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The quarry was extremely quiet in the dead of night with none of the daily workers around to mind the machines. This suited the lone mech just fine as he leaned back against one of the smaller trailers, completely uncaring that the thing was sagging under his weight as he checked the sky once again. He waited a while before he finally got back up and began pacing in aggravation. Waiting was defiantly not one of his strong points.
"Where the fuck are they?" he muttered as he did another perimeter scan of the surrounding area. Not one sign of any of them and he was beginning to become irritated. The signal was returned hours ago, they should have landed by this time and already on their way to his position. "So where are they?" Pausing in his steps, he once more checked his scanners and growled when absolutely nothing echoed back to him. "Slag it!"
Sighing, he moved again and checked the sky for anything out of the ordinary. There was absolutely nothing in the sky and nothing coming up the adjoining roads. Absolutely nothing for a slagging two-mile radius, and that just pissed him off. He absolutely hated waiting! There was nothing more irritating that just standing around waiting. He needed to move. To do something! Anything!
Aiming at a random piece of equipment, he let loose one of his rockets and grinned as he watched the thing blow sky high. "Ah, that felt good," he muttered as he leaned back and watched the fire burn.
"You can't last five nanoclicks without destroying something, can you?" A new voice said behind him and he whirled around surprised.
None of his perimeter alarms sounded, which meant that the mech behind him had just suddenly appeared out of thin air… and there was only one mech in existence that could just pop into your own personal space unannounced. "What took you?" he muttered.
"Oh admit it Starscream," the new mech said with a smile as he watched another jet similar to his own appearance suddenly appear overhead. "You're happy to see us."
"I most certainly am not!" the F-22 Raptor shouted as the other jet finally landed and the familiar sound of gears crunching echoed off the quarry walls. "Who would be happy seeing your ugly faceplatings?"
"Aw, I think you hurt Skywarp's feelings," the second mech said with a smirk as he wandered over and Starscream frowned at him.
"I see you two managed to follow my directions at least," he grumbled as he looked at the two mechs identical new features that mirrored his own.
"Well it was kind of hard to miss," Skywarp muttered. "The place was huge. You might as well just paint a giant bull's eye on the thing. Me and Thundercracker found it almost as soon as we arrived."
"And where are the others?" Starscream demanded. "Why is it only you two?"
"Well, Soundwave was right behind us," Skywarp muttered as he looked around, "but we might have gotten ahead of him and his subunits."
Starscream let out a small groan. "Not that guy," he muttered before speaking back up. "Tell me that there are others who will be arriving."
Thundercracker smirked at the other jet and leaned back smugly. "Aw, what's the matter? Afraid of a little bitty rivalry?"
"Watch your words!" Starscream snapped. "With my wonderful self in charge, we are sure to finally defeat those thrice damned Autobots."
Skywarp and Thundercracker glanced at each other and shook their heads as Starscream began cackling madly. "I think he's lost it…" Skywarp muttered.
"What are you, kidding? He never had it." Thundercracker responded before saying a little louder. "Care to tell us exactly what happened here? And just where is Megatron anyhow?"
Starscream managed to get his insane chuckling under control as he turned back around to the other two Seekers. "All will be revealed in due time."
The other two shared another exasperated look as he began laughing again and both found their own places to relax as they waited for the rest of the Decepticons to meet up at their position. It was a good hour or so when their scanners caught the forms of five mech converging on their positions and soon Starscream could hear scanning being done on the far side of the quarry. Thundercracker and Skywarp also sat straight up as they watched the five new vehicles begin driving towards them from different areas of the quarry.
"Well, I doubt that it's Soundwave," Starscream muttered as they watched the approaching assortment of equipment. "Who else was with you?" The other two smirked and Starscream frowned in aggravation as he watched some of Earth's construction equipment arrive. There was a large dump truck, a cement truck, a smaller pay loader, a digger and finally a rather large crane. Starscream looked back and forth between them and shook his head in disbelief.
They all shifted and Starscream and the other seekers stepped forward as the one supporting a rather deadly hook came forward. "Starscream, where are the others?" the mech asked.
Unfortunately, he was addressing Skywarp who just stared back blankly and shrugged. "Don't look at me," he said as Thundercracker began laughing hysterically behind him. "I just got here myself."
The other 'Con tilted his head in surprise as Thundercracker got himself under control enough to wave at the puzzled mech. "That was priceless Hook."

