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Ultra Magnus dashes out of the repair bay, his optics taking in the 
  assembled Autobots, "Well, it looks like not -all- of the Decepticons are 
  on Cybertron. An EDC Patrol in the South Pacific just picked up three 
  Decepticons headed towards some Oil fields in Trinidad.." 
Snowball starts sheaths his sword, with promptly falls to the floor since 
  there isn't a sheath, "Why has thou captured yon dasmel upon that giants 
  shoulder?" 
Brontosaurus thinks for a moment......then says. "Hit knock min-ee silly? 
  Sludge fix!" before anyone can stop him.....he bats the minibot with his 
  forehead. 
Swoop turns his head quickly, "Septic-kons? Smash!!" as his optc lighten 
  up. 
Snowball just falls over, out like a light... 
Ultra Magnus spares a moment to glance down at Snowball, "Someone get him 
  into the repair bay." 
Brontosaurus stares downwards at Snowball. "Oops..." 
Snowball says before he goes out cold, "I hath been defeated in the 
  honourable field of battle..." 
Orca's head snaps toward Ultra MAgnus. "Decepticons approaching by water?" 
  he exclaims in surprise. "Darnit! I should have been on patrol instead of 
  watching poor Snowball get trampled here." 
Ultra Magnus glances towards Orca, "No. Actually, they're approaching by 
  air. From what the report says, they aren't being to sneaky about it 
  either. I guess they don't expect us to respond. :)" 
Grimlock shakes his head sternly, "hmmm...me, Grimlock....figure some Cons 
  come Earth...not see Predacons for while...dis why Trench 
  a-band-oned...hmmm....", he pauses, looking to Magnus, "Dinobots fly if 
  need...." 
Andi Lassiter looks down at the now out Snowball. "I'll check him over, 
  Ultra Magnus, if someone would be kind enough to help be get him into the 
  repair bay?" 
Orca asks, "Can you get a better fix on their position? Let's make sure we 
  deploy to the right place..." 
Grimlock stretches a steely fist, peering about the room, "hmmm...maybe 
  going by boat more fun....me, Grimlock...BEST boat-driver...him, 
  Sludge...press red button and we go!" 
Orca reaches around his back and detaches his hoverboard. Holding it in his 
  right hand, he glances toward Ultra Magnus and says, "Just say the word, 
  sir..." 
Ultra Magnus looks about, "I'm assembling a strike force. Volunteers, step 
  forward, we need to make quick time!" 
Swoop steps forward, as he puts his hand out to let Andi down. 
A gumby walks out from teh repair bay, nods to Andi and pulls Snowball back 
  in.. 
Brontosaurus dosen't step forward.....but he thrusts his head forward. 
  "Sludge go where leader Grimlock go!" 
Orca taps his hoverboard against the ground. "You can count me in!" he 
  asserts confidently. 
Snowball leaves to the Repair Bay to the south. 
Andi Lassiter accepts Swoop's help down off of his shoulder, then walks 
  quickly after the gumby who jsut took Snowball ito the repair bay. 
Ultra Magnus nods as the volunteers make themselves heard, "Autobots!" he 
  calls out in a rather dramatic fashion, "To the Landing Pad!" 
Grimlock hrmmphs in irritation of Magnus' soldierly ordering about and 
  organization of the forces, "bah! we waste time...all who go, go...if 
  not....then stay!...Dinobots! we go..." 
Swoop nods and moves to follow Grimlock, "We Dinobots go now!" he exclaims 
  excitedly. 
Ultra Magnus spares a glance towards Grimlock on his way out. 
Brontosaurus lopes after Grimlock at a quick trot.....well quick for him. 
Ultra Magnus leaves to the Entrance to Autobot City to the west. 
Andi Lassiter leaves to the Repair Bay to the south. 
Brontosaurus leaves to the Entrance to Autobot City to the west. 
Grimlock leaves to the Entrance to Autobot City to the west. 
Orca drops the hoverboard toward the ground. The device hovers on a small 
  cushion of air. Hopping onto it, the Aquabot heads down the corridor 
  toward the landing pad. 

You move west to the Entrance to Autobot City... 
You move north to the Landing Pad... 

Grimlock enters from the Entrance to Autobot City to the south. 
Grimlock stomps into view looking large and in-charge. 
Sludge enters from the Entrance to Autobot City to the south. 
Swoop enters from the Entrance to Autobot City to the south. 
