Log edited with Logedit 2.6.9pl on Mon Aug 25 10:40:25 EDT 1997 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 power their weapons and aim at the bots A blue and green Autobot steps forward from the troops. His optics flicker as he looks at Spook appraisingly. Turning to his right side, he gasps to a nearby soldier, "Sound the alarm to Iacon!" Astrotrain smiles evilly as he sees these troops are far from worthy of being here, even on simple guard duty. "The fall of all great empires," he mumbles to himself, nearly laughing at the lack of leadership present here from the opposition. Scrapper pointedly doesn't draw a weapon, but flexes his fists. "Decepticons, attack! No mercy!" He flies at the nearest Autobot. Spook looks to Scrapper "Fire?" Phoenix targets the green and blue Autobot that spoke up as he charges into battle weidling his sword Spook assumes yes and shouts "DECEPTICONS ATTACK!!!!!" Autobot Standard Troops #5185 shout a frantic yell into the alarm frequency, "Alert! A Decepticon assault force has been sighted at the Glass Plains! There seem to be about six Decepticons as well as an assortment of standard troops! *FOOM* AAAauuuugg! WE NEED HELP!! --- ." Scrapper stumbles and falls, some unseen force disrupting his attack. Astrotrain swings his plasma canon around to a group of scout-bots, and sprays laser fire at them. He's mockingly giving his rifle time to warm up, apparently. Phoenix grows as the vbot Dives bakc at the right moment causing him ot miss The soldiers of Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 attack under orders from Spook. Autobot Standard Troops #5185 is ready to accept your orders. The soldiers of Autobot Standard Troops #5185 hoist their weapons and move into battle formation. Scrapper slams into a nearbu orange Bot, slamming his smaller body to the ground. Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 fly towards the autobots letting loose with lasers shouting!! Spook flies at the autobots himself his ener-dagger outstreched As explosions begin to ripple around the area, several of the Autobots fall ot the ground in pieces. Hoisting their weapons for a return volley, a line of Autobot soldiers advances forward, moving in position around their fallen allies. Phoenix wields his sword liek an excert as he tries to slice at the Atobot. THe green and Blue one how ever draws a sword of his own and blacks the attack A few of the decepticon troops are blasted but they keep coming weapons firing...A firestorm of lasers ensueing between the outnumbered autobots Phoenix tries to blokc the sword attack from his enemy, buty his rides down Pheonix's sword sliceing into his shoulder. Pheonix gasps in pain Concorde SST soars down into view from the skies above. Scrapper stumbles back slightly as the orange Bot he knocked down blasts him with a laser. Scrapper grumbles and stomps down on his head, half-crushing the cranium. The blue and green Autobot who issues the call for help turns toward the other troops, "Pull back! Maintain a defensive position!" Astrotrain rolls to the ground away from a blue gumby who launches an enernet at him. Using his momentum, he jumps to his feet, only to be blasted by a stray rocket from a red and white gumby, straight in the chest. "GAH!!" Spook lands near the troops slashing at them as lasers errupt everywhere... the massive battle destroying the beautiful landscape Concorde SST sighs as he sees the troops in danger. He growls out over his external speakers, "Troops! Retreat at once!" Spook says, "Concentrate fire on the leader!!" Autobot Standard Troops #5185 shift their formation into an arc-like stance. Several Autobots explode in flames as the attempt to evade the strafing fire of the advancing Decepticons. Scrapper shouts, "Do not fire into the crater!" Astrotrain looks up as he shields himself with his arms. "Aerialbots!", he calls, thinking there is more then one here with all the noise around. Phoenix doesn't even react much as pain stabs threw his shoulder. He jsut replies by makeing a quick stab ast the Autobot. The bot is to slow to react and gets scewed he screams as he falls to the floor unmoveing Scrapper shifts down into a lime green payloader and revs his engine. You say, "AAAAhhh!! We're all gonna DIE!!" Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 continue laughing evilly and firing obviously having the upper hand....they fire on the bots relentlessly as but a few of their numbers die Concorde SST starts to strafe the ground with laser blasts, trying to give the Autobot troops time to flee. Astrotrain shouts, "That's right!", and leaps into the air, transforming into his Starship mode. "Spook, draw Silverbolt away!" Astrotrain transforms into his massive Interstellar Shuttle mode almost instantly. Spook says, "yes Sir!!" Limegreen Payloader idles a moment in front of the Autobot line, blocking laser fire with his shovel, and then charges at them, trying to crush them with his massive shovel. Spook leaps upwards and towards the aerial bot commander "DIE AUTOBOT!" Autobot Standard Troops #5185 cheer loudly at the sight of Silverbolt, anxiously awaiting the arrival of more support. They follow his command, however, and begin to march backward, watching their path while attempting to provide cover fire for their retreat. Starship powers up and blasts off into the skies within seconds, and stays aloft above Silverbolt. "Let's see how you like a little strafing of your own, Autobot." Double barreled plasma cannons release from their docking ports to fore and aft on this shuttle and pummel away at Silverbolt's wings. Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 :'s grenadeers begin pelting the bots with explosives as they retreat Phoenix gets smashed in the back of the head by a stronger Autobot. he falls to the gorund and dives out of the way of the other's fists as they smash into the ground. Unfortunatly he is to slow and the one fist smashing deep into his upper leg. Pheonix takes his sword and fires a blast of energy from it, right at the Autobot's face Concorde SST banks sideways, seeing Spook come at him, trying to posture himself into a defensive position, as he tries to keep a sensor lock on the troops. Spook flies near Silverbolt trying to jamm up his targetin and allow the troops on the ground to kill unbothered "AFRAID OF ME SLIME!!?" Falling backward screaming in extreme agony, the Autobot glances back up toward Spook, "You may have us beaten this time, Decepticon, but we WILL vanquish your evil tyranny!" Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 's black frame leader shouts out over the melee "For Cybertron!!" Phoenix gasps as the Autobot reels in pain and attacks blindly everywhere with his plasma gun....Pheonix get nicked in the side as the plasma vaps a small section of it..energon begisn to gush....he tries to stick his foot out anbd trip the opponent Limegreen Payloader chuckles, a truly evil sound from his current mode. "Only through tyranny can there be peace. Go now before I make a new defense base from your carcasses, Autobots." Concorde SST sighs as he unleashes an electrical bolt to greet Spook, trying to get back to his troops. Several more Autobots fall to the ground under the barrage of heavy fire from the Decepticons. Thick veils of black smoke erupt from the bodies of the larger members of the squadron. Alarms sound within the Shuttle as a group of Gumby troops launch missiles, lasers and plasma fireballs at him, most of which impact his underbody and port-side wing. The wing catches fire and begins to burn, until a missile blasts it clean off. The shuttle begins to tilt to the left now, it's jets unable to keep it afloat with only it's starboard wing in tact. Spook fires rapid shots at Silverbolt trying to keep his attention away from the troops The firestorm of lasers continues...as the outnumbered autobots are slaughtered Limegreen Payloader rolls over the body of an almost dead Autobot trooper, making a sickening crunch as he continues forward. Phoenix suddnely sees another Autobot see him..he turns to fire "unhonorable Autobots" Pheonix gasps as he spins to the sdie ,in pain, the photons sail over his head and smash into the stumbling ,blinded Autoobot, He falls ot the gorund dead while the other Autobot yells in shock Silverbolt attempts to lash out at Spook, but completely misses him. Starship nearly goes into a tail-spin as his shuttle-mode fin is destroyed by stray fire from the silverbolt-Spook matchup. Astrotrain gahs, bringing himself under some semblence of control, and transforms, landing roughly on the ground. Desperate screams begin to creep across the plains from the outnumbered Autobots. "They're overwhelming us!" comes several of the shouts. "Pull back! Pull back!" They continue to move across the plain, many troops falling as they do so. A red female autobot turns to look at the black leader of the decepticon troops only to have an ener-mace brought down on her screaming head...silencing her eternally Astrotrain transforms into his fair-sized robot mode almost instantly. Spook spins away from the blast The green payloader shifts up into the towering form of Scrapper. Astrotrain mutters, "That's it," and goes to train mode, speeding towards the band of retreating gumbies, not caring about his condition now. He aims to trample as many as he can beneath his wheels. Astrotrain transforms into a massive Super Train. Autobot Standard Troops #5185 begin to near the far edge of the plain, carrying wounded