innocent pilgrims the rebels slaughtered!"

He kept pouring fire at Skullcruncher, determined that the rebels would not take Nova Cronum from Council control.

Highway Grid - Shoreline

Mindwipe smiled as Kup moved away. His ruse had worked as well as he had hoped. If everything continued to go this well, the Sentinel would soon be on it's way to face an imaginary invasion. There was just one last piece of the plan to enact. I must ensure that none of these fools give away my little trick.

Transforming to his shrikebat form, the hypnotist took flight. Originating in Mindwipe's transmitters, an awful noise began to flood all the Autobot frequencies. While the static would only be effective within a mile or so, the former priest was confident that would be more than enough to allow then to deal with this isolated group of Autobots at their leisure. He opened an encrypted channel to his teammates.



As he turned to rejoin his fellows, Mindwipe was certain this battle would be most enjoyable indeed. Yes.

Autobase Nu - Command Center

"Oh come on, Prowl, don't get your," Springer stopped. Even he knew when to call it quits with the logic-driven superior. The triplechanger quickly nodded, turned around, and walked out the door. On his way out, he gave out some words of reassurance. "I'll keep you posted."

Springer transformed and drove off to hopefully find some recruits. He quickly opened a com-link.

This might be a long shot, though.

>> Attention all active Autobots, we have an emergency going on out by the Rust Sea shore. Kup's team needs help. I need all available 'bots to report to the exit nearest the shoreline for assignment asap. In other words, if you can hear this and you're not dying or tending to any 'bot dying, move out. >>

Autobase Nu ~ Medbay

Leaning back against the wall as he listened to Brewer, Archangel crossed his arms across his chest and sighed "Alright, so lets play 'Worst Case Scenario' Lets suppose this doohicky that they took from you does, through some miracle of technology, improve Shockwave's capabilities in some way, the most likely result of that one optic purple monstrosity getting more powerful is that he's planning some kind of attempt to overthrow Megatron and become leader of the Decepticons, that's just how the 'Cons do things, most of them think they can do better job than the one above them, and most of the time they fail, miserably..."

Unfolding his arms, the young Medic fell held out his hands to each side "...Or on the other hand, he could in fact turn his new found power once more against us, in which case, we've got more than enough firepower to counter him. I don't care how much he may have improved his abilities, he's still no match for the Guardian currently wandering along the Polyhex border..."

Dropping his hands down once more, Archangel returned the look Brewer had given him moments earlier "...My point is, we don't know enough about whatever they took from you to be worrying ourselves about any possible consequences. OK, I won't deny there is a possibility that it could have made an already powerful 'Con even stronger, but we can't say with any kind of certainty that that is the case, the most productive thing you could do is hand a report into Prowl telling him everything you have told me, and let him decide what to do, if anything.."

The Medic stopped speaking briefly as Springer's commlink broadcast reached he and the S&R Specialist, his face creased slightly as he realised that Orpheus was in the middle of whatever was going on, and possibly in danger "...Look Brewer, let me put a bit of a different spin on things for you. You were captured, immobilised and heavily outnumbered behind enemy lines, you either cooperated or you died, no ground inbetween. If you had fought back, refused to help that medic, what would have happened to Forte?.."

Archangel paused as he gave an inquisitive look to the green 'Bot "..I had no idea where she was, I had no idea she was even injured, but because of you doing what had to be done, she was saved, and I've no doubt countless others as well, you ever stop to think about that?"

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Highway Grid ~ Shoreline

Landing near to Skydive, quietly thankful to have his feet back on the ground again, Silverbolt could see what was going on down near the shoreline, Air Raid had typically got himself well in over his head, and was underneath several tonnes of an angry Skullcruncher, and as Kup charged towards the Decepticon warrior, his gun blazing, the Aerialbot Commander listened, slightly confused at some of the things the veteran warrior was shouting.

"High Council? Kralix? Rebels? Pilgrims? What in Primus is he talking about?" Silverbolt asked himself, before his systems started picking up the awful, sensor splitting noise emanating from Mindwipe, though the Aerialbot Commander was unaware of the source of the interference, it did serve to take his thoughts off the peculiar things mentioned by Kup.

