"First Season Finale: Part I"

[Blackrosefencer]

Arachnitron noticed that her second-rate throw merely dented the body of the mantis. She only shrugged at the sight. She knew she had no arm for throwing blades. She ducked down again into the bushes not even waiting for a response to her taunting.

She continued to creep around the bushes stealthily as she heard the Predacon rummaging around looking for her. Suddenly she heard him shout:

"I've got you now!"

She scoffed from where she was sitting. He couldn't possibly have found her, but she happened to look down at her injured leg just then. Her injury was leaking mech fluid. She hadn't realized the cut had been that deep! Curse her high endurance to pain! If it had hurt more (and it had hurt plenty already), she'd have noticed the larger than expected wound!

The Predacon would no doubt be headed right towards her position. So she got up to run to better cover. She was too proud to call to anyone for help, but who could she call anyway? The Maximal and Hybrid personalities were getting buddy-buddy with the white tiger female, but the Predacon personality considered herself neither Predacon nor Maximal so she had no allegiances that would have come looking for her. That being so, she had been foolish to under-estimate the mantis.

She didn't get far trying to outrun the Mantis. He flew above her swiftly and caught up to her in a matter of seconds. He grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her towards his trebuchet.

"Play time's over, legs! Let's see how well you can fly!"

"Please," she sighed sounding unimpressed. "You can't actually believe I'm going to let myself hit your target. I'm a spider, bug-brain! I haven't even begun to show you the tricks I have at my disposal!"

And she wouldn't either. Not unless he provoked her enough that she'd need them. But she couldn't let him pull her to the trebuchet without a fight either. So she struggled in his grasp and she pulled back her arm to strike him. Meanwhile she took her foot and stomped down hard on his. She could not end up in that trebuchet! He hadn't damaged her enough yet and, like she said, she had no intention of hitting his target whatever it was (though she probably could guess). So she had to keep provoking him into fighting her with his weapons.

"Don't put me in the trebuchet, Maximal," she sneered. "Fight me like a true Predacon would! Or are you a coward?"

[NaitoKage]

Rhinox raised an optic ridge, then let out a low sigh. It seemed she was getting worse. Rhinox knew there was nothing he could do currently for her condition, and being the head engineer it was all shouldered on himself. Icebreaker was learning more, but he would always be a field medic. Frilla was starting, but even so.. They needed more science and medical personnel.

Rhinox walked towards her, turning and putting an arm around her to lead her out of the brig Alright, it's.. alright. Lets get you down to the lab.. he then said to her in a soft tone.

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Glowstick raised an optic ridge, his teal optics seemed to dim and narrow as he face palmed with one of his tentacles with a sigh. Really.. that was her best lie? he thought to himself, Whatever.. We can still make some use of her.. he then thought.

Glowstick then lowered his tentacle from his face, transforming to his squid mode. His tentacles then projected forward grasping onto Feralnight, the limbs pulling her towards his his beak giving her a light nip on the shoulder, but it was all that was needed to infect her with his cyber venom.

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Icebreaker blinked as he watched the conversation between Optimus and Wintersong, then shrugged transforming to his penguin mode, following after the Tiger.

[Blazemane]

Sorry about that. It seems my prey was caught by another cat. So i guess I'd have nothing better to do at the moment. So if you'd still have me, I wouldn't mind joining you. Perhaps we'll be lucky and see the bat fail miserably.

Steelclaw turned to Venatrix as she began walking towards him. He gave just the smallest hint of a chuckle at her dry humor.

"Of course I'd still have you," he answered. "Though..." he trailed off, looking around for everybody else, "...I was under the impression there would be a much larger group convening out here. As for Sonar failing, that might be amusing, so long as none of us gets hurt. But I truly am interested in what he's made."

Steelclaw stood silently for a few moments, staring at nothing in particular, before he decided to turn back to Venatrix.

"So, if you don't mind my asking, what was that you were doing over there? All the sword-work and jumping around?"

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"Wait, you're just gonna head off alone?" Cheetor asked as Whitegrazer stood up to leave them. "Let me go with you," he said, standing up himself. "Two might be better than one, but three's better than two, and besides, it'd be bad news for you if you needed support- Airazor isn't close enough."

