{complete fan fic} Aftermath

This fic is based in my Dark future universe but does not require you to have read my other fics to understand it. Here is a list of characters that are present in the fic and there bios and where available robot/alt mode pics.

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Guillium

Primary Function: Decepticon Lieutenant

Stats:
Strength: 9
Speed: 5
Intelligence: 7
Agility: 3
Endurance: 10
Courage: 10
Firepower: 8
Accuracy: 6
Hand-to-hand skill: 8
Technical Skill: 5

Vehicle mode: Earth mover [similar to cybertron metroplex]


BIO:
Guillium became lieutenant due to his ability to follow and give commands and his formidable skills as a warrior. Although he is equipped with a pair of missile launchers mouthed in his chest he prefers to fight his foes in close combat where is physical might counts for so much more. Being heavily armored he was few weaknesses apart from his reduced speed. He is a strict follow to the code of decepticon law and will always enforce it where it is needed.

WEAPONS/ABILITIES:

Chest mounted MML:
The multiple missile launchers are concealed inside heavily armored compartments mounted in each side of his upper chest area. These missiles can fire a barrage of about 50 missiles in a few seconds. It then takes about two minutes for the missiles to be restocked from his sub space compartment.

Combat staff:
With a massive kinetic circular saw mounted on the tip of this weapon a full on impact is capable of fracturing a whole space craft into peices. The only problem is that its is very heavy and cumbersome and can overbalance the user if they act recklessly whilst using it.

WEAKNESSES:
Guillium has no known physical weaknesses.

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Scar:

Faction: Decepticon

Robot mode : like movie bonecrusher, minus the earth vehicle kibble.


Vehicle mode: unknown

Bio :

Scar is a psycotic berserker who has no regard for his own personal safety or the safety of anyone around him. When he was younger he was a brilliant warrior on the fast track to a hefty promotion. However a single mission put paid to this, he and his unit were caught in an ambush and then were subjected to a carpet bombardment. Only Scar survived and he was taken by the ambushers as a POW. The attack had destabilised his neural circuitry and damaged his emotional control unit. He canabalised anything he could lay his hands on and eventually he developed himself a new look. When he was finally rescued by fellow decepticons he turned on them in his blind rage. He then took what he needed from the corpses and the base he had been held in and finished rebuilding himself. Eventually he was found by another decepticon recovery unit. This one included the decepticon Lightning Storm who managed to pacify the raging mech. Lightning Storm was unable to repair the damage caused to Scars mind but he managed to find a way to restrain him when he was not in combat. This remote inducer keeps Scar in a semi cohesive state. His speech is broken and the device shorts out easily meaning that he is normally chained down inside a stasis field while not required. When he is freed from the inducer and his prison Scar loses all sense of freind or foe recognition and will attack the first thing he sees.

Visage:
Scar hunches over to maintain balance due to the pair of circular blades present in his forearms.

weapons/abilities

2 fifteen feet diameter monomolecular circular blades.
These are mounted in Scars forearms, when his hands are folded back the blades slide forward and can then rotate. They are linked into powerful motors that spin the blades downwards when held at ease. When at maximum velocity the blades are spinning at twice the speed of sound. They make a strange noise when at this speed and are then able to cut through anything, this coupled with Scars extremely powerful physical strength and unnatural speed make him a deadly killing machine when he is online.

Smoke discharger.
Mounted on his dorsal linkage this device is rigged to fire a hail of smoke bombs over a wide area. Scar has been equipped with devices that can identify targets within the smoke.

Inducer:
when active Scar is semi cohesive and can talk to others in a broken manner. The device is under a massive strain and cuts out regularily during the time when it is not active being in Scars line of sight means that you are a target.

Stats:
Strength: 10
Speed: 10
Intelligence: 4
Agility: 9
Endurance: 9
Courage: 10
Firepower: 0
Accuracy: 8
Hand-to-hand skill: 10
Technical Skill: 0

total 70

weaknesses:
Scar is lethal to friends as well as foes. He has also been known to injure himself while his mind is occupied by blind rage.

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Sword Storm

Vehicle mode: ferarri enzo



Faction: autobot/decepticon/assassin

Bio:
Sword storm is perhaps the greatest ever sword master to ever come online. His skills are legendary and his reputation alone is enough to deter a foe from taking him on. He was trained by the assassins who commonly serve the needs of the decepticons but hold themselves as a separate faction. When his training was complete he elected to leave the assassins guild and return to his own kind. Sixstrike gave his consent to this and allowed Sword Storm to leave. Upon returning to his brethren Sword Storm was shunned for eons becuase of his background but he was patient. When he was finally deployed it was against a much larger opposing force. Due primarily to his effectiveness his side suffered minimal casualties. When measured his reactions were faster than anything previously recorded. Due to his primary training being done as an assassin he is perfectly capable of fitting in with any faction.

Weapons/Abilities

2 Star metal sabers.
Made of a strange light metal that is formed in the heart of a dying sun. There edge never dulls and they are capable of channeling the energy of the sun they were formed from into the blade if the wielder is skilled enough.

2 cybertronian desert eagles
A pair of matched pistols that can spring from Sword Storms forearms at his command.

Dodge:
Sword Storm can catch solid shot bullets and dodge energy weapons effortlessly. While doing this he appears to flash between locations.

Ledgendary swordmaster:
There are few that can match Sword Storm in close combat, much less best him.

Stats:
Strength: 7
Speed: 9
Intelligence: 7
Agility: 10
Endurance: 6
Courage: 7
Firepower: 5
Accuracy: 8
Hand-to-hand skill: 10
Technical Skill: 1

total 70

Weaknesses:
Sword storm has thin armour over his superstructure and is vunerable to flamethrower and blast weapons as he is unable to dodge them effectivally.

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Arkansaw

Vehicle mode: Large scale earth mover


Faction: autobot

Bio:
Arkansaw is a medic only in the loosest possible term. He not only has a few screws loose, he has lost the screws down a drain, used a garden knome to fish them out then dumped them in a fish tank and put the fish tank back in his head. While this would normally mean that he would be expelled from the autobots he does good work despite describing himself as a 'white puffy cloud' on more than one occassion. Becuase he doesn't really know what he is doing he has been known to attempt to repair perfectly good condition mechs and also decepticons when he finds them half dead. On the battlefield he can normally be found wandering aimlessly through the gunfire repairing anyone who has fallen. Oddly he has never been shot while he was doing this. When he is spoken to he is so out of it normal speech is nearly impossible for him to form from his mouth.

Weapons/abilities
Arkansaw is armed only with an earth moving bucket {or as he calls it big circular thing with diggy bitz} but he is more likely to hit himself in the face with it if he attempt to use it. [seeing as it is on one of his shoulders to enable him to use his hands.]

He has a full medical kit stored in various places on his body which he can use at any time.

Stats:
Strength: 6
Speed: 5
Intelligence: 4
Agility: 4
Endurance: 10
Courage: 10
Firepower: 0
Accuracy: 0
Hand-to-hand skill: 1
Technical Skill: 10

total 50

weaknesses
Arkansaw has no known physical weaknesses but his own disjointed mind makes him his own worst enemy.

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Khaos

Vehicle mode: semi futuristic tank with WW 1 style treads.

Faction: Autobot

Bio:
Khaos is a borderline autobot at best. His methods and mindset commonly bring him into conflict with other autobots and even his superiors but he is too useful to them to be cast aside. Due to his pride he will accept and perform any given task no matter how deceptive, cruel or unpleasant the task may be. When called upon to fight he will normally get carried away and is incapable of holding an objective as he will wander off due to his battle lust.

Weapons/abilities
2 X twin fusion lasers.
Each has two barrels that fire in sync and have a similar effect to a standard fusion cannon. Only with a minimum range of about ten feet. In vehicle mode these form sponsons, in robot mode they become wrist mounted weapons.

1 X heavy machine gun.
Usable only in his vehicle mode this is mounted on the top of his hull and is capable of 360 degree attack.

1 X double bladed energon axe
A standard close combat weapon.

Energy field generator:
Khaos can create a refracter shield that forces objects away from it while active. It is known to be able to deflect most weapon types.

Stats:
Strength: 8
Speed: 3
Intelligence: 6
Agility: 3
Endurance: 6
Courage: 8
Firepower: 8
Accuracy: 6
Hand-to-hand skill: 7
Technical Skill: 5

total 60

Weaknesses:
Khaos is easily provoked and is incapabale of holding a position if he can hear distant gunfire.

