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Medbay, Darkmount

Hightower had just finished his job when the metrodrones ran in with Bombshock

"What the hell happend to him?!"

The drone replied "Kaon survivor"

"Glit I'm going to repair him as he needs immediate help" then Hightower started repairs
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(OOC: has some time, so monologue.)

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Streets, Near the Dead End

Scorponok scuttled along the street silently. His eight jointed legs made little noise aside from the odd crunching of concrete or metal. His large, lethal claws hung still, ready to snap at anything that might threaten his existence. His monstrous tail and back-mounted quad-lasers stood on standby position, but looked threatening enough that the Empties who litter the area wisely scampered away.

Once Scorponok was sure he was out of Darkmount's range of fire, he began thinking. The Decepticon faction under Megatron was sure to fall or crumble. He had seen how Wingthing and Tracer silently argue with each other over personal agendas. Although Scorponok was sure that Tracer was merely doing his job. Scorponok admired the young Decepticon's competence and loyalty. But not the same could be said for Wingthing. Soundwave's newest pet, like most before him, was loyal to Soundwave, and that usually meant that there was always another layer of hidden meaning under their actions. And Wingthing's spreading of propaganda about Gigatron (and Scorponok himself, actually) hasn't lifted the buzzard's reputation in Scorponok's optics.

Propaganda... both factions did that. In fact, even the 'noble' Autobots use propaganda to some extent. In fact, most of the war is fought dishonourably by spreading bent truth. Sure, Decepticon was the faction's name, but there must be a limit to their deception. Lying to themselves, to the people they're supposed to protect. Riots. Mafia connections. Betrayal. Murder. Assassination. Accusations. Mass genocide. Everything in their very own capital city, all in a bid for leading the Decepticons. True, Gigatron had been lax in managing the affairs at home, but Scorponok was convinced that the riots wouldn't have happened had Soundwave and his agents hadn't intervered. And to think that that blasted fool Optimus Prime is back as well... truly they are now on the brink of collapse. Scorponok swung his left claw in rage and accidentally demolished a dumpster. He scuttled on.

Oh, how Scorponok wished he could be like Onslaught and the Combaticons. Able to turn their backs on everything and sit on the fence. The Autobots had it good as well. Wait for the two splinter factions to destroy each other, before going in to mop everything up. Scorponok wished he was someone like Soundwave, whose allegiance was clear, or like Staxx, who was too stupid to care about much but killing.

But he was neither of those types. He was Scorponok, a one-time leader of the Decepticons. He couldn't just sit put and wait for the Decepticons to shake hands and be pals again. No. He had to make things happen. While he has no desire to reclaim the position of leadership (mainly because he doesn't want to make the faction even worse), at times he wished he was once again. Evidently, under Gigatron or Shockwave or Ratbat or his leadership, the Decepticons are more orderly. Under Megatron's new rule, the Decepticons in Polyhex have plunged into more chaos.

The massive Decepticon reached the ruined Electrode Club. No doubt the result of some personal feud between the Decepticons. Scorponok transformed into robot mode, and stalked past the ruined establishment. He had to get out of here. Fires were still burning around some places in Polyhex. The general entered a small shuttle bay at the edge of town.

A small empty touring shuttle stood in the middle of the bay. Scorponok slammed his claw onto the door of the shuttle and easily opened it, shattering the lock. "Out of the vehicle." the Decepticon drawled. The two pilots in the shuttle, terrified upon seeing Scorponok's visage, jumped off the other door and scampered off. With a little smirk, Scorponok seated himself with some difficulty onto the pilot's seat.

He warmed up the engines and took off. It's time to put the faction back into order, and it could be started by rejoining Gigatron. The chaotic forces of Megatron's men must be eliminated.
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Darkmount

Bombshell reviewed his situation. He couldn't shrink into insect mode. Bad. His cerebro shells and weapons have been confiscated. Worse. He's in a brig, waiting for Laserbeak or Vortex or Beastbox to torture him and obtain information for him. Even worse. And on top of that, all for nothing. The Insecticon was just curious, looking for someone to mind-control, someone to plot with. Shrapnel hadn't been really cooperative, while Kickback is sulking around somewhere.

