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Chapter 9: Against all odds, at any cost.
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"...and just what are we gonna do? Something...This Vok or whatever, is ripping through the Maximals!" Sandstrike pleaded with Dinobot.
"Me, Grimlock think this a bunch of slag. We go outside and kick alien skid-plate!" ever the calculating strategist, Grimlock aimed his weapon at the near wall, and blew it up.
"Well...That was certainly a wise choice!" Dinobot exclaimed.
"What you think we should do, Pred? Have holiday? Put feet up? We not let anyone take this planet from us." Grimlock, with a near look of deja vu, quickly glanced at the silent Abyss.
"Look like we got company." Grimlock raised his weapon and fired a shot that whizzed past Abyss' startled face and destroyed an armored attacker.
"Great, we can't even look at the things before you blow them up! Oh well, maybe today might be a good day to die." Sandstrike cocked his weapon and grabbed Abyss' hand "Just remember, no matter what---"
"I...know. Let's just hope we survive." Abyss said with quiet reservation as she readied her own weapon.
The four Transfomers cautiously moved out of the small building they had hid in. Through the dark alley, they heard shots in the distance, the battle raged on. Here, they were alone, for now.
"We don't even know exactly what we're up against, here. What did the Vok send to Cybertron? What are these killing machines? They made short work of the Elders, who, by far, are supposedly the most powerful 'bots alive." Sandstrike bellowed out his question and his fears to either three that could console him.
Dinobot gave Sandstrike a puzzled look. "They're dead now. It's up to us! We will find help, as I'm sure not all of Cybertron's warriors were defeated." he looked at Grimlock. "We will have to work together from now on. My intentions are only to serve and protect Cybertron with the honor of a true warrior."
"Me, Grimlock, can respect that me suppose. But you try anything funny and me Grimlock make sure you join Pit with rest of Predacons."
"Look alive, boys! There's something moving over there!" Abyss pointed to a large pile of ruble.
"Its....a Maximal!" Sandstrike went running to the Maximal's aid.
"Wait! It could be a trap!" Dinobot lunged after the brash Sandstrike.
Dinobot surveyed the area as Grimlock and Sandstrike uncovered the battered and near to stasis-lock Maximal.
"He's unconcious, but if we get him to a repair bay he'll live!" Abyss stood up from checking the vital signs of the Maximal. "I know him...His name is Commander Ramulus, he was in charge of Plaza Security. He's not going to be happy to wake up to all his men dead, but he's a good soldier and a better Maximal."
"Look, across that street. It's an R-Chamber!" Sandstrike began to lift Ramulus up, doing everything he could to save the commander.
Sandstrike rushed over, activating the R-Chamber and initializing the repair sequence.
"Slag! It's not just an R-Chamber, but a DNA scanner and replicator! It won't work unless we select a beast mode for him." Now utterly frustrated, Sandstrike looked around and recognized the trashed building. This was where he was scheduled to get his form changed. He pushed a sequence of random buttons on the control pad, the R-Chamber whirred to life and Ramulus' repair cycle began.
A loud creaking noise, almost like the sound of metal bending could be heard. Suddenly, a large half organic half robotic monstrosity burst through a wall and began attacking the Maximals.
"Protect the chamber! We can't let it destroy Ramulus!" Sandstrike called as he and Abyss moved towards the chamber and began firing at the beast.
Dinobot drew his sword and attacked the creature from behind. Riding on it's back, Dinobot stabbed his sword into the creature causing it to fall onto the R-Chamber. Without thinking, Dinobot shoved his sword through what he thought was the creature's heart. His sword penetrated through a spherical object that laid just under the creature's technorganic skin. The sword went down and breached the chamber's outer shell. A large explosion occured, the creature disintegrated as Dinobot was thrown hundreds of feet backwards.
After a few minutes, the four Maximals recovered. Standing where the pod had been destroyed was a large beast, what could be identified as an ibex, from Earth. Although this beast was completely different from anything the three Cybertronian bound Maximals had seen.
"A...Transmetal!!" Dinobot said in near disbelief.
"What...what's happened to me? Where am I? *WHAT* am I?" Ramulus looked at the gawking Maximals in horror.
What do you do now?
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