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Other featured characters:-

Lighting storm - decepticon [alt mode, missile platform. basically a portable version of what a space shuttle would be launched from.]


Bio:
Some call him a medic, others call him a mad old mech, the rest just call him grumpy. He cares little for being a medic or for speaking with other decepticons. He has been known to misrepair those who badmouth him. One notable time was when shockwave insulted him without shocky knowing that he had done so. It ended up with shockwave having his optic circuitry inverted so the world was upside down. Lightning storm is not fast but he is fasinated with lightning and electricity. In a medical 'accident' with the insecticon shrapnel he duplicated the decepticons lightning controlling circuitry and then installed them within himself. He has a tendancy to copy the abilities of his patients that he believes will be useful in his future projects. He is not very gentle when it comes to repairing anything he has been known to fix an energon line leak by snapping the plates of armor blocking his access and then using tape to patch the leak until he can be bothered to fix it. He is also very stubborn and will get his own way even if it means he need to break some limbs or cranial units to get it.

Weapons/abilities:
1 X large hammer.
Primarily a close combat weapon he has been known to use it in his medical procedjures though.

1 X nitrogen cannon.
Mounted on his right arm in robot mode he can fire this and freeze his foes solid. Again he also uses it as a medical tool.

1 X cutting laser.
Short ranged weapon that can cut/weld most cybertronian metals and is mounted on his left wrist. While normally a medical tool this does not deter him from giving an opponent a Kaon smile with it though.

Power over lightning:
Lightning storm can cause sudden and aimed lightning bolts to fall from the sky using a similar method to that originally used by the decepticon shrapnel except that he can latch onto the charged particles in the atmosphere and create his own localised lightning storm.

stats:

Strength: 10
Speed: 2
Intelligence: 10
Agility: 2
Endurance: 10
Courage: 7
Firepower: 5
Accuracy: 9
Hand-to-hand skill: 5
Technical Skill: 10

Weaknesses:
Lightning storm is heavy and slow due to his massivle armoured robot and alt modes.

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Scythewing

Primary Function: Decepticon warrior/seeker

Stats:
Strength: 7
Speed: 8
Intelligence: 6
Agility: 8
Endurance: 5
Courage: 9
Firepower: 7
Accuracy: 10
Hand-to-hand skill: 9
Technical Skill: 5

Vehicle mode: Modified seeker [cybertron sideways is the closet match]


BIO:
Scythewing is a thug pure and simple. He enjoys beating up and anyone and anything that he considers to be a lesser lifeform than himself. This to him means anyone with a lower rank than himself. In combat he loves committing passes on his foes beheading them with his bladed wings before blowing them to bits with his rocket launchers on a return trip. When required to follow orders he wil always bend the order to it breaking point when he gets bored with the task, unfortunately this happens a lot as Scythewing is short on patience.

WEAPONS/ABILITIES:

Combat blades:
His wings and deployable melee claw are made from a material that channels a negative magnetic field so it can cut through almost anything with ease.

2X standard issue HE rocket launchers:
Standard seeker weapons, Scythewing has about 70 missiles stored in subspace at any given time.

WEAKNESSES:
Scythewing has a problem following orders.

Aftermath - Prologue
It is the year 74,537,679 [earth date]. A decepticon simply known as Darkshock is in command of the decepticon army. Most follow his orders without question but for those who refuse an assassins blade in there neck while they recharge commonly deals with them. Many other events happen during this time but most are undocumented.

On the isolated planet of Ryos one such event is about to occur. The commander of this station one Lieutenant Guillium is about to recieve a visit from a higher up who has a package for him. This package even though noone yet knows it will tip the balance of the stalemate that exists between the autobots and decepticons that are present on Ryos.

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Aftermath episode 00 - background check.

Guillium watched from the control room as the light cruiser landed with a burst of steam. The rear ramp lowers to the ground with a clang and a group of decepticons drag a stasis field box from the ship. From his current angle Guillium could not make out what was inside the stasis field, his optics are drawn to the figure following those moving the stasis box. The mech was big, both in hieght and bulk seeing as he must have been about 80 feet tall and 35-40 feet wide with his shoulder guards. In the meachs hand/claw there was a large hammer, the haft of which was about 55 feet long and the head of it would have to wieght a few tons at least. Even though he had never seen him before Guillium knew who he was.

"Frag, its Lightning Storm" He mutters.

"Want me to take him out?" Scythewing asks

"No, We'll just have to grin and bear it, come lets see what he's offloading on us."

Guillium strides towards the exit of the control room and Scythewing shrugs and continues to chomp on the energo cigar he had found whilst hunting for his keycard.

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Decepticon base - Hangar

Lightning Storm watched the feeble attempts of his troops as they tried to move the stasis field box.

"You lot are feeble and pathetic, even a group of fragging humans could do better." He shouts at them

"Now, now. Lightning Storm what brings you here?" Guillium asks from a place where he is outside of Lightning Storms attack radius.

Sure enough the hammer swings round narrowly missing him. "You dare question my leadership skills"

"Calm down." Guillium adds. He nods to some of his troops who run over and aid in the moving of the stasis box. "I am the commander of this base and wish to know what you could have brought here in that."

"It is a new warrior for your war effort here" Lightning Storm says slamming his hammer into the ground and causing cracks to spread out from the impact.

"So why is he in the stasis field?" Guillium asks.

Lightning Storm pulls a datapad from a compartment on his shoulder and tosses it to Guillium. "That contains all of the data you need to know about your new recruit."

Turning away Lightning Storm swings the hammer up onto his shoulder sending a box of tools flying into the distance to crash into the far wall. He then walks up to the stasis box and gives it a push. The box accelerates through an open door, scattering the decepticons who had been trying to drag itas if they were bowling pins. Walking past the scattered and moaning troops Lightning Storm casually kicks onefrom his path. The decepticon hits the wall and something breaks with an auidiable crack.

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Decepticon base - Storage chamber

Lightning Storm kneels down and clicks the holding bolts into place securing the stasis box to the floor. As he walks out Guillium who had followed him to the room is brushed aside. Lightning Storm passes him the control unit for the stasis box and the inducer present on the mech inside the field. With a grunt of acknowledgement the large con starts following his own wake of destruction back towards the hangar bay.

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From a vantage point a few miles away Sword Storm looks through a pair of magnoculars at the decepticon base in the distance. He had been called in by those on this planet in order to aid them in breaking the stalemate. As he watches Lightning Storms craft takes off and accelerates away from the structure. Sword Storm is more interested in the bases construction than the insignificant craft. It takes him only a few moments to identify entry points, automated defenses, sentries and entry points. A noise distracts him and his hand strays to the hilt of one of his swords. Turning round he finds that it is only Arkansaw.

"Look at all the purty flowers" The mmech says grabbing a tree and pulling it from the ground. Arkansaw then attempts to sniff the tree.

Sword storm shakes his head and returns to his long distance recon. Wrapping it up reasonably quickly he transforms into his alternate mode and accelerates back towards the base. Arkansaw however has been distracted by something shiny on the ground and is attempting to grab it.

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Autobot base - War room

Sword Storm walks in and Lieutenant Khaos is waiting for him.

"Well how did your recon mission go?" Khaos asks

"I met the requirements." Sword Storm replies "Keep your wayward medic under watch"

Sword Storm puts the data card from the magnoculars into the war room table and the pics he snapped with it appear.

"A frontal assault is useless. Murder holes and automated defenses cover all angles if we use this method." Sword Storm states. "In order to breech this base we have to perform two tasks."

"Interesting" Khaos says looking at the pics. "Continue"

"First the base must be subject to a long range artillery saturation bombardment. This however is only the distraction" He explains. "Using powerless gliders the primary force will deploy from my stealth ship and enter the base from above through the roof access hatches."

"Why this method of attack?" Khaos asks

"There are no defenses present on the base's roof." Sword Storm says "The base is a standard decpticon layout. The access hatches will get us into the hangar and from there it will take less than a bream to shut down the power core."

"And how do you know this?" Khaos asks suspiscion now creeping into his voice.