Bombshell sighed. Whatever happened to the sweet little thing they had back on Earth? Shrapnel, Kickback and him always tried to wrest control of the Deceptions.
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Laserbeak cocked his head when Bombshock was brought in. "Holy frag. That guy must've, what, crawled all the way from Kaon?" to Hightower he said, "once he's up and operational, inform me. I need to ask him about the conditions in Kaon."
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Medbay, Darkmount

Hightower had just finished making the most nessecery repairs to Bombshock when he re-activated

"Wh where am I ?" asked Bombshock. "Your in Darkmount's medbay"replied Hightower

"Hey Laserbeak he's online."
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Medbay, Darkmount

Rendered speechless by the effectiveness of the Decepticon's medical crew, Blitzwing didn't reply for a while. When he got his tongue back, he said "Last I saw, Gravel is still in mint condition, Glit. I'll go check." Blitzwing said, and turned around to check on Gravel.
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Lower Levels, Darkmount

"In that case," Rage told Bomb-Burst without acknowledging his braggadocio, "you're going to the medical bay for a full examination. I won't have a security risk like you walking around armed and armoured until you've been cleared for duty."
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"That, at least, is probably something we don't need to worry about," Astrotrain told Tracer. "They Autobot army isn't very good at keeping secrets. If they were responsible causing such major trouble for Megatron, they would be broadcasting news of it to every corner of Cybertron."

The admiral noted Bomb-Burst's offer, but didn't say anything in response. All in good time...

"Once I've had a chance to review your file," he said to Clench, "I'll be down to talk to you. Assuming you're not one of Gigatron's terrorists, it shouldn't be more than an hour or two."
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Medbay, Darkmount

Buzzsaw watched the goings-on with an amused expression on his face.

It's so hard to find good help these days...
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Brig, Darkmount

"Whatever you say," Gravel told Rumble warily. He got up and followed the Decepticon out of the cell.
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Service Entrance, Darkmount

Ripsaw and his team arrived, but didn't see anyone who immediately looked out of place.

"What should we be looking for?" he asked.


(OOC: That was awesome, Blackjack. Good show. :) )
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Medbay, Darkmount

Laserbeak nodded to Hightower, "Good work, Hightower. Please proceed with his repairs." Laserbeak flapped and perched beside Bombshock's form, and let his beak hung down in an avian smile. "Welcome home, Bombshock. We need to know, what happened in Kaon?"

To think that something could damage this big lummox of a Decepticon... there must be something wrong. If he crawled back... Laserbeak cocked his head towards Buzzsaw, asking for his mold-brother's opinion.
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Shuttle

Scorponok watched as the shuttle he was commandeering flew towards Polyhex's borders. He thought more of the Decepticons he was leaving behind. Some of them he would not miss--Soundwave and his brood of snakes flashed to mind--but he would genuinely miss working with some of the better and more disciplined Decepticons, like Tracer or Rage, who chose to side with Megatron.

Scorponok clutched the control stick so hard with his claws that the control stick shattered. If the ex-headmaster cared, he didn't show it.

The rickety shuttle sped over the Wastelands and the Mithril Sea, and over the Gigatron-friendly land of Valvolux. Soon, the spires of Crystal City came into view.
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Lower Levels, Darkmount

Bomb-Burst smiled at the thought of an armed escort right into Darkmount, right into the medbay, and right to the bot he was going to see before this whole mess happened.

..Suddenly however, he was taken off guard as he felt a wincing pain in his lower torso. His fuel capacity was dropping rapidly, his Pretender shell was burning up more energon than he had running through his circuits at any given time, forcing him to need more at a rapid rate. He felt the mouth of his pretender shell water with acidic liquids, he was quite frankly, hungry!

Trying to hide the obvious urge to attack the nearest one of Rage's goons, he straightened himself up and tried to focus his processor over his matter.

"Lead the wayyyy, dear friendssss", he hissed to Rage and his goon squad as he eloquently swept his arm out to point onwards down the corridors that begin to flicker and darken as Bomb-Burst inadvertently drained energy from the surrounding power conduits to stave of the hunger that threatened to send him into a berserker like rage.

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Medbay, Darkmount

Glit took a long swig of energon wine and just shrugged when Hightower opted to take on the responsibility of repairing Bombshock. He knew that Hightower was not the best suited bot for the job, but he did not doubt that he was competent enough to handle this repair, besides Glit was well within range should something terminal happen, many were the solar cycles he had observed new medbots honing their skills in the battle fields.

