Deathknell: Dead Run

Log Title: Deathknell: Dead Run

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Date: July 29, 2016

Summary: PART TWO OF THE DEATHKNELL FINALE. Dal Matia's at her strongest in Silent Grill, and has legions of zombies, dark science, horrific guardians, and a dead Cityformer. The combined Cybertronian forces have... well, they can turn into cars, so that's cool I guess....It is a game of HOT POTATO as the boss battle rages on... not that Death itself could stop Dal Matia's wrath.

As logged by Cyclonus - Friday, July 29, 2016, 7:07 PM

Silent Grill - Helex[]

The Silent Grill is a ruined part of Helex that none dare go. It contains a tunnel network that is the rumoured home of cultists, their consorts, and things that are far, far worse.

Deep within the shell of Cybertron lies a dead city, And like a tumor, Silent Grill sprawls out beneath the surface, intent on destroying its world. Sickly green energy rolls and roils beneath the surface, as monsters and the dead linger far, far too long in its toxic environments.

The scene opens with a hill. Headlights are seen in the darkness as the Autobot forces roar through the depths. The assembled team, with newly rejoined Elita One, burn some rubber as they careen through the Dead City. And yet, as they move, the roads seem to stymie them. Roads cut off suddenly, or turn away...or sometimes, the Bots just seem to be completely off course. It is as if the city itself wants everyone lost...or dead.

Perhaps it will be the Decepticon menace, the airborne fliers who will pluck victory from the Autobot's hand. But would they want the Energon Rejuvenation Matris to destroy the Dead Sea...or use it to enslave the planet?

A cackle of laugher splits the air, a plume of that sickly green energy appears ahead from seven different places. Tele-spamming around, Dal Matia appears finally in the fourth spot, her staff overhead. "YES...YESSS! KOME. KOME HOME, OTTOBOTS! NUN NOW KEN SAVE YOU!"

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Off from the main group, Optimus Prime struggles with the main valve, applying his phenomenal strength to jam the mechanism, at least temporarily. The valve groans against the poison within trying to escape, but it is contained... for now. Satisfied, Prime transforms, and with engine roaring heads off to rejoin his fellow Autobots.

Optimus Prime's arms fold in, as his legs collapse and fold back behind him as he takes his Semi Truck form!

Quickswitch transforms into his assault beast mode.

Elita One folds down to become a pink cybercar.

Cyclonus has found a high position looking over the others. Watching the Autobots race through the ever-changing labyrinth, Cyclonus stays in place, oxidizing laser steady as he picks off the Dal Matia-allied Seacons and then turns his attention to her more plentiful cultists. << These Autobots are fools, >> he radios down to Slugfest, << and they will let the world die with their incompetence. Get the device and deliver it to the dead energon sea. I will destroy anyone who impedes your progress. >>

Quickswitch transforms into his assault beast mode, cubic body twisting into the horrific primitive mode. It *howls* defiance at Dal Matia, fury shuddering its very frame, "Get that thing out of here!" Quickswitch growls to the assembled Autobots, "I'll deal with *her*." The weaponized Autobot squares himself to leap at the dread Dal Matia, jaws slavering.

The Sweep Leader hovers near Cyclonus as he makes his proclamation over the radio. His Sweeps are behind him, ready to strike. He flexes his talons almost twitchily.

>> Quickswitch misses Dal Matia with Pounce. <<

The Pink racecar is in lead position, at the moment, of the Autobot team. Elita One veers across the wide road, dodging the weapons fire from the mad cultist, leaving a wash of green energy in her wake. << Keep her attention, Quickswitch! We've got to keep in motion! >> Suddenly as the team comes down from a large overpass, the street suddenly ENDS! The sixteen lane highway just ends abruptly, leaving little room to drive.

