The Energon Pub

Autobase Tau - Medbay

It was that all familiar dizziness that surrounded Beretta's central processing unit and cranial chamber, as it had been every single time she was tucked into a CR chamber. Meaning, every single time she had gone to battle. Voices distant and reverberating, Beretta unable to understand them. There were no visuals yet, only darkness floating in front of her visor.

A slight smile crept across the femme mech's face. She knew all this was just temporary, and she'd be back online soon. Only to find her way back later.

The recharging device gave a dull beep, indicating that all repairs had been completed. The tube began to pump the nano-container liquid out of the chamber and with barely sensible elctrical charges, started to bring life back to Beretta's systems.

Apart from the silent bubbling of the fluid inside the chamber, there was no noise or sound the chamber would make. The whole process would almost have made Beretta look like a sleeping beauty, finally awakening from a long, tiring dream. Almost. And even that, only for a moment.

Before anyone in the medbay could spare the time to draw some peace of mind from the idyllic picture, Beretta's right leg suddenly bent and with a swift motion, kicked the hatch of the CR chamber open with a loud clang.

The upper torso of the fembot sprang out of the tube, taking a half sitting position.

"Aaahh, finally, we're done!" Beretta grinned at those around her chamber, mainly at Arcee and Remington. She was expecting shocked expressions in return, but what she got was much more staggering.

Just as she got to the end of the sentence, a trasmission cracked into her transceiver, coming from Ultra Magnus, and the alarm systems of the Autobase went off simultaneously, setting the fembot's fluid circulation speed to the maximum.

"Arright, just how I like it!" Beretta said, clenching her fist as she got fully out of the CR chamber. Drawing her dual pistols out of subspace, she checked, loaded them, and lowered them, placing the two weapons in her waist holsters.

"Okay, Remy, you know the drill. I tag'em, you bag'em." She then said with a wide grin on her faceplate, standing firmly to face Remington, pressing a finger against her chest.

"Um...Retta...I think you should..." Remington tried to calm her, but she knew all too well it was most likely wasted effort.

"Magnus called us, right? We're good soldiers and we comply orders, right? Now let's go!" The answer sounded drastically sarcastic, coming from someone like Beretta, who was not the most likely person to follow others to the letter. She could, when she wanted, but she was rather moody about it. Still, she just grabbed Remington by the shoulder and began to drag her out of the medbay.

"Don't stay behind, Arcee!" She said aloud, glancing back above her shoulder at the other femme, giving her a confident grin.

With that, Beretta transformed into her vehicle mode and sped off towards the east tunnel entrance, with Remington following suit.

Autobase Tau - Medbay

Strafe rushed to his team-mates side "I'm here; I'm here. Shesh do you know the meaning of patience or what?" he complained to Afterburner; nevertheless he was alert and ready to go.

Tagan Heights ~ South of Autobase Tau

Roadbuster didn't answer Chase, he knew the Throttlebot was right, and took off towards the base as fast as his wheels could take him. As he rolled along, with Freeway and Searchlight in close proximity, the Wrecker recieved Ultra Magnus' message on where he needed to go to meet up with the City Commander.

>>Don't worry about me Magnus, you just make sure that there's something left for me to defend when I get back<<

Roadbuster closed off the commlink as he bounced over a pile of rubble and down another abandoned street, before switching his attention to Searchlight and Freeway "OK you 2, get going, don't wait for me. Meet up with Magnus at the western tunnel exit outside the base, I'll get there when I can"

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Autobase Tau ~ Command Center

Standing, listening, looking, Jedishen took everything in as the City Commander filled in he and a couple of others on the, quite frankly, dire situation they found themselves in. As he was told he was going with Ultra Magnus, Jedishen nodded and grabbed one of his rifles from it's mountings, checking nonchalantly to make sure it was loaded.

As he turned, the Scout finally saw just who it was next to him, and had to do a slight double take as he saw Stormfire's faceplate. The blue colored optic did give away just which Stormfire was present, but Jedishen still cast a wary glance at the warrior, before pulling his weapons out of the subspace they were stored in, and offered them to Stormfire "I believe these are yours" Jedishen stated with little inflection in his voice, waiting for the weapons to be reclaimed.

