[b]Shanghai:[/b]

"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."