The Energon Pub

Approaching Autobase Tau

"Understood Sir!!" Operater said as he increased his speed as ordered by Ultr Magnus. It was not often that he got excited for a mission but things had been so boring at his current posting that he was up for anything. He then asked his leader "Ultra Magnus sir, do you think that these cons have any kind of leak to what we were looking into at base??"

Approaching Autobase Tau

As per ordered by Ultra Magnus, Monco revved his engine a little and sped up and came up on the otherside of Magnus; adjacent to the other bot, Operater.


"...There might be a small possibility, but I highly doubt it..." said Monco, throwing in his own opinion.

Approaching Autobase Tau

"We can't be too sure of that," Magnus replied to Monco's statement. "Nobody just breezes into a secure facility like this without getting some hard info. One way or another, these two events are connected and we've got to find out how, but the only way we can do that is if we get there before Roadbuster has a chance to get his hands on him. If I know him, by the time we get there, there's not going to be enough of that 'con left to fill a data tray."

Pulling up to the entrance, Magnus transformed and headed inside the base. "Uplink, tell me Roadbuster's current location."

Skies over the Energon Refinery district

Stormfire broke off the engagement with the new con, he was drifting away from the main battle. Swinging around Stormfire caught sight of Cyclonus bearing down on Scattershot. Taking aim, Stormfire fired two seeker missiles towards the sleek Decepticon,
‘This is getting out of control’ Stormfire thought to himself, ‘we have to get at least one of these guys out of commission’
Stormfire opened a channel to Autobase Tau ‘Command this is Stormfire, the Decepticons are pushing us back, requesting any and all available re-enforcements’
Stormfire headed onwards towards Cyclonus lining up behind him.

Energon Refinery district

Sixshot's claws ripped through Sunstreaker's body causing to groan in pain as sparks and metal fly. Though the claws where causing major physical injuries Sunstreaker’s ego was hurt more. Though a Transformer with more then 3 alts was not heard of till now, he shouldn’t have allowed it to take him by surprise like it did. He should have been ready for anything, even the unheard of. It was a mistake that he would have to make sure not to make again. Right now, he will have to make sure there is another time.

Sixshot was on top of him. He transforms back into Bot mode. His back is on the ground with Sixshot on top of him, and his arms up holding him off.

“Good trick Con, but you made a mistake, I’m still alive.”

He reaches for his gun, and tries to get one of his high energy electron pulse shots off at Sixshot. At this range it will do Sunstraker some damage as well from the backlash, but it should do high damage to Sixshot at this range, or at least enough to get him off. If Sixshot dodges it, it will still serve is purpose as Sixshot would have to at least get off him to do so. If Sixshot stops him form getting the shot off, well then, he will have to think of something else.

In either case this fight was almost over for Sunstreaker. It just a matter of how he will be leaving this fight.

Energon Refinery district

Strafe was not a happy flier; he hurt all over and it didn't seem that this was going to get any better either. With a half snarl he managed to transform and land relatively safely on the ground. The last few shots from cyclonus had made him a little more worse for wear but at least he was still alive. Disorentated Strafe wasn't quite sure where he had landed and was looking about in some confusion.

Still the technobot wasn't quite down for the count despite his damages.

Autobase Tau - Backup Power Generators

Things were going far better than Skyjack ever could have hoped. Straightline had shutdown before he could give Roadbuster any warning, which meant that he still retained the element of surprise over the Autobot. He pulled the knife from Straightline’s back as he began slowly moving toward Roadbuster’s position.

He raised his right arm, the fragmentation missile he had armed earlier still primed and ready. He stopped next to one of the backup power generators once Roadbuster was clearly in sight. However, Skyjack held no illusions that Roadbuster would go down as easily as Straightline or Crowbar. He hadn’t been left in charge here on a whim, after all. He also held no illusions about his chances of being able to get out of this in one piece. Roadbuster was more solidly constructed than he was, and held all the advantages in a straight up fight. In all likely hood, the only way he was going to be able to kill Roadbuster and disable the backup generators was if he set off his remaining explosive charges manually. The results, however, would not be favorable, and he wanted to avoid that situation if at all possible.

