"First Season Finale: Part I"

[una]

((OOC: You're telling me, Phoenix. I have to study for two exams for next week as well as write two essays, and a whole bunch of assignments. A teacher thought it would be funny to have us tested on a chapter we haven't gotten to yet and have only to read all its sections without notes. Thanks, teacher, thanks. Busy weekend for me. ))

"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.

Whitegrazer had grabbed the weapon carefully, inspecting alittle with a chuckle, "When I get the chance, I'm going to have to thank him. With all the weapons he has been giving me lately, I think I will need to get a utlity belt so I could carry them all because my chest compartment is running out of room." Despite everything, she was keeping a light sense of humor. Icebreaker gave her a freezing gun? Neat. She could cool off a few hot-headed Predacons with this, but like Optimus told her, she will need to use it wisely. She placed the weapon on the attachment on her back.

"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."

Whitegrazer was amused by Rattrap and Aurora's little bantering and couldn't help but smile at the two. When Aurora wanted to come with, she really thought about it. One part wanted to say no and the another part told her it would be a great time to get her familar with the terroitory first-hand instead of the Axalon's grid maps.

I think I'm being overly protective. She knew why she was and wasn't just because of what happened to Nightmist. That was only half of a reason. Aurora reminded her of herself a little bit when she was around Aurora's age. She was glad that Aurora was in a better environment than she was in. Well, it was the same environment: war, but Optimus and the rest of Axalon crew weren't forcing the youngling to pick up a gun or making herself some intregated weapons to kill with. No one was forcing her to be something she wasn't. She was finding her own place in this world and that was a chance Whitegrazer was glad to give along like everyone else here. She just hoped they could end this Beast Wars. End it before innocent lives become corrupted by this fighting.

Glancing at Aurora, Cheetor, Rattrap and back to Optimus, she wondered what she should say then decided to just be reasonable. She hoped nothing horrible will happen, "It could be dangerous since we don't exactly know where Feralnight is, Aurora, but I guess you can." Whitegrazer looked at Optimus, "Is that all right, Optimus? I can watch over her, maybe as we are searching I can teach her a few things." Whitegrazer smiled at Aurora before looking back at Optimus,"Of course, if you think Cheetor, Airazor, and I are enough, we can head our way." She wanted to see what Optimus had to say. She didn't want to stretch the numbers too thin around the base because no one ever knows when a Predacon will try something and it was always good to have more sets of optics watching around.

She waited for Optimus' response and see what he thought. After that, she will say something about what she wanted to speak to him about. She hesitated only because she didn't want to scare Cheetor and Aurora with what she was going to say.

By Primus, I hate to be your child with all your coddling. When I was their age, I was already killing and doing all kinds of stuff to survive because I was at...what is that word? Oh! War!

Shut up, TC. Remember that I was too.

Stop abbreivating my name. My name is-

Whitegrazer didn't listen to her master's yelling, cutting him off.

[New Moon]

(( Glowstick pocking around someone's mind...sounds very creepy. Wouldn't want someone poking at my brain.))

Through all this Feralnight was oblivious and out cold, yet her mind was still at work of her thoughts from the last few days. Memories she had tried to bury away so long ago now seemed to be surfacing, haunting her and making her question her loyalties in the war yet she kept dismissing the doubts and pushing on with daily life around the Axalon. She wasn't that kind of femme anymore, no she had come to her senses after what she considered the dark times of her life and moved on to be who she was today: a person who believed in justice and peace not violence and war. Though if anything she hadn't lied about once being a Predacon though she had not completely said why she was one or what she had done for the gang she had been involved with. Honestly she would rather forget those days and focus on her life as Maximal.

However the memories just wouldn't go away and likely never would. Well perhaps if she accepted that those times had even occurred and that she did indeed have a violent side that she kept in check now and would rather not show her comrades since it would seem highly out of character for the usually peaceful fuzor.

[Wintersong]

Snow Trix turned her attention towards Sonar as he started his demonstration though she jumped a bit at the explosive power. Though it seemed it backfired on the bat as well,"Heh, seems bat face has quite a bit more testing to do." She said with a snicker and watched Starshadow drag Sonar back inside. Now that was a show and it was kind of funny to see ideas of her fellow Predacons backfire. Of course now they had to come up with something else to do and the femme was tempted to sneak off on her own again.

