\u201cWhat about the tri-scan maneuver?\u201d asked Shadow to Agus Atmadja, the Komodo dragon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cInitiating scan,\u201d reported Agus. A buzzing filled the air. \u201cNegative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDamn it!\u201d snarled Shadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaybe we should abandon this project, sobat,\u201d remarked Agus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to call it quits yet, Agus,\u201d growled Shadow. \u201cWe\u2019re going to find out what\u2019s inside the meteors. Speaking of, have you found out where they landed?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m afraid not,\u201d replied Agus. \u201cI can get one of the new Tech Beetles to look for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDon\u2019t bother,\u201d dismissed Shadow, \u201cwe need them focused on those crystals. I\u2019m assuming that there are no conclusive results on them?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNone, aside from the fact that the insane radiation they put out doesn\u2019t affect us in any way, shape, or form,\u201d answered Agus. Shadow was about to drill the Komodo dragon when the mobilization alarm started blaring. Shadow switched gears and brought up the mission statement. Eggman\u2019s army had started attacking the western outskirts of Station Square and was met with three giant robots of non Mobian design. A firefight had started and Team Dark, along with the new Shade Platoon, was to go and beat back Eggman and take the robots in for questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll talk at a later time,\u201d growled Shadow. He sped towards the hangar and met up with Rouge and Omega.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTwo factions of robots fighting each other,\u201d droned Omega, \u201cit is a good day for destruction!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKeep the property damage to a minimum,\u201d ordered Shadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAww!\u201d groaned Omega. \u201cI never get to have any fun!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll troops ready, sir!\u201d reported Commander Hanson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLet\u2019s move people!\u201d ordered Shadow as he boarded the drop ship. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a robot battle going on, and I want to find out about the unknown robots!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things had gone from bad to worse for the Autobots. Once Optimus, Jazz, Sonic and Amy arrived at Ironhide\u2019s position, Eggman\u2019s army was laughing at Ironhide. He had taken the form of a red van with hover generators where wheels should be and his cannons on the roof and had a red echidna in cowboy getup as a holo form. Optimus and Jazz just looked at each other and wondered what the hell was going on. Jazz\u2019s vehicle mode looked like a saucer with the left and right sides of it cut off and the whole thing was smoothed out and rounded down. The hover generators were located in the same manner as Ironhide and the rear had tail-fins. Optimus tried to reason with the army, but they didn\u2019t listen and started to open fire. It took quick transformations to robot mode and a quick setup of defensive barriers to hold off the volley of laser fire. Jazz\u2019s transformation consisted of the rear extending away from the car on legs and the new component swung down and split down the middle to make legs. The front swung down to become the chest, making the doors turn into wings and the top of the car become his back. His arms swung down from underneath the front of the car as it moved to be the chest and the hover generators rotated to the sides of his shoulders. His head popped out, with a helmet design that made it have short horns and had a black color to it. He had a blue visor over his optics. Ironhide\u2019s transformation was simplistic in form. The front extended, allowing for the middle and back to extend and split into four limbs. The doors swung up to become shoulder pads and the top two limbs swung to the sides of the torso and hands popped out from each end. The bottom limbs swung down to become legs with feet coming out of the bottom. His head popped up once the main body was complete. That\u2019s when the firefight began. \u201cThis is getting out of hand!\u201d hissed Optimus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOptimus,\u201d called Sonic, \u201cmind giving me and Amy some cover fire?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat for?\u201d asked Optimus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLet\u2019s just say that Sonic and I have a talent for splitting those kinds of robots open,\u201d replied Amy. Optimus was dubious but agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAutobots, give the Mobians covering fire!\u201d he ordered. Sonic and Amy charged at the robot army and started smashing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPriority one Hedgehog!\u201d shouted a robot. Sonic spin dashed it and it fell apart in an instant. This was repeated for 20 more times. The Autobots were amazed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou bots seeing this?!\u201d quizzed Optimus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHow can we not?\u201d asked Jazz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCan we keep our minds on the fight?!\u201d snapped Ironhide. Optimus opened his mouth to retort when a trio of civilian vehicles followed by a full G.U.N. squadron approached. This squadron was Shade Platoon, Shadow\u2019s elite squadron. The civilian vehicles were an ambulance built like Ironhide being driven by a white echidna in full medical gear and a pair of smoothed out Volkswagens driven by a red hornet and a yellow bumblebee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBy the Allspark,\u201d sighed Optimus. \u201cI thought we covered our tracks!