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Communications Hub #3

"I have complete faith in you," Megatron told Vindicator. "If you find any other Decepticons along the way, co-opt them into your command to assist."

Turning toward Relay, he could see the strain that serving as an ad-hoc piece of broadcast equipment was having on the smaller Transformer. "I'll be brief," he said. "Transmit this: Blackjack, this is Megatron. I want you to send three of your new recruits to my current location, to guard the communications hub. Once they get here, I'll join you at your new ops centre. Our communications are going offline now. Megatron out."

He nodded to Relay then. "You can disconnect now."

Reverb, on the other hand, was oblivious to the other communicator's discomfort. "You want to grab anything before we go," he asked, "or do you think the basic toolkit's going to be all we need?"
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Foundry Tunnels

Blast doors started to slam down along the length of the tunnel.

Stratus accelerated as Acid Storms fire chewed up the rear of the Monorail.

Moving forward he opened a door beween carriages and disconnected the rear carriage befor jumping onto the rest of the monorail.

It shot off leaving the rearmost carriage blocking the track.
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Communications Hub #3

With relief, Relay obeyed Megatron and disconnected from the equipment. For a couple of astroseconds, he rested his forehead on the fascia, then, without appearing as depleted as he felt, strode to where Reverb was now standing and said, "Bring a basic kit. Heh, I'm carrying my own and that's got a few specialist bits." Typically, he did not add that those 'bits' were tools of his own design and very, very specialist indeed.

He looked over to Vindicator and smiled the easy, unaffected smile that had won him so many Tri-Dee fans. "Where is this other Hub located? Do you know the way?"

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Foundry

Dark Walk gingerly moved through the congealing chrome towards the hole in the opposite wall, employing the Overbite's audial receptors to maximum capacity. Those were definitely footfalls, but they were passing, he quickly realised, overhead and away across the upper level of the foundry.

Although disoriented by the layout, he computed that whoever was making the sounds must be heading in the general direction of Misfire, who Jaggor had left guarding the access they had used to get down here.

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Jaggor watched the shock growing in the over-bright optics of 'Stratus'. He exerted more pressure, pulling his foe's arms almost gently out of their sockets with relentless strength. But he was, he owned, impressed by the other's continued attempt to throttle him even as power and hydraulics lines began to part.

"In other circumstances," he told 'Stratus'. "I would be glad to have you standing with me."
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Kolkular

Blackjack nodded as he received the orders from Megatron. Looking through the list of Decepticons available to him, Blackjack picked three of Kolkular's former guards. "Heatstroke, Fumarole, Gust, go to the Communications Hub. Megatron requests of your presence there. Take this datapad, it's a summary of what we've done so far." Which is, frankly, very unimpressive.

The two Sweeps and one Tetrajet Seeker looked at each other in nervousness. After all, it's Megatron they're talking about.

"Go on." Blackjack said dismissively, as the trio of Decepticons shot off towards Megatron's location.
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Foundry

Dark Walk would find that a less-than-thrilled Aimless had been left to guard the entrance.
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"Spawnuva-" an accelerating Detour ttried to brake, but inertia slammed into the rear carriage. He was thrown into Razorclaw's back, hanging on for dear life.

Misfire, meanwhile, was in jet mode and was not hindered much by the monorail. The blast doors did, however. Transforming into robot mode, the Targetmaster fired laser blasts at the nearest blast door, trying to tear it apart.

"Storm! Your acid can melt through that faster than laser blasts!" Detour shouted at Acid Storm.
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Communications Hub #3

Vindicator looked at Relay. "I do not know the way to the communications hub. I don't know this area all to well." he replied.

He then looked over at Reverb" Do you know where the communications hub is?"
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Veterans' Hospital

Solder seethed; if he had not been so caught up wondering, professionally, why oil had been spilt, he could have ditched Overkill and made a break from Stormfire somewhere in the labyrinth of the Hospital. And now a grey Seeker with a totally serious expression was walking towards him; that he had missed this chance, he was sure. But there would be other chances...

"You have come to help me?" he asked, deliberately getting in first. He held up Overkill. "I need to find someone to advise me where I can get this sorted out. I was expecting a medic here, but it looks like he's been... removed very recently."

Stormfire, across the large vestibule with Blackjack, could not but help overhear the whispered conversation. "Solder strikes me as dedicated," he said, watching Zephyr's back.

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Deeper inside the warren of corridors, in a small enclosed ward without windows and only the one, heavy door, Transcan sat on Transmission's right shoulder and watched Retro's trembling hands pick up another instrument.

