by Devastron » Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:27 pm
- Weapon: Energo-Sword
The Past
Grimlock took one agonizing step after another. He could see him standing in front of him, his single eye glowing. Even without a face Grimlock could tell that Shockwave was mocking him, mocking him for not being prepared, for being beaten again, for being outsmarted by the most intelligent Transformer in existence. He couldn’t hear him but he knew that’s what he must be saying.
Another step.
He would show the smug Decepticon. If he could just get to him he’d tear out that single glowing eye. He’d make a decoration out of it, maybe a necklace. It would serve as a reminder to everyone that no one defeated the Dinobots and lived. No one humiliated them and got away; they’d be hunted down and gutted. The Dinobots were the toughest unit on either side. No walking calculator would beat them.
The Dinobot lifted his left leg for another step but it locked up on him. He could feel his systems shutting down. The energon radiation that was all over the planet was too much for him. He stretched out his right arm, reach for Shockwave. If he could just get one hand on him he could end it. His arm froze up. All that was left now were his optics and they quickly began flickering. He had been prepared for this, as unlikely as it had seemed. No one beat the Dinobots, no one beat him. He would make sure of that even if it killed him. He just wished he could be there to see it happen.
Area 51 – The Present
Energon surged back into Grimlock’s systems. It took a few seconds for it to work completely through his body and for systems to reactivate. His visor flickered back to life and his outstretched hand clenched into a fist.
“Arrrgggghhhhh.”
His vocalizer had little time to activate before two missiles detonated in the bunker. The explosion ripped through the massive chamber. Girders, steel plates and equipment were torn a part and sent raining down on anyone and everyone inside. The entire place shook with the force of the blast but did not collapse. Built to withstand a head on nuclear blast it would take more than a couple of conventional missiles to bring it down. The interior was wrecked however.
The blast flung the newly awakened Dinobot hurling into one of the chamber walls. He then fell to the ground and was quickly buried in debris. Once the last of the wreckage had fallen The Dinobot commander began clawing his way out, quickly surfacing. “Hnnnn.” He did a cursory look around, not seeing anything but wreckage in the now darkened chamber. He glanced up at the hole in the ceiling, the opening still fairly intact. While he didn’t know what was going on or where Shockwave was, he knew there was a fight going on up there and someone had just taken a shot at him. Now it was time to return the favor.
Grimlock climbed up on the largest pile of wreckage he could find. He drew his sword and made a leap at the mouth of the opening. He was barely able to jab his sword inside of the opening. With that hold secured he pulled himself up into it. Using his own brute strength and sword to create foot and hand holds the Autobot began making his way up to the surface.
*******
Soundwave had observed the two Autobots, Wheeljack and Bumblebee, leaping into the hole Megatron and he had just left through. He also saw Thundercracker deploy two missiles down into the bunker. With the majority of the Autobots and Decepticons already engaged in battle Soundwave wanted to be sure that the Autobots had been terminated. Megatron already had a failsafe plan in case events turned rapidly in the Autobots favor but even that plan would be strained if they were able to produce multiple reinforcements in the form of reactivated Dinobots.
The Communications officer leapt back down into the bunker, controlling his fall with his flight capabilities. He noted with concern the Dinobot Grimlock clawing his way up but quickly moved past him. Grimlock had nod desire to go back down the hole to fight one Decepticon, not after the effort it was taking to climb out, and so he continued up.
The Decepticon landed, bits of scrap metal crunching beneath his giant feet. If the formerly deactivated Dinobot had survived then there was a good probability the other Autobots had as well. They must not be allowed to reactivate more Dinobots.
“Ravage, eject. Operation: Search and Destroy.”
Ravage shot out of Soundwave’s chest, quickly transforming into his jaguar form. He quickly began examining the area, hunting for the Autobots buried or hiding beneath the debris. Soundwave produced his concussion blaster and began his own scans. Wherever the Autobots were they would not remain hidden for long.