<< Break off! We're out of road..... >> Elita One transforms suddenly, and puts her shoulder up. Best First-Pink braces for the impact, and smashes into a window. The camera angle shifts to the side as she shoulder charges into, and out of the building, leaving a wake of ruined hab suites, and dust in her wake. << But not out of options! >>

Driving erratic was one of Turborat's best things. It helps to dodge when you're already halfway through dodging! He wasn't so much 'following' Elita as it just seemed they were heading in the same direction at the same time. With a loud BANG as his engine backfires in stress, he spots a gitter amongst the dust and rubble and darts that way, transforming to grab at the thing without thinking and start to simply run - whoops, can't go that way! He skids to a halt, whimpers, and turns to head the other way, his shoulder burning from the earlier attack.

Dal Matia seems to notice Quickswitch before he moves. Her wide-brimmed rattan hat low over her face, a hand holding it in position. A low chuckle emanates from her vocoder as the great beast leaps up towards her. Suddenly her hat is raised up, and the gleaming eyes of madness are upon Quickswitch. His jaws bite upon nothing but the stale taste of Dead Energon as she teleports.

With a cackle, Dal Matia reveals herself sixty feet away! She teleports again and again, bringing up more clouds of that nauseous energy. Silhouetted by the backlight, she raises her staff. "ohhhhhh. You challenge me? You don't even know who you are!" She uses two of her four hands to gesture her staff towards Quickswitch, attempting to overcome his mind with some very harsh truth about his life.

Cackles disappear into the night, as the Necrobot raises its head, in anticipation...

>> Dal Matia strikes Quickswitch with Inescapable Fate <Medium>. <<

"Okay!" the tiny stego radios back to Cyclonus, as he prepares to go after the device in question, rushing up to it to grab it in mouf!

>> Slugfest misses Turborat with Nip. <<

Benin-Jeri struggles to keep up with the others. As Dal Matia teleports away, Ben transforms into his chopper mode, and races towards her, charging up his front-mounted lasers. "You know," he quotes Jeremy Renner, "Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie." He revs his engine and pulls forward, trying to lock onto the ever-teleporting villain and preparing his lasers to fire.

However, as Ben suddenly runs out of road, he yells, "Stop, in the name of love!" and transforms quickly back into the robot mode, bringing around his spiked round shield just in time as he smashes into the building in front of him, disappearing through a broken window. After a moment of silence, a voice floats back through the window claiming, "I'm OK!"

Snaptrap finally arrives at where all the action is, and just in time to see Cyclonus take Seawing out. He pulls out his atom smasher rifle and fires on the purple jet thing, looking almost stoic as he does so. "Seawing is a member of my team. You will pay for his life with yours, Decepticon." He then looks to Dal Matia. "You are the cult leader." This is not a question. "I am here to protect you. If the Autobots and Decepticons want you, they will have to go through -me-."

>> Snaptrap misses Cyclonus with Atom Smasher <High>. <<

After Snaptrap telegraphs his attack, Cyclonus has time to duck down and get out of the way. "Going through you will not be a problem, Seacon," Cyclonus intones, and brings his weapon around to aim it down at Snaptrap. Cyclonus rises to his full height, and carefully aims his Oxidation Laser down at Snaptrap. "You should not have allied yourself with our enemies. Now you will die." He calms squeezes the trigger.

>> Cyclonus misses Snaptrap with Oxidation Laser <Low>. <<

As the sounds of battle reach his audio receptors, Prime slams the hammer down as he pegs his speedometer to maximum. Quickly, a target is selected: Dal Matia, hovering near the overpass on which he is now traveling. Never let it be said the leader of the Autobots didn't have guts... in fact, he's got plenty of guts, as he gives his thrusters a quick burst as he comes flying off the overpass, aiming right for the witch, landing spot be damned.

>> Optimus Prime rams Dal Matia! <<

The mysterious sixchanger is waylaid with a floor, a virtual torrent of shattered images and emotions flood around him--the inside of a glass tube filled with fluid--vitals being checked--scientists--telling him to transform, into what he has six modes--six--terminate the enemy, no matter what--No, it's not true!! Quickswitch moans through the horror of truth. He would rather lies from Dal Matia, than /this./ Not this..

He had transformed to robot mode and clutched his head, shrieking at the horror of what he is.

As Prime rams Dal Matia, however, the stricken Sixchanger reaches out blindly with his blasters and fires upon her! Quickswitch transforms into his robot mode.

