Aomine said
"Copy that I'll have it delivered within the hour" Feuer said exhausted. Using the sleath mode had drained him mentally and physically. He couldn't wait to be done with this mission and go to bed

An Hour later Mr. Z received message the package was delivered

He hit a communications device on his desk and spoke aloud

"Although Mr. Feuer has been useful so far, I fear he may be a liability if he is traced to us. Make it look like an accident Mr. K."

As Feuer rested in his Hotel he was completely unaware of flying Steel Beams heading to his rooms direction from afar.

Guy of Z said
An Hour later Mr. Z received message the package was deliveredHe hit a communications device on his desk and spoke aloud"Although Mr. Feuer has been useful so far, I fear he may be a liability if he is traced to us. Make it look like an accident Mr. K."As Feuer rested in his Hotel he was completely unaware of flying Steel Beams heading to his rooms direction from afar.

Feuer having delivered the package to its destination had gone to the hotel room provided for him. Exhausted he contemplated going to straight to bed. On his way to his room however Feuer had met his new prey and quicky sprung into action. As Feuer's last prey had nearly cost him his life the connection between them all but disappeared. Without him being in love with her sacrificing her for anything other than an instant energy replenish which was useless outside of combat would be worthless. Months of work down the drain,Feuer was slightly peeved, but lucky for him his ability to form irrational love attachments helped him acquire new prey near instantly. Also. lucky for him, the new woman he set his sights on had recently gone through a difficult breakup. He found that they tend to resist at first but as he works his magic he's able to form some of the strongest bonds with them.

It wasn't long before Feuer had her right where he wanted her in her room. But before he could finish the set up a loud crash and rumbling was heard. It had rocked the entire building surprising and waking everyone. Feuer had left his prey to see what was going on. He as surprised to find his room which was down the hall had been completely destroyed? "What the hell?" Feuer said as he raced to the end of the hall. "Steel beams? what is going on?" Feuer looked around into the sky using his enhanced version he was able to spot mr.K fleeing the scene. "Huh, I should have known. Not like it's the first time an employer has double crossed me." Even if Feuer hadn't seen mr K. the only ones to know of his presence there were the men he'd formed a contract with. Feuer contemplated chasing after the man but decided that with the authorities on the way, they' want to question him. Besides the fact that he had already been payed Feuer took the attempt on his life with a grain of salt. Leaving behind the new woman, Feuer decided he'd just have to find another and departed from the hotel.

Aomine said
Feuer having delivered the package to its destination had gone to the hotel room provided for him. Exhausted he contemplated going to straight to bed. On his way to his room however Feuer had met his new prey and quicky sprung into action. As Feuer's last prey had nearly cost him his life the connection between them all but disappeared. Without him being in love with her sacrificing her for anything other than an instant energy replenish which was useless outside of combat would be worthless. Months of work down the drain,Feuer was slightly peeved, but lucky for him his ability to form irrational love attachments helped him acquire new prey near instantly. Also. lucky for him, the new woman he set his sights on had recently gone through a difficult breakup. He found that they tend to resist at first but as he works his magic he's able to form some of the strongest bonds with them.It wasn't long before Feuer had her right where he wanted her in her room. But before he could finish the set up a loud crash and rumbling was heard. It had rocked the entire building surprising and waking everyone. Feuer had left his prey to see what was going on. He as surprised to find his room which was down the hall had been completely destroyed? "What the hell?" Feuer said as he raced to the end of the hall. "Steel beams? what is going on?" Feuer looked around into the sky using his enhanced version he was able to spot mr.K fleeing the scene. "Huh, I should have known. Not like it's the first time an employer has double crossed me." Even if Feuer hadn't seen mr K. the only ones to know of his presence there were the men he'd formed a contract with. Feuer contemplated chasing after the man but decided that with the authorities on the way, they' want to question him. Besides the fact that he had already been payed Feuer took the attempt on his life with a grain of salt. Leaving behind the new woman, Feuer decided he'd just have to find another and departed from the hotel.

Scorponok heard his attempt to silence his former employee failed.

"Curses, I must tie up this loose end before he spills his guts about my plans. Perhaps I can manipulate him into doing a suicide by Cop against the Autobots?Hahahahahahah!"