Swoop walks in ready for anything. 
From the hovercraft, Grimlock stomps into view looking large and in-charge. 
Sentinel> Swoop walks in ready for anything. 
Swoop walks in ready for anything. 
From the hovercraft, Ultra Magnus steps into the shuttle and takes a seat 
  at the helm, "Allright, everyone on board?" 
From the hovercraft, Swoop walks in ready for anything. 
Autobot Hovercraft (Defender) 
Ultra Magnus just looked at you. 
Swoop walks in and sits down in the back. 
Sludge follows after the crowd, sitting next to Swoop at the back of the 
  shuttle. "Sludge like ride!" 
Sludge is of course grinning hugely. 
Grimlock grunts as he and the other Dinobots bumble into the craft (yes, 
  yes...I said Dinobots and bumble together)...and eyes the cockpit, 
  "hmmmm...you, Sludge....fly dis thing?" 
Swoop grins mischieviously. "Swoop like smash Septik-cons!" he yells. 
Orca hops off the hoverboard, falling into one of the seats as looking 
  around the hovercraft with anticipation and nervousness. 
Ultra Magnus grins slightly as he twists around in his seat, he looks 
  towards Grimlock and Sludge, "I got it under control, Commander. We're 
  off." 
The ramp retracts as the entrance seals up, making the hull appear 
  seamless. 
Sludge blinks....then grins. "Sludge know how!" well no he dosen't.....but 
  that isn't about to stop his eagerness. He's already half out of his seat 
  when Ultra Magnus takes charge. "Awwww...." 

> You move south to the Entrance to Autobot City... 
> You enter the city of San Francisco. 
> You move east to the Outskirts of San Francisco, California. 

The hovercraft skims over the vast Ocean, approaching a rather destroyed, 
  smoking Oil Field. Ultra Magnus stops on the nearest shore. 
> Bull checks his fuel transfer progress, nested in between the huge oil 
  tanks near the ship docks.. one tank almost all the way full 
Ultra Magnus looks back, "Allright everyone! Remember, our goal is to scare 
  them off, and keep them from getting the fuel, only fire your weapons as 
  last resort. I don't want to be part of an island-wide fireball." he 
  looks over the Autobots, "Now move!" 
Grimlock glances to the other Dinobots, though knows the need no motivation 
  to take care of their fellow primitives as the Predacons come into 
  view... 
The ship entrance unseals as the ramp extends out from the vessel. 
Orca nods toward Ultra MAgnus. Closing one optic and speaking with a 
  pirate-like accent, the Aquabot responds, "Aye, aye, captain sire! I'll 
  obey ye orders!" 
Sludge is almost bouncing up and down in his seat.......ready to go...but 
  he holds back for Grimlock to go.. 
Swoop gets up, ready to move. His clenches his fists. Ready to put the 
  smackdown on a Predacon or 3. 
> Lion enters from the Panama Canal to the west. 
> Lion enters with an uncomfortable silence 
> Eagle beats his wings slowly, glaring straight down at the Bot hovercraft 
  and waiting to get a glimpse of its occupants. 
> Bull switches tanks as the first of four is filled to the top.+pred 
  hurry! we got a buffet of Dinobots! 
Lifting his hoverboard from his lap, Orca quickly stands from his seat and 
  drops it to the ground. With one leg on the board, he uses the other to 
  push himself toward the door in front of the Dinobots. "'scuse me, lean 
  n' mean Aquabot comin' through," he mutters toward the 
  much-largerGrimlock, Sludge, and Swoop. 
Grimlock grunts a bit, rising slowly as he looks to the others... 
Ultra Magnus looks over the Autobots once more, before making his way to 
  the exit, plasma rifle in hand, "Be careful everyone! There are still 
  some workers around here." 
> Lion moves fluidly through the waters, like a silent predator 

Trinidad Oil Fields 
Contents: 
Ultra Magnus 
Lion 
Autobot Hovercraft (Defender) 
Tiger 
Eagle 
Bull 

Ultra Magnus departs from the Shuttle, which has parked a ways away from 
  the Oil Fields, but is no doubt noticable by someone like Divebomb. 
Orca rides down the ramp from the Defender, his optics quickly scanning the 
  surrounding area in an effort to try to gauge what has transpired here. 
  The Autobots may have arrived to late to prevent the damage that has 
  already occurred, but they can do their best to prevent more. Orca pauses 
  at the bottom of the Defender's ramp to continue his visual scan. 