Glit began installing the personality component into the new body of Hook. It was a relatively simple procedure, considering this was not the first time he had performed similar operations. He finished up the install and checked out Hightower's handy work. He took a few moments to seal in a few rough edges from the power chip rectifier installation, and retrieved a strange glowing blue liquid from his hip canister. He buffed it onto the body of Hook, eliminating any sign of scalpel or torch.

"I am ready for the final surgery, as soon as Gravel arrives I will proceed. Once I have removed his energon converter we will be ready for the last installation on Hook's new body. When you are done with Bombshock, please retrieve a transformation cog for me from the .....offline bots you used to build these new Constructicons, unfortunately the one in the religious fanatic was damaged beyond repair.", Glit spoke aloud to everyone in the room, directing the last part to Hightower.
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(OOC: oops, I missed Warcry's post! Sorry! :( )

Wastelands

The rickety shuttle slammed into the swirling thunderclouds over the Wastelands and the Mithril Sea. Scorponok doubted that the simple tourist shuttle would stand. Against such forces of nature, but stealing a military shuttle would draw too much attention. Scorponok's mouth was pulled into his trademark, almost-permanent scowl. Scorponok slammed his claw onto the control panel in frustration, bending the fragile metal.

However, the fates were smiling down upon the scorpion, and his shuttle tumbled out of the clouds and slamming down into crystal city. (OOC: and that's where Scorpy's headed next.)
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Darkmount

Rumble led Gravel into the medbay. "Doctor Glit, here's Gravel." Rumble said, indicating the mech. (OOC: and that's it! I've dropped Rumble.)

Laserbeak asked Glit, "do you have a spare transformation cog, or should we begin searching for a new one? Or, for that matter, could one of our prisoner's transformation cogs be used?" Laserbeak said, considering Bombshell as a candidate. The mind-controlling Insecticon would be much easier to handle without transformation.
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Shrapnel said to Ripsaw, "There are a few mechs with guns who entered Darkmount under the guise of sending medical supplies, supplies. I'll forward you the security video..."
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Brig


Blast Off was amazed. Glit hadn't deactivated his comlink.


"Well, in that case, let's surprise him." said Blast Off, and established a three-way connection to Glit and Astrotrain's office, so that the Chief Administrator would have something to listen to when he got back.


"Glit, you spawn of a glitch! Perhaps you'd care to explain to me why you shot me with an EMP generator, why you've been poking around in my head, and why I'm stuck in the brig!" he shouted into the comlink. "And I've made sure that this is being recorded on Astrotrain's answering machine, so try not to lie."
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Brig

Skyjack, standing outside Blast Off's cell, shrugged. "That's what you get by giving death threats to everybody, demanding things to be done your way, and blowing up walls and corridors. Even for an escape route. Astrotrain, Tracer and Shrapnel were pretty upset."

To Ramjet, Skyjack asked, "What exactly are you doing?"
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Brig


"Correction. I gave two people death threats, and one of them is the biggest traitor in the history of Cybertron, and I wanted a decent repair job without having to listen to Tinker's annoying comments. Restrain your primitive impulses, please!" said Blast Off, while giving Skyjack a glare that said "when I get out of here you're dead".


Somewhere in Polyhex


In a dark alley somewhere in Polyhex, a light flashed, and a white Earth car appeared, rolled across the ground for a few metres, and transformed into Bug Bite.


"Ouch. Teleporter's burnt out, but I'm okay. I think I know where I am." said Bug Bite, and looked up. "Yep, I'm definitely in Polyhex."


Bug Bite transformed back into car mode, and drove towards Darkmount.
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Medbay, Darkmount

"Ah very good, Gravel my old friend, welcome to my medbay. I apologize for the inconvenience, but we require a ..donation from you, for the Decepticon cause. I hope you will cooperate, as I owe you that much, I intend to make sure no permanent damage is sustained and that you will still function properly after the surgery is complete. Please lie down on the operating table, if you do not cooperate I fear we shall have to use force."

As Glit listened to Laserbeak pose the question regarding transformation cogs, or lack thereof, he received a comlink transmission from Blast Off. Before answering Blast Off, Glit first replied to Laserbeak.

"Actually Bombshell's cog would not be compatible, we need the transformation cog of a combiner or similar mecha, if we want perfect harmony when the multiple components combine. Blast Off would make the perfect candidate at this point, considering we are on a tight schedule.", he said to Laserbeak with a ever so slight feline grin.