Thankfully he put a tracer on Feuer small enough and advanced for his primitive enhancements to detect it

"Now all I have to do is wait until he tries to hide somewhere and I can give the Autobots a "Anonymous" tip."

Carbombya: The Chase

"That was a nice shot with the power plant, I think you only put holes in 2 buildings. Would you like to take another shot at it and see how many more you can hit or is the structural damage from the explosion satisfactory for your needs?"

Megatron was not in the mood for this. "Look, we don't have time to play nice."

"Are you implying you've ever played nice?" Came Brainwave's bemused reply. "Pull over, I'm getting sick of trying to shoot these things with you constantly ramming cars."

"No, that would be a really stupid idea. What if they have the Unicron Virus?"

"You're right, speed up. I'll take care of the cars so you can put some distance between us and them." Brainwave proceeded to haphazardly climb forward on Megatron's back.

"Hey watch where you step!" Megatron fumed.

"I'm sorry, was that something sensitive? I thought we were in a hurry."

Annoyed by Brainwave's sudden smartass antics Megatron decided to retaliate once a path was cleared ahead of him. He suddenly accelerated trying to dislodge the Transtech for the annoyance.

"Whoa now. Don't you think that's being a bit wreckless? If I land wrong and can't transform in time allowing them to infect me with the Unicron Virus everyone is screwed."

"Then quit being a smartass dick!"

"Maybe you should stop to reconsider what happens to you if something happens to me."

The sudden realization angered Megatron. Having put enough distance between them and the pursuing Piranacon he transformed to unleash his full weapons payload to vent his frustration sending Brainwave flying forward in the process. Not paying any attention to the Transtech he ready all his weapons and unloaded on the pursuing unit annihilating them, taking out a several mile stretch of Carbombya's main road in the process.

Brainwave managed to land on his feet no worse for the experience. "And I stuck the landing like a boss." He bragged. Hearing Megatron unload with everything he had and the resulting massive explosion Brainwave turned to survey the damage. "No kill like overkill eh? I'd hate to be the poor bastard that has to clean this mess up."

"Save it." Megatron replied no longer interested in their bickering.

"Look, I don't care what happens to this shithole. But you have to keep in mind other people might not be happy to see us show up with the trail of destruction we're leaving. We don't need them attacking us on sight if this isn't the end of it. We're going to have to start being a bit more practical about the way we handle things."

"Then you should have planned better." Fumed the Predacon.

"If I had known there was a fully established cult running this mess instead of some idiot that found a Unicron artifact I would have planned differently. I'm certainly making a series of tweaks when this is over. For now let's try to minimize any additional damage. And watch out for large concentrations of shoes. We have no idea where these bastards are hiding."

"Fine." Megatron agreed as he fired his arm mounted gun into a nearby store. "Shoe store." He added.

Brainwave sighed. "Whatever..."

Carbombya: Collateral Damage

Rastun leaves behind his "comrades" to fight their own battles while he looks for Brainwave and "Joe". They'd have to discuss about Joe's real nature sometime, but for now, there's a battle to be fought. He heads towards the direction where the energy signatures are at their most intense, which would undoubtedly lead him to the duo. As he travels towards them, Rastun sees and hears a large explosion in the general area he's heading to.

That can only be them. I'm not looking forward to see their handiwork, but I have little choice.

He gave a short sigh of frustration and continues to speed towards his destination. There were the odd stray Carbombyan regiments, which Rastun promptly obliterated with his conventional weapons. The Astafanel's optic lasers were more than enough to blast through them and despite his mech's size, he's too fast for them to hit, even without taking his time manipulation into account. As he proceeds towards where Brainwave and Joe are, Rastun notices his surroundings become increasingly more war-torn the further he goes on. He then finally sees the two Cybertronians, surrounded by the utter ruin they obviously wrought. A destroyed power plant, several destroyed buildings, and a several mile road stretch completely obliterated.

Rastun, looking at them with utter disbelief, says to them, "I realize we're fighting for our lives here, but you two aren't even TRYING to minimize collateral. Is restraint such a foreign concept? This sad excuse of a country may deserve this, but what we don't need is us getting caught in the fallout from this incident.

