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The target appeared on the horizon and Starscream's scanner array came online, as did his major weaponry. He wasted no time checking for Thundercracker; heh, the other jet might not particularly like him, but would scarcely disobey direct orders.

Primary strike objective would be the comms tower. With that down, no one would be yelling for help.
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Evac's Cargo Bay:


Ironhide locked his tires. "You could just drop me off here. I can drive the rest of the way....."

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Hoover Dam, Exterior:


Shockwave kept tracking Evac through the air, firing again and again.

Skydive's fire was far more accurate than the human weapons systems that were countering him. Three of the 15 F-22s fell from the sky in flaming ruins. The remainder snapped around, launching heat seekers from their wing pylons at the Autobot jet.

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Hoover Dam, Interior:


Corridor:

The guard took the opportunity to run, heading down the corridor away from Scrapper and Wiretap, hitting the button on the remote for the claymore that the Decepticon had grabbed.

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Office Overlooking the Decepticon Bay:


Lennox heard the report of the claymore going off, and scowled. "So much for hoping they'd get lost......"
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Hoover Dam (exterior)

Skydive corkscrewed through the air, evading almost all of the humans' missiles. A couple of them managed to wing him, and he wondered absently why Decepticon weapons weren't doing more damage to him, but didn't think too much of it. He returned fire, launching missiles at his attackers with far greater skill than they could ever hope to muster.
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Hoover Dam (interior)

Wire Tap ducked around behind Scrapper's back as he saw the human move away.

This is going to hurt...
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Evac's airframe shuddered under repeated hits.

"might be time you got out pardner, the varmit severed a fuel line i'm going down."

Evacs ramp shuddered and jammed in a half open position.

"looks like the lowdown dirty slagger got me in the hydraulics too."

Evac continued to lose height a small fire broke out in his cargo area

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Scrapper pulled himself back on to his feet using his undamaged hand and inadvertently crushed a water pipe while doing so.

Scrapper looked down at where 2 of his digits had been and beat out the flames form his burning paint against the wall before extracting a can of sealant from an internal storage compartment to patch the oil leaks. A wire protruded from the stumo of ine fingers sparking with little blue sparks of electricity.
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Prime sped on, closing and berating himself for not assigning more troops. What was I thinking, they were studying Megatron for decades, who knows what countermeasures they may have developed, and now it could all fall into decepticon hands

Pushing his sensors to maximum he could pick up a faint decepticon signature. His engine flared as he pushed it for even more speed.
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Nellis Airbase

Skimming the earth, flying lower and faster than any human pilot/computer pairing could ever manage, Starscream was on top of the airbase before the ground crews could react other than yell. He sent two missiles piling into the tall, white communications tower and performed a mocking barrel roll through the resulting cloud of superheated debris. Scant seconds later, out over the countryside again, he completed a precise turn and roared back towards the still-expanding explosion, targeting a row of Raptors rolled out ready to launch and the refueling tanker just beyond.
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Hoover Dam (interior)

(OOC: We should probably use internal storage compartments or something instead of subspace, since the people behind the movie went to such great lengths to make it 'realistic'. :))

Wire Tap sent a quick burst transmission to the facility's security grid, using a pilfered security code to flag the guard that had injured Scrapper as a hostile. He didn't particularly care if the creature died or not, but getting shot at by the base autoturrets would make his life a lot more interesting for the next few minutes.

"You alright?" the tiny Decepticon asked while vaulting away from Scrapper, toward the crane controls that would let him load his teammate's alt-mode with the broken Decepticon bodies.
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'Woah!' Glen shrieked when the Comm. Tower exploded into burning debris. He and the rest of the Dam staff had been confined to a barracks room, but he'd managed to use his job as a head researcher to talk with the base commander. Or he was going to talk to the commander, he'd been on his was to the tower to meet the man.

Alert sirens blared, hangars opened and pilots and ground crew scrambled to their jets. Two fighters ready for patrol were caught on the ground, the tanker xeploed taking out both craft. The two soldiers that had been escorting Glen about faced and nearly dragged Glen off his fight as they tugged him back to the barracks room.

Several jeeps rolled out out of the garages and tried to lock missiles on Starscream.
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Hoover Dam Interior

Scrapper looked down at Wire Tap

"nothing fatal just got my fingers burnt."
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"Lets get this done, then!"

