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Target put his hand to his chin in contemplation before responding to Airachnid, "We have a hidden base along the coast. They should be able to give you enough repairs to make your ship capable of orbit travel. Once in orbit, the autobots won't be able to down your vessel, making repairs from then on easier. However, the hidden base must be kept secret. The best way to do this is to distract the autobots with a possible prize that they'll be foolish to let it slide.

"However, I'll worry about those details. I'll give you the secure frequencies to the base." Target punched the nessesary frequencies into the console in front of him, "Wait until you see the autobots are busy with the distraction before sending an encrypted message. When the repairs are done, send a ping on my personal frequency to let me know it's time to leave. We'll then leave the battle area to our own extraction zone, and hopefully live to see another day." He didn't want to mention that, if all this fails and the cons at the hidden base deny her access, she'll have to abandon her vessel to the autobots. Hopefully, it wouldn't have to turn to that, he was interested to see what were exactly on the logs of this ship.

With that done, Target made his way out of the ship and transformed to get a better view of the battle-zone. As he flew over, he saw Ratchet helping one of the two autobots that practically destroyed his battle-group. He transformed into his robotic form, took a shot at Ratchet with an armour-piercing missle and transformed back into his aircraft form. He didn't even bother to see if he managed to get the hit off, it was simply a way to get their attention and hope they would be listening on the less protected decepticon frequencies. He opened up his comms to the remaining decepticons under his command, including those that appeared out of the woods, "Demolition team, what's taking so long?" He waited a few seconds before speaking back into the line, "Demo team, report!" He again waited a few seconds, knowing full well no demolition team was assigned to him. Cursing as he spoke again back onto the line, "All units, pull back to the jamming device, the insecticons will cover us until we complete our primary objective. We can't let the autobots have access to the large energon mine in that area!" There was no energon mine anywhere nearby, in fact, anyone who did a quick scan of the area would know there wasn't any there. But there was the possibility that a quick scan wouldn't pick up a deep energon mine, so it was unlikely the autobots will let this possible threat to a valuable resource slide.

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Blitzwing cowered behind a rock as the large autobot fired rounds at both him and the human tanks. He was all that was left of the few decepticons in this particular location, the other two that came to help, Trash and Grite, were obliterated by the autobot when he landed in the area. As he sat there, he received Target's transmission and seemed puzzled by what was being said. What was Target planning now? Another in-the-moment plan? The fool let this mission become a failure, what was he aiming to do now? Get them killed?

Before he could think about it any further, Blitzwing saw three insecticons above. Before the autobot could notice, they started firing upon him. Blitzwing took this as his time to pull back and see what Target had in mind. He bolted from cover, narrowly avoiding a tank shell as he ran, and left the mess behind him, heading strait for the destroyed jamming device to rally with what was left of the infiltration group.

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Quake had a crazed look in his eyes as he saw the human continue to run, though not out of his aim. As he was squeezing the trigger, he felt a sharp pain in his arm that caused him to miss the young woman, the shot hitting the building down the block. He glanced at his right shoulder to see a sparking dent of exposed metal flesh, no longer protected by the hard armour of the mechanical beast. Quake looked around for the idiot who shot him, he had no intention to make life easy for that one. He saw a human soldier holding what seemed like a small smoking tube on his shoulder. Quake didn't care to shout his rage, he simply took aim at the human transgressor.

The Hive

I don't mind, my next post was going to be Dovah going to sleep anyway.

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Revans Exile said
I'm going to have to pull out. Do whatever you want with Quake and Guardian Supreme. The human characters are making this boring.

I'll take care of Quake for the time-being, if this is the case. I'll wait for Misu to post.

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I probably will only post after both Misu and Daisies post, don't want to make too many posts at once.

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Only noticed that this entire battle is taking place in Oregon, main HQ of the Autobots... Airachnid landed in the worst possible location with her ship XD

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Target nodded to Airachnid as he approached the console. What he saw on the screen made him groan quietly to himself. The autobots had finally sent troopers after the fall of the jamming tower. Although small in number, about 15 which included the autos that emerged from their pods, they had already outnumbered his remaining troops. What also made him feel worrisome was that more decepticon units had arrived only to be pushed back by the autos. This most-likely meant someone higher up the decepticon hierarchy didn't trust him with completing the mission, but there was a small possibility Megatron decided to give him access to some more troops. Whatever the reason, the mission was lost and it was now no reason to fight for more than pride.

He felt the ship shift under his feet and turned to Airachnid for an explination, which she gave to him without even looking at him. "This ship is headed towards an insecticon hive that I discovered some time ago. I plan to use a group of them to distract the bots if a diversion becomes necessary." There was a slight pause as she adjusted something on the command console, "You're free to abandon ship if you have a better plan."

