A Smokey Path - TFP Roleplay - Accepting (Need Canons)

[Amethyst The Gem]

"I should say the same for you!" Smokescreen snapped back, though he was uncomfortable with how quickly Megatron was approaching. Realizing he had no means of melee defense, he simply used the phase shifter to avoid the slash. "There's no way you could-" Smokescreen stopped, feeling the vibrations within Darkmount as the canons charged..........

Then Starscream spoke, and Smokescreen risked a moment to divert his attention to the seeker. "For your information, no one died in our base." He semi-lied, since someone did die, just not actually in the base.

Starscream's next words only made him more furious. "The only one pathetic around here, is you. Your pathetic cowardice, your pathetic two-faced loyalties, constantly coming and going from the cause you claim to dedicate your life to, and yet you dare call our leader pathetic?!" That was the last straw. Smokescreen was not about to allow Starscream to dishonor Optimus's death with such insults. He took a shot, aiming at his shoulder from behind the massive throne.

[myth;]

Megatron // Tags; Smokescreen

Megatron roared in increasing frustration as his blade and shots went straight through the Autobot, who still held the phase shifter in his possession. "Cowardly Autobot, why do you hide behind your toys like your precious Optimus did? Fight me like a real mech!" he snarled, resisting the urge to keep shooting at the Autobot even though he knew the shots would go through him if his aim was true. Then this grunt began yelling at his Second, Megatron didn't wait, as soon as Smokescreen's attention was drawn to his Air Commander, he aimed for Smokescreen's wrist to try and destroy or take back the phase shifter, and kill the irritating fool in the process.
Though... there was something that caught Megatron's attention.. this Autobot said no one had died when the Nemesis has destroyed the Autobots base. He knew that most of the Autobots had escaped via the ground bridge, but if no one had died... then were was his sworn enemy, Optimus Prime? If he had truly survived, then why did this grunt reek of the Matrix and have illogical and impossible upgrades? Had someone else claimed the Prime's spark? If so, he'd be sure to extinguish their's in return for stealing his chance at illuminating his true enemy.

Soundwave // Tags; Ace

Laserbeak kept up the attack, unswayed by the other symbiote's agility and ability to avoid his shots. He swooped low and curved gracefully in the air, but was a little too slow to evade the swiping attack that clipped his wing and sent him spinning through the air. Yet the mech had been through much worse and with a simple alteration of propulsion and wing angle, he corrected himself and once again began his round on the smaller Autobot.

As unexpected as the reaction to the data cable was, and the resulting act of grabbing hold of it, Soundwave didn't allow the Autobot's choice of counter attack put him off. He allowed the data cable to retract a little further, the immediately twisted the end around and latched the hooks onto the nearest section of the Autobot's armour, pulsing a searing bolt of electricity straight into his target. He didn't care what reaction Ace may have had to that, all he cared about was getting these canons fired... which would be soon, the power was at 70% and climbing.

Sparrow Hawk//Tags; Tink, Brainstorm, Ratchet

Like a good little Autobot, the other femme remained in silence and Sparrow hummed in quiet satisfaction. She may have been disappointed that the Autobot had complied and not fought back, feiry ones were far more fun to play with, but she was relieved at the same time. Another slit neck was another drop of energon on her servos that'd forever haunt her future.
With a careful and near undetectable touch, Sparrow sent a small current of electricity into the femme's processor to render her unconscious, without pain or sensation other than a slight tingle and sudden darkness. Was it a bit kind for a 'con? Of course, and would she admit to guiding her frame to the floor instead of letting her fall like a rock? Never. Leaving the unconscious femme on the ground, she moved on towards the others...

[Alcidesune]

✈ Starscream | He/Him | Decepticon | X | Tags; Spitfire ✈
If Starscream moved to dodge the shot from Smokescreen he would get burned. If he stayed where he was to avoid the fire he would get shot. Primus, this wasn't going well. He tried his best to duck out of the way but, unfortunately for him, this put a wing right in the laser's path. Of all of Starscream's many shrieks, this one was perhaps the loudest, coming out closer to a bloodcurdling wail. "MY WING! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO IT!" Yes, there was, in fact, a large, circular hole within his right wing now, sending surges of white hot pain through Starscream. It looked like he was going to be spending a bit of time with Knockout when this was over.

