Melanossos, Decepticon supply depotTurmoil lost his chance to line in for another blast at Pyro as the ranger managed to hit his barely exposed threads with immediately solidifying foam. Another blast followed - the target being Turmoil's main weapon. But given the angle of the blast it just generated layer of solified foam on the side of the barrel, doing nothing to prevent the use of the weapon. All this however, was more of a hindrance than anything else. Paying little attention to the building collapsing next to him Turmoil calmly made his counter move.
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Cover fire being deployed. Prepare for a flash grenade."<<
Sending out a warning to other Decepticons of his incoming actions, automatically targetable anti-infantry pulse lasers of Turmoil's began unleashing their deadly rain of fire to protect his flank from the charging Lionizer while attempting to harass Pyro to continue seeking shelter from the ruined buildings. At the same time a defensive sub-routine orchestrated a flash grenade being fired in front of Pyro's last confirmed location and manipulated Turmoil's exhaust ports to generate a cloud of thick, black smoke which quickly enfulged the large Decepticon and easily enough of his surroundings to hide five Cybertronians of his size within it.
Within the protective clould of smoke, Turmoil transformed to his towering robot form to regain his mobility and moved slightly to left to force possible Autobot attackers guess his real position. While his own cloud of smoke hampered his own targeting ability as well, the massive Vice-Commander still had dozens of optical sensors feeding him live stream of targeting data. The Swarm was truly work of genius for all the possibilities it offered. While the larger diaclones served as weapons and perfect decoys to draw enemy fire, the smaller insect sized ones covered large areas of battlefield while going nearly unnoticed by those not trained to spot them - keeping the Decepticons updated on the changing enemy positions around the battlefield.
And thus, only astroseconds after the smoke cloud had been activated - a massive particle beam blast erupted from the cloud of smoke with
Rad being its designated recipient.
Another transmission was sent at the same time as his main weapon fired a blast towards Rad. This time - the message was focused on the two Decepticons that had arrived with to Melanossus with him. >>"
Horri-Bull, Bomb-Burst. Pin Pyro down to his current position. I grow tired of these games."<<
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Equatorial Desert - Skies Above>>"
I have sensors of my own ol' pal. Not the first missile I have dropped, heh heh."<< Apeface replied back to Snapdragon and allowed his sonic-boomer to position itself to allow it to fire behind him. A moment later Lightspeed's missile was hit by a wave of sonic booms that caused the missile to denonate harmlessly in the air - far a way from Apeface's own position.
Having dealt with the missile, Apeface was now able to focus on his target - namely an energy trace deeper in the desert that could only be an Autobot. A wounded one at that. And as dedicated in seeking shelter from the caverns under the desert as his Technobot friends given how the trace suddenly disappeared as if the desert had swallowed the Autobot.
As suddenly as the Autobot signature disappeared - Deadlock's signature appeared far closer to the Autobot's last known position than Apeface was.
Well slag darnit. That annoying punk stole my fun again. Cursing Deadlock's appearance in his mind, Apeface turned back - willing to let Deadlock have this particular Autobot rather than contesting the issue. That of course meant that he'd get back at Deadlock eventually. And likely in abusive, violent manner.