Deathsaurer

Super Robot Wars SL

The group followed Inferno to the area with the highest frequency of assumed Sideways encounters. A decisions immediately regretted as it gave off a lawless vibe that made the disturbed Predacon's presence unwanted. The sheer volume of tread marks on the road indicated it was a routine street race location.

"Well makes sense he'd hang around a place like this. Just the sort of people he'd like." Unfortunately, despite these people likely being wanton criminals, using them as bait wouldn't be prudent. No need to do something outlandish and draw even more attention to them. "While we can be certain he will show up here again I'd prefer to not have to confront him in a mass of humans if it can be helped. This place should only be a back up plan."

"You moralfags make this far more complicated than it needs to be." Fumed Megatron. "Obviously a trouble maker like Sideways would be doing something to entertain himself between races, yes. You should check the highway with the heaviest traffic Rastun. It's the best place to cause pointless drama."

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After cleaning himself off Brainwave crosses his arms and continued to stare at the new Predacon.

"Stop looking at me like that! I didn't know you were a servant of the queen."

"I'm not!" The Transtech indignantly replied. "And stop calling me that! How many times do you have to be told that?" Megatron quickly added.

Brainwave weighed his options, dig through the police database and hope it has something of use for finding Sideways or... ask the ant.

"So this is probably really really dumb of me but I want to ask you something. Do you know if there have been reports of an unknown motorcycle causing problems?"

"Yes! The humans do a terrible job at coding their communications. They seem far too happy to take me for a ride."

"Well good news then, yes! Lead the way Inferno. And between you and me you may want to work on the way you word things. That could be horribly misinterpreted."

"At once my qu..." Quickly stopping Megatron's displeasure he wisely chose another word. "Royalty."

Leaning over to Brainwave Megatron whispered a question. "You can reprogram him right?"

Ignoring Megatron the Transtech simply transformed and followed the stupid, crazy ant. This totally wasn't going to turn into another mess.

"Useless pompous jackass."

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Brainwave quickly filtered through the local television feed.

"Well this is pointless, the humans have over two thousand channels and not one of them has anything useful. What a ridiculous species."

"If there are as many other Cybertronian's in this city as you're implying isn't standing here in the open a rather bad idea?"

"Huh? Oh, why would it? Exactly how many of them could possible recognize you except Sideways?" Right as he finished saying that a Lamborghini Diablo labeled as a fire chief's vehicle that had just passed the end of the street they were on slowly backed up as if taking another look before turning down the road to approach them. "Well that seems a bit out of place... And look, Cybertronian. I should really stop talking."

"That car... It can't be..." The vehicle seemed oddly familiar to Megatron and brought forth nothing but ill feelings.

The car pulled up to the duo and transformed. "MY QUEEN, that is you!"

Megatron stood there in abstract horror slowly shaking his head back and forth. "NO, not you!"

Brainwave paid no mind to Megatron's reaction and scanned the new individual. "Interesting, he is from a universal stream that is an offshoot of yours but you both fought in the Universe War. This could be useful for getting through traffic without running over everyone in sight. Wait, aren't you the Inferno with no offensive weapons?"

Inferno, being who he is, quickly responded exactly as you'd expect. "You dare insult the colony? BURN!" Spraying Brainwave with his arm mounted foam dispenser. Brainwave simply glared at the former ant bot while Megatron laughed at the show.

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Shanghai

The party arrived on the outskirts of the city of Shanghai. Brainwave immediately started scanning for signs of Sideways and was instantly annoyed by the readings.

"Oh Primus, this jackass has been doing loops around the city. I can't lock in on him. We should probably check the news for an unknown motorcycle causing trouble."

"Your scanners are being notoriously unhelpful. Did you forget to upgrade them or something?" Megatron quipped.

"Well excuse me for not having a fully established sensor grid that can instantly zero in on something. And before you say something stupid about hacking the native communications networks, they're not designed to find a target like this. I'm scanning for a very specific signal they don't even know exists let alone are able to detect. You'd probably be surprised how many other Cybertronian's are actually in this city."

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Base of Operations

It had been a few hours since the Carbombya mission had finished and everyone was finally repaired and upgraded.

"Alright, the computer was monitoring Earth as we were... leveling that shitty country and I know where we're going next. Shanghai."

"Why would any on Unicron's servants go to Shanghai?" Asked a befuddled Megatron.

