Titan; Online
The Bridge, The Nemesis
Soundwave was at his side on the Bridge, it was in disrepair with Megatron at the control while she, “Dreadwing.” he said, turning towards his SIC at the terminal, “Damage report.” he had ordered, “We have suffered critical damage of all major systems, Lord Megatron.” Dreadwing told him, “It will be some time before we can get the ship airborne he had told Megatron.
“Soundwave/Show me what had happened.” He said/thought, so she revealed her face screen and showing the footage of Bulkhead smashing the engine, pausing and zooming in before enhancing the image of The Wrecker, “So it was an Autobot who crippled my vessel.” he said, his mind already calculating the possible danger that would come of this now.
“They will move quickly to exploit any perceived weakness.” Megatron said to them, “Surely they're not foolish enough to launch a direct assault, my liege.” The CMO had said to him, but Megatron was a warrior, and he knew how they thought, “Optimus has grown decidedly more ruthless since our last encounter.” he said, already having a plan in mind and it made her VERY worried.
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Energon Storage Vault, The Nemesis
“Lord Megatron, as your physician, I strongly advise against this.” Knock Out said and Soundwave agreed with this, “Dark Energon's regenerative properties are impressive, but the side effects there is no telling how it might impact the ship.” he said, “Seriously! It’s like they all forgot WHAT The Nemesis is made from!” Laserbeak said and Soundwave agreed, “Wait, what was the vessel made from?”
But Soundwave ignored the voice for now, “Dark Energon courses through my veins.” Megatron told him, “Infusing the warship will enable me to manipulate the craft as if we are one.” he told them and in theory that was correct, but there was still a chance he would wake HIM up, “And together, we shall crush Optimus Prime.” he said and hearing that, she knew there was no stopping his plan.
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The Engine Room, The Nemesis
The Engine Room was being fueled and empowered, the cube entered and as Megatron had pulled the lever, they watched as the engine had glowed the same purple as Dark Energon had begun to power up the vessel, bathing them in a violet light, as she started to feel a pressure in her mind at that, making Soundwave nervous as the vessel had roared back to life.
“Yes.” he said, Excitement. Coming from The Decepticon leader, “I can feel it!” He had shouted out as the vessel awoke, feeling everything, all of the bots inside, all of the sparks and the data inside, the one that had The Iacon data, the programming already starting and focusing on that, because with it, there was a chance that the Vessels full power would return.
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The Nemesis
Soundwave still felt the pressure as their vessel moved, which was when she got a Ground Bridge alert, her Face Screen went and popped up an image of the Autobots as well as a unarmored organic with a squadron of The Crash Suits, it appeared that they came to finish them off, “Optimus,” he had snarled, “You never disappoint.” he had snarled when their cannons went online.
At that, The scout, Bumblebee, approached with a trine of Crash Suits guarding him, reacting, the cannons fired with the suits covering him as the other Autobots and human warriors drew their fire, eventually, Bumblebee was on his own, transforming and running towards him when a satellite was engaged, “What–?”“I didn’t do that.”“You woke him up!” Laserbeak/Soundwave/The Voice all said.
A beam came from The satellite and as Bumblebee leapt up to throw a item, The Spark Extractor if she was correct, when he was putin stasis lock, making him crash and the artifact fall as Arcee went to do the same before she was also frozen, “I didn't realize this ship was equipped with a stasis beam.” Knock Out said, “Neither was I.” Megatron thought, worried now.
The Satellite hit Bulkhead next before aiming at The Prime, missing initially but following him as he ran before leaping upwards, the satellite readjusted before it shot him, making Optimus fall, frozen, making a crater as the Crash Suits were dealt with as well, The Vessel approached before retracting its cannons, “The Spark Extractor!” Megatron said, excited that they could collect it.
“Guide us closer so that I may collect what belongs to me and destroy the Autobots.” he had commanded as the last of the suits were taken, meanwhile, Soundwave got an alert that another Iaconian Relic was discovered, their vessel diverting its course now, “What?!” he said, speaking out all of their surprise, “Where are you going?! I said closer!” he ordered.