He wondered what Megatron would have to say/do if this old soak did something worse to Ransack than the ceiling falling in on him had done.
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Veteran's Hospital

Zephyr nodded at Solder's words. "Let me assist you in finding somebody."

Blackjack looked up at Stormfire, whispering, "He is dedicated, yes. But that doesn't change the fact that he repaired Corvus, that mech in that massive WarMachine thing. Megatron wants someone to watch him, so here we go..." looking Stormfire up and down the Micromaster asked, "So, if you don't mind me asking, would you like to assist me in searching for a medic?"
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Fumarole and his two companions landed. The Sweep walked into the building and spotted Megatron, Vindicator, Relay and Reverb. "Hail Megatron!" he bowed, before giving the Decepticon leader the datapad, "Blackjack told me to give you this, Lord."
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Veterans Hospital

Transmission looked at Transcan and then back at Rwetro oncern in his eyes.
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Foundry tunnels

Razorclaw saw Acid Storm speed past him and crash into the monorail carriage. He prepared to jump after him, when he was hit in the back by the out of control Detour. Thrown forward by the impact, Razorclaw´s agility allowed him to roll into a standing position again, but he caught his already injured leg on a piece of metal that had been thrown off the carriage by Acid Storm´s attack. He snarled angrily at Detour, but fought down the urge to lash out at him. Instead, he send out a broadcast to his pack:

"All Predacons, this is Razorclaw. The prey is trying to escape in a monorail carriage. Lock onto my signal and join the hunt ASAP! Rampage, to me. Any other survivors on the surface, try to find a way to the monorail tunnel and intercept the train. I´m transmitting movement vector and velocity now."

He then turned off his internal transmitter and growled at Detour: "When this is all over, I´ll have a word with you. Until then, why don´t you help getting that blast doors out of the way?"

Rampage, having received his leader´s transmission, ceased his attempts to get at `Stratus´ arround Jaggors massive frame and followed Razorclaw´s homing signal...
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Foundry Tunnels

Detour looked at Razorclaw and stammered, "Sorry sorry sorry, that monorail caught me unawares, won't happen again." Just don't eat me. the Micromaster thought in fear.

Turning at the blast doors, the Micromasters joined Misfire in shooting the massive doors.

"Ain't too hard to break them, but there're a lot of them!" Misfire called out to the others.
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Foundry

Since Razorclaw was broadcasting on an open frequency, of course Jaggor received the message, too - and he was not so stupid as to miss the implication of whom the 'prey' might be...

"What!" he roared, suddenly and violently jerking his neck away from the strangling grip of 'Stratus'. Chagrined anger ramped through him and, with a surge of power, he hurled his damaged foe aside. An instant later, he was scanning for his twin rifles, all intent on sweeping away to the real fight.

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In dread certaintly, Dark Walk at first trudged along below and just behind the heavy steps, then quickened the pace to overtake them. He had worked out that he was hearing four individuals making their way in a pretty straight line across the upper level when he became aware of two further sets of footsteps, and then others.

There seemed to be a lot of units converging on the place where Misfire had originally been left stationed. Dark Walk positively ran the Overbite, give or take an odd lurch, towards the hole in the floor and called up, "Enemies approaching!"

If he could have only known that he was shouting to Aimless...
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Foundry

"Stratus" scrabbled desperately for a weapon. His fiingers touched something and he clawed at it dragging it closer. Shakedly he swiveled it down and aimed arms trembling at Jaggor. His finger caressed the trigger as the barrel wavered. He puled the trigger releasing a fusilade in Jaggors direction.
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Foundry

...just as Jaggor straightened up, triumphantly holding one of his linear accelerator rifles, a scatter of blasts from the second struck him square in the centre of his broad back. His design was significant enough to withstand what would have torn another mech apart at this range, but he was sent staggering as the unexpected energy coruscated across his exoplating, fusing the coating of chrome, biting through the metal and pricking his internals with brief radiation flares.

"Blastard!"

Jaggor brought the other rifle round and shot at 'Stratus'.
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Foundry

Aimless shivered as Dark Walk approached. "Ghost-boy? Is that you?" he asked uncertainly. The Nebulan transformed into his gun mode and fired towards the space behind Dark Walk, covering his retreat.
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Communications Hub #3

Reverb grabbed his personal toolkit (which was rather badly beaten and battered from his days as a low-level techie) and nodded to Relay. "Gotcha."

He gave Vindicator a smile, but it wilted away quickly when he realized who he was dealing with. "Well, I wouldn't be much of an employee if I didn't...uh, sir. If you'll follow me..."

