"OC Episode #4"

[New Moon]

Feralnight looked towards the others, nodding when Optimus addressed them before looking back to the group she was assigned to, "I think I'll fly ahead of you three. Some aerial recon may give us some advantage or at least a chance to keep a watch on the Levianthan if it's on this mission." She said spreading her wings just slightly before folding them again.

Frilla looked at Optimus, following him out of the hanger. "No problem Optimus." She climbed onto his back, being lighter then Rattrap but still she hoped not dead weight for the gorilla. She wasn't afraid of heights, having been carried in the air a few times already, once by Glowstick when trying to retrieve Feralnight's pod and being int he Levianthan wasn't that bad.

[Night-Hunter]

"I like the way you think, 'Fangs. 'Course, they might be able to blast apart a boulder. Meh. As long as it slows 'em down."

Saber smirked then shrugged.

"A really, really big boulder."

Joyride huh? Guess your driving then Rattrap.

"I was kidding," "Besides, if I'm in charge of this mission, then I choose who drives. Which will be Saber, since she thinks she's so much more sophisticated than me."

Saber just stared at Rattrap before replying a few seconds later. "Alright, You're the bot incharge of this little mission."

But if we crash it's not my fault. She added to herself.

[Wintersong]

Wintersong came outside the hanger, glancing over at Optimus ad Frilla before reverting to beast mode. Hopefully with those two getting ahead they'd have some better chance at getting the pod then the Predacons. "Ready to go when you are DInobot." She said looking back at the raptor.

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Snow Trix didn't pay much attention to what was going on, finding the new look Starshadow was showing off quite unnecessary. "You know by the time we actually really get going at all the Maximals will have both pods, and maybe even discovered what in that ship long before we even get the two goof ball fliers out there." She remarked finally looking to her so called teammates. Instead of doing much they were still planning and sitting around.

She didn't really have an agenda nor plans like some of the other Predacons, only thing on her mind was to be rid of the Maximals. Conquest, power...who needed them. If Megatron, Tarantulas, or whoever on that side wanted it they could have it and Snow Trix failed to see the reason for such goals when there were other things out there instead.

[Alak]

Terrorsaur heard Megatron's command override and patted Waspinator on the back.

"Good enough for me!" he smiled, referring to the leader's orders.

Walking behind Scorponok, he noticed that the arthropod did not seem to notice that he was being followed. Hopefully, the 1st Lieutenant would not think this was insubordination on their part. It would not matter anyhow, since Megatron would rip his head off as soon as the he tried to yell at the flyers. Terrorsaur checked out the inside of the vessel. Even though he had already been here once before, the pterodactyl was still unfamiliar the Leviathan's features. It was apparent that the squid had put a lot of effort into developing this ship. What was more impressive was that he did it without Tarantulas' help. Terrorsaur had no doubt that the vehicle would probably be more formidable with the spider's input, but Tarantulas had an exceedingly bad habit of disappearing during downtime. Predacons liked to roam around unrestrained, and Terrorsaur was one of them. Still, something about the spider spooked him. Tarantulas vanishes without a word and without a trace, and yet, he mystically reappears as soon as Megatron needs him. Terrorsaur shook his head and checked out the rest of the team that was on board. The purple spider was not the only one he harbored ill feelings towards. In a way, he had something against every single Predacon here with the exception of Waspinator.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

"No problem Optimus."

Standing still for the lizard to hop on, she was a little lighter than Rattrap but even his weight never bothered the leader. It was the rat's constant squirming and whining that distracted him. For Frilla, her beast mode would allow her to hang on and protect her from any energon build-up. "Hold on tight," Optimus highly recommended to her. "Prime jets, on!" As soon as his thrusters ignited, he blasted off of the ground and flew up toward the sky roughly at a 65º angle. They were high in the air within a few seconds. At that speed, sometimes Rattrap complained about whiplash. Banking a little, Primal guided his turn with his arms straight out in front of him and headed for the pod's location. It should be a pretty straight forward run for Wintersong and Dinobot below.

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"I think I'll fly ahead of you three. Some aerial recon may give us some advantage or at least a chance to keep a watch on the Levianthan if it's on this mission."

"Works for me, Feral," Rattrap agreed. "But don't get too far ahead of us, all right?"

"Alright, You're the bot incharge."