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Wintersong continued to follow the scent noticing it was leading out of scanner range."Seems we'll have to be on our toes again." She commented to Icebreaker and looked back at him noticing he was watching her, or she thought he was."Something on your mind Icebreaker?" She asked as she paused just on the edge of the trees.

[Wildfire94]

Onyx had to wonder if Starshadow really had so many Maximals as her enemies but he didn't say much else after she went to drag Sonar in. "One of these days we'll have to have a training session Starshadow but you seem to have your hands tied." Onyx said over the com-link to her before looking towards the others. Some of these bots really had a odd sense of humor or thought a backfire lime Sonar's was amusing. Why they did was a mystery to him.

Megatron at the same time watched the demonstration but raised a hand as a few bits of debris pelted his armor,"Hm useful and destructive but needs work indeed." He said merely watching the lesser Predacons. He didn't seem utterly concerned for Sonar's well being since he never really did care for his underlings.

With this done the t-Rex turned his attention back to his thoughts, of the anomaly that had been detected earlier. What was it that these aliens were up to now? Or was it something of a different origin that had lied undetected till now? With a brief glance at the Predacons gathered his thoughts also turned to one other thing, where in the pit were the treacherous spiders?

[NaitoKage]

(Heh, well it is one of the creepy benefits for tech freaks.)

Icebreaker's beak curled into a smirk Ah, no. Just seeing how your skills have grown Kiddo. I'm guessing you probably picked up some tricks from Tigatron.

As they stopped at the woods edge, Icebreaker transformed to his robot mode, kneeling down he activated his tactical visor. I'm picking up two heat signatures.. and one faint predacon signature.. We better head in. He then drew his frostlauncher and started to run into the woods.
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Glowstick placed one of his tentacles on his chin as he observed the data of Feralnight's mind. She was like a conflicted child growing into an adult. While normally he wouldn't care about such things.. she also was similar to himself. He had tried hiding among the Maximals, but he couldn't do it. In her case, she became a Maximal, and it appeared that in that case they accepted her,as they did Frilla and Dinobot.

He shaked his head, he could probably help her sort her mind out, or even make her forget her past. But it didn't seem his place, and anything he said to her would probably just enrage her anyway. So it was better to focus on his objective.

As he reviewed the information on the past few days, his optics narrowed. The Maximals had captured Nemesis? And appeared to have some form of Maximal Predacon hybrid like Starshadow.. another unstable psychopath.

As he reviewed the last half hour of her life, he started to edit her memories, specifically the image of the background and her intentions. Having decided to go on a normal patrol, she noticed some abnormal activity near a waterway in the woods. Landing near the waterway to investigate, she suddenly saw the transparent grasp of Glowstick's tentacles, the light of the sun sparkling through his glass like wet skin as he soon enveloped her and made the bite with his beak, after which the same as before, with her blacking out.

Glowstick's cables disconnected from Feralnight retracting into his body, he then closed the panel on her stomach, reaching to manually trigger her transformation into beast mode, then seal that panel closed.

His body's tentacles extended lifting the Maximal female up placing her onto his shoulders again as he floated out of the lab.

He floated towards Megatron as he spoke up The rewrite and install is complete.. I found some rather.. interesting bits of information to discuss, but I need to get rid of this maximal discretely before she wakes up.

Transforming to his beast mode, he carried Feralnight under himself as he floated away from the Predacon base.
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Meanwhile, very deep underground. Tarantulus's eyes glanced towards his screen as he noticed the detection of an alien anomaly well off into the polar regions. Though what or why, he had no idea. But he didn't like it, it brought another of the alien's influences to the planet.

[Wintersong]

Wintersong smiled a bit,"You could say that, and the local tigers. Well when your not being chased." She said remembering earlier that day but shook her head as she followed Icebreaker through the trees, ears perking forward as she heard two voices the closer they got. Soon though she was able to make out who's,"Icebreaker it's Manterror and like I thought Arachnitron is here too, sounds like they're fighting."She said. But the uneasiness didn't seem to leave since now it proved something was up, but was it just Manterror and Arachnitron came to stop him or were they working together?