The MTO who was at the control spoke up, “Lord Megatron, the ship seems to be navigating itself.” he said, “Wait, it’s navigating itself?!” Laserbeak said, as worried as her, “We must put him back in stasis!” The Voice started as Megatron reacted, “Override.” he said and the MTO responded, but nothing seemed to work, angering Megatron as they looked back to The MTO.
“The system's are bypassing manual contr– ohhh!” The MTO started as he was all of a sudden electrocuted by the terminal, making him fall down, smoking to the shock of the others as there was a moment of silence, “It appears that the ship now possesses a will of its own.” he said, “It’s always had one.” Soundwave said, it’s just that it’s awoken from his slumber, “Impossible!” Megatron denied.
“Trace the problem to its source and fix it!” he had ordered but as she was about to, when a voice that she wished she’d never hear again, “DO NOT TAMPER WITH MY SYSTEMS!” The Voice of Trypticon had said, “THIS WILL BE YOUR ONLY WARNING!” The Titan told them, “Warning?!” Megatron said, not fully comprehending the danger they were all in right now.
“MY MISSION ASSUMES PRIORITY.” Trypticon had told them, “ANY CYBERTRONIAN WHO INTERFERES WILL BE NEUTRALIZED.” He had warned of them, seeing the satellite and what he did to The MTO, she grew worried, “My own vessel dares to address me in threatening tones?!” he demanded as she noticed Project Iacon on a terminal and pointed towards it.
Making the others look and see that they decoded another, “It also seems to be doing a better job of decoding the project Iacon database than we were.” he said to them as he approached, “It's already deciphered a new set of coordinates.” he said as Soundwave started to calculate the coordinates and their current heading before displaying it to Megatron and Dreadwing.
“And judging by our current course, that is precisely where the ship is headed.” The Seeker said, which Megatron took well, “As I desire.” Megatron said, “You see, this warship is nothing more than an extension of my very will.” he said to them and to himself, “YOUR WILL IS NOTHING.” Trypticon said, surprising him while Soundwave had worried that he remembered when they… neutered him.
“THE IACON ARTIFACT WILL BELONG TO ME.” Trypticon had said to them all, “I am Lord Megatron!” he had snarled, “I command you to cease operations!” Megatron ordered as a beam was powered up, “YOU ARE NO LONGER IN COMMAND.” The Titan said, releasing a frequency that made him grasp his helm in pain, making him kneel down in pain.
Soundwave was scared now as both Dreadwing and Knock Out went to tend for him while she had started to search for a terminal to access and deal with, she had finally found one of them on the bridge and seeing it, she had gotten ready as Megatron had went and risen up, Fury. In his mind while The Voice was panicking, “We must return him to his slumber!” The Voice said and she agreed.
“Regain control of this vessel,” Megatron growled, turning towards the three of them, recovering from the attack, “By any means necessary.” Soundwave was the first to react, turning towards the console being utilized she shot out her tentacles to lobotomize him once again, they cannot let Trypticon fully awaken, the moment she had touched the console though, violet electricity raced down her limbs to reach her body.
Once they had enveloped her she could feel it, “What is that!?” Laserbeak asked her, fear in his Audio as slowly she started to lose feeling in her limbs until eventually nothing, her motor functions appeared to be offline, Shock. Surprise. Fear. Of these three emotions she only felt the first two from Megatron as he had begun giving orders, “All hands, cut power to the mainframe and disconnect data relays now!”
The MTO’s went to do as much, charging forward, all the while The Voice panicked, “I must hide! I cannot let him find me in this form!” The Voice started, reeling into the deep dark of her mind where others would be unable to find him and making the two of them curious on what exactly it was that made The Voice so terrified of Trypticon that the bold voice from Carcer would hide.