[New Moon]

Frilla turned as she looked at Cheetor and Whitegrazer, listening to both of them."If either of you go just be careful out there." She said to them, hoping there wasn't anything bad to happen that day but the frilled lizard wasn't getting her hopes up. Somehow something bad always happened on such missions and there was no telling what would. With nothing else she could do Frilla sighed a bit and turned back to the monitor, so far seeing nothing else out of the ordinary so she took out the data disk Icebreaker had given her a while back from Glowstick, sliding it into a slot and began trying to decipher the glyphs from the aliens once more and took out the few pieces of turret she still had from long ago, perhaps a year since they had landed on the planet.

Everything was, as she told Cheetor, shrouded in mystery and it was making Frilla frustrated to not recognize a single thing from these aliens besides that they seemed to know quite a bit of tech of their own knowledge, they were rather good craftsmen, and their language seemed different then their own. That was what made it difficult to translate any of what they had. Frilla honestly considered returning to places like the strange stone building that had taken Optimus and looking within those tunnels they had gotten trapped in a while back. 'They seem the only key clues to try.' She thought.

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Alright maybe it hadn't been the most convincing thing but she hadn't exactly been a complete good liar anyhow. Feralnight could only watch Glowstick now after he face palmed, and only wonder what he'd do but it was enough to tell her he wasn't buying it. "Hey! Let me go!" She growled as he suddenly grabbed her with his tentacles and brought her to his beak, which at that moment she really thought he might try and damage her yet he merely nipped her shoulder and it seemed injected his own cyber venom."What are you planning to do with me...Glowstick?"Feralnight's vision blurred a bit as she tried to force herself to resist the effects but her efforts were for nothing as she soon went unconscious from the cyber venom.

[una]

((OOC: Okay! Thanks, I just couldn't remember XD

Wintersong! XDD That tiger. Poor Optimus. ))

Whitegrazer was going to go down the platform when Cheetor hollered at her.

Wait, you're just gonna head off alone?" Cheetor asked as Whitegrazer stood up to leave them. "Let me go with you," he said, standing up himself. "Two might be better than one, but three's better than two, and besides, it'd be bad news for you if you needed support- Airazor isn't close enough."

She wondered if Cheetor should go with her but the cheetah did make a good point about numbers so how can she turn that down? Gratefully, she smiled at the young one, "You make a good point. Come on board."

"If either of you go just be careful out there

"We will be careful, Frilla." Whitegrazer said reassuredly, "We will find Feralnight and bring her home. Hopefully, without getting into fights with Predacons."

She waited for Cheetor to join her on the platform before pressing the button to lower them both down outside. She spotted Optimus who seemed stern and sensed that something happened that she didn't see. Wintersong was next to him. They seemed to be in a conversation. She wondered what it was about but before Icebreaker left, she waved a hello towards him and at the Tiger as well.

"Optimus, Cheetor and I are going to help Airazor in the search for Feralnight. Since there is much land to cover and we don't know exactly where she is, we are going to help." Not to mention, her certain urgency to find Feralnight or maybe she was just worried over nothing, but she needed to find her to be sure. Whitegrazer realized that she never got to tell him about the visions and probably would never get the chance to. Again. Well, it wasn't all bad. At least, they both got the chance to express their feelings towards each other.

Maybe she still had time. She wasn't going to be defeated yet. There was still a chance to tell him now.

[NaitoKage]

Glowstick released Feralnight floating back, then transformed to his robot mode floating towards her and lifting her with his tentacles onto one of his shoulders. He sighed shaking his head Well, with that out of the way.. Sonar can test his weapon.. however.. He glanced towards Megatron I believe I have a more suited proposal for this Maximal, Commander. If I alter her data tracks over the past half hour or so and insert false memories that she was never here.. we could use her for something far more tactical..

I can install one of my programs to have her comlink broadcast her audio and visual sensory on a encrypted Predacon channel, separate from her main Maximal signals.. She'll be the perfect spy, one that doesn't even know she's giving away all her allies secrets. He gave a dark snicker.

[Wintersong]

((*smiles innocently*THink she has a bit more before she's a team player, well a complete team palyer that is. Thought you guys might like to see a little other side of the tigeress.))

