*`~Sparklings~`*

[KaiyaKuchki]

Barely making it inside, Bumblebee panted. Only to flinch at the sudden dark aura that surrounded Optimus. The Jet twins quickly hugged each other as they watched Optimus violently steer the ship. Bumblebee, hid behind them.

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Haley whimpered as she saw Slip being taken away by the scary bot. Her mouth quivered as she began to see Slip try to find his way out. When he took too long she began to cry, energon tears falling from her face. And it didn't help that Slip began to cry as well. She had no reassurance from her father, no Slip, no comfort...no freedom.

Haley began to hiccup as she cried. At first it was nothing, but the intervals of the hiccuping increased rapidly. Getting faster and faster, until her body began to vibrate. Her restraints held her down firmly. But in two cycles the restraints could barely stop wobblying. Until she was finally free. Although she was free she couldn't do anything to stop the vibrating much less no what to do.

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Megatron's optics widened as Starscream started to stir up, struggling to get free. Megatron began shifting his eyes from Starscream to the on coming shadow. The fool! He'd expose them both! The harder Starscream shook, the tighter Megatron's grip became. Until finally the Starscream became limp. At first the warlord thought he had gone into stasis mode, but his thought was proven wrong as he saw the exhausted seeker's optics still activated, as he suddenly became stiff. Believing Starscream had finally understood what kind of danger they were in, Megatron turned his attention back towards the shadow. He held his breath as the shawdow stood there for a moment, but then slowly left. Quietly exhaling his breath, Megatron loosened his grip on Starscream.

Right after a huge mechanical wolf tackeled Megatron to the ground. It's fangs seizing his fusion cannon. Up so close Megatron could see this was one of Jhiaxus' sick experiments. A possible fusion of organics and Cybertronian technology? Who was to truly say. All Megatron really knew was this thing was built to kill and it wasn't alone. His optics widened as he saw the other, inching closer and closer to Starscream. Clenching his dental plates, Megatron tried to push the beast off him. But to no avail. It's teeth, only a few inches away from collapsing his cannon. Throwing his fists at it, was usless. It didn't even wince. Being pushed back on the floor Megatron's optics narrowed. Nothing, was going to get the best of him! Megatron rammed his fist towards the creature's snout. Although it was part machine, it was still an organic. Still a mutt. Taken a back the creature whimpered, it shook it's head. Still in shock at the sudden blow.

Activating his fusion cannon, despite the sparks, Megatron aimed for the other mechanical canine, stalking Starscream. Just as it was about to pounce Megatron fired. The front half of the body blown away. Without anytime to breath the remaining canine pounced on the overlord, trying to madly bite at the silver mech. Megatron's arms keeping it at bay. Angered that this had gone on for so long, Megatron kicked the thing in it's soft belly, and drove his arm right through it's throat. After a cycle, it fell limp leaving Megatron with energon covered arm. Slowly, Megatron went back to the seeker to see if he was still online.

[Die Ruhe]

Starscream groaned, startled by the sudden attack which left him more or less face down in the dirt after Megatron had been hurled from behind him. From his current position, he couldn't see their attackers. He struggled to push himself up, totally unaware of the second incoming wolf creature behind him. He cried out as dirt and debris entered and scratched at his energon drenched wounds. His body took over for a moment in a last attempt to escape the pain and he soon found himself sitting, panting, with his wings pressed against the cool rock just in time to witness Megatron's blast fly overhead. The returned rush of pain brought clarity to his processor for a few moments. He took in everything around him, watching Megatron with weary optics. He was about to make a quip at the silver mech when he felt his link between his trine mate open. He winced visibly as he felt Skywarp's cry for help. A groan slipped from his throat as he tried to move his limbs and failed miserably. He needed to be repaired immediately. He needed to go after Sky.

He locked optics with the approaching mech, staring at him with a vacant expression. He refused to admit how helpless he was.

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Jhiaxus chuckled to himself as he made his way down the hall. The second escapee entertained him. Rattling? Who would have thunk it. He snickered, activating a second restraint. This time, a second 'glass' tube not dissimilar to the first except for it's smaller size slid smoothly from the ceiling, down over the sparkling, and disappeared for a few feet into the counter top. His voice crackled on an over-com system installed in the room. "Ah-ah-ahh, love. Clever though you may be, this luck won't get you far." He chuckled, directing his next topic of discussion towards the adult. "This time it's a garbage incinerator. Convenient, isn't it? Just collect the scrap within the circle, press a switch, and presto! The chamber fills with flame and leaves nothing but a clean table. Also convenient is the fact that it's made of the same material as your little worm's container over there. I've used it several times on a few rather, shall we say, obstinate mechs before. They never last long, though." He cackled loudly at his own joke before switching off the link and plunging the room into silence.

They never lasted long, he chuckled. It was so true! Nothing lasted long under Jhiaxus' claws. He practically skipped the rest of the way down the hall in his glory, but calmed himself before opening the bay door. "Jhiaxus." Nemesis growled without turning to face his subordinate. "Activate the Nega-Cores."