Ultra Magnus charges towards the burning Oil fields, plasma rifle in hand, 
  and optics blazing, Orca, along with the Dinobots make an equally 
  impressive exit soon after him. 
Lion trots on to the beach as exits the warm waters. 
Bull hunches down, with an internal eye on his capacity gagues... 
Grimlock stomps into view looking large and in-charge. 
Swoop walks in ready for anything. 
Swoop charges out, behind Grimlock, his optics glaring at the assortment of 
  orange and black targets. 
Eagle circles around once and locks in a single rocket. He rotates his wing 
  slightly and fires it off, right into another relatively small storage 
  tank about halfway between himself and the Autobots, exploding it in a 
  pillar of flames. 
Sludge is right behind Swoop in turn, charging as fast as he can, hard 
  pressed to keep up with Grimlock and Swoop.... 
Lion continues to pad along, looking as resigned as usual. He gives the 
  autobots his normal impassive stare as he glares at them from his 
  somewhat far position. 
Bull disconnects his forward fuel intake, clamping his rear intake into 
  place, beginning to fill the third tank, on his right rear haunch.. 
Orca raises his arms instrictively as the pillar of flame erupts into a 
  towering conflageration of intense heat. He is thrown off his board from 
  the impact of the explosion. He sits up, grabs his board, and snaps it 
  back onto his frame. The Aquabot then starts to gather himself to his 
  feet. 
Lion casts a look back for a moment, making sure the obsidian horn hiding 
  in the waters is still there. 
Sludge watches as somewhere up ahead, something explodes.....like....really 
  explodes. His mouth goes into an O shape as he just manages a 
  "Wooooooooow." being at the rear of the charging column he isn't up front 
  to get scorched like others. 
Ultra Magnus staggers backwards as Divebomb's attack leaves a rather huge, 
  searing wall of flames in front of him. 
Swoop growls, as the flames annoy. Then he sees his aerial rival. His 
  optics narrow as he glares. 
Eagle keeps his wings spread wide to remain stabilized in the sudden 
  updraft from the heat. He nods in satisfaction, keeping watch on the 
  Bots, 
Orca casts his gaze over his shoulder to look for any workers in the area. 
Sludge just continues to follow Grimlock....as he's the one that decides 
  where they're going to go anyway.... 
Bull starts to strain to pump faster, steam curls fromhi snasal ducts as he 
  silently curses laws of physics about which he has no knowledge of... 
Ultra Magnus is caught in a particularly nasty portion of the explosion, 
  but his well-armoured frame seems to take it pretty well, he glances 
  upwards at the Predacon Eagle, then quickly checks to see if any humans 
  are trapped by the roaring flames. He calls back, "Grimlock! Take the 
  Dinobots into the air, try to frighten them off!" 
Lion pads around the inferno, taking lazy 40 meter bounds as he dances 
  about 
Tiger surveys the situation waiting for the first sign of an Autobot coming 
  through the flames to lock his leg mounted ballistics onto. 
Eagle had... 'thoughtfully' chased the humans away from that building 
  before detonating it. He circles around again, loading another pair of 
  rockets. 
Bull almost fails to lock down the fuel coupling as he transfers to the 
  final tank, as it is there is a slow leak that begins to form a puddle 
  near the oil tank... 
Grimlock effortlessly lifts out of the hovercraft as the other Dinobots 
  rise behind him, "bah...best way for scaring is shooting....Dinobots! we 
  de-stroy Pred-cons...", he grunts as he opens fire on the general area 
  around Tantrum, trying to divert his attention... 
Orca notices several humans covered in oil slumped on the ground. The 
  flames haven't reached them yet, but their current situation doesn't look 
  entirely positive. Charging toward them, Orca seems ready to do what it 
  takes to try to get them to relative safety. 
Lion leaps along as he casts his shadow through the fiery curtain, teasing 
  the autobots with fleeting images of his fearsome form. 
Sludge follows Grimlock's lead, foot thrusters blasting forcefully and 
  pulls out his own weapon, aiming towards the nearest Predacons and firing 
  a few volleys of his own laser fire. 
Ultra Magnus's shadow flickers across the ground. Surrounded by flames, his 
  optics scan for the best way out, gleaming as they reflect the towering 
  wall of flames. 
Eagle dives downward, firing off a stream of dud rockets in an attempt to 
  intercept as many shots as possible away from Tantrum, "Gotcha covered, 
  for now.." 