"Experience" Sword Storm replies

Khaos nods and turns to leave "I must go and brief the troops" He says as the door closes behind him

Sword Storm looks over the pics again. There was more to it than he was telling Khaos, that much was true. Little did the autobot lieutenant know that Sword Storm had been in the very base they were about to attack. Only then he had been working for the opposing faction. He had not been seen when he killed the previous autobot commander of the very base he now stood in but that was one story he would never tell to anyone. Ejecting the data card he shuts off the lights and exits the room.

Aftermath episode 01 - What is that thing?

Autobot base - hangar - 5 megacycles later

Sword Storm calms himself by meditating with his swords crossed. He can sense that the other autobots that have been assigned to his group are unnerved by this. A presense intrudes on his calmness and he sheathes his blades.

"Khaos, I assume that we are ready to start."

"Almost. We have to recieve confirmation from artillery unit 3 before we can move." Khaos replies

"Good, I have breifed these troops you selected on the use of the veterical insertion aids or VIA's that they will be using." Storm Sword says "My craft has also been prepped for the mission"

"Good." Khaos says "I would expect nothing less from you"

Storm Sword nods and tosses a loose bolt into the air. He draws his blade and brings it to an idle position in a single motion. The two separate parts of the bolt drop onto the ground gently smoking from the contact the sword made during its swing. At the sight of this action the bots around him move back ever so slightly from where he is standing.

Weak minded fools. Sword Storm thinks as he looses himself staring at the details present on the blade. The inset runes glowing slightly along the almost jet black surface of the blade offsetting the inlaid gold hilt of the weapon which complemented the large emerald that had been carved into a skull shape. I can see why my mentor disliked these autobots. Even though I am one of them, they shun and move away from me purely becuase I am different from them. Sonn that will no longer matter.

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Decepticon base - Storage chamber

Scythewing held his hands over his auidio receptors as the thrashing and screaming resumed once more. He glances through the viewport in the triple reinforced blast door. The stasis box visibly shakes as whatever is inside it crashes into one of the interior walls. Scythewing pulls away from the viewport and shudders. Guillium had refused to tell him what Lightning Storm had dumped in there base. When pestered Guillium had simply told him that when he needed to know he would tell him what it contained.

Judging from the sounds coming from the room Scythewing knew that if the stasis box failed whatever was released would simply gut the whole damn base. He starts mumbling through a song he had once listened to. In an attempt to take his mind off the unknown monster that he was guarding.

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Decepticon base - Stasis box

Scar shoulder barges the side of his prison. The sparks flying from the wall and the shocks from the inducer in his systems cause him mild pain which does little more than increase his anger. Deploying his circular blades he strikes the wall again. The blades squeel as they come to a halt. He takes a step back in his small prison with his blades smoking. Snarling like a beast he dives forward his blades dig into the wall and squeel. He forces them downwards and they bite into the floor of the box before coming to a halt.

Pulling his blades free with a grunt. He glances at them as smoke continues to rise from them. Spinning them up to speed once again they start to whirr as he charges at the wall again. The result however is the same horredous noise and more smoke being created. Scar simply recativates his blades and attacks the wall again.

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Decepticon Base - Control room

Guillium glanced at the security monitor images as the noises eminating from the rocking stasis box continued as they had done since about a megacycle after Lightning Storm had left. The more he read into the data that he had been given on the contents of that box the more he felt uneasy about being on the same planet as it. This mech that had been dumped on him, the old Lightning Storm had blankly designated as Scar was more of a caged animal than anything else.

Still though he kept reminding himself that even a caged animal could be used as a weapon given the right circumstances. The door opens to admit one of his troops. Turning round to face him Guillium addresses him.

"Ah Drop-off, I require you to be on standby in the room above the storage chamber." Guillium says. "If the stasis box starts to fail it will be up to you to dump the slagging thing as far away as possible."

Drop-off who being meerly a grunt had only one reasonably useful skill {which happened to be carrying heavy loads via air} makes a gulping motion. "As you command lieutenant" He says

"Do you feel uneasy with the task I have assigned to you?"

"N..nn..noo. Commander" Drop-off replies

"Good." Guillium says "I would hate to have to put you in the storage chamber to wait for additional commands."

"I'll get right on it sir" Drop-off says saluting and running off to fulfill his orders.

Guillium waits until he can no longer hear the mechs footsteps before he starts talking to himself.

"As always explaining a worse order gets these idiots to respond better. Oh how I hate being so brilliant, its so hard to find good conversation when everyone else here is a complete dumbass. Even that thuggish Scythewing gets very annoying after a very short time."

Guillium leans back in his chair andc it creaks under the movement of his wieght.

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Autobot base - Hangar

Storm Sword may have been calming his thoughts but he could hear every little thing that the other autobots were saying. Despite the fact that they were whispering.

"Yo Cold Storage. This is bogus."

"Fear not Dakar, We will see action shortly."

"Will you both shut it, the boss is coming and he looks pissed"

The mechs shut up as Khaos walks into the area.

"I have confirmation from our troops in the field." He says "We are ready to deploy"

Sword Storm sheathes his blade and spins round in an instant.

"Start the artillery bombardment. We can tell them to stop once we are in position." He says walking into the open cargo bay of the ship that was ready for use. The troops in the hangar rush to follow as Khaos sends the attack command over the com system.

He is about to follow the others into the craft but he walks into Arkansaw as he turns round.

"Out of the way old timer" Khaos shouts

"Keep yer voice down, shiny elephant man." Arkansaw says "Its too early in the morning, you might wake the shiny colors from there nap."

"what in the name of the inferno are you talking about?" Khaos replies now bemused by the actions of this fool who refused to move aside.

"The colors, I can hear them coming" Arkansaw says picking Khaos up and running from the hangar. "Come or else they'll kill you"

Sword Storm shakes his head at this and activates the ships launching protocol. It fills the hangar with fire casuing the blast doors to slam shut as it lifts off.

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Decepticon base - Control room

Guillium is hurled from his seat and into the wall as the first artillery shells strike the base. Shaking his head and spitting out a tooth that had been knocked loose when he impacted he depresses the ALERT button on the control console. Flicking on the sensor grid readout as he does so.

"Damn them. This attack is meant to keep us pinned in one place as we would be unable to move a large number of our forces under that bombardment."

"Excuse me sir" Scythewing says as he appears in the doorway.

"Yes, what do you slagging well want. I'm busy" Guilliumj shouts turning round to face the intruder.

"While we cannon move an army under these conditions we can move single units through the gaps in there attack."

"And who do you suggest we send out there to take all of these fools out."

Scythewing rubs his hands together gleefully. "Oh so the great Guillium requires my help." He says "Deploy Drop-off and his special cargo"

"You want to use that thing?" Guillium replies with shock becoming evident in his voice and on his face.

Scythewing chuckles. "It could be interesting to say the least."

Guillium nods and presses the com button on the console. "Drop-off, please pick up the stasis box and move it to the following coordinates."

"You have to be slagging me" Gets shouted back over the com "Theres a fragging artillery barrage out there."

"Do not worry you idiot. Follow the flight plan I am uploading to you now and you will not be harmed by the artillery." Guillium says slamming his fista down onto the console. "Do not make me repeat myself."

"Yes sir" Drop-off replies.

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Location of artillery unit 1 - 7 miles from the decepticon base - 0.23 megacycles later

The sound of the cannons firings constantly deafened the autobot crew to the approach of Drop-off. The stasis box drops into the mud and then cuts off.

Scar now free of his prison glances around and his optics lock onto one of the autobots. Scar bounds forward as his blades spin faster and faster until they emit a whirring noise. The autobot he has targeted glances round and sees him just as he pounces. The two circular blades pass straight through the autobot before he can react.

The bot stumbles back a few paces before lines appear in his casing and he falls to pieces unable to to even scream as Scar continues to attack the parts as they fall to the ground. By the time he has finished there is little left to indicate that the small pile of junk at his feet had even been anything else. With a roar that for a second cuts through the thunderous roar of the artillery cannons he bounds forward, blades spinning.

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Storm Swords craft - interior - 0.13 megacycles later

The com crackles into life and Sword Storm frowns. He had ordered radio silence until the mission was completed.

"... tearing us apart.... .....what is that thing.... ...Arrg...... ....primus save me f...."

Storm Sword hits the send button on the com unit.

"Artillery unit 1, please respond." He says "What is happening down there?"


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"Damn static." He snarls, altering the com channel as he does so. "Commander Khaos, something has happened to artillery unit 1. Pull back the other two units while I investigate"

"unacceptable" Khaos replies "I want a swift end to this."

