The Energon Pub

Ultrax – Bridge

There was no mistaking the culprit behind approaching sounds of heavy foot falls to anyone residing within the bridge. Already the hellhound, Colonel Bonkers as he was so apptly named by Wildrider – was growing restless. Whimpering and trying to blend into the furthest corner away from the open blast doors of the bridge. Futile. The was no place to hide.

”Knock-Out.” Motormaster spoke as he entered the bridge. ”I am taking the mutt. And the other distractions,” he added, obviously referring to his Stunticons and the other Decepticons on board the sunken spaceship.

Having heard Motormaster speaking of him, Colonel Bonkers made his own conclusions and darted for the door in an attempt to slip past his tormentor by knocking him over. A futile effort. As the hellhound pounced at the large Stunticon, it found itself smashing into a proverbial walking wall that immediately wrapped its huge arms around the hellhound before tucking it firmly against his side with one arm. There was no escape. Defeated, the hellhound stopped struggling and hung its head down.

”You have your vehicons.” Motormaster rumbled, turning away from Knock-Out and starting his walk back to the air-lock. ”Make her fly again.”


Sometime later…

”Everyone’s here. Good.” Motormaster rumbled as he entered Astrotrain’s cargo hold and took a quick look across it. Tossing Colonel Bonkers at Drag Strip and Breakdown, Motormaster sat down on the bench row attached to Astrotrain’s hull. ”Give it some energon before it goes on rampage on that energon pile.”

”And Astrotrain.” The leader of this little operation addressed their transport, ”Get us back to Thanatos.”

Astrotrain – Cargo Hold

Drag Strip helped Breakdown off load his hover cart full of energon cubes in order to get the job done all the faster. Once that task was compete, the yellow racer secured it near the other cart before hearing the ominous sound of Motormaster’s vocals.

“Everyone’s here. Good,” the Stunticon Commander said before chucking the hellhound at Drag Strip and Breakdown. ”Give it some energon before it goes on a rampage on the energon pile.”

The former herald was knocked over by the flying hellhound, landing on his aft section as the beast hit the floor next to him. Immediately, the creature began growling viciously at the yellow Stunticon. Drag’s optics widened in fear as he quickly got back up to his feet and moved towards the energon pile. He grabbed a single cube and tossed it over to Colonel Bonkers. Wasting no time, the beast sunk it's maw into the cube and began to ingest the purple liquid within. Hopefully, that would satisfy it's hunger long enough for them to get back to the Thanatos.

Drag Strip then secured the remaining cubes with one final force field before taking a seat away from both Motormaster and Wildrider’s crazy pet hellhound.

Ultrax--Exterior

”Everyone’s here. Good. Give it some energon before it goes on rampage on that energon pile.”

That....thing....was being given some free energon by Motormaster?! Astrotrain could scarcely believe his internal audio sensors.

The nerve.

Well, he didn't feel half as bad about the cube he'd snuck as he did before.

”And Astrotrain. Get us back to Thanatos.”

"With pleasure," the triple-changer responded as he disconnected from the Stunticon scow and began to glide towards the sea surface under mostly impulse power. Once he had crested, he fired his primary and secondary boosters and launched himself into the skies above.