*******
Rumble and Frenzy staggered under the ground shaking force of Thundercracker’s sonic boom followed by his underground missile detonations. Rumble shook his fist up at the Seeker. “That’s my gimmick ya stupid piece a scrap! I’m gonna give you an aftkicking like you’d never believe when you come down from there!”
Frenzy glanced back just in time to see Soundwave disappear into the bunker. “It doesn’t matter anyway man. I just saw Soundwave head down into that bunker and unless you wanna dig him out of there later no earthquakes today.”
Rumble threw up his arms in annoyance. “So what are we supposed to do then?”
Frenzy pointed at Pipes. “I say we take out shorty.”
“I guess he’s the only one left then,” replied Rumble, both of them ignoring the fact that the minibot was still twice as tall as either of them. “You go high and I go low?”
“Sounds good to me.”
The two cassetticons ran over towards Pipes and lunged at him. Rumble aimed for his knees and Frenzy lunged at his chest and head.
*******
Astrotrain dropped through the atmosphere like a brick. He sighed to himself. It was the nature of this Earth creature’s spacecraft to reenter the atmosphere in this way. They didn’t have the sophistication of Cybertronian spacecraft. Those would cut through the atmosphere with their sleek and streamlined forms and rapidly begin flying across the planet to their destination. They way they used spacecraft was to simply drop them down in the right place in a practically unpowered landing. It was pathetic really. Fortunately he was only mimicking the first part of their landing procedure. Once he was through the atmosphere he could fly under power.
There was a loud sonic boom as the triplechanger finally cleared the atmosphere. His powerful engines flared to live and he rocketed across the sky, swooping down to join the rest of the Decepticons. He saw the two seekers already engaged in aerial battles, something he wasn’t really interested in or built for. The same went for providing ground support from the area. No, it was finally time to get his hands dirty in some nice, up close combat.
With one pass over the battlefield Astrotrain picked out his target. He came about for another pass, this time gliding low over the ground, almost scraping it. He rapidly transformed into his train mode, maintaining a good portion of his speed and momentum. He quickly charged at the Autobot Smokescreen, transforming at the last minute to his robot mode and hurtling at him, right fist raised to smashing into him.
*******
Sunstreaker transformed and glared up at Sideswipe as the other Autobot rocketed up into the sky on his jetpack. The little punk was way too pleased at himself and his little gadget. Next time before they went into battle he was going to make sure he stole it so he could use it himself. Of course he’d have to get it painted yellow so it wouldn’t clash, but that wasn’t a big deal. If Sideswipe could use it in battle then he knew that he would practically be an expert with it. His brother was still a rookie compared to him.
The warrior looked back at the battlefield just in time to see Megatron gut Hot Rod in brutal fashion. Sunstreaker wasn’t really surprised. The other Autobot had a reckless streak in him a mile wide. Some Autobots accused Sunstreaker of being arrogant, cocky and a jerk, but he definitely wasn’t stupid. If your name didn’t end in ‘Prime’ then charging at Megatron was pretty much suicide, and even then the Decepticon leader had made a reputation on killing Primes. They would just have to see if Hot Rod would live to learn that lesson.
A quick glance around showed that most of the Autobots and Decepticons were already locked in combat with each other. He wasn’t about to team up with anyone else. He could only tolerate fighting alongside Sideswipe, and that was just barely. All of the rest of them would just get in his way. That left him with fighting Swindle, a C-list opponent if ever there was one. He would just have to waste him quickly and move on to someone else, probably pick up after where some other Autobot had fallen.
Sunstreaker charged ahead, opening fire on Swindle with his electron-pulse rifle. “Come on Swindle, lets see if you can use those guns have as good as you peddle them!” He dived and rolled up behind one of the human buildings and continued firing from around the corner. He’d rather just take down this chump without scratching up his paint job from any near hits from whatever weird weapons he might be using.