Back at the Witwicky house, Barricade suddenly began to shudder uncontrollably and Bumblebee glanced at him puzzled. "What's wrong with you?" the Camaro asked.
"No idea," the 'Con muttered and 'Bee sighed as he went back to his game of solitaire muttering about silly 'Cons and their strange habits.

"Very funny," Starscream growled as he glared at the still laughing mech.
"Well, you have to admit. It's an easy mistake," Skywarp said.
Starscream just glared harder as he looked around the quarry. "Anyone else?" he called out sarcastically.
Suddenly a large black thing jumped in front of his optics screen and the jet jerked back as a large mechanical cat appeared before him. The other 'Con's chuckled as they watched the mech fall backwards on his aft as two bird like creatures flew around him for a moment before they landed next to the large cat who was looking down at Starscream a bit smug. "Where is Lord Megatron?" A flat voice asked behind them and Starscream turned to shoot a dark look at the newcomer.
"Soundwave," he growled. "Can't you control your pets?" The cat hissed and Starscream turned a glare towards the mechanical animal as he climbed to his feet. The other two jets were chuckling again and some of the construction mimics were snickering as well. "Where did you land for them to look like that?" he asked jerking a thumb at the three animal-like creatures.
"We landed near an area called a 'zoo'," the other smaller mech next to Soundwave said and Starscream glared at him.
"Dare I ask what you turn into?" Starscream muttered and the smaller mech glared at the sneering jet.
"Does it matter?" the cat hissed.
"Ravage," Soundwave said and the cat hissed at Starscream once more before he and the two birds moved towards their commander. Soundwave said nothing but he did drop a hand on the cat's head that began purring incessantly.
Starscream snorted at the sight. "Disgusting," he muttered in English. The other mechs all looked at him confused but Starscream saw no reason to translate his opinion. "I received a few more signals than this," he said instead. "Whom are we missing?"
"Well Runabout and Runamuck were with us," Skywarp murmured. "However I'm not quite sure where they went after Thundercracker and I went to check out that air base you sent us too."
"Swindle was also with them, but I highly doubt he stayed with them," Thundercracker added. "Who knows where he might have gone off to."
Starscream narrowed his optics at them and did the math as he looked about the group but shrugged it off. There would be time for a head count later on as he turned back towards the five construction vehicles. "You arrived just in time," he said. "We're going to need a base of operations."
"And who are you to be giving orders?" Hook drawled. "We know you found Megatron, so where is he?"
"And where is Bonecrusher?" the bulldozer suddenly asked. "Why is he not here to greet us?"
"Dead," Starscream declared, "As is everyone else. I am the only survivor."
Sounds of surprise and disbelief answered his announcement as everyone began speaking at once. Well, almost everyone. Soundwave glanced at his team who all looked back up at him curiously. "Soundwave," one of the bird-like forms began.
"Wait Laserbeak," was all Soundwave said and the group of smaller 'Cons all sat back and did just that, watching the arguing mechs before them.
"Enough!" Starscream finally bellowed and the assorted mechs around him instantly quieted down… for all of three seconds.
"How is it that Megatron is dead?" Thundercracker instantly asked.
"What of Bonecrusher?" the dump truck insisted. "Scrapper's right. There's no way he would have been killed."
"Blackout was also with you," the cement mixer added. "With Scorpinox."
"As was Barricade and Brawl," Hookstated solemnly and the other 'Cons instantly quieted down. "There were eight of you all together and from what we know, only five Autobots. Exactly how was it that you were defeated?"
The other Decepticons all crowed around, waiting intently for Starscream's answer. The first jet glowered. "Humans," he spat out. "The Autobots found reinforcements here and they took steps to defeat us one by one."
"And yet you survived."
Starscream turned his glare toward Soundwave but Thundercracker suddenly spoke up with an important question. "What of the All Spark?" the third jet asked. "Were you able to retrieve it?"
Starscream sent one last glare towards Soundwave before he turned back towards the others. "Negative," he said and others all began muttering again.
"Do the Autobots have it?" the truck asked and Starscream shook his head.
"Regrettably, the All Spark was the weapon that was used to kill Megatron," he explained. "As a result, it was completely destroyed during the last battle."
Now everyone was really shouting. All of them completely disbelieving that everything could have been take from them in one fail swoop. Starscream heaved a sigh as questions were fired at him from all angles. 'Must build a brig first,' he thought as he tried to decipher the assortment of words that were toppling over one another. 'A very large one, and make sure it's set to ensure complete silence from the inside.' "Enough!" he bellowed once more. "Megatron is destroyed as is the All Spark," he said over the din of chatter.