He pointed his missile launcher toward Roadbuster, aiming just slightly to the side so that the projectile would go off after it had passed by the Autobot, and hopefully damage his optics or weapons. Skyjack took a moment to steady his aim, then let the missile fly and quickly ducked behind the generator for cover. An instant later, the missile burst, spraying shrapnel around the room.

Autobase Tau ~ Command Center

"Ah, Ultra Magnus Sir.." Uplink began, his attention taken away from the security feeds momentarily "..Roadbuster is still down in the backup power generator sector searching for the..."

Uplink's reply was cut off as his optic was caught by something on the video replay. It looked like..Backwing? Exiting the main power generator sector not long before the explosions occurred.

Now in a slight panic, Uplink looked up to Magnus and struggled to get his words out in order "Ah, um, Backwing is..ah, wait Sir Magnus, I mean Magnus, Sir" The young 'Bot stammered before opening up a link to the Wrecker.

"Roadbuster Sir, I think I know who the infiltrator is Sir, it looks like it's.....

Autobase Tau ~ Backup Power Generators Sector

Roadbuster was getting slowly more frustrated as his search for the infiltrator yielded no results, and he was having to accept that he'd made a mistake coming down here with no evidence that the infiltrator was here.

As another look around another corner failed to produce what he was looking for, his commlink crackled into life and Uplink's voice came through, his tone filled with panic.

"Well don't hold out on me kid, wh...." Roadbuster's reply was cut off as Skyjack's missile flew right by the side of his head, causing him to duck to his left and pull his right hand up in reaction. The explosion that followed quickly could be heard over the still active commlink, and Roadbuster was right in the firing line, and was hit heavily by multiple bits of shrapnel all down the front of his well armored body, puncturing and cutting into his arms.

Staggering backwards from the force of the blast, the Wrecker was not out of the firing line yet, as a nearby generator had also been heavily damaged by the shrapnel and promptly exploded, throwing Roadbuster sideways into a wall with great force. Not out of commision, but not exactly ready to fight, Roadbuster lay slumped against the wall, with a loud ringing in his sensors, and a general feeling of pain over most of his body, his commlink still active had Uplink's voice coming through "Roadbuster? Sir! Are you OK Sir? Come in.." But there was no reply.

Autobase Tau ~ Command Center

Uplink continued to try and reach Roadbuster, but with no success. Slamming his fist down onto the console in frustration, he looked up to Ultra Magnus once more.

"I don't know what's happened down there Sir, but it didn't sound good. The infiltrator is Backwing, or at least that's the alias he used while here as an Autobot, and he is down there in the same sector as Roadbuster.." The young 'Bot stopped as his voice caught, frustrated that he didn't discover the identity of the infiltrator sooner "..I..I don't know what to do Sir, I've never been in a situation like this before..." Uplink trailed off as he looked back to the frozen image of Backwing on the monitor in front of him.

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Remains of Outpost B-13

"Inferno Sir, I've stabilised Blackstreak and the EVAC unit is only a few clicks out. I'm going to check if any of the survivors need assitance" The Medic finished and was about to leave when he was stopped by the S&R specialist "Don't bother, the rescue team has checked the area, they found the bodies of the 3 guards that were here, but no trace of the 2nd Scout" Inferno finished, kicking the ground in disgust and anger.

Looking up at the now visible EVAC transport as it approached, Inferno continued speaking "You are to accompany Blackstreak back to base, make sure he gets to the Medbay in time and fill in whoever is on duty as to his status, you understand?" The Medic nodded his head and waited for the transport to land, trying not to look at the 3 bodies that were also nearby, waiting for transport back to base.

Inferno went for one last look around the area, for any sign of the 2nd Scout, all he could find was a pool of fluid, and a trail leading away from the area. If the Scout had survived, he wasn't in good shape, but more importantly, he wasn't here. Anxious, the fire truck turned back to look at the now landing transport, and began to make his way towards it.

Autobase Tau ~ Command Center

"Son of a glitch!"

Magnus entered the command center just as Uplink finished his report, and wasn't entirely pleased to hear that things were going downhill. What kind of operation was being run around here?

"Operator, stay here and help Uplink. Monco, come with me." He cocked his rifle. "We've got a mess to clean up."

Autobase Tau ~ Command Center

From behind the commander, ".....Understood," replied Monco nodding in acknowledgment of the order and kept his right arm slightly limp, while inches away from his revolver.

