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Chapter 10: Uncertainty Strikes
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Manterror was explaiing to the rest of the transformers his plan and how he would use Jazz and his body. He said that he could not bare to give Jazz anyhing other than a risky but slow death. Later in secret, Manterror and Reaper met in a little known lab in the now desolate ship. Manterror explained the need to use the mostly charred pieces of Megatron and Laserbeak's memory chips. A clone was to be made. Reaper agreed and said,"If we use Megatron's brawn brain and raw power, Laserbeak's tenacity and leadership, and Manterror's personality... we could couple it with our large weoponry and armory at hand we could make the ultimate warrior and a new leader...?
Meanwhile, everyone was wondering what was taking Reaper and Manterror so long to come to a meeting their great leader had called for about an hour earlier. They were waiting very patiently for them. At that same time, the elite duo of Goldust and Hotrod had long been in the making of a plan of attack and they had found and were spying on Havoc. Although unaware of this, Havoc vigorously trained in a training room. He was missing fom the meeting, too but no one really cared that much. Finally Manterror and Reaper came to the meeting which Havoc had since forgotten about. In his absense bad things were said of him. Those two who knew of and were designing the cloning process and idea had Havoc on their list first for the spark they would splice.
In the training room, Havoc kicked at a hologram of an autobot. At that very moment, Hotrod emerged from his hiding and tackled Havoc in his large bulk, and desynthesised his circuits, tranquilizing him temporarily. Goldbug then aroused the idea of trying to communicate with any backup troops located within the Vengeance. Being the high-tech ship it was, it had a hidden camera system hidden throughout the ship. Little did our elite duo that they were being watched. It really didn't matter seeing as to how there was only one person taking care of the ship's maintenance and that was the pilot, Snowgrid. Being one of the predacons,(he was a rhinoceros although not a normal predacon form)he said,"I smell trouble lurking nearby, autobots."
Goldbug mananaged to contact Jazz and he said,"Ah, thank goodness for backup..." He paused."I've been trapped and need you to free me."He could barely whisper in his condition. Hotrod said he had an idea that they could track the microwaves to find Jazz and if needed, Havoc would be a great body shield.(no pun intendes) Goldbug continued the conversation with Jazz while sneaking slowly with Hotrod(he held Havoc on his back)to the close location of Jazz. Being one of the greats of the war between just the autobots, decepticons, and Unicron, and such, it waould be a tragedy to lose him like this. Goldust said to him over the microwave radio to reassure him,"You were always a great hero and continue to to be, but everyone needs help from one another every once in a while, and we're going to try our best to save you."
Meanwhile at the meeting grounds Blitzgrenade was told to search for those autobots with the help of a small band of a few more unknown soldiers. Manterror said he had made a decison that he and Reaper were to meet back in the lab, and Injector was to stay with and guard Jetstorm's halfway dead body with the help of two other robots. Everyone else had to man their old posts and the last few would have to help guard and guide Snowdrift in his piloting even though there was already a halfway competent, artificially intelligent, automatic co-pilot. Although extremely risky, finally decided to go into staces lock to aid Reaper in making clones when they arrived in the lab. It would only be three more days until th landing on Cybertron, but the turnaround suggested by Manterror had been enated ten days before.
At the beginning of the trip on the Vengeance, seventy-five predacons and decepticons alike had been capacitated in the Vengeance. Now only twenty-five were left after the arrival of Jazz. He had traveled there by way of disposable jet pack and rocket boosters. Now, no one enjoyed the voyage on the ship any longer because it had become a struggle and a drag. Jazz was at the verge of staces lock and total destruction, but both Hotrod and Goldbug and the evil transformers were going to be near him soon. They did not realzse that they were now being watched and being found and neither did they care.
Their exact location was pinpointed, but they could not be reached as fast as they could have if the robots had kept their posts. In one more minute Reaper would take his so called great leader out of staces lock fo he aws almost done copy his personality chip. Manterror was toally unaware of all the situations, but it did not really matter either.
Now the splicing of the chip was done, andReaper had finally finished imputing the inforamation into the computer. The chase after the autobots was almost finished, and the autobot team had reached Jazz. With only minutes left of his life they had to move quickly. They quickly revived him and resynthesized Havoc's circuits for good measure because they knew they needed it.
Having used most of their ammunition to get in, they made due with what they had. While Goldbug rushed to aid and tend to Jazz, the fallen warrior, Hotrod blasted through the walls to make it through to the ammunition and armory rooms and raided them. He brought much supplies back to them and reinforced the walls with shields and placed Havoc in the area of the old door.
Thank goodness the autobots were prepared to brace themselves, and they even prepared Jazz to fight with weapons to use sitting down and they guarded him well. He was well prepared and so were Hotrod and Goldbug. Little did they realize how much their speed would come in handy. The only way they truly knew to be prepared was when Jazz told them of eveything that had happened.
Then came the skirmish. The decepticons and preds would be ready this time. They came by for a big surprise. They tried to blast through the walls but they couldn't blast through the shields. That's why they made use of a small hole leaving only dents in all the shields. Many of them used the hole to try and further damage Jazz. Only one hit him. He was only grazed, but it did open his wound back up and made him much more vulnerable.
They were ordered to stop shooting at them so Blitgrenade in robot mode shot a grenade with his now infamous grenade launcher. When he did so, he only did it once after accidently almost blowing up Havoc's body which the slower obots did not see the signifigance of. Only Reaper and Manterror did. Not noly that but, they realized ther were currently only twenty-four evil robots left of Manterror's band. The attacking hoarde retreated uopn command.
For the real treat for the autobots Manterror and Reaper gathered the parts of Megatron and Lasereak still around and inputed them into the computer next they took Havoc's body, took the spark out of him to toally kill him, and then they replaced all his memory with that of Manterror's, Megatron's, and Laserbeak's. They took someenergon to power it up and turned it on...
The robot immediately spoke,"I am very powerful and intelligent,but I need a new arsenal and a 'facelift' more or less." Reaper answered,"That will be no problem, but first I dub you Projector. That's because you are part of our newest project." The first thing to be put into his arsenal was a shoulder-maounted rail gun and the abiltity to implode neutrons to cause subatomic explosions much like the gneration two megatron, but Projector would become much stronger.
The unthinkable would happen the second to the last day before their landing. The prototype clone far from makeshift was about to make his terrifying debut. Newly- fitted with shock absorbtion and great shielding,he was beyond compare. Only after he was finally finished did anyone else see it. In the morning, he was sent out.
Hotrod and Goldbug did their best but failed in trying to repair Jazz. All seemed hopeless, but little did anyone know the true mission of the clone. He went out and blasted
at the walls until they totally disappeared. While they could, they tried to fight off the all powerful robot they became very discouraged. Few shots hit him and thos that did left only dents, some larger thatn others. They thought their only hope was to outsmart him, but they did not realize his intelligence.
Because of his height, he was seemingly at a disadvantage. Jazz tried to help in the fight and did as good as them even in his state of being. Running out of options, they tried to totally destroy his body but not his spark. That would have worked except that Projector realized their plan, and even protected him. Running out of ammo, they ran until they could find the escape pod zone. Only after realizing whose body it used did they realize how superficial the victory after Jazz's being saved. Now they could only run from the robot clone until there was no end almost.
A manta ray maximal had his corpse draggged onto the Vengeance. They saw this as a good oppurtunity to try and save Jazz, and they did try. They managed to switch everything including his spark into this new body. He came to like it and used it well to fight off Projector, but all their valiant efforts put together wouldn't have stoppped him. He and everyone else ended up very badly damaged. Would they have to leave him behind?
What do you do now?
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