Sorry if the story flow is poor/nonexistent, each of these chapters are written like a month apart at least (emphasis on at least)
(Several months later) "Oh, Optimus we must stop meeting like this," Megatron shouted over the blaster fire, "This routine has become all too familiar, although, there is a certain dark comedy to this old song and dance."
He threw his arms out in an exaggerated gesture from where he stood above the battleground "Your Autobots stumble across one of my energon mines, then you use all of your resources to try and capture it before the whole place goes up and we're all left chasing after scraps. It is as predictable now as it was on Cybertron, but at present, I believe I have a particular edge. And it's not just the new recruits."
There was a brief clatter as a squad of dull silver vehicons entered the cavern, motioning for the miners to retreat before they opened fire on the Autobots, almost immediately Bulkhead was knocked off his pedes by the force of the upgraded vehicon's energon blasters.
He skidded a good distance before scrambling to the cover of the rocks, "Ugh ... that hurt a lot more than usual, and I'm supposed to be the muscle" after a few moments of listening to plasma fire he dared peek over the rock, then quickly ducked down when an hourglass-shaped barrel turned on him.
But he had seen where the others were, beyond the perfect bowling cluster of vehicon elites, "Heh, better firepower doesn't equal better soldier, well, here goes nothing."
Bulkhead transformed and charged towards the vehicons, imagining the sound of pins falling "And Strike... or not" he added in annoyance as the con's all jumped out of the way rather than opening fire from where they stood.
One of them tried knocking him over with a backhanded swing as he passed, tipping the SUV up on two wheels and forcing him into robot mode before his undercarriage could be exposed.
"So you want to fight dirty eh? well so can I" he deployed his maces and held his arms out, watching with glee as they launched, two of the vehicons immediately got knocked out cold, then another one got tripped up as he reeled the maces back in.
"You aren't the only ones who got upgrades" he chided, the vehicons' visors brightened in an unreadable but no doubt angry expression, the one on the ground transformed and drove at Bulkheads pedes, firing as it went.
Bulkhead backpedaled in surprise and pain, wincing at the great noise of the ballistic ammunition that the vehicon was using in car mode, the troopers distraction proving fruitful as Bulkhead didn't notice the other 3 priming their cannons.
But he looked up last moment and smartly punted the car at the small firing squad, scattering them like bowling pins how he wanted in the first place.
Meanwhile, Bumblebee was engaged in close-quarters combat with an ivory white eradicon with green markings, trading punches and kicks with his slightly larger foe.
It was clear that all the drones had packed on training and upgrades, the Autobots had all faced these kinds of stronger grunts back on Cybertron, albeit very rarely, but this time it was different.
Megatron had significantly raised the bottom line in order to keep ahead, Bumblebee assumed the one he was fighting held a high rank within the vehicon forces, the color scheme was proof enough for some kind of higher standing, that and a drone being so well versed in hand to hand combat was almost unprecedented.
"C'mon bug, I know you can do better than that, I'm falling into recharge here." Bumblebee took the bait and chanced a leg sweep, dropping low under his opponents swings and upended the commander with a powerful kick.
It was at that moment Bracken showed just how elite he was, taking the blow in stride as he transformed mid air, rectangular engine slots glowing red as they heated up.
Bumblebee barely had anytime to react as he was blasted into the wall by a burst of jet thrust, knocked into a stupor as he gripped his helm in pain.
Bracken staggered as he landed, the momentum of his little stunt still in full effect, he was as surprised as anyone else that it had worked, and he marched towards the dazed yellow mech to finish the job.
But naturally, being a vehicon, he had very poor situational awareness outside of whatever he was focused on, so it came as a complete shock to him when he got absolutely folded by Arcee.
The small bot landed a leg sweep he hadn't anticipated at all, and to add insult to injury he landed face first in a mud puddle, he was about to get up and retaliate until he heard the heavy pedesteps of bulkhead coming closer, and wisely decided it best to stay down.
Dividing this into parts because I desperately need to get a chapter out, I need something to show for all the time I've wasted.
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