Wire Tap transformed to cell phone mode as he landed on the room's control panel. A USB jack slid out of his side and connected with a port on the console, and within a few milliseconds he was able to take control of the magnetic cranes that hung down from the ceiling. He began retrieving the broken Decepticons and piling them close to Scrapper. The combined mass of four dead Decepticons would have been enough to overwhelm a standard Earth forklift, he knew, but a Decepticon should be up to the task.
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By now Prime's sensors could clearly see Shockwave, Skydive and Evac.

Bearing down on the tank, he radioed both Evac and Skydive
'Report current status and Decepticon strength'
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Sitting far out in the desert, beyond the transformer sensors, a car sat watching the battle. Amusing though it was, he had to be sure things ent the way he planned and those human jets were a nuiscance.

Still maybe things might go my way, I can always get rid of them Soundwave smiled to himself.
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Nellis Airbase

With Scorpnok lying dormant inside his cockpit, Starscream did not opt to transform. At less than a hundred feet, right over the base, he performed a classic Pugachev, skidding to a halt in the air, then allowed his nose to drop. The insects were scurrying everywhere, but some were trying to shoot at him.

"Not today!" he shouted and released a rapid burst of super-heated missiles that belted for the serried jeeps. He did not stop to see what happened, locking on the human jets still housed in their hangars.

Over his radio, he opened a coded contact to all his fellow Decepticons: 'Primary distraction run will be completed within a quarter breem. Stand by.'
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Hoover Dam, Interior, Office Overlooking the Decepticon Research Lab:

Lennox watched the work start up in the lab over the PDA's WiFi link to the cameras. "I'm going home tonight to my wife and daughter, you mechanical monsters. No matter how hard you try to stop that." He slipped the PDA into his pocket, covered his ears, and hit the trigger on the remote.

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Decepticon Research Lab:


With a massive roar, the C4 planted over the door and on the liquid nitrogen tanks went off, blocking the doorway andflooding the room with supercooled liquid nitrogen.

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Evac's Hold:


Ironhide sighed. "Always knew I hated flying!" His turbo diesel engine roared to life, slamming into gear, tires screaming as he backs out, the top halves of his smokestacks shearing off as he flys backwards out of Evac's hold, landing hard on his tires, bouncing again and again, his suspension creaking under the strain, feeling his rims bend slightly, one tire splitting open from the impact, finally landing on his side and skidding to a halt against a boulder, his voice coming dizzily from somewhere inside his dashboard. "I'm just gonna lay here for a minute, wait for the world to stop spinnin'............."

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Hoover Dam, Exterior:


Captain Harkness pulled his fighter into a sharp banking turn, hearing the F-22's tortured scream. Half of his squadron was down, and they hadn't even managed to score a signifigant hit on the flying Decepticon(actually the Autobot Skydive). He was rapidly running out of alternatives, almost to the one decision he didn't want to make: launching the nuclear ordinance they'd put on his fighter.

Shockwave watched Evac going down. Logic dictated firing another shot, to ensure the Autobot's destruction. However, logic also dictated that Starscream's foolish actions were about to ruin his plan. "Starscream, this is Shockwave. What are you doing?" He pivoted, the cannon on the end of his left arm targeting Optimus Prime. With a roar, his cannon fired a high intensity gamma blast at the oncoming Autobot leader.
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The hangars blew, one after another they went up a wall of fire and smoke. Soldiers were running everywhere, trying to cover. Glen was manhandled inside a cargo elevator that began decending back to the barracks the other Hoover Dam technicians were in.

Soldiers ran for bunkers, several just ran. Three seargeants got their squads rallied and using heavy calibre machine guns and SAM launchers fired at the jet, while trying to put as much distance between the squads as possible.
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Soundwave grinned as he watched the battle, things were going well. But still, it was Starscream's plan, and anything he could do to aggrevate it was a plus. His processors pulled together several details from the internet.

The name of an officer at Nellis.
His command code.
His voice.
The identity of the squadron above.

He carefully assembled them into a profile, through in a few explosions in the background and transmitted, adding static from time to time.

'Nellis to Captain Hark---, Nellis t- Captain Harkness. We're under att-ck by an NBE, ------- caught with our pants down. You're ou- only flock in the air. We need some suppo--'

He broke off there, with luck the captain would split his forces.
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Wire Tap was glad that the control console shielded him from the titanic blast, because if he'd caught even a fraction of the full brunt of the explosion it would have obliterated him. The Decepticons he'd been trying to recover, on the other hand...they were on the other side of the pile of debris that had crashed down when the doorframe collapsed.

