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Synopsis: Is Galvatron really going to do it? Is he really going to kill EVERYONE? Ayotzinco, once a mighty Militant metropolis, once a Mexican municipal, once a contested city, lies in ruins. Autobot traps could not keep the Decepticons out forever, and they have laid waste to the city. Where there was a sense of ancient majesty, that every rock and mound might be alive, there is instead just dust and scaffolds, the hallmarks of progress, relentless and ruthless. Autobot Heavy Cruiser has arrived. Autobot Heavy Cruiser moves to Mexico. Autobot Heavy Cruiser has left. ~* It's a Kodak moment! *~

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Synopsis: Is Galvatron really going to do it? Is he really going to kill EVERYONE? Ayotzinco, once a mighty Militant metropolis, once a Mexican municipal, once a contested city, lies in ruins. Autobot traps could not keep the Decepticons out forever, and they have laid waste to the city. Where there was a sense of ancient majesty, that every rock and mound might be alive, there is instead just dust and scaffolds, the hallmarks of progress, relentless and ruthless. Autobot Heavy Cruiser has arrived. Autobot Heavy Cruiser moves to Mexico. Autobot Heavy Cruiser has left. Reflector arrives from menial labor duty and transforms, awaiting the appearance of the mighty Galvatron for a photo-op. ~* Come together... right now... over me. *~ The three bodies of Reflector merge and transform simultaneously, becoming a spiffy old school camera... you know, the kind that used something called film way back in ancient times. The autobot channel has been encrypted. Camera gets that old familiar worried feeling as Galvatron makes his disembodied broadcast. Is it going to be one of /those/ days? No photo opportunity for the moment, Reflector transforms once more and the trio-con gets to looking for something. ~* It's a Kodak moment! *~ Faster than a shutter cycle, the beautiful old school camera splits apart into three parts which rapidly transform into three robot bodies of significantly larger size. It's magic! Shadow has arrived. Blueshift puts his hands on his hips and points at Reflector. "You! Go get the object Lord Galvatron desires from the warehouse. And hurry, throw it if you have to, he wants it NOW!" Galvatron appears, then, gently floating down by his gravitic super-weapon. At his side is some sort of organic creature, a blob-like thing floating along on a platform. "Well, Garfahnz, I must thank you for your assistance in finding the Aztec Lens of Infinite Sight. I am curious as to how you knew of its existance, however." Gahrfahnz, the floating blob, replies, "I heard legends of it. Supposedly this lens was copied, and duplicated into much smaller versions that granted great power." The blob stares at the cannon. "What is that, Lord Galvatron?" Galvatron smiles as he sets down on the ground. "Let's just say I took Fairway's design and... well... *improved it*." Gahrfahnz gulps. Darkwing has arrived. "Yeah, hop to it, Reflectloser!" Rampage chortles at his clever insult. Damn, he's good. Reflector grants Blueshift a passifying acknowledgement, doing what he was going to do anyway, retrieving from a warehouse something big enough to require all three bodies to balance it. About forty feet around if Galvatron was not exagerating to one degree or another... Dramatically under a big tarp for unveiling perhaps. "Where do you want it, mighty Galvatron?" Blueshift snarls at Reflector and takes out his gun, cocking it and looking to Galvatron. "Sir, should I SHOOT one of the Reflector drones in the face as punishment for being slow to carry our your divine will?" Autobot Heavy Cruiser enters from Mexico. Autobot Heavy Cruiser has arrived. Galvatron diverts his attention from Gahrfanz to scowl at Blueshift. "No, you fool! I don't want you to shoot him at all! Bring the package over to the dais over there." Galvatron points at a dais that appears to be roughly two hundred meters away from a large and frankly intimidating cannon. "And YOU TWO!" he glares Blueshift and Rampage. "HELP HIM." Blueshift waves a hand at Rampage "Yes you cur, help him!" Then he picks up his communicator. "SHADOW! Report immediately. I require ADMIN SUPPORT!" Darkwing looks around the construction site. He had gotten morbidly curious to Galvatron's plan; espcially if it means the destruction of this digusting mudball. Seeing this planet and its germs reduced to dust were one of the few joys that brought joy to the lasercore of the dour powermaster. For the moment he stands in the background as he listens to the banter. Maybe he'll remain unnoticed like usual. Rampage snorts. What's the point of having Reflector around if he's not going to do everything for them? "Yes, Lord Galvatron." Rampage moves to assist those crazy camera guys with the load. "Ugh, what is this thing anyway!?" At the summon, Shadow suddenly appears beside Blueshift, hovering in the air and slowly descending to land on his feet. Where has he been, and how did he get here so fast? Who knows. "Yes, Blueshift?" Reflector drones obediently, "As you command, Galvatron." He spares a set of optics to scowl at Rampage and Blueshift. The load lightens and the balance made easier with at least the Predacon putting his back into it, the object is moved under the power of teamwork towards the dais. Blueshift waves a hand at Reflector. "Go on Shadow, go help Reflector and Rampage move things. I am too busy plotting SPACE MISSIONS to further Lord Galvatron's glory!" Autobot Heavy Cruiser comes down out of the sky, though this time, it doesn't look like it is about to crash, perhaps unusually! With the Decepticons so hectic and busy, will they even care? Rodimus Prime arrives from Autobot Heavy Cruiser . Rodimus Prime has arrived. Crosscheck arrives from Autobot Heavy Cruiser . Crosscheck has arrived. Blades arrives from Autobot Heavy Cruiser . Blades has arrived. Shadow gives a small roll of his optics. "As you wish." He heads over to Rampage and Reflector, glancing up as he does so at the arriving Steelhaven. Windshear has arrived. Blueshift tuts loudly at Shadow. "Also Shadow, I want you to go to the Absolution and pick up my dry cleaning afterwards. It is important TRAINING for you" Galvatron shakes his head at Blueshift. "Fool. I ought to leave you behind. Then again," he rubs his chin. "I will probably need space warriors like yourself to scout out our new home." As the Steelhaven arrives, Galvatron looks up, and he very much does care. "What!? No! It is too soon for the Autobots to interfere! DECEPTICONS! Protect the package--" Which Reflector is holding. "--with your VERY LIVES!" he cries. He fires several blasts up at the Steelhaven as an opening salvo. Blades follows the other Autobots out of the boarding hatch, along the way he tosses out an issue of concern, "Eh, I hate to be the killjoy of our little group here, but I didn't see a lot of intel data on the way down. Do we sort of got a plan for all of this..." The Protectobot puts a foot onto the ground and readies his photon pistol in one hand and a rotor blade in another, "...or are we just going to do this thing the old fashion way again, boss?" Grapple has arrived. Shadow sighs quietly. "Yes, Blueshift..." His rotors twitch, and this time he addresses his leader. "Of course, Lord Galvatron." He summons his sword, which glints in the light. Crosscheck follows Rodimus through the Steelhaven all the way down to the exit hatch, "I'm going to do what I can be there is little time to figure out how this technology really works." The scientist then remains quiet until he leaves the autobot cruiser. He must be busy pondering complicated equations and astrophysics theories. Rampage takes a glance upwards as well and gasps. "Autobots!" He immediately lets go of the package, leaving Reflector to deal with the weight on his own, and pulls out his rifle. "Yes! Looks like I'll get to bash some heads afterall! Hawhaw!" Rampage fires a few shots at the shuttle. Reflector's six optics flash wide as he looks up. Too soon indeed. They obviously didn't stop for donuts on the way. Reflector repositions once more to compensate for being the only one carrying the 40-foot round tarp covered package, and continues to move towards the dais for lack of a better option. Ever onward Reflector toils, the backbone of the Empire no matter how much credit the Constructicons get. Windshear has been quiet this entire time, just hanging back with Darkwing and staying to himself but ready to carry out any orders given his way. Rodimus Prime was the first guy out of the Steelhaven! He ducks his head when, as he emerges, a blast from Galvatron hits the Steelhaven. "The old fashioned way, Blades," Rodimus answers. "Whatever it is Galvatron's protecting, we want destroyed, but remember: we need to find a way to keep him from just doing this over again!" he shouts as he sprints directly for the Decepticon leader himself, reckless and headless of the danger, and making himself, no doubt, a *very* tempting target for anyone here! Combat: Rodimus Prime sets his defense level to Fearless. Crosscheck jumps out of the hatch after everyone else. After all /they/ are the warriors and he's the scientist who needs to figure out a permanent way to stop Galvatron's plan. Hopefully he will get some help because he doesn't fully understand what's going on. As soon as he lands on the ground, he activates his ionic sword and follows behind Rodimus, trying to make his way towards the dais. Combat: Crosscheck sets his defense level to Protected. "Old fashioned way it is then, boss." Blades acknowledges verbally, leaping off the boarding ramp just in time to avoid getting struck by various weapons fire directed at the shuttle near his area. The Protectobot immediately goes for cover, not really knowing exactly what to do at the moment, and is clearly bidding his time for an opportunity to pop up for him to do what he is assigned here to do. Combat: Blades sets his defense level to Protected. Patchwork is only just ahead of Crosscheck herself. She's not much of a fighter but she's the medic that's gonna keep the fighters on their feet. Crosscheck behind h er is on his own, at least to start with. Ducking away from the various shots that, thankfully, don't come too close, the medic moves to crouch behind a spot of cover, peeking over. "Do we even know what they're protecting...?" Boomslang has arrived. The Global Pose Tracker marks that Blades has 'skipped' his action for this round. Combat: Patchwork sets her defense level to Protected. "Oh oh oh, happy day!" cries Blueshift as he cycles up his pistol, taking aim at the nearest Autobot who happens to be Crosscheck. "This Autobot has a sword, he obviously fancies himself a fighter!" he shouts, shooting away Combat: Blueshift strikes Crosscheck with his Speed Stealing Gun attack! Combat: That attack has temporarily impaired Crosscheck's Agility. (Crippled) Rampage just watches as the Autobots pour out of the shuttle, some of them confronting Galvatron head on and some of them ducking behind cover. "WUSSY AUTOBOTS!" he bellows, stomping up to where Patchwork has taken cover. "Come out and face your doom! Hawhawhawhawhaw!" He fires a shot at the medic. Combat: Rampage sets his defense level to Aggressive. Combat: Rampage strikes Patchwork with his Kapewpew (Pistol) attack! Windshear sees the situation simple enough; Galvatron wants to do something, the Autobots want to stop him. He watches Rodimus make a great target of himself but resists the urge to shoot, instead takes aim at the medic, "Well well we meet again, Patchwork was it?" he asks and fires. Combat: Windshear misses Patchwork with his Laser attack! "NOT THIS TIME, RODIMUS PRIME! You won't stop me!" Galvatron screams, throwing himself at Rodimus Prime. "This is our last battle, whelp! The last time I will ever have to deal with you! With your stupid Autobots! With idiot soldiers who don't do as I tell them to! With your whimpering little human friends! I'VE HAD IT WITH ALL OF YOU! RRAAAAGHHHH!" And he launches into a flurry of fists at the Autobot leader! Shadow spots Blades quickly, even as the Protectobot goes for cover. He waits for a second to calculate his own move, and then activates his anti-gravs and takes to the air. He speeds toward Blades and quickly lands behind him. Acting swiftly, he slashes at the Autobot's back with his sword, aiming for the rotors. Combat: Targetting Error: No target named 'rodimus prime/3' Combat: Shadow strikes Blades with his Shadow Sword attack! Combat: Galvatron misses Rodimus Prime with his Opening Punches attack! [Pulled -5] Darkwing chuckles darkly as he notices his favorite pastel medic. "Oh this will be fun." He says and seeing Windy take first shot at her, he decides to take aim at Crosscheck who she's hanging close to him. Combat: Darkwing sets his defense level to Fearless. Combat: Darkwing strikes Crosscheck with his Electro-Kinetic Blasters attack! Reflector closes the distance on the dais with the mystery bulk. With a careful meassuring with his optics, Reflector finds the absolute center of the raised place and sets the package down gently... Boomslang is sitting cross-legged on one of the construction gantries, having set up his rifle on the safety railing to cover Reflector and, therefore, anyone who gets close to Reflector. He has a large brown paper bag with half an energon cube in it, and an empty plastic cube of one he's already finished sits next to him. He's been there a long time and keeping his cloaking field up has been consuming a fair bit of power, but he's patient. As usual. Crosscheck runs right towards the fractal cannon... it sounds like the autobot scientist may have a plan! Of course he is not paying enough attention to what's going on around him, busy as he is trying to figure out what he should exactly do, which leaves him wide open for attacks from the Decepticons. Blueshift strikes him first and Crosscheck suddenly has trouble running forward, a moment later he's struck by Darkwing blasters. He stops running as everything seems to move around him. He must get rid of those Decepticons before he can get the job doneso he grabs his pistol and attempts to fire a shot at one of the Decepticonss that shot him...which one? He's not even sure. Combat: Crosscheck's Laser attack on Darkwing goes wild! Combat: Crosscheck strikes Chromia with his Laser attack! Leaping into the air, Chromia's body shifts and changes, turning into a sleek and deadly cybertronian car. Boomslang puts his eye to the scope and lays the crosshairs over Crosscheck's neck, following his path towards the dias and bearing distant witness to his dual blutching by Blueshift and Darkwing. When Crosscheck turns back to return fire Boomslang glances up and scans the field for anyone else who might be moving towards it and not otherwise covered by other Decepticons. The Global Pose Tracker marks that Boomslang has 'skipped' his action for this round. Rodimus Prime leaps back and twists to the left, avoiding the full force of Galvatron's fury. He glances around, a bit concerned with the number of people who are *not* focusing on him - meaning that there are more people focusing on the others. "Our last fight? I can only hope, Galvacrumb," Rodimus quips, lifting both his arms. One he points at Galvatron, one at one of the other Decepticons. "But really, shouldn't you be crying for help from your minions here?" Combat: Rodimus Prime strikes Galvatron with his Arm Blasters Area attack! [Pulled -3] Combat: You took 7 damage. Combat: That attack has temporarily affected Galvatron's Accuracy. (Blinded) Combat: Rodimus Prime strikes Blueshift with his Arm Blasters Area attack! [Pulled -3] Combat: That attack has temporarily affected Blueshift's Accuracy. (Blinded) After several radio transmission exchanges with Crosscheck, it becomes somewhat clear what Blades' ought to do in all of this mess. The Protectobot leaps out of cover just in time to get ambushed by Shadow. Fortunately millennia of combat experience allowed Blades to survive the worst of it as he twists his body enough to protect his exposed back and take the worst of the brunt across the left shoulder, "Ugh! Ain't got time playing around with you." The Protectobot aerial warrior lifts up an empty crate and casually tosses it at Shadow as distraction before sprinting away to catch up to Crosscheck and Patchwork, his main objective to protect. Spotting that both the Autobot scientist and medic are underfire, Blades moves quickly in with his photon pistol to intercept and draw fire, "Eh, back away scrapheaps! Lay off on the egg heads!" Combat: Blades sets his defense level to Fearless. Galvatron snarls, "I don't need any help to kill YOU!" right before he is blinded by Rodimus's blasts! "YAAAGHHH! HOW DARE YOU! ARRAAGHHH!" he screams, and begins to fire blasts about the battlefield at random, hoping to hit Rodimus Prime at least once. One of the blasts streaks precariously close to the package mounted on the dais, the very same package Galvatron seemed to be especially concerned about! Combat: Blades misses Rampage with his Photon Pistol Area attack! Combat: Blades strikes Darkwing with his Photon Pistol Area attack! Combat: That attack has temporarily affected Darkwing's Accuracy. (Blinded) Combat: Blades misses Blueshift with his Photon Pistol Area attack! Combat: Blades misses Windshear with his Photon Pistol Area attack! Combat: Patchwork sets her defense level to Neutral. Unfortunately for Crosscheck, Chromia just happened to be driving onto the scene at that particular moment. The sleek, deadly looking cybertronian car (I don't get the whole 'hover transport with wheels' thing) bursts onto the scene...just in time to be hit by Crosscheck's seemingly random fire. A light scorch mark appears on her right fender and, assuming that she's under attack from a hostile, acts accordingly. Clipping a pile of debris at high speed, she hurls herself into the air and transforms into full blown bot mode. Landing, she curls herself into a ball of sorts and, with a minimized profile, rolls behind a cement truck, taking cover. Readying her grenade launcher, she peers around in the direction the weapon blast came from...only to see Crosscheck. Optics narrowing, she vows to have a chat with the autobot male later...but for now concentrates on the greater problem...namely the decepticons. Combat: Patchwork strikes Rampage with her Pistol attack! Reflector is like Chuck Norris. No really! Here's how. Reflector does not sleep, he waits. Ooh, how very enigmatic or very lazy. The trio-con just stands around the package on the dais, weapons drawn. His lens shimmers as if he'd rather be recording images. And as one of Galvatrons blasts soars his way, Reflector ducks, arises again, and gulps. Meanwhile, what happened to Gahrfahnz? Combat: Reflector sets his defense level to Guarded. Combat: Galvatron sets his defense level to Guarded. Blueshift cheers as he hits Crosscheck. "Hah, watch him fall before my might!" he calls out as Darkwing then goes to work. But then Rodimus hits him, and he staggers back, shouting and clutching his face. "Argh, from the Pit I strike at you Autobot!" he screams out, taking out an energon-knife and hurling it towards Rodimus in return, as he tries to recover his vision properly. Combat: Blueshift misses Rodimus Prime with his Piercing Strike attack! Combat: Galvatron misses Rodimus Prime with his Fusion Cannon attack! [Pulled -11] Shadow sidesteps the thrown crate, and then turns his attention toward the sprinting Blades. A tiny scowl crosses his features before he takes off after him, spacing his sword and then detaching his rotors to reveal them as twin blades (no pun intended, of course). "Get back here!" he calls after the Autobot as he pursues him. Combat: Shadow takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Patchwork ducking behind the cover she'd chosen doesn't do Patchwork a whole lot of good when Rampage stomps up and shoots over it. "Hey...hey! Mean!" She protests as she looks up at Rampage, reaching to pull out her own pistol as she scrambles back, trying to get some distance between her and him. Thankfully, it means she's no longer where Windshear's shot landed. "Not nice at all!" she echoes, getting to her feet before she takes her shot. "Hawhawhawhawhaw! You're goin' down, Autobot!" Rampage levels his rifle at the medic once more when suddenly lasers and photon beams and all sorts of crazy stuff starts to fly all around him. He manages not to get hit (except by Patchwork but he doesn't seem to notice) but just the thought that someone tried to shoot him is enough to get him angry. The Predacon spins around and glares at the helicopter Autobot. "You're dead!" he hollers before firing a shot of electricity from his rifle. Combat: Rampage sets his defense level to Fearless. Windshear was taking a shot at the medic when a blast comes his way from another Autobot. Disregarding the Patchwork he spins to aim at the other Autobot and fires. Combat: Rampage misses Blades with his Lightning Rifle attack! Combat: Windshear misses Blades with his Laser attack! Darkwing staggers back as he is hit by Blade's attack, the world visibly darkening, since it cant get much darker metaphoricly for him, makign it difficult to see. Regardless, he contines after the scientist, not wanting to let him near Galvatron's Package. Gahrfanz, the alien crimelord blob floating on a hoverplatform, is cautiously peering around the corner of a building. He doesn't want any of that giant robot war, no sir. Combat: Darkwing misses Crosscheck with his Laser attack! Boomslang spots Chromia behind the cover of the cement mixer, but for now he doesn't classify her as a serious threat... not when Blades is blasting away with photon pulses every which-way and Crosscheck is still the closest to the dias. Multiple Decepticons return fire at both the Protectobot and Crosscheck, but none of them seem to be able to stop either. Boomslang shifts his position to the other side of the gantry to get a new line of fire, rests his left arm over his knee and props his rifle in the crook of his elbow. He settles the crosshairs over Blades and squeezes the trigger, a hypersonic shockwave blasting back from the barrel as the magnetically-propelled slug streaks towards its target... Combat: Suddenly, Boomslang appears out of thin air! Combat: Sneak Attack!! Combat: Boomslang strikes Blades with his 20mm Gauss Rifle attack! Hook has arrived. Combat: Chromia sets its defense level to Guarded. Crosscheck is not going to Galvatron's package! He's running towards the big nasty cannon. Only this times, he kept an optics on the Decepticons around him and he quickly spots Darkwaing who's about to shoot him once again. His sword describes an arc and deflect the incoming laserbolt towards the sky. While running he shouts, "Good job Blades! I'm almost there!" He's so close from the cannon ... but yet too far from it to do anything since he guns won't be strong enough to damage it. That's why he accelerates a little bit, "Almost there..." he mutters for himself. Combat: Crosscheck takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Patchwork suddenly finds herself being left alone, and that realization takes a moment to register with the medic before she ohs quietly. Ducking her head, she dashes forward, scrambling towards the dias and the package that was delivered there. Not much of a threat, she's hoping they'll ignore her little run. Combat: Patchwork sets her defense level to Fearless. Combat: Patchwork takes extra time to steady herself. [Pass] Rodimus Prime easily avoids the random blasts being fired about the battlefield by Galvatron. Blueshift's knife goes flying right by him, and he takes only a moment to glance at Blueshift before, in an utterly childish move, he brings his thumb to his nose, wiggles his fingers, and shouts, "Nyah-nyah! Missed me!" There. Hopefully that'll piss Blueshift off enough to keep him focused on the Prime and not one of the others. The young Prime's right hand pulls into his forearm and his rotating blade emerges. "You don't need help killing me? You haven't managed it on your own *so* far," he taunts as he steps forward, taking a swipe at Galvatron's cannon-holding arm. "But maybe that new 'fractal cannon' of yours is slowing you down! Let me relieve you of it!" he states, not realizing that the fractal cannon is no longer on Galvatron's arm, anyway! Combat: Rodimus Prime strikes Galvatron with his Buzzsaw attack! Combat: You took 17 damage. Combat: Rodimus Prime's attack damages your armor. Chromia is used to snipers. They had them on Cybertron. Being in the resistance, she had come to realize that keeping at least some of her attention towards high locations was a smart thing to do...and this habit was rewarded by spotting the trail from Boomslang's gauss rifle as a high-velocity