"...now?!" Jhiaxus broke his pause resulting from the abruptness of the order. He hadn't expected to do so at least until they made it back to Cybertron. "But they're so spread out. The power...."

"Enough." Nemesis interrupted with his coldly smooth growl. "I was under the impression you possessed controls for the other two devices. Is this not the case, Jhiaxus?" The scientist shook his head and opened his mouth to confirm his possession of the aforementioned controls, but was cut off before his vocalizer could emit any form of response. "Time and space are no longer a concern to us. If anything, the distance between each device will only speed up the process and cover larger amounts of space more quickly." Jhiaxus nodded once more, calculating what his leader predicted. It was correct. He smirked.

"But what of Optimus Prime?" he questioned lightly, ready to drop the subject should it become dangerous.

"Once the darkness consumes all, he will become inconsequential. That alone shall be my revenge. He will do my bidding for all eternity, unable to resist." The larger mech chuckled darkly to himself, staring out the bay window into deep space. Jhiaxus smirked understandingly as he made his way over to a control board at Nemesis' right. A few clicks later he confirmed the activation of the devices.

"It will take some time for the devices to heat up, but for now, everything is going as planned." He looked to his left, attempting to read the mech's facial expression best he could.

"Excellent," was all he received.

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Rodimus acknowledged the forwarded information, but was torn between wanting backup and the knowledge that it would put even more mechs in the line of fire. The decision was made for him though, and he followed it. He was the closest to the Twilight; close enough that he was preparing to board when he noticed a tall antennae rise from the top of the enormous ship. He recognized the device immediately from back on Bhul. Jhiaxus was activating the Nega-Cores. He couldn't even estimate how long they had now, a panicked sinking feeling hitting his tanks. He sent an emergency SOS to all remaining soldiers. They had to act immediately or the Dead Universe would begin it's expanse from each of the devices, this one starting from within the Twilight itself. They couldn't allow that to happen. Ejecting from his own pod, he drifted quickly to a side door on the Twilight, prying it open and slipping inside. He couldn't wait for back-up. He needed to get to the deck of the ship immediately to stop the system from loading.

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Blurr struggled with Hot Shot's restraints, shaking the chains at his own accelerated speed in frustration. He wasn't programmed for lock picking, though he made a mental note that perhaps that would make an excellent upgrade. Finally he blasted the chains off of the Autobot, wincing at the loud noise it made. He hated to have to attract unnecessary attention, but it was his only option outside of leaving Hot Shot until the others arrived. As Hot Shot slumped to the floor, Blurr hoisted him over his shoulder and contacted Sentinel, awaiting coordinates for pick-up.

[DragonCreator260]

Skywarp felt that this was torture. Pure and simple. She glared at the wall, wishing that Jhiaxus was right in her line of vision to glare at him. She imagined ways of brutally killing him, ripping him apart bolt by bolt, gouging his optics out, ripping his spark out with her own claws...
She can't keep up with this! She would rather be at gun point with Megatron's cannon after angering him from her practical joke, she would rather be under experimentation right now and have Jhiaxus leave the sparklings alone! Not being threaten to be deep freeze or burned into nothingness.
A small whining sound came from somewhere, and she realized it was her, her neck cable was being fixed by her self-repair system, but her internal scans told her that she needs a medic to fix the damage. The most she can get out of her body are spasmodic twitches and whining, she's still effectively paralyzed.
"STARSCREAM!" She yelled through the bond again, feeling hysterical. She tried to calm down, but she couldn't stand this. Her young is being threatened right before her optic, and she could do nothing more than twitch her body. She's between a rock and a hard place.

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Jazz shot behind him at Galvatron and grabbed Astrotrain's servo, running into the first room and locked the door behind him, nearly escaping the blast, "Watch the door! I'm goin' ta do somethin' alright? On my signal, you have ta bust through the door and shoot at Galvatron, got me mech? Here's my comm. channel."
When he gave the triple changer the channel he turned around and ran to the nearest wall with a vent. Ripping it open he crawled through and quietly shuffled through to get behind Galvatron. When he reached it, he peered out and saw the insane mech's back. Sighing, he though wryly, I must be crazy to even think of this. And promptly kicked the vent, dropping behind the purple mech with his nun-chuck aiming at the neck joint, yelling in his comm. link, ::NOW, ASTROTRAIN, NOW!!::

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Optimus violently swerved the ship again and barked at Sentinel, "Sentinel! Blast a hole at the back of the ship!"
Sentinel jerk back when he realized that Optimus was going to crash at the back of the Twilight! He ran up to the weapon control and started shooting at one focal point on the back of the ship. He sent a message to Blurr to expect a ship ramming at the back of the Twilight, before bracing himself.
Everyone was jarred to the ground when the collision finally happened, but it didn't stop Optimus. He jumped to his feet and barreled to the exit of the Elite Force ship, running straight to where he felt his sparkling being held at, brutally slashing down any drones that got in his way.
Ironhide soon followed after, yelling at the other on board mechs, "Cover Optimus, we have ta cover Optimus!" and fired down a drone.