Wintersong looked as Primal flippe dover her and landed in her path, the tigeress's ears going back as Optimus countered her accusations which she probably did go a bit out of line but that didn't mean they were true for others. "My reasoning still stands Optimus, some still see her as such." She said in a neutral tone for now, understanding his point quite clear but as for getting in over her head...well she couldn't exactly stop that over night. For now it was who she was and of course it had lead her into a lot of fights with serious injuries or the one near death, "I'll try to be a bit more careful Primal but I can't make any promises otherwise I can go with how I was several months ago." Without waiting for a reply WIntersong walked around optimus and went on her way with Icebreaker and sniffed the air before she followed a scent trail that was growing faint but could be followed.

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Snow Trix just continued to sit there finding herself growing ever so bored with the waiting, but she made no verbal complaints since it wouldn't help to get things moving faster. Hopefully things would just move along here soon otherwise they'd all eventually just turned to rusted scrap piles or fall asleep from waiting so long, of course that was just exaggerating but not like she had anything better to think about.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: No worries, una. ^^

Yeah, Wintersong, she'd a bit of a pistol right now; talking down to OP and backtalking. What is going on with his Maximals lately?!

FYI: Just posting for OP tonight. Rattrap is waiting for Aurora (just giving Phoenix the opportunity to respond to my last post with RT). No rush, Phoenix! ))

"My reasoning still stands Optimus, some still see her as such." "I'll try to be a bit more careful Primal but I can't make any promises otherwise I can go with how I was several months ago."

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, thought Optimus while he watched Wintersong, along with Icebreaker, walk by him and onward following what was left of Arachnitron's scent wafting in the air. He couldn't force everyone to agree with him and the tigress that Arachnitron wasn't a monster and that they shouldn't feel threatened or be walking on egg shells when she was around. They most certainly should be cautious, for their own safety! Asking his Maximals to trust her was too much, but Primal hoped that they trusted him. Well, at least the leader felt better that Wintersong was not alone this time. He was confident that Icebreaker would keep things at bay and keep an alert eye on her.

"Optimus, Cheetor and I are going to help Airazor in the search for Feralnight. Since there is much land to cover and we don't know exactly where she is, we are going to help."

The Commander watched Whitegrazer and Cheetor him, his uneasiness from Wintersong slowly fading. He forced a light smile to greet the white mare under the circumstances he had just parted with the tigress. "No word from Feralnight?" asked Optimus, but it was just him thinking out loud, not expecting an answer because the answer was obvious with both of them standing there before him ready to start their own search party for the Fuzor. Sighing, he slightly shook his head in disappointment and then swapped the weapon in his hands that Icebreaker had given him, handing it to Whitegrazer by the barrel just as the penguin had handed it to him earlier. "This is for you, Whitegrazer, from Icebreaker. Be careful with it," Primal recommended as his optics never left her's. He was going to ask her what else had been on her mind earlier that they never got to discuss, but he hesitated and gave her the opportunity to say something instead. If it was important, they could discuss it quickly. If not, then she and Cheetor should probably hurry on their way in case Feralnight was in trouble. It was very unlike the black Fuzor to behave in this manner.

[Wildfire94]

Megatron ignored Starshadow's remarks, merely watching the scene until something was decided for what to do with the fuzor who seemed to lack much of being a good liar. Surely a scout would know better then to infiltrate their base, especially when so many Predacons were outside the base in plain view but then again not all the maximals were the brightest of transformers,"Hm, I think that would be most useful. A spy without know she is one, hehehe, yes I like it." Megatron said with a malicious grin, knowing the Maximals may never notice until it was far too late and that they would get the advantage over their foes. Yet at the moment the Maximals were of minor concern compared to the strange alien occurrance earlier that could be of to their advantage and turning the tables in the Beast Wars.

Finally coming outside the t-rex turned to Sonar,"Alright Sonar you may proceed when ready." He said now with the situation defused and any conflict for the time avoided, which was likely not to last long since there was something that always came to bring a fight between the Predacons and lowly Maximals. Oh yes, Megatron always looked forward to the day the Predacon side would win this war and with the energon on the planet aim to rule Cybertron.