"Yeah, but everybody's gotta learn how to drive this thing sooner or later. Might as well learn now, right?" he grinned at Saber. Rattrap was already pretty familiar with most of the functions of the Nomad. He had spent quite a lot of time helping Rhinox fix things on the tansportation vehicle and add upgrades and whatnot. He wasn't the one who needed to be more experienced with it. In case of any kind of emergency, all of the Maximals should get familiarize themselves with it. He wasn't just picking on Saber-Fang to embarrass her or anything. "So, uh, let's get rollin', guys!" announced Rattrap as he climbed the ladder up to the bridge and took a seat.

[WorpeX]

Breaking clear of the forest, the Praying Mantis emerged into a clearing of trees and rocky ground. The flyer was still in beast mode and airborne. Beating his wings faster, he brought himself up to greater elevation to get a better view. It seemed the comet was a stasis pod, just like the one he had been inside. His first guess must have been correct: the maximals were dumping exiles onto this planet. It was likely that who ever was in this pod had no feelings towards saving this planet or even the maximals themselves. If he could get the protoform online, together they could take over the planet and rule its inhabitants for a millenia!

"Manterror, TEERRORRIZEE!!"" He shrieked as he cried out the Predicon activation code for the first time. He rather liked the sound of it actually, it had a much better ring to it than saying, 'maximize'. Now whenever he transformed his opponent would know that he had no plans to simply transform and flee, he wanted to terrorize and that was exactly what he would do. However, using this wording did pose a slight problem. It meant that he would be saying the word 'Terror' twice in a row, which was rather awkward. Perhaps though, it would further emphasis his point that he wished to terrorize...

...suddenly realizing his mind was getting sidetracked by trivialities, and now in robot form, he swooped down towards the stasis pod. He landed softly at its side, his knees buckling only slightly in the process. Folding his wings back behind him, he examined the prize. It seemed to be completely intact, although unresponsive. Perhaps it was a blank? Moving one of his hulking claws forward, he attempted to prod the outside, but it had no apparent effect.

With no success on his first try, it attempted again, this time slightly harder and again, harder. Still no progress. Even kicking the thing proved to do nothing. He suddenly wished he knew how to work electronics, technology was not his specialty. Taking a step back, he took a moment to decide how to resolve this problem. Perhaps it's voice activated? he thought, and decided to give it a try.

Moving both claws into a sideways angle, he lifted them up, slowly. "Arise my friend! Leave your prison behind and join me in a quest for world domination!" A giant toothy smile appeared on the Predicon's face. One which the Maximal's would soon learn to despise.

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"Repair required before protoform ceases to exist in 13.7 cycles."

[NaitoKage]

You know by the time we actually really get going at all the Maximals will have both pods, and maybe even discovered what in that ship long before we even get the two goof ball fliers out there.

Megatron let out a gruff sound of frustration listening to the small female fox. I suppose you may have a point. On the other hand without explaining what your doing, you'll be just as useless Snowtrix..

Glowstick got up walking towards the pilot controls, opening the chamber and climbing inside. Right.. preparing for launch, all personnel get seated.. or grab onto something. he then said, flipping a few switches as the Leviathan started to powerup, the main screen switching to show a display of the outside of the ship.

One of the manipulators extended on the Leviathan coming up behind Waspinator and pushing him into the cargobay suddenly, it then moved back as the cargobay closed. Glowstick then activated his radio Nemesis, I don't see you in the hanger, get your slow feathered butt out here. You're on air support.


A moment later the ship started to float and move forward, exiting the Darksyde slowly, Glowstick then increased the throttle causing the Leviathan to move faster and gain altitude, soon moving high into the air and leaving the Darksyde in the distance behind it.

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Icebreaker nodded in respond to Rattrap, climbing the ladder to the upper level of the Nomad and soon taking seat.

Rhinox picked up some tools off a table, then transformed to his beast mode exiting out of the Nomad and then the Axalon hanger Alright, lets move out! he then shouted as he started to run.

[Alak]

Orcariner charged out of the hanger bay and squinted as he ran, blinded by the sun's rays. That was one thing he liked about living outdoors. The elements never really surprised him no matter how harsh or how timid. Whenever he would stay inside the Axalon for longer periods, Orcariner would leave feeling like a young bot who played video games for ages in the dark, only to be seared by natural light.

"Beast mode!" he exclaimed.

Transforming back into his killer whale form, Orcariner's gravity lifts hummed to life. The marine Maximal surged after Rhinox into the wild. There was no time to waste here, considering the location of this particular pod, they would have to expend every bit of energy they can afford to get there before the Predacons do.

[Night-Hunter]

"Good enough for me!"