Insecticons? Target never met any face-to-face before but has seen them in action. He quickly realised that this changed things, that his mission wasn’t a complete failure. The insecticons would boost the decepticon forces substantially, making the losses at this fight acceptable. He quickly scanned the console in front of him and formulated a plan to distract the autobots. He called it genius, while others might call it something less glorifying.

His plan, however, hinged on whether or not this ship could leave this heavily controlled enemy territory. Target addressed Airachnid, “What are the chances that you can get this ship back into orbit or out of enemy territory, after you received the insecticons? At least far enough that more decepticon reinforcements could come and support any needed repair efforts.” He tried to hide the anxiousness in his voice. If she couldn’t get it out of the area, he may need to think of another strategy before the autobots sent units to secure the now moving vessel.

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Cartwright said
Sky=Skyrte

Skyrte said
Just a late heads up, I'm bretty busy for these couple of days.

^ that was a few days ago now. But otherwise he's been on daily, according to his activity anyway. Maybe he'll be able to fill us in soon

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Target observed the now revealed Airachnid, spotting the decepticon insignia as she approached with her glowing palms no longer glowing. He thought for a few seconds about his current situation. His battle group outside was getting demolished by the time he entered the vessel, so by now they were either all dead or being routed by the autos. That would then mean the autos would be heading this way to investigate the ship themselves and, if Target survived this, Megatron will rattle him around for his failure. While he didn't want to simply let the fact she just shot at him slide, nor the fact she was seemingly all alone on this (possibly stolen) ship, he had no real want to draw things out any longer than they needed to be. However, on the off chance she had something to offer that would please Megatron enough over the loss of the LZ secure & hold mission, that would grant him a chance to save his 'skin' from another recent failure.

Target got up and approached the femmbot, doing his best to hide a slight limp in his step from her glancing shot on his leg. Holding on tight to his blaster in case things went bad, he introduced himself, "Name's Target, primary skills in battle-group comms, scouting and infiltration. Megatron's current agenda is to win. While I know you'd like more detail and while I'm [i[awfully sorry[/I] about breaking into your ship, we have more pressing matters. My battle-group outside was getting destroyed by the autos when I was welcoming myself aboard your ship. I need to find out my troops managed to turned the tide of the battle or if there is an Autobot attack group coming straight for this ship to also welcome themselves aboard. If you can take me to your comms-room, I'll tell you all you need to know. To be honest however, I don't believe we have time for '20 Questions'. He had a few questions himself, like where was the ship's crew? Why was she alone if there aren't any more crewmembers? What's she doing here? What's behind that door? But he felt the pressing matter of his main mission had to come first.

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Revans Exile said
Pathfinder in my last post I clearly stated that when Guardian left all the cons in the area were dead or moments from death. So that leads me to believe Bulwark is insane and imagining Cons that are not there or you failed to understand my post. I am going to assume the former because that is more interesting.

It's possible Megatron sent more units or even had another battle-group in waiting if he felt Target might, or would, fail. As it stands, the Cons are getting their arses handed to them due to not being prepared as much as they should be. Granted they are to be destroyed easily in this fight as the Auto characters have got to get to a safe-haven, it would be unfortunate for any character to die in the intro battle.

Cartwright said
And has anyone seen Sky Icily?

Who?

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Saw an issue with my post and fixed it, didn't realize Airachnid could shoot lasers from her hands, only thought it was webbing-like stuff. Checked up on youtube for some vids of her and corrected my post accordingly.

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Target hardly had enough time to react to the voice behind him, let alone dodge the incoming shots of pinkish energy. He leapt to the side as we took a hit to his left leg, grabbing his blaster from the side of the door as he did. As the other shots hit the wall and door where he stood, Target bolted down the hall and dived around a corner before he could get hit again. He growled at the pain in his leg as he finally came to a stop. Glancing down at his leg, Target saw it was simply a glancing shot, nothing he couldn't walk off later.

With that in mind, he turned his attention to the unknown assailent. Kneeling at the corner as he shouted, "State your identification and subject yourself for processing, by order of lord Megatron." He quickly took two warning shots around the corner, getting a quick glance around the corner at the unknown assaulter. It was defiantly a Cybertronian, also it appeared to be a she. What was interesting was the glowing-pink hands and spider-like legs holding her to the ceiling. Target stayed there at the ready, waiting for her to make the first move.

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Awesome, now I've just got to figure out a good time to bring him in. We'll see where things go first.