"No commander." Storm Sword replies "It would appear that the same fate awaits your other two artillery units if you do not heed me. Are you willing to sacrifice them over nothing?"

"You make a good point, Storm Sword" Khaos says, Storm Sword picks up the repressed anger in the mechs voice. "I will pull back the units and we will try again one solar cycle from now."

"Thank you" Storm Sword replies before shutting off the com unit. He turns round and walks into the cargo bay.

The autobots present in the are eye him with suspicion as he walks over and picks up one of the VIA's.

"What are you doing?" One autobot asks

"Change in plans." Storm Sword replies "We have lost contact with one of the artillery groups. I am going to investigate while my ships autopilot brings you back to the base."

"I want to come with you" The mech referred to as Dakar says.

Sword Storm points to the VIA's. "Anyone who wants to follow me down there must use one of those. As we are not landing or slowing down." He says walking over to the open rear doors of the ship. "See you later"

Sword Storm leaps from the craft as Dakar scoops up one of the VIA's and follows him out of the craft. The other autobots remain where they had been standing. Ignoring those who had just jumped from the craft.

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Location of artillery unit 1 - 7 miles from the decepticon base - 0.05 megacycles later

Sword Storm speeds up in his alternate mode, transforms and lands on his feet. Coming to a complete halt without even skidding. He spots a large indent where something large had been dropped recently and from a hieght. Inspecting it closly he finds a set of perculiar footprints leading from it and over to a pile of shredded metal. Sword Storm walks over to the pile and kneels down. As he is digging around Dakar [who has a jeep type vehicle mode.] appears and walks up behind him.

"Hey Storm, find anything?" He asks. Sword Storm replies by tossing a small fragment up to him. Dakar looks at it and realises what it it. The tiny fragment less than a foot square has part of an autobot symbol on it. Dakar responds in a less than dignified way by spewing up the energon cube he had enjoyed earlier that day.

Sword Storm mutters something to himself before wandering around. Lifting up two larger fragments he realises that they are part of one of the artillery peices that had been cut as far as he could tell lengthwise which was not possible. Even his superior assassin grade swords would be unable to do this level of damage. Spotting something half buried in the ground by the small fragments he grabs it and pulls it free.

The body of the autobot rolls out of whre it had fallen and onto its back. Sword Storm pulls back in revulsion, while Dakar throws up more of his early morning snack.

The autbot no longer functioned and it was probably a good thing too. Four large grooves snaked over and through parts of its head, the edges seemed jagged as if the metal had been hacked through with a high speed weapon. The mechs arms which he must have tried to defend himself with were missing below the elbow and there were more jagged marks where the parts were missing. The torso looked like it had been ravaged by a wild animal, most of the autobots remaining circuits were hanging out through gashes in its armor and inner frame. Looking futher down the spark chamber and memory banks had been rendered usless by more damage made by the same weapon that had caused the other damage on the mech. The last thing They spotted were his legs, they were hanging by a few threads that were all that remained of the mechs mechanical nerves whilst his legs, one had been severed just below the knee while the other had been sliced off at the hip.

Sword Storm ignoring the savagery of the attack looks for clues as to how long the attack took. Dakar having emptied his primary fueld tank limps over.

"Any ideas as to what did this?" He asks

"One attacker." Storm Sword replies calmly, unease creeping into his voice now. "This one was dead within 0.30 nano clicks of the first attack. He was dead already when he was savaged."

"You cannot be serious." Dakar says looking at the piles of fragments that were slowly being reduced by the wind that was blowing them away. "One enemy did this?"

"Yes, I am sure of it" Storm Sword states. "But this is not a normal foe, from this level of damage it has unbelievable speed and power"

"So then how are you going to keep this from the others." Dakar asks. Storm Sword moves so fast that Dakar has no time to react as the blade peirces his spark. "Why"

"I told you not to follow me" Storm Sword says as he lets the lifeless body of Dakar fall to the ground. He carefully cleans his blade before sheathing it. Priming a detonator Storm Sword tosses it onto the ground near to the savaged body and Dakar. As he walks away the blast sends small fragments flying past him.

Storm Sword twirls a small disk round in his fingers. My mentor was right yet again. The autobots are always the first to attack the other faction during a war. The other faction then simply retailiates and the autobots show up claiming that want to 'protect' the planet. There actions however just cause more casualties and collateral damage to be inflicted. When will they learn. He thinks as he beings the long walk back to base.

Aftermath episode 02 - Picking up the peices

Decepticon base - Control room - 1 megacycle later

Guillium corsses his arms as Scythewing again refuses to obey a direct order.

"Just tell me what the result of deploying Scar was." He says

"The autobots that were not in the target area fled." Scythewing replies "The rest were reduced to metal confetti"

"And what does that mean?" Guillium asks.

A Small bag is dumped in front of him by Drop-off. "Heres a free sample of what he did to one of them autofools."

"And what of him?" Guillium asks picking up the bag.

"Once he was finished with his work he returned without question to his stasis box." Drop-off says spinning the remote control device for the box and inducer in his hand. "With a little shock to make him more suggestable."

Guillium nods and looks inside the bag. He then pours the contents onto the ground. The fragments that fall from it to Guillium anyway did not seems like they came from an autobot. If not for the telltale autobot symbol fragments in the pile it would be seen as metal confetti.

"So Scar did that all by himself." Scythewing says

"Yep. He's been quiet since I got him back here."

"Oh and Drop-off, did our guest suffer any damage?" Guillium adds.

"Minor strutural damage from small arms fire." Drop-off replies "The stasis box has a built in CR function, which should repair the damage."

"Good." Guillium says rubbing his hands together. "As you are suddenly an expert on him you are on Scar watch for the next 12 megacycles."

Drop-off's stance betrays his attitude as he slumps his shoulders and walks off.

"Scythewing, you are in charge while I go recharge" Guillium says as he follows in Drop-offs wake and head out of the room.

Scythewing waits for a few moments until he is sure that noone was watching him before walking over to a seemingly normal computer console. Flipping open a few panels the whole assembly transforms outwards into a gaming station and chair. Sliding into the chair Scythewing hits the power button and his 50 inch monitor comes online.

Hyper ultra all star fighter IV Flashes up on the screen. Scythewing picks up the control pad and enters the character select screen. The massive roster of characters includes just about every beat em up character ever concieved as well as digital representations of just about evey autobot and decepticon ever constructed. He casually selects one of his favourite characters and the game starts.

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Decepticon base - Stasis box

Scar had expended most of his rage and energy on the autobot artillery team. The small amount of damage he had suffered didn't bother him.

His energy level had been steadily recovering but while his energy had been low his thoughts had been more structured. The rage still lapped at his mind and threatened to envelop him once more.

When he thought cohesively his mind would try and remember who and what he had been before but as always nothing remained in his memory banks for him to remember. The earliest memory he could recall was the torture he endured while he was a POW. His energy levels reach 45% and the rage drowns out his logical thought patterns.

With a snarl he springs up from his sitting position and deploys his blades. Spinning them up to maximum speed he starts attacking the walls of the stasis box again. He gets repelled with a shower of sparks and a slight electric shock. Roaring in rage he spins up his blades and continues his attack.

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Decepticon base - Storage chamber

Drop-off groans as the noise resumes. He pulls a pair of padded pink ear muffs from his sub space compartment and clamps them over his auidio receptors.

With the sound of Scars antics now drowned out Drop-off produces a transformer sized PSP and starts playing gran turismo 5000.

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Autobot base - War room

Khaos stands with his arms crossed as he watches the security camera feed as Sword Storm enters the base. The mech is alone as he moves between the points where the security cameras can see him.

Khaos turns round to face the door as Sword Storm enters.

"Report" Khaos says

"The site was stripped clean." Sword Storm replies

"What of the mech who followed you to the site." Khaos asks "Where is Dakar?"

"He never arrived at the coordinates" Sword Storm replies.

"I have confirmation that he jumped from the craft" Khaos says tapping his fingers on the grip of his energon axe.

"Then he can't have listened when I described the VIA proceedure to him" Sword Storm replies. "Either that or he was captured."

"I will dispatch a recuse party immediately" Khaos says

"Negative" Sword Storm replies "With the first artillery unit missing we will require all of our forces ready for deployment once the scouts bring back the required tactical information."

Khaos grinds his dental plates together. "Very well, Sword Storm. We will play it your way for now."