Skies over the Energon Refinery district

Cyclonus pulled up from his attack on Scattershot as he spotted the missiles coming at him. The Decepticon air warrior kicked his engines back up to full throttle, attempting to outrace the two seeker missiles. He rocketed between buildings, twisting and turned to try and get the missiles to lose their lock on him. He whipped a tight turn around a building, one that the missiles couldn’t quite match. They detonated against it, peppering Cyclonus with some debris and shrapnel.

The purple Decepticon came about and began flying back to his original position. He quickly spotted the attacker, yet another airborne Autobot. Apparently the Autobots had more fliers than he had thought. Still, they were little more than a nuisance. He had already taken down one of the pests; he didn’t think this one would be much harder. Cyclonus opened fire with his lasers on Stormfire, eager to see if this Autobot would at least be a bit more of a challenge to him.

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Energon Refinery District

Sixshot was able to dodge most of the blast from Sunstreaker’s gun but some of it did catch him. He rolled off of the Autobot and with astonishing speed transformed back into his robot mode. His shoulder was scorched and smoking from the blast, but other than that he was in good shape. The sixchanger launched a swift and strong kick at the prone form of Sunstreaker while he produced his twin blasters.

This Autobot had at least decided to actually fight instead of running. That was a slight improvement, but he still craved more. He was built to take on hordes of Autobots at once. One on one battles were amusing, but far too short for his liking. He looked over at the Technobots Afterburner and Nosecone. He raised his guns and opened fire, charging at them on foot while blazing away. Perhaps fighting two of these Autobots at once would be a little more satisfying.

Skies over the Energon Refinery district

The apparent ease at which the Decepticon evaded his missiles alarmed Stormfire, as the con began to return fire, an idea came to Stormfire, turning on his side he headed straight towards the Decepticon in between the firing lanes of the cons lasers, with his missiles swinging round continuing to track the con, Stormfire hoped he could keep the flier’s attention long enough for his missile to make impact.

Command Center

Operator replied "Yes Sir." To Ultra Magnus as he left the command center. Operater then turned towards Uplink and asked him. "What do you need me to do Uplink?? I am pretty good with interfacing with the bases security systems to keep them up and running. He also blinked to him, and giving the Cons one big headache."

Skyjack silently cursed his stupidity as the sounds of the explosions died down. If the generator that had gone off had been any closer to him, he likely would have taken himself out of the fight. He would have to be more careful about how he used his missiles.

He would now need to ensure that Roadbuster was out of commission. Hopefully, the Autobot was too far gone to put up a fight. He readied his confiscated laser pistol and peaked out from around the generator his was hidden behind. He couldn’t see any sign of Roadbuster. Perhaps he had been blown back by the exploding generator. Or perhaps he’s waiting in ambush.

Skies over the Energon Refinery district

Apparently this Autobot thought turning sideways would allow him to dodge his fire. It was a rookie type of maneuver and Cyclonus was quick to foil it. He simply mirrored the maneuver himself; flying on his side so that once again his guns were lined up with the incoming Autobot.

As he continued to approach Stormfire, he began to detect more incoming missiles from behind. Apparently he had either missed these from earlier or the Autobot had fired off additional ones when he hadn’t been paying attention. Perhaps he had underestimated this Autobot a bit. He wasn’t going to let that possible mistake take him out of this fight.

The Decepticon air warrior transformed in mid flight and spun around, allowing his momentum and gravity to continue to carry him. He opened fire on the twin missiles as he fell to the ground, trying to hit at least one of them with his rifle. The resulting explosions indicated he had hit one of them and the resultant explosion had detonated the other. Cyclonus hoped the explosion would at least temporarily occupy Stormfire’s attention as he transformed back into his jet mode and raced back up into the air.

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OOC: NPCing Scattershot since Alpha Strike is MIA

Energon Refinery District

Sixshot could only watch in annoyance as the two Technobots moved quickly behind cover, avoiding his laser barrage at them. He barely heard the barrage of artillery fire coming towards him before it hit the ground near him, sending him flying into the air. The sixchanger was quick to recover, changing into his space fighter mode and flying away and above the explosion. He was quick to spot the source of the fire, the Technobot Scattershot flying above the battlefield in his alternate mode.