"Blast Off needs some serious upgrades in his personality component, among other things, I fear there may have been degradation or damage resulting in his current behavior...."

Glit decided his best course of action was to ignore the Combaticon all together and block his transmission to his comlink. After all, he had more pressing matters to tend to...
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Just outside Darkmount


Bug Bite sent out a signal to Darkmount's Control Room.


"Requesting permission to enter base."


Somewhere in Polyhex


Darkwing, Quake and Battletrap walked towards Darkmount.


"How did I get stuck with you two?" said Darkwing.


"You overcharged, and "recruited us". You said something about creating a new Mayhem Attack Squad." said Battletrap.


"I said that? Primus, that's embarrassing." said Darkwing.


"Look at it this way. It's happened. Deal with it. How about some target practice, just to put that out of your mind?" said Quake.


"Yeah, and what would the targets be, genius?" said Battletrap.


Quake took out his blaster and shot a random civilian.


"Them." said Quake.


"That should be fun." said Battletrap.


"Fun? There's no such thing as fun!" said Darkwing.


Both Decepticons took out their blasters and began shooting random civilians.
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Darkmount

"Identify yourself, yourself." Shrapnel's tinny voice sounded over the commlink to Bug Bite.
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Medbay, Darkmount

"I don't really think Soundwave will mind if we cannibalize Blast Off. Besides, it's not like he actually did anything for our cause. Now Bombshock," he turned to the ex-Micromaster, and said, "he's a good soldier, worthy of bearing the Decepticon badge. But please tell us. What happened in Kaon?"
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Service Entrance

Blockhouse stood eyes forward in the guards position. His eyes flicked towards the security team.

Bunker crouched in the cab of the hover-truck the team had arrived in.
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Outside Darkmount


"My name is Bug Bite. I used to be allied with Gigatron, but I don't think he wants me anymore, after I played insulting messages concerning him over the speakers and detonated a bomb inside his ship. Now will you let me in?" Bug Bite shouted over the commlink.
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brig

blast off started thinking " this is it man, the ned, im going to be torn apart thrown out with no one to care, when they come for me im doing anythingi n my will to get outta here!" blast off looked around for a weapon to defend himself with, as the other decepticons were talking amongst themselves, blackout saw the arm of a decapitated old decepticon, "Excellent!" he thought to himself " i can use the spare parts and small energon from the one part to make a distraction bomb!, then i can make a run for it when they are temporarily blinded!"

looking up at skyjack he noticed that he was talking to ramjet, and looking around he noticed that no one else was paying attention so he got to work, after a few minutes he had a faulty butsomething that would give him a good enough amounto f time to make a run for it and get out of prison "its a long shot but it will work" he reasured himself, "now i just got to remember where the back entry to this place was
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Somewhere in Polyhex


"I think that's enough target practice for now. Our weapons are out of energy." said Darkwing.


"What do....." said Battletrap, and then continued in a slightly deeper voice "we do?".


"We head for Darkmount." said Darkwing.


"And what's with the two voices?" said Quake.


Battletrap never answered.


"Who cares?" said Darkwing.


The three walked off in the general directrion of Darkmount.
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Darkmount

"Right.... how the frag did you get from Crystal City to Polyhex so fast, fast? And what's to say you don't blow up our base, base? After all, you did blow up a big chunk of Protihex, Protihex." Shrapnel said. Actually he didn't feel much concern about Bug Bite's antics. The Insecticon is confident that with his mastery over electricity, none of Bug Bite'sgadgets would work, so he liked pissing the Minibot (Gobot?) off. Should I call him a Bumblebee knockoff? he wondered with a smile. Not yet. That'll be the coup de grace.

As Quake, Battletrap and Darkwing moved closer, Shrapnel smiled. At least those three (four if you count Hi-Test) are resolute in their allegiance to the Decepticons. The doors to Darkmount is open to them.

(OOC: Quake and co can enter Darkmount at their discretion. If Bug Bite tries to get closer without authorization, he'll get shot.)
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Medbay, Darkmount

Starfall plonked Tinker into a CR Chamber, and closed it. CR fluid started to heal the circuitry damage, letting the Seeker's self-repair systems handle the rest.
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(OOC: srry I haven't been on lately)

Medbay, Darkmount

Bombshock turned his head over towards Laserbeak and replied "Gigatron's men atacked."

"Oh slag" cursed Hightower. "Hey Glit, Bombshock needs a new transformation cog as well."
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