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Autobot base - access hallway 087S - 3 megacycles later

Arkansaw was simply walking around when something started to speak to him. He stops and looks at the line of potted plants present on a shelf in the wall of the hallway.

"Oh, hello pretty flowers what do you want to tell me?" He asks

He waits a few moments as the flowers rock in the slight breeze from the ventalation system.

"You are hiding something rather special." Arkansaw says moving over and sliding one of the plants aside. A small disk lies where the plant had been standing. Arkansaw picks it up and looks at it. "You hold many colorful secrets don't you little disk, do you want to be my friend?"

Arkansaw jumps for joy knocking the plants over after a few moments of silence from the disk.

"You will. Oh joy of joys." He shouts "come you must meet the one the happy colors want me to introduce you to."

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Autobot base - War room

Sword Storm had left Khaos in a delemma. His insincts had been telling him something was amiss. Sword Storm had acted differently since he had returned. His speech had also altered in tone as if there was something he was hiding.

Against his better judgement he had dispatched the scouts and had given them slightly altered orders from those Sword Storm had told him to give to them. They were to accidentally move through where artillery unit 1 was last sighted.

He would have his answers ragardless of what the outsider wanted.

"Knock Knock" Someone shouts from outside the door

"Whos there?" Khaos snarls

"Pizza delivery"

"I didn't order anything so who are you?"

The door opens and Arkansaw walks into the room. "I'm the tooth fairy, all sparkly and silver hated by all the nasty colours."

Khaos clenches his fists rythmically in an attempt to calm himself against the annoyance of Arkansaw's ranting. "What do you have to tell me?"

Arkansaw holds up the disk so that its a few mm away from Khaos's faceplate. "Say hello to my little friend" He says

Khaos takes the disk from him and then inserts it into the closest screen. The images that Sword Storm took of the artillery site and his comments start to play.

"The single attacker responsible for this carnage appears to be extremely strong and fast. Few shots were fired by the artillery team during the attack. The whole attack was completed in less than 0.05 megacycles."

"that lying spawn of unicron." Khaos shouts walking straight past Arkansaw and out into the hallway.

Arkansaw moves over to where his friend had been put in the monitor. "I had to silence the others who knew about what occurred but it was for the greater good." The disk is ejected and in Arkansaws hand before Storm Swords commentary can continue.

"Oh, you have many secrets to tell little shiny disk." He says "What did you say to make the lord of the nasty colors go red in the face."

Arkansaw moves the disk closer to his audio receptors and holds it there for a few moments.

"Being secretive eh?" Arkansaw says pulling the disk up to where he can glare at it. "Oh well I guess everything needs a few secrets."

The crazy medic puts the disk into a compartment on his torso. Before absent mindedly walking into a wall.

"Oh a tough guy eh?" He rants shoulder barging the wall for no good reason. He bounces off, crashes onto his back then a nearby computer console knocked loose by the impact crashes down on his chest.

"Woah nelly, thats a spicy meatball" Arkansaw grunts as he attempts to lift the console off his chest. "Oh no the nasty colours will get me if I cannot win this fight with my worty adversary"

With no one else in the area to listen to or help him within earshot he continues to struggle with the console on his chest.

Aftermath episode 03 - Final Ignorance

Autobot base - Hangar

Very little time had passed since Khaos had discovered the truth and he has rapidly gathered all of his troops. Storm Sword had been kept in the dark about the plan that had formed in the mind of Khaos.

Arkansaw rubbed his chest and speaks up. "Anyone got some asprin, I've got terrible heartburn."

"SILENCE" Khaos shouts "We are here to bring the fight to those who destroyed our brothers."

A roar of approval comes from the gathered autobots. With a single motion he gives the order to move out.

The autobot forces move out in formation with the only exception being Arkansaw who meerly wanders behind them. Bouncing off every surface in his way as he advances.

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Autobot base - War room - 0.25 megacycles later

Sword Storm scratches his head. He had searched every corner of the base and there seemed to be no trace of anyone. He pulls up the security footage gathered by the bases camera system and starts reviewing the data.

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Wilderness - 1 mile from the decepticon base

Khaos watches as the artillery shells slam into the decepticon base. Holding up his hand he gives the unit a hold fire command.

"Defensive units are to remain here to guard the artillery units." He says "you are to provide periodic cover fire, the assault units are with me, we are going on the attack"

Khaos advances with his designated asault units as another artillery strike is initiated. Arkansaw follows the assault units dancing and for some reason he is wearing a pink tutu.

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Decepticon base - Control room.

Scythewing is knocked from his gaming station by the artillery strike. He presses a button and it rapidly shuts down and folds away. Seconds later Guillium charges into the room.

"Mobilize the troops, we need to counter attack." He shouts.

Scythewing presses the red alert button. He is gone before Guillium realizes what is going on. Shrugging he activates his com unit.

"Drop-off. We are under attack, I request that you remain on standby until I give you a deployment order for Scar."

"Affermative" Drop-off replies.

Guillium draws his weapon and runs out of the control room.

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Decepticon base - Perimeter

The first indication to Khaos that something was amiss was missiles heading in his direction. He throws himself down as explosions erupt around him. His audio receptors ring due to the aftereffect of the proximity of the detonations, temporarily deafening him.

Time seems to slow down as he looks round. One of his troops detonates into fragments as the enemy missiles score a direct hit. The fragments touch Khaos's faceplate and disintegrate on contact. Another of his troops opens fire. For all he knew this was happening elsewhere as it sounded distant to him.

Something fast flashes above him and he feels the impact of something falling over nearby. Before anything else happens he is grabbed and pulled back. Another missile explodes where he had been laying a few moments later showering him with mud.

"Commander, snap out of it" The mech who had grabbed him says.

Khaos looks round at him and as he does so something flashes past. The mechs head falls down and bounces off Khaos's chest plate. Khaos shakes the dead husk off his back and attempts to find a target amdist all the gun smoke and flying debris.

Khaos turns to his sensors but the chaos around him interferes with his readings. Grumbling he shuts off his sensors and advances in the direction he considers forwards.

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Guillium again fires a missile barrage from his chest launchers. FIfty missiles streak into the distance before exploding amidst the autobot ranks. He smiles as limbs go flying from the point of impact. Scythewing can be seen sweeping over the enemy, cutting heads from those unfortunate enough to be in his path.

Only one autobot seemed to be immune to every shot that was fired. Oddly enough the mech seemed to be wearing a pink tutu and the autobot was dancing away and around the fire being directed at him.

Firing off another missile salvo Guillium taps his com unit.

"Drop-off, are you in position?" He says

"Yes. I have redeployed Scar so that he is behind the enemies artilley position." Drop-off replies "We are go on your command."

A single figure emerges from the smoke ahead of him and with a hand signal his troops concentrate fire on the target. The shots get reflected from the foe.

"Scythewing, get him" Guillium says into his com on Scythewings frequency.

The black jet swoops down behind the visible autobot. Scythewing transforms into a flying kick position.

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Khaos stumbles forwards as something slams into his back. Turning round he sees Scythewing backflipping away from his attack. Fire streaks past and missiles sail overhead. Khaos draws his axe but he is too slow. Scythewing lands his backflip rolls forward, deploys his melee claw and cuts into the autobots left forearm.

Khaos's hand sparks as the stripped cogs in his slashed forearm seeze up. He swings his axe round to try and get his attacker, Scythewing proves too quick for him and was somehow behind him. Khaos feels the weapon slice into his back. Something vital gives and he falls down onto one knee. Propping himself up on the haft of his axe Khaos tries to stand back up again.

Scythewing however was having none of it, lunging forward he slices the rear of Khaos's knees with his weapons. He kicks the autobot in the back of the head knocking him forward onto his chest. The axe goes flying and Scythewing impales Khaos's one functional arm.

Khaos groans in pain. Scythewing pulls the autobot upright and drags him over to Guillium. The larger decepticon grabs Khaos by the chest and picks him up.

"Get it over with you decepticon scum" Khaos says spitting a glob of energon at Guillium.

"You have to witness the destruction of your forces before I finish you off." Guillium says smiling. A pair of cables drop down from above and Scythewing straps them around Khaos's arms.

"Take him to the observation position Drop-off" Guillium says letting Khaos go. "Decepticons pull back to the defensive wall."