[KaiyaKuchki]

Just as Haley's vibrating body had slowed down she was once again tied down, glass tube surround her. Unlike Slip she was unable to move around, unable to look at her surroundings. Unable to hear anything, unable to be heard. Crying, her body began heating up. Naturally her fans activated on their own, trying to cool her down. However her temperature began rising.

Her lip began to quiver. Her eyes full of energon. She wanted to leave. She wanted Grimlock..

Her body soon glowed red. Causing her restraints to heat up as well. Her energon tears dissolving into purple steam.

She wanted Ratcheat's "special" energon formula. She wanted to play "peek-a-boo" with Cliffjumper. She wanted to ride in Hotshot's car form. She wanted Beebee to toss her up and catch her...

Her restraints began melting, as well as table below her. Sinking, she cried harder. Thinking she was going into another scary place. The table sizzled, filling the glass tube with smoke. Making the little sparking cough.

She wanted to go home. She wanted, Optimus.

Finally, the table collapsed below her as she fell to the floor. Possibly giving the little heavy damage from such a fall. Rolling away from the tube she weakly lifted her head to only see Slip in his glass prison. Her body cooled down back to it's normal temperature. Her little body, left with heavy damage from the overheating.

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Hotshot drifted in and out of consciousness. He was unable to make the difference between dreams and reality. His optic vision glitched, when Blurr arrived. Even as he felt his restraints shake, his CPU was unable to give him feedback if it was real.

Slumping to the floor, he felt Blurr holding on to him. It wasn't a dream? His comrades...were here? Still weakened the yellow bot didn't say anything except with the occasional quite moan.

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Wincing Megatron fell on his knees next to Starscream. His processor sending signs of low energon, and info on his damaged body. Closing an optic he watched Starscream for a while. They were in trouble, and they both knew it. Opening his com channel he sent out a distress signal.

There were a few responses. But it seemed they were just too far off for anyone to just come. That is, until Lugnut ran by. Megatron's optics widened at the mere chances of Lugnut arriving at the right time.

"Master! What happened?! How may I ease your pain?!" asked Lugnut quickly rounding back to his ruler. Megatron struggled to get up, but to no avail. Slowly he rose his head, breathing heavily.

"Energon....." Megatron simply said, as his body got weaker and weaker. Lugnut quickly opened a small compartment in his arm, revealing serveral small doses of energon. Carefully handing each one to Megatron as he hungrily gulped them down. Feeling his body a bit recharged he lifted himself up. Expecting his master wanting more, Lugnut handed him the last remaining energon he had. "More master?"

"Yes.." said Megatron taking the small dose, "But not for me....." he said, lifting the seeker's head. Carefully trying to pour in his mouth. "In this battle....we need as many bots as possible....even the weak ones, are essential..." said Megatron, looking down to Starscream.

[Die Ruhe]

Starscream huffed, rolling his optics at the subservient fool. Even the weak ones, hm? He felt the energon sliding down his throat and silently thanked Primus that the old fool hadn't just left him to rust. However the insult had killed anything sentimental the Seeker had felt. He relaxed a bit as he felt his repair systems kicking in with the new found energy. A quick scan notified him that his injuries would heal quickly on their own. But he needed more energon. He glanced a moment at the large purple mech, imagining ripping his limbs off and feeding on the useless bot's dripping energon, if only to smite the Decepticon leader. Of course, he then decided on a much simpler, civilized, less time consuming option. He sent a soothing response to Skywarp through the bond, reminding himself that he had far better things to do than bother with Megatron, let alone Lugnut.

He stood and walked a few yards away, saying nothing to his supposed superior. He opened a comm. link with Astrotrain, who he presumed was still on the Twilight. /Astro, do you have the extra energon cubes with you?/ He smirked when the reply came back positive. He checked his systems once more, putting the repairs on hold until later, then kicked his thrusters on full blast and soared up after the Autobot's ship and the Twilight.

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Astrotrain frowned at the Autobot's idea. Putting himself in danger was not something he did willingly. Nevertheless, he did as the Autobot asked, firing around the corner at Galvatron before ducking back and making contact with Starscream. He felt better acting under Decepticon orders again, readying his blaster for another round.

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Galvatron hissed as the triple-changer's blast made contact with his shoulder. He proceeded forward angrily, intending to obliterate the bots.

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Jhiaxus snagged the control panel as the back of the ship erupted. He knew the ship wouldn't be crippled by the blow, but he couldn't guarantee that the antennae wouldn't be damaged. A systems check confirmed the worst. He frowned, glancing nervously at Nemesis Prime. "The Autobots have destroyed the antennae. I can't make contact with the other Nega-Cores without it." Nemesis' optics narrowed.

"Fix it." he growled, stalking out of the bay.

In the mean time, Jhiaxus remained too preoccupied with the task at hand to notice the sparkling's second escape.