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Autobase Tau ~ Power Generators

"Come on guys, we need these generators back online now more than ever!" Inferno shouted to the engineers working their afts off to fix the major damage that had crippled the running of Autobase Tau. The S&R specialist was slightly out of his depth, with only limited technical knowledge of repairing generators, but he couldn't just sit on his aft and do nothing, it just wasn't in his makeup.

As he crouched next to one of the young tech 'Bots, Inferno recieved Ultra Magnus' comm broadcast regarding where everyone should meet up. Now that sounded much more interesting to the fire truck, and passing on where he was heading the the chief tech 'Bot, Inferno headed out of the area and began heading for the nearest of the 2 tunnels, which happened to be the east tunnel.

Now Inferno would never be classified as a 'Lighter, faster' Autobot, he would freely admit that, but in his current location, it would take him too long to get to the western tunnel. So he compromised and headed to meet up with Hot Rod and his team, figuring that his services wouldn't exactly be refused.

Autobase Tau - Command Centre

(OOC; is anyone playing Scattershot? Otherwise I’d like to NPC him for a bit)
‘Understood Magnus, I’ll contact you when I’ve got a force ready to move do you want me to hold them or take the fight to them?’

Stormfire moved over to Jedishen, who was holding out his weapons for him.

‘Thanks Jedishen I’ll need these for the party, don’t get yourself killed out there and if you need help give me a call, I’ll be there.’

Stormfire briefly gripped the bots’ shoulder before opening his own comlink channel

‘Attention Autobots. Anyone and everyone with flight capabilities in either mode are to report to me immediately in the main hanger.’

If this force was going to be effective, Stormfire needed all the information he could get on their adversaries.

‘Trailbreaker I need any information you have on the airbourne threat; numbers weapon types, formations…anything and also it would be great if you could patch me a video link.’

Stormfire set off towards the hanger, running possible strategies through his head, he knew he could ask for it’s help, but he didn’t want to think where that might lead, not yet anyway.

South of Autobase Tau

Chase burnt rubber and sped over to the next highest hill closest to the Autobase. He scanned the perimeter of the base and saw Decepticons beginning to get through and no real move by the Autobots to defend at the moment,

*****

A little further ahead of Chase was Freeway and Searchlight driving along with Roadbuster, "You're right, you are likely to draw fire and we might be hit accidently," said Freeway.
"However we don't actually know our way around the base having never been there," Searchlight said, "So we'll stick with you,"

Autobase Tau - Perimeter

Sweepcraft wheeled and dove over the Autobot base, their heat lasers and incendiaries creating a hellish glow as they did their brutal work. On the ground below, the six-wheeled vehicle shell that belonged to Roadblock roared ahead of the robot-mode Stunticons and smashed another hole in the Perimeter defenses, its hydraulic ram making short work of the obstructions before it. Twin shatter cannons rose up in their turret and began blasting away at the Autobase proper as well as the remaining functional defensive batteries.

Meanwhile, the purple and black figure that had thus far been laying waste to the Autobot defenses seemed to stand back for a moment, observing as the Sweeps, the vehicle shell, and the other Decepticons pounded Autobase Tau with heavy firepower. He waited, a sadistic grin on his face, for the Autobots to come out and meet their maker.


Slipping out of Tau through a concealed exit, Mirage wanted to get a closer look at the swarming foes now assailing the Autobase. Making his way to the Perimeter hidden by his electro-disruptor, the spymaster ascended one of the crippled defensive batteries in order to get a better view of the situation. Deactivating his electro-disruptor, he relied now on simple concealment techniques and his extraordinarily keen optics.

Scores of them...almost certainly they're drones. I've never seen such craft before...I wonder if they possess robot modes, or are simply airborne mecha. As he peered out over the battlefield, Mirage suddenly sensed something behind him. Spinning, he caught a taloned hand by the wrist just before it sunk its glowing claws into his neck.

"I suppose my question about you having a robot mode is answered, isn't it?" he gritted through his vocalizer as he struggled to hold back his foe. My, but they are ugly. The drone was taller and bulkier than Mirage in its robot mode, and surprisingly strong.

"And I would guess you possess some sort of advanced sensor package, since you found me so easily." The drone swung its other taloned hand at Mirage's face, but clawed nothing but air as Mirage slipped under the blow, releasing the drone's wrist. "Don't care to talk? That's quite all right."