As the decepticons pull back Khaos is lifted off the ground and spun round. He is moved to where he can see where he deployed his artillery units. Drop-oof who is holding him up sends out a strange signal. Nearby something flashes as it deactivates. Trees and earth go flying as something heads towards the artillery unit.

The attacker scythes past one autobot who explodes into confetti moments later. As the earth falls away Scar becomes visible. He jumps into the air and comes down hard on another victim. The saw blades move faster than the optic can track and before the autobot can scream he is reduced to fragments. Bullets and energy beams fly at the decepticon as the defensive units react to his presence. A series of pops can be heard as a dense smokescreen forms around one of the defensive units. They bunch up into a circular formation as Scar ponuces.

The decepticon slashes one of his blades down diagonally slicing open circuitry and armour alike. Three autobots from the defensive unit collapse with there vital circuitry disconnected, destroyed and oozing from great rents in there armour. Another attempts to bring a plasma rifle round to bear on the con but Scar slices the gun in half moments before he opens up the autobot with a single upwards motion from crotch to head. The two halves don't even hit the ground before He brings both blades down at alternating angles into the last autbot within his reach. The two blades clash in the center of the autobots torso and are deflected off in random directions reducing the unfortunate autobot to junk.

Scar looks up from his kills as the smokescreen clears. His optics lock onto more of the artillery crew and he bounds forwards blades spinning to kill anything and everything he can see. {His blades slicing through the flowers and trees in his path. Crushing ants and bugs under his feet etc.}

Khaos with his limbs and weapons disabled forcefully can do nothing but watch. As more of his troops are decimated a single tear of energon falls from his eye and rolls down his cheek before falling towards the ground below, as he is forced to continue watching the deaths of those under his command.

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Decepticon base - Interrogation room - 1.2 megacycles later

Scythewing punches Khaos in the chest again. The autobot coughs up more energon. The decepticon crackes his knuckles and circles him again.

"Now." Scytehwing says "Do you have any other forces on this planet. "

Khaos spits at his interrogator. "Slag off deceptacreep"

"Still got some fight in you" Scythewing says punching Khaos yet again. "good"

A knock on the door distracts Scythewing who goes over and opens it.

"Why are you wasting time with this antiquated method of interrogation?" Guillium asks.

"This way is a lot more fun" Scythewing replies

"and less effective"

"Give me another ten cycles with him before you employ any other method."

Guillium nods. "Do as you please in those ten cycles, just make sure theres enough of him left for the other methods to work."

Scythewing chuckles and closes the door with an auidiable click. Cracking his knuckles he turns back to Khaos.

"Lets get back to work." He says "Tell me what I want to know and I'll put you out of your misery"

"Slag off" Khaos says pitting again.

Scythewing punches Khaos in the chest again. Chuckling to himself as he shakes flakes of paint from his hand.

"Oh well, More fun for me." Scythewing adds.

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Decepticon base - Prison area

The warden shakes his head. The cell holding the autobot Arkansaw had been dismantled from the inside and the autobot in question was casually building a trebuchet from the discarded chunks of metal in the enclosed courtyard.

They had already given up trying to keep him caged as he just found a way to escape every cell they put him in. He made a sofa from the padded cell, He turned the electricified cell into a barbeque unit and finally he had made a bumper car from an escape proof cell.

"Now I can finally fight on equal terms with the evil colours!" Arkansaw shouts as his trebuchet launches a junk boulder at the nearest wall. The boulder rebounds off the wall and slides back to his feet. Arkansaw picks it up and fires it again, the result is the same.

The warden looks away as the crazy bot continues his aimless assault on the wallk with the trebuchet.

Aftermath episode 04 - Assassins honor

Autobot base - war room

Sword Storm shakes his head at the footage he was now seeing. Khaos it seemed had not respected his warning and had rushed off without working out a comprehensive plan of attack.

Sighing he shuts off the feed and goes off in search of information regarding there eventual fate.

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Decepticon base - Interrogation room- 10 cycles later

Scythewing delivers another ringing punch to Khaos's chest. A knock on the door grabs his attention and he turns round and unlocks it. Guillium enters with a strange device. It looks like a vest which has multiple probes and vails mounted on it.

"Time is up. We have to move up the interogation." Guillium says strapping the device onto Khaos's chest. He activates the probes and they slam directly into the chest of the autobot.

Khaos convulses as the probes peirce his internal structure and ram into parts of his spark chamber. Energon starts to dribble from his mouth as a special radioactive chemical is pumped into his spark.

"Now then" Guillium says grabbing Khaos's chin and pulling his lolling head up and staring into his optics. "Were any of your forces excluded from your failed attack"

"One mech" Khaos says unable to lie due to the effects of the chemical on his spark.

"Who" Guillium asks, pressing his fingers into Khaos's jaw as he does so.

"Sword Storm" Khaos says.

Guillium releases his grip and Khaos's head falls down to his chest. Guillium cracks his knuckles to releave the stress on his fingers. "I have some more questions that you will answer."

Scythewing seemed to be enjoying the suffering of the autobot.

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Wilderness - 1.5 miles from the decepticon base - 29 cycles later

Sword Storm comes to skidding halt and transforms into robot mode. Making a few swift adjustments to his energy signature to mimic those of a decepticon {A trick he was taught during his assassins training}. Transforming back to his vehicle mode he accelerates towards the base.

He slows as he reaches the mile mark. Around him laid out in a grusome fashion were victims of the unknown weapon. Bodies having been sliced into metallic confetti lie in small piles along with mechs who had been downed and killed by more conventional weapons.

Casting his practised optics over them as he passes he identifies the weapons that caused the wounds. Here and there lie mechs who had been caught in a missile barrage. Mixed in with these are autobots who seemed to have been sliced with single prescision strikes by a fast moving opponent.

Sword Storm drives casually up to the external checkpoint and transforms.

"Halt" The sentry says "Indentify yourself."

"Sword Storm" He replies "Decepticon assassins guild."

"I've heard of your deeds sir" The sentry says saluting. "I will inform the commander of your arrival."

"See that you do" Sword Storm adds.

The sentry turns his back and Sword Storm strikes. One of his sabers slices into the sentries spark killing him before he can react. Sword Storm spins his saber out of the dead con and back so that its flat against his forearm.

"Silence is golden" Sword Storm mutters. Turning away and letting the body fall to the ground he starts walking towards the bases main entrance. He types in the age old assassins master code and the door grinds open. Sliding inside Sword Storm presses himself against the closest wall and hits the internal close door button.

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Decepticon base - Interrogation room

Scythewing had been left to his own devices after Guillium had left. This suited him perfectly fine as he had been able to freely take out his frustrations on Khaos. All credit to the autobot he had maintained his function despite the horrible tortures that had been inflicted on him. Scythewing walks over to where he had placed his torture implements.

"Ah I haven't used this in mellenia" Scyethwing says taking a long spike with a heating element embedded in it. He flicks the device on and the tip starts glowing white hot. With a single motion he stabs the spike through Khaos's hand. The autobot flinces from the pain but again refuses to cry out in pain. Scyethwing withdraws the spike before lancing it into the autobots shoulder. Scythewing chuckles as his victim flinches again.

"Yes, the longer you live the more fun I can have." The decepticon says withdrawing the spike before lancing the spike into another part of his captive.

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Decepticon base - Hallway 03S4

Sword Storm drops down from where he had been clinging to the ceiling pipes as a pair of seekers walk past. He stays low to the ground as he moves to the curving part of the hallway. Peering out he identifies a pair of decepticons standing guard, he makes out the words burned into the door they were guarding.

'Storage chamber'

Sword Storm jumps up and grabs the pipes above him. He then swings himself up onto the top of them. Lying prone he shuffles along the pipes until he is just above them.

"Well this is boring."

"You always bitch Gyro. Just be quiet our shift is over soon."

"Not soon enough."

Sword Storm using his training isolates the voices below and determines where the decepticons are standing. Swinging down backwards, he draws his swords and stabs both decepticons through there spark chambers all in one move. Withdrawing his weapons and allowing the bodies to fall to the ground he flips forward into a crouching position. He then gets to work on opening the door.

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Decepticon base - Storage chamber

The door grinds open to admit Sword Storm who approahces the only object in the room, the stasis box. As he approaches An energy field materialises around him and harsh laughter rings out from nearby.

"I see that you did as I had expected." Guillium says walking into view.

Sword Storm fires his desert eagles at the energy field but this has no effect. Seeing this he flips his weapons back into his forearms. "Lieutenant Guillium, You haven't changed since I last saw you."