"Well then what are we doing here?" a voice said in the back. "Should we not be searching for Energon before the Autobots discover it first?"
"Indeed," Hook nodded to the pay loader. "If it is true that the All Spark is gone, then Energon should be our next top priority."
"Negative," Starscream rebuked. "Nothing will ever be settled until we are the only ones left to dominate the universe! Our top priority is to finally finish off those Autobots once and for all!" He began cackling again and a few of the 'Cons shook their heads in disbelief. "Under my rule, we are sure to be triumphant at long last!"
There was a rather bland "yay" that floated out from the background and Starscream turned to glare at the small cluster of mechs who all looked blankly back at him, the complete picture of innocence.
"Now, about the new base," Starscream settled down enough and turn back towards Hook. "How long before we can become operational?"
"That depends," Hook mused. "Just where is it that you want this base?"
"That's easy," Starscream smirked. "This quarry is set to be filled in and turned into a lake in months time after some sort of 'legalities' are finished with. I'm sure that it would be a perfect hiding spot for our tower of terror!" and he began laughing again.
Hook sighed as he turned towards the pay loader mimic. "Well Scrapper?" he asked.
Scrapper looked around critically. "It's not much, but I should be able to get something together. That depends on this planet's resources however."
"That shouldn't be a problem," the cement mixer said. "I can always churn something out if we need it."
Scrapper gave an annoyed huff but Hook was already nodding in agreement. "Mixer is right. We should be able to get something together relatively quickly," he paused as he looked over at jet beside him. "However I believe that there is one thing that we must take care of before any sort of construction is underway."
Starscream tilted his head as he looked at the taller mech and his optics dimmed ominously. "And that is…?"
Hook presented Starscream with a malicious sneer, "Why, we should hear this great plan of yours to defeat the Autobots of course," the Constructicon said with a vicious grin.
Starscream felt twitch somewhere in his face plating. "Indeed?" He smirked. "As I believe I said before, all will be revealed in due time. For the now, it is a base that we need so why don't you and your team get cracking?"
Hook glared and stood fully erect, his height towering Starscream a good few feet. Starscream was never the brightest bulb in the box however and he continued to glower at Hook. "How dare you presume to order me?" Hook barked at him.
Starscream's demented smile returned as he took a small step towards the other mech, almost bending his neck completely back to glare up at the 'Con. "With Megatron dead I am left as next in command as lieutenant."
Hook tilted his head and smirked. "All lieutenants please raise your hands." Both he and Soundwave lifted their arms as the rest of the 'Cons looked on in amusement. "There are three of us here," Hook said scathingly. "So there is obviously no reason as to why it is you that should take this… rather straining burden. I suggest that I take over as active leader until Shockwave or one of the other high commanders arrive."
"Ah, but you're forgetting something Hook," Starscream grinned evil and his voice drooped to a hushed whisper. "I know hundreds of ways to kill you and make it look like an accident."
"As do I you know-it-all Seeker," Hook growled back at him.
"Yes, I know you do…" Starscream's grin grew wider as he took another step forward, almost completely inserting himself in Hook's personal space. "But would you take out everyone else around me to make sure I'm dead?"
Hook paused as he looked down at the deranged jet, knowing full well that Starscream was more than capable of carrying out his implied threat. He looked over at Soundwave momentarily but the blasted communications lieutenant was currently conversing with his own little rag tag band of troops. Hook cursed silently as he looked back down at the still grinning seeker, knowing that the other Decepticons were all leaning forwards trying desperately to hear what it was that was being said.
Hook glowered at the seeker. "Where did you say you wanted that base built?" Starscream grinned madly and began a long tirade of what he wanted encompassed in his dream base as he began pointing things out randomly as he babbled on.
Seeing that there was no longer a chance of a good fight to commence, the other Decepticons began chatting amongst themselves, speaking to one another about random subjects and comparing battle scores. The quarry was soon filled with the dim hum of everyone speaking at once as they all chatted aimlessly amongst themselves. All save one.
Soundwave watched the small group of 'Con's babbling on like radio static and shook his head in disbelief. Being a master of sound, the current din of chatter sounded more like grinding metal to him with Starscream's piercing voice rising above the hum of noise. He winced as Starscream managed to hit a particularly high note. "How does he do that?" he muttered absently and Rumble glanced up at him puzzled. "Er, never mind."
