The Transtech scientist stared in disbelief. He'd heard rumors of such a thing but dismissed them because who the fuck would turn into a shoe? A shoe that doesn't even blend in at that. No, these guys can't hide for shit.

"I can't believe this is happening... I always assumed that was an April Fools joke by military intelligence. I honestly can't believe there are Cybertronians that turn into shoes... It's so outlandish."

"Well look at the bright side, at least they're going to be ti..." Before Megatron could finish his thoughts the shoes transformed, all of them mass shifting to a size slightly larger than Brainwave. "...ny. Well ignore me, clearly I know nothing."

All 12 members of the group carried the tell tale insignia of Unicron. Their outlandish appearance indicating they were nothing important, likely cultists that revere Unicron ridiculous as that may be.

"You're more advanced than we expected. Being able to identify us so quickly. How unfortunate for you."

The 6 soldiers previously held hostage by their footwear now free, well free as you can be in Carbombya.

"Help us! They promised us great power if we aided them but they enslaved our country..."

"Silence imbeciles or we will crush you."

Brainwave was slightly amused they thought anyone here cared about them.

"That doesn't sound like its my problem guys. I'm going to free you but not because I care. I'm going to do it because I hate Unicron."

The shoes didn't take that statement well. Insulting there god was sacrilege to them.

"How dare you... Lord Unicron is the greatest thing ever and he shall return everything to its natural form, nothing. Your chances of a quick and painless death are now 0."

Clearly these cultists were more deluded than the moron that thought The Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya made sense.

"Do these morons actually think they're important?" Taunted the heavily armored Cybertronian hoping to provoke a fight to alleviate his boredom."

"It does seem that way Joe. As do all you serve Unicron until he eats them and they see the truth. Unicron sees everything the same, nothingness."

Unable to contain their rage the cultists charged the group, 4 attacking each member. Brainwave and Megatron quickly drew there weapons and opened fire leaving Rastun to fend for himself. Their concentrated fire slowed the charge long enough for Megatron to enguage his particle cannon and annihilate 2 of them in a single shot.

"It'd be nice if at least one of them was taken intact so I can examine their data tracks." Brainwave posited having destroyed a 3rd shoe himself.

Megatron not really taking heed of what Brainwave said quickly kicked another shoe over and unloaded on it with his arm mounted gun until it stopped moving. Sadly there wasn't much of anything important left as a result.

"Or we could just destroy them all. Finding out what they're doing isn't important or anything." The Transtech sarcastically added.

Of course he didn't have much room to talk as he gunned down another shoe leaving 3 for them to deal with. One of them had stealthily snuck into Brainwave's blind spot but his scanners managed to detect the incoming sneak attack hitting his would be attack with a high frequency sonic pulse making him stagger but not disabling them. Realizing he couldn't hold back he quickly gunned down the stunned enemy while dodging his last attacker. Megatron meanwhile was enjoying his heavy armor and strength giving him and edge of his last assailant punching him around like a toy for laughs. Impressively the shoe wouldn't go down. Not being designed for the combat necessary to disable the shoes Brainwave decided he had to destroy his last attacker and hope Rastun had better luck. While Megatron willingness to cooperate on the capture plan was questionable he was having no luck actually KOing his last shoe. Though Brainwave had no idea if that was because he was dicking around or the shoe was legitimately that tough. Megatron's last shoe managed to land a punch right to his face angering him and he quickly summoned his sword attempting to slice it in half but much like the guns it was clear it would take multiple hits so he hacked it until it stopped. Meanwhile Brainwave gunned his last shoe down looking over to Rastun to see if he had better luck disabling them.