The spy's dodge had taken him behind the drone, though he had to compensate for the fact that the drone possessed wing-like constructions on its back. He noticed almost too late that the edges of the wings were razor-sharp, and narrowly avoided having a long gash down his back from his maneuver. As the drone turned to face him, he drove two fingers of his left hand into a small space between the drone's arm and shoulder. Almost as if by magic, the armor on the drone's arm crumbled here and there and the limb lay useless at its owner's side.

"Crystalocution. A thoroughly unpleasant technique, but quite effective."

With an angry snarl and red burning in its optics, the drone lashed out at Mirage once more with its remaining arm, following up with a blast from the heat laser mounted in its grotesquely ornate head module. Careful! Mirage leaned sharply back to avoid the blast of searing thermal energy, then sent his foot rocketing upward to crush the drone's chinplate. With astonishing quickness and an elegant lack of wasted motion, Mirage finished his foe with a elbow strike to the chest meant to shatter the primary fuel pump of one's opponent. The drone fell to the ground and Mirage opened a secure commlink to Ultra Magnus.

>>"The Decepticons have brought some sort of new transforming drone with them," he informed the Autobot commander. "They seem made of sterner stuff than the old Seeker drones, and may possess some sort of advanced targeting and tracking system in addition to their weapons. I..."

The spy's words were cut off as he looked down to see the drone's hand wrapped around his ankle. Rage flared in its optics as it dragged itself toward him, energy building in its head-mounted heat laser for another blast. With lightning speed Mirage whipped around his hunting rifle from its mount over his shoulder and fired a single armor-piercing dart into the drone's head, blowing it into fragments just before it could fire upon him at point-blank range.

"Yes. Certainly made of sterner stuff than Seeker drones. And Primus help us...there are a lot of them."<<

Autobase Tau - Medbay, Enroute to eastern section



Afterburner heard Ultra Magnus' call, as much as he hated the idea.. the gunner decided that this was his best bet, "C'mon, Strafe, you heard the big clunker, we gotta get together in the east!" he claimed befor he folded down into his cycle form.. it was a benefit of not transforming into some massive battle ship, being able to zip around in structures meant for robot modes. Afterburner's engines growled before he went zipping off,the adhesive covering on his wheels giving him the best of traction on the floor plating.

Autobast Tau - Perimeter

As the craft transporting Ruckus was one of the last to make landfall in the Tagan Heights, the enthusiastic Triggercon inside was eager to make up for lost time. He came flying off the seagoing transport before the landing ramp had fully descended, landing heavily in the silica particulates that composed the shore. Not the most graceful entrance in the history of Cybertronian warfare, but it worked well enough for a grunt like him. His heavy-duty offroad tires tore into the dunes, flinging silvery grit in all directions before finally gaining purchase and catapulting Ruckus toward the Autobot defenses.

Laughing maniacally, the fearless Decepticon sped past Motormaster and his crew, following along in the wake of Roadblock's massive vehicular shell. Fragging shore defenses was fine as an appetizer, but the main course was the Autobase itself. Ruckus definitely wanted a piece of that action.

To announce his presence properly, the Triggercon launched a pair of high-explosive rockets at an overtaxed defense turret, shattering it in a brilliant orange fireball. Very nice bit of collateral damage, but he was eager for an opponent with a little more fight in him.

Autobase Tau - Medbay, Enroute to eastern section

((OCC: as for the other two technobots I don't think they're owned by anyone and they were still outside last time I saw them))

Strafe grumbled as Afterburner yet again dashed off "I'll take that as a no then" with a sigh he pelted after his team-mate wishing that the corridors were wide enough for him to safely fly in...well that and he wasn't so nervous about crashing into them. Still running wasn't his most favourite mode of transportation; sighing to himself Strafe resigned himself to running after his fellow technobot. Heh someone had to make sure he didn't get himself killed after all.

Autobase Tau ~ Command Center

"I'll be sure to remember that.." Jedishen replied as Stormfire headed off out of the Command Center. Moving over to the side of Ultra Magnus, the Scout looked to the City Commander before saluting quickly and dashing off towards the tunnel, wanting to see just what exactly was attacking the base.