Onyx said nothing of the situation, thinking it best to let his comrades handle this since there was really nothing he could do to intervene without revealing his visit to the enemy forces. Last thing he needed was someone on his back and interrogating him like a criminal since he believed his business was his own and no one else's, in fact the stallion didn't plan to even confess to his leader less he risk execution. Moving closer and avoiding looking at Megatron who shot him a suspicious look Onyx came to stand not far from Starshadw who seemed quite annoyed about something which he guessed had to do with being unable to take care of the odd fuzor,"Cheer up Starshadow I am sure there will be plenty of other chances to dismember a maximal, there are plenty to choose from."He said in a positive manner.

[Phoenix]

(ooc: heh.. it's just that busy part of the semester where you get swamped in exams, assignments, homework and the lot. So my apologies for not posting as much, I just haven't been able to find the time or effort to do so.)

"Yeah, well, I've never known any Pred who just wanted ta 'talk.' Unless Megajerk is braggin' about himself. Besides, there are more ways to spyin' than just askin' questions lookin' for information,"

The young fuzor gazed upon the rat with shiny green eyes.

"Can I come with you when you're out in the field sometime?," she asked excitedly. Aurora was still trying to find herself and where her true talents lay, so she was eager to try new things to see if she had a talent for it. Also Rattrap's duties sounded quite fun, honestly, and allowed him to make trips quite far away from the area around the base she had yet to leave.

"Ferrets smell more than rats, you know! All musty and that."

She mocked a surprised gasp followed by a defiant; "I'll have you know that I am not a ferret. That's like calling me an otter or a badger. I'm an ermine."

Finishing off with what resembled a pout, she then tried to maintain her composure despite the fact she was cracking up inside. The fuzor loved how the rat would retaliate when she teased him, without ever getting offended. It was a trait she had not found in more than a handful of the Maximals.

"Oh, that? Nah, I noticed that gettin' worse every time our Fearless Leader lectures us,"

Aurora snickered at the rat's explanation for his eye twitch. "Yeah.. a few of them need to chill out a bit once in a while. Perhaps the boss monkey would feel better if he could just sit back, chill, and light up his banana for a few minutes?"

Honestly she really had nothing but respect for the Maximal commander, finding him both wise and caring. Although she hadn't really interacted with the arachnid many of the Maximals were a bit fearful or even resentful of, Aurora understood Optimus' desire to give her the option to roam of her own free will. His decision to do so was a good example of the 'lead by example' approach their commander took on many issues.

She paused for a brief moment, pondering what Wintersong had chipped in about, as well as the whereabouts of Feralnight who had decided to leave the area a while ago.

"Maybe we should form our own search party for Feralnight," the fuzor added without addressing either of them in particular. "I mean you're both great trackers. I would.. I'd love to come with."

[starshadow]

"Cheer up Starshadow I am sure there will be plenty of other chances to dismember a maximal, there are plenty to choose from."

"Yes..I could tell. There's a rat worth killing, a tigress to get rid but not worth the time, an ex general to be made as a punching bag, a big peguin to be used as a pillow but uhh..I'll kill him last since I like him, a big fat mare to be dragged in the slaughter house and a big ape to be my prey.." Starshadow repiled and thought about more ways to torture maximals and training stuffs, "you know, I could use a training partner like you."

[Night-Hunter]

Sonar waited calmly in the air for Megatron to arrive, in the mean time he picked his teeth and pulled a small meat chunk. HE had no idea how long it had been there, but it didn't matter to him.

"Alright Sonar you may proceed when ready."

The bat smiled before replying. "I promise, you won't be dissapointed, my lord."

He took out the small grape fruit sized object and squeezed until a crack appeared before chucking it several yards away from the Darksyde, the second the object hit the ground the object exploded into a towering pillar of fire and heat, sending rocks of various sizes flying every where, several moments later the bat was thrown from the air by a massive shockwave. He hit one of the wings of the Darksyde with a hard thud, knocking all the air out of him.

Ok... I should have tested it frist... He thought before sliding off the wing and landing on the ground.

[NaitoKage]

Icebreaker watched as Wintersong sniffed the air, his flipper coming to his beak as he examined her. He was curious to see if her tracking skills had improved over the course of time.

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Hearing the approval from Megatron was all he needed, but he glanced outside from the hanger watching Sonar make his demonstration. His optics blinked So.. he made a high powered bomb which would be more suited for a flier to drop? I guess that might be rather useful, so long as it doesn't kill the user..

He then started to float off towards the lab, his plans to the beach would have to wait, as he had to deal with taking care of Feralnight.