"Lies" Guillium snaps "Unless you have been here before."

Sword Storm chuckles. "Still the same."

Guillium snarls and kicks a loose component aside. "I will have answers my assassin friend. Then you will be given a chance at gaining your freedom."

"I have no faith in your justice system" Sword Storm replies.

Guillium laughs. "In decepticon law there is no justice." He says "There is only you and your opponent."

"And who would that be. You don't have anyone who can match me" Sword Storm says

"Oh, I have a special surprise for you but for now" He clicks his fingers and a pair of guards run into the room. Each is armed with a EMP rifle. A few quick bursts and Sword Storm is rendered offline. "Take him to the areana contestants entrance and lock him in the null cell. Then drag the stasis box to the gladiators entrance. I have need of its contents."

The guard nods and gets to work.

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Decepticon base - Prison area

The prison guard could do little but facepalm as he looked at what the autobot 'captive' Arkansaw was currently up to. The mad autobot had cobbled together a large battering ram and was thumping away at a small blotch of color on the large grey walls of the prison. He didn't even realise that the color blotch was a water main.

"Death to the evil colours" Arkansaw shouts as the battering ram continues to hammer away at the water main. As it does so the main inexplically breaks and knocks Arkansaw off his feet. "Mayday, Mayday, SOS The colours are fighting back."

temp profiles for last part
Temp profiles:-
Inertia

Alternate and robot modes: As shadow commander {Does not have nemesis prime uncombined robot mode.}


Faction: decepticon

Bio:
Cruel and fickle are both used repeatedly to describe how she operates. Having once served as the head of Galvatrons elite guard she was promoted to head of the decepticon black ops units. With her unique spark energy composition she lacks mercy and compassion, this dates back to her activation where her spark was exposed to a special form of radiation by her creator. In combat she remains silent until her foe is lying broken and about to be executed, she may then bless them by uttering a word or curse at them. Her armour plating is extremely dense but while this reduces her movement speed it provides near unparrelled protection from enemy attacks.

Weapons/abilities

In vehicle mode Inertia can reach speeds of

Laser sword:
Standard single handed weapon. Can cut through most materials easily.

Fusion shotgun:
When fired a pair of opposing chemical projectiles are fired. The violent reaction that occurs between the chemicals acts like a small nuclear blast. Inertia is shielded from its effects.

Railshock cannon:
This weapon fires a projectile with a high kinetic force. Any object struck will be thrown aside as the kinetic energy is transferred into them. {this weapon is capable of doing this to guardian robot sized targets.}

Pulsar laser cannon/multiple missile launcher:
Capable of firing six concentrated armour penetrating laser blasts or 8 focused or diffuse blast missiles at once before needing a few second to reload. This weapon is highly destructive but is extremely heavy and has a massive recoil when fired, thus reducing its effectiveness.

Strength: 9
Speed: 5
Intelligence: 8
Agility: 4
Endurance: 10
Courage: 10
Firepower: 9
Accuracy: 8
Hand-to-hand skill: 8
Technical Skill: 6
total:-77

Weaknesses:
Inertia has no know physical weaknesses.

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Deadly silence
Alt mode: Cybertronian seeker.


Bio:
Deadly Silence is a robotrix assassin of legendary skill. Trained by the decepticon ninja master Sixstrike. She was the only graduate from her class of deception assassins. There was much discussion afterwards about how she was the one who engineered the 'accidents' of here fellow assassins. She was placed under the command of the decepticon powermonger Asaracos. He was found headless in his chambers one month after Deadly Silence was recruited. No one was ever found responsible. Constructed using cybertronain electron motivated fibre bundles, anti grav systems, multiple balance enhancing systems, agility boosters and snake mesh armor. She rarely speaks to anyone, even to the one who rebuilt her into what she is today. She feels a special kinship with the failed assassin aspirant Deadstop and will freely converse with him while no one else is listening.

Weapons/abilites:
Minicon Katana: Transforms into a samuri sword. The blade formed by this minicon contains crystalline circuitry that when energized is capable of cutting any known material. This system is refered to as charged metal.

Electron shuriken/throwing stars: Range and silent weapons. Carries a small charge to disrupt targets key circuitry.

Seeker cannons: deadly Silence has modified her versions of these weapons to fire a lower energy blast that is tuned to a frequency that destabilizes a foes circuitry which results in each hit slowing down there reactions. Due to this frequency alteration results in a 98% drop in auidiable noise from the firing of the weapon.

Stealth systems: Deadly Silence emits no sound through walking or moving in robot mode. Only in vehicle mode does she make any movement noises. she is also invisible to 90% of sensor systems in either mode.

Agility modifications: Deadly silence can run up walls and on ceilings as well as being able to perform acrobatic feats that normal mechs should never be able to perform. This also translates into her vehicle mode where she can deploy an additional 4 wings which enhances her aerial agility further.

Strength: 6
Intelligence: 8
Speed : 10
Agility : 10
Endurance: 8
Courage : 8
Firepower: 3
Accuracy : 6
Hand to hand skill : 10
Technical Skill : 1
Total: 70

Weaknesses:
Armour has been redesigned for agility hence it is thinner than would be normal for a seeker. The snake mesh armor [made like snake skin with overlapping hexagonal plates of metal] is effective against a close combat attack of strength 5 or lower and also low power projectile weapons and shrapnel. The armor is useless against most energy weapons above strength 3.


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Aftermath episode 05 - Death of a legend
Space - Black ops strike vessel - unstoppable advance - Control center.

Inertia obsevred the chaos of the command bridge as her underlings rushed around like ants. This was nessesary to keep such a large craft invisible to sensors as they approached the target world, Ryos. Inertia could see it on the monitor and had briefed her hand picked forces to what they would be expected to do. The one known as Scar must be retrieved and the memories of those who had been in contact with him had to be wiped to protect his classified existance. The experiment to gauge Scars combat ability had been sucessful however.

Inertia chuckles. Guillium had reacted to the renewed autobot attacks by using Scar. It was her influence that nudged Sword Storm into the war and thus provided the catalyst required to finish it.

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Black ops strike vessel - unstoppable advance - Cargo hold 14

Deadly Silence crouched in the shadows as a pair of black ops soldiers checked over the room. Her minicon blade was sheathed and she was silent. They passed by here hiding place and she watches as they leave, knowing that if she took them out they would be missed. She had been tasked with retrieving Sword Storm whom Sixstrike had discovered was walking into a trap. Communications had seemingly been blocked to and from the world so one option remained. Deadly Silence had been tasked with infiltrating Inertais flagship and performing a shadow operation while the black ops group performed there own.

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Planet Ryos - Decepticon base - Gladitorial arena - Competitors null cell 01 - 15 cycles later.

Sword Storm had been awake for a few cycles, in that time he had been defragmenting his memory data that had been scattered by the effects of the EMP. His weapons were still on his person but due to the nature of the null cell he was unable to move until it was remotely deactivated.

Then he would have to fight for his life.

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Decepticon base - Gladitorial arena - Gladiators entrance.

Drop-off had been lazing around since the box had been moved. The noises made when the occupant continuously attempted to escape no longer bothered him and he was playing gran turismo 5000 again. He was so wrapped up in the game that he didn't notice Guillium approach. Guillium kicks Drop-off in the side of the head before crushing the game console beneath his foot.

"Now that I have your attention." Guillium says "Is our little friend ready for his grand entrance?"

"Yes he is ready." Drop-off replies "You didn't need to do that did you?"

"No but I felt like it." Guillium adds.

Guillium turns away and walks off laughing to himself. Drop-off starts gathering up the fragments of his PSP.

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Decepticon base - Gladitorial arena - 18 cycles later

The null cell deactivates and Sword Storm is shovelled out onto the arena floor. A cloud of dust rises from his impact point. In an instant Sword Storm is on his feet. A roar sounds as the gathered decepticons spot see him stand.

The faint flickering above him gives away the presense of the energy field that separates him from the decepticons present in the seats that encircled the arena.

High above in an opulant box with a purple flag with a golden con symbol emblazoned upon it hanging over the side. Guillium emerges from the door in the box and riases his arms above his head. A rather bored looking Scythewing makes a yawning motion before slumping into one of the chairs.

"Decepticon brethren. I am honoured to present this specticle for you. You shall witness a one of a kind combat between two of the most dangerous individuals on this planet." Guillium says

"Stop talking to yourself and get on with it" Scythewing says.