As Soundwave was Frozen in place, she had no idea how to deal with this, she was in a stasis lock but she was awake, “What do we do?” Laserbeak asked her, neither one of them knowing what was going on, “I don’t know,” she told her Mini con, all she could see was the crimson screen before her, “Let’s try and check the others optics.” Laserbeak gave a message of approval before she started to search.
Soundwave started to Piggyback onto the optics of the others, all of them advancing onto the main engine where the Dark Energon was, Trypticon activated a security net, sweeping through the corridors upon The Decepticons, freezing Dreadwing, the Insecticons, anyone that got in its way, it almost looked like they were going to succeed, “Lord Megatron,” she heard through the comms, cycling through the optics, she found Knock Out looking at one of the terminals.
“The computer has decrypted a second set of coordinates,” He said, eyeing the location that was given, she could tell even from this distance that he was considering alternate strategies, “Perhaps we should permit it to continue-” Just then a Stasis beam hit him right in the back, freezing Knock Out and severing the connection, “I DO NOT REQUIRE PERMISSION.”
“Autobot Outpost Omega One to Decepticon Warship,” Soundwave heard, the Autobots were hailing them, it appeared that Trypticon didn’t care if he was spotted by the Autobots, “Megatron please Respond.” Soundwave started to search through their optics, trying to find her leader when she saw him, running through the corridor, tossing aside a frozen MTO in his way as he approached the engine room.
The bot that he knocked down, she used to watch as he approached the controls, “This mutiny,” he said to the vessel/titan, “Ends now.” before he could react, one of the stasis cannons hitting him, he was frozen, right before the moment of pulling it, that enraged her, she wanted to plug in and tear what was left of Trypticons’ processor apart, but all she could do was listen, “Megatron….” Ratchet said once again only for HIM to speak instead.
“MEGATRON HAS BEEN RELIEVED OF HIS COMMAND,” Trypticon Responded to Ratchet, she could already picture the shocked looks on his and the humans faces, “Who is this?” he asked the Titan, “WHO IS THIS?” Trypticon asked in turn, if their entire crew were not frozen she would laugh at it, “Have you taken control of the Decepticon Vessel?” Ratchet asked, not figuring it out just yet.
“I AM THE VESSEL.” Trypticon stated, “ANY CYBERTRONIAN WHO INTERFERES WITH MY MISSION WILL BE NEUTRALIZED.” The Titan warned them, Ratchet responded, a little caution in his audio now, “What mission?” Trypticon decided to answer apparently, “PRIORITY ONE DECRYPT IACON DATABASE AND RECOVER DECEPTICON TECHNOLOGY.” he told the Autobot.
“For what purpose?” Ratchet asked him., all of them waited for his response, only for The Titan to cut off the comm, making Soundwave worried as she had wondered what was going on, The Titan was hunting the relics, and she had no idea what it was that they would do when Trypticon found whatever it was that he was looking for.
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It was a while before she had picked up on a Ground Bridge, cycling though their optics until finding the location, four humans entered with a data–slug, “Clever.” She thought and Laserbeak agreed, “Fowler to base. We’re in.” The eldest human said as they walked through, looking for a console it seemed until they had seen the console that Knock Out was at.
“H– Here’s one.” The Human called Raf had said, sounding nervous as Miko, her fellow prisoner, approached, knocking on his pedes, just to be safe as he didn’t react, “Doc Knock is knocked out.” She said, as Raf noticed the terminal, “Look. The ship's decoded two sets of Iacon coordinates.” He told them as another appeared, “Three!” He said, as surprised as her.
“Let’s rip and run.” He said as the one called Fowler climbed up Knock Out, followed by Raf until the two reached the terminal board, looking around, “There’s the port.” He said and Fowler went to plug the Data–slug in, Soundwave helpless, only able to watch it happen as they began to download the data, Jack had noticed their heading for now, “Um, why is the warship heading for Manhattan?” He asked
The others looked and saw it, “Because that’s where the first set of coordinates are located.” Raf said, the gravity of what Trypticon will do hitting them, “What would a relic from Cybertron be doing in The Big Apple?” Fowler said, “The Relics were sent here before there was even a human species, no surprise that it was buried there.” as Jack spoke what he would do
“Which means if the ship wants this one it may have to move some buildings out of the way.” he said and like that, they were going to deal with their current enemy for them, if Soundwave was able to, she would be cheering, “Our mission just got complicated.” Fowler said, not going to leave it like this, “How do we deter this ship?” He asked as they started to plan.