Pulling his rifle out of subspace, Silverbolt looked over to Skydive as he pointed out Mindwipe flying overhead "Skydive! Kup and his team have the groundpounders occupied, we've got to take Mindwipe down quickly. I'll distract him from down here, you engage him from the air, go!" The Aerialbot Commander gestured for his second in command to take off, before dashing towards the fight down below, firing 2 shots from his Electrostatic Discharger Rifle in the direction of the hypnotist.

Autobase Nu - Outside Medbay

"Back to work..." Juggernaut sighed. Those Decepticons would never give up. A quite admireable trait... in a twisted kind of way. Jugger had sworn to fight them till the last one of them ceases to function and with an adamantine determination he changed course and strode towards the exit that was closest to the Rust Sea.

Highway Grid ~ Shoreline

Sub-Zero's sapphire optics came to rest upon AirRaid's weapon. He had not even made it halfway to Wheelbar. Weirdwolf swung his sword at Wheelbar. Zero prayed the other bot was able to withstand the headmaster's blow. He took Air Raid's weapon in his hands and aimed it carefully at Weirdwolf's shoulder. Zero could feel time running against him. If he could not fight at his friend's side he would at least give him a slight advantage. The silver and black bot squeezed the trigger once sending a single shot at weirdwolf's shoulder. If it hit its target then Weirdwolf would be thrown off balance.

Zero fell to his knees and a strange sound filled his auds, as Mindwipe jammed their communications. He had seen Orphesus come to AirRaids rescue.

“Air Raid, Catch!”

he shouted as he slid the riffle across the ground to its master. Zero then looked down at his body a strange liquid leaked down his side and sparks showered from his midsection. Suddenly his right arm froze immobilized. He yelled out in frustration and pain as he fell to the ground bouncing once coming to land on his back his optics gazing up at the sky.

>>Energy levels 20%<<

Zero stared straight above, his voice merely a whisper laced in pain.
“Commence Stasis lock”
He wasn't even sure he would ever come online again he figured he would leak to death before anyone was able to retrieve him. As he stared at the sky he thought to himself, ~Cybertron had been beautiful once,~ ...... then everything went black.

Highway Grid ~ Shoreline

Skullcruncher nearly had his teeth clamped down on Air Raid’s arm when Orpheus lunged at him. He had expected the Autobot to attack, but not quite like this. He let out a groan as the large Autobot landed on top of him. It was fortunate that he was so strong and that his armor was so strong. A lesser Decepticon would probably be crushed pile of metal under the impact.

The swamp warrior instantly began thrashing underneath Orpheus, trying to shake him off or bring his jaw to bear on the Autobots softened armor. A few shots from Kup struck him, but he ignored them. His armor could take the punishment. He was going to sink his teeth into an Autobot today no matter what.

Highway Grid ~ Shoreline

He would have to thank Air Raid later... WheelBar thought to himself. The blast had given him just enough time to move out of Weirdwolf's path without taking damage. He was prepared to counterattack by swinging his sword around the Decepticon's neck, but a glimmer caught his eye. Laser fire barely passed him, and he looked off into the direction that it came, if only for a moment.

"Sub-Zero!!" Was all that escaped him. The bot must have used up too much energy from his attempt to save WheelBar from the missles. It was all his fault Zero was in trouble in the first place.

He evaluated the situation in the split second he had, as only he could. He had to ditch this moron for the moment, get to Sub-Zero, and maybe radio to one of the Aerial Bots to get him back to base. The decepticon would probably pursue him, but he would be able to hold up defences their easily. He just had to get there before Weirdwolf did. That wouldn't be a problem though, as he had saved this trick for such a time...

"See ya later loser!!" WheelBar glanced back as he let his special ability take over. His feet transformed, folding in on eachother and sliding into his legs. The wheels from his vehicular mode transferred down and replaced them. Locking in, they screeched on the ground before WheelBar took off to rescue his fallen comrade like a jet taking off...

Autobase Nu - Medical Facilities

Listening with a forced open mind, Brewer stared at the floor, trying to calm himself. He wasn't sure why he was stressing out over something - the event must have disturbed him more than he thought. The message from Springer knocked the green mech out of his deep thoughts, and he sighed, accepting what Archangel had said. The mention of Forte made a feeling in his spark, but he wasn't sure what type of plunge it was - pain, guilt...love?