"It's Sideways, don't try to make sense of it. We have to deal with this knucklehead before he pulls his usual I'M ON YOUR SIDE shenanigans and has everyone fighting for no reason."

"Wait, that Sideways? Never thought I'd meet him again..."

Brainwave, totally shocked by this news, put on his best dull surprise face and he turned to look at Megatron. "Wait, when did you?... Know what, I don't want to know."

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"Agreed." Brainwave couldn't wait to get out of this shithole. "The cave in destroyed the jamming device, back to base and time to upgrade. I'm not having a repeat of this shit again."

And with that he opened his space bridge and proceeded through it.

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Carbombya: Epilogue

Megatron barely managed to get out of the cave in his vehicle mode before it fully collapsed. The massive air displacement forced through the entrance tunnel sent him flying. Transforming mid air he landed rather awkwardly, flipping head over heels several times as his companions watched before coming to a complete stop. Dizzily staggering to his feet he pointed in what he assumed, inaccurately, was the general direction of his companions and levied an accusation.

"YOU! You assholes left me to die!"

"So we're going for irony today then?" Came the Transtech's retort. "You have a rather long track record of doing that if I recall. Besides, you have the strongest armor of anyone here so quit complaining." He finished before turning to survey the hole left by the collapsed cave leaving Megatron fuming. Several city blocks had collapsed into a hole several hundred feet deep. "So, who wants to bet we get blamed for this somehow?"

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The cultist was dumbfounded by the humans odd behavior. Unsure of how to proceed it turned back to Tarantulas for further orders. Tarantulas, however, was indisposed rolling on the ground in a fit of laughter at the pathetic display. With no new orders coming the cultist shrugs and begins firing on the Martian natives with its brethren while their "leader" continued laughing himself senseless allowing the broken human to run off and hide somewhere. Forgotten.

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Boringverse: Hunt for the Vok

Tarantulas had spent several months trying various means to track and/or bait out the Vok. Thus far his attempts had been unsuccessful thus he decided to use the simplest, most effective method to attract them. Break all their shit and make a giant mess of their experiment. So he decided to visit Mars, the source of the Transmetal event. If this failed, well they can always get the idiots on Earth to blow each other up. Upon arrival he was greeted with something... unexpected. A silly box with the word "GUNDMA" written on it.

"To think I may have actually encountered a life form more pathetic than Waspinator." A shocking revelation to be sure. "You, cultist. Go poke it and see what it does. I'm curious to see just how badly the gods have cursed this pathetic waste of space. The rest of you just start shooting anything that moves."

And with that the operation commenced.

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Brainwave reflected on how the mission was going so far as the group met up.

"So today was an interesting day. Found out the threat is far bigger than initially assumed, got jumped by a bunch of shoes, walking buildings. And holy crap how did you get out from under that rock so fast?"

Everyone turned to see their increasingly annoying adversary standing next to the fallen boulder.

"I'm going to leave you wondering that. Nice of you to all cluster up though, I was waiting for that!"

As Tarantulas prepared another attack a booming voice interrupted him.

"Tarantulas, enough! We've spent too much effort defending this worthless shit hole. It's time to quit wasting time here." A mysterious projection appeared delivering new orders. He clearly wasn't happen about this turn of events.

"You can't be serious. These idiots are going to continue to try to stop us. Better to kill them now!"

His boss however wasn't interested in his reasoning.

"I don't care. It's already too late to stop it. Wasting time on them is wasting time better spent elsewhere. I have a far more important mission for you than these 3 insects. Now come, it's time to hunt the Vok once again."

With that the spider stopped complaining understanding what his superior meant. "Alright then, time to destroy them once and for all. But what about Sideways? He went AWOL on me."

"Don't worry Tarantulas, one does not walk away from the cause. We will find another way to make use of him." And with that the projection disappeared and a portal opened.

"You know, he said I had to stop fighting. He didn't say I couldn't collapse the cave!" And with that the arachnid fired at a weak point in the ceiling triggering a collapse. "You could follow me to certain death or you could try to run for it. Have fun either way." Waling through the portal he left his adversaries to their fate.

"Oh shit, he still has my space bridge jammed." Brainwave quickly discovered. "I don't suggest that portal, the mysterious individual was likely The Fallen. Probably best to run for it."