"I've quite frankly had enough of this topic." Megatron quipped. "Rastun is right, let's just blow him up and be done with it."

"It's quite the day when you happen to be the voice of reason," Rastun quipped. He continues, "But yes, we really should just end this once and for all. I don't get what you guys are blabbering about, nor do I want to know, I just want this over with. I can shoot Sideways a few more times if needed."

"Are you assholes gonna shoot me or just keep talking about it? I don't have all week you know?" Sideways complained while slowly repairing himself.

Jhiaxus saw this impasse as a change to get information out of the damaged Unicron Spawn.

He left his safe location and flew to retrieve the hooligan.

"Wow Sideways, you've officially been trolled by Facebook. How does it feel? That ought to teach you to dick around with Quadwal. Be thankful they didn't bring up Kiss Players."

"Oh that is just going too fucking far and you know it! I thought its against the law to mention that shit where your from anyways?" Sideways shot back

"Well, I suppose I'll be the one taking your offer, Sideways," Rastun cuts in. He again blasts the Herald multiple times with the Astafanel's wrist cannons, undoubtedly making his repair process a longer ordeal.

"Wil*static*llll you stop doing that?!" Sideways said with his voice box damaged but regenerating.

Just Sideways quipped back a large Red, orange and white figure came from nowhere and retrieved Sideways.

"Thanks for not being able to keep your mouth shut trans tech!" Jhiaxus bragged as he returned into nothingness.

"Way to go you moron! You had to ignore us and keep the banter train rolling and now someone just kidnapped him out from under us. And this after you expressly pointed out his knack for escaping. Clearly the TransTech's aren't as superior as they like to pretend they are so do us all a favor and shut the hell up about Quadwal and do your job."

"Sorry..."

"Where are you taking me anyways?" Sideways asked while in a large containter with the Cybertronian Empire insignia.

"To Liege Maximo he'll know exactly how to deal with your type Herald." Jhiaxus responded

Third Chapter: The Blood Red Planet

Vector Prime began noticing a great convergence in time, he noticed the disruption was coming from the forth planet from the Sun.

"Oh no, not there!" he said in fear.

He could only hope nothing would disrupt this cyclopean terrors buried on the Red planet. He had to confer with Chronarchitect to ask for advice on this coming threat.

Art arrived at New Saotome Getter Ray Institute he did not expect Blackrock to be in Japan.

"I wanted to fucking leave this place already"

Blackrock was waiting for him at the landing strip.

"Mr Right was it? I was told you are supposed to be a military Observer correct?"

"Yeah."

"Excellent I'm still attempting to recruit I would hope the good Dr would lend me support on my venture."

"I wouldn't bet on it. The Getter lab types aren't all that friendly to Feddys nowadays."

"You mean friendly to Titans? Correct?"

"Same thing."

Concurrence Base

The broadcast was transmitted on every channel worldwide

"I do say gentlemen, these Cybertronian Alliance chaps are giving us exactly what we want" Chumley said on his screen

"Indeed Chumley, we had hoped to wait until the Aliens had begun their attacks to disband the Federation to rebuild it in our own image but this is an opportunity too good to pass." Shawn Berger, Jr. said

"Yes, this has accelerated our plans monumentally, Autobot supporters such as the EDC and that pampered Oil Tycoon G.B. Blackrock will suffer the most under these threats, it would be a shame if more actions of sabotage were occur wouldn't they?" Iron Klaw said brandishing his trademark claws menacingly

"Fanning the flames are we? I can't wait to see awkward Ultra Magnus will look trying to do damage control while his fearless leader is off in another solar system." Arkeville said

"I also have good news gentlemen, my dummy corporation has discovered ancient ruins belonging to a lost civilization. It would also be perfect to bait survivors in as most of my employees at the site are ignorant of it's true purpose." Krieger announced

"I'm more interested in the artifacts Blitz, what are they capable of?" Arkeville asked
"Apparently the ruins run on some kind of unknown power source, Alien tech undoubtedly. It would take years to understand in the hands of any more 'official' group, fortunately the Concurrence no such organization" Krieger said while smirking confidently

"What about the employees won't they notice your plan to kill off the survivors of the immanent attacks?" Berger asked

"You say that like I need their services any longer, once I find the power source everyone on site will be expendable assets. All the while I could use this attack to draw sympathy to my Dummy Corp."

"A fitting solution for a man who sold out his own unit for a perceived long term benefit." Berger said

" A blasted shame dear boy, good help is hard to come by I say." Chumley commented

"I will do what is necessary to keep the I.R.O.N Amy's activities on Mars from reaching Earth at all costs! My base will not be compromised."

Mars

Bronze Wrists Enterprises excavation site at the North Pole

Nathan Weaver was totally at unease, he was sent in as a deep cover EDC operative tasked by Dashiell Faireborn of GI Joe fame to infiltrate a possible Dummy corporation for the Concurrence. The employees of the facility were totally ignorant of the bases possible hidden motives and he was left with nothing incriminating enough to stick to Bronze.

However the artifact they were excavating was a very real and present danger, even if the Concurrence doesn't run this place there are plenty of other organizations like Amalgam or Cobra willing to sink their teeth into Alien artifacts be it for profit or power.

To compromise matters further, the corporation sent invitations to the families of the employees and gave them free tickets to mars. Including his own.

This seemed to be especially reckless when reports of Alien attacks are intensifying on earth, Nathan could only hope his family wasn't on the shuttle which had just landed.