Bull has his attention on th efuel pumping when the ground starts to 
  explode in shrapnel that clangs maddeningly against his thick hide "267 
  astroliters ta go..." 
Swoop flies up, following Grimlock and Sludge, "Dinobots dee-stroy 
  Pred-ee-kons!!" as he gripes his laser rifle. 
Tiger breaks into a sprint to get around the other side of the wall of 
  slames so as to come up from behind the now approaching attackers. 
Orca reaches the humans and drops quickly to his knees. The reach up toward 
  him for help, and the Aquabot scoops the two of them from the ground into 
  his arms. Lifting them, he turns to run as a wall of flame surges through 
  the area in which they lay only moments before. 
Lion begins to send random shots of titanium shells through the blazing 
  barrier to add to the predacon's attempt at confusion 
Bull sidesteps a plummeting dud warhead as he watches the capacity line 
  creep slowly through a distorted timewarp of infinte slowness.. 
Tiger continues to move around the diversionary flames, now almost fully 
  out of sight of his brothers and coming around to the Autobot side. 
Sludge glances at the ground below....and the wall of flame. "Sludge 
  confused..." he says. "Who shoot at?" 
Swoop growls at the aerial Predacon, "You lil birdie cover cow. But who 
  cover you?" as he shoots around the Predacon, trying to scare him off. 
Ultra Magnus cringes reflexivley as a number of Razorclaw's shells explode 
  against his armoured form. His vision blinded by flames, he relies on his 
  battle training to try and determine the origin of the attack. He spins 
  rapidly, plasma rifle in hand. 
Bull begins to visiblt quiver with impatience as the gap closes.. 1450 
  astroliters... 1475 astroliters.... 1500 astroliters... "come on ya 
  skraggy frackin goo!" 
Orca runs with the humans toward one of the few areas not covered in 
  burning oil. Cradling them in his arms, he tries to protect them from the 
  showers of flame which rain through the air. Orca gets the humans to 
  safety and hands them toward a few personnel who seem to be handling 
  simple care for injured workers. 
Tiger finally comes around the flames with the backs of the Dinobots in 
  full view. It begins to send a blanket of small ballistice rounds towards 
  them so as to draw their attention. 
Eagle winces as one of the many shots scores along his wing. In return, he 
  fires another volley of rockets, most detonating against either midair 
  laser blasts or against the ground. 
Ultra Magnus glances up quickly, taking in the present locations of the 
  Dinobots. Having caclulated where he thinks the Predacon Commander is, he 
  charges fowards, through the flames, wielding his rifle like a bat. 
Lion watches Ultra Magnus through the embrulliance of energy with his acute 
  senses. A gutteral growl rolls out of his fanged maw, almost a call to 
  the Autobot. 
Grimlock and the other Dinobots provide cover fire for Orca as he helps the 
  humans, providing general annoyance for the other Decepticons there... 
Sludge watches as several rounds come from behind the group. He turns and 
  glances down, catching sight of Rampage down there. "Bad kitty shoot at 
  Sludge! Sludge stop kitty!" he says, then cuts out his thrusters and 
  drops from the group towards the predacon.. 
Swoop keeps firing, at the bird. "Swoop no like 'dat you smelly birdie 
  shoot rocket at me Swoop!" as he keeps his fire, not really hitting 
  -yet-. 
Sludge lowers his laser pistol and fires a few innacurate volleys at the 
  tiger now, still decending rapidly. 
Ultra Magnus emerges from the raging inferno, and finds himself closer than 
  he thought to the Lion. Ultra Magnus stands there for a few breif 
  moments, sizing up the Decepticon, his looming shadow flickering across 
  the ground in front of him. 
Bull lurches away from the tank coupling as his tanks fill up and begins to 
  cascade down his flank. With a gutteral bellow he heads towards the 
  sounds of his Commanders Growl-challenge 
Tiger sees the decending Dinobot and slows down running a zig zag pattern 
  to avoid the now rapid succession of return fire. 
Eagle angles his wings and rolls to the side, weaving around some of the 
  wider-spaced blasts. He returns fire with his own lasers, smirking as he 
  hears Tantrum's call. 
Bull begins to accelerate towards the rest of his brethren... 
Orca looks back toward the chaos of the inferno, trying to determine where 
  the antagonists have positioned themselves. 
Tiger slows up and struts dangerