With Metrotitan lying in near-ruins after a failed coup by communications officer Soundwave and his cassettes(with the exception of Ratbat), the Decepticons now intend to embark on their new venture- Assualt on Autobot City. Meanwhile, Starscream and the savage Seacons are heading for the Decepticon battlecrusier Nemesis, to back up the salvage team sent to assess the ship's condition, which has come under attack by a small band of Autobots lead by Red Alert.
(OOC: Jesus, I thought it would stay to one forum, but I guess it didn't ...)
The Predacons looked at Ratbat and they nodded, all of them left for their mission. They had already got bored wandering around the city and they always loved a good fight. Razorclaw gave a backwards glace to Tempest and caught up with the rest of his team.
As the Predacon's Tempest looked at the flying menace. He followed him for a little while. After a while he replied to his question "Who siad I was hiding?"
(OOC: Pred's are now off to the Auto thread. Whheeeeee)
Scrapper nodded, then walked up beside Cryotek. "Once you've modified out the code, we'll have to figure out what hardware we'll need up here. These consoles were only designed to suppliment the city's internal controls, not run it directly."
Ratbat hovered before Banzai-Tron, Carnivac and Nightracer, who were joined quickly by the very bored-looking Ransack. The cassetticon started to speak.
"You four will get a small shuttle from the launch bay and fly to North America. Once there, you will put down outside of Autobase sensor range and proceed into enemy territory. Ransack and Carnivac will surviel the base, with Banzai-Tron along to write off any enemy patrols you happen along. Nightracer will get to high ground, to act as a spotter and sniper. Gather information on Fortress Maximus and Metroplex, concentrating on anti-air weapons emplacements. Also, take note of patrol strength, human presence, and the like. When you're done, retreat and return here."
His face turned to a scowl. "And if you get captured, you'd be advised to provoke the Autobots into killing you, because if they don't, Gigatron will. Any questions?"
"I can change the algorithms and the like to fix most of the problems. However we need some new computers to handle the bigger load." He said starting to write new lines of code into the programs.
'Bout time, Carnivac thought as he turned and followed after Banzai-Tron. He would have to remind himself that this was a scouting mission, not a hunt. Nightracer made sure she had the mission recorded into her data banks, then nodded to Ratbat before she followed.
" It doesn't matter if you win or lose,
it's how much damage you cause to
the other party."
Ransack followed his erstwhile teammates to the shuttle bay, his expression now one of anticipation.
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Scrapper made a sour face.
"Don't have much in available computers these days, as I'm sure you've figured out." He shrugged. "But if worse comes to worse, we can pull the processors out of the Metrodrones I had to put down."
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Ratbat perched on the backrest of the command chair and surveyed to goings-on. He wasn't particularly pleased with that posture, and would rather have been able to sit in the chair like a normal Decepticon would. But of course, that would have required a huminoid form, which was the one thing that Ratbat didn't posess.
Tempest stood back from a far when Ratbat sat down on his perched on his command chair. HE watched as he looked down at the chair and a small scowl came across his mechanoid fangs.
"I wasn't hiding their, I was guarding something."
"Not a bad idea, just since we want to create a much bigger load out for the systems to handle. We need the systems that can actually handle it. We could try to rebuild some of the systems here for that purpose but I think we would be creating some possible overload and slow performance issues. Needless to say the last thing we want in the heat of battle would be what humans refer to as "The blue screen of death."."
He explained working away.
"Oh luckly I can easily create programs to work with Metrotitans mind. Now the only worry becomes do we want to put fail safes in case he ever snaps?"
Ratbat hissed. "And what precisely would that be, Tempest?"
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"Citycons don't 'snap', Cryotek. Their mental resources are far greater than yours or mine." Scrapper shrugged. "Well, maybe not Trypticon's, but he was a rush job."
The Constructicon leader sat at a nearby, dead console, pulled out his personal datapad and began searching records. "I'll see if we have any other computing resorces available, as well. There won't be anything overly impressive, but every bit will help."
Cryotek laughed at Scrapper's quote about mental capacity.
"Thats why we are reprogramming this city huh?" He laughed. "I would say this would be a good time for us to use our human allies but if we can make due with what we have that is fine."
Tempest looked at the casseticon, and wondered if he should make him beg for it, but he knew from what Razorclaw said, he'd drain you of your energon for fun.
"Actually, I was guarding the backup system that the Predacon's took away before you told them to blow the place up. On it, it has plans to a weapon. However, only three people can access the plans. Megatron, Soundwave and myself. What the plans are, well thats classified. I am aware that Megatron has been elminated, but what is the fate of Soundwave?"
"Perhaps you've noticed that the city is in less-than-perfect shape? Soundwave's doing. He is being held for interrogation, torture, and, if he proves uncooperative, eventual execution. Now, it would be most unwise for you to hold back your information from the Decepticon army's current leadership, Tempest."
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Scrapper looked up from his work and scoffed. "I don't think we have human allies anymore. Didn't Banzai-Tron rob their gold reserves or something?"
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