[DragonCreator260]

Skywarp optic widen to almost impossible size when she saw Optimus' sparkling glow almost white in heat, melting the berth underneath her and finally dropping from under it. Once she saw Haley cool down, she realized that the little femme was damaged from the process.
She whined, trying to get the sparklings attention, and jerked her head to Slip. She can't physically talk or move, but she can send a message through her son.
When she felt the ship voilently lurch, she had a feeling that it was the Autobots fault. She smiled, feeling she could take the gamble because whatever happened, the attention is now not on her and the sparklings. She told Slip to get Haley's attention.
But then she realized that Haley probably couldn't get into her "super nova" state again without serious damage to her mainframe, and she obviously couldn't lift the lid which weighs a ton. Helping herself out was out of the question because she still doesn't have control over her limbs, nor could she reach her wrap drive just yet, but she was close (her scans told her that she had a few human minutes before her warp drive was accessible). But even if she could teleport now, she still could move well enough to get her son out nor hold both sparklings at once and then teleport away, and she refused to leave Slipstream behind, and by default Haley (just because the little one managed to sneak into her spark, Skywarp cursed her, but it was without conviction, half-sparkedly) so she decided to have Haley escape herself.

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Jazz used his Circuit-Su training that Master Yoketron taught him, aiming at the sensory nodes on Galvatron's neck. With Galvatron's attention on Astrotrain, he hit his neck with his nun-chuck with such blow that some metal supportings in the neck cable was crushed. He aimed the sensory relay on the neck that sends signals to the rest of the mainframe.
Then he gave a powerful kick directly under the knee joint then rammed his elbow to the lower spinal relay, before he finally kicked under the legs, tripping him. He immediately brought his nun-chuck directly to the optics, shattering them.
He did two back flips away from the downed mech and resumed into his defensive stance, waiting, hoping that he was knocked out. If not, then he knows that he did constructive hits on important electrical relays, making him paralyzed and shattered his optics, blinding him. Feeling that he did his work, he nodded at Astrotrain in thanks before feeling the whole ship jolt. Confused, but realized that it couls only mean another, possibly friendly ship, has arrived, so he took off to where he felt the collision.

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Slip looked up from his tight ball when he felt his mother trying to talk to him.
They don't exactly 'talk' per say, but use feelings that could be understood as having an intelligent conversation from one mech to another. He looked down when he felt his mother tell him that he needs to catch Haley's attention and tell her to get herself out.
Standing up, he saw that the table Haley was on now had a melted hole on it. Realizing that she escaped, he started banging against the clear wall, screaming. To the outside room, his little banging made clink clink sounds, then he started to charade, making motions of running and pointed a small vent when his mother pointed it out to him through the bond. He hoped that she got his message.
But what Skywarp and Slipstream didn't know was that Optimus Prime is very close to their location.

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Jazz ran, occasionally running into drones, but he dispatched them efficiently with as little energy as possible, until he was nearly ran over by Optimus, who recognized him as an ally.
Gulping at the murderous aura from Optimus, he yelled at Ironhide, "Yo man, what happened!"
Ironhide shot another drone, "Skywarp was kidnapped, with Haley and Slipstream with her!"
"WHAT!" Jazz was shocked, no wonder what happened to Skywarp, why she was cut of during transmission. Then he renewed his attacks on any offending drones that came too close to Optimus, "Then we better help Boss-Bot here!"

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Optimus barely acknowledge Jazz as an ally while he still barreled through the halls, covered in the drones' life fluids and oil as he decapticated yet another one with his swords. Skidding to a stop in front of a door where he felt the signal being the strongest, he left his mechs to shoot down any drones while he punched the door. Hard. And repeatedly until the door was bent enough for his hands to slip through.
Then he promptly started tearing the door like it was tin foil, ripping it apart until it was wide enough for him to slip through. He barked orders at Ironhide and Jazz to watch the door (what was left of it....if you can call it a door...)

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Skywarp got scared again when she heard loud bangings on the door, and told her son to try to get Haley to get out, but then stopped when she saw a blue fist, unlike Jhiaxus' sickly yellow one, then promptly told her son to stop. She felt rather than saw Slipstream put his hand on the clear wall and leaned against it, looking out towards the door. Her system almost collapsed in relief when she saw it was Optimus.

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Optimus walked in and gently picked Haley up, bringing her close to his chassis, trying not to damage her any further. Since he finally got her back, he allowed his processor to calculate his next move. Looking around the room, he saw Skywarp looking at him with relief so strong, she look like she could be screaming in joy, but he realized that she can't. But he did see her twitch her head to the side, towards the direction of her little winglet being stuck inside of a tube.
Nodding his head, he walked up to the tube and with some difficulties, he opened the lid with one servo that didn't hold Haley, "Bumblebee! Come in here!"
Scooping the sparkling out, he walked towards Skywarp and used the asked her simple yes and no questions, "Can you use you use your warp drive?"
Her head twitched up, meaning a yes.
"Can you teleport back to Ratchet?"
Pause, then, yes.
"Optimus! What about Hot Shot!" Ironhide asked.
Sentinel spoke to Ironhide, "Blurr is with him, and I have his coordinates right now."
Optimus turned around and spoke to the other Prime, "Give them to me." Then he turned around to Skywarp, "Can you teleport twice with multiple people?"
Skywarp stared, checking her mainframe status. It's going to be very tight, seeing that she was loosing energon when her neck cable was svered, only just recently being closed. So two teleports with mulitple passengers is really pushing her limits right now. But she had to try. She twitched her head to a nod.
Optimus ripped her restrainst out and gave her the coordinates to where Blurr and Hot Shot where, gently placed her on the ground and placed the two sparklings in her cockpit again.
"Bumblebee, stay with Skywarp and explain the situation to Blurr when she teleports near him. Have Blurr hang on to her and to Hot Shot firmly so she can teleport all of you back on Earth." Optimus spoke in a serious tone, "Now go!"
Skywarp waited until the yellow bug touched her, then she teleported, appearing in a cell in front of Hot Shot and Blurr."