[Alak]

((OOC: I know Optimus and Whitegrazer have been getting interrupted since the start of the episode, but for the sake of plot advancement I really must make Orcariner "that guy". May Primal forgive me and my OC.))

IC:

Orcariner noticed that his commanding officer was in the middle of a discussion with Whitegrazer. Had anyone alerted him of the anomaly yet? The orca had no idea, but he felt that this information was vital. Regretting that he was about to butt into a conversation, the giant Maximal slowly made his way towards Optimus.

"Hi, guys," he said with a sincere wave.

The hand gesture probably looked awkward from such a big fellow, but he hoped its symbolism of friendship may deter the two from being frustrated with his intrusion.

"I hate to interrupt," he said, "but the ship picked up a strange signal in the mountains earlier today. I would have alerted you sooner but Onyx's arrival distracted me. The signal is of neither Maximal nor Predacon origin so I fear the Vok may be involved. Being our commander and our faster flyer, I thought you should know of this as soon as possible."

[Blackrosefencer]

OOC: Yeah, OOP is without power....she lives near us...we are all still without power. According to our electric company's website, there are 122,000 OF THEIR customers that were affected by the snowstorm. That's just the 29 counties serviced by PP&L...who knows how many more Pennsylvania residents are affected in other parts of PA.....and I also heard that people were affected by this freak storm all over the East coast. 2 million people along the east coast are supposedly without power. My brother and I were told we were not to expect the power to be back for us until Thursday, but I'm not sure if OOP got the same information we did...she is maybe 20 or 30 minutes away from us.

Luckily for modern technology, my phone is a wireless hotspot which I only just realized today....so Worpex and I can post. Also lucky for us, our grandparents have power so we've been taking shelter there for the past few days. Our other relatives are without power too so they are mooching off our grandparents' power, heat, food, and hot water too. It's Halloween, but we are eating like it's Thanksgiving and it looks like Christmas outside....this is so messed up!

BIC:

Arachnitron stepped away from the Predacon once he released her. She cocked her head and raised an eyebrow ridge when the Mantis snickered to himself.

"Yes, Predacon's are cowards and Maximals are... losers! Which is why I consider myself neither!"

Arachnitron was intrigued. The Predacon was, in fact, no predacon at all nor was he Maximal either. Like Arachnitron, he fancied to remain unaligned.

"The Maximals fear me," she responded. "And the Preds want to change me. So I just slag them all."

Could this be a potential ally? Well, for the moment, no, because she and the mantis were still engaged in battle, but even still, she wasn't sure if she was one to seek out an ally. The mantis moved in on the spider again raising a claw and taking more steps towards her. Arachnitron grinned. She didn't move nor did she make any indication that she feared the bigger bot. She guessed his reaction would be to swing at her so she raised her arm to parry his blow beginning her motion before he even moved. It was the only way she could be quick enough to counter his attack. She successfully blocked his first attack, but he swiftly moved his knee up to strike her in the chest. She was too slow. She recoiled in response, but was merely winded for a moment.

"You wish to play dirty witch! Very well, I shall spare your limbs today!"

She shrugged and straightened up. "Don't bother," she said smugly. "I wouldn't spare yours."

Arachnitron round-house kicked the mantis and then swung her arm back to strike him with her fist. Potential ally or not, she had been aching for a fight for days and she wasn't about to pass up this opportunity for some action!

[NaitoKage]

(Hmm.. just realized, if Airazor had thermal vision, if she was above ground during the clear convoy episode she would of been super helpful for the maximals. *LOL*)

As Icebreaker made it closer to the bickering predacons, his optic ridge raised seeing Arachnitron attack Manterror. He came to a stop holding his frost launcher ready. Little close too close to our base, don't you think Manterror?

He wasn't sure what to think of the situation, though he knew it was likely Arachnitron's Predacon side, her maximal side seemed too timid, she couldn't throw a punch if her life depended on it. But her Predacon side.. was another story, and one that didn't like him much. Just the start to another 'fine' day..