Looking in the distant direction of the fembot, Brewer thought of what could have happened to her if he didn't survive. And what about all the other bots? Archangel was right, and Brewer knew it. "Yes, that's true. Well, maybe it should be forgotten about until needed. If something happens that seems like that device is the source of the problem, then I'll file a report. Sound good?" A tiny smirk etched on the Search and Rescue Specialist's lips. "Now how about that battle at the Rust Sea?" He unhooked himself from the refuel tanks, "feel up to it? Forte might be done once we get back."

Highway Grid - Shoreline

Air Raid was starting to worry, as those large teeth nearly clamped down on his arm, he struggled to keep them from ripping his arm straight off. "Your one ugly Decepticon!" Air Raid exclaimed to Skullcruncher as he fought to preserve his own life. Air Raid then blinked his optics as Orpheus's sheer force slammed Skullcruncher to the ground. Air Raid pushed himself to his feet. "Thanks big guy! I owe you one!" Air Raid exclaimed to the much larger Orpheus. Air Raid then reached up to catch his torque rifle that was tossed to him by Sub-Zero. "Alright!" Air Raid exclaimed to Sub-Zero as he received his torque rifle.

Air Raid then noticed that the glorious Silverbolt had finally decided to join the battle. Air Raid had yet to notice that Sub-Zero was going into statis lock, he was busy being pinned underneath Skullcruncher. "Nice of you to join the party Silverbolt!" Air Raid expressed to his Commander.

Air Raid stepped up beside Silverbolt and aimed his powerful torque rifle at Mindwipe, firing two solid powerful shots from his torque rifle aimed straight for Mindwipe. Mindwipe was now facing fire from Silverbolt and Air Raid. Air Raid looked over as Wheelbar yelled out. "Silverbolt, Sub-Zero's dying we gotta do something!" Air Raid exclaimed, holding his smoking torque rifle.

Highway Grid - Shoreline

"Autobots, as a rust eel slippery!" Weirdwolf growled as his timing was ruined by Sub-Zero's last-second shot and Wheelbar jetted out of his reach via some odd transformation trick. "You get I will another or one way!"

Seeking another opponent, one who might stand and fight rather than attempt to flee at every opportunity, the tracker noticed bigger game among the Autobots. As well, he saw that the Aerialbots had turned their attention to Mindwipe. Mindwipe was ferociously strong when pressed and his unique powers made him even deadlier, but he was not the most durable Transformer. Too much enemy fire would bring him down rather quickly. Weirdwolf certainly was not going to let that happen, though.

"Silverbolt, ahhh!" he snarled with pleasure, transforming back into wolf-beast mode. "Long too has it been last since saw each other we did! Make up for lost time will I!"

Fangs bared, he lunged at Silverbolt, ready to sink his teeth into the Aerialbot commander's armor as he bowled him over. Here now a worthy foe is!

Highway Grid - Shoreline

WheelBar hated to ditch in the middle of a battle, it just wasn't his style...but Zero's health was more important at the time than WheelBar's pride.

He skidded to a halt next to the fallen Autobot, leaning down to block Zero from any stray attacks coming their direction. WheelBar slid his sword back into the compartment of his leg. Opening up another compartment on his arm, he drew his pistol. Looking off to where the rest of the battle was taking place, he addressed Zero.

"Ok Zero, you have to listen to me. Here's the deal. I'm going to stay here and protect you as much as possible until I get someone to take you back to Autobase NU for repairs. What I need you to do is to hang on and don't die on me, ok?"

WheelBar gave a smiling glance to the Autobot to keep his spirits up. Sliverbolt came in for a landing and WheelBar's attitude turned serious. "Silverbolt! Can one of your bots take Sub-Zero back to base for repairs?!" WheelBar yelled, hoping to get the jet's attention.

Highway Grid ~ Shoreline

His attack had somehow ended the way he planned it, as he removed Skullcruncher from his position over Air Raid, Orpheus' momentum took he and the Decepticon warrior several meters away from the Aerialbot, who's thanks didn't go unheard, but did go unanswered. But as brave as his actions were, it now left him with the problem of dealing with Skullcruncher, who reacted to being tackled by thrashing around in an attempt to throw the young warrior off him, only Orpheus' bulk prevented that from happening, but it left him open to something much worse.

