[b]Shanghai:[/b]

Brainwave and Megatron sped towards downtown Shanghai to intercept Sideways before Inferno screwed things up somehow.

"Huh... Judging from the tracker I placed on Inferno and the news reports I'm reviewing it seems Sideways and Inferno are going in different directions now."

Megatron was dumbfounded by this. "How is that possible? It's not like Inferno knows how to be subtle."

"I... don't know."

"Whatever, how Inferno managed to screw this up is irrelevant. What matters is Sideways has made a tactical blunder revealing himself without his puppets to hide behind. Now is our chance to deal with him and get out of this ridiculous city." 

Brainwave pondered the situation. "Perhaps that's true but for some reason I doubt it will be that easy. Sideways is a notorious escape artist."

"So how exactly did you plan on containing him?"

"I'll let that be a surprise for everyone. It's possible he has access to our com channels."

"Wait..." The Predacon considered the implications of that. "Are you saying he infiltrated Axiom Nexus?"

"Unfortunately yes. His Minicon Headmaster Rook managed to replace our Rook as head reporter."

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Your security is terrible."

Sideways' rampage came into view. Several buildings were smoldering from weapons hits. Most of the streets were in ruin. The likelihood of avoiding another giant mess were seeming less and less likely.

"Well he's in weapons range, you want me to fire before he detects us?" Megatron inquired.

"Just don't go overboard."

"Don't worry, it's not like I'm going to use level 5."

Brainwave almost lost control of his vehicle mode when he heard the words leave Megatron's vocal processors. "How do you even know about that setting? it should be locked."

"You halfassed it and underestimated me."

With that said Megatron opened fire with his main cannon on an unsuspecting Sideways knocking him through a skyscraper and leaving a sizable hole of molten debris clean through it.

"Well at least you didn't blow the whole thing up."