Over on the other side of the Command Center, Trailbreaker had been gathering up the remaining non essential personnel, preparing for the retreat through the underground passages towards Iacon, when Stormfire's request reached his commlink. Looking to the assembled 'Bots, he quickly got their attention before speaking "OK, I've got something to do here before we go, so you guys head on down to the medbay and help out with moving the injured, Uplink, keep everyone in check will you?"

The comm 'Bot nodded his head before sheperding everyone out towards the Medbay, leaving Trailbreaker to get to work. Moving over to a console, the Defensive Strategist began pulling any recent video feeds and any live feeds that still remained, most of the cameras though had were offline, either through lack of power or through their destruction at the hands of the Decepticons. Compiling everything he had, Trailbreaker opened up a return link to Stormfire.

>>OK Stormfire, this is the best I can do. What I'm sending you now is all the images we recorded before the cameras were taken out, and I'm linking you up with the last 2 remaining video feeds that we have, though how long they will remain active for is anyone's guess. Early estimates of numbers are in the hundreds, but most of those on the scene are too busy to send detailed information back to us at the moment, but it does seem that whatever we're dealing with are considerably stronger than the Seeker drones we've encountered before, so be prepared. I'm sorry Stormfire, but this is all I can do for you, I've got to get my aft down to the Medbay to lead the retreat back to Iacon, watch yourself out there, Trailbreaker out<<

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South of Autobase Tau

"Haha, you're funny, maybe I'll stuff you in my shrapnel cannon and fire you at whatever is causing all the commotion back at the base..." Roadbuster said in reply to Freeway's comment "..At least that way you won't be shot at"

The trio continued on at Roadbuster's somewhat pedestrian pace, close enough now to hear some of the bigger explosions emanating from the Autobase Tau perimeter, as the Wrecker turned his attention to Searchlight's reply "Yeah of course, you guys only just got assigned to the base, does this kind of trouble usually follow you around, or is this a first?"

Autobast Tau - Perimeter

Quake continued to rampage along the Perimeter, blasting anything and everything in sight, refraining from blasting his own Decepticon allies for the time being. The thunderous tank rolled over debree from shattered defenses, crushing any remains that were unfornate enough to get trapped in Quakes path. "I am getting tired of playing with myself Autobots!" Quake exclaimed while he drove around the perimeter at max speed, running over things in a reckless fashion. "There a bunch of femme-bots!" Quake exclaimed while he was driving around like a lunatic.

Quake came to a sudden halt, causing dust to rise up around him as he stopped to locate nearby targets, rotating his massive turret before moving forward, breaching deeper into the Autobot defenses. "Eat plasma mother--------!" Quake exclaimed as he started firing off plasma rounds wildy.

Autobase Tau--Perimeter

Motormaster was in his usual form. Though some of the others may have had to worry from time to time, the Stunticon leader had never had to ask twice for Wildrider to jump in to the fray. It was keeping him out of it until it was time to actually attack that was the trick.

As expected, he had walked right out in to their line of fire. Wildrider was going to do the same, but he was already nursing a scarburn on his right rotater. Nothing major. He'd just have to aim with his other arm.

"Die, heheheh...die!" Wildrider chuckles, getting off a few more shots even as Roadblock roared past and did some serious damage to the nearby defenses.

"Whoa . . . YES! Eat that, glitches!"

Autobase Tau - Perimeter

As Roadblock's vehicle shell plowed past Motormaster straight through the Autobot defenses on the rugged terrain, the large Decepticon could only curse the fact that the terrain was making it impossible for him to do the same properly as he lacked offensive weaponry in his alternative mode. He could ram all he wanted here but there was no way he could get enough speed to do that effectively.

Finishing off two retreating Autobots that Roadblock had forced the leave their stations by shooting a blast through theirs backs Motormaster began to follow the trail made by Roadblock's new toy, hoping to get more targets deeper within the Autobot defenses.

"Alright boys! Move out!" He roared as he began running towards Roadblock's vehicle shell. "If Autobots don't come to us, we go for them!"