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Making a beeline out of the Predacon base, Glowstick flew off rather low to the ground above lava pools as he made his way to the desert, seeming to head in direction for a stream and following it into a grassy region with some trees.

As he soon came to a stop floating to the bank of the stream and set Feralnight down. Unlike Cecaelia, or any of the spiders, his Cyber venom didn't last as long, and he often used it more for medical purposes, only using high doses to knock people out, otherwise it was more effective as a painkiller, at the cost of leaving the target drowsy and with the coordination of a drunk.

He floated towards the stream sinking into the water, his body almost blending in with the moving cold water. He altered the direction of his siphon as he came towards the surface, then sprayed a jet of cold water on Feralnight. The crime scene was set, his scent and slime left over on her body, plus the wetness of the water would match the implanted memories, nothing would seem off..

He then sunk into the water with a light plunk like noise, drifting down the stream to gain a little distance, he went towards the bottom and laid flat against it, with his photophores off he blended in with the water bottom, the current of water flowing through his body via his mantle cooling his systems down to the water's temperature making him rather hard to detect.

His eyes looked up towards the surface, it'd been awhile since he'd last been in water. Much like the Maximal marine unit, he was usually out of his environment, though he had adapted to a life in the air, he was far superior in water. He figured he'd stay there for awhile, relax in the cool water, observe Feralnight as she woke up and left, then probably spend some time researching the data he had acquired on Visia. With enough time, he might be able to make some countermeassures to prevent Visia from taking host, or infecting anymore cybertronians.. Something he'd have to focus on.

[New Moon]

((Yikes sounds like it got bad with those snow storms. But glad to see you back OOP!))

Feralnight remained out for a bit as Glowstick came to the stream, at first slowly coming around until she sat up and shook her head. "What the?" For a moment the fuzor looked around in confusion and wondering why the heck she was covered in water until she thought back, the false memories helping to think she had run into the squid which his scent and the slime was enough to add to it. "Ugh! How does anyone choose a form like that?" She said with slight disgust, not recalling the encounter with the Predacons nor of what had occurred before she had been knocked out. Standing she shook her fur a bit but the slime stuck to a lot of her fur and feathers, making it clump and stick uncomfortably which made her shudder in more disgust.

Flapping her wings and pushing off the ground the winged wolf flew upwards and over the trees, briefly glancing at the stream in wonder if Glowstick was still around but decided it was best not to try her luck. Angling back towards Maximal territory Feralnight flew off away from the area, and hoped she wasn't worrying her comrades. "Feralnight to Maximals, anyone in range?"She said over the com-link, not sure how bad the energon interference was out there.

[WorpeX]

((OOC: lol, I totally just made it up randomly. I figured she could do a lot of crazy stuff with her eyes in the show, so it fit. I guess it would have helped against Clear Convoy, huh?))

"Feralnight to Maximals, anyone in range?"

Airazor had been flying for over two hours without finding any sign of her friend. While she had no desire to give up, she was starting to lose hope that Feralnight was outside of the Predicon base. Luckily, the voice over her com solved all of her problems. "Airazor here. I've been looking for you for hours!" She responded, quickly noting the location which the message had come from. She made a quick turn in the sky and headed towards her comrades position. Surprisingly, they weren't too far apart. "We best get back to home plate before the coach gets worried. Keep an out for preds." She finished with a bit of dry humor. They were still in predicon lands and their was no telling what they were going to do. Airazor wondered what brought the fuzor out this far, but now was not the time to question such things. They needed to worry about present before they deal with the past.



The Mantis took the kick straight to his jaw, as he hadn't expect such a quick counter attack. He was able to evade the rest of the blows, though, and was about to retaliate when he heard a voice from behind him.

Little close too close to our base, don't you think Manterror?

ICEBREAKER AND WINTERSONG? This party was beginning to get a bit heated. He was now outnumbered 3 to 1."I.. uhh.." He answered, uneasiness creeping into his voice. His eyes darted back in forth between his adversaries while he attempted to make up his mind about his next coarse of action. I didn't take him long to realize that it was time for a tactical retreat. "If anyone lays a finger on my trebuchet i'll scalp you all!" Without wasting any time, he transformed into beast mode and scampered off into the woodlands. Another failed plan. Oh well, he will have his revenge sooner or later!

