An ancient Decepticon station, to all appearences, and scanners, devoid of life, is suddenly awakened, as a being without form approaches. Twenty four old Stasis pods occupy what was once storage. Those within are awakened again. At least those who can be awakened.
Starfury looks about her and wonders why she was awakened. Could it be the correct time?
Seconds after checking her systems, and comrades, she is on the bridge, and the sensor screen shows something she has become accustomed to. A free spark. It was her line of work here at Decepticon outpost Theta... to return the warrior spirit to battle. This one would join her ranks.
"You two! Jets!" she cried. "get in here, you have your first new mission."
"Amazing" Ramjet exclaimed as he looked over his new body.
"This is great" Skywarp agreed. This was the first time they had seen their new bodies, they had been in stasis since recieving them. They jumped at the chance to test their new bodies, and were out the airlock in a matter of minutes.
As Ramjet and Skywarp left, three warriors who were also unidentified by the original station's crew, also looked in awe at their new bodies. They had been found as the rest, simply floating in a void. Their new modes were, unlike the jets, quickly repaired. together versions of their old bodies. They still had their old bodies, mostly.
"Well, I've got alot more firepower!" remarked Prowl.
"I like it" Jazz replied, "And you, big guy?" he said referring to a large, red, white and blue robot, who sat there quietly. As Prowl approached, the warrior gave him a stare that would freeze titanuim. "Wonder what's up his tailpipe" Jazz commented.
"Identify yourselves Decepticons!" The warrior howled, full of rage, as his arm shot out like a piston, and drilled a large hole in the floor at their feet.
" Whoa there! We're Autobots!!" Prowl screamed. "Please stop!"
"You cannot fool me, you wear the insignia of the Decepticons"
"So do you" prowl commented, "calm down and let us figure out what is going on!"
"Amazing. Simply unbelievable." Starfury commented after hearing the words of the spark. She had worked with many sparks before, but this was the first one who could talk. And it's story was unbelievable.
For the past hour Starfury had listened to the disembodied Starscream's story about the organics he encountered, who were from Cybertron.
Starfury had sent a subspace probe to cybertron, and Starscream's story was just the beginning of the iceberg. As she stared at the viewscreen in awe, the doors of the bridge flew in, and flattened the command chair. Hooligan and Spacecase struggled feebly to lift the door, but to no avail. In the doorway, a large Autobot screamed. "Know now that only one side will be left standing, So says Irrellius Prime!"
With the slightest hand signal from Starfury, the crew of Outpost Theta dropped their guns. "so, Autobots" she commented. " I guess we should check on those we recieve before we give them our gifts. Normally I would annihilate you where you stand, but I'm going to need every warrior I can get."
"What makes you think we would ever want to be your pawns?"
"Because there is something more at stake, something that goes beyond the great war."
"What do you speak of, witch?" yelled Irrellius
" I speak," Starfury replied in a slightly raised voice, "Of the infection that has overtaken Cybertron. That has weeds sprouting, and animals polluting our beloved home."
"We ain't gonna hear any of your trash 'bout Cybertron!" Jazz yelled, infuriated.
"Look at the scanner! We also have a first hand account!"
"First hand account my ass!" Jazz replied, "We're supposed to trust Decepticrumbs?"
"Turn around." Starfury replied. "and see for yourself"
The three Autobots turned around and saw Ramjet, Skywarp, and another Decepticon twice as large at the two jets. "Hello Autobots, you are again at the mercy of Starscream!"
The three Autobots turned back to look at Starfury, and saw the Decepticon warriors had moved without sound, and doubled in number. Spacecase, Hooligan, Airraid, Jetstorm, and Deluge. A squalk from above revealed Squalktalk, wiith Bestbox on his claws, hovered over them. "Now will you calm down and listen to reason?" Starfury asked, "Or will you join the void again?"
It took three days to get the Autobot warriors to trust them. For the next month, they prepared to go to Cybertron. They constantly worked, Autobot and Decepticon alike, to reanimate the damaged warriors still in stasis. At the end of the month, they had Bonecrusher, Scavenger, Jetfire, Air-raid, Skydive, Buzzsaw, Grimlock, Ramhorn, Soundwave, Laserbeak, Razorclaw, Snarl, Ironhide, Silverbolt, and one of Scourge's sweeps.
They armed themselves to capacities far beyond what they normally would. They trained and planned day and night.
The first attack on Cybertron. The Jet transformers, with their new abilities, were to strafe their target's from orbit, shortly after Ramjet, Skywarp, and Skydive dropped down their troops.
Skywarp and Skydive took point, landing where they scanned the least amount of sparks. But they didn't know that it was a garden.
These plants had a life of their own. That these plants cuddled to their animalistic friends. The vines saw beings coming, and reached out to greet them
Suddenly, as the Decepticon armada approached, vines shot up, and curled themselves around the three drop-ships. Skywarp and Skydive both emitted a cry of pain as their thrusters burst through their fuselages, due to the suddenness of their descent.
From hundreds of feet above, A rain of Autobots and Deceptiicons fell upon a few unsuspecting victims, flesch crushed under the metal of prone warriors, ripped apart in the accident which took out their transports.
From her place in space, Starfury witnessed the horror of her troops being demolished. They were under attack before reaching the planet. "Hold position everyone, fire from here, we will eliminatethis menace once and for all!"
On Cybertron, animal and plant alike, the beings saw the armada at their periphery, and did what any threatened animal would do, fought back.
Amid the chaos raining down on Cybertron, energy blasts came back up. Pure, unfocused plasmid. they cut through the lines of Decepticons quickly, Star Fury was forced to call retreat.All that could, left, and picked up who they could as they left. Upon regrouping, they had lost Laserbeak, Silverbolt, and Buzzsaw, along with their ground attack members.
Drifting through space, Ramjet started freaking out. "Not again, this time no-one will recover me, I'll drift forever."
"Shut up you spineless moron!" Irrellius shouted from inside him. "We're not done here yet."
"But who's comin f'r us boss?" Jazz asked, "You saw those other cons do the "Lectric boo-ga-lo outta here."
"This time they made the right decision," Irrellius commented, "they are far advanced, we lost many warriors."
Many days later, Ramjet met two others floating in the void. They boarded through the huge gaping hole ramjet recieved in battle, and joined the castaways. Strika and Obsidian had much to say about Cybertron, which was good, because it would be 3 more months before the Decepticons recovered them.
In a room on Cybertron
Bonecrusher scratches his head, "That was one major fall" he opens his eyes and looks around to see metallic animals all around him. His gut fills with fear.
One of the hairy robots came up to him and said. " Hey you're awake! Great here's some food." The hairbot hands him some small squishy thing. "We chased off those ships chasing you, you're safe now" Bonecrusher stares at the squishy item quizzically. "It's fruit! Your system can handle it now, you've been reformatted."
Bonecrusher luooks at his hands closely, then looks around himself to see many other beasts on other tables. A scream of rage exploded our of his mouth. He was infected. These "Maximals" had infected him, and other Decepticons too.
The Surgical ward was a bloodbath. in minutes no maximal could go in. In an hour, when the maximals made it in, alll that was left were slaughtered staff, and a large hole, leading downward.
