Chapter 26: Relics

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(A/N): it was easier for me to make just SoundStorm's chapter with parts of the other four episodes.

Autobot Base

Optimus: if we are to have any hope of recovering the Iacon relics before the Decepticons do, we must divide our resources.

Ratchet: but Optimus, when it comes to numbers, we are already at a grave disadvantage.

Optimus: under the circumstances, swiftness of action is paramount. This is one race that we absolutely cannot afford to lose.

Nemesis

Megatron: dispatching multiple squadrons will enable us to pursue all six coordinates simultaneously.

SoundStorm: I have a list of teams if you want to see it.

Knockout:<enters> Lord Megatron, I have assembled the mining detail you requested for the first set of coordinates. Breakdown and I enjoyed previous success retrieving Iacon relics. We intend to the same again.

Megatron: this is a mission, not one of your racing excursions. Stop showing off and operate with a surgeon's skill. Do you understand me, Knockout?

Knockout: explicitly, Lord Megatron.

SoundStorm: while Breakdown is your partner, you will need extra muscle, so take Barricade with you.

Knockout; but- he's mental!

SoundStorm; so am I and yet here I am. However if he goes off the rails and that made you fail, I'll deal with it when you return.

Autobot Base

Ratchet: here's a twist, it would appear that the Decepticons have retreated from Manhattan.

Arcee: they just... up and left?

Optimus: it is more likely that Megatron has already set course for the second set of coordinates, having dispatched a unit to this relic's underground location.

Arcee: without busting up a city block to get to it?

Axel: they used subway tunnels, New York has a whole network of them running beneath the city.

Optimus: since the human population no longer seems to be directly threatened, maintaining our disguise will be necessary. Arcee, Bumblebee, Chromia, you are the best choices to navigate through such a densely populated area.

Jack: Optimus, New York has more than eight million people. The odds of being spotted by at least one of them are pretty high even if they are headed underground.

Chromia: where are you going with this?

Jack: you're gonna need a face man.

Optimus:<didn't understand>

Jack; someone who can speak on their behalf, a human who can run interference if their cover gets blown.

Miko: well I've actually been in subway stations, I grew up in a major metropolis unlike Mr I've never been outside Jasper Nevada.

Jack; I have been to Cybertron.

Miko: Cybertron doesn't have subways. Does it?

Optimus: Agent Fowler's field experience makes him our best candidate.

Axel: not likely since he's still delirious from the shock he got at the ship.

Miko; which we survived without incident.

Axel: look Optimus, I've been to New York, want my opinion?

Optimus: yes.

Axel: let both of them go.

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