[Wintersong]

Following Icebreaker into the clearing she watched Manterror, waiting to see what he would do once he realized he was outnumber. Luckily the mantis was smart enough to know he was outmatched and took off, at least this ended with little conflict though Wintersong noticed noticed a few flecks of mech fluid and looked towards Arachnitron."Sorry to intrude on your party Arachnitron but we were getting a little worried."She said, trying to avoid a result like a few days before which she remembered Arachnitron's maximal side warning her that anything set off this side of her personality and the tigeress was sure she would be very annoyed. Not worrying about it for the moment though the tigeress walked closer to the trebuchet and observed it for a moment,"Think he's going it alone Icebreaker and more then likely was going to attack us anyway."She said before looking back at the penguin with a shrug.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: Thanks, guys! And thank you for being so incredibly patient with me. I'm ready to rock and roll! Let me know if I miss something; there's a lot here to read, heh. ))

"When I get the chance, I'm going to have to thank him. With all the weapons he has been giving me lately, I think I will need to get a utlity belt so I could carry them all because my chest compartment is running out of room."

Optimus smiled at Whitegrazer despite the mood Wintersong had left him in. For someone who was better battling with her hands than with a weapon, the white mare sure was collecting quite a few now.

"Can I come with you when you're out in the field sometime?,"

Ah geez. How can I say no to that face? thought Rattrap, looking at Aurora's bright and very hopeful eyes. It was like an eager puppy begging for attention. He never really thought himself as a role model to anyone, but the young Fuzor was hanging around him more and more every day. Not that he minded, of course, he enjoyed her sense of humor. She was kind of like a niece to him, he supposed. "Sure, I guess. When it ain't too dangerous, you know," the rodent smiled at Aurora. Sometimes he found himself in very dangerous situations, whether alone or with someone else. He certainly wouldn't want to put her in such situations on the first day in the field.

"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."

"Meh. They're all da same to me," Rattrap grinned with a dismissive wave at her.

"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?"

Snickering, Rattrap told Aurora, "Wouldn't work. He'd just start lecturing the banana!" and bursted out in laughter. ((It's terrible! I'm making fun of my own favorite character. ))

"Maybe we should form our own search party for Feralnight," "I mean you're both great trackers. I would.. I'd love to come with."

"It could be dangerous since we don't exactly know where Feralnight is, Aurora, but I guess you can." "Is that all right, Optimus? I can watch over her, maybe as we are searching I can teach her a few things." "Of course, if you think Cheetor, Airazor, and I are enough, we can head our way."

Primal glanced past Whitegrazer and Cheetor to see Aurora and Rattrap making jokes at his expense. He merely let it roll off of his shoulders, thinking how much of a bad influence Rattrap was on her. He smirked inwardly to himself about that before returning his gaze on Whitegrazer. "Aurora and Rattrap may go with you and Cheetor," Optimus agreed, with a gentle smile. "We have plenty here to keep an eye on the base." There was Dinobot, wherever he had gotten to, and Rhinox, Orcariner, Frilla, Valkyrie, and himself. "Be sure to check in every so often, and establish contact with Airazor. She can guide you from the sky." As difficult as it was to see Aurora venture out further and further away from the Axalon every day, he was very confident that she was in good hands with the group she was with. She could even get a few flying lessons in as well if she wanted. They could be gone for several hours.

Rattrap transformed to his beast mode before he absorbed anymore energon fields, especially since he'd be joining their little search party. He had no doubt that they would run into Preds somewhere along the way. He hoped they wouldn't but they never could mind their own business. And he just didn't want to see Aurora get hurt. She was still inexperienced with such confrontations, but Rattrap knew that was why Optimus wanted her along. She'd have to face them sooner or later; might as well do it in a group that was already very experienced with handling their enemy and have her start learning and observing, getting her out there as soon as possible. He just hoped that Feralnight wasn't getting herself into deep trouble. It was unlike her to run off the way she did. Wintersong and Saber-Fang, yeah, that was expected of them, but not Feralnight. Although, the "gang" comment she had made a few days ago might have something to do with her disappearance. Hm.