round slammed into Blades. Rolling out from behind her cover, he autobot femme raised her grenade launcher skyward...wishing briefly that she had readied her missile launcher instead. Optics dimming slightly, she tried to calculate the trajectory for height, horizontal distance, and gravity...before simply pulling the trigger to her weapon. The grenade left the launcher with an audiable *foomp*, leaving an arcing trail of smoke as the round hurried towards its fatal destination. She smiled lightly to herself; if it didn't hit, it was going to at least be fairly close...and proceeded to fling herself back into cover. After all, she WAS dealing with a sniper. Shifting and changing smoothly, Chromia rises from her vehicle mode to robot form. Combat: Chromia misses Boomslang with its Grenade Launcher attack! Blades watches as most of his shots go wild, but finds some solace in the fact that he has accomplished most of his objective that he had set out to be and now he finds precious little time to deal with the ramifications of his actions. "Eeesh, yeah, that's right. Shoot at a target that can actually fight back." The Protectobot adds the extra few remarks in an act of bravado, before rolling out of the way of Rampage's lighting blast. Dusts fill the air as it is thrown around, sort of like a natural protection for the Protectobot, certainly it proves itself a boon for him as Windshear's shot passes through the dust cloud, narrowly missing Blades. "I hope you two are almost done cau--- ugh!" Blades is sent flying forward into the ground as Boomslang's shot drills a hole straight through his left leg, dropping the Protectobot onto one leg weakly. The Protectobot raises his photon pistols as he scans his objectives again, squeezing a shot off at Darkwing in an attempt to divert his attention. Combat: Blades strikes Darkwing with his Disruptor attack! Patchwork wasn't that far from the dias and the package, and for once had a nice streak of luck. She didn't get shot on the way! Skidding to a halt, the femme doesn't think about it. Her arm cocks back, and she throws a punch at it, putting everything she has behind it, w hich isn't much. Boomslang works the bolt on his gauss rifle to chamber another caseless nickle-iron slug as he clambers to his feet, already moving by the time he spots the smoke puff of a grenade launch. Springing off of the gantry just moments before Chromia's grenade bursts against the crane superstructure, Boomslang opens his flaps and flicks his wings out to guide his fall towards her, multi-ton weight coming down fast and feet-first. Combat: Boomslang sets his defense level to Guarded. Combat: Boomslang misses Chromia with his Diving Kick (Kick) attack! Shadow ceases his pursuit of Blades as Boomslang takes on the Protectobot. Receiving a message on his commlink, he reattaches his rotor blades. He leaps into the air and transforms to analyze Rodimus, and send the data to none other than Blueshift. Shadow transforms into his chopper mode. Darkwing shakes his head as he notices he misses, as he gets struck by another of Blades' attacks. "I know what your trying to do, Autobot. But I don't plan on letting your friend try to save this stupid Mudball." He replies to Blades and charges toward the Scientist, attempting to grab him and hold him hostage as Blades seems to be intent on protecting that bot. Combat: Shadow analyzes Rodimus Prime for weaknesses Blueshift can exploit. Reflector is upon the dais with the package. The insolence of the Autobot medic not going unnoticed, one of Reflector's bodies levels a scoped rifle, taking Patchwork in his sights, while another from a different angle speaks up to draw her attention. "Smile, Autobot." A single ballistic shot is fired. Combat: Darkwing strikes Crosscheck with his Grab attack! Blueshift clears his vision to see Prime insulting him. "Did he? Did he? Did he just..." Blueshift just stares at Rodimus, jaw agape, pointing at him. And then, as Shadow speaks to him, Blueshift folds down, rushing forwards almost instantaniously into his spacecraft mode, aiming his wingblades at Rodimus. "DIE!" Blueshift leaps into the air, flipping into the form of a small spacecraft Combat: Blueshift sets his defense level to Fearless. Combat: Reflector strikes Patchwork with his Scoped Rifle attack! Combat: Blue Spaceship strikes Rodimus Prime with his Wing Slice attack! 6-wheeled Crane is currently observing the situation from his perch on the cannon itself. The Constructicon pulls out his laser pistol ready to defend the installation against anyone making a run for it. He sees that nerdy Autobot scientist Crosscheck and aims...Darkwing tackles the Autobot in time. No shot...Still Hook keeps looking around for anyone trying to disturb the operation. The green crane unfolds into the robotic form of the evil Constructicon HOOK! Combat: Hook sets his defense level to Protected. Windshear had seen the two Autobots heading for the dias and was heading that way to try and stop them. He'd have rather have done it from the air and closer but he was told of coursenot to get that close so he doesnt. He raises his arm cannon and aims just infront of whichever Autobot is closer to the dias and fires. Combat: Windshear misses Crosscheck with his Laser attack! As Galvatron's cannon is sliced right off, the tyrant seems initially surprised. And witnessing the destruction of the package--which explodes in a shower of glass shards and bits of tarp--seems to enrage him even further! But then Galvatron just smirks at Rodimus Prime! "Haha, fool! You underestimated me YET AGAIN! The fractal generator isn't in my cannon anymore... it's in THAT cannon!" He points down at the massive cannon that the Constructicons finished earlier in the week. "And that package?" He grins as he snags a label from the package, which had been drifting through the air. It reads: Vital Package y0c3d. "Might want to hold that up to a MIRROR, Prime." y0c3d?* Oh, crap... "That's right. That's not the real mirror! The real mirror isn't even on the PLANET! Yet." Smirking as Blueshift blindsides Rodimus, Galvatron takes the opportunity to reveal a remote control. He presses one button, then a HUGE blast erupts in the streets. When the smoke clears, it reveals that a SPACE BRIDGE had been buried underneath the streets all along! Galvatron presses another button, then, right in the center of the Space Bridge, another mirror appears, framed by what appears to be graphic metal art of Autobots and humans writhing in agony. "I told you, Rodimus Prime--IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP ME!" He hits another button, and the fractal cannon fires at the mirror, its beam blasting across the surface! An eerie glow radiates from the mirror. Is it getting bigger? "FOR HOW CAN YOU STOP MATH!?" The Global Pose Tracker marks that Hook has 'skipped' his action for this round. * d3c0y "MATHS!" shouts Blueshift Combat: Galvatron takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] "SHUT UP!" Galvatron yells at Blueshift. "SORRY SIR!" Blueshift shouts back. "I will add MATH to my list alongside LEGOS as words to use" Chromia looks as though she's about to make a break towards Blades, but she then notices an ever expanding shadow on the ground beside her. Optics flashing, she rolls swiftly to the side just as Boomslang lands in the space she formally occupied. Her reaction is instantaneous; sweeping her leg around, she attempts to knock the Decepticon down while he's still trying to get steady himself."I hope you're ready for a beating, deceptiscum!" she snarls, practically baring what would be teeth on an organic specimen at her current opponent. Combat: Chromia strikes Boomslang with its Kick attack! Rodimus Prime is struck by Blueshift's wing, the blade cutting deep and tossing him into the air. He makes a desperate grab for the spaceship. "Usually by introducing an unexpected variable!" he answers Galvatron even as he tries. Should he grab ahold, he will attempt to hold on tight to the speedy little spaceship, throwing his weight around, quite literally, in an attempt to steer the Decepticon! Combat: Rodimus Prime strikes Blue Spaceship with his Grab attack! "..." For once, Blades has no witty one liner to reply back at the Decepticon standing before him. Burning shame fills the Protectobot aerial warrior at the moment and is emphasized by his balled up right fist, shaking ever so slightly in anger. It's a good thing Hot Spot and the others aren't around to see his failure, he hate to live that one down in front of his teammates. Although he probably wouldn't be in this mess either if the rest of the Protectobots are around. Blades stares intently at Darkwing, his blue optics searching for any weakness in the moment to exploit. Eventually a small buzz can be heard as Blades receives a radio transmission from Crosscheck. The Protectobot closes his optics for a moment, nodding before asking Darkwing and the captured Autobot scientist, "I only got one thing to ask." In an instant, Blades snaps his left hand up towards the direction of Darkwing's face with lightning speed, photon pistol in gripped tightly, "Do you feel lucky?" Blades complies with Crosscheck and squeezes off a shot, having been pushed to brink now that Galvatron has upped the ante even more. Combat: Blades strikes Darkwing with his Photon Pistol attack! [Pulled -1] Combat: That attack has temporarily affected Darkwing's Accuracy. (Blinded) Patchwork is showered in shards of glass from the decoy mirror before the single shot has her taking several steps back, head lifting to try and find the source and optics settling on Reflector. Blades is dealing with helping Crosscheck, that much she caught going on to her far side, and so she pulls out her rifle, and turns to return the shot she'd recieved. Combat: Patchwork misses Reflector with her Rifle attack! Combat: Crosscheck sets his defense level to Fearless. Crosscheck is grabbed but not before he manages to reach the cannon, "You are too late Decepticon! It is not a mere seeker who's going to hold me." Using his free hand he pushes Darkwing away from him but he doesn't try to jump onto the cannon. Instead he seems to concentrate. Even Windshear's shot passing just above his head doesn't seem to break his concentration. Suddenly a weird "disrupting" field starts to spread from his forearm. Soon everyone but more especially the cannon and its beam are shallowed by the field that start to dissipate the energy. Combat: Crosscheck misses Bell 430 Helicopter with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck misses Hook with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck misses Rodimus Prime with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck's Energy Dissipator Field attack on Boomslang goes wild! Combat: Crosscheck misses Rodimus Prime with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck strikes Galvatron with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: You took 0 damage. Combat: Crosscheck's attack drains your energon reserves. Combat: Crosscheck strikes Patchwork with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck strikes Blades with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck strikes Reflector with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck strikes Darkwing with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck misses Chromia with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck strikes Blue Spaceship with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Combat: Crosscheck misses Windshear with his Energy Dissipator Field Area attack! Boomslang stumbles, rolls in the same direction that he falls, hooks his rifle back onto its hardpoint as he rises, half-turns away to narrow his profile relative to Chromia, and extends a gatling gun from a port in his left forearm, all in one more or less smooth motion. "Ready when you are," Boomslang replies, opening up with a two-second-long purring burst of conventional shells in the brilliant glow of Galvatron's latest master plan revealed. Combat: Boomslang strikes Chromia with his M61 Vulcan attack! Air Raid has arrived. +POT Air Raid is now observing. "ARGH!" Blueshift is grabbed by Rodimus and is flung into the fractal field, trying to transform to bot mode as he is shot by Crosscheck. "I will KILL you for that Autobot!" he shouts, waving an arm whilst hovering, in case Rodimus is still clinging on as he aims his gun at Crosscheck and fires. He drifts