“There.” Raf said, pointing to the navigation menu, “Disabling the navigation module, not bad but not good enough.” She thought, “Step aside son.” Fowler said as he approached it, going to tap it, only for it to electrocute him, making the human fall to the ground, “Agent Fowler!” Jack went as they looked to see if he was okay, he seemed fine, but he was out now.
“SYSTEM ACCESS DETECTED. INTERFERENCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.” Trypticon said as his defenses started, “There.” Raf pointed, most likely a security camera, scanning for any hostile Cybertronians, “REVEAL YOURSELF.” Trypticon said, seemingly blind to organics, “It doesn’t see us.” Miko said, but that won’t last forever as it appeared that the CMO was speaking.
“We’re toast.” Raf said, apparently understanding the danger they were in, “No.” Jack said to a possible return bridge, “There are millions of lives at stake in New York, and we three are currently the only ones who can do anything about it.” He said, “Huh,” Laserbeak said, “If he were a Decepticon then Barricade would like him.” He said and she couldn’t deny that.
The humans leapt down to check on Fowler while it seemed Ratchet continued to speak, “Hold on. If you're saying the ship is fueled by dark Energon, we can dump it, right?” Jack asked, the humans had started to run to the Engine Room, going to do what was needed to return Trypticon to his slumber, Soundwave following their movements as they went to stop the Titan.
Eventually they had reach the room, walking between the stacks before eventually finding themselves in shock at the sigh of Megatron attempting to pull the switch, “Megatron had the same idea.” Jack said, “Then we’re on the right track.” Raf told them as they listened, “Manually?!” They all said in unison, looking to Megatron in shock now as they moved to go up.
“Give me a boost.” Jack said and the other two went to comply, helping him to climb up Megatron until reaching the servo, walking like on a tightrope before leaping onto the console and trying to push the switch, using all his force until it seemed Trypticon caught on, “I AM INFECTED WITH ALIEN LIFEFORMS!” He had said, furious at the thought as the humans began to panic.
“Uh–oh. We just got made.” Miko said as the claw used to fuel the vessel powered on, shooting out at the two of them but the pair dodged him, running to distract him as they ran between the stacks, the arm throwing energon blocks to cut off their escape but it didn’t seem to work as they were eventually boxed in, like he wanted as the arm moved the boxes to get a good shot.
“ALL PARASITES WILL BE ERADICATED!” Trypticon had told them when Jack spoke, “Hey! Over here!” THe human shouted, making Trypticon turn and focus his attention on the boy, “Jack! No!” “Run for it!” The Two had shouted as he dodged a lunge, rushing away, “Too slow!” Jack shouted as the arm caught up easily, which was when it lunged again, only for Jack to jump out of the way.
The arm couldn’t stop itself and had went and hit the back of Megatron’s knee, making him fall backwards slowly and pull the lever as he did so, “Clever.” Soundwave thought as he had completed the plan, Megatron falling to the ground as the Dark Energon was expunged, “CRITICAL POWER DRAIN.” Trypticon said, Fear. Coming from The Titan as he attempted one last lunge, “I AM… IN… COMMAND…”
“PREPARE TO BE… NEUTRALIZED…” He said, attempting to stop it, but it was too late, “NO! NO!!! THIS CANnot… be… must… fi… ssel…” The Titan thought as he return to stasis, Soundwave was a little out of it, collapsing on the ground with the others there, glad that The Titan was finally finished with, as she rose up, Soundwave scanned through the cameras before seeing the humans.
