The Enemy Is Among Us

Untitled Part 4

Battle alerts were sounded as the Ark and a Decepticon ship known as The Dark Fang raced to Plinth 7. Prime was sprinting to reach the hangar when he passed by Sandstorm's room and he remembered what happened, as he came to his room he saw Sandstorm hunched over, sitting in his stasis pod. Prime saw some posters, some of Paradon, places he's been in his quest and a poster of the Wreckers, with Sandstorm blacked out, probably by Sandstorm himself. Prime decided to talk with him, he had time. " I heard you finally avenged your people, Impactor and the others are worried, is everything fine?". Sandstorm said in a flat, unusual voice, "It feels great to have finally avenged my people but now, I just feel emptiness, like why should I continue to fight, but I still feel obligated to the Wreckers, they took me, a new recruit who knows nothing about combat and they helped me, but now it is so weird inside. I can't describe it". Prime then said, "Would you like to pilot a dropship for me? We are going to the surface of Plinth's seventh moon and we do need a pilot". Sandstorm replied with "Alright, I can do that". Under his mouthplate Prime smiled.

 Plinth seven, The Great Terror

Carnivac was enraged and ashamed. He felt ashamed for he was defeated by Kup, an old timer, Carnivac is a Predacon, a brutal animal warrior, he hopes that he never finds his home pack, that is how ashamed he is. But he was so enraged at his team too, and the base commander, a Megatron a bit too. He couldn't believe how incompetent his team was! Bludgeon spent so long learning Metallikato and Whirl, who wasn't so masterful at it, beat him! He was somewhat reassured that Flywheels was no longer amongst them, because of how incompetent he was, but it was disturbing how quitely he was taken away. Needlenose and Spinister, those two guides he HAD to make members of, he shouldn't have trusted them, the idiots. He also would periodically gaze towards the cockpit, where Megatron was. Megatron had taken the time to yell at him after their astounding defeat. As they landed the Mayhems and Megatron went out and leaped towards the landing site, and Carnivac noticed a bunch of blurs that looked very familiar, like the.... Wreckers. As they landed Carnivac's hunch was proven, most of his greatest enemies stood before him, joined by 3 others. Prime then launched into some boring spiel about becoming allies but Carnivac had only eyes on the older green bot, the one who embarrassed him.

Megatron was wary about the Mayhems, they seemed quite disgruntled after their defeat by the Wreckers and doubted the plan to bring the both on the journey, especially due to Carnivac's volatile nature and how angry those two Slaughterians (people from Planet Slaughter) were. Suddenly they saw a big metallic castle, and to top it off there was a storm too, creating an eerie feel to the place. Megatron slightly shivered, scared of what horrors would be in there, and Megatron wasn't so easily scared. As they came closer, about 20 klicks from the castle there was a sudden cry and a flood of blaster fire came from nowhere, thankfully the guns were so small not much damage was dealt but it came close to hitting points like optics and wiring between shoulder and torso. Each group hid for cover behind large rocks. Battletrap took out a pair of binoculars and gazed. He then said, "Lord Megatron there are a lot of them out there, organic by the looks of them, and they seem tough". Megatron took the binoculars and gazed upon the enemy, a large amount of armored men and women, slightly stocky and judging by the visible flesh, colored green. There seemed to be a winged version, but these seemed to have black pits for eyes. The group decided that the Wreckers and Mayhems should go in and disable the heavy artillery and scatter the forces, then Prime and Megatron rushed in and opened the gates, proceeding from there.

The plan was good, the aliens went running/flying like they were chased by Scraplets until Prime and Megatron reached the doors, then two cybertronian sized robots came out and started a fight with Prime and Megatron. Prime tried his axe on his opponent but the bot used arms that were coated with a special anti-energon material so prime then quickly took out a laser sword and chopped the bot's main arm and then jump-leaped behind it and stabbed it where the spark should be, while Megatron shot the head off his, Then Prime experimentally took the head and with the gentle touch, plucks off the head, noticing the little robot head, suddenly it transforms and shrieks in his face. Prime dropped the little guy and he ran off into the fortress. Prime says, "You shouldn't have blasted the head, we could've learned something from that guy", Megatron said, "Like you were so great, Prime, you are too merciful towards these scum". Suddenly the Wreckers and Mayhems ran up, blaster marks blemishing their skin(Needlenose could be heard silently griping about the marks). "Those little guys, there were more of them, we had to take care of them before they would missile you guys into scrap!" Impactor said, exhausted, "Those blassstersss did a number on usss" Carnivac growled.