comrades on their shoulders and trying to prevent further losses. Spook continues cutting his disruptor loose on Silverbolt keeping him engaged while his troops are massacred Scrapper transforms and draws his rarely-used plasma rifle, and burns a hole through a retreating Autobot gumby, only winces as a stray laser bolt glances his side. Phoenix tries to get up only to be shot in the back..the lasers pelet his armor melting it Locomotive sees that he is too far away to trample any worthy gumbies, so he charges his forward electrical emitter and unleashes thousands of volts at the backs of any cowardly 'Bots. Finally he ceases when a few fall, and transforms back into robot mode. Astrotrain transforms into his fair-sized robot mode almost instantly. Phoenix falls back to the ground he swivles around tryign ot shoot as he falsl with his wrist guns, but misses horribly only managign ot maybe hit an Autobot's feet at the most Scrapper lowers his rifle, watching the troops retreat. "Decepticons, set up a defensive perimeter." A brave, yet unwise green and gold autobot flails suddenly at Astrotrain's back, enraged by the losses he has seen here. Astrotrain turns around, allowing the gumby to pound him to his heart's content. Swiftly, he reaches across and grabs him by the throat, hefting him off the ground, and literally punches the head right off the body with such a force. He tosses the body tot he side and keeps going, towards scrapper. Phoenix Suddnely sees the Autobots being to retreat Phoenix is suddenly grbbed by an Autobot ..oviously wantign t capture him..he gasps in pain as he tries to summon his streangth and break free Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 laugh evilly as they fire at the running autobots Scrapper reaches down and picks up the body of a down Autobot and abruptly tears its armor off, beginning to bend and mold it into what looks like will be part of a wall. Phoenix is instead tryign ot avoid beign tramppled by the Autobots that are retraying Spook laughs at Silverbolt "YOU'VE LOST!!!" Concorde SST banks upwards, pulling around to help the Autobot troops retreat, by providing air support. Astrotrain finally reaches Scrapper and sighs. "As you can probably tell, they're pulling out. Look at that mess, though..." Spook follows Silverbolt still shooting off disruptor bolts at him Astrotrain's arm sweeps across the plain, littered every so often with fallen autobots. Scrapper nods to Astrotrain. "These can be put to use in building a defense base, though. Ample supplies." Astrotrain smirks, stating suggestively, "Hey, plenty of usable armor out here..." Phoenix trips a fleeign Autobot, and uses him as a bit of a crutch in order to help stand up..he begisn to stummble/limp towards the rest of the Decepticons A few decepticon troops land and help their fallen as the rest keep the bots runnin Concorde SST pulls away, as Spook's blasts seem to be affected by the radiation in the area as well... Scrapper transmits a message via radio. Spook receives a radio transmission. Spook smirks at Silverbolt and returns to the other cons Astrotrain watches as the last of the Autobot gumbies retreat from firing range, and Silverbolt appears to cover them back. "Decepticons, Cease fire. They're leaving." Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 slowly cease firing The soldiers of Autobot Standard Troops #5185 hoist their weapons and move into battle formation. Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 salutes briskly as Spook orders them to accept orders from Astrotrain. Autobot Standard Troops #5185 stumble along as they near the farthest reaches of the plain. Turning their backs, they rapidly transform into their various altmodes and speed briskly back toward Iacon. The soldiers of Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 lower their weapons and stand down. Phoenix stumbles towards the group Astrotrain orders Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 to follow him. The soldiers gather their gear and prepare to obey. Astrotrain looks at Phoenix, and back to the rest of the troops. "Stay here and make sure they all retreat. If they start flaring back up, I'll be back, with more troops. For now, these can go back to Polyhex." Autobot Standard Troops #5185 leaves to the west. Astrotrain ahems at the SST. "Especially that one. Don't hesistate to call if he opens fire on you." Phoenix nods to Astrotrain Astrotrain nods, and looks to the troops. "Let's go!", he barks, and leaps intot he air. Astrotrain soars upward to the Sky above Istoral Trench. Decepticon Advanced Troops #5844 march behind Astrotrain. Phoenix stanfds wobblign a bit in pain..as he watchs the Autobots retreat ---------------------LOG ENDS - STATISTICS----------------