Guillium snarls at Scythewing. "You can already see that the esteemed autobot assassin Sword Storm is ready for the contest. His opponent is the highly dangerous Scar. Blink and you will miss it!"

Opposite Sword Storm a pair of heavy gates open and some random components get scattered as Scar emerges. The still sparking head of Drop-off in his grip. Discarding the head Scar locks his optics onto Sword Storm. Scar hisses, his hands folding back against his arms as his blades are deployed. The weapons start spinning and the pitch of the noise starts increasing. As the sound becomes almost painful to hear Scar makes his move.

He bounds across the areana moving like liquid. Sword Storm Just about manages to draw his weapons and attempt to block the charge. He is thrown aside by the sheer momentum of the attack that Scar delivers. The maddened con spins round weapons spinning up again to regain there murderous pace again.

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Low orbit - Black ops strike vessel - unstoppable advance - Launch bay

Inertia paces in front of her unit, the high altitude descent device on her back giving her even more bulk. The light on the wall of the ship goes green and she gives a simple signal. As one the black ops unit jumps from the ship. The backpacks being deployed and slowing them just about enough so that they land on the top of the decepticon base.

Inertia points at the access hatch and one of her troops starts cutting it open.
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Deadly Silence jumps out of the black ops craft when no one is looking shadowing Inertias black ops unit as they make thre way into the base.

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Decepticon base - Gladitorial arena

Sword Storm spins his blades round in his hands as he starts circling Scar. The maddened Decepticon sweeps his weapons down throwing up chuncks of the ground at Sword Storm. These of course bounce harmlessly off him but obscure his view.

He brings his weapons up to block the attack and is simply tossed aside like a rag doll. He lands hard and Scar begins to wind his weapons up for another attack. Sword Storm Tries to stand and finds that he has lost his right arm below the elbow. Sitting up he spots it lying on the ground a short distance away.

The decepticon crowd above cheer at the brutality of the action. Sword Storm sees's his foe charging for him again and holds a defernsive stance expecting another attack like those before them. Scar however was not going to repeat the same trick twice. Digging one of his blades into the ground he skids round lashing out with his other arm.

Spinning blades meets starmetal saber in a spray of sparks and in an instant the blade flies from Sword Storms grasp. Scar uppercuts with his other arm and the slowly rotating blade present there. Sword Storm stumbles backwards with a large jagged cut in his torso. His hand moving to cover the wound as he continues to back away from Scar.

Sensing perhaps that his foe was now defenseless Scar sets his blades spinning up to speed again while slowly advancing towards him.

Sword Storm draws one of his deagles with his hand his vision swimming due to the damage that had been caused to his person. He opens fire Scar simply deflects the shots with his rapidly spinning blades. The entire stadium shakes as a group of mechs blasts there way in through the doors. This distracts Sword Storm but not so much Scar.

The decepticon killing machine buries his blade into Sword Storms torso. The blade tearing and rending through the thin metal and emerging through the other side. Scar casually flicks his arm sending the Sword Storms flying in two directionbs at once. The autobots optics going dark before he hits the ground.

The inducer present in Scars circuitry sparks and he emits a metalic scream before falling dormant. A flash of purple streaks through the areana and Sword storms body and weapons are gone faster than the optic could follow.

Decepticon base - Gladitorial arena - Guilliums box

"What in the name of the inferno is going on here?" He shouts as the black ops unit starts shooting down his troops as they draw weapons.

The doors behind him explode inwards one slamming into Scythewing knocking him offline with the force of the impact. As the dust settles Inertia steps forward into the light, Railshock cannon levelled at Guillium.

"Ah lieutenant. I would advise you to order all of your forces to stand down and not resist. Doing so will cost them there lives. It is your choice." Inertia says Her Pulsar laser cannon aimed low in her other hand.

Guillium sighs and drops his combat staff. "Decepticons stand down. Surrender all weapons."

Inertia smiles sending a com pulse to here black ops forces. "Now then lieutenant you are coming with me. Grab your little puppy"

Guillium picks up Scytheing and starts walking out of the box. Inertia clicks her fingers and one of here warriors runs forwards and retrieves the combat staff. Below in the areana a few black ops mechs with all over force fields pick up scar and return him to the stasis box. Crushing Drop-offs head under there feeet in the process.

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Decepticon base - Hangar - 20 cycles later

The unarmed decepticons sit surrounded by the armed Black ops unit as Scar's prison is dragged past.

Inertia stands before them standing on a cargo crate. "You have all seen something that the higher ups never intended for you to see. As I am fair you shall have a choice as to what I do about this." Inertia says "You can either have your memory of this place wiped and be reassigned or you can be killed."

Inertia taps he arm with the fingers of her other hand. "Choose" She says "Two groups. Move left for memory wipe and right for death"

The decepticons part a handful choosing death while the others choose the memory wipe option. One mech remains in the middle.

"Do you not understand a simple instruction?" Inertia says

"I choose to kill you." the mech says drawing a rifle from subspace.

A shot sounds out and the mech is thrown into the far wall and is crushed flat by the impact. Inertia sighs holding her now smoking Railshock cannon in her hand.

"Anyone else want to be foolish?" Inertia looks around and sees the other mechs shaking there heads. "Good, then let us begin."

Drawing her fusion Shotgun she fires it at the group that wished to loose there memories. The semi nuclear blast knocks everyone but her offline. Jumping down off the crate she presses a button on her forearm. The crate opens and a pile of metalic spiders emerge from it. She closes the hangar doors and leaves them to erase the specified memories from those who had seen the contents of the box. As she approaches her ship those other mechs who had seen Scar stand waiting drawing her Pulsar laser she brings it up and fires it at them. reducing them to mulch.

Stepping up onto the cargo hatch of her craft she presses the close command button before walking towards the control bridge.

The ship takes off shortly afterwards.

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Autobot base - hangar - Sword Storms strike vessel

Deadly Silence places the last few components of her comrade into the CR tank. Sword Storms spark was on a life support unit due to the damage caused to his body. Flipping up a hidden panel she activates the long range com. A shadowly figure appears on screen.

"[color:0500="indigo"]Master Sixstrike. It was as you predicted Sword Storm was led into a trap. I do not know the reason why."

"Do no concern yourself with that child. Just return home safely." Sixstrike says over the monitor before he cuts the communcation.

Deadly Silence takes one last looks at Sword Storm before slipping into the ships pilot seat. She flicks a few switches and presses a few buttons. Taking hold of the controls the ship takes off leaving the world behind.

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Epilouge

Planet Ryos - 50 cycles later

A decepticon troop ship lowers itself down onto the surface and a capture team moves in and goads the brainwashed decepticons onto the craft for retraining and reassignment. Once they leave the planet is left alone. Lacking any significant resources it is no longer a target.

somethin had been fogotten though. A large excavators shovel flies upwards in a spray of dirt as Akansaw emerges.

"I have evaded the evil colours for today but they will return at dusk to wreck there vengance upon me!" He proclaims to abosulately noone at the highest volume his audio emitter would allow. "I must prepare, away to the botcave"

Pointing his arm straight out Arkansaw starts moving towards the autobots base.

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Lightning Storms recovery vessel - medical bay - 3 megacycles later

"[color:0500="indigo"]Well doc, how's it look?" Deadly Silence asks

"Not good. The armours shot, the frames cracked and the inernals are missing. I think the technical term for what this condition is SBAR or Slagged Beyond All Recognition." Lightning Storm says. "His spark is still good and I do have a few blank protoforms in storage so he will be able to survive if we act quickly."

Lightning Storm walks off walking over and crushing a medi-con that happened to be in his path.

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Unknown location

The stasis box containing Scar is placed on the ground as a robed figure emerges from the darkness.

"I have what you wanted, but why you would want such a thing is beyond me." Inertia says

"That is not for you to know. The contents are classifed above top secret, If you were not the head of the black ops units you would be dead to keep it hidden. Never speak a word about it to anyone lest you suffer the same fate as those on that world."

The cloaked figure presses a button on the statsis box which rises up on anit grav units. He grabs the side and walks off into the darkness with it. Inertia shrugs and walks back in the direction she came from. Her heavy footfalls on the metal ground masking those made by the cloaked figure.

{And there you go. I hit the post size limit a few times while attempting to post this fic for you to enjoy. :lol!: }