Megatron taking the unintentionally provided opening didn't escape Starscream's sight. Typical Megatron, not that Starscream could blame him - he would most certainly do the same thing if the chance came up. In fact, Starscream soon came to the realization that he had a similar chance right now - the Femme he had originally been fighting had paused, bringing a hand up to her neck. Taking this chance, Starscream fires a potshot at her servo and makes a break for new cover, stumbling a bit as he goes from the sheer PAIN feedback coming from his wing. Now in a slightly better position - Starscream behind a console of some sort with Smokescreen and Spitfire to his 10 and 2 respectively - he goes back to doing what he does best... Running his mouth. "If your leader is so much braver than nobler than I then why isn't he here? Could it be that he abandoned your cause?"

Ⓐ Ace | He/Him | Autobot | X | Tags; Soundwave Ⓐ
Bast, a cat may she be, was bound to slip up with her dodges every once in a while - one of the lasers hit her right forelimb with a yowl of pain, rendering the limb unusable for now and momentarily distracting Ace while he glanced her way. One limb non functional, however painful and inconvenient it may be, just meant that, for now, she would have to change her tactic. There was too much at stake otherwise - she could feel so through her master's spark. Though the bond between a minicon and its master wasn't as strong as one between sparkmates or spark twins, it was still a unique and strong bond meant to alert each other of commands, feelings, and other information for better and easier commands. The new command? Dodge and weave. It wasn't as effective with the slight limp, but Bast ran Soundwave's way, trying to weave between his legs in a hope that Laserbeak would miss a shot and hit him instead.

Ace, however? In his moment of distracted worry for his Minicon he completely missed what Soundwave was trying to do, letting out a yelp as electricity coursed through the armor of his left arm. He couldn't even move the left arm with the cable still attached, every circuit in the arm firing at once and forcing it to clench, the talons of his servos causing a horrid scraping sound. He actually felt a bit woozy, swaying on his pedes and shaking his head to clear the pins and needles feeling that replaced the shocking pain once the electricity had coursed through. "F-f-frag!" A bit unsure of how to deal with this, Ace falls back on the time tried solution to anything that bugged him on the street - stab it. Bringing up his right arm, Ace promptly brought down the sharp wrist blade on the offending cable.

✪ Brainstorm | He/Him | Autobot | X | Tags; Tink ✪
For a split second there he thought he heard something. However, Brainstorm, a man of science who shuns skepticism, merely brushed it aside as Ratchet being noisy. He was old, Brainstorm couldn't blame him. So instead Brainstorm returns to the task at hand - getting the equipment ready for a check up. Did he actually need surgery tools to check why Smokescreen had changed? ... no, not really. Would he try to snag some samples for Science the moment Smokescreen stopped paying attention? Yes, ethics be damned. Ethics were for bots who hated progress, one of which Brainstorm was not. Who cared if a few feelings got hurt if it meant winning the war?

... okay, admittedly it tended to be a lot more than feelings that got hurt, but still! Winning the war! Saving his love from Megatron's evil schemes! Finally showing Perceptor who the best scientist was! Those were his goals and he'd be damned if someone else screwed with them.

[Amethyst The Gem]

"Says the one who's second-in-command is cowering behind your throne!" Smokescreen shot back verbally as Starscream ran to find better cover. "Coward or not, at least I'm still fighting!" Taking another shot at the Air Commander, mainly hoping to draw him out, he inadvertently hit the console as well. "Well that's not good." He mumbled, shifting his attention back to Megatron. "Oh no you don't!" He jerked back his arm, protecting the phase shifter, but getting his upper arm slashed instead.

Once again Smokescreen was distracted, somewhat, by Starscream's rambling. "Oh wouldn't you love to know?" Smokescreen responded with a smirk to cover his true feelings and thoughts. "For all you know he's found a way to gather an army and is heading to this very fortress to join us in battle." Inwardly, Smokescreen was beating himself up. "Not only did I lie, but I'm going to have to explain to everyone what happened......"

[Kia_Bee]

"Optimus would never abandon us!" Spitfire exclaimed before gritting her denta as her left servo flared with pain from the shot. He wouldn't abandon us...right? He wouldn't just leave us when we need him most. Optimus is always there for us. Spitfire thought, a small seed of doubt planted in her spark. She turned to face Starscream's new location before she suddenly stopped, shuddering a little. She didn't understand what happened, but she knew something happened to her sister. "What did you do to Tink?!" She yelled.


Tink felt her spark racing in fear. She tried to keep calm and think logically about her situation. She was captured, yes, but there was always a way out without getting injured. She could phase shift to where either this intruder went through her or she herself went through her capture. Before she could decide, she felt a tingling run through her processor before her optics flickered off as she became dead weight.