>> Quickswitch misses Dal Matia with Photon Blaster <Medium>. <<

<< I--I--th-think s-so, >> the rattles Sixchanger replies to Elita One.

Jetfire 's burners streak across the landscape. He approaches the area and quickly kills his engines, ready to provide air support. With the trademark transformation soundbite, Jetfire transforms into Gerwalk mode.

Scourge sighs as the tiny stego fails to obtain the macguffin. He swoops down to try to relieve the mech of the device, baring his talons, ready to slice and dice.

>> Scourge strikes Turborat with Claw. <<

Turborat dropped The Energon Rejuvenation Matris.

Laserfire and 18 wheeled semis are flying through the air. The city just seems to envelop everyone who dares enter it. The towers seem that much higher, the paths so much more confusing, and Elita One finds herself on a high twisting path that ends up running parallel with Turborat. << Turborat, I see you now! I saw a clearing ahead at 23 degrees. Make for it, I'll get the Con off of your tail! >>

The pink techcar shifts, and with preternatural grace, Elita One flips forwards, arms out to land on a pillared rooftop nearby. She shifts into a shooting position with a smooth practice to her, and fires at Slugfest, intent on warding him off, but then Scourge himself appears from above like a ghoul, and rakes at Turborat. Elita One scowls, and shifts her aim towards him.

>> Elita One strikes Scourge with Photon-Laser <Medium>. <<

The poor neutral shrieks loudly as he was clawed. There was a loud, explosive BANG as one of his large tires is ripped apart, releasing dirty, pressurized air. The force was enough to send the Neutral tumbling, scrambling to keep his grip on the prize. "I... I can't do this!" he finally blurt. Spotting Benin nearby, he simply CHUCKS the thing to the Junk and turns to bolt into the nearest building!

>> Turborat retreats from the area, leaving itself open to Scourge, Slugfest, Snaptrap, Dal Matia, Quickswitch, Cyclonus, Benin-Jeri, Elita One, Optimus Prime, Sit-Com, and Jetfire. <<

Dal Matia grins. She's always grinning. And how Quickswitch writhes is just....perfect. She folds her arms together, a hand to her hat again as she waits for him. And she knows his secrets. This war was al....and then a semi lands on her. There's actually a flash of light that accompanies her being smashed to the pavement, but it is too late to prevent her from being attacked.

Actually....actually, isn't there something else going on that has a similar theme? Isn't there something else that's teleporting away short distances when attacked? Oh, nevermind, that can't be important.

Dal Matia reappears atop a nearby roof as OPTIMUS PRIME makes his entry. "Ahh Finelly De Matrix Berer...he komes home...." She raises her staff to him, ensuring Quickswitch is in her sights as well. With a flourish of energy, she sweeps her weapon forward, sending out an arc of sheer corrupting influence. "KOME....AND SUFFER FOR IT!"

>> Dal Matia strikes Optimus Prime with Nightmares And Tragedy <Low>. <<
>> Optimus Prime temporarily loses motor functions from the attack! <<

And maybe just maybe, her words have a ring of truth...It was inevitable. There would be no peace on Cybertron evermore. And Optimus would die before he would accept the truth....

Images flood the Matrix-Bearer's processor. Of so many lives, so many battles, and they all end in naught, all end in death. His death. It was always the same. A sacrifice for the greatest of intentions, a noble endeavor. The saddest truth of all though, was that it never changed a thing. The war would continue, and it would swallow his efforts, and forget about him moments later.

Benin-Jeri reappears on the other side of the apartment complex, crawling out of another broken window and looking around with a slightly dazed expression. He gazes up at Dal Matia, and says, "I'm so confused. I thought Miss Cleo died?" Spotting Optimus Prime's dramatic arrival, Ben plays, "The Touch" from his 8-trak backpack, and shakes his head as Optimus rams Dal Matia, quoting, "Damn. That's a cold-ass honky."

Sitting in the window and using part of it as cover, he aims his replica Original Star Trek phaser up at Dal Matia as she's hit. "Fire at will!" he quotes, and then adds, "But not Will Riker. Don't fire at him." Just as he's about to fire, however, Turborat is attacked and chucks the MacGuffin to Ben. Ben drops his phaser far to the ground and leans out the window in a desperate attempt to catch the Matris.