"Hi, guys,"

The Maximal leader turned his head to see Orcariner approaching them and nodded up at the large bot as a greeting.

"I hate to interrupt," "but the ship picked up a strange signal in the mountains earlier today. I would have alerted you sooner but Onyx's arrival distracted me. The signal is of neither Maximal nor Predacon origin so I fear the Vok may be involved. Being our commander and our faster flyer, I thought you should know of this as soon as possible."

"Go ahead, guys," Optimus told Whitegrazer's group in a much more serious tone. "Find Feralnight," he stated their mission clearly, hoping they wouldn't divert to the new alien anomaly before or after they'd find or rescue the Fuzor that had gone missing. He certainly didn't want Aurora, or anyone of them really, near anything that had to do with the Vok. "And be careful." His red optics lingered on Whitegrazer's gaze for a moment. He wished he could have spent more time with her but this would be something they'd have to get used to, he supposed.

The brown rat stood up on his hind feet and gave their fearless leader a sarcastic salute. Rattrap would make sure they'd stay on track and steer clear of anything alien. "Welp, since Feralnight flew away from us, I ain't got a scent on her," he informed the others around him. "But she went off in this direction," he said, pointing in the general direction of the Darksyde.

Looking back up at Orcariner, Primal said, "Let's take this inside. I want to see the data analysis from our scanners and the location these readings are originating from." With that, Optimus began walking toward the Axalon to head inside and immediately assess the situation knowing that if they picked up this signal, it was very likely that the Predacons did as well. But the last thing he wanted to deal with today was the Vok.

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Meanwhile, some distance away from everyone else, Tigatron stopped in his tracks when he looked to the horizon and noticed one of the mountains glowing. Intriguing, he thought, flicking his tail gently and curiously observing this strange occurance. Quickly and quietly, he moved in for a closer look, heading off in a trot to cover more ground, his ears ever listening for Predacons who might have have discovered this as well, and who could be in the general area just like he was.

[una]

"Aurora and Rattrap may go with you and Cheetor," Optimus agreed, with a gentle smile. "We have plenty here to keep an eye on the base." There was Dinobot, wherever he had gotten to, and Rhinox, Orcariner, Frilla, Valkyrie, and himself. "Be sure to check in every so often, and establish contact with Airazor. She can guide you from the sky."

"Of course, we will." Whitegrazer said returning the gentle smile towards Optimus. She knew Aurora was going to love getting to go further then she was allowed to go but hopefully, nothing will happen and with Rattrap along, they wil be able to keep track on every direction.


"Hi!" She smiled and exchanged greetings with Orcariner who had just appeared.

"I hate to interrupt," "but the ship picked up a strange signal in the mountains earlier today. I would have alerted you sooner but Onyx's arrival distracted me. The signal is of neither Maximal nor Predacon origin so I fear the Vok may be involved. Being our commander and our faster flyer, I thought you should know of this as soon as possible."

What are those aliens planning? She thought gravely. What were the aliens planning on? Well, their destruction, obviously but...it pains her to teh fact that the aliens would chose destruction over a more calm, delicate approach. The Vok were so mysterious and so very angry too. It made her still wonder why? Why?

"Go ahead, guys," Optimus told Whitegrazer's group in a much more serious tone. "Find Feralnight," he stated their mission clearly, hoping they wouldn't divert to the new alien anomaly before or after they'd find or rescue the Fuzor that had gone missing. He certainly didn't want Aurora, or anyone of them really, near anything that had to do with the Vok. "And be careful." His red optics lingered on Whitegrazer's gaze for a moment. He wished he could have spent more time with her but this would be something they'd have to get used to, he supposed.

She nodded with the mission orders. They were getting Feralnight and coming back. Nothing else...

She held her chest for a moment as the thoughts inside her processor ran. Well...nothing else for the others anyway. Though, it would be uncharacteristic of her to do this without saying anything about it. She was still uncertain about what she wanted--needed to do. Optimus' crimson optics were still gazing at hers. Oh she can see how he wanted to know what she was going to discuss and his disappointment.

