HangarIllogical stratagem indeed. Certainly it had been a clever move from Shockwave to use Motormaster's momentum against him. In this case though, the outcome was hardly as inhibitive as Shockwave likely had hoped for.
And there were at least two clear reasons for this.
Now, they were in a hangar or a battlecruiser. Hangar used to store shuttles and dropships. Hangar that became a crucial hub during a battle scenario, allowing multiple Vehicon and Seeker fighter wings to launch into a battle and return for resupplying. And as it was logical to prevent the hangar from being a weak link that would allow the enemy to easily disable the mighty warship - the walls of the hangar were built to survive a collision with a ship as big as a corvette, the largest ship type the hangar could take in.
That being said, running, smashing, driving or blasting his way through objects had never done much to slow Motormaster down. And while he would never admit it, his charges were not unstoppable. To be fair, he had been stopped way more times he cared to remember - by an occasional Prime, Grimlock or well... a sturdy wall. The collision with the hangar wall fell to the latter category. Not that the sight was spectacular or all that funny. It was just a large ridiculously durable Decepticon running into a wall that didn't budge nor dent under the strain it was subjected to. And that large Decepticon staggering for a short moment before recovering his bearings and turning his attention back towards the reason he had just hit the wall - Shockwave.
Luckily enough for Motormaster, couple of Shockwave's Vehicon minions had been gracious enough to run after the brutish Stunticon following Shockwave's move - providing some level of obstruction against Shockwave's line of sight. And while the one-eyed freak had no qualms of sacrificing his drone soldiers - they would still take the brunt of a possible blast from his arm cannon. And this allowed Motormaster to act.
Grabbing one the Vehicons to function as a living shied and gunning down the other, Motormaster charged off towards Shockwave again. And for some reason, perhaps to protect his arm cannon from unnecessary damage, Shockwave did not fire at him. In the last possible moment, Motormaster pushed the Vehicon out of his hand and speared into Shockwave, tackling the purple Decepticon with a force that would have split a weaker Cybertronian in two.
"Is this all you got?!" Motormaster mockingly bellowed as he began smashing his fists against the upper body and faceless head of the former Military Operations Commander whom the Stunticon had pinned under himself. Shockwave had dared to use Megatron's possible death as a reason to declare himself the leader of the Decepticons but each strike Motormaster unleashed on him brought him nearer and near to be declared brain dead.
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Oh, so many targets to choose from. The potential of carnage Brawl could unleash in the hangar was nothing short of staggering. Sure, he had not been given a chance to power up on ultra energon but that did little to diminish the power of his weapons or the strength of his armored skin. Blast-Off was far more likely to get hurt anyway. The snobbish lone wolf was made of tin foil as far as Brawl's opinion was concerned.
Take this slagger for an example. A big brute - almost Motormaster's size and positively glowing due to ore-13 exposition had taken an immediate interest in the two Combaticons following the explosion of the door by Brawl. Howling in a mad fury, this berserker was now running towards the two Combaticons, an axe in his other hand while wildly swinging some kind of a chain with the other - cleaving his way through the Vehicons like a whirlwind.
Pretty impressive. Brawl wouldn't have minded to observe the massacre this warrior had unleashed a little longer. It reminded him of the good old days. The brutal, face to face duels fought in the Pit. Too bad he couldn't answer to this howling lunatic's challenge properly with no melee weapon in sight.
Not that it mattered. Blowing stuff up was as always an entertaining option. And it really made no sense letting the big oaf to start hacking into him with his energo-axe.
Locking his turret in position, Brawl loaded a kinetic energy penetrator into his firing chamber instead of an explosive round and waited until the big Decepticon got closer and closer - until he was practically in point-blank range. The chance to wrecking Blast-Off in a friendly-fire accident was just too big with explosives. Too bad really but it was not worth of getting in trouble with Onslaught.
THOOM. THOOM. A twin blast from Brawl's sonic cannons stopped the big con's charge, making him to drop his weapons to cover his audio receptors in pain. Heh, it was always funny to use the sonic cannons to just stun to allow an easy hit with his main gun.
"Say hello to my little friend!" Brawl quoted a line in a fleshing movie he had watched to ease his boredom during the time the Combaticons had been forced to study the human culture in advance in order to better blend in - just prior firing the kinetic energy penetrator into Contemptor's mid section, effectively blasting the berserker in two.
"Next!"