The Intergalactic Highway

NaitoKage wrote: Icebreaker smirked Well I wouldn't know much about successful battles, but we used to do the same after a successful rescue mission for my unit as well. Not sure how well I hold my liquor though. As for Optimus, maybe. Icebreaker then placed his other arm down on the ground and bent lowering his legs, then stood up straight walking over to his bundle lifting it up Well I better take care of this, have fun stretching! he then waved walking towards the lift and entering inside of the Axalon.

He glanced towards the holographic display, then looked towards the others Trouble as usual I take it?

Whitegrazer nodded then realized that she should go back inside.

Ferlanight folded in her wings and walked towards base seeing Whitegrazer just outside, "Greetings Whitegrazer." Feralnight called and paused tilting her head at the horse femme.

"Is it gymnastics day or something?" She added.

The bird flew away as she plopped her feet down on the ground, "Hello Feralnight! Back from patrol?"

She smiled, "Just some stretches and focus techniques."

"Yup and I see. Would be a good idea if we got something coming up soon." Feralnight said, nodding a bit. "Seems the Predacons have been on the down low though so not much activity this morning." She said heading towards the lift.

"Agreed. We better see what is going on."

Whitegrazer followed Feralnight to the lift. When they reached the bridge, Whitegrazer greeted the others. From what it looked like, something was going on.

"Is everything all right?" She asked the people in the bridge.

"Hey Tentacles, Teddy Bear, Foxy, Batman! Let's get going already!" Starshadow called out to them as soon as she reached to the hanger. Her ears slightly went back when she saw Sonar.

(( OOC: Hey, guys, let's give a chance for some people to catch up. We're missing some of our Maximals. ))

Looks like the ship knocked the stasis pods loose from orbit..They landed in the desert to the west. The ship landed pretty far from them into the water, looks like a chain of islands around there.. lets see.. I'd say it's slightly bigger then a Star hopper..but still small enough to fit inside the Nomad's cargo bay or be lifted with the crane.

Prime, thought Optimus, following Rhinox to the hologram. Just their luck. Looks like this would require three teams, all in different locations. He didn't like separating his crew over such a wide area. At least the ship didn't appear to be alien. Speaking of which, they had been awfully quiet for some time now; Primal was sure it wouldn't last, though. So, yet another ship is doomed to be drawn to this planet and inevitably crash. He wondered who was on board and was about to join them with their war of survival.

Trouble as usual I take it?

"Is everything all right?"

Optimus glanced at everyone suddenly showing up all at once; Frilla, Icebreaker, Whitegrazer and Feralnight. Well, almost everyone. Unfortunately, he'd need just about every Maximal there for this. "A small, unknown ship has collided with two of our stasis pods. All three are coming down," he announced. Since he couldn't wait for those missing to meander on in whenever they felt like it, he opened his comm. link to the rest of his crew who weren't present. "Attention, Maximals, please report to the command center immediately."

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Rattrap was disappointed when Whitegrazer dropped out of her record-breaking handstand. Seeing Icebreaker break away from her, and Feralnight showing up, he quickly adjusted the camera to focus on other scenary before all of them entered the base.

"Loud and clear Rattrap. Something going on?"

"Yeah, we got a situation happenin' 'ere," the rodent told the tigress. "Got a couple pods and a ship fallin' from the sky. Boss Monkey wants everyone ta report to the bridge, like, now. So get yer late, striped butt over here."

Optimal Optimus Primal wrote:"Attention, Maximals, please report to the command center immediately."

Orcariner snapped to attention. He had been resting underneath the waterfall, trying to alleviate the stress that burdened him this past week. Looking up at the rock wall that led up to the Axalon, the killer whale admired the myriad holes he dug into it with his swords. It had gotten to the point where he no longer required his blades to help him climb. Transforming into his robot mode, he simply grabbed hold of one of the holds that was made from a previous climb and continued to work his way up the wall.

"On my way, Optimus," he radioed.


((OOC: You don't have to wait for me to post that he's inside the ship. Feel free to make the assumption that he's present for the briefing.))

Saber was just coming out of deep meditation when Optimus called.

Attention, Maximals, please report to the command center immediately.

The formal general was instantly to her feet and quickly headed toward the command center, stubbing her toe as she entered the room.

"Slag it, that hurt," She said then once again regained her composure she turned to Optimus. "What's the problem, Optimus?"

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"hey, Tentecles, Teddy Bear, Foxy, Batman! Let's get going already!