[myth;]

Megatron // Tags; Smokescreen

So it was true, something had happened to Optimus after all. This Smokescreen might have been claiming that Optimus was gathering his forces and preparing to attack, but he had clearly not thought through his words. If Optimus was gathering his strength, then where was he now when the Autobots needed his aid the most? Why was he holding back and cowering behind these other's? And where was this backup in the past few years of war on this planet? Lies, it was all lies.
This revelation and that fact that he somehow managed to miss Smokescreen again only furthered the Decepticons rage, though before he could vent this fury in the form of some lethal combat with this irritating glitch rat, something caught the corner of his optic and he hesitated for a nano second.
Ultra Magnus has seemingly managed to drag his sorry aft off of the floor and had made it into a position to aim his blaster- towards the power core. "No!" Megatron yelled, but he was too far away and too late.
The red and blue Autobot, a mockery of Optimus' colour scheme no doubt, didn't even look his way before getting a clear shot and taking it. Unknown to the war lord, the commander had COMM'd all of the Autobots to warn them of his plan. .:"Autobots, evacuate the area, I've got a clear shot and I'm detonating the power core. Ratchet, Brainstorm, we require a ground bridge immediately.":.
The plasma bullet sang through the air and time seemed to stop for Megatron. After everything they had been through, after finally getting such a value edge over the Autobots and accursed parasites on this planet, it was all going to be torn down.

Soundwave // Tags; Ace

This one was a fighter, and required more focus than he originally thought, causing Soundwave's focus to leave the monitors and his progress for just a moment. Even though the electricity was doing it's work at causing pain and suffering, if the Autobot was still awake and aware then he wouldn't stop the assault. Even when claws scrapped along the armour protecting the cable and a nice began slicing at it, the Spy Master didn't pause his attack, the blue sparks were illuminating again his dark frame and fluttering across his mask like sinister and deadly fireflies... and for the first time he actually looked at this insignificant pest. It was an odd one for sure, but no less irritating.
He increased the voltage and Laserbeak upped the power behind her own shots, they'd end the pair quickly-
If a yell didn't just catch his attention like cat to a light pointer. It was Megatron who had yelled and a quick scan with his optics revealed why. Time seemed to slow down as the Spy Master could only watch with an unreadable expression as Ultra Magnus took aim and fired at the power core in the middle of the fortress. Soundwave's frame tensed and he disconnected form the console, it was too late to finish now, this place was about to be blown to splinters and he was not getting obliterated when it did.

Sparrow Hawk//Tags; Tink, Brainstorm, Ratchet

By this time, Sparrow was just outside the room in which the ground bridge was being kept, she peered around a corner to check to see which lifeforms remained in the area. She was quick to pick up on an Autobot she knew, Brainstorm, an Autobot Scientist was as deadly an aim as her. Best to keep out of range and sight of that one. The human children she could have sworn she heard earlier, and yet they were no where to be seen. Hmm, suspicious. Ratchet too was missing.
Glancing up and down the area to check for structural weaknesses and possible exits in case this one failed her, the assassin was just about to put her plan in action when a gravelly and familiar voice echoed through the main console. Ultra Magnus. He was calling a retreat? No! If they came back before her work was done, she'd be outnumbered and killed. Scrap. Fragging hecking scrap. Taking a near silent in vent, the femme whipped out her hand rifle and took a careful aim at Brainstorm whilst his back was turned. The femme was about to fire at the back of his neck when an idea came to her, if she took out all the Autobots here and kept them alive, her masters could interrogate them later and gather information.. and the Harbinger would remain complete in tact.. hmm..
She turned the settings to electrical stun and fired at the unsuspecting Autobot.

[Amethyst The Gem]

Smokescreen took the opportunity of Megatron's distraction to aim his weapon directly at him. "You hear that? That's the sound of your fortress going down. Where are you going to run now? You thought you had us destroyed, but we came back stronger and now you're the one who has to run. And if I were Prime, you'd be given that chance. But, lucky for me, I'm not Prime." With that, Smokescreen fired, hoping to offline the Decepticon warlord for good.


(Just so y'all know, with that last line Smokey is essentially trying to deny the fact that he's a Prime at all, not the fact that he's not OP. Could be taken as both though. One on the surface, one underneath, like a hidden meaning.)