[KaiyaKuchki]

Haley's optics began to fuzz, her vision glitched. She was unresponsive to Slip's messages. She blinked as she watched her friend pointed toward the exit. Slowly she shakenly lifted herslef, only to cry out in pain. Closing her optics, her little bot body give signs of her critical condition. Suddenly, she sensed something out the door, something...familiar. Slowly opening her optics, she looked up at Slip, steadily crawling towards him. Unable to lift herslef, she weakly put her little hand against the glass wall. Giving a reassuring smile

"Papa's...coming..." she spoke softly before her body fell limp to the floor. Her Spark Chamber beating quietly.

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As Optimus rammed his way through the drones, his men quickly followed. Bumblebee with his stingers, the twins with their own bullets. Finally, after arriving at a door, their targets were found. Sighing the bot's covered the.."entrance" as Optimus walked in. It wasn't long before Optimus called Bumblebee, giving him his orders. Bumblebee nodded his head, quickly heading towards Skywarp. Holding her arm, he took a deep breath before the femme teleported them out.

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Hotshot, weakly lifted his head trying to make sense of his enviorment. He was leaning on, on an ally...Blurr. They were both, in the Twilight. And, they needed to get out...fast.

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Megatron watched as the Seeker left. Leaving both him and Lugnut behind. Lugnut waited for a few cycles before taking, "Master, what is your next command?"

Megatron stood up, his eye on the moving ship. "Transform, and take me to the Twilight. By this time, I suspect the enemy has the Nega-Core in their grasp. We must do what we can, to retrieve it.....or destory it..."

"But master..! Your wounds..!" said Lugnut taking a few steps toward Megatron.

"I've lived through worse injuries than this...Now take me to the that ship!" growled Megatron causing Lugnut to quickly transform. Holding on to Lugnut, Megatron was taken to the Twilight at a reasonably fast pace.

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Haley drifted in and out of consciences, as she found herself in Skywarp's familiar cockpit. Everytime she awoke, she was in pain. Her bot body sensitive to the slightest touch. Slowly lifting her head, she saw a familiar bot through the cockpits glass wall. Smiling she turned to Slip. "Told ya, papa...would come...." still smiling as as she closed her eyes.

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Slowly and steadily Lugnut and Megatron were able to get close to the Twilight. No openings found. "Lord Megatron! There's no way for us to get in!" said Lugnut as he tired keeping up with the ship's speed. Giving an annoyed frown, Megatron pointed his fusion cannon at the ship. "If we cannot simply find an opening....then we'll just simply have to make one...."

Blasting his cannon, Lugnut was taken back by the sudden power, but all the while stared at it in awe as it made a considerably, LARGE entrance."Lugnut, stop wasting time and take us in!!" yelled Megatron, causing a panicked Lugnut to react quickly. "Y-yes master! I'm sorry for the delay!"

Getting near the hole, Megatron jumped, his body making great distance. Landing, he turned back to Lugnut. The giant mech trying to catch up to the ship. "Master..!" cried out Lugnut. Although Lugnut put his propellers at full speed, his heavy body could simply not pick up fast enough. "Leave Lugnut!!" ordered Megatron. "Assist the autobot's below!"

"As you wish, lord Megatron!" answered Lugnut as he turned and returned to the battle below. Megatron frowned at the unfortunate fact that Lugnut couldn't keep up. It was better to have cover while on an enemy's ship. Shrugging it off Megatron simply walked, careful at any turns or corners.

[Die Ruhe]

Jhiaxus struggled with a rusty control a moment before sighing contently to himself. In less than a mega-cycle, he'd managed to re-route the control through a separate external antennae orbiting somewhere around the planet and reactivate the Nega-Core's activation process. It set them back a mega-cycle or so, but that was no matter. Having finished his orders there, he decided to join Nemesis Prime, who had no doubt gone after his prize. Entering the hall, he came face to face with his next victim, a sick grin plastering itself once more on his lip components.