slightly into the fractal generator, his left leg slowly spreading into pretty fractals. "ARGH!" he states The spaceship flips up into the handsome form of Blueshift Combat: Blueshift sets his defense level to Neutral. Scattershot has arrived. Combat: Blueshift strikes Crosscheck with his Speed Stealing Gun attack! +POT Shadow is now observing. Reflector sprints on minibot styature legs from Patchwork's sights. His three bodies move like a shell-game... and one of them runs right into Crosscheck's energy drain field, visibly greying ever so subtly. What chaos is this dance spinning? Reflector converges upon Patchwork, attempting to pile-on tackle the medic. Combat: Reflector sets his defense level to Aggressive. Combat: Reflector strikes Patchwork with his Three On One Action (Smash) attack! Windshear seems to have gotten missed in this free for all. Not that he cares at this point so he just steps back looking for a target. Hes not about to shoot wild and hit something he shouldnt. Combat: Windshear takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Galvatron now begins to look genuinely worried as Blueshift moves into the the path of the beam! "NO! Blueshift, get the hell out of the way of the beam, fool!" Then, he feels inexplicably drained. This does not concern him very much--at least not until he observes the graviton cannon is ALSO losing power! Its beam flickers intermittently thanks to Crosscheck's energy drain. "NOOOO!!!" Galvatron screams, observing the results upon the mirror. "It's in the wrong shape! Quickly, reactivate the beam, someone, or the mirror will crack! It can't support its own weight like that!" Almost panicking, he draws his electro-laser, and fires it at Rodimus Prime in a desperate attempt to dislodge him from Blueshift! Combat: Galvatron sets his defense level to Fearless. Combat: Galvatron misses Rodimus Prime with his Direct-Current Electric Laser attack! Darkwing staggers back at the blast from Blades' gun and then the energon drainign feild. Well, he's got a personal answer for that. The engin oon his back sounds like it revs quickly as Throttle refuels Darkwing's energon reserves as he takes a moment to recover. The mirror, by the way, no longer resembles a proper mirror, but rather, it has taken on the appearance of some sort of crystalline whirlpool. It's a bizarre shape--and it's much larger than it was before the beam hit it. Combat: Darkwing takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Combat: Darkwing uses up a charge on his High-Throttle Energy Drink booster pack! Hook manages to avoid Crosscheck's energy dissipation however the Constructicon realizes what the Autobot is trying to do. And furiously work to re-establish the link by increasing the energy output from the fusion generator. This in turn makes the fusion generator temperature climb a bit. Not danger level high but it will not keep this rate for hours on end. "I think I got it stabilized lord Galvatron. Someone takes care of that pest!" Combat: Hook takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Crosscheck is freed from Darkwing but all his attention is concentrated on the cannon. At first he was unable to control the dissipartor field but now that he can concentrate, he focus it on the fractal cannon, ignoring all the Decepticons around him since they don't matter...that'S until he spots Hook near the cannon, "Someone blast that green midget away from the cannon... I can't keep this up AND take care of him." Combat: Crosscheck sets his defense level to Protected. Combat: Crosscheck takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Dust and debris is kicked up in a fairly high amount around Chromia, obscuring her from view for a few moments. A high velocity spray of a large number of rounds at someone, 2 seconds or not, will do that. The sound of plinks as some rounds are deflected by Chromia's armor while some 'plangs' of rounds penetrating indicate that the autobot femme has been hit. However, because the burst was so short, the dust cloud dissipates almost as quickly as it came. Standing, a trail of dents and holes running from the bottom left of her abdomen to her right shoulder, purple fluid leaking from her frame, is Chromia. Apparently, she decided not to dodge. Apparently, while getting hit she used the time to ready her missile launcher, now slung up on her shoulder almost casually...were it not for the fact that it's aimed directly at Boomslang, it would probably BE casual. With a faint, although pained smile, she opens fire...sending a single missile directly towards her foe. Combat: Chromia sets its defense level to Aggressive. Combat: Chromia strikes Boomslang with its Missile Launcher attack! Rodimus Prime starts to steer Blueshift towards the beam, which seems to really upset Galvatron. This means it's probably a good choice! However, when Blueshift transforms and only partially contacts the beam, the gig is up, and with all the flailing, holding on is no longer an option! Rodimus winces, muttering, "This is gonna hurt..." before he *flings* himself at the beam, not so much actively dodging Galvatron's blast as just being in the middle of maneuvers that make him harder to hit. As he flies- falls, really, considering how close Blueshift had come - he transforms, tumbling towards beam (and ground) in his big-reared trailer mode. It's this mode that connects with the beam, causing his trailer to split and distort into a fractal design and causing the Prime some pain as he continues to crash towards the ground! Rodimus Prime transforms into his Flamin' Winnebago mode. Combat: Flamin' Winnebago strikes himself with his Ram attack! A thunder emits in the sky as a large spaceship comes flying from high in the sky. Going at full throttle this red, white and maroon spaceship is flying at full suborbital speed as it descends from the clouds. As the ship gets close you will notice the Autobot symbols on each of it's wings and then it becomes clear that Scattershot has entered the area. Armed for battle and checking out the situation, Scattershot looms overhead trying to figure out what's going on instead of going in all guns blazing. Patchwork is pile-on tackled, dropping beneath Reflector with a grunt. "Get off me!" Twisting, the medic makes a good effort of pounding on the Con's back. Her line of sight is limited, and she's not able to see the launching of Prime at the beam, or anyone else who might be nearby. Combat: Patchwork strikes Reflector with her Punch attack! Blades forces himself up onto his feet, his left leg that had a hole drilled into it, courtesy of Boomslang, remains stubborn and frustrates the Protectobot aerial warrior with every step, "Eeesh, I'll get him somehow. What the smeg is with those beams." Then the Protectobot watches as Rodimus Prime demonstrates, the hard way, the effects of coming into contact with the mysterious beam. "Eh... yeah, ain't letting that touch me, even with a 6ft pole." Blades leaps into the sky and expands into his helicopter mode, buzzing off over to where Hook is and attempts to distract the Constructicon with a flash light. Blades leaps into the air, expanding and reconfiguring his body structure into a Sikorsky S-76 Spirit helicopter within seconds. Blueshift yanks his foot out of the beam, floating away from it as Galvatron shouts at him. "Yes my lord! Your will be done!" As he speaks, his optics narrow at Crosscheck. "Ughh, if there is one thing I hate, it is SCIENCE!" he snarls, aiming his pistol at the Autobot again. Combat: Blueshift misses Crosscheck with his Speed Stealing Gun attack! Galvatron grins as the beam is restarted. "Excellent, Hook! Your place on the Hellbender is assured when--NO!" Galvatron screams as Rodimus Prime shoves his entire trailer into the path of the beam! "NO! Damn you, Prime, the mirror's shape is going to be all WRONG now!" Then the Fractal Cannon begins to short out again as Crosscheck dissipates its energy! Before Galvatron's optics the mirror, now in an even larger, fractalized shape, begins to crack, little fractalized bits of glass raining down from its surface now that it is no longer under the influence of the beam. "DAMN YOU AUTOBOTS!" Galvatron snarls, charging at Rodimus Prime while he's still probably prone. He attempts to grab Rodimus by the throat, and begins to hold his head up to where the beam will fire if it reactivates. "You like throwing yourself in the path of that beam, Prime!? Then let GALVATRON help you in that endeavor!" Windshear stands there just watching this chaos almost casually. There seems no reason for him to be here, its not like theres much he could do to straighten out this clusterslag mess anyway. Hes half tempted to transform and head out when he hears something above. The Seeker looks up and see a large spaceship coming down toward them. He spies Autobot symbols on it and notices it doesnt seem to be doing anything right now as if deciding what to do. Windshear decides to help it along and fires at it not too interested if he hits or not at this point. Combat: Galvatron misses Flamin' Winnebago with his Bare Hands attack! [Pulled -2] Combat: Windshear strikes Technobot Starfighter with his Laser attack! Boomslang ducks as fast as he can, but he realizes too late that he's standing right in front of a cement mixer. The missile detonates against the mixer, throwing him through the air with a grunt that goes unheard amid the deafening double-explosion, first of the missile's warhead and then of course the cement truck itself. He crashes into a stack of concrete water pipes, staggers to his feet and vanishes in a flicker of pseudo-motion. "Good thing I was ready," his voice grumbles from no apparent source. Combat: Boomslang activates his cloaking field and vanishes from sight! Reflector grunts from somewhere in the pile, loosening his convergence slightly from Patchwork by one sore body. Another drives a fist at the Autobot. The sound of Galvatron's displeassure motivating the spy to cause damage. Combat: Sikorsky S-76 Spirit misses Hook with his Sure it's a grab but just pretend it's a -really- bright light. (Grab) attack! Combat: Reflector strikes Patchwork with his Random Fist (Punch) attack! Darkwing says, "So, you need to focus?" Darkwing luaghs. "Lets see how well this helps you focus!" The powermaster once again raises his favored blasters and fires on the Scientist, hoping that the confusion effect 'helps' the Autobot focus on his goals." Combat: Darkwing strikes Crosscheck with his Electro-Kinetic Blasters attack! Fusillade has arrived. Hook sees Blades coming for him and ponders for a moment. Darkwing has Crosscheck handled. Hook simply lines up Blades with his pistol and squeezes off a shot at the helicopter's cockpit. "Better tell your nerdy buddy to back off. He does not know what he is doing or how our device operates. He could create a chain reaction that could devastate half this planet!" Combat: Hook strikes Sikorsky S-76 Spirit with his Disruptor attack! The cannon that Rodimus Prime is going on about is HUGE, and was firing a beam of strange, multicolored light at a strangely distorted object on a dais. It shouldn't be too hard to find. Combat: Like the wind, Boomslang is gone! Boomslang has left. Bonecrusher has arrived. Scrapper has arrived. Reflector is picking on Patchwork, three on one. Awww what a meanie. Chromia doesn't bother trying to track what she can't see,"Coward," she spits. Spotting Patchwork and Relflector currently in what can only be described as a 'tussle', she frowns and begins charging across the battlefield towards them. This doesn't mean she's totally defenseless; although willing to go toe to toe a moment ago, another objective fixed in her mind; getting the medic clear of the Decepticon she's currently entangled with. To that effect, she keeps part of her attention aware of her surroundings so she can dodge if such a course of action is necessary. "GET OFF HER YOU DECEPTICREEP!" she shouts angrily. Crosscheck jumps behind the cannon right before Blueshift attacks him once again. That was close! Even though draining the cannon seems to work, it's not going fast enough and the scientist is getting more and more tired as he struggle to keep the field up. All the will in the universe can't go against science facts! Soon his scientific mind arrives to the conclusion that the only way to solve this is the dinobot way! He raises his sword and swing it towards the cannon...if it passes through the