[Alcidesune]

✈ Starscream | He/Him | Decepticon | X | Tags; Spitfire ✈
Starscream had an amazing retort ready about how he wasn't cowering, it was strategic use of the cover provided - something that would've kept Cliffjumper alive had he used it. There was also one planned about how maybe the fiery Autobot might be a bit glitchy. However, none of these got used seeing as, just when Starscream was about to open his mouth, Megatron gave a shout. Glancing his way to see what their illustrious leader could possibly be screaming about this time, Starscream was greeted with the sight of Ultra Magnus firing at the power core.

"Oh frag." This operation was completely blown, as far as Starscream was concerned, and he wasn't about to stay with a sinking ship. Presuming that the Autobots had no intention of dying with Darkmount either, Starscream takes advantage of the distraction to Transformer once more, immediately taking off to try and reach the Nemesis. Of course, given his non functional wing and horizontal stabilizer, he more or less manages to get off the ground and immediately begin plummeting. This was beginning to become a frustratingly common situation, actually. Given that the Nemesis was actually parked at Darkmount it's not too horribly frustrating getting to it, but his landing is... A crash, more or less, with Starscream transforming at the last moment and landing on his chest, rolling once or twice and coming to a stop when he slams into one of the flight bay's walls. "Knockout? I'm going to need some... Repairs." his ping to the mech in question comes complete with the sourness and disdain of someone who doesn't want to admit they managed to not only hurt themselves in the fight itself, but also in the landing process while escaping. But... Considering he didn't get caught in the blast itself he considered this a win.

Ⓐ Ace | He/Him | Autobot | X | Tags; Soundwave Ⓐ
For Bast the pause was fortunate, as it meant that Laserbeak didn't get a chance to fire upon her before Soundwave disconnected. For Ace, however, it was a bit less fortunate, as Soundwave was still shocking him, with an increase in power, too. That was, to put it bluntly, more than Ace could handle. Hell, even the normal shock kept him from moving much, no doubt that his aft would've been in serious danger if this had been an actual fight. Once the second shock went through him Ace was out cold, thumping to the ground next to his symbiote, whom took the position of attempting to guard him while Bulkhead and Wheeljack - only recently returned to consciousness - drag him off in preparation for the oncoming ground bridge. One that wasn't there yet, earning a shared glance of confusion between the two.

✪ Brainstorm | He/Him | Autobot | X | Tags; Tink ✪
The coordinates for a ground bridge out of Dark Mount had been in place shortly after Brainstorm got rid of the children. It wouldn't do for the rest of the Autobots to die because he couldn't make it in time - he did still need them to complete his projects. "Fine. Groundbridge r-" However, before he could either finish his sentence or press the button to create the bridge he felt a sharp, shocking pain at the back of his neck, causing him to immediately collapse... But thankfully not against the console itself. His unfortunate trip to the floor makes quite a bit of racket, definitely alerting Ratchet and possible carrying over the comm link as well.

"Brainstorm? What's going on over there?" although conscious, Brainstorm currently isn't able to answer, and the sound of footsteps can soon be heard, along with some nondescript grumbling.

[Kia_Bee]

Spitfire quickly turned her helm to face Megatron as he yelled. Her optics widened as she saw the shot Ultra Magnus too towards the power core. She heard his command to leave, a ground bridge hopefully coming soon. She looked back at her teammates, seeing that the bridge hadn't arrived yet. What was taking Ratchet so long? He always was on standby. Unless...Oh, Primus, not him too. She silently prayed. She knew that they didn't have enough time before this whole place was going to explode. She could handle the heat and flames, being a pyrokinetic, but the others would definitely be injured. "Everyone behind me now!" She yelled.


Knockout rolled his optics when he received the comm from Starscream. The Seeker could go frag off for all he cared. Besides, he wasn't done polishing his finish on his frame and he wasn't about to ruin it just because of someone else's foolishness. He vented out a sigh, wishing that Breakdown was there. "If it wasn't for those pathetic, squishy humans, he'd still be online!" He grumbled to himself. To him, Breakdown was more than an assistant; he was a mech that also liked causing pain to others. Sure, it was mostly directed at that Wreaker(Lughead or something like that) but he still got the job done.

Though thru all that, the one thing that irritated Knockout more than a ruined paint job was that he was second rate to Shockwave. He involuntarily shuddered, seeing that lone optic faced creep. Why was he in charge of making those monsters? Knockout could make them too, and with amazing colors to boot! He folded his arms, pouting angrily before sighing again. He knew he couldn't disobey Megatron without getting severely damaged(or worse offlined) for it. He looked over at his examination table before rolling his optics again. "Might as well be ready for that glitch helm." He muttered.