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Starscream was re-energized and, for a reason he couldn't place, his wounds felt as though they were completely healed. As he reached the end of the hall, he came to another perpendicular hall. His internals instantly screamed at him to turn right. Figuring the sense to be a result of the bond between Skywarp and him, he complied, heading off quickly down the hall to his right. He had to find Skywarp. He grit his dental plating once more, still unaware of his trine mate's rescue. As he rounded yet another corner, though, he came face to face with another familiar mech. So Megatron had followed him after all. An uncharacteristically sick grin twisted his features as he raised null rays straight at the Decepticon leader's face. He chuckled a moment as a strange purple color bled into his optics. He then fired several rounds into the silver mech before he could even react.

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Nemesis Prime stalked the halls of the Twilight dangerously. His ominous presence slid through the ship at a ridiculous pace as he neared his destination. Standing just outside Jhiaxus' quarters, he chuckled deeply. "Optimus Prime," he snarled. "It's been much too long."

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Cyclonus sighed, staring down at his broken leader. He would be furious, of that he was sure. But...he sighed, raising his blaster and aiming it directly at his master's spark. This would be far easier. He fired a single round before backing off a few feet. Galvatron's body jerked as the shot hit home. Soon it rippled, liquefied, and ran into an unintelligible form before coming together again within a few moments.

Galvatron sat up and tilted his head side to side. He hated going through that, but it was convenient. He glared over his shoulder at Cyclonus, anger still fresh in his regenerated spark. No one two-timed Galvatron. No one. He stood all at once and stalked past Cyclonus, muttering insults and other such things about Autobots and Decepticons alike.

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Blurr startled at the sight of Skywarp, but managed to keep his posture. He hadn't expected them to use the flier, but was pleased with the fact that his comrade would be removed from danger that much sooner. He complied more than willingly, taking hold of both Skywarp and Hot Shot tightly.

[KaiyaKuchki]

(Okay we're going out of order for a bit, well cause....Hell I wanna post! It makes it that much more epic when Optimus fights Nemesis? Idk x.x ..... )

A smile crossed Bumblebee's face as he saw two familiar bots. Putting Hotshot's other around his small shoulder's, he smirked at his friend. "So....had enough time to cool off..?" Hotshot was still weak but he was able to make enough sense that Bumblebee had come. As well as know he was being a smart aleck. "Heh....what do you think?"

Holding onto Hotshot tightly, Bumblebee braced himself for Skywarp's second teleportation, out of this Primus forsaken ship.

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As Megatron quietly walked down the halls, he became slightly nervous. He felt as though he was in the abandoned part of the ship. There where no drones. No Autobots. No Decepticons. And certainly no Nega-Core. Making his way around a corner he discovered Starscream, nearly running into him.

Just as the warlord was about to say something, Starscream had quickly fired on him. Covering his face, Megatron fell back as he was shot. Unable to respond to the sudden other rounds fired at him. Blocking his face and vital areas, Megatron shut his optics, wincing at each blast. It wasn't surprising that Starscream had attacked Megatron. In fact it would've been off if the little traitor didn't have a plan cooking up every week. But this was strange. Usually the young seeker would make some kind of witty banter that usually ended with, "...And I'll finally become ruler of the Decepticons..!!" and then fire on Megatron. Now if he just suddenly decided to stop talking, it was understandable. But he didn't even make a sound. Not even his high-pitch maniacal laugh.

Injured, Megatron looked up at the seeker. If anything else, the seeker still had his "pretty little smile." Clenching his dental plates Megatron quickly rushed towards Starscream before the seeker could fire at him once more. Grabbing one of the seekers null rays, he twisted it around his back, keeping a firm grip o it. His other arm wrapped around the seeker's neck. And to keep the seeker from causing anymore damage,Megatron wrapped his foot around Starscream's leg, pulling it forward to cause both him and Megatron kneeling on the floor.

"What are you doing you fool...!" hissed Megatron as he kept a tigh grip on the seeker, pulling him towards his body. It truly wasn't the time to play alpha-bot.

[DragonCreator260]

Skywarp shuttered her optics and teleported again, knowing that Hot Shot, Blurr, BB, and the two sparklings are with her.

As she reappered, her vision flashed red, warning her of imminent stasis lock. Here's hoping that Ratchet can save her aft.

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Ratchet was startled out of his surgery of a current bot who was in critical condition when he heard a loud crash outside of his med bay tent.
"Somebody check that out!" Ratchet hollered. He can't go out and check the noise until that bot is in stable condition.
The cold persona of Blitzwing replied, "It's Skywarp with the the sparklings," "Two annoying yellow mechs!" Angry growled, "And a blue speedster!" Crazy finished with a snicker.
Ratchet's optic widen, then he growled at the insane triple changer, "What are you standing there for? Get them and bring them in here!"
"Aaww, doez the grumpy medic need a cookie?"
"NOW!" CLANG Bliztwing stumbled out with a fresh dent on his helm, going towards the motionless seeker and the rest of the group.

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Optimus got into a battle stance, his two swords glowing red and battle ready, "Not long enough. It's never long enough with you, Nemesis Prime."