Of all of the Autobots present at this battle, this one seemed the most likely candidate to provide a real challenge for him, aside from the yellow one. He swooped down after the other flier, chasing after him. He seemed more like a flying tank than a dedicated flier, which meant Sixshot would have the opportunity to use one of his other modes. He swiftly transformed into his flying pistol mode and unleashed a heavy blast at the Technobot commander.

Skies over the Energon Refinery district

Stormfire had expected the con to try and punish him for his ‘rookie maneuver’ he continued to make small maneuvers keeping the con lined up, taking minimal damage to his armor, any second now his missiles would hit. The distance between then rapidly disappearing, Stormfire was impressed by what the Decepticon then did, transforming in mid air he turned and fired on the missiles, brining them down.

Stormfire had his chance, whilst Cyclonus was transforming and regaining his lost momentum, begining to climb again, Stormfire transformed, his body taunt and elongated, arms outstretched in front of him, close enough to Cyclonus that the intended mid air tackle was almost unavoidable, Stormfire would bring him out of the sky.

Autobase Tau ~ Command Center

"That would be perfect Operator Sir..." Uplink replied, trying to ignore the feeling that he was responsible for Roadbuster getting injured "..Base power is limited at the current time, so we'll have to slowly bring the defenses back online as power is restored"

The computer operator paused a moment as he checked in with the containment team assigned to deal with the fires in the main power generator sector "..The team assigned are slowly putting the fires out, once their done, our engineers will begin work on repairing the generators..." Uplink paused once more as he looked up to Operator ".. That's if they can anyway"

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Autobase Tau ~ Backup Power Generator Sector

"Ohhhhh, that's gonna leave a mark..." Roadbuster groaned as he held his head, noting that his perspective of his surroundings seemed slightly off, but he couldn't quite work out what it was in his current state. The right side of his body was a mess, multiple gashes and incisions caused at the hands of Skyjack's shrapnel missile, fluid leaking out of several of the wounds.

"That dirty little slagging, fraggin, waste of Energon" The Wrecker mumbled to himself as the events of the last few minutes slowly filtered back through, and the reason for his skewed perspective became clear to him. Realising that Backwing was infact the Decepticon infiltrator pissed off the Field Commander almost as much as discovering that one of his optics had a piece of shrapnel stuck in it, causing Roadbuster's view of things to be somewhat limited.

With his systems still slowly stabilising, Roadbuster knew he would be remaining where he was for a while longer. With his Automatic Rifle ready in his left hand, the Wrecker decided to try and get the attention of Skyjack, if nothing else, it would buy some time for Ultra Magnus to get down from the Command Center.

"Hey, Decepticon Scum, Backwing or whatever the slag your real name is, nice job you're doing here, just one question, how do you plan on getting out of here in one piece?"

Energon Refinery District

The sound of a highly tuned engine roared, the bellow of rocket thrusters adding to the noise of battle on the ground. Afterburner zipped into view from around some cover, wheels kicking up debris in his wake as he raced into battle, where's he been al this time? Damage control, why would a gunner be doing damage control you ask? He was a NPC at the time of course, that's just what they do.

Hurling himself into battle, Afterburner's sensors caught sight of Scourge opening fire on his buddies Nosecone and Lightspeed 'hrnph' grunted the cycle as it set it's sight on the blue Decepticon, his plasma cannon jerking to life, locking onto Scourge and letting loose a barrage of super-heated plasma, "Hey!" bellowed the gunner as he continued to barrel towards Scourge, cannon blazing, "Why don't you try tangling with someone that knows how to put up a fight you peice of slag!?" thus came the of so mannerly challange of Afterburner.

Skies over the Energon Refinery district

Cyclonus grunted in pain as the Stormfire slammed into him. They both began dropping to the ground as the Autobot apparently wanted to fight on the ground level. While Cyclonus was utterly confident in his ability to defeat the Autobot in the air or on the ground, he would not let him dictate the stage of their fight. He struggled against the Autobot, throwing punches at his cranium as they continued to fall.

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Energon Refinery district

Scattershot hit the ground hard, the blast from Sixshot doing some heavy damage to him. He transformed into his robot mode and staggered to his feet, only to see the sixchanger standing in front of him. One of his fists slammed into the Technobot leader’s face and sent him flying back. As much as Scattershot hated to admit it, he just might need some help fighting this guy.