As he struggled to contain the Skullcruncher's thrashings, the Decepticon's jaw clamped down on Orpheus' left arm, the one that had been struck earlier by Skullcruncher's softening gun, teeth sinking deep into the weakened armor. Screaming out in pain, it was now the black Autobot's turn to thrash around as he tried to free his arm, but he had no leverage, and no strength advantage over his adversary, and as he ended up underneath the considerable weight of Skullcruncher, he was slowly losing feeling in his arm.

As he struggled, trying to ignore the increasing pain in his arm, Orpheus knew he couldn't give up, he had to at least buy some time until Kup or one of the others could get over and help him. Lifting his right arm up, the young warrior moved to bring down his elbow onto Skullcruncher's head as hard as he could, it was that or fire one of his laser cannons at the Decepticon, which would be a bit drastic and pretty much suicidal at such close range.


"Well I've got to make sure you don't get in too far over your head haven't I?" Silverbolt replied as Air Raid lined up next to him and joined him in attacking Mindwipe. He began moving forward, intending to keep up the attacks on the flying hypnotist, when he was stopped as his fellow Aerialbot once more grabbed his attention. Stopping to look in the direction of Sub-Zero, Silverbolt cursed as he could see him laying on the ground, motionless, before his optics were caught by the mode changing Weirdwolf, who had spotted him and looked to be heading right for him, talking in his own unique style.

"Air Raid! Go help Sub-Ze..." Was all the Aerialbot Commander could get out before he was clattered over by the charging Weirdwolf, his rifle sent skittling across the ground from the force of the impact, quickly followed by teeth meeting armor, as the Decepticon beast tore into his right shoulder. It wasn't often that he would rather be in the air than on the ground, but this was one of those rare occasions, as Silverbolt's shoulder armor crumpled and various internal fluids began flowing out

"I'm afraid I don't share your enthusiasm of the 2 of us meeting again Weirdwolf.." The Aerialbot Commander spoke trhough gritted teeth, before moving to counter, bringing his left knee up to try and hit the Wolf-Beast on the right hand side of his body.

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Autobase Nu ~ Medbay

"Sounds like a plan to me.." Archangel replied, a big grin forming itself as he spoke "..I'll probably have a hand in clearing up whatever mess they make down there anyway, might as well do it at the scene.." The Medic planted a hand on Brewer's shoulder as he paused "..And I'm sorry if I droned on a bit back there, I just hate to see people blaming themselves for things that just aren't their fault. Now, let's put that behind us and get our afts moving, Springer's not gonna wait around all day for us"

Highway Grid ~ Shoreline

Air Raid started to move forward, keeping his fire on Mindwipe he was confident the two of them could finish off the Decepticon but other situations arose. "But Silverbolt!" Air Raid expressed as Wierdwolf attacked his Commander. Air Raid wanted to help Silverbolt, glancing around he saw a struggle all around him. "Don't get deactivated while I am gone Silverbolt!" Air Raid expressed. It took him a great deal of willpower to leave Silverbolt there to face Wierdwolf alone, glancing back over his shoulder he saw Silverbolt take a shoulder wound from the powerful wolf.

Air Raid ran over to Sub-Zero's location quickly. "Wheelbar hurry up while we have time!" Air Raid shouted to him while transforming into a black jet, Air Raid started to power his jet engines. The sound of high-powered engines turning could be heard by all those fighting in the area. "Quick Wheelbar throw Sub-Zero on! I'll get him back to Prowl as fast I can!" Air Raid expressed. It was the only chance they had at saving Sub-Zero, he just hoped he could make it in time.

Highway Grid ~ Shoreline

WheelBar was thankful that Air Raid managed to get over here in time, noticing that he hated to leave Sliverbolt there. He quickly followed orders and lifted Sub-Zero, who was heavier in his robot mode, as carefully as he could. Loading Sub-Zero on board, WheelBar gave one last parting gesture to Air Raid.

"Get him there safely Air Raid, and good luck." WheelBar gave a slight grin. "And don't worry about Silverbolt, I'll be happy to help him take out the scrap!"