"Scrapper," he transmitted to his temporary partner, "do you still function?"

When last he'd seen the other Decepticon he'd still been out in the hall, so with any luck he (and the deactivated Decepticons) weren't too much the worse for wear.
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Skydive watched as the (unbeknownst to him) human fighters refrained from attacking, confused by their tactics and inability to take advantage of their vastly superior numbers.

"Prime, Skydive here. We've got anywhere from three to six hostile Decepticons on the ground, including Barricade and Shockwave. Some of them have entered the dam. We've also got half a dozen hostiles in the air, but I'm starting to doubt that they're actually Decepticons. Our enemies may have converted local aircraft into drones."
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Starscream danced and rolled, bullets ricocheting off his armour like hail, responding to the missiles with his own. Grimly, he noted that he was alone out there, but he was more than capable of getting the job done. He swooped low, blasted the last of the hangars, and then came in to land beside a low, white-painted building. Semi-transforming, he tore off the light roof and trained his scanners on the storage racks, quickly finding the samples he required, and grabbed, heedless of the fate of the humans who failed to get out of the way of his clawed digits. In a spray of bright red, he lifted four crates and stashed them inside his main body bay.

Back airborne, Starscream picked up Soundwave's message. It was unthinkable that none of the still active planes would not respond to a cry for help! With nothing much on the ground to bother him, he rose into the blue sky like a phoenix soaring above a burning nest.

'Barricade, you have a demi-cycle to recover any remains possible and prepare to evacuate the area,' he announced. 'All functional Decepticons at the Hoover Dam, engage Autobot forces and be ready to provide cover for Barricade and his team.'
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Prime like wise intercepted Soundwave's message, and horror struck him.

'Skydive, cease fire. There are humans in those jets, evade their fire but don't shoot them.'

Objective 1: Stand down human jets
Objective 2: Defeat Shockwave
Objective 3: Prevent decepticons escaping
Objective 4: Recover Evac and Ironhide


'Rachet, Evac and Ironhid-' Prime's transmission was cut off. He slammed his steering to the side and spun out as the gamma blast shot by. The EM burst blew several breaker and his systems compensated as he transformed. His feet tore up the earth as they slowed him down.

Instantly his blaster unfolded and he returned fire at Shockwave in the distance.

Target: Shockwave
Specialty: Mid to close range combat
Target has suffered minor damage


Despite the warnings, Prime was no sharpshooter himself and looked for ways to close the distance between them. The earth shook as his feet thumped again and again.

'Skydive, I'm gonna need you to mark the other Decepticons, look for any out of place vehicles and transmit co-ordinates'
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Evac desperately tried to prevent his impact but failed and crumpled to the ground and skidded along in a trail of sparks.

Interior of the dam


Scrapper had been in the process of trundling along the hallway carrying his load of deactivated cons when the blast hit him.

The blastwave stripped off his paintwork and tipped him on to his nose his rear wheels spinning in the air and the pile of deativated Cons weighing him down.

The top two tumbled onto the floor as the restraining wire snapped.

He commed Wiretap

"I'm a little shaken but ok once I get back on my wheels , although I could use a claw here."
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"Impossible!" Skydive declared in reply to Prime. "The jets attacked without warning and they haven't attacked Shockwave whatsoever. If they are human, they must be in league with the Decepticons!"

Quickly running through his tactical databases, he transmitted some data to the other nearby Autobots. "Shockwave you've already met," he said. "An unfamiliar Decepticon that converts to some sort of truck is nearby as well. I lost sight of him near the base of the dam, but he's still in the area. Barricade and an unfamiliar Decepticon forklift entered the dam approximately half an hour ago and haven't emerged. I'm sending you all the data I have on them."

As he spoke, the airborne Autobot pelted the area behind Shockwave with missiles to discourage him from backing away from Prime's charge.
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Hoover Dam (interior)

Wire Tap disconnected from the control panel and transformed.

"I'm, uh, a little boxed in right now," he told Scrapper. "I'll have to find my way out through the air ducts. I'll be there in five, but since I'm under a foot tall, I'm not sure how much help I'll be. Maybe we should call up Barricade?"

As he spoke, the tiny Decepticon used a hypersonic pulse to pop open a vent, then dove inside.
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Scrapper responded.

"Roger that, it might be alright if someone snipped the retaining wire my load should slide right off and i'll be able to regain my equilibrium."
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