GAME: Benin-Jeri PASSES a DEXTERITY roll of Average difficulty.

The Energon Rejuvenation Matris has left.

Snaptrap easily evades Cyclonus' poor shot and considers his options. Cyclonus is currently firing at him, Dal Matia is being attacked by Optimus Prime and the unnamed Autobot that attacked him in the tunnels, and then there's the thing that everyone seems so intent on having being tossed to some Junkion. However, it looks as if Dal Matia has Prime and the other one under control, leaving him free to deal with one of the others. He takes careful aim at the object carried by the Junkbot with his rifle and takes the shot. He may not know what the thing -is-, per se, but he knows that both sides want it. That makes it valuable. He knows he can't get to it; he's way too slow. So he does the next best thing - he tries to destroy their hopes and dreams.

>> Snaptrap strikes Benin-Jeri with Laser <Medium>. <<

Benin-Jeri dropped The Energon Rejuvenation Matris.

Now that Benin-Jeri has dropped the ball, the tiny stego pelts little feets to try to grab the bouncing shiny glowy thing in mouf!

Slugfest catches up to the bouncy ball macguffin, grabs it in mouf, and then trots over to where Cyclonus is!

As Snaptrap shifts his attack to Benin-Jeri, Cyclonus uses the opportunity to move in. "I wasn't finished with you yet," he intones, and leaps down from the top of the tower from which he was perched, lashing out one of his massive fists at Snaptrap as he lands, using his momentum to try to smash the Seacon leader into the ground. "Move, Slugfest. Deliver the matris. I will deal with this." Cyclonus moves in to keep the Seacon leader occupied so Slugfest can save the world.

The Energon Rejuvenation Matris has left.

>> Cyclonus strikes Snaptrap with Smash. <<

The sixchanger, still shaken by the experience, eyes Dal Matia through blurry HUD-ridden optics, "DAL MATIA!!!" he roars at the top of his lungs, "You are target locked soon to die I will see to it, you will cease to exist..." Quickswitch transforms to Pistol mode, barely able to formulate sentences, so shaken is all of him. The robot twists and turns into pistol mode, aims for her and fires without a shred of mercy. Quickswitch transforms into his jet-propelled laser pistol mode.

>> Quickswitch strikes Dal Matia with Blaster Cannon <Medium>. <<

Optimus Prime lands and transforms to face Dal Matia, just as the power of her staff strikes him. His optics flash as memories of death, destruction, and hopelessness fly through his memory circuits. Overwhelming anguish strikes, and his eyes narrow as his knees tremble, until he finally falls to his knees and grabs his head. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he wails, as he watches comrades die, eons pass as the war rages on, the death and destruction that has wrought Earth these many years, the cries of humans as they perished at Decepticon hands.

Though within him, these images also strike a spark. It is small, then it builds... the fire rages as he focuses on the fact that if no one where to fight as he has... if no one had risen to lead the Autobots against the Decepticon tyranny... the tragedy would be greater than that which he is being forced to relive. Slowly he regains some of his willpower, and his opens open, as his hands slowly clasp together. With all of his might, he swings them at Dal Matia, shouting as loud as his audio outputs can: "NEVER!"

>> Optimus Prime strikes Dal Matia with Never!. <<

Dal Matia is overcome by injuries, losing consciousness.

Elita One continues to engage Scourge, the dread Seeker, keeping the Decepticon Stalker occupied. She leaps backwards onto the same overpass she was on before, and returns fire as Scourge comes in for another pass. << I've got Scourge occupied! Get the Matris moving! We've got to be close to the city center! >>

GAME: Turborat FAILS a COURAGE roll of Very High difficulty.

       -DING-

Dal Matia gestures at Optimus, revelling in his pain, his misery. "De End Times, they come soon. All is lost, Ottobot...all is bec" And then Quickswitch shoots her with full power. It seems to be a recurring theme of hers, and while she is most agile, getting flanked is never easy to work with. The firepower Quickswitch pours onto her causes her to brace against it, even though at first it doesn't seem to touch her, the steady stream of laserfire disrupts her, and starts to scorch her armor.