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBee, Cliff, and Ratch might have some explaining to do,\u201d snarled Ironhide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSave it,\u201d replied Jazz. As they were talking, the drivers of the civilian vehicles disappeared and the vehicles changed into robot mode. Ratchet was the ambulance. His transformation was like Ironhide\u2019s. Bumblebee and Cliffjumper\u2019s transformations were the same as well. The rear split and tilted to become shoulder pads for the arms that swung from the undercarriage to the shoulder connections. The fronts of the vehicles extended on leg like limbs and they swung up and separated to become feet. The top of the cars and the doors rotated 180 degrees and rotated to the back of the robots so the doors looked like wings. Once their heads popped out, the Stinger brothers were ready for battle. They set up defensive barriers as well and allowed their weapons to reveal themselves from their arms. The Stinger brothers started blazing away at Eggman\u2019s army. As the Autobots kept up the fire, Shadow ordered Shade Platoon to observe. Optimus noticed this and turned towards Shade Platoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWell?\u201d he asked. \u201cAre you going to help us? There are some civilians that\u2019ll get caught in the crossfire. Just saying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt the moment,\u201d replied Shadow, \u201cI think observation is key.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cConversion units,\u201d came an order from the head of Eggman\u2019s army, \u201cconvert into bipedal mode.\u201d That\u2019s when the computer controlled tanks surprised the Autobots. These tanks had four treads and a rotating barrel. Bracers clamped around the sides of the tank treads and had three fingered hands on the front treads and feet on the back treads. The treads extended and formed arms and legs while the body was the main rotating gun barrel. A small head popped up from the middle. What once were robot tanks were tank like, bipedal robots. They swatted Sonic and Amy over to the Autobots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRatchet!\u201d called Optimus. Ratchet transformed and drove to where Sonic and Amy landed. He got them inside his ambulance mode while Sonic was protesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCome on!\u201d he argued. \u201cI\u2019m still kicking!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot in the mood to argue, sir,\u201d hissed Ratchet. He finally shoved Sonic into the ambulance and bathed Sonic and Amy in a blue light. \u201cThat should get basic Mobian Biology out of the way,\u201d he mused. \u201cWe\u2019ll have you back on your feet soon enough.\u201d While that was going on, Shade Platoon had decided to join in the firefight. The bipedal tanks, however, had crossed their arms in front and started generating shields. Laser fire just bounced off. Optimus and Jazz started planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat do you say,\u201d grinned Optimus, \u201cmake our sensei proud?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou know it!\u201d cheered Jazz with a smirk. Optimus nodded with the same smirk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAutobots, give Jazz and I covering fire!\u201d he ordered as they leapt over their barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPrime, get back here!\u201d shouted Ironhide. Too late, Optimus and Jazz were charging into the enemy\u2019s ranks. They intended to use hand to hand combat on the enemy. Stupid, yes, but it caught the robots off guard when their fists managed to get past the defense shields. Their sensei was an ancient Cybertronian martial artist from a time long before the war started. He always passed down his teachings to his students to keep the martial arts alive. Optimus and Jazz demonstrated three of the disciplines that day. They first used Crystalocution to disable the tank robots. This discipline is one of the deadliest as it focuses on striking a robot at its metal\u2019s fracture points. This, in turn, causes the robot to fall apart in pieces. Optimus and Jazz had plenty of qualms about using it against sentient robots but used it against the robots of Eggman. Once the tank bots were down, Jazz swapped over to his usual style of Metallikato, a martial art that focuses heavily on spirituality and encourages having a wide range of attack strategies. It was perfect for a bot that goes with the flow, like Jazz. Optimus preferred Circuit-Su. It was a martial art that focuses on the willpower of the practitioner. Optimus had a lot of willpower to succeed and live life and so he put that energy into his attacks. Shadow added to the cover fire with his usual Chaos Spear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re losing too many soldiers!\u201d called a robot from Eggman\u2019s army. \u201cRetreat!\u201d As they left, a robot turned to face the Autobots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHere\u2019s a welcome gift, robots!\u201d he taunted. \u201cCompliments of Doctor Eggman!\u201d He fired off a shot from his tank\u2019s barrel towards Optimus. Optimus leaned to his right to dodge and fired a shot from his own pistol at the tank. The tank exploded, but, amazingly, didn\u2019t cause property damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOH YEAH!\u201d cheered Optimus. \u201cVictory Dance!\u201d Optimus and Jazz started dancing like loons while Ratchet got Sonic and Amy out and transformed. Ironhide meanwhile was talking to Shadow. He explained the whole situation and said that the Autobots need a base of operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWell,\u201d hissed Shadow, \u201cuntil that day, you bots are coming with us to answer some questions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll right. Now, if y\u2019all will excuse me,\u201d Ironhide replied to Shade Platoon. He stood up and grabbed a staff with a wrench head on one end and whacked Optimus and Jazz while they danced with their backs to Ironhide. The blow knocked them out and they fell flat on their faces in a comedic fashion. The wrench head of the staff broke off, but Ironhide didn\u2019t know until a few seconds later. He then turned to Ratchet, who looked like he was holding something. A sheepish grin and wave from Ironhide made Ratchet utter a phrase that would be repeated during the Autobots\u2019 time on Mobius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIRONHIDE, I NEEDED THAT!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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