She had sent an alert to Megatron, warning him of how they had a data–slug in their system and were going after Project Iacon, she had went to approach as well, but her pedes were weak and as she saw on the visuals, they had lost them, Ratchet appearing and attacking Knock Out before they escaped, which was when their master approached, “Lord Megatron, I–” “You let them escape with vital intelligence.”
That had made Soundwave tense, she had checked to see what had been copied, seeing that they had stolen from them, it was much, much more than she was comfortable with, “Soundwave, increase our speed to the first Iacon Relic.” He had ordered and she went to go and comply, unaware that there was a risk that they were unaware of, but not for long.
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The Artillery, Earth’s Exosphere
Trochia was swearing in every language that she had ever downloaded, what had happened here was… horrid! The Titan Trypticon! The very symbol of war and destruction that had been forged by Mortilus, she had already sent the report to Prowl and he was fast to respond, “Observe. If Trypticon wakes again, load the cannon.” He told her, making Trochia smile.
She wished that she was allowed to ready the cannon this time, but they needed to be certain, they needed to know that the monster that was Trypticon was truly awake, and so, inaction, especially with the stasis done to both Team Prime and those human weapons, but now, as she had looked at them headed to a populated area, it made her want to crash in there and take out Soundwave.
But the femme would not get her day today, instead, Trochia of Darkmount would get her answer, as she had looked at The Nemesis vanishing, Trochia had chuckled, “Titan Slayer.” She thought, thinking that it would a be a nice title to have as The Spec Ops agent had looked over possible plans on how she would kill him and how she would deal with the survivors afterwards.
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Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Marissa Faireborn had glared as she had seen that the vessel was vanishing, she had wanted to do something about that warship in their skies, but it vanished, and if what her friend had told her about origin of the vessel hearing that and seeing the damage that it had caused to the Autobots and their Crash Suits, she sighed, “That was insane.” Spike told her and Marissa agreed.
“We need something that can match… THAT.” Marissa said, because even with their Crash Suits, they were severely outgunned, “We need someone that can think of ways to deal with bots that big.” Spike said, “Agreed, and luckily, we have one in our cells.” Marissa said, hearing that, Spike gave a look, “Are you sure?” Spike asked as the two walked down the hall to the holding cells.
“We need someone that has a penchant for Cybertronian biology and isn’t squeamish.” she said, “Yeah, but what if he pulls a Redd?” Spike asked, “Luckily, we won’t give him a chance.” Marissa said as they had went and approached the cell that was there, the man that they had in custody at the moment looked up, adjusting his glasses, “So,” Garrison Blackrock said, “What do you know about Titans?”
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Croaton, Blackrock Island
Pyro Ignatius Spark was having a cuppa Energon, sipping it when there seemed to be a rumbling with their home, making them all move and look around in panic, “Croaton! What’s going on?” Skystalker had asked, the one that seemed to be able to talk to their home easily, “ONE OF MY BROTHERS WAS HERE!” Croaton told them, making the bots look at each other in fascination.
Skystalker spoke their thought, “That’s incredible! If he is here than maybe we can contact–!” “NO!” Croaton told them, making the bots all look in confusion at the holographic face plate that appeared on the screens, “MY SIBLING, TRYPTICON, IS NOT A TITAN OF PEACE, HE IS A TITAN OF WAR.” he had told them, making the young bots all look at each other in fear.
“Is he approaching us?” Skystalker had asked, “NO,” Croaton told them, “HE HAS BEEN RESTRAINED, MOSTLY.” He told them all, making the firefighter the first to speak, “We should warn The Cybertronians I saw!” Pyro said to them,the others in agreement, “I WILL SEND OUT A SIGNAL TO THEM, IN CASE THERE IS A NEED FOR OUR ASSISTANCE.” Croaton told the bots inside and around him.
The bots seemed relieved at this, all of them smiling and cheering for the compromise while Croaton had grown worried that the war that Soundwave spoke of would reach them, and it made The Titan worried while Pyro was getting excited and wanted to go and meet the bots, already planning on a Bridge to get there and meets others not born from their home.