Who is to say if it was Optimus resisting of his own will, or if it was Quickswitch's timely disruption that kept the Matrixbearer from succumbing to despair. As Optimus struggles, the Cultist howls, "Dis does not end so easily, dat which is deed...." She starts to cackle wildly as Optimus brings up his fists in a mighty hammer punch, slamming them into Dal Matia's chest. The blow so powerful, not only does it knock her off her feet, but it actually shatters her armor on the front AND back of her chestplate. Her light flickers for a moment as she practically hovers in midair from the impact, before slamming to the ground with a crushing sense of finality.

Almost instantly, the groaning sound of machinery whines as a tower activates in the distance, crackling with Dead Energon, and the fallen Dal Matia's form starts to spark, slowly starting to animate once again....

Slugfest was on the run, the problem was that Cyclonus was engaged with Snaptrap. And Slugfest, though a destructive, bitey sort, understood that if the ball holder was in combat, the Matris would dart away from them. There was nothing else to to. With the Energon Rejuvenation Matris in his mouth, Slugfest hurries along in a scamper, in the middle of the underground fight, towards the city center. And there it was ahead off in the distance, a massive well that steamed out that sickly green smoke. It was close, it was finally close!

Benin-Jeri looks as surprised as anyone when he manages to actually catch the MacGuffin as it's thrown to him. "I got it! I got it!" he calls out, holding it high above his head. "I have the power!" He grins brightly, and prepares to hop down, transform, and save Cybertron. Just as he's about to do so, however, ZAP! Ben's hopes and dreams, as well as possibly those of the planet, are blasted right out of his hands, and fall down down down - right into Slugfest's mouth.

Ben follows soon after, plummeting down to the ground and landing on his helmet so hard his head is driven halfway into his chest and one of his arms pop off. He flumps over to the side, and has to take a moment just freeing his head and reattaching his left arm. Once he recovers, he sees poor Sluggy trying to huff it to the lake on tiny little feets. "Hold on, little doggie! I'll help!" Ben runs over and scoops Sluggy up, and then transforms, letting the tiny stego ride to victory in style on the back of a Harley Davidson Fatboy!

Snaptrap is good, but even he can only focus on so many things at one time. As such, when Cyclonus comes down on him, he hits the slightly smaller Seacon like, well, a giant robot coming down from the sky with a hammer fist of DOOM. Snaptrap is driven into the ground by his assailant, grunting a bit as his armor bends in places. This should not be happening! He is Snaptrap, a force to be reckoned with! Not some punk that can be pummeled into the ground. He quickly transforms into his armored tortoise form and sends a sonic blast directly into Cyclonus' waiting face... hopefully. Snaptrap steps back and transforms into his turtle mode, forelegs slamming down.

>> Snaptrap strikes Cyclonus with Sonic Blast <High>. <<

Benin-Jeri arrives at the side of the lake and transforms, carefully setting down Slugfest down at the side of the lake of dead energon. "Go. Now," Ben quotes, and allows Slugfest to drop the Matris into the destructive sea. Leaving Slugfest to the task, Ben turns and draws his Replica Star Wars Han Solo Blaster, ready to protect Slugfest from Dal Matia's minions as long as it takes for the mini-stego to save the world, bracing himself as the MacGuffin falls deep into the well and disappears from sight.

The hopes and prayers of Cybertron are cast into the well. A glimmering jewel, forged by a Decepticon engineer whose thoughts were towards prosperity and the future. The same engineer was killed by an Autobot assassin, whose thoughts were towards regret and pragmatism. And here now, It was a Junkion, and a Decepticon who brought this moment to pass. Truly the existence of the Energon Rejuvenation Matris was one of duality, and conflict. And now it falls gracefully into the Dead Sea.

From on high, Elita One can only stand and watch as the event unfolds, surveying for any sign of change....

The world holds its breath and waits.