Rumble tilted his head but said nothing as the large cat slinked next to him. "Soundwave," Ravage hissed in his soothing voice as he looked up at the larger 'Con. "What do you make of all this?"
Soundwave watched as the group began arguing once more about something or other, Thundercracker cackling madly about something only he could find funny. "You all felt the signal, same as I did," Soundwave replied quietly. "Right there we know that Starscream is not speaking the whole truth."
"I never cared for that insane flyer," Buzzsaw muttered as he sent the current "commander" a dark glare.
"Do we tell Hook?" Ravage continued to hiss as he looked over at the large crane that was currently being dragged all about the quarry by the still oblivious jet.
"Not yet," Soundwave murmured as he too watched the odd spectacle. "We do not have any substantial proof yet of Starscream's deceit."
"Then what shall we do?" Buzzsaw questioned. "If the signal was a current one and not some type of echo…"
"You know it was," Laserbeak bit back. "There is no possibly way that the signal that Soundwave was able to intercept was any type of ghost signal."
"For once, I agree with the buzzards," Ravage nodded as his tail swished sharply behind him as both bird like mechs glared at him. "That was a recent signal. Now the question becomes, what do we do now knowing this information?"
Soundwave nodded as he took a step back from the group. "It is obvious that we cannot sit on this information for long."
Rumble gasped as he looked back up at his commander. "You actually want to go to Hook with this information?" he stated in disbelief, only to get three quick "shh's" aimed at him from his fellow cassettes. "What?" he glared at them.
"We will not be speaking to anyone," Soundwave announced and the four smaller 'Con's all turned to look up at him in surprise.
"You mean we're not going to do anything about the signal?" Rumble asked in disbelief, but he said this in a rather more subdued tone as he glanced at the other larger mechs.
"We will do something," Soundwave murmured to his team. "We are simply not speaking of it to our higher commanders."
The three animal mimics all grinned wickedly while Rumble looked on in slight confusion. "What are we going to do sir?" the smaller mech asked incomprehensively.
"Can't you ever understand subtlety?" Ravage hissed.
Rumble glared at the other mech. "Why must you guys always speak in slagging riddles?" the other cassette glared at the cat. "Just say what you mean."
"He means we're going to go find out what that signal was on our own," Buzzsaw explained calmly.
Rumble still looked a bit confused but nodded his head as he turned back to Soundwave. "Won't the others question why we're leaving though?" he asked.
Laserbeak squawked in an imitation of a chuckle. "Not if we don't tell them…"
Rumble finally got a look of understanding as he too smirked evilly. "When do we leave?" he asked his commander.
Soundwave shook his head. "Not for a while yet," he told them. "Let us bide our time for now. Wait for everyone to become absorbed with the construction of the new base."
The smaller 'Cons all nodded as the small group made their way back towards the others as if they had not slipped away to have such an important meeting on their own. No one noticed Soundwave and his team returning to the group, mostly everyone was watching Hook and Starscream go at in regarding how large the insane jet wanted the brig to be. All save Thundercracker. He watched as Soundwave positioned himself at the edge of the circle of Decepticons and wondered what it was that had his team in such deep discussions.
Usually whenever Soundwave was out amongst the general public of the Decepticons, he and his entire team had a tendency to remain silent and blend in with the surroundings as much as possible. For them to slink off and talk amongst themselves in the presence of others… something had to be up. Thundercracker smirked as he glanced back at the current "leader" before he simply leaned back and relaxed against a small truck.
It wasn't any business of his what the communications officer and his team did. As long as they didn't try to involve him in any insane schemes, then he could care less. Turning his attention back to Skywarp he listened with half a sensor as the other seeker continued to discuss his newest idea for a joke to play on some mech or other once the base was built as he watched Starscream and Hook continue to argue. It seemed that Scrapper had also joined the argument as the other Constructicon pulled out a data pad seemingly from thin air and began drawing adamantly.
He tilted his head as Mixmaster made his way over and looked down at the lounging Thundercracker. "I do hope we will not have to put up with your insane practical jokes while we're working on the base?" the large 'Con asked archly.
Thundercracker looked up at the grey mech confused before he finally sighed and pointed at the other seeker that had instantly gone quiet at the others approach. "What are you asking me for? He's the one who's always goofing off."
Mixmaster looked taken aback as he glanced between the two completely identical mechs in confusion before turning back to Thundercracker. "But if my memory banks are correct, you have the tendency of helping him with his insane antics."