"With all of that said, can we now try to locate the cult leader? Preferably without destroying several cities' worth of property on the way."

Carbombya: Countdown to the Finale

"We've already had the let's try not to blow everything up chat, thank you. Sadly Predacons aren't exactly known for their restraint. As for the cult leader. Well he's never tried to hide his location. He wants us to come to him and we can do just that at any point you want. But I expect any shoe unit that isn't actively engaged in combat will be falling back to the capital so we'd be better off ambushing them unless you think we can take the overlord before they dogpile us. It's up to you."

Rastun thinks of their options. On one hand, a quick decisive strike on the cult leader would be a way to end this fast, if it's successful. They would all make it to the leader before the shoes would, since they wouldn't expect an attack on him this soon, plus there's the group Rastun sent to keep them busy. On the other, none of them know what the cult leader is capable of and they may get swarmed while they try to finish him off. Worst case scenario, the leader winds up killing all three of them himself. Lack of knowledge on his capabilities is a huge disadvantage, so the safer bet would be ambushing his minions first.

He then comes to a decision and says, "Alright, ambush it is. The shoes and their Carbombyan allies ought to be disorganized and scattered by now, so picking them off with surprise assaults shouldn't be too difficult. Who knows, this might even lure out their boss if we do it long enough, though I wouldn't put my hopes on that, admittedly.

"And just to be clear, neither of you have scouting drones or anything of the sort we can use to at least gauge their leader?"

Brainwave pondered the question for a moment. "You know this drone thing. It's something Cybertronians haven't really looked into. That's why we have scouts. I mean sure we have mass produced, disposable, not very bright units at times but I doubt that is the context you mean. This might be something worth looking into." He quickly ran through a few ideas to increase their utility. "Maybe even slap a high yield bomb into them..."

In Carbombia

A portal opened up spilling forth a swarm of more Cultists

But these new Cultists were different.

Many of them were pulsing with a malevolent Green and Purple color and they seemed to be either un-dead or unhinged.

They seemed to alter the environment by simply walking past something or someone, like turning the sand into gold or making objects or people float into the sky or randomly setting a camel on fire. Some organic troops were even fighting one another and rioting.

Their objective was to clear all Invaders from Carbombia, but it was obvious whoever sent these troops didn't give a shit about keeping Carbombia intact.

A warning alarm sounded gaining Brainwave's immediate attention.

"Hmm, that's not good. The computer back at base has been monitoring for additional Unicron related signatures and it seems there was a sudden spike somewhere in the city. If I had to guess judging from the readings they're elite shock troops roided up on Unicron's power. Possibly undead...ish. Guess it's a good thing we didn't rush the cults leader."

Rastun groans in annoyance. Just what he needed, more things to get in their way. This blasted country really is a magnet for stupidity.

"Alright, Brainwave, is this something we can deal with? If not, I'm at a loss as to how we'll get help for this one." But then he remembered Brainwave's recent suggestion and says, "Though we can try out the unmanned aerial drone bombs you mentioned. I assume you have the spare parts to make this idea work."

"Drone bombs." Brainwave snickered. "I have a much better idea. Trap them in transwarp space. Of course the trick will be baiting them into the trap at the same time."

At Carbombya Neo Destructa

"I believe i gave you ample time, what have you decided on?" asks Loternus as his mech stands up from its current position.
"We'd rather die then give up our country to you!" yelled one of the soldiers, as both armies start firing at Alternus rapidly.
After the dust is settled, Alternus appears to still be unharmed by the assault, "I do believe that can be arranged" and with a smirk he starts doing some magical hand signs
And summons a floating glyph, Alternus then proceeds to grab an oddly shaped sword hilt and run it through the floating glyph, after said action is done a flaming blade appears on top of the hilt,and Alternus' cape changes colours to match the crimson flames of the blade
"Long ago there was a country that opposed Destructa in its young years, its main capital was heavily fortefied and none of Destructa's weapons could break through their defenses,
untill one day A young soldier who had just joined the army volunteered for a nearly suicidal mission of breaking their defenses from the inside and opening the gates to the city under the cover of night, no one knows how he did it, But all they know is that day was the day Destructa managed to vanquish its foes, and the view all the troopes saw when the city's gates opened was one that shall be made immortal to any citizine of Destructa, it was of said soldier covered in blood and with hellish flames consuming the city behind him ! and that was the story of my ancestor and first true king of Destructa, who was given the name the Crimson Glory Bringer! and out of inspiration and admiration i name This mode after him! Behold ! Alternus, Crimson Glory mode!"