The technician let his comrades out of the building, then transformed to helicopter mode and hovered off the ground. "Do you need a lift, Relay, or do you have a vehicle mode?"
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Megatron took the datapad from Fumarole without comment.

"You're in charge of this unit?" he asked.
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Foundry Tunnels

"No time," Acid Storm told Detour. "And not enough acid."

In fact, the seeker only had one of his acid cluster bombs left, and he was saving it for when he had Stratus dead in his sights.

Acid Storm didn't even slow down when he realized that one of the monorail cars had been disconnected from the rest. He altered his course just enough so that he slammed into -- and through -- the car's rear door, bounced his chest off the floor and then flew out the still-open front door, still in hot pursuit.

He tried to resume his hail of fire, but quickly found that his hyperion cannons weren't working anymore. A quick check of his ammo status showed why. He had completely exhausted the supply of electrons and protons that the particle beams used as fuel, something that he frankly hadn't even realized was possible. But then, he'd been fighting a running battle for the last week across half the city-state without a chance to rest or replenish his supplies.

Even worse, he found that one of his thrusters was developing a nasty stutter after the last collision, slowing him down and, ever so slowly, letting the monorail pick up distance on him.

"No!" He barked. "You're not getting away from me, Stratus!"

There was only one thing left in his bag of tricks.

"Dammit!" he shouted as he primed his last cluster bomb. "If this doesn't work..."

He switched the bomb from proximity-trigger to a timed fuse and then fired, aiming directly for the window at the rear of the ever more distant monorail. If he'd aimed it right, the missile would have just enough time to cut through the entire vehicle and come out the other side before exploding, sending a spray of acid-filled pellets all over the track in front of the car. And if it didn't...well, if it didn't Acid Storm was out of ideas.

It had to work. It just had to.
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Foundry Tunnels

Tearing through the blast doors, Misfire shot off after Acid Storm, his leg thrusters working on overdrive. Detour transformed into vehicle mode and moved behind them, the distance between him and the airborne Decepticons increasing with every nanoklik.
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Communications Hub #3

Fumarole shook his head. "These two have worked with me together, Lord, but we aren't strictly a unit. Heatstroke and Gust's partner was killed by that WarMachine, while my troops are dead during the first explosions. So we're stuck together for now."
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Foundry Tunnels

The Monorail charged on. Stratus thought that Acid Storm had missed with his projectile.Unfortunately he was wrong. THe Monorail slewed across the tunnel as the weakened track gave way. The carriages concertined across the track ending up in a crumpled mess.

Stratus flew forward through the windscreen and slid along the tunnel floor.

Foundry

"Stratus" fell to one knee as th eother buckled under the incoming fire
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Communications Hub #3

Unaware of the tension Reverb felt in Vindicator's presence, Relay gave a shrug. "I have no vehicle mode," he called up to the helicopter. "But my alt compacts..."

He slipped his toolkit away, taking two steps backwards, tensing his leg suspension.

"If you could open one of your doors?"

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Foundry

Coldly, Jaggor aimed for 'Stratus'' other knee. There was always time to kill an enemy in a painful way; he just regretted that there were urgent happenings afoot elsewhere.

~~~

Dark Walk, surprised, raised the Overbite's hands to catch Aimless.

The Nebulan was going to have a real surprise in his turn any moment...
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Communications Hub #3

Reverb opened a hatch for Relay. "Hop in," he said.
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"Well," Megatron told Fumarole, "you're in charge now. I'm going to meet up with Blackjack. When the technicians have the communications systems online, contact me. Until then, you're in charge of security."

Without bothering to see what the other Transformer's reaction would be, he transformed to tank mode and rolled out of the building. There wasn't much point in waiting -- the lesser Decepticon didn't need to be told that the price for failure, let alone betrayal, would be death.
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Foundry Tunnels

Acid Storm wanted to grin as the monorail was derailed by his ridiculous gambit, but he found that it hurt too much -- the expression came off more as a grimace. He tried to fly toward the wreck, but his thrusters chose that moment to give up entirely. Landing awkwardly, he grabbed the first sizable piece of debris he saw and started to walk forward purposefully.
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Communications Hub #3

Vindicator looked at the other Decepticons that were supposed to be guarding the station until it was back online.

They looked capable of protecting the station, but then again looks was one thing how they fought in combat was another, he thought to himself.


"Lets get moving." Vindicator said to Rebverb. With that Vindicator transformed and began to follow Reverb.
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