It was as if the heads were waiting for an incident, if it came to the worst Weaver would do whatever it took to get these innocents out alive. Even at the cost of his own life

Mars

In cooperation with the EDC and the newly formed Xcom Organization they have created a joint search and rescue/exploration taskforce called Hue for intersteller travel. The EDC sent a single ship composed of The American Captain Conrad "Ebony" Leifshitz alongside Captain Paul "Crimson" Melcamp to extract their beleaguered agent and the soon to be hostages.

"You really think the Concurrence has some kind of alien artifact on this rock?" Crimson asked

"Who knows after all General Hawk is getting paranoid in his old age. Regardless smashing these wanna be Cobra losers should be fun. " Ebony responded.

Ebony had no clue as he spoke the wheels of destiny were already turning. His fun will swiftly become a nightmare

Shanghai:

"Well I suppose I should see where they're going... Chasing them down is going to be so much fun. Huh."

"What is it?" Megatron inquired in a severely annoyed tone.

"A warning message. Cybertronian Empire energy signal detected in Shanghai. Would have been nice to know 30 minutes ago."

Megatron just glared at him "At some point you're going to stop acting like a rookie, right?"

"So am I to understand you expected them to show up? No? Well then let's move on. They've left Earth. Current course points to Mars. Mars... I feel like that should mean something but for the life of me I can't remember what."

"So what kind of resistance can we expect?"

Brainwave nearly faceplanted. "What? You think we're attacking them? No no no no no no no. We're going to ask very nicely to speak to Liege Maximo and pray he isn't in a bad mood."

Sometime during the aftermath of Unicrons retreat from Primus

Megazarak was growing restless. After fleeing Primus after his resurrection Unicron in his miniaturized form left a trail of death and destruction in his wake.

"How long must I wait for the Spiders ridiculous plan Chaos bringer? If I cannot defeat Defensor hand at least give me more worlds to ravage!"

"No Zarak." The Dark God said, his voice carrying an unworldly tone.

"What? But lord-"

"My plan is in motion. To avoid my brothers scrutiny I must be selective with what havoc I reek for the time being"

"That Sentinel Maximus clown and Optimus were constantly on our heels. I can destroy them both with ease why not end them now?"

"They are nothing to me Zarak, as are you take that in consideration if you attempt to disobey me"

Zarak felt nothing but rage and impotence for his situation

"Hi mr Unicorn!" the new herald blathered.

Zeraks face met his palm once he realized his situation just got worse.

Warrior of the Sun

Earth

Below on earth a young man watched the stars from an observatory

"Father good luck" he said to the skies.

"Joji the space angel..."

"Hiromi what is it?"

"Hurry go to the control room!"

Joji complied and ran

The aliens continued with their assault on the Angel. The crew were rocked back and forth by the blasts.

"Space Angel calling Space center, Space angel calling space center! Our gravity control center has been damaged! We can't escape!" The captain was rocked by another blast.

"Minami whats going on? Minami whats going on answer me?!" The controller responded.

"No I'm sorry!"

"use the emergency escape pods!"

"Uwaahahahahahahah!"

Joji pushed aside the crewmember behind the microphone

"Father? Father?"

The alien craft continued firing slicing the ship in half

"FATHER!"

The ship exploded and its signal ended. Everyone including Joji were shaken by this ruthless slaughter.

"The pioneer of the Space Expansion project."

Joji ran out of the room in tears and shouted into the sky

"FATHER!"

Pirates

Space

Several Federation GM's were under attack by an unknown force

"Unit 1?"

"Hit to rear main vernier damaged!"

"Who's the enemy? How many?"

"Cannot confirm"

"Where?"

A Zaku came at the gm from behind slicing off an arm and leg

There's still one left? That's good enough. Well as long as it can't attack...

The Zaku bisected the arm of the GM

The floating gm's were annihilated by a Rik Dom

Asuna made a disatisfied face

I don't have to kill!

Shanghai

Lance listened to Brainwaves and Joe's conversation from afar and came out from the shadows. He had caught onto Rumors of a Experimental ship from Nergal scheduled to go to Mars to retrieve survivors from an alien incursion.

"So this Maximo creature has a battleship? It would be the best if we obtained our own now wouldn't it? The best part is officially its a civilian vessel so it has plausible deniability." He smirked

"I'd ask exactly what part of ask nicely involves pointing guns at someone but you seem rather... special."

"Not let's not be hasty." Megatron interrupted. "Just think of the long term value of having a mobile base that can defend itself."

"Of course you'd want to steal a battleship, that's how you became famous."

"I'd ask exactly what part of ask nicely involves pointing guns at someone but you seem rather... special."

"Not let's not be hasty." Megatron interrupted. "Just think of the long term value of having a mobile base that can defend itself."

"Of course you'd want to steal a battleship, that's how you became famous."

Lance feigned offence

"Come now Robot we need some insurance in case of a double cross." He shrugged before sipping more of his kool aid.

"The ND-001 Nadesico is the most advanced ship built by Human hands apparently according to my agents, it even has a Gravity Cannon. And the crew are civilians, a bunch of idiot Savant's no less. All you need to do is hack the computers into accepting my forged ID and the shipment containing you two and its easy street from there. We could just bullshit them with some idiot sob story or tell them the universe is in danger and they would eat it up."

Rastun then barges in the conversation, saying, "I say we need every advantage we can get. If getting this ship is as easy as he says, we should take it."

Rastun is usually not one to advocate hijacking vessels of any sort, but with the overall stakes as high as they are now, most means are justified.