The Enemy Is Among Us

Untitled Part 5

 Plinth 7

Breakdown was having a terrible week, first Shockwave was taken, nearby, (he nearly suffered a spark attack, like a heart attack) then he nearly got blasted in the face by some sneaky autobot, and finally, he was on a ship, heading towards a danger zone with his extremely annoying cousin, Wildrider, or Brake-Neck. The enthusiastic red and gray transformer was cackling when they were called in, if you looked at them you would have no idea they were related. Wildrider took off his mouthplate to chomp on his energon stick('how can he do that at this time!'Breakdown thought). Then the call came in from Megatron, "Flight troops, attack now". Suddenly the door opened and Breakdown, Wildrider, Ruckus, Skywarp, and others jumped out and activated their jetpacks after a minute of free fall(Skywarp insta-teleported down the moment he jumped). The hue of the area was smokey and orangey-red from the fires and smoke. Breakdown suddenly noticed little green men with laser guns firing at him, but they weren't much. Breakdown used his electric concussion gun to fry them and quickly did the same to another group. He noticed Ruckus gleefully whooping in his LOUD voice, blasting anti-aircraft guns, turrets, enemy bots. Suddenly a swarm of little alien planes came out and Breakdown dove for cover, and so did Wildrider. Breakdown nervously saw from his shelter those exposed get blasted, Ruckus lost an arm, an autobot named Backstreet getting one to the neck and his teammate Dragstrip nearly avoiding getting blasted by about 5 planes. Breakdown was able to get on the main communication hub and was met by a lot of chatter, plans being made and Ruckus whining about his lost arm. Breakdown decided to take a look from the guard tower window at what else was going on, he saw another quadrant bombarded with cannons, bots either getting blasted apart or cowering in fear. Breakdown thought 'at least we're not those guys'. At this point he was hyperventilating as he heard the sound of transforming and the hum of powerful searchlights. Then he noticed Wildrider motioning to him, he whispered, "Go onto the Stunticon chat, Motormaster has a plan". Breakdown obliged. Motormaster then said "Good, Breakdown is here. So here's the plan, we combine into Menasor, cause a little bit of havoc to cover for the rest, I checked with Macabre and he's cool with it, alright. Let's do this!". 5 seconds later Breakdown and Wildrider suddenly felt light and limp, they're combining. Breakdown smiled as he felt himself joining Menasor's torso 'This will be fun' he said in his head.

Menasor was angry, the blaster bolts were like pebbles thrown but he was still mad. One even fired at his butt. He swept his blade on the ground, 3 of the little bots were destroyed . He used his knuckle blasters to fry the ones firing at his back. Menasor then used his knuckle blasters to destroy some turrets. Suddenly Menasor noticed Lord Megatron and Prime(grrr) holding that weird purple fellow, Shock-something. Menasor doesn't care. Menasor roared and diverted enemy attention while they hurried along. Other autobots and decepticons came out of hiding('cowards', he thought) and joined in the attack. He then climbed the wall and speared a missile tank with his sword. He then leaped down, pulled out the sword and started destroying stuff, as always. After destroying a lot of things, his separate components agreed they had done their job, with a sense of calmness, and Menasor felt himself decombine.

Megatron and Prime were still reeling from the shock. They quickly blasted the cell open and got Shockwave out of there, Shockwave's eye gleamed with gratefulness. They also found a room where many cybertronian-like bodies were, and little green people in lab equipment were there, some were in mechanical bodies, some transformed into heads made little steps in huge cybertronian sized bodies. Prime threw a smoke bomb into the room Megatron said, "these parasites are trying to destroy us, why be so merciful?", Prime responded with "we do not know their side yet, I am not as quick in action as you". They got Shockwave out after destroying about 30 of the mechs. Escorted by the stunticons, and the protectobots they got out safely and took Shockwave to the infirmary, the latter with a spooked look on him, muttering 'they were right' over and over. They were able to get him to the Ark and into the infirmary, Shockwave still babbling on. Then the two decided to call in a retreat. Battle analysis said that 14.5% of their soldiers died, 25% wounded and they were able to get a bunch of information, from the rampaging Wreckers (who went on a spree of destruction without Sandstorm, who was already back on the Ark and discovered many things) and a bunch of small squads were sent into the fortress to hack the base systems. What was discovered were logs detailing experiments and subjects though few of these files were actually looked at carefully(most had a self destruction code in them), which confirmed that Twin-Twist and Topspin are in fact, dead, much to the dismay of their former comrades and even enemies. One bot swore he saw a delivery form for Cybertronian sparks going somewhere before it disappeared.

 Plinth 7

It was one month after the attack, The base supervisors did the best they could but the devastation was also huge, and they already lost 50 people trying to get more materials from the inside of the planet. The group of 5 green men sat nervously around the table. 3 had cybernetic parts on them, trying to stop The Infection, two had technological bodies that were constructed from other metals, with triangles on the top of their heads and the last, the lead supervisor, was decked out in a miniature cybertronian body, his mechanical mouth twisted in a scowl. An older cyborg spoke up, "Vorath, you sure we did all that could be done. He will be quite mad if he finds out not much was done". Another spoke up,(one of the metal men) "Ha! Mad is an understatement" he said with an empty laugh. Vorath(the cybertronian) then said "Silence, yes Boomer, nothing else can be done and Monzo, will you be quiet for once, I'm already stressed as it is''. Then suddenly the camera turned on, and their evil ruler came on. The boss then spoke, "Vorath, I received a report but I want to hear it from you first, my loyal servant.'' Vorath gave a very detailed report that lasted ten minutes. The boss then spoke up "So the cybertronians discovered our little plan, I am changing the directive of this base, I will send a group of bots to assassinate that freakish cyclops and the factions' meddlesome leaders' '. Vorath spoke up, "Can I please be involved, my lord, my new truly cybertronian body is ready if you know what i mean", Vorath and the Boss cackled before he cut communications.

 The Ark

Megatron was shocked, and he usually isn't shocked like this. He would never believe that Shockwave would break down like this. Shockwave would sometimes be hostile towards other bots when he meets them for the first time, trying to take off their heads. One day Prime decided to have him see some scrawny autobot named Rung, who is a licensed physiatrist, 'bet he'll have a breakdown once he meets Shockwave, the way he looked at me, scared like a cyber-slug about to be cooked'.

The following is the meeting between Rung and Shockwave(shortened)

Shockwave: *Mumbling*

Rung: "Hello, Shockwave, I can assure that I am a friend, please, if you have something important to say, please speak a bit louder"

Shockwave: "Rung, I believe I have lost it"

Rung: "Why do you believe that, I thought you were very logical and smart, is it PTSD?"

Shockwave: "No, I have found out that what those religious bots preach may be quite true. I saw one of those little bots, the one that lurk inside Titans, he was so evil, everything in me was repulsed by him".

Rung: "Are you sure it wasn't some scare tactic by your captors?"

Shockwave: "I know, none of the others make my spark want to come out of my chest"

Rung: "oh my" *Wrings hands*

Shockwave: "Hmm, do you believe me?"

Rung: "Yes, but why do you trust me?"

Shockwave: "You never have been alone, when you were in this sector you were probably inside the Ark all bots taken weren't in their respective bases but alone".

Rung: "What is the name of these aliens?"

Shockwave: "Nebulans, they seem to have been stricken with some debilitating illness that forces them to use mechanical parts". "The reason why I myself am not one of them is because they've been trying to get information from me, but special hardware keeps out their mind-extracting devices"

Rung: "Interesting"

End Log(more to it, but is not important)