Sonar promptly ignored Starshadow as she entered the room, nor did he react when she spoke. There wasn't any point in egging her on, it was a total waste of his energy.

Scorponok landed his hover craft into the hanger and stepped out with a grim expression. There was no time like go time. Activating his com-link, he called out to his team.

"Blackarachnia, Terrorsaur, Waspinator, I need you all to report to the hanger," he said, "We have a pod to retrieve."

He heard a squawk echo throughout the corridors, and not a cycle after Terrorsaur burst into the room. The pterodactyl transformed into his robot mode and landed on the floor with a heavy stomp. The flyer looked around but saw only Scorponok standing with him.

"Where are the others?" he asked.

"I called them," came the reply, "You just happened to be here first."

Terrorsaur scoffed at the 1st Lieutenant.

"I'm not going out there without my battle buddy."

"You mean your meat shield?"

"He's not meat. He's metal."

"You get the point," snarled Scorponok, "If he's late, we'll have to start without him."

To his surprise, Terrorsaur waved the scorpion off. It angered him to witness such rudeness and disrespect. Scorponok was Megatron's right hand Predacon!

"No," said Terrorsaur, "If he's late, then you're taking the spider with you. I'm staying here until I have my battle buddy with me."

"Blackarachnia, Terrorsaur, Waspinator, I need you all to report to the hanger," "We have a pod to retrieve."

Waspinator transformed into his beast mode then headed toward the hanger, he paused when he heard the conversation going on between Terrorsaur and Scorponok.

"I'm not going out there without my battle buddy."

"You mean your meat shield?"

"He's not meat. He's metal."

"You get the point," snarled Scorponok, "If he's late, we'll have to start without him."

Waspinator tilted his head, he never liked Pincer-bot but he was Megatron's second in command so he had to be obeyed.

"No," said Terrorsaur, "If he's late, then you're taking the spider with you. I'm staying here until I have my battle buddy with me."

Waspinator held back a sparkling like chuckle at Terrorsaur's reply to what Pincer-bot had said, he flew around the corner as if nothing had happened.

"Did Wazzpinator miss any thing?" He asked with an innocent tilt of his head.

"On my way." Wintersong said, taking off through the trees and was out of the forest in a few minutes. She'd probably be chewed out later for not reporting in and luckily it wouldn't take her too long to get to Axalon which after a bit she saw the ship ahead and picked up the pace making it to the lift. Waiting for it to come down the tigeress gave a look around for a moment before stepping onto it, the lift going back up to enter the main bridge. Already several of the others were there. "Maximize." Wintersong let out a small growl and stepped off the lift, listening to what was going on.

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Snow Trix only glanced over as the others came but only looked after Starshadow before looking to Megatron again to hear what all needed to be done.

--I will post first thing tomorrow, of all weekends to start this, it happened to be one of my busiest the entire year. XD After I sleep for the next 12 hours straight, life will return to normal again. Sorry for the delay!--

(Hmm.. Star, remember your playing Blackarachnia as well, or are you going to pass her onto someone else?)

Megatron stood infront of the transport as he watched his troops gather, looking down towards Sonar as he bowed. Glowstick floated in with a raised eye ridge at the scene, then transformed to robot mode floating mere inches from the ground, he then looked towards Starshadow surprised.

starshadow wrote:"Hey Tentacles, Teddy Bear, Foxy, Batman! Let's get going already!"

I thought you hate these kind of missions..? he said in a puzzled tone, then shrugged floating towards her. Well I have.. some good news I guess. I finished perfecting a prototype amphibious system a little while ago based on your modular armor components since they're an easy development platform. You'll find the armor in the Leviathan's quarters room. Don't go too far down though, the seals will break and you'll start filling with salt water internally.. (Water speed 3 via back propeller accessory,mouth weapons disabled while underwater due to the battle mask designed to prevent drowning.)

Glowstick then looked towards the others, the most likely option would be to pick a flier since at least any of them would be able to leave or operate the Leviathan and would be far faster then any land based swimmer. His eyes them dimmed in a frown like expression. Lets see.. Sonar and Starshadow hate each other, Nemesis gets on my nerves,Manterror can't operate the controls without breaking them, and Terrorsaur seems kinda clingy to Waspinator right now.. No matter who I choose is going to cause conflict..

As Glowstick turned pondering over the situation, then floated back startled as Tarantulus silently appeared in front of him Hehehe.. Feeling under the weather? Perhaps I should take over your mission..