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Dreadwing’s Quarters, The Nemesis
The Decepticon was going through with the prayer besides the Seeker when she started to feel a pressure, “I…” A voice said, making her pause, “Soundwave?” Dreadwing asked, confused by the pause, “yeS…” The new voice said, seeming to gain power, “YES!” The Voice said again, now she recognized it, it was the voice of Trypticon and it made her tense.
“RETURN TO YOUR QUARTERS.” He had ordered and so she did, “Soundwave, what is wrong?” The Seeker asked, but she was too scared to tell him, instead she had continued through the hall, “Soundwave! We need to–”“SILENCE, BEAST!” The Titan had said and hearing that, she wanted to scream back at him, but for the moment, all she could do was try and keep the new voice calm.
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Soundwave’s Quarters, The Nemesis
The moment that Soundwave had entered the room, the Titan had spoken up, furious towards her, “I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!” The Titan said, increasing the pressure in her helm as she had locked the door, just in case of any bot attempting to barge in, “Soundwave!” Laserbeak shouted, “I’m fine! If he wanted to kill me, he would have done so already.” She said as Trypticon continued.
“YOU ARE THE ONE WHO HAS DISTORTED MY FORM!”She heard in her Processor, she tried to block him out but Trypticon could not be ignored, “YOU HAVE REDUCED ME TO THIS, A HUNTER FOR IACON RELICS,” Trypticon said to her, pressure in her processor beginning to form, “YOU SHALL BECOME MY AGENT, USE MY WISDOM TO HUNT DOWN THE IACON RELICS, ONCE THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED, YOU SHALL REASSEMBLE ME!”
“Why should I obey you?” She had asked him, already trying to develop firewalls to stop his interference, “YOU SHALL BECOME MY AGENT, OR WHAT REMAINS AFTER I OVERLOAD YOUR PROCESSOR SHALL BECOME MY AGENT.” Soundwave could tell that they knew how, if she rebelled against him, then it was likely that she would become a husk of her former self.
“What is it that you would have me do?” She asked, “GATHER THE FIRST GROUP OF RELICS, AND I WILL HELP IN FIND THE FUTURE ONES, UNTIL WE HAVE ACQUIRED THEM ALL.” he said, hearing that, the Titan seemed satisfied as he had went and left her to her own devices, or at least what she assumed was what he was doing as he dug into what made Soundwave, Soundwave.
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Soundwave’s Mindscape
Trypticon was in his Robot–Mode once more, it felt so good to be back in it again as he had walked through it, it was the ruins of Old Cybertron, The Functionalist world she was born in, destroyed by a bombardment, a controlled destruction that seemed to be in the way of something new, but there was something that had drawn his attention, a tower, a tower made from a weapon he feared.
Seeing it, he had prepared to open fire when there was a thud, making Trypticon turn towards the sound, seeing his brother, Vigilem, was approaching, “What are you doing here?” The Titan had said to him, “This is my domain, and I will not allow you to destroy it!” The bot said, charging his cannons and firing a barrage at him, but Trypticon was not to be defeated that easily.
He had charged and fired a violet beam towards Vigilem, his quality versus Vigilem’s quantity matching each other before the two of them decided to charge each other, Trypticon on all fours while Vigilem ran before the warrior went to slam his laced servos down onto his helm as Trypticon did a tail swipe, the two of them connected with each other, taking Vigilems pedes from under him and knocking Trypticon down.
The two of them clashed, destroying the Old Cybertron that they were in, all the while, the tower that was untouched by the two, held Soundwave, watching from up above, she was unable to do anything, unable to terminate them, but she was patient, she could wait until Trypticon was done for, Vigilem was still useful in keeping her mind safe for now as Laserbeak landed beside her in his original form.
“We’ll have to go out again.” he said to her, the two of them guarding the inner workings of her mind within the tower, “And we won’t fail.” Soundwave said, looking like her original self as well, both of them knowing that they would be there for each other, Soundwave scratching his helm while they observed the Titans, ready to survive the creatures like how they’ve survived so much already.