[B]14:11
Atlantic Ocean, 50km from Carbombya Bay
Tuatha De Danann, command bridge[/B]

Teletha Testarossa, captain of the advanced assault submarine carrier Tuatha De Danann, looked at main monitor with a worried expression.
It showed various satellite images just recently taken from Carbombya City, from the People's Socialist Republic of Carbombya. 
Mithril's advanced spy satellites could even focus on a single needle from space thus Tessa saw everything in shocking detail.
The first few images were normal. Unless you count soldiers wearing sneakers as that.
But the following images showed something far worse: Deceptricons.
Not just a few, many of them. 
They spread everywhere in Carbombya occupying the city thus taking control of the country completely.
Ever since their defeat in the One Year War, Deceptricons were a rare sight, only causing trouble with a few rouge units.
What Tessa saw on the pictures was a full-scale army, in concentrations never seen before.
What was going on?
Was the nightmares of the One Year war were about to repeat itself?
Ever since its conception Carbombya was only the source of international trouble. It was a small and poor country with its GDP per camel measured below 7000$. Yet it was full of ambitions and lead by a crazy family. Add the Deceptricons thus you get a complete disaster.
At least this time it had nothing to do with Tripticon. Tessa still couldn't forget the chaos from back then.
The situation was grave, regardless.
Tessa had already alerted headquarters but they were late to respond.
What was going on?
How come neither the Autobots nor the Earth Federation noticed something at this scale?
Tessa had no idea but she knew one thing.
No matter how horrible country Carbombya was, they had to save them.
Thousands of innocent civilians were on the line!
As the latest pictures confirmed, Carbombya City already became a warzone.
The Deceptricon army engaged a small group of 3 machines, two of them were Transformers themselves.
Who were they? Would they become ally or enemy?
Tessa just didn't know.

Not waiting for the headquarters she already made plans for the upcoming liberation champaign of Carbombya. She even made contact with Lt. Commander Ramba Raal, who commanded Mithril's retrofitted Gaw-class Assault Transport Aircraft 'The Flying Dutchman'.
The two vessels combined with the reinforcement from the Dubai Base accounted to 50 Arm-Slaves total.
True, Mithril's collaboration with the Autobots ensured there's no major technological gap but the difference in numbers was simply intense.
Without anyone else helping them the chances of them winning was below 10%.
To say she was stressed was putting things really lightly.
Tessa just emptied her third glass of Martini while waiting for the headquarters' response.
"[I]Captain![/I]" Spoke up Ensign Paltiff and everyone waited for her words in dead silence. She was the communications officer in the Tuatha De Danann so this could've only meant one thing.
"[I]The headquarters responded. They say there won't be any Autobot or Federation backup in the foreseeable future. In spite of that they urge us to begin the operation. Starting in 14:30.[/I]" She reported while also sending out the official files to Tessa.
Just as she feared her men are going to march into their deaths.
With that Tessa grabbed the Martini bottle and chugged down the rest of its contents.
In spite of that she won't give up. She'll do everything in her power to make the operation succeed.