"Doezzz that mean Wazzzpinator and Terro-bot are going now?" He asked.

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"Yeah, but everybody's gotta learn how to drive this thing sooner or later. Might as well learn now, right?"

Saber couldn't help but smile at Rattraps grin before following him to the bridge and into the drivers seat and placed her hands on the controls.

Wow, this feels nice. She thought.

"So, uh, let's get rollin', guys!"

Saber acivated the the Nomad and slowly pulled the controls back, causing the Maximal transport to levitate off the ground.

"If your not in your seats, you better get into one quick." She warned.

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"No internal damage detected. Beginning activation program." The pods computer said.

The pods outter scanner appeared and started scanning the area but for some reason it stopped and the scanner once again vanished within the pod.

[New Moon]

Feralnight waited for the Nomad to start up before she came outside the hanger, "Beast mode." She transformed and took flight, not too far at least. "I'll keep a couple feet ahead of you guys Saber-Fang but keep in sight and radar range." She said over the com-link then flew towards the direction the ship had crashed.

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Frilla hung on, keeping her head low at first as Optimus shot into the air, careful of his prime jets so not to get burned by mistake. When they started heading to their destination she couldn't help noticing how different it was flying this way. The one time Glowstick had given her a lift he had been more of floating and flying slower, having to use the wind for help where as Optimus was far faster and the jets certainly gave him that help. But not once did she complain, only keeping an eye out, watching for her former teammates to give the Maximal leader some extra eyes.

[starshadow]

"NIGHTSTAR-SAMA!!" Cerulia called out. The sky was getting dark and the winds are getting colder each moment. Her optics blinked when a few raindrops fell on her face.
"Cerulia to Vengeance." there was only a static. "Cerulia to Vengeance, do you read me?"

"This..Night..are..doing..in there?"

"Eh, she's still missing.."
"Keep...earchin.."

Cerulia's blue rings glowed dimly. "Nightstar-SAMAAAA!!" she screamed in fear as thunder started to roar.

[Wintersong]

Turning her pale blue optics to Megatron she merely gaze him a glare, "Make it up as we go along bonehead. You wanted get those pods and that ship so quickly in the first place and sitting around chattering like a couple of trainees over energon will get us nowhere. Improv is sometimes a good key factor Megatron when your unsure completely or don't have a plan, use what you got and go from there." Snow Trix countered coldly. She held no respect to this slag heap of a leader only following his orders so to eventually leave this dirtball planet. Sure she never really bothered with orders but Snow Trix did want to leave like everyone else, get home to the life she had known.

Yet at the same time the planet seemed a big challenge too. It was about survival here, only the strongest and more cunning would ever be able to live here. Snow Trix couldn't help smiling at the thought of what the war would bring to test them, already there was the alien threat along with the Maximals and then the natural dangerous of the untamed wild. Truly it seemed fate had picked a place to test them and thus far Snow Trix had her back on power and conquest and was focused more on the survival part of being stranded.

[Phoenix]

Nemesis sighed as she followed the larger ship, coincidentally the same ship she had smashed up on her earlier visit there but it had now been fully repaired.

The Avian female believed this would end up being yet another futile chase, since by the time it had taken the Predacons to move out, surely the Maximals would have gotten to and recovered those silly pods everyone were so interested in getting. The pods held little interest to Nemesis, as she was hoping to recover technology capable of getting her off this planet and return her to her former state of glory.. as a Decepticon.

[NaitoKage]

(Alrighty, awesome. We finally got out of the ships. Now like I said, I'd have everybody warp ahead. So based on the approach the maximals made, Optimus Primal and Frilla would probably be getting close to the landing area first which also means I wouldn't be surprised if they were noticed by Manterror , the maximals taking the land route JUST making it to North America, and the Predacon transport in between both areas soon to land and unload it's troops.

The Maximal transport will probably be coming up on japan quickly since they could basically beeline over to the crashed ship since they decided not to take any maximals. I also updated the first post with the groups following which leaders.)

[Blazemane]

Steelclaw was amazed at how straight the answer was that Blackarachnia had given him, so he laughed out loud.

"Alright. Do you want me to tell them that?"

Make it up as we go along bonehead...

Well... maybe there wouldn't be a chance to get to know Snow Trix after all.

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Cheetor ran out right after Rhinox and got next to him.

"So, should me and Whitegrazer run ahead, y'know... to get the lay of the land and get good guys by the pod as soon as possible?"

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Ready to go when you are Dinobot.

"Then let us not waste any time," he replied and took off at a full sprint.