By the time he was done retelling the story of his ancestor, the soldiers that were firing at him had ran out of ammo and were starting to reload.
"heh, i guess i shouldn't expect mere peasants like you to appreciate the glory of Destructa's history" and with a smirk he holds his flaming sword up high with both hands.
"No matter, i shall give you a live demonstration of it, maybe then you can appreciate it in the after life" and with one swing of his sword every single soldier around him,along with the houses and civilians were caught in the searing flames.
After the flames settled, all that remained in the area is a pile of ashs,and some small parts of the mechs that were at the edge of the flames
.
He then summons the wind glyphs again to carry over his voice "While i admit that i never tire of this, i'd still like to stop wasting my time with weaklings, so leader of this country,whoever you are, you have 2 minutes to come here and surrender it."
He then walks forward, noticing a soldier who managed to survive due to his mecha being at the edge of the explosion and so only barely damaged , he then proceeds to lift the soldier and holds him in Alternus palm
"Or be reduced to ashs" he says as he crushs the soldiers by closing his fists.

Seconds later,a helicopter arrives at his location, on it is the leader of Carbombya, Abdul Fakkadi.
"Are you the leader of this country? and if so have you come to surrender or die?"
"We surrender! i just want to ask that you let me leave this country alive in return!"
Loternus then opens his mecha and jumps out of it,landing infront of Fakkadi "First i'd like you to gather all of the remaining citizens of this country here, i have an announcement to make"

15 minutes later.

"Those are all of our citizens, what did you want to announce?" said Abdul Fakkadi nervously, making sure to choose his words carefully.
Loternus then walks forward to stand infront of all the citizens, and creates the wind Glyphs to carry over his voice to them all.
"First of all, everyone kneel before your new ruler!" most of the citizens were taken back and trying to process what just happened, however some of them were quick to kneel before him, which earned them a blast of magical energy to the head.
"bunch of weaklings,no man with any sense of pride should kneel before anyone, even in death!" he says with a scowl on his face "B-but sir, you ordered us to!" says a random woman between sobs at her now dead husband.
"I only desired to yell that once in my life, i did not expect you peasant to actually throw your dignity so quickly!" Loternus then took a few seconds to calm down,and then proceeded to talk again "I want to inform you That you so called leader just sold out all of you here in exchange of his life" As soon as he was done he proceed to unsheath his sword and hold it in front of Fakkadi's face "thereby proving that his life is now worthless" and before he could respond Loternus proceeded to chop his head off.

Loternus then sheathed his sword and resume his speech " The second and most important announcement i have to make new citizens of Neo Destructa, is that things are about to change around here, your position in this country will be Determined solely by your own power! And so i'd like to offer two lucky citizens of this country a chance!"
He starts walking forward until he is right in front of the crowd "I am going to hold a fight to the death between the first 2 people to volunteer! the winner gets to choose whatever position he desires in this country....and the loser shall die along with the rest of his Family"

Loternus starts looking around the crowd "So, anyone who wants to take this wonderful chance?"

Megatron was growing bored of the indecisiveness about the plan.

"I'm just going to point out the obvious. Someone here has a timestop and thus the perfect opportunity to make this work."

"Yes, he also has a space bridge generator. I should be able to tweak the targeting system to minimize the risks. I was thinking a buried projector or something but this could work much better."

Both turned and stared at Rastun awaiting his reply.

Rastun stared blankly at them. One of the Overseers' best agents, piloting their top-of-the-line Chronoframe, reduced to glorified bait? This mission keeps getting worse and worse. To one of the enforcers of spacetime's stability, such a concept would be an outrage. Usually, his missions are to exterminate any rogue elements, at times by himself and others with a squad of sorts. In none of those times was he a decoy of any sort. But now, with little to work with despite their advanced technology, Rastun finds himself begrudgingly agreeing to this.