The brown rat stood up on his hind feet and gave their fearless leader a sarcastic salute. Rattrap would make sure they'd stay on track and steer clear of anything alien. "Welp, since Feralnight flew away from us, I ain't got a scent on her," he informed the others around him. "But she went off in this direction," he said, pointing in the general direction of the Darksyde.

She looked at Rattrap, smiled at his little sarcastic salute, shooking her head a bit. She looked back at Optimus who was heading back to the Axalon.

"Wait, Optimus." She called, "About that thing I was about to discuss with you? I wished I had more time to gather but I guess I have to settle with short." She took a breath, easing herself slightly, "During our meditation before we find Arachnitron and even after that, I had some flashes...visions really. They were unclear, but I could make out voices and...an explosion. I heard Megatron's and yours. The third I couldn't make out." Her optics looked uncertain for a moment but the uncertainty flashed away as quickly as it came, "I just fear that something devastating is going to happen. I don't know how or why, but I do know this: you are in the middle of it. Whatever is going to happen, whatever the aliens are planning and Megatron...I just wanted to warn you that you may be caught in a..." What is the word? "...a storm. Now, I really can't say more because well, I don't know more even if I told, it will just seem ludicrous. " Also, to the fact that, she could be sounding crazy in front of everyone, "Because you are our leader, you are a prime target for the aliens and Megatron. Two enemies that want to destroy us, but it's you, everything seems to be targeting you." She sighed and looked up at the second moon, "A storm's coming, Optimus." Her optics seemed to be so far away like she wasn't even there then gazing back at Optimus pulled her back to reality, "Watch yourself, the aliens, and Megatron, especially Megatron. Because when a tyrant's laughter rings upon the sky raining with fire, it's never a good sign."

Whitegrazer lowered her head. There. I said it. She told herself before she lifted her head back up, looking at Optimus again, "Be careful, Optimus. That's all I have to say. I just feel guilty that I can't see what happens. Forgive me." She turned around and started walking away from the Axalon. Her stride yet again seemed heavier than usual, "We must go find Feralnight."

[Venatrix]

Valkyrie looked back at the cell that held the Predacon, and finally letting her head sway in front of her as she silently followed Rhinox's lead.
It was strange.
She felt stronger with every step away from the cell block that she had forgotten something, but when she played back her memory, which was nearly perfect, she didn't see anything she might have forgotten.
Once they had arrived at the lab she looked at Rhinox.
"I never really thanked you for the time you spent researching my data. I really do feel I'm only wasting precious energon the way I'm functioning right now."

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

Venatrix thought about the best way to explain it, but found none that made sense.
"I dont know how to accurately describe it, but it might make sense when i show it to you."
She took a few steps away from the larger Predacon and turned facing him again.
"In my style of combat, i improve only when i meet with new challenges. These challenges don't cross my road very often, so i make do with what i have right here. Let me show you."

"Computer, activate holo-projector with program combat simulation XII, style 3."
She turned right before 3 images appear in front of her. An image of Dinobot, Optimus Primal and Megatron. They all stood ready to jump at her as she slipped into her combat form, Steelclaw had seen more often.
Of course it was Megatron who attacked first. And of course it was when she had her back turned towards him. He was effective this way.
He fired a shot with his fusioncanon towards her back, but it never hit. Venatrix dodged his assault with grace.
But before she could strike back at him, Optimus Primal and Dinobot where already on either side of her, thrusting their swords into both her sides.
Venatrix stiffened a slight bit when Megatron fired his second she, right into her chest.
"Combat simualtion XII, style 3 ended. Unit terminated."
The black female Predacon stood up and turned back towards Steelclaw with a smile on her face.
[color=ff00ff]"Usually i take on only one of these. But this was the overkill version as i named it unofficially."[/color]

Aften sliding her swords back onto her back she sat next to the large Predacon again after transforming back to her beastmode, and watch Sonar his demonstration.
It went as good as she expected as she watched the Predacon being hurled back by the explosion.

Venatrix couldn't help but smirk as she watched Sonar slam into one of the wings of the Darkside.
[color=ff00ff]"I told you this might be entertaining. Even if it was just for a little while." she said to Steelclaw.
"I'd bet he broke his own speed limit right before *splat*"[/color]She slammed her flat hands together hard as she chuckled some more in amusement.