Autobase Tau – Perimeter

Her engines scream, heralding her arrival as she comes into the airspace. Her side mounted rifle blasting at defenses preemptively, hindering their anti air fire. Her sleek form pierces defenses like a rapier through tinfoil.
From her height she spots Decepticons battling their way into the area, but there weren't really any Autobots around, were there? Just some nameless fodder with little consequence. Her comrades seemed thrilled enough to crush them. They might not have a choice, and thus she might not have a choice either, but it's hardly enough for her. These fodder were hardly a challenge.
She angles her trajectory and just overhead of most of them, then transforms, hovering in her agile feminine form a moment before she lands. Her rifle is deployed, and she fires at what ever was hostile to the Decepticon strike force as she followed them having arrived in time to hear the last order to move out.
"I'm Shrike. Reinforcement from Thunderwing." She spoke in that relaxing womanly voice that seemed unfitting for a soldier as she continues sniping at targets opposing their entry into Autobot territory.

(OOC: Sorry I for disipering, everyone.)

Autobaes Tau Medbay:

Wheeljack dashed out of the medbay where he had been helping repair some ot the remaining wounded from the earlier attack. While he wanted to help the injured, now there was no way that he could. If there was even a chance that the base might fall, then he couldn't leave any of his equipment or plans for the Decepticons to find. The second the inventor reached his lab he began gathering every set of blueprints and schematics he could find, and stashed them in a compartment in his back. He then mounted both of his shoulder launders and loaded as many of his various shells as he could.

As he worked Wheeljack activated his comm. "Trailbreaker, this is Wheeljack. I'll be in the medbay as soon as I can, but I've got to square away my lab first. I can't risk any of this stuff falling into the Con's hands. I can't carry everything, so I'm gonna have to destroy some of it."

With that, Wheeljack began to pile anumber of weapons and various devices in a corner and preped an explosive shell. "Hope this is all it takes".

Autobase Tau -

Quake had blasted his way through the perimeter defenses, he was capable of bringing this whole place down given enough time. "I am starting to like you Stunticons!" Quake exclaimed. They had the same values, destruction as a whole.
Quake was not set on blasting a whole through Autobase Tau now that they had shattered the defense grid. Quake used what little willpower he had in reverse to listen to the voice in the background. "You almost missed the whole show Shrike!" Quake exclaimed loudly. "But no worries your just in time for the real party!" Quake exclaimed as he stopped in front of Autobase Tau and started the alignment of his massive cannon, his target the base's power generators. The cannon came to a stop once Quake had aligned it with his target.

Inside the massive tank that is Quake his zoom in optics had locked onto his target. Two red circles started to come together very slowly to match up the distance with Quakes computer. "If they won't come out! I am coming in!" Quake exclaimed as his massive tank cannon fired a plasma shell that fired straight up into the sky, shooting straight up around a couple hundred yards before it started to drop. The red plasma shell exploded on impact near the power generator area of Autobase Tau. "DAMMIT I missed." Quake exclaimed, adjusting the cannon once again. Quake then fired a number of plasma shells that reigned down on the power generators, attempting to black out Autobase Tau.

"I am turning the lights out!" Quake exclaimed as he kept blasting away with plasma shells, content with destroying the base's power generators.

Autobase Tau--Perimeter

Wildrider had already been shoving fragged scrap out of his way when Motormaster had given the order to move out and was still in the process of doing so. What he wouldn't give, right then, for nothing more than an old-fashioned straightaway where he could really pick up some real speed and slam through the first Autobot unlucky enough to cross his path.

No such luck for now. There was way too much rubble and scrap in the way. But as soon as the opportunity presented itself, he'd be all over it.

"Twice as many, eh?!" Wildrider calls out to the other Stunticons as he kicks a metal plate out of his way. "Start countin'!"

Wildrider turns and fires again.

Autobase Tau- Frontlines

"YEEEHAW!!!!" exclaimed Panzer as jumped from a cliff and into the battlefield with his Energon blaster held close to him like it was his most prized possesion(which it was...).

He saw the frenzied team of Stunticons recklessly manuvering around the terrain like lunatics. He smiled and locked on to Wildride and prompted his missile launchers for an attack.

Sure he's fast, but he ain't too smart!!

He couldn't get an exact target on the reckless Decepticon, so he did the next best thing and fired his missles in an enveloping formation, causing explosions near Wildride. The Con was surrounded by dust as he prompted his blaster.