Dal Matia appears at the plaza, near Slugfest and Benin-Jeri. "Foolish Junkeon. Dat is not dead, which can eternal lie." She raises up her staff to him, and in this motion, in this moment, she has him dead to rights, the stego too. All was indeed for naught.

And then the city trembles with a mighty groan...

Buildings start to shift, to collapse, and to...merge. The city starts to transform around everyone. The foundation starts to give way, and beneath it? The Dead Sea...

A low rumbling tone emanates as the city shifts, and the mad cultist starts laughing. "Do you see? Do you see? You have...given us VICTORY! WE HAVE WON. FINALLY... FINALLY, CYBERTRON DIES! IT DIES IN PAIN, AND IN MESERY!"

Silent Grill starts to transform, or at least a massive part of it. And it transforms.....into a cityformer! Even as parts of it start to fall into the Dead Sea, the figure animates, splashing into the glowing sea as it regains sapience for the first time in eons. And in all too fast a motion, the supports holding it upright, give way...and into the sea it goes, drowning in Dead Energon, and taking its horrid witch, Dal Matia with it...

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! Cyclonus takes a blaster cannon to the face, and stumbles backward, unable to regain his feet as the city shifts and transforms around him. "Scourge! Slugfest! Get to safety! We are blowing the charges and burying the Autobots and cultists alike with their unholy undead titan!" Activating his anti-gravs, Cyclonus takes to the air, and fires down at Snaptrap to cover the other Decepticons' escape.

>> Cyclonus strikes Snaptrap with Laser <High>. <<

Jetfire steadies himself as he tries to find a stable platform to land. Activating his cargo bay, he yells out...

Elita One sends a radio transmission. (INTERCEPT): Elita One radio's Turborat with "Turborat, where are you?".

Elita One sends a radio transmission. (INTERCEPT): Elita One radio's Turborat with "I'm not leaving you behind, but we must move swiftly".

Turborat sends a radio transmission. (INTERCEPT): Turborat radio's Elita One with "*slightly panicked gibbering* I'm not here! I left! wait, you're leaving?? Uhm. ... uhm... what's going on? I'm okay! I'm not here anymore. They can't find me.".

Elita One sends a radio transmission. (INTERCEPT): Elita One radio's Turborat with "The city is collapsing!".

Quickswitch shifts into--another mode? how many modes does this guy have anyway? He transforms, keeping an eye out for the others, in hovercraft mode as he slithers along, "Uh oh.. This doesn't look good.." the sixchanger shudders, deeply worried at the city around them. Quickswitch transforms into his assault hovercraft mode.

Optimus Prime runs as fast as his feet can carry him towards the landing Jetfire, working to keep his balance as the ground shakes beneath him.

GAME: Jetfire FAILS a DEXTERITY roll of Above Average difficulty.

>*pfshtthftt*< A fissure erupts violently where Jetfire's at, forcing the Autobot to float to another platform and steady himself as long as he can before the other Autobots arrive.

The City is crumbling, the supports give way, and Elita One is looking for her resourceful Neutral, Turborat. She runs across the failing city's rooftops as she sends out hailing messages. << Turborat, Just...tell me where you are. I'm not leaving you behind in here! >> Despite the Neutral's radio'd assurances, she seems convinced to ensure his safeguard. << Quickswitch, I need you en route, on point zero zero niner, I'm running out of roofs and Turborat's still in here somewhere! >>

An enormous wave of dead energon rolls up to almost her feet as the cityformer sinks into the waves...

====================Jetfire: VF-1S Super Valkyrie=====================[]

The VF-1S Super Valkyrie is an impressive Aerial Jet. 69 feet long, the Valkyrie looks much like the Boeing Fighter-14 Tomcst with its sweepswing design . The wings are white with a Red stripe along thier median. The nose of the jet is red and the cockpit black. On the top of nose is a white Autobot symbol.

The black intakes power the large scramjet engines. The undercarrage is white. The anterior and interior of the scramjets are red and the medians are white. The thrust-regulators are grey. Upon the top of the VF-1S Super Valkyrie are the vertically mounted, red Inter-Stellar thrusters. An Autobot symbol is on the visable anterior of each stellar engine.

