The Enemy Is Among Us

Chapter 1

Come closer, dear reader, for today we observe a great story of the Transformers and the horrors of an unknown enemy.

Chapter 1

Plinth 3rd moon

The surface of this planet was pockmarked with large holes and there were still faint wisps of smoke as decepticon carriers retreated and came down, deploying many decepticons, including Shockwave, nasty decepticon scientist and Lord Megatron's fourth in command. He now dons spark armor, armor that can be summoned with the push of a button, this was like a satellite with a silver helm and new deluxe wfc-2435 heat blaster. There came a sound of grinding metal teeth behind him, as Shockwave guessed, it was Breakdown, a self conscious and energetic trooper with a white body with red stripes and a yellow eye visor covering grey eyes. "Is it safe", he asked. "I mean we are here to take care of autobots but what if there's still a heavy out there, like last time!". Shockwave rolled his eye, "we'll be fine, I'll stay ten klicks to your left away from you", Shockwave whispered. As they got off Shockwave could see that Breakdown's fears were not true (and slightly his own fears, but he doesn't want to awknowledge it), in fact a autobot heavy stood in front of them with a gaping hole and an expression of shock and fury on his face. As some separated and others traveled in a pack to build a base, Shockwave stayed with Breakdown, ten klicks to the left of him as promised. Then something caught Shockwave's eye, some form of movement a couple miles away, he went to check it out, leaving a now over confident Breakdown alone.

As Breakdown moved along he realized how dumb he was to be worried, he had only seen the one heavy as he blasted numerous dead Autobots in his energized and pompous state. He then heard a familiar, unemotional cry, "stay back, you hooligan" then he heard a large blast, probably Shockwave's heat blaster. Then a screech broke through and then a cry (one that someone who is dazed makes) from Shockwave and a thud, nobody else came running it seemed only Breakdown could hear. In his fear Breakdown noticed a mangled arm, a heavy's and it looked like the arm had been removed with precision and there were no energon marks. In his great fright he thought of the Quintessons, ancient alien-demons that came and drove Cybertron into centuries of slavery before the great Alpha Trion was brought back to take them out (maybe not, as skeptics say). He then moved to check where the sounds were heard. And. He. Saw. Nothing.

Plinth 4th moon

'It was a great loss', lamented Topspin, Autobot wrecker (off-duty) in his head. His platoon was just involved in a battle that resulted in a big Decepticon win, at the cost of 200 out of 1,200, and most were the best with good guns. In that same battle his brother (split spark) disappeared after his ship crashed. Topspin decided to take an oil bath and as he was going there, across the barracks he saw something small scurry in the corner of his optic. He grabbed a shotgun and went to check it out. "Where are you, you little decpti-spy"! He growled to himself. The moment he stepped from behind a corner he saw a small mech with tinted windows. The mech suddenly revealed a small minigun and opened fire, with Topspin doing the same. After some shots were fired and a lot of ducking, Topspin heard the gunfire stop and then rushed at his target, but the little mech suit was empty(or deactivated). Then suddenly he felt a metallic plate being magnetized as he yelled himself hoarse and the final thing he saw before blacking out was his brother's body but it was headless, Topspin could only whisper out one word: "brother?" before blacking out. 

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