constructicon on its way...it will be a nice bonus. Combat: Chromia sets its defense level to Neutral. Combat: Crosscheck's Ionic Sword attack on Hook goes wild! Combat: Crosscheck misses Flamin' Winnebago with his Ionic Sword attack! [Pulled -3] Bonecrusher jogs heavily back to the construction site from another part of Alphabet City where he had been assisting Scrapper with some heavy labor. Hours late but moving fast. "Hook! Hook, what's goin' on!" he shouts up at the other Constructicon. "It ain't supposed to look like that! You gotta get that trailer outta the beam!" The cavalry is coming! Patchwork would cheer, but she's busy being pummeled and squished beneath the Decepticon. She grunts as one of the versions of Reflector lands a fist in her gut. "Not...nice...!" she repeats, her hands bracing against Reflector's shoulders as she attempts to shove him up and off of her to give herself room to stand and get away. Combat: Patchwork sets her defense level to Neutral. Combat: Patchwork strikes Reflector with her Grab attack! Technobot Starfighter takes a shot to one of his wings as he descends downwards from the sky. The shot, which took him by suprised almost knocked Scattershot out of the sky but he quickly regains his balance in the air. He looks down and see the seeker who took a pot shot at him and fires up his twin mounted lasers. "You asked for it seeker!!!" as Scattershot fires his lasers towards Windshear. Combat: Technobot Starfighter strikes Windshear with his Laser attack! Sikorsky S-76 Spirit shudders and wobbles around violently as the single shot by the Constructicon strikes true, drilling through the paper thin cockpit of the helicopter. Small explosions rocks the small aircraft and smoke spews out as the helicopter goes into downward bank towards the port side, the black smoke trails behind steadily along, "Ugh---- this damn thing is way too big for my pea shooters to take out." The Protectobot aerial warrior regains control, buzzing horizontally across the cannon as it unloads several armour piercing rocket barrages at the weapon of mass destruction. Combat: Sikorsky S-76 Spirit takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Grapple has left. Flamin' Winnebago hits the ground hard, part of his weird, fractalized trailer collapsing in on itself, eliciting another cry of pain from the Autobot leader. He transforms but for a moment, remains on his knees, supported by one hand as the other cradles his head, pained, as Galvatron approaches. He only just seems to become of the Decepticon Emperor just as Galvatron makes his grab. "No, thank you. Once was more fun than anyone should be allowed to have," he answers, rolling out of the way as he attempts to kick Galvatron's feet out from beneath him. Flamin' Winnebago transforms into his Robot mode. Combat: Rodimus Prime strikes Galvatron with his Kick attack! Combat: You took 9 damage. Reflector is flipped like a burger off the Medic. With two Reflector bods pried off now, Patchwork is given room to move for at least a moment while the third Reflector turns his un-damaged attention towards Chromia. "Who are you calling creep, tin-chassis?" His tossed body starts picking himself up while his back-punched body moves to cover thie third undamaged one. Combat: Reflector sets his defense level to Guarded. Windshear sees his shot hit and sees the return shot heading for him. It bounces off his shoulder and almost disintersted, Windshear transforms and takes off after the Autobot. He wants away from that fractial beam and he'd much rather be in the sky anyway. Combat: Reflector takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Combat: Windshear strikes Technobot Starfighter with his Laser attack! Galvatron DURFS as Rodimus Prime trips him up. Enraged at how the battle has gone thus far, he slams a fist into the ground, stands right back up almost immediately, then scoops up a large chunk of concrete from the ground. "DAMN YOU RODIMUS PRIME! All I want is to be RID OF YOU FOREVER! I can't even have that simple wish! Is this accursed universe mocking me!?" With all of his insane rage, he hurls the concrete at Rodimus... but he might hit two of the newly arriving Constructicons in the process! Robot Windshear transforms into a Cybertronian pyramid/Tetrajet. Blueshift curses loudly as he misses Crosscheck. He hovers in the air, shaking a first. "I HATE SCIENCE!" he cries out in a battle-scream, transforming into his alternate mode, and then screaming down in a kamakazi nosedive, towards both the scientist and the cannon, making no attempt at stopping Combat: Blueshift sets his defense level to Fearless. Blueshift leaps into the air, flipping into the form of a small spacecraft Combat: Blue Spaceship strikes Crosscheck with his Full-Body Strike attack! Combat: That is not an area attack! Combat: Temporarily restricting the BLIND effect from all of your attacks. Combat: Galvatron strikes Bonecrusher with his CONCRETE Area attack! [Pulled -2] Combat: Galvatron strikes Payloader with his CONCRETE Area attack! [Pulled -2] Combat: Galvatron misses Rodimus Prime with his CONCRETE Area attack! [Pulled -2] "Unf!" says Bonecrusher, bowled to the street by a giant chunk of concrete with rebar sticking out here and there. He hefts it in his arms as he clambers awkwardly back up to his feet and hurls it towards where it was /supposed/ to go. "Think youse forgot this, Prime!" Combat: Bonecrusher strikes Rodimus Prime with his CONCRETE part deux attack! Payloader was up to his hips in scrap metal, sorting through it, as Ayotzinco has been deconstructed, awaiting its glorious rebirth. While Galvatron did put out a call for all Decepticons, it sort of slipped his mind, because he was too busy scrapping to get into a scrap. Eventually, the winged payloader (not be confused with a winged serpent) wheels into the area, belatedly, only to see Autobots making a ruin of his latest beloved superweapon! He waves his shovel angrily - and is clonked over to his side by some flying concrete. His wheels spin in futile fashion, before a slightly dazed and definitely battered Scrapper arises in robot mode. One hand holding his head, he points his other hand up at the sky, and he calls out in his raspy chain-smoker voice, "Constructicons - merge, for the DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE!" Hook yells out at Bonecrusher "Of course I know it's not supposed to be like that! I am the smart one remember? I got my hand full here with that protectobot and that Autobot nerd. Still glad you guys managed to get here. Now we can take the game to a whole other level." The Constructicon grins as he hears the call. Hook transforms into his crane mode and drives off the cannon's catwalk, the crane folds in two as the interlocks circuits emerge from underneath and just in time for Hook to lock into place as Devastator's head/shoulders. Darkwing watches as Blueshift crashes into Crosscheck. He looks around and takes a moment to figures out who he should focus on the most. You receive a radio message from Reflector: My Lord, you can use my camera mode, I can spot Prime's weakness for you and then you can use me to blind your enemies in my flash field including that meddlesome Rodimus Prime. Hook retracts his arms and transforms into his Crane mode. Combat: Darkwing takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Combat: 6-wheeled Crane takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] As for the cannon, explosions burst across its frame as Blades begins to fire upon it, altering its aim somewhat and rattling its structure. Sparks fly out from it as it is stabbed by Crosscheck. Even so, despite the damage, this cannon may take quite a bit of punishment to destroy completely! However, its beam has started up again, albeit it is not striking the mirror! Instead, it is hideously warping a nearby street into a bizarre shape! Crosscheck of course, misses the cannon thanks to Darkwing. He gets back on his feet and he's about to take another shot at it when he's rammed by a spaceship, which knocks him away from his target. However, as Blueshift dlies over him, the scientist raises his sword which will slice into the length of the spaceship if he can raises it in time. Combat: Crosscheck sets his defense level to Neutral. Bonecrusher turns to give Scrapper a thumbs-up, clanking and grinding as he falls to the ground and transforms into his dozer mode. PHASE ONE! With the other Constructicons he rolls into a precise formation, then shifts again, rearranging himself into an arm-like shape and floating up into the air. PHASE TWO! You send a radio message to Reflector: As much as it pains me to need 'help,' very well! We'll go with your plan. Bonecrusher collapses to the ground, rearranging and expanding to become a huge bulldozer. Payloader sinks back down as a payloader, and then ratchets up into the form of a leg, the rest of the Constructicons following suit: a cement truck leg, a dump truck lower torso, two limbs of shovel and bulldozer, crowned by a crane. Invoked like some ancient and dreadful god of the ziggurat, DEVASTATOR lives. PHASE THREE! Long Haul has arrived. Devastator has arrived. Bonecrusher has left. Hook has left. Long Haul has left. Scrapper has left. As for the cannon, explosions burst across its frame as Blades begins to fire upon it, altering its aim somewhat and rattling its structure. Even so, despite the damage, this cannon may take quite a bit of punishment to destroy completely! However, its beam has started up again, albeit it is not striking the mirror! Instead, it is hideously warping a nearby street into a bizarre shape! Technobot Starfighter takes yet another hit as he seed another small piece of armor fly off of the other wing. He keeps his balance this time as he does a barrell roll and focuses in on the seeker, trying to defeat him and get past him to the cannon. He quickly aims and focuses on the seeker, his napalm shell launchers extend out from their hidden bays as he fires a barrage of napalm shells at Windshear. Combat: Technobot Starfighter misses Tetrajet with his Side-Mounted Thermal Shell attack! Rampage has left. Chromia mentally smiles as the medic manages to throw 'a' reflector off of her. Her face on the outside, however, is a mask of fury as she puts her all into her sprint. Lowering her shoulder, she heads straight for the Reflector clone directly in her path...intending on barrelling straight through him to get to Patchwork. "YOU! WHO ELSE!?" she snarls by way of reply. Combat: Chromia strikes Reflector with its Ram attack! Rodimus Prime scrambles backwards, moving into an acrobatic tumble to his feet in order to avoid the concrete thrown at him by Galvatron. He smirks. "Sorry to ruin your day, Galvatron - except I'm not, especially not when your day would lead to the end of the univer-" he's cut off mid-mock as the concrete caught by Bonecrusher hits him in the back, pushing him forward and possibly knocking him into Galvatron! Whether he hits the Decepticon leader or the ground, however, he turns to see Devastator merging, and his mouth opens for a moment in awe and concern before an idea occurs to him. "You know what, Galvatron? I've gotten bored with the usual chit-chat. Time to find a new partner for this party," he adds, as he starts to try to run towards Devastator! Combat: Rodimus Prime strikes Galvatron with his Falling Clumsily Towards Galvatron (Punch) attack! Combat: You took 6 damage. Patchwork only needs a second to scramble to her feet and take several steps back from Reflector. Seeing that Chromia has the situation well under control, she continues backwards before turning and moving towards the cannon, aiming a swift kick at the machine. Combat: Patchwork takes extra time to steady herself. [Pass] Where has Blueshift gone? Where he hit Crosscheck, there is just a smoking hole in the ground. Leading into the sewers :(Gray smoke trails from behind the rocket launchers underneath the belly of Blades' helicopter form, the mechanical and grinding and whines indicates that a new batch of rockets are current in the process of being reloaded. Evidently his efforts to destroy the cannon on his own hasn't borne much fruit, and he accepts that it was an exercise in futility. Soon the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter spins around and buzzes over towards the merged behemoth that is Devastator. The Protectobot flies dangerously close to towards the gestalt's optic band, flashing