With that WheelBar secured Sub-Zero. His tires for feet reeling into motion, he raced to help Silverbolt...and finish his business with Weirdwolf...

OOC: OK, I guess I need to warn people in this thread too. For the duration of this fight you are limited to one post per day at the most. You MUST let other people respond to your attacks. Some of you are getting this warning for the second time. Consider this true for all battle threads. Not everyone can post once a day, let along multiple times. This is the last warning about this I am giving to some of you.

Highway Grid - Shoreline

Mindwipe was an agile mech, and a skilled fighter. However, the sheer amount of fire being directed his way precluded evading harm entirely. Fortunately, he had not been caught unawares. Transforming, he raised his arms to at least protect his head. About half the massed fire struck home, tearing into his mediocre armor. His antigrav cut out, and he began to fall.

his heads up display informed. It was time to change tactics. Returning to shrikebat form, the necromancer stabilized his flightpath with his wings.

Coming in low to the ground, he maneuvered so that the embattled Silverbolt was between him and Air Raid. Swooping towards Silverbolt, the hypnotist enacted the sinister ability he was designed for.

"Silverbolt," Mindwipe drawled. "You are in my power. Yes. You will fire upon Wheelbar."


OOC Clarification- Mindwipe's hypnotism, though powerful, is like any other attack. You decide whether your char is affected, and if they are, how long before they shake it off.

Autobase Nu - Medical Facilities

Opening his mouth a crack, attempting to respond to Archangel's assurance, Brewer stopped himself. He figured that maybe a simple response would be better than trying to explain himself. The others needed them out there - if it really was such a challenge to need all available bots at the Rust Sea - and they had no time to waste. "Right," he nodded with a bit of smile and turned to head enroute to the Rust Sea, knowing Archangel wouldn't be far behind.

Highway Grid - Shoreline

Air Raid had powered his engines while Wheelbar loaded Sub-Zero onto his jet frame. "I'll be back as soon as I can Wheelbar." Air Raid exclaimed. Two deep red images exploded from Air Raids engines, as fuel was burned, igniting his engines and creating power. Air Raid ascended into the sky, taking off from the ground, once he was clear of the field, a thunderous sonic boom exploded, racing fast as he could back to Autobase Nu. "Hang on Sub-Zero! Were almost there!" Air Raid exclaimed. Lucky for them they had not gone far from the base.

Prowl no doubt would witness an aircraft coming in on approach to Autobase Nu, if he was viewing the active sensor grid. Air Raid opened up a channel once he was away from the fighting on the ground. >>This is Air Raid calling Autobase Nu. Prowl come in over. I have a code red emergency. Sub-Zero is in statis-lock, not sure how much longer he can hold out. I am bringing him in now! Get medbay read!<< Air Raid exclaimed over a transmission sent to Autobase Nu, as Air Raid descended into the main hangar bay of Autobase Nu.

Air Raids landing gear lit sparks from the ground as he landed in the hangar bay.

Autobase Nu - Hangar Bay

Air Raid quickly transformed into his robot mode and carried Sub-Zero in his arms towards Medbay, straining a joint or two in the process, Air Raid is not the strongest Autobot after all, entering Medbay with Sub-Zero in his arms. "Medic!" Air Raid yelled out over the room.

Autobase Nu Medbay

Minerva heard Air Raid’s desperate call as he stumbled into the med-bay carrying Sub-Zero. Leaving Skywatch she raced over to the two stricken Autobot’s. Sub-zero looked to be in pretty dire shape. Minerva helped Air Raid shoulder the weight of the fallen mech and directed them towards an empty table. Whilst in transit Minerva began to ask Air Raid about Sub-zero’s actions.

‘How did he end up like this Air Raid? What exactly is happening outside?’

Minerva began injecting Energon into Sub-zero’s battered systems, in an attempt to keep him in his fragile stasis lock, this done she began running diagnostic scans looking for internal damage. Minerva was herself running low on power again, the energon Springer had given her was merely meant to tide her over for a while, then once she had finished with Skywatch she could have properly recharged. Still she wasn’t about to stop now that she had a new patient who so desperately needed her help.