Finally they breached the door, alarms suddenly screeched, "Intruders, the Autobots have entered the facility! Lockdown sector 3! We need 20 super soldiers to sector 1C, Over!". "Super soldiers? That's not good" Prime said. They all went into some vat of chemicals and hid in the crevice over it, that was big enough for them after some drilling(courtesy of Spinster). They heard soft but metallic footsteps approaching, then they spoke. Voice 1 said, "Oh man you're gonna like this one Freezeout he was quite hard to catch, good soldier". The second voice, Freezeout, said, "Alright Flameout, better hope I don't freeze ya, you said his brother came from a ship crash or somethin'". Impactor and the Wreckers silently gasped. "What was that?" Flameout said, "What, let's get a move on!". Impactor then stealthily leaped up onto the floor, somehow not making any noise and gazed at the two who just passed. He suddenly came back to the hiding spot with a haunted look on his face." I looked and one of them, he had, he had Twin Twist's face on there! They got Twin Twist! And Topspin too!" Impactor silently cried out. Feeling disgusted, they all got out of their hiding spot and continued down. They suddenly encountered a group of twenty bots in sector 1B. These bots had armored metal on them and had weapon upgrades, about 4 were once Autobots as shown by their badges. There was quite a brutal fight, Roadbuster was mowing 3 down with blaster fire, the last was taken out with a missile shot to the face. Bludgeon, Stranglehold and Whirl used their respective weapons to cut a bunch of them, Bludgeon would chop off arms, slash the face and use metallikato to disarm and weaken and finally Stranglehold would smash the face in with his ball and chain while Whirl used kicks, power punches and his two rotor blades to mess them up. Impactor, Carnivac, and Springer used claws, blasters, and a harpoon to take out another group. Impactor impaled his guy with his harpoon and used the shoulder cannon to blast the chest, allowing the head to fall off and the nebulan to escape.Count yourself lucky, tell your boss Impactor is coming to rip him to shreds' ' Impactor growled. Springer blasted him with a neutron assault rifle from chest to neck. Carnivac clawed his opponent until it could barely support itself, then burned with the fire cannon in his alt mode. Broadside would chuck two around, first ripping arms off, punching so hard large dents would appear and finally delivered two powerful uppercuts that sent nebulans flying. Battletrap, Chop-Shop and Venom used a chain plus other arnaments to weaken the bots so the main crowd takes them out. Megatron fought one in tank mode, he himself became his cybertronian tank mode, blasting his enemy before he could even fire(the pilot got out but was burned). Prime faced a sharpshooter like enemy, who was carrying a weird looking gun, it had a long barrel for a pistol and a large chamber, it was unnecessarily out of proportion(look up transformers Targetmaster to see what it is). Prime then moved toward the bot, activating his sword while doing so. The bot fired off a few plasma bolts before Prime cut the barrel off and then the bot's sword arm. He is going to get information. He suddenly clutches the bot's arm with an iron grip, stands on the bot's toe, firmly holds the neck and asks him, "What you and why are you-!!!". But he was suddenly cut off by the gun transforming and rapidly moving up his arm. Prime moved his hand from the bot's neck to swat at the little bot and suddenly the bigger bot headbutts Prime and runs with his partner. By this time the battle has ended.

The group gets out of the 1 area and finds a crossroad, go to sector 2, barracks, or go to sector 3, science division. Prime and Megatron go to sector 3 to learn more, while the Mayhems and Wreckers blow off rage in sector 2. In sector 3, Prime and Megatron find a terrible sight, in the first room they saw a dead autobot heavy with parts cut off to remove pain receptors and the head getting seemingly separated. They also saw in the next room Topspin's body getting removed from a Cybertronian sized containment tube. They then came across a cell, after taking out the six heavily armed guards there (Megatron's tank mode, Prime's shotgun setting on his blaster, and a smoke bomb did the trick). They gasped upon seeing the prisoner.

It was Shockwave, somehow unharmed.

He then said, "Please, get me out of here, I'm not one of them, too valuable" in a slightly glitched out voice.