his search light at the abomination on his first pass in an attempt to anger it. "Eh, ugly! Wouldn't hurt for ya to look over this direction will ya?" The helicopter spins around and begins flying back towards the direction of the cannon. Combat: Sikorsky S-76 Spirit takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Darkwing spots Rodimus running towards Devastator, and suddenly the Powermaster becomes curious if he upgrades will let him fair a bit better against the Autobot leader. He aims his trusty Electro-Kinetic Blasters at the Flaming Autobot trying to be a hero, they rarily miss but somewhere in his processor he knew that he'd likely still miss Rodimus. Reflector makes secret communications with the all powerful master of cunning Decepticon leader when he should be paying Chromia more respect in the form of his complete and undivided attention... The blue Autobot fighter collides with the gumby-like Reflector body and manages to complete the damaged set. Reflector groans and gets back up. He abandons his tussel with Patchwork as well as his words with Chromia. He leaps into the air, converging in mid flight to transform into Camera mode, and lands in the grip of Galvatron.... The Decepticon brand old school camera focusses his unmatched multi-spectrum scanning sights upon Rodimus Prime and feeds the data through his viewport to his cameraman Galvatron... Devastator's head rises from his vast shoulders, locking into place as his hands extend from his wrists and clench into fists. With an audible 'bweem' his visor lights, a baleful red glow shining over the city's skyline like a beacon. His gaze turns downward, sweeping across the Autobots and Decepticons who swirl and buzz around him like an army of mice fighting sparrows. Devastator's collective mind grinds slowly up to speed, collating as ponderously as if he ran on punchcards. Little urgent noises are everywhere, the clangour of battle ringing tinnily in his distant ears, but certain things stand out to his gradual, grave awareness. The grand, revolutionary device on which he... the Constructicons... had labored so hard and so long, is gone wrong, and the Autobots are to blame. Unable to tolerate the creation of something... wonderful, they chewed at it, tiny creatures gnawing and sabotaging. Devastator's rage is stoked like a steam locomotive's boiler, growing hot and driving the engine of his boundless hatred. He hates them. How he hates them. "SABOTEURS," pronounces Devastator's voice from the grim mouth standing black against the stars. "USURPERS AND DESTROYERS. DEVASTATOR PASSES JUDGEMENT ON YOU. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE SENTENCE: DEATH." Great gears grind as the colossus swings into action, reaching out towards Blades with one hand as he steps forward to try to tread Patchwork, Chromia, and unfortunately Reflector, underfoot. With his other hand he reaches for Scattershot, trying to interpose his open palm between Windshear and Scattershot like a wall suddenly appearing in midair. ~* Come together... right now... over me. *~ The three bodies of Reflector merge and transform simultaneously, becoming a spiffy old school camera... you know, the kind that used something called film way back in ancient times. Combat: Darkwing strikes Rodimus Prime with his Electro-Kinetic Blasters attack! Combat: Reflector analyzes Rodimus Prime for weaknesses Galvatron can exploit. Combat: Devastator sets his defense level to Fearless. Combat: Devastator strikes Technobot Starfighter with his Judge and Jury Area attack! [Pulled -7] Combat: Devastator misses Patchwork with his Judge and Jury Area attack! [Pulled -7] Combat: Devastator misses Sikorsky S-76 Spirit with his Judge and Jury Area attack! [Pulled -7] Combat: Devastator strikes Camera with his Judge and Jury Area attack! [Pulled -7] Combat: Devastator strikes Chromia with his Judge and Jury Area attack! [Pulled -7] As the Fractal Cannon begins to form a gigantic fractal structure composed of the very stuff of Ayotzinco--glass, concrete, pavement, even dirt--Galvatron is smashed into by the stumbling Rodimus Prime, and is sent stumbling back himself. Snarling, he manages to compose himself enough so that he is able to snatch Reflector. He brings the camera up to Rodimus Prime, snarling, "Oh, no, Rodimus, can't let you go without taking your picture, can I? I need something to remember you by! Say CHEESE." * click* KACHOOF Combat: Galvatron misses Rodimus Prime with Camera 's Flash! Area attack! Combat: Galvatron strikes Devastator with Camera 's Flash! Area attack! Combat: That attack has temporarily impaired Devastator's Agility. (Crippled) Combat: Galvatron strikes Sikorsky S-76 Spirit with Camera 's Flash! Area attack! Combat: That attack has temporarily impaired Sikorsky S-76 Spirit 's Agility. (Crippled) Combat: Galvatron misses Darkwing with Camera 's Flash! Area attack! Combat: Galvatron misses Chromia with Camera 's Flash! Area attack! Combat: Galvatron strikes Crosscheck with Camera 's Flash! Area attack! Combat: That attack has temporarily impaired Crosscheck's Agility. (Crippled) Tetrajet sees the infamous gestalt take a swipe at the only true target he had in this battle... theres no reason for him to stick around. He hates being in a fight with nothing to do. He flies off. Combat: Tetrajet begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots from F-15 Eagle , Technobot Starfighter , Autobot Heavy Cruiser , and Decepticon Heavy Warship Hellbender Crosscheck is gets back on his feet after the impact with Blueshift...just in time to see the constructicons merging into Devastator. He quickly gets new orders from the autobot channel and he springs towards the Steelhaven. He jumps through the hatch and crashes on the floor because of Reflector just blinded him. He gets back on his feet again and make his way towards the command deck. Jumping into the pilot seat, he brings the weapon systems online. "Now let's see what this baby can do." Crosscheck has left. Crosscheck boards Autobot Heavy Cruiser . +POT Windshear is now observing. Unfortunately for Galvatron, Rodimus is running *away* from the Decepticon leader, so that he's just not facing him when the flash goes off! "Sorry, Galv, no time for candid camera," he starts back, even as he's blasted with the electron-kinetic blasters from Darkwing. This causes him to stumble forward, though he catches himself before he falls and shakes it off, or so he thinks. "No time for you, either, Dreadwind!" he says, getting the Powermasters mixed up! He runs right for the cannon, and as he does, calls out to Devastator, "Hey, jolly green!" He pulls his photon eliminator from subspace. "Big, dumb, and ugly, is that your face, or did you fall into Scavenger's scrap heap?" Okay, it's not a very *good* taunt, but Rodimus is feeling a little *off*. Hopefully his aim will still be true, though! Combat: Rodimus Prime's Photon Eliminator attack on Galvatron goes wild! Combat: Rodimus Prime misses Autobot Heavy Cruiser with his Photon Eliminator attack! Chromia is about to turn her attention towards the cannon when she notices a very large shadow coming down towards her at roughly the same time that Devastator begins making his proclamation. Throwing herself forward with all her might, she tries to get clear of the massive foot...and mostly succeeds. She's slammed down into the ground out of mid-air, however, as that titanic foot comes down on her legs, crushing them heavily and causing her to cry out in agony. Angry and in pain beyond words, the autobot femme rolls herself onto her back and aims at Devastator with her missile launcher. At the very least, she might draw him closer to the cannon... Combat: Chromia strikes Devastator with its Grenade Launcher attack! "Eh, is it me, or did Devastator's vocabulary significantly increase since the last time we met the freak?" Blades idly comments as he falls into an evasive flight pattern, weaving in left and right on his horizontal axis as he flies towards the massive cannon ahead of him. Eventually a blanket of looming shadow darkens the Protectobot's cockpit and threatens to envelop him completely. Recognizing the danger for it is, the helicopter tilts sharply upwards and pulls into a sharp corkscrew spin towards the right hand side, several fragments of his armour and other junk falls towards the ground as the helicopter pulls into the peak of his spin. Devastator's massive black hands narrowly misses the Protectobot and Blades spins around. The Protectobot makes another run at the hulking behemoth in front of him, at first aggressively but as his sensors becomes damaged by Reflector's flash attack, he is forced to fall back into a far more evasive flight path as he is no longer confident he can pull off the attack properly. Once Blades reaches optimal range, he fires off another salvo of rockets at Devastator. Combat: Blades sets his defense level to Protected. Combat: Sikorsky S-76 Spirit strikes Devastator with his Armor-Piercing Smart Rocket attack! Windshear has left. Technobot Starfighter gets knocked off balance again as quite a bit of armor gets sheared off of his hull. Although he was eyeing Devastator he did not expect to be attacked by him right away. As the seeker veers off Scattershot flies off and does an end around to regain his poise. He does another end around once more and arms his cannon aiming it at the constructicon gestalt, this time from higher up in the air so he can't at least be reached by the gestalt's hands. Scattershot fires his pulse cannon at the giant gestalt. Combat: Technobot Starfighter strikes Devastator with his Megavolt Pulse Cannon attack! The calls from Rodimus up towards Devastator catches Patchwork's attention, and the medic's head turns, just in time to see the large limb of doom descending on her. Biting back a curse, the medic twists out of the way. Combat: Patchwork takes extra time to steady herself. [Pass] Camera gets 'nicked' by the wrath Devastator while in Galvatron's hands, his shell crunching and his flashbulb cracking. "Devastator you oaf! Watch where you're going!" He falls upwards from Galvatron's hands and transforms to his less vulnerable robots mode, freeing up Galvatron from any nurturing concerns he might have for the precious camera. Don't laugh. Shut up. Stop that giggling. Reflector draws his bolt gun while his other two bodies rub at his dents. ~* It's a Kodak moment! *~ Faster than a shutter cycle, the beautiful old school camera splits apart into three parts which rapidly transform into three robot bodies of significantly larger size. It's magic! Combat: Reflector sets his defense level to Protected. Combat: Reflector takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] Devastator is not like one of the newer combiners, who shuts out extraneous thoughts from his components, to focus solely on combat in the most efficient and effective manner. He doesn't even give a heavier weight to the Constructicon team leader in the decision making process, which is, honestly, probably a good thing, considering that Scrapper is neither the more aggressive nor bravest of the Constructicons. Instead, Devastator is ruled by all the Constructicons and the little middle ground where they agree, the lowest common denominator. So even a bad taunt draws Devastator's wrath, where the individual Constructicons might have been able to shrug off the insult. Chromia's grenade more seem to bounce off his side than impact it, for all that it does. Blades's Armour-Piercing Smart Rocket may as well be a Nerf missile, though it chips away at his armour a little. The Technobot... Devastator ->almost<- felt that, and he booms a short, sharp laugh, "HEH." His multi-part mind can only settle on one thing: grabbing helicopters out of the air and throwing them to the ground is classic. He takes a few steps toward the cannon, his footprints the size of small pools, and he reaches for the helicopter with an outstretched grasping hand. Combat: Devastator sets his defense level to Fearless. Combat: Devastator strikes Sikorsky S-76 Spirit with his Helicopter Go CRASH! attack! [Pulled -10] Galvatron gives chase after Rodimus Prime! "What are you planning, Rodimus!? I won't let you do it! I've worked too hard for this! PRIIIIME!" He fires at Rodimus's back as the Autobot leader flees! Then he receives a strange transmission! "What? Tricking Devastator!?! NOOOOO! DEVASTATOR! BE CAREFUL!" This is kind of like telling a cat not to break