re_alignment | END GAME Part Three: THE CORE

Solus stands poised with the fully-assembled, towering form of Nexus Prime at the opening to one of the subterranean tunnels. A small herd of acolytes is accompanying them, carrying crates of supplies - metal, energon, and raw materials. While the combiner-Prime would normally just barely fit in the smallest of Solus' tunnel workings, this tunnel dwarfs even him.

It is a vast, primary shaft; wide and formal and clearly important enough to have earned additional detailing in the very walls. It carries an air of reverence that is obvious even over the comm, that of a temple, rather than a simple maintenance shaft.

This is something special.

"Those of you with my Mark, and those of my brother - to us! We must delve down into the core of the world, and ready our final preparations. If we cannot complete this...this is our last resort. There will be no other chance for the survival for this world or it's intended purpose."

Solus frowns at the camera, steadying herself against despair.

"It barely needs to be said, that if we do not survive this, your return home will not be likely."

Nexus steps forward, gesturing down in the vague direction of the center of the world.

"And on that happy note... Unicron's minions have sought to taint the core. You need to aid us in clearing the attackers, as well as repairing the damage they have dealt, if you got the talent. We gotta work quickly - my brothers can only delay the attack for so long. Only then can we survive this fight." Nexus gives the viewers an encouraging nod.

The coordinates of the massive tunnel follow before the view cuts out: the two Primes will be waiting.

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[Garrod swings at another before shifting his blaster rifle to shoot at a batch ahead of them.]

Yeah, I can fly with this thing, no prob.

There's that, then. [Jetfire nods, and then smiles again, faint and grim, while trying to fire at the clusters of critters and yet not aim directly at the ground. The walls are harder, but he does make a try at not firing at the ground and the delicate work there... for now. If it turns out to be needed to scour that as well in getting rid of the creatures, he certainly will.]

And you can always use the thrusters themselves as weapons - not a lot of things like to be burned with the heat and force we can produce through something meant to lift us in the air.

[It only works at a extreme or relative short distance, but in a pinch it's extremely useful

Guess it's good to know our options.

[He continues to fire, trying to concentrate on the areas that seem the thickest for maximum effect.]

-oh, that's a good idea.

[Except that most of his thrust was built in behind, although the massive shield he carried had its own power.]

...it'd probably be a bad idea using the Beam Harmonica down here, huh. I can cover a lot more area with it, but I don't know how strong this tunnel is!

... Probably, ah, not. Especially if we want to keep the damage done by these creatures as contained as possible. [Jetfire shakes his helm, smiling dryly.]

But, in an emergency situation, it would probably be worth to use it, since even if we're trying to keep the damage as minimal as possible or not, it won't matter should the situation get worse.

[He was mostly listening to Garrod speak while keeping his attention on the shadowy critters, but he did cast a glance back at Garrow and his Gundam to get a better look and figure out what he was talking about.]

Got it.

[From a glance, it might be difficult to tell that the shield he carries doubles as a weapon. At least the creatures that continue to plague the walls haven't been allowed close enough to try chewing on them as well, so Garrod's been able to dispatch them with his blaster rifle. ]

It'd still be a lot less damage than if I still had the satellite cannon. Doubt it'd work here anyway though, seeing as we're nowhere near the moon.

[Looking away from sweeping the area around them with a look and lasers both, Jetfire arched an upper optic ridge.]

The... moon? Earth's satellite? It's specifically tied to... er, a particular satellite?

[He had to ask, since Cybertron had two moons as well, and they were quite a bit away from those two down here, so even if this weapon of Garrod's wasn't tied to the Moon in particular, it might not work at this distance anyway.]

[At least the immediate area around them is clear for the moment, but the walls still writhe and teem with more dark clumps that stolidly try to gain ground. The Gundam lifts its blaster again, taking aim as Garrod waits for a good shot.]

Yeah- and...yeah. There's a station on the moon that it's connected to. This Gundam used to have a beam cannon that would power up from a signal it received from it. Could take out everything within its path for miles.

....which...probably wouldn't be good to use around here either way.

Ah. Probably not, no. [He can't help it, and chuckles.] Not that we're not well... er, versed in and well used to weapons with huge destructive capabilities.

In here, however, it's probably best to keep it as limited as we... well, can.

[Not that they weren't doing damage as it was, all of them, but hopefully it could be reasonably contained.]

Heh, I guess I can't be surprised to hear that. Something big and powerful comes along, usually the response is to come up with something bigger and stronger to fight against it.

At least the only problem with these things so far is their number..!

Basically, yes. Though in our case it might end up looking quite a lot like overkill, sometimes, considering our... ah, relative size towards quite a lot of others in the galaxy...

[He grunts then, sweeping a leg out to catch another little group of the critters in the flame from his thruster.]

Indeed. Hopefully the other fronts are facing similar opponents...

[But he would guess not... And he hoped Starscream was all right, despite his very ill-advised and frustrating decision.]

I don't know about that- I think even you guys would be hard-pressed to survive a colony drop.

[He fires off a few shots once again.]

Heard anything from anyone topside?

Probably. Our weapons, in general, would be larger than yours, however. [He gives a brief, dryly amused smile before he frowns, shaking his helm.]

No. I don't think I could reach anyone topside, even if we didn't have this... er, situation on our hands currently. We are quite far down.

Oh, I don't know about that! Humans back home are pretty inventive...not to mention crazy.

...figured as much though. Well, we gotta deal here, and they have to do their best up there, either way!

I don't doubt it... from what I've seen so far you can definitely be... ah, "pretty inventive", yes.

Unfortunately, yes. Even if I'd like to be able to... [He shakes his helm again.] No matter. Better focus on the situation here, right?

Haha!

-yeah, at least we know what to focus on! Let's do this!

END GAME Part Three: THE CORE

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