Entering the lab, he placed the fusor down on a table carefully. He then ran his tentacle over her back as he felt for a panel, then popped the release causing her internal robot form to be exposed slightly, with his tentacles moving into the now opened access, a click was heard as her body then transformed to robot mode, having Glowstick quickly pull his tentacles back for safety.

In robot mode, he examined her body, opening a panel on her stomach. A few cables extended from his tentacles attaching to ports on her body. His right optic glowed green as it displayed a hud. Lets get down to business.. he said as he started to download the software into Feralnight. The program installed itself behind the scenes, she wouldn't notice anything different, like a keylogger or virus.. Only an engineer, medic, or martial artist would notice the slight processor performance difference, so Glowstick was far from worried about it being discovered.

With the data downloaded, he then started his attack on her core conscious, to access and rewrite the portion of her memory. He could of done this all wirelessly, but the data transfer rates would of been slower, and he wasn't a master hacker, but had been working on his skills. Numbers started to scroll over his green optic as he examined, a virtual representation of Feralnight's mind then started to display with a virtual representation of Glowstick floating into it. If this was Tarantulus, or anyone with a more tech or hacker background Glowstick would probably never attempt this,it was too risky. But Feralnight was probably a more easier target to this sort of psychological attack based on what little the squid knew of her background.

[WorpeX]

Manterror hissed and let go of his target as she stomped on his feet. He had not been expecting this sort of dirty fighting and was caught off guard. In the end, it didn't matter. He intended to watch her fly faster then a Terrorsaur getting shot out of the sky. He snickered slightly as he watched that thought in his mind. That was a good day. Then again, any day someone other then himself gets blown to pieces is a good day in his book.

"Don't put me in the trebuchet, Maximal, Fight me like a true Predacon would! Or are you a coward?"

"Yes, Predicon's are cowards and Maximals are... losers!"[/quote] He said, as if to imply that he was a coward as well. That is, until he continued his thought a moment later. "Which is why I consider myself neither!"

With that, he moved in on his target again. He decided that he would need to play dirty now as well. It was clear that she wouldn't give in without a fight. Slowly, he walked closer to his target, holding his outstretched sickle claws at the ready. When he was close enough, he swung his right arm back and struck forward at the spider. He didn't shoot - instead he decided to simply "back hand" her (or in this case, "Back claw" to be sure she was still in one piece when he threw her into the sky. Then, he one flowing movement, he moved slightly closer to knee his target in her chest! [color="green]"You wish to play dirty witch! Very well, I shall spare your limbs today!"

"I really don't have any idea where she went, Airazor, truthfully. But I just got this bad feeling that she probably is in Predacon terroritory and in some sort of situation. Hopefully, she is not anywhere near the Predacon base, though."

Well that's no help at all. She thought to herself. The lands were vast and while she had keen eyesight, it would still be difficult to find anyone without more clear instructions. Perhaps though, the fact that she was looking for a creature which was not of this world, would help her chances. "I'll do my best, Whitegrazer" She responded, and flapped her wings. She quickly took off from her perch and darted into the sky at full speed. She wasn't far from Predicon territory, but a little bit of extra speed never hurt anyone!

Within only a few moment she was in Predicon territory and scanning the grounds below. She decided to flip her vision into thermal mode so that she could quickly pinpoint where a living creature would be - like a maximal. Even if Feralnight she was in robot mode, cybertronian bodies gave off much more heat then most other creatures. It would certainly aid her quest, but she still hadn't any idea where she might be. Not to mention that she was in predicon territory now - she would not only have to watch out for her friend, but for enemies as well! If any of the preds spotted her out here she would likely be in for a world of hurt.

[starshadow]

Starshadow just looked at the explosion and then to Sonar. She clapped, she really clapped for his first demostration of the month, "Bravo! Bravo! You're going to get yourself killed one day! You could take on another job, a bomb carrier!" she laughed aloud. Suddenly a smack on the head from Cecaelia.

"You should be helping your boyfriend!"

"When did you get here?"

"Just now..NOW GO!"

Starshadow grumbled as she was pushed off her seat and walked towards Sonar. "You look like you could use some help. Bath time!" she used her whip and tied it around his mouth to his wrists including his wings and started dragging him back inside the Darksyde.