things when it jumps up onto a shelf full of plates, but what can he do? Combat: Removed restrictions on BLIND for your attacks. Combat: Galvatron strikes Rodimus Prime with his Direct-Current Electric Laser attack! Combat: Removing analysis data for Rodimus Prime. Darkwing facing rodimus allows the flash to miss him, as Devastator starts his attacks. He quickly decides it will be better for him in the air; espeacilly since Crosscheck seems to have gone that way. Darkwing was intent on seeing this through, and he wasn't gonna let the blasted Autobots stop the inevitable, and flies up onto their ship to stop whatever they are planning. Darkwing has left. Darkwing boards Autobot Heavy Cruiser . Autobot Heavy Cruiser , "s weapon systems come online as Crosscheck's finger fly over his console. For now the Autobot Cruiser remains on the ground since Crosscheck gave the priority to the cruiser's main gun. After a moment, everything is ready and Crosscheck aims the plasma turret at Devastator, "What was the phrase that junkion taught me for those occasions... oh yeah Astalavista Baby!" and then he pulls the trigger." Combat: Autobot Heavy Cruiser sets its defense level to Fearless. Combat: Autobot Heavy Cruiser strikes Devastator with its Plasma Turret attack! Chromia mutters under her breath as her grenade, while striking where she wanted it to, simply bounces off Devastator and explodes harmlessly a few feet away from where she'd intended to hit. She reloads, however, determined to keep up the pressure on the Gestalt, to keep him intent on attacking things in the vicinity of the canon. This also helps keep her mind focused on something else other than her poor, mangled legs...crushed badly by the brute. Combat: Chromia strikes Devastator with its Grenade Launcher attack! Sikorsky S-76 Spirit unleashes his salvo of rockets at Devastator, each rocket screeching sharply as it shoots out towards its targets like angry hornets. Of course it doesn't do much to phase the Constructicon monstrosity, a point that Blades bitterly accepts as he swings around back towards the cannon. Unfortunately for the Protectobot aerial warrior, luck isn't on his this time around and his attempts to draw the gestalt's attention yields dangerous consequences as a result. As Devastator's hands close around the fragile helicopter, twisted metal and glass fragments literally sprays out from the exposed area of the gestalt's hands as the helicopter compresses under the strain. A radio transmission comes out of the Protectobot just before he goes silent. Eventually Blades is tossed onto the ground like behind Devastator, left like a piece of trash, mechanical fluids and metallic debris, and energon spews out from the wreckage. Remarkably, the wreckage transforms into the devastated (no pun intended!) form of Blades, who struggles to crawl away. For all intent and purposes, he's down for the count, but the Protectobot aerial warrior's final duty dictates that he doesn't become a burden for the rest of his teammates. Countless locking mechanisms within the Sikorsky S-76 Spirit disengages as it reconfigures its structure, eventually compacting itself into the recognizable form of Blades, Protectobot extraordinare. Combat: Blades begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots from Bell 430 Helicopter, F-15 Eagle , Technobot Starfighter , Galvatron, Devastator, Patchwork, Reflector, Chromia, Autobot Heavy Cruiser , and Decepticon Heavy Warship Hellbender Rodimus Prime's head finally clears in time to figure out that it is not Devastator he was aiming at, but the Steelhaven. How'd he make that mistake?! Fortunately, he misses the big old thing, but his focus on that keeps him distracted long enough to be hit by Galvatron's blast! He stumbles back, against the cannon, and processes what Galvatron is shouting. Damn it! Soundwave must have ratted him out! He looks up and shouts, "Hey, Devastator! Hook couldn't out-build Soundwave if he tried, and your buildings SUCK compared with Shockwave's!" he yells, then fires again. He glances at Galvatron. "I'm going to use your own soldier to bring this whole thing down around you, Galvatron!" And here Rodimus doesn't even know that someone ELSE is busily implying traitors in Galvatron's ranks! Combat: Rodimus Prime sets his defense level to Protected. Combat: Rodimus Prime strikes Devastator with his Photon Eliminator attack! The sound of metal and glass breaking draws Patchwork's attention. And the medic is off lie a shot. "I got you, Blade!" she calls as she screeches to a halt next to the crawling Autobot, reaching down to quickly deal with the worst of his damage before she grabs his arm to help him along out of the fight. Combat: Patchwork quickly patches up some of Blades's minor injuries. Combat: Scattershot sets his defense level to Guarded. Scattershot transforms into his robot mode Scattershot descends rapidly and lands in front of he cannon, he pulls his acid rifle out of subspace and says "Hey you big lug of bolts! Over here! I bet you can't hit me!!!! Your brain is about as large as a small torque screw!!!!" Scattershot then flips on his Acid Rifle and Fires at Devastator. Combat: Scattershot strikes Devastator with his Automatic Acid-Pellet Gun attack! Devastator takes too much damage to remain merged! Galvatron reaches out for a Reflector guy, intent on grabbing him and giving him a nice staredown before strangling him--but then Rodimus Prime snaps him back into reality! "What? That's your plan? NO! I won't let you! I put too much effort into this, too much planning! NOT THIS TIME, I SWEAR IT!" Having finally completely lost his cool, Galvatron transforms, and fires an intense blast at Rodimus Prime! "DIIIIEEE!" Galvatron falls forward, collapsing into himself as he converts into his dreaded artillery mode! S**t just got real! Combat: Galvcannon misses Rodimus Prime with his Galvcannon attack! [Pulled -9] Combat: You are running low on energon! "DEVASTATOR WILL OBLITERATE YOU," thunders the green titan at everyone in general and Rodimus Prime in particular. He reaches back over his shoulder and produces a long black gun the size of a passenger jet, levelling it at Rodimus Prime. A glimmer of yellow light glows deep inside the cavernous barrel, increasing rapidly in brightness and heat, but before Devastator can finish warming up his solar cannon Prime nails him in the knee with his photon eliminator. Devastator stumbles, throwing out a hand reflexively and seizing ahold of part of the fractal cannon's support structure, which creaks and crumples under his inestimable weight while rockets and grenades burst almost harmlessly against his monolithic armor. But before Devastator can regain his balance, the Autobot starship lays into him with a full plasma barrage, driving him further off his feet. The cannon swings up, a beam of the same brightness and heat as the surface of the sun lancing out of its bore, bleaching every surface that faces the beam and burning the carefully-planted landscaping to ash in an instant. The beam swings upwards, raking its deadly way through the sky and happening to pass near the Steelhaven as Devastator topples slowly backwards, falling bodily onto the ground with an incoherent thundering of rage and pulling the fractal cannon's structure down with him like a drunk ripping a shower curtain down on top of him. Combat: Devastator strikes Autobot Heavy Cruiser with his Solar Energy Rifle attack! Combat: Devastator dissolves into its component Constructicons. Scrapper has arrived. Long Haul has arrived. Hook has arrived. Bonecrusher has arrived. Devastator has left. Reflector gives Galvatron a wide berth as the crowned chaos lays his hateful insane optics on him. "No my Lord! It wasn't me! I'm no trai..." Galvatron's sways his focus back upon Rodimus Prime, and the clone-con can only thing to add his aid in destroying his masters enemy. Reflector draws his scoped Rifle and fires a single shot at the Autobot leader. "Die, Autobot!" Combat: Reflector sets his defense level to Aggressive. Combat: Reflector misses Rodimus Prime with his Scoped Rifle attack! And when Galvatron's beam misses, it instead scores a hit on the Fractal Cannon itself, blasting a hole right through it! And out tumbles a strange object. Roughtly the size of a marble, it fluctuates intensely, trapped inside a transparent case. 6-wheeled Crane gets ejected from Devastor's upper interlock socket and lands hard in robot, banged up and utterly confused. His head still hearing the echos of Devastator's thoughts and senses. "whu...what? What happened?" Hook struggles to clear the cobwebs out. The green crane unfolds into the robotic form of the evil Constructicon HOOK! The Global Pose Tracker marks that Hook has 'skipped' his action for this round. Komatsu D575A Superdozer tumbles to the ground, transforming to sit confused amidst the wreckage of Galvatron's super weapon. "I think we got beat," he replies to Hook, shaking his head uncertainly. The bulldozer noisily and awkwardly pulls itself up into a dense, compactly built green robot about twenty feet tall. Long Haul plummets from his glorious position as Devastator's crotch, landing hard onto the ground with a dull *thud* in an awkward position. Long Haul transforms into rbot mode, rubbing his head. "Ugh..." Long Haul transforms into Robot mode! Chromia watches Devastator crumble with a satisfied smirk...even though she, herself, only had a small part in bringing his collapse about, she still helped. She turns her attention to the cannon proper just as Galvatron's beam blasts a hole in it...and a strange device pops out of it. It looked important. Bringing her grenade launcher up, Chromia aims for the 'trapped marble' and fires, hoping to destroy whatever it is. Her grenade, smoke trailing behind it in an arc, flies directly towards her target. Payloader thumps into the ground, leaving a payloader-shaped indentation. His wheels spin a bit, ineffectually. Scrapper mutters, "Gnn... gonna crush... mash... ooohoo..." The payloader shakes himself, transforms, and sits there, holding his foggy, hurting head. The totally unassuming lime green payloader unfolds to become Scrapper, the architect of destruction! Scattershot watches Devastator break apart because of his acid rifle eating away at the damage he already took. He then realizes one thing, that the big gestalt is breaking apart and falling down. Scattershot quickly dives out of the way as the gestalt falls and Galvatron accidentially destroys the cannon. After all is said and done, Scattershot, low on energon, missing much of his armor plating, and covered in dust gets up, and puts his rifle back into subspace and looks around for Rodimus Prime. Rodimus Prime tenses, ready to leap out of the way of Devastator's blast, when a shot from the Steelhaven distracts him! Damn it! The fact that he was ready to dodge, however, means that he's quick to avoid both Galvatron and Reflector's shot. "It's always the same with you guys. 