Deathsaurer

Super Robot Wars SL

Brainwave sighed in frustration.

"I want to make myself clear before anyone decides to be a gung ho idiot. Liege Maximo is one of the original Thirteen Transformers created directly by Primus himself. You might want to look him up on that data file I gave you Rastun. Liege is basically a demi god and when we had a bit of a political falling out with him he kinda took on our entire military and walked away so don't entertain the idea of this ship doing anything but pissing him off. And I am not handing control of it over to the Kool-aid Man here."

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"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."

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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."

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"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..."

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"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."

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Megatron stood there fuming at the taunt while Brainwave could barely contain his laughter.

"Oh god, the girl with the key and the Bumblebee. Shockwave loves that... I mean that is a very serious security breach. Who leaked that to Rook? Shockwave could always use a new test dummy. FOR SCIENCE. But let's be honest here as embarrassing as all those events are they never got beaten by a question from Walky on Facebook. Everyone knows you stay away from Walky."

"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."

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The group arrived as Sideways was making his way to his feet from Rastun's latest assualt. Transforming they immediately confronted the trouble making bot.

"I'm very disappointed in you Sideways. I never expected such a massive blunder from you. And to Inferno no less. So here we are at the anticlimactic final showdown far sooner than it should have happened, yes. Why don't you just give up now before you embarrass yourself some more?" Taunted Megatron.

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Shanghai:

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."

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The group watched news reports of the chase. "Perhaps simply telling Inferno to come to us was not the best choice of words." Megatron admitted.

"Because in his single-mindedness he's allowed Sideways to force him towards the middle of the city?" Inquired the Transtech.

"Yes, that."

Brainwave turned to the Predacon. "Megatron, how sure are you this is actually Sideways? He was using a motorcycle alt mode when we arrived."

"On come on, strange looking black jet suddenly uppity after the laser got destroyed. Everything about this points to Sideways." Insisted Megatron.

"Still, I'd hate to go charging into a battle in the middle of the city and it turn out to not be him. Is maniacal laughter still the only response from Inferno? It'd be great if he could tell us something useful."

Megatron simple stared at him like he'd lost his mind.

"Fine, let's get this over with. Hopefully we won't level the entire city. We've got enough people pissed at us already."

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Megatron took it upon himself to deal with the Inferno situation. Calling his former subordinate up he attempted to make the best of the current situation. "Ah, Inferno. Good job destroying the target but we need to discuss..." A voice form the background interrupted him mid sentence. "Tell him to learn what the hell discreet means." The Transtech's annoyance was palpable. "Yes Brainwave, I was coming to that. You see Inferno you made a much bigger scene than necessary."

"But Royalty, was it not prudent to deal with the target as quickly as possible? No threats to the colony should be tolerated!"

"Well Inferno I can understand why you'd think that way. But you've managed to go from the least conspicuous member of the group to the most conspicuous. As such I need you to be bait and lead everyone in the opposite direction."

Ever eager to please Inferno quickly agreed without question. "At once Royalty!" At that moment Sideways was beginning his attack run on the former antbot. "Royalty a strange black jet is approaching me."

Megatron was shocked by the news. He hadn't expected Sideways to make a move so quickly. "A black jet you say? Inferno, I changed my mind. I want you to head back to us as quickly as possible!"

Transforming and resuming his mad cackling Inferno sped back to the group while dodging weapons fire.