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And even as the city collapses, Dal Matia howls her victory. Staff raised overhead, she cackles wildly, to a positively manic degree. Buildings fall about her as the shoulder of Silent Grill, long stasis'd cityformer reforms around her. The crash of a wave of Dead Energon sweeps over her...and she is no longer there.

Turborat himself was running out of tunnel. He himself started to climb to the nearest roof. But his jumping was not as good at Elitas' as he reemerged, optics bright white now as he scrambles, holding on tightly. He peers down at the greenish ooze, considering. .. he was a pipe runner after all. This would be no problem to him, right? But he looks up, tensing as he sees Elita, his features torn between more help and simply running now. But he wasnt moving at this point. << I... I see you. I'm on the tower like building. I... I dont know if I can get through this mess. >> He sounded suddenly much calmer, if still afraid.

Quickswitch slithers over to the location Elita One has indicated, << Orders? >> he asks, reflexively, his face pinching into something resembling distate. Damn the orders! << I'm here, Elita! >> he radioes back.

Benin-Jeri looks down at Slugfest. "Come on. We have to get out of here!" Unless Slugfest objects, Ben bends down to scoop him up, and then races for Jetfire's location. As the city continues to shift and flail beneath him, Ben transforms into his slightly-faster motorcycle mode, and once again allows Slugfest to ride in style as Ben ramps from platform to platform, making it to Jetfire in no time flat. He sets down the stego, to join them or escape on his own. "Here. We've got a minute and forty before the end of the world. Hang on." He hurries aboard the Autobot Air Guardian.

Snaptrap grumbles lightly to himself as his plan fails. He returns to robot mode and scoops the fallen Seawing up, checking the mech for signs of life. One hand then taps a panel on his forearm, sending a signal to the rest of the Seacons, and the Hatemaker. However, before the ship can arrive, the Dead Sea swallows Snaptrap and Seawing, engulfing them fully and making them disappear, like some horrific magic trick.

Elita One stands atop the one of the last remaining towertops as Quickswitch roars in, She scours the area fruitlessly as even the non-cityformer part of the city starts to crumble. "THERE!" She exclaims finally, and points forwards. She leaps atop Quickswitch's frame, "Hurry to him!"

Quickswitch whrrrrrrs forward, producing a noxious cloud of dust in his wake, "On my way, buddy!" the sixchanger pushes his engines are far as they will go, trying to reach Turborat, "Hang in there!"

Cyclonus waits until Scourge is away and heads to the surface as well. As soon as he clears the warrens, he triggers the explosives he'd set earlier, attempting to bury the Autobots and neutral before they can escape. Cyclonus lands outside to watch what he hopes will be the death of the Autobots and Optimus Prime.

In time, the Dead Sea will drain away. It is speculated that the Energon Matris managed to evaporate all of the liquid, much like with a Vaporator weapon. And yet, six eons of corpseblood could not simply disappear so fast, could it? The truth could only be determined by simply waiting and seeing, and hoping for a future still...

Turborat holds onto the crumbling tower, which shook al ittle bit. He had a good grip though and his optics flashed erratically. He looks up as the Autobot ship moves overhead.... a glance about, as though to see who may be watching, and with a whimper, reaches up to grab at whatever was lowered.

Sunder scoops up a tiny stego and rushes him to safety with the Sweeps and Scourge!

Elita One offers her hand personally from atop Quickswitch. "Turborat! Here!" She leans partially over the edge of Quickswitch's cruiser mode, using her other hand to hold on tight to one of QS' many mounting ports, and clasps her hand against Turborat's. With surprising strength, she hauls him up to safety. << Lets get out of here, Autobots. We've done all that we can. I only hope it is enough... >>

Slugfest eeees and is scooped up! Thankfully Sunder is swift, taking the stego out of danger faster than he can pelt lil feets!

Quickswitch speeds his passengers away, not daring to think back on the Silent Grill and what was found here, what *she* forced him to see. They are victorious, and that is what counts.

Deathknell: Dead Run

Silent Grill - Helex[]

====================Jetfire: VF-1S Super Valkyrie=====================[]

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