Thundercracker just grinned as he leaned back once again. "Well, you'll just have to wait and see, won't you?" The other 'Con shook his head in aggravation as he turned back towards the other Constructions. There was a large groan from the group as the other two began muttering amongst themselves as Mixmaster returned to the smaller group.
"I don't care!"
Everyone turned at the sound of the odd words to see Starscream pacing in little circles as both Hook and Scrapper watched on in irritation. "It is essential if we are to build a functional base," Scrapper insisted, stepping closer to Hook as the jet turned a piercing glare at the smaller mech.
"We are not going to go underground! That is final!" Starscream insisted and Hook huffed in irritation.
"Just because you have to see the sky at all times does not mean that we should put our base in jeopardy!"
Starscream turned and glared at the taller mech. "There will be no underground base and that is final!"
Hook sighed again and glanced back down at Scrapper. "See what you can do," he whispered to the other mech and Scrapper scowled in frustration.
"Idiot flyer, insisting on ruining a perfectly good design," he muttered as he deleted the file and began working on another. Hook gave the other mech a somewhat sympathetic look as he moved back towards the other three remaining Constructicon.
"Did anyone hear that?" Skywarp suddenly stood up as he moved more towards the center of the quarry and looked up at the ridge above.
Everyone went quiet as they all watched Skywarp suspiciously, unknowing if the mech was playing yet another of his jokes or was actually serious this time. Thundercracker instantly looked back over at Soundwave but the other mech's normal black stare gave no indication that he had picked up on anything. They all waited, listening as they too heard something approach. Everyone activated their scanners and looked at one another when they all spotted the two incoming vehicles on the road entering the quarry.
"Do you think it could be the natives?" Long Haul asked as he stepped next to Hook.
With a well-practiced move, the resident surgical engineer sent a quick signal and relaxed at the responding sound. "No need to worry," he announced in his more normal tone, smirking as Starscream turned to glare at him. "It's Runamuck and Runabout."
There were sighs all around them as they all watched as the two new mechs arrived and pulled up next to the ridge, quickly transforming into their own mech forms. "Hello down there!" one of them called down.
The other smirked as he glanced over his companion's shoulders. "Feeling a little down are we?"
Starscream scowled as he glared up at the two new arrivals. "Stop your chattering and get down here!" he shouted at them.
"Who died and made you boss?" One muttered to the other, yet it was loud enough for everyone in the quarry to hear clearly.
"I think he has identity issues…" the other muttered just as loudly.
"NEVER MIND THAT AND JUST GET YOUR POLLUTED AFTS DOWN HERE!"
"Hang on a slagging second! We have to wait for him to catch up!" presumably Runamuck shouted back at him.
"Slagging insubordinate foul chargers…" Starscream muttered before he finally comprehended what it was that had been said. It defiantly couldn't be swindle. That mech was only out to save his own aft and never followed orders even when Megatron had been alive… "Wait… Who are you waiting for?" Starscream turned to look back at the other two seekers and twitched at the victorious grin that Thundercracker was supporting.
A look of pure terror soon gripped Starscream even as the distant sound of jet engines echoed in the distance. "Oh no!" He shouted as he quickly scuttled backwards. "Not him!" His heel caught on a large cable that had been stretched out behind him but Starscream didn't let something as insignificant as falling slow him down as he proceeded to continue backwards in a comical version of a crab walk. "Who let that slagging insane mech follow us here?"
"Aw, but Starscream," Thundercracker cooed teasingly. "He wanted to see you!"
"NO!" Starscream bellowed in English as yet a fourth jet appeared over the quarry. "How could you all do this to me? I'll have you all in the brig so fast your optics will spin! I hate you all!"
Skywarp was completely oblivious to the dark threats his leader was currently spewing as he waved happily at the incoming jet. Thundercracker meanwhile walked nonchalantly towards Starscream's position and smiled evilly even as the other jet proceeded to transform still in midair and landed with a thud behind him, shacking the ground with the force of the impact before he made a beeline for the other jet still on the ground.
"STARSCREAM!" The mech shouted as he made his way towards him. Unfortunately, the other mech clearly was unused to the Earth's pliable surface and the smaller jet quickly tripped over his own feet and went flying forward. Starscream squawked as the other proceeded to land on top of him.
Starscream scowled as everyone else instantly began laughing hysterically before he glowered down at the mech who was desperately trying to untangle himself. He just glared at the mech in complete, undisguised revulsion. "Misfire."
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