'Die, Autobot, die, Autobot di-" and then he notices something clink out next to him. "What is-" and then Chromia throws a grenade at the thing! "WAIT!" he shouts and puts himself between the marble and Chromia. "We don't knwo what that'll do!" Combat: Chromia strikes Rodimus Prime with its Grenade Launcher attack! Blades exerts a supreme amount of effort just to raise his right hand over Patchwork's shoulders, "Ugh... t--thanks, bud. I-- probably look wor--st than I fee--l, eh?" The Protectobot battered face forces a defiant smile, albit he's missing a few of the Transformers' equivilant of teeths. He looks like Rocky who just came out of a fight with Apollo and several times worst. "An--d here I am, a Prot--ectobot, getting pro---tected instea--d, eh? Le-t's keep this a se--cret from the others, yea-h?" Rodimus Prime successfully protects the marble case, and makes a grab for it! Galvcannon warily transforms back into robot mode, and immediately collapses to his knees. "No. The Fractal Generator! Give it to me! The Sage condemned an entire planet just to make it! I WANT IT BACK! It's priceless!" He reaches out to the Autobots, but it's clear that he's far too drained to stop them. The artillery cannon's back section snaps apart into two legs, its treads convert to arms, and the main body slides down as GALVATRON rises up before you! Rodimus Prime is also, however, severely damaged in the process! Chromia looks horrified when Rodimus jumps in front of the 'marble', and even moreso when her launched grenade hits him. Patchwork smirks at Blades, her arm and hand steadying but gentle around his waist. "Yeah, sure you do. Come on." She moves with her patient towards their getaway vehicle, continuing to survey the field even as she answers his second worry. "And don't worry...my job's to protect the damaged on the field...it's not shameful.' Rodimus Prime grabs up the marble, and his optics widen as Galvatron reaches for him, because he's really too damaged to fight... but then he sees that Galvatron is too damaged to fire! He doesn't question dumb luck, and instead, marble in hand, just turns and runs towards the Steelhaven! Combat: Rodimus Prime begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots from Bell 430 Helicopter, F-15 Eagle , Bonecrusher, Hook, Long Haul, Scrapper, Scattershot, Galvatron, Patchwork, Blades, Reflector, Chromia, Autobot Heavy Cruiser , and Decepticon Heavy Warship Hellbender Chromia, too stunned that she just shot Rodimus, doesn't seem quite able to move or speak...well, her crushed legs also don't help for the moving part...but even with Rodimus's assurances over comms, she still can't quite snap herself out of it. Combat: Scattershot begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots from Bell 430 Helicopter, F-15 Eagle , Galvatron, Patchwork, Autobot Heavy Cruiser , and Decepticon Heavy Warship Hellbender Galvatron, for his part, has completely lost his will to fight thanks to the day's events. He collapses onto his face, arms twitching. "I... I was so close.... so close..." Behind him, the twisted mirror, the critical element of his plans, cracks and shatters into pieces under its own weight. Darkwing has arrived. Combat: Darkwing takes extra time to steady himself. [Pass] His thoughts finally clearing Hook remembers what set him off. He gets back up and charges at the source of his anger. "Why you uneducated ruffian Autobot!" Hook totally ignores the marble and the case instead he takes advantages of the weakened steate of Rodimus from Chromias Grenade Launcher and begins kicking and stomping on the Autobot leader. "How can you say that?!! How DARE you say that? How can my buildings SUCK compares to Shockwave's?! All his stuff looks like HEXAGONS! Always with the slaggin' HEXAGONS! There is no art, no creativity! How creative do you need to be to come up with an HEXAGONAL design! I'll tell you how creative...NOT A WHOLE LOT!" He yells as he continue kicking Rodimus repeatedly. Combat: Hook strikes Rodimus Prime with his Kick attack! Combat: Patchwork begins retreating, leaving herself vulnerable to parting shots from Bell 430 Helicopter, F-15 Eagle , Galvatron, Autobot Heavy Cruiser , and Decepticon Heavy Warship Hellbender Scrapper, in a bit of a shocked daze, watches the mirror crash on Galvatron. He notes glumly, "Seven years bad luck, that." Not too bad for a giant robot who can live for millions of years, but maybe there is a multiplier effect for giant mirrors. Rodimus Prime is hit by an angry Hook as he goes by, but it doesn't stop him from getting on board the Steelhaven. Rodimus Prime has left. Rodimus Prime boards Autobot Heavy Cruiser . Blades is assumed to have been dragged into the Steelhaven. Blades has left. Blades boards Autobot Heavy Cruiser . Scattershot runs over to Chromia grabbing her arm "Come on, get over here and on board quick before you get fragged!!!" Scattershot drags Chromia onto the Autobot ship. Scattershot has left. Scattershot boards Autobot Heavy Cruiser . Combat: Chromia begins retreating, leaving itself vulnerable to parting shots from Bell 430 Helicopter, F-15 Eagle , Galvatron, Patchwork, Autobot Heavy Cruiser , and Decepticon Heavy Warship Hellbender Chromia has left. Chromia boards Autobot Heavy Cruiser . Bonecrusher isn't as fast as Hook (and that's saying a lot), so he doesn't get up in time to put the boot in on that accursed Rodimus Prime, and is obliged instead to peck away at the Autobot ship with his dinky little laser pistol while shouting vile imprecations. Combat: Bonecrusher strikes Autobot Heavy Cruiser with his Standard-Issue Constructicon Laser Pistol (Laser) attack! Long Haul watches the Autbots begin to extract their own. "Did we win?" His visor falls on the cannon debris, then the mirror shards, then to Galvatron. "Uh... I guess not." "They stole part of it, too," grumbles Bonecrusher. Galvatron just lies there in a pile of glass shards, mumbling. "I... am... invincible, no one... withstands me... I'll destroy the universe... and rule another... hahaha... invincible..." Bonecrusher adds, "I think Galvatron might be broken too." Long Haul looks at Galvatron. Long Haul looks to Bonecrusher. "I think you may be right." Autobot Heavy Cruiser takes off once the Autobots are aboard. Run away! Run away! Autobot Heavy Cruiser takes flight to the Skies above Central America. Autobot Heavy Cruiser has left. Hook looks at Galvatron and Bonecrusher as he manages to get his calm back. "Maybe...but I am not sure I should be the one to tell him. Maybe Cyclonus can convince him to come in for a major checkup. If not we may need to wait until he asks for it." Reflector is kinda broken, but musters enough to bark, "Nothing can break Galvatron, Constructicon dog! Now clean up this mess and get back to building his newest city until the next time he decides to destroy the universe!" He torso lens falls out of his lens frame. He loses his bluster and slumps. Air Raid has left. "Settle down, chuckles," snaps Bonecrusher in reply. "We're on a repair and refuel break. Union rules." Scrapper continues to sit on the dusty battleground, and he waves a hand and snaps, "Not so loud! He might hear you!" Scrapper tries to be practical about not letting his teammates get murdered by anrgy Galvatrons. He rubs his temples, "What Hook said." Fuelled by anger, he staggers up to his feet and stomps over to Reflector, "DOG? Did you just say, "Scrapper, please rebuild me into a kiddie Picture Viewer"? Because that is what I HEARD." Bonecrusher does look pretty battered. He took at least a couple rockets and grenades when he was an arm. Darkwing is surprisingly intact, compared to the others. Sometimes being one of the guys no one wants to pay aattention to really pays off. Or maybe Hooks' ridicuously named armor material is better then he thought it would be... You drop Giant Fractal Structure. Sticking out of the ground in the middle of Ayotzinco is an absolutely bizarre structure composed of concrete, glass, and a bit of dirt, the result of one of the Decepticons' super-weapons distorting the surrounding terrain according to a fractal mathematical procedure. It looks rather like an oddly trimmed bush but in a bandshell shape, like in an ampitheatre. It is possible to stand under the structure, as a result, and marvel at its complexity. Reflector won't bother helping Galvatron up, just in case he still has Scraplets or decides to rip the arm off of the first hand to touch him. Reflector moves on, ignoring Scrapper's threat. His memory going back to the traitorous words of Comcast. Bonecrusher trundles off to help Mixmaster and Scavenger back to base to get fixed up. Galvatron is fine with lying there for now. He's not going anywhere. Hook glares at Reflector and puts him on the 's'-list for future reference instead he heads towards his brothers. "There is nothing more we can do here right now and not in our current state. Let us return to base for repairs and ponder our schedule for the next few weeks." Reflector moves to Mexico. Reflector has left. Long Haul nods to Hook and follows in suit behind his Constructicon kin, limping as he does so. When Scrapper is offended, that is one thing. When both Scrapper and Hook are offended, it becomes a 1/3 chance of Devastator being offended. And that's pretty bad. Scrapper dusts off his hands and agrees wearily, "Our schedule? What we always, do, Hook. Build things. That the Autobots come and break." Hook moves to Mexico. Hook has left. Darkwing says, "I don't see why you guys bother in such fruitless endeavors. Everything wonderful will get ruined by them." Darkwing says in one of his 'worse then usual depreesive moods', though it seems like only someone like him could call the end of the universe a wonderful thing." Scrapper moves to Mexico. Scrapper has left. Bonecrusher moves to Mexico. Bonecrusher has left. Darkwing moves to Mexico. Darkwing has left. Combat: Your COMBAT flag has been cleared. Long Haul has left.============================ Reports ============================= Message: 9/89 Posted Author Galvatron Tries To End Universe Mon Nov 16 Galvatron "Welcome back to Galactic News Network. I'm your host, Sk'szhhhkkknaUUHHH. One standard planetary revolution ago, the leader of the Decepticons, Galvatron, declared to the galaxy that he was "leaving" and strongly implied that he was going to do something which would affect the entire universe. Given Galvatron's prior record of wanton mayhem and destruction, civilizations all over the galaxy naturally assumed the worst, and that Galvatron, in fact, was planning to DESTROY the universe." Several video clips of riots on other planets are shown, with aliens of all kinds randomly smashing things and screaming. "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! HE'S GOING TO MELT US ALL!" one Nepsan screams. He's shoved out of the way by a gelatinous blob, who throws in his two cents. "NANITES! HE'S GOING TO USE NANITES! AHHHHH!" There are even shots of riots on Earth. Eventually, they cut back to the studio. "Our sources on Earth, however, say that Galvatron's plan was somehow thwarted by the Autobots, who destroyed his latest superweapon in the Earth city of Ayu... Ayonz..." The newscaster squints at the teleprompter with his single eye. "...I apologize, but the name of the city seems to be unpronounceable. Ahem. Anyway, two components of this superweapon appeared to be some sort of cannon and a giant mirror, which had somehow been warped by the cannon. It's unknown how these two things could imperil the universe, or if this was in fact an elaborate hoax. The Assembly of Worlds, however, has issued a very strong condemnation of the Decepticons' "reckless and irresponsible tampering with space and time" and issued a fine. Next, other dimensions. Are they real? And what might they have had to do with Galvatron's mysterious plan? More after the break!" ========================================================================================================== Autobot ============================= Message: 3/182 Posted Author Fractals Tue Nov 17 Rodimus Prime Spinny, then Rodimus Prime. The background suggests that he's at a desk in his stateroom on the Orion Pax. "As those of you who follow the news no doubt know by now, Galvatron made an attempt at destroying the universe two days ago. We were alerted, first, by a spike of Decepticon activity in Azo- Aya-" He looks down at a second screen that forms his desk-top, then looks up. "Ayotzinco, and second by his boasting about it over the radio waves. Anyway, the news covers the major points, so I just want to express my appreciation for the Autobots who were essential in our victory: Crosscheck, Nightbeat, Blades, Scattershot, Patchwork, and Chromia. Great work, guys. "Unfortunately, there's no rest for us now. Nightbeat's already passed out the orders for Intel concerning Decepticon interference in Africa. We need to be on the ball with this one - already it's getting pretty bad down there. "Meanwhile, Impactor's requested to put in a base in the tunnels recently discovered near Crystal City, a request Grimlock's seconded. They have my approval on this; Operations, help as you can, although I know you guys have a lot on your plate, too, between Sunblaze and the work on the Ark. Keep in mind that if you just need bodies to help in the building, there's no reason you can't borrow from the other divisions. "Finally, Jazz has mentioned wanting to strike at Charr again. This has lower priority than the Africa situation, but it's still something we need to be looking at - Grimlock, when you two get the chance I want you guys to put your heads together to work out a basic strike plan to bring to me, although you may have to wait until Jazz has had time to send in a scouting team. "That's it for now." He grins. "I already know you guys'll keep up the stellar work. Prime, out." ==============================================================================