Swallowing his pride, he says, "Much as I loathe the idea of being bait, I'm forced to agree with this plan. Among us three, I do have the best chance of getting this right. And unfortunately, it's merely a time slow, not a time stop. Though one of the Astafanel's creators mentioned something about it having some sort of untapped potential, but that's beside the point."

Rastun pauses for a moment and something flashes to his mind. "Wait, is there any reason we can't do this same trick to their leader?"

"We could try it but I have serious doubts it will work. This is hardly a ground breaking tactic and he wants us to come to him. I'd also like to avoid burning out all my spare space bridge projectors which will likely happen from all the modifications necessary for this. Now, there are a few things you need to know before we try this. First I'm going to tweak it to project the portal a good twenty or so meters from you so you won't get sucked in. It should be a large enough portal to envelope all of them provided you bait them into a tight enough cluster. I'm guessing thirty or so meters in diameter should do it. The faster you open and close it the better because not only is it likely to burn out very quickly but due to the size the pull will be severe. If you get sucked in you're kinda screwed since there is no exit destination. I'm overriding several safety protocols to make this work. Any other questions?"

Brainwave waited while Rastun digested the new information.

"So in essence, I'll be piloting a deathtrap for the duration of this plan with as much room for error as that implies. I almost feel like a fanatic on a suicide mission. The only differences are I don't have a god to pray to and a begrudging acceptance instead of unwavering devotion," Rastun replies back.

He continues, "At any rate, I'm ready to get this done as soon as possible."

"Well if you want to word it like that okay... I've minimized the dangers as best as I can. I could try to get it to project further but I think the projector would just explode at that point sucking in a large section of the city and I don't think anyone wants that. You're ready to go whenever. But remember you only get one shot. Use your time slow to push them into a cluster about 30 meters in diameter back of twenty...ish meters away and hit it. Just make sure you don't get sucked in. We still need you. I do believe they're over in that direction." Brainwave pointed off to the northwest. "Seems there is some debris randomly floating for no apparent reason over that way. Good luck."

After they saw Rastun fly off Megatron chimed in. "Good thing he didn't read Ramjet's profile yet."

"Come now what reason do we have to think that will happen again?"

"He'd be mad anyways. Better hope he never finds it..."

"I know Megatron."

Rastun flies towards the cultists and as he gets closer, their odd effects on the environment become clearer. The sand around them became gold, some buildings warped into piles of sludge while others became alive, and people around them floated into the air and exploded. As for the camels, they fared no better as they were set on fire. He blasts the green and purple colored cultists with the Astafanel's wrist cannons, diverting their attention towards him. The cultists fired back, and Rastun gracefully weaved his Chronoframe through their energy blasts. He then proceeds to slow down time and shoves each cultist into another one, forming a big cluster of them. After forming them into a packed enough clump, time resumes its normal course and Rastun activates his modified spacebridge generator. As Brainwave said, the portal is big enough to swallow a cluster of that diameter.

With the portal twenty meters or so in away from him, Rastun is safe from its pull. Well, safe relative to the cultists, who are being sucked into it immediately while Rastun can still resist its pull. When every one of them was devoured by the rift, he tried to deactivate the spacebridge generator but failed with each desperate button press. Resisting the portal's pull causes massive stress on the Astafanel's armor. Parts of it were cracking apart and pieces of it were being sucked in. Howling in frustration, Rastun slams his fist on the deactivation button and surprisingly enough, that action causes the portal to close. He then hears an explosion and judging by its sound, it happened inside his mech. That must have been the spacebridge generator. Rastun is less than pleased at the Astafanel's condition, with its cracks, missing pieces, and smoke coming out of it but at least the job is done. He now goes to rendezvous with Brainwave and Megatron to inform them of his success. As for the living buildings, that is Carbombya's problem.

Brainwave and Megatron observed the returning Astafanel. To say it was in awful condition would be an understatement.

"So much for your calculations." Chided Megatron.

"So it seems..."