Energon Refinery district

Strafe had meanwhile wandered back to the battlefield a little confused and with one hell of a head ache. "What the slag's going on?" he complained. Pulling out his own weapon Strafe looked about the battlefield wondering whom he should help first. Rendered practically flightless the Technobot was at a serious disadvantage.

(OOC: Forgive the lateness of this. My life has gone to **** lately, and I haven't been able to keep up with this as much as I would like.)

Autobase Tau - Backup Power Generators

With Monco following behind him, Ultra Magnus made his way into the Backup Power Generators, keying his comlink to a private frequency.

"Roadbuster, where the slag are you?"

Skies over the Energon Refinery district

The Decepticon began to throw punches at Stormfire in an attempt to break his hold, with his arms grabbed onto the con’s torso, there was little Stormfire could do to prevent the blows. It was said in some circumstances the best form of defense was to attack. Slightly dazed form Cyclonus punches, still in free fall Stormfire dodged Cyclonus next punch by throwing his upper torso backwards as far as he could without letting go, using this movement to give his upward knee attack greater momentum and strength as he swung it towards Cyclonus’ midriff.

Autobase Tau – Backup Generators

“Backwing will have to do.” Skyjack replied to Roadbuster. “Anyway, I figured I’d burn that bridge when I came to it.” He knew that the Autobot was just stalling for time so that reinforcements could get here, but Skyjack really wasn’t sure how he could blow the generators and get out of here in one piece. He had been in tight spots before, but this was probably the tightest he had ever experienced.

Perhaps if he could contact the Decepticons outside, they might be able to attack the command center itself and provide an opening for his escape. He activated his comm. and hoped that the Autobots weren’t already jamming him. >>Attention Decepticon assault force. This is Intelligence Operative Skyjack. I am currently trapped inside the Autobot commander center and require assistance. Please respond.<<

While he sent his signal, he began to creep out from behind the generator he was currently hiding behind so that he might be able to locate Roadbuster.

Autobase Tau ~ Backup Power Generator Sector

"Somewhere near the 7th row of generators Magnus, just look for bits of me on the floor, I'm somewhere nearby" Roadbuster replied to the City Commander, while also hearing Skyjack's reply "I've no idea where the 'Con is though, so keep a look out for the piece of slag" The Wrecker added in reply to Ultra Magnus, before returning his attention to Skyjack "Good to see you planned this out so meticulously Backwing, remind me to pass on some tips to our special ops teams, I'm sure they could learn from one so experienced as you" Roadbuster taunted, his systems nearing full capacity once more.

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Autobase Tau ~ Shuttle Bay

"What the..." Inferno mumbled to himself as the transport shuttle came in to land back at the Autobase "..What the frag happened here?" The fire truck asked to nobody in particular as he saw the plumes of smoke from the explosion rise up into the view of all those on board "OK, I don't know what's going on here, but I doubt it's anything good.." Inferno began as the shuttle touched down "..You 3 are with me, you 2 get Blackstreak down to the Medbay, and send a message down to let them know you're on your way so they can get things set up, lets go" Inferno ordered, jumping down off the transport as he finished, and began heading towards the Command Center.

Skies over the Energon Refinery district

Cyclonus continued to struggle with the Autobot flier in mid-air as they continued to fall. Stormfire struck him with a knee to his midsection. The attack created a dent in his armor, but nothing more than that. He broke free of the mid-air grapple and stabilized his position, hovering at a steady height in the air.

Before he could resume his attack on Stormfire he received the distress signal from Skyjack. The Decepticon could have valuable information, and an assault on the Autobase itself could prove an interesting challenge. He transformed and shot off towards the Autobot command center. As he flew he sent a signal to the others. >>”Sixshot, Scourge, break off your current attacks and move to the Autobot headquarters for this city-state. It should prove a more challenging target than these refineries.”<<

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Energon Refinery district

Sixshot was prepared to deliver a killing blow to the Technobot commander when the signal from Cyclonus came in. He had to agree with the other Decepticon that assaulting the Autobot base would probably prove more challenging than fighting these random soldiers. He transformed into his own starfighter mode and took off after Cyclonus.