Ah..er.. no. I'll do just fine with Star and Sonar! Well we better be getting ready.. Glowstick's optic twitched, realizing he just said Sonar's name out of habit. Well so much for tactics, least the worse he'd likely do is get sea sick..

Tarantulus snickered, while thinking to himself Drat! Such a perfect opportunity.. why couldn't the spaceship have crashed on land? Hrm.. maybe I can steal some parts off it without the cephalopod noticing.., he then crossed his arms walking towards the rest of the group.

(Eh...I sucked at rping BA.)

Blackarachnia arrived after Scorponok reached to the hanger.
"Finally, a mission.." she said.

Starshadow raised an optic ridge when the spider came then turned to Glowstick.
"I uh...never mind."

When the squid mention about she suit, her tail was wagging. "Aww Glowstick! you shouldn't have." she put both palms on her cheeks, blushing.

The large praying mantis had been roaming the wilds for the past few days, still with no sign of any Cybertronian. The whole world seemed to be a vast landscape of fleshy creatures for his own delights. Perhaps exile was to be his punishment, the creature thought to himself. If this was true, Primal had likely dropped him off on some random planet, doomed to wander alone for eternity. The prospect of this actually delighted the crazed insect. He would take over the world and enslave its populace to bow-down to himself or die under his heel.

While he had once been a maximal, a guard for the Golden Disk, Manterror performed an act of betrayal. Instead of keeping the prized artifact safe, the Predicons gave him an offer which he couldn't refuse and instead he worked as an inside-man, killing many of his former allies in order to clear a path. While he had succeeded to an extent, he was taken offline by one of his targets and later brought to justice by the Maximals. The last thing he remembered was being shoved into a stasis pod and getting a good look at Optimus Primal, who was standing-by, watching. He woke up again on this world. Alone.

Or at least, for the moment. Directly above him, a flaming object came crashing towards the planet. It was headed towards the edge of the forest he had been living in, not far from his current location. Intrigued, he kicked off from the ground and began fluttering his wings. He was in Beast Mode, and had been doing nothing of importance before witnessing this spectacle. Perhaps it would prove to be just falling debris, but possibly, another of his own kind - an exile from Cybertron whom Manterror could ally himself with to conquer this world!

Soaring through the trees, the Mantis set off towards Inferno's future pod.

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"Damage to hatch seals and internals. Attempting to initiate emergency sequence." A computer voice spoke after crashing down in the barren lands of grid 'Scavos'. The ship had dealt heavy damage to the Maximal Stasis pod and the surrounding energon had not done much to help matters either. Ripples of energy coursed through its charred remains at regular intervals. A large rock had also managed to land on top of its large escape hatch. The prospect of life was beginning to look grim for the protoform inside.

"Systems damage to extensive. Activation program offline. Spark fading. Repair required before protoform ceases to exist in 20.8 cycles."

((Modified the episode slightly to fit our purposes. I'll keep a countdown going for the Maximals to arrive before her spark fades, so get here quick!))

((OOC: Hey maybe one of these missions Tarantulas and Sonar should team up and the spider could try to get Sonar to join him in doing what he does best.))

I thought you hate these kind of missions..? Well I have.. some good news I guess. I finished perfecting a prototype amphibious system a little while ago based on your modular armor components since they're an easy development platform. You'll find the armor in the Leviathan's quarters room. Don't go too far down though, the seals will break and you'll start filling with salt water internally..

Sonar didn't say anything but he chuckled at the thought of Starshadow drowning. He turned when he saw and heard the male spider.

Hehehe.. Feeling under the weather? Perhaps I should take over your mission..

THere was some thing about that Spider that Sonar liked, he just didn't know what it was yet.

Ah..er.. no. I'll do just fine with Star and Sonar! Well we better be getting ready..

Sonar noticed that the spider looked crestfallen and he inwardly smiled.

Looks like I'm not the only one who has plans within Megatron's plans. He thought with an inward smirk.

"Shall we move out before the Maximal get to the pods and that ship? It's probably in a million pieces by now, I doubt who ever was flying it surived the crash." Sonar commented.

"I uh...never mind." "Aww Glowstick! you shouldn't have."

Aww, I wanna throw up now. Sonar thought rolling his optics.

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((OOC: Time for Inferno's pod to land. That is all I will write for the time being for the crazy ant's pod.))

A small amount of wind picked up at the pods thrusters touch the ground sending dust and debis in all directions as it landed safely on the ground with a small hiss. The pods scanned itself to check if there was any internal damage.