"Now that I've gotten your attention, maybe you'll slow down for a nano-cycle!" Yelled the proud Autobot jeeringly.

Autobase Tau - Perimeter

"There!" Drag Strip shouted, pointing at the Autobot who had fired missiles towards Wildrider.

"An ambush!" Breakdown panicked, instantly returning fire.

The explosions and Drag Strip's warning immediately caught Motormaster's attention. "An Autobot with guts to fight back?! Nail him down boys!"

True to his orders, the mightiest of the Stunticons stopped advancing and aimed his atom-smasher rifle at the lone Autobot and began firing.

"You are so dead Autobot!" Drag Strip roared in ecstacy as he joined Motormaster and Breakdown in their attempt to gun Panzer down.

Autobase Tau - Perimeter

Quake ceased fire on the power generators as Motormaster called out in the distance. "WHAT? WHERE?" The massive tank exclaimed as he rotated his plasma cannon to find a target. Quake found his target as he located the Autobot known as Panzer, the tank turned sideways to adjust on aligned, focusing its sights on Panzer. "Slag the idiot!" Quake exclaimed. In tank mode Quake advanced on Panzer closing the distance between the two of them.

"Nano this Autobot!" Quake exclaimed in a roar. Quakes plasma cannon had smoke rising from it. It had been warmed up on the outer defense grid that now remains in shatters. "Die Autobot!" Quake exclaimed. Quakes massive plasma cannon opened fire. The sound of heavy artilery fire was heard as Quake opened fire on Panzer, firing a plasma shell right at him.

Autobase Tau
"Glad I made it. Hopefully we'll have a good battle soon. If not, well, I guess we'll destroy this area until we do get a good battle." She replied to Quake.
Her eyes scan the area looking for resistance, or at least people scurrying away. She keeps her shield and rifle ready incase it does arise. Odds are it'll be a sudden thing when they attack. It's what she'd do.

And she was right. The missiles were launched and the Autobot bellowed.
She lets out a loud attention grabbing whistle, then, using her overly feminine voice, taunts "Hey, Pretty Boy!" at Panzer while leveling her arm mounted rifle at him. Her optics glow green in dramatic flare as she fires the high powered rifle at him. Her thrusters ignite lifting her off the ground a meter preparing for high mobility combat. She lets loose another rifle shot at him 3 seconds later on the dot.

With all the people firing at the autobot, it'll be hard to get close, and shred him without getting blasted herself. Still, she prepares the heat blades mounted on her person since she might luck out later in the battle. The Autobots would be foolish to let a single member run into battle like this, and probably have some reinforcements on the way.
She kept silent at this point to not voice her disappointment at the situation. No matter how much she wanted single combat, this was war. And certainly she couldn't allow a massive mauler like that autobot, who probably relied a lot on that firepower more than his own fists, to beat up one of her comrades that apparently wasn't anywhere near as heavily armed.

She considered slagging the base in her assault mode, or at least kicking the cyber-hornet's nest a little with her alt form assault mode's 580mm Beam canon, but this autobot was more of a threat at the moment.
Hopefully he's smart enough to call for backup since turning him into a puddle of slag with the odds so much in her favor didn't seem challenging, but this is her duty, and not helping her allies would put her in a bad light easily. It's not a Decepticon thing though. The Autobots would probably be just as mad if the roles were reversed.

Though her rifle might not be the hardest hitting piece of weaponry out here (Though it's plenty potent for a rifle) she keeps her shield up just in case. Her rifle barrel rests on the edge of the long, triangular shield as she fires.

Autobase Tau- Perimeter

The lone warrior stood his ground as the numerous energy shells and bullets pelted his form.

Slaggit, didn't think they would all attack me...oh well I'm fine with busting up a few frames before I die anyways...

He smiled and fired his weapons again in a frenzied fit of joy, this was his nirvana.

"HEY DECEPTICREEPS! I'VE GOTTA PRESENT FOR YA!" Panzer entered "Full-fire mode" and released all of his weapons from their respectable storage compartments. And with a maniacal grin he fired all of them, including his missiles into the air, hitting a wide range.