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"Oh, frag. Where'n the heck did this mech come from?!" Jazz yelped, startled that Nemesis Prime was basically right there in front of him and didn't acknowledge him! Then he started backing away, slowly until he was out of the immediate lashing range. There is no way is he going hands on hands with this mech-no....with this abomination! When he was safe in safe distance, he brought his gun out of his subspace and took aim, ready to give Optimus a helping hand if he ever needed one.

[Die Ruhe]

A muffled cry of pain worked it's way through the Seeker's clenched dental plating as he was restrained by his leader. "M-Mega...tron...," he stammered weakly through invisible restraints. Red optics flickered faintly as the jet struggled physically against Megatron. Jhiaxus chuckled, thus re-captivating his prize. His chuckle slipped from the Seeker's own lips as his body went completely limp in the larger mech's arms. Moments later, a tremor shook the flier. Tiny buds of what seemed to be liquid metal began to rise from the Seeker's armor. Within seconds, they lengthened into vines, spreading across Starscream and around Megatron behind him, binding the two together. Another weak moan of pain escaped from between clenched dentals as the Seeker's head rolled limply down and to the side. "Me...ga...."

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"Heh, I'm hurt, brother. What a thing to say to an old friend." Nemesis sneered, raising a claw in invitation. He blatantly ignored all other bots in the room, optics only for the Prime before him. "Shall we?"

[KaiyaKuchki]

Megatron held his grip on the seeker as he called his name. Probably to beg for mercy....again. But to his surprise the seeker just went limp. Like a rag doll in Megatron's arms. He wasn't dead, the seeker was still conscious, but unmoving in his grasp. Losing his grip Megatron was about to turn the SIC to interrogate him what exactly was he thinking. Until that is Stascream became a chia pet.

"Starscream! What is the meaning of this?!"

Megatron's optics widened as the vines began to wrap themselves around Megatron's arms and the rest of his body. Spreading fast. His arms bound to Starscreams body. Megatron grunted as he twisted himself to he get loose. The vines pulled him closer and closer to Starscream. Growing tighter by each passing cycle. His armor cracking under the pressure. His optics closed as he tried to withstand the pain. Hearing the Seeker's weak call.

Eventually the two fell to the forward, Megatron on top of his Second in Command. As the vines continued to grow stronger, Megatron clenched his dental plates as he tried to fight against the force. The vines wrapped themselves everywhere on his body, tying him and Starscream ever so close. Megatron rose his head shaking it back and forth to in a vain attempt to free himself. Slowly, the vines wrap themselves around his neck pulling him forward, towards seeker's own neck. Megatron found himself facing Starscream's neck, panting how air towards the seekers sensitive cables.

He was becoming exhausted, his energon was running low again as he struggled against accursed trap. As the vines had secured the giant mech, they bagan to dig under his armor. Megatron grunted in pain as each vine got deeper and deeper. Clenching his dental plates he felt his servos go numb. To add insult to injury, the vines also pulled Megatron's head on Starscream's neck. His his lips touching the seeker's neck. Trying to pull away it seemed all Megatron could do was shift his head in another area on the seeker's neck. His soft lips, slowly messaging the delicate wires. As hot air blew between the neck cables.

(I don't know why...but I think I sinned o__o;;; )
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Bumblebee gave a sigh of relief as he recognized the familiar territory. They were back safe and sound. Well...sort. Bumblebee Looked up to the stiff seeker. Unsure of what her status was he looked into her cockpit. He could barely make out the sparklings outlines, making him wonder how on earth he was able to see them from wherever he was.

As Bumblebee looked at Skywarp, Hotshot gave a smirk as heard Rachet yelling from inside the tent. "I see Rachet is in a good mood.."

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The jet twins stood, their weapons ready as they waited for any command or any kind of initial attack. Both growing anxious by the cycle.

[DragonCreator260]

Optimus narrowed his bright blue, nearly white, optics, and snarled at his foe. He needs to finish this, permanently. For the sake of freedom of every living sentient beings in the universe and his sparkling.
Especially his sparkling.
He took advantage of his foe's silence to make his two blades more deadly, now glowing white with intense heat.
And waited. Silence.

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Jazz is normally a patient bot. He understands the importance of not rushing into battle first, as Optimus clearly understands as well. But sometimes it's difficult to fight when your enemy is also patient. So he wasn't surprised to see that it was Optimus that charged first.
He also wasn't surprise to see that Optimus also made a feint to the left, going right, underneath the arm and behind the enemy's back.
He was most especially wasn't surprise to see Optimus make a dangerous swipe towards the head. Jazz took a nanokilk to c**k his head in curiosity. Prime seems to fixated on the heads. Then he went back to focus, backing away and keeping his rifle aimed at the dark mech. Waiting the perfect moment to help the Boss-bot.

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Cold Blitzwing bent down and picked up the unmoving seeker, ignoring the others around him except telling Blurr to bring the injured in the medbay, and Anger finished it with, "So get your aft in gear!"
Then Crazy took over, giggling insanely at the sight of two sparklings, "Aaaw, aren't zey cute! Vho's ze Creator of ze vinglet?" And looked closer at the little seekers color, noting it's gun metal gray body, black helm and wings with purple stripe. The Cold persona appeared with widen optics, "It's-" "HOLY FRAG! SKYWARP?! HIM?!" Anger finished, with his mouth open in shock.
Crazy took over and walked in the medbay settling the stasis locked seeker on the berth, for once utterly silent, and walked out of the tent again. It was a few seconds that the silence remained on the black face of the crazy persona before he fell to the ground, laughing his aft off.

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Ratchet just rolled his optic and grumbled, finishing his last repairs on stabilizing the critical bot before he went to Skywarp, hooking her up with stabilizer lines and energon feed. Then he opened the seekers cockpit and gently scooping out the two scared sparklings. Slipstream immediately wiggled and reached out to his mother, crying out, "Mama! No Ratrat! Mama!"
That made every activity stop, every mechs staring at Ratchet, Skywarp, and the distressed seekerlet. The ones that didn't know of Skywarp's status as a femme, now stared at her with disbelieving looks. Blitzwing just shouted, "Mama?! Whoohohohohehehahaha! Oh zats priceless! Hahaha!"
The ones that did know, (i.e. most of the Autobots) Just looked at Ratchet and the seekerlet. Then some of them started snickering when they realized what the sparkling called him.
"Ratrat?" Sideswipe echoed popping his head in through the flap on the tent's entrance, his voice sounding a little high in amusement, then he made a jab, "Who knew that a sparkling would think of you as a rat?!" Receiving a very harsh glare from the medic, promising very painful treatment, "Bumblebee, hold the sparklings and stay near Skywarp. But stay out of my way." giving the sparklings to Bumblebee and handing the two little ones their much needed special brew of energon.

[Die Ruhe]

Jhiaxus relinquished his control on the Seeker after having subdued the two bots. Starscream shuddered, struggling blindly at the vines with his new found independence. He remained in a blind struggle until pleasant sensations shot through his neck circuits. He gasped, struggling now to identify the source. Megatron...! He remembered the last few minutes, a sense of panic rising in his tanks. Then he distinctly felt his leader's lips brush the sensitive cables. He shuddered violently, half in pleasure, half in disgust. He hardly minded the sensations but the source of them was just too much for his processor. Never in a million years would he imagine Megatron behaving in such a way. Thus he did his best to ignore the sensations, struggling to remove himself from the cause. "What in pit do you think you're doing?!" He whined, finally fed up. He lowered his head best he could and tried his best to smash it back into the face of the offender against the vines.He slowly became more and more possessed with his cause, so much so that he failed to notice the giant Monstructor stalking towards them.

Jhiaxus chuckled, now in control of Monstructor. As the giant bot neared, it picked up the two from one of the vines, eliciting a cry of pain from the still attached Seeker. He then carried the two of them down the hall towards Jhiaxus' quarters.

Nemesis sneered, raising a claw and launching himself at the other Prime. He latched his claw over Optimus' face and activated it. He cackled darkly as he felt the mech's energy drain into his own body, leaving the victim visibly weakened. "Let's make this quick, shall we? I've more important things to attend to."

[KaiyaKuchki]

Megatron closed one optic as Starscream tried to smash his face. Fortunately the seeker's head wasn't in the right position to really bash into Megatron's face. As the seeker threw his fit, Megatron put much of his energy to lift his head and explain. "You...think..I WANT to do this..?! Little..fool!" The vines soon wrapped around the warlord's head and dragged him back down to Starscream's neck. Feeling his head tightly secured next to Starscream, Megatron rested his head for a bit. His mouth parted as in, breathing heavily into the seeker's cables.

After a few moments, Megatron shifted his optics to find Monstroctor heading towards their way. He cursed under his breath. What were they to do? They were in no position to run away, let alone fight. As Monstructor lifted them, Megatron felt the vines chocking him. He gaged a bit, wincing one eye closed. Shifting an optic, he noticed a vine beginning to wrap around his mouth. Instinctively, he opened his mouth and began biting the vine, like some type of organic. His dental plates pierced threw the plant, it's juice dripping from his mouth down to his neck. The vine quickly retreated, leaving Megatron to rest his back down on to Starscream's neck. Panting and letting the liquid drip into the seeker's cables.

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Bumblebee quickly took the sparklings and stepped out of Ratchet's way. Haley in his left, Slipstream in his right. Bumblebee looked down to Slipstream. He hadn't seen Slipstream so worked up before. But then again, the little guy had never been kidnapped either. "It's going to be alright Slip.." said Bumblebee as he tried to calm the winglet down. "She's going to be okay...." Looking up the little bot held worried eyes. She had to be okay...she just had to.

As Bumblebee looked at Skywarp, Hotshot looked at Haley from his berth. Her eyes closed and unmoving. Her body torched and darkened. He leaned closer to get a better look. Her color was still there. That indicated that she was alive...but for how long? "Hey Bee....what's up with Haley?"

"Huh?" Bee snapped out of his thoughts and looked down at Haley. He blinked at her and turned back to Hotshot. "Not sure...I think she's sleeping.."

"I hope your right..I really do..."