"Listen here ya fraggin' scappile spawns of Unicron! I ain't gonna die today, not when I've got you to slag!" yelled the 'bot jeeringly.

Autobase Tau- Perimeter

Quake was racing across the battlefield once Panzer had entered the battlefield from the other end, firing his plasma shells as quickly as he could reload them into his plasma cannon at Panzer. Panzer released a flurry of offensive weapons that came, hammering into Quakes thick nearly indestructable hull. The purple tank rampaged closer and closer to Panzer until Panzer launched anthor barrage of missles, one striking Quakes left tank track, causing him to become unbalanced with the terrain he was coasting across. "Oh ****!" Quake exclaimed as the massive purple tank started to turn on its side, running on its side for a couple of feet before crashing upside down on the ground. The massive tank rolled a little back and fourth like it was trying to regain its balance and flip back over. "I am stuck!" Quake exclaimed with a certain amount of laughter as his gears shifting to simulate a rocking effect. "This is gonna get ugly Autobot." Quake said underneath his breath while he remained there upside down his plasma cannon sticking into the ground.

"Transform!" Quake exclaimed as the massive tanks form started to change. Quakes former tank tracks formed into massive fortified legs and in the center of his chest a purple Decepticon insigna shined for a moment. In Quakes left hand he held a plasma rifle, aiming it at Panzer, Quake fired a number of shots while he started to run towards Panzer in robot form. Once Quake had reached melee range with Panzer, Quake tossed his plasma rifle wreckless to the side. "Its you and me Autobot!" Quake exclaimed as he put his shoulder down and attempted to tackle Panzer to the ground as his massive titanium-alloy collided would soon collide with the heavy armored Autobot.

Autobase Tau

"It figures!" She grumbled as her thrusters quickly articulate and she's now rapidly flying backwards away from the blast radius but missiles follow her on what ever lock they might have.
A spray of energy comes from the sides of her head as her needler guns get to work, striking many of the the missiles causing them to explode prematurely, and in turn destroy other missiles which starts a chain reaction of explosions.
Her rifle continues firing on Panzer all the while but her aiming is reduced to pot shots at him as his barrage continues.
Her raised shield catches most of the blast of those that explode nearby, the rest does marginal damage as her speeds increase virtually outrunning the blasts.
She moves behind part of the base and uses it for cover, letting the autobot do some of the work towards destroying it for her as straggling projectiles blast around her.
The barrage of explosions dies down. She looks out from her cover seeing Quake stuck. Being a team player, she fires at Panzer with her rifle providing some cover until Quake transformed.
Then Quake has to have all the fun and challenges the brash Autobot to personal combat.
"Heh, they had to underestimate me, and probably think I'm slagged." She thought to herself with amusement.
She laughs lightly, taking further cover, knowing that she'd hate it if someone ruined her melee fun so she lets Quake have his fun for a while. They were a better match for each other anyhow.

She remembers that Quake had stopped his bombardments on the generators prematurely, then transforms into her vehicle mode's assault mode taking to the air.
She hovers near the base letting her 580mm beam canon erupt into a volley against the base's generators looking to finish the job.

Autobase Tau – Perimeter

Scorponok paused in his advance to observe the battle around him. The Decepticons had moved swiftly through the city-state, faster than he had hoped. Autobot resistance had been weak after the initial landing. Apparently the Autobots were willing to sacrifice territory for time. He suspected that now they were on the outskirts of the Autobase, resistance would increase considerably. Magnus would make his last stand here.

The Decepticon general transformed into his towering robot mode. He turned his head and sensors to examine Roadblock’s shell. It appeared that the ground forces commander was adapting to the Pretender technology quicker than he had anticipated. If he could control it in battle out of visual range, then that bode well for subjects. They could double the number and power of several soldiers with this technology. Combined with the new Sweeps they could overwhelm the Autobots with numbers, a drastic change from recent events.

There would be time later to fully analyze Roadblock’s abilities and their implications. Right now it was time to strike at the heart of the Tagan Heights and bring it to its knees. Producing his anti-gravity rifle in his right claw, Scorponok opened fire in front of him, sending wreckage, debris and opponents floating up into the sky, and clearing a path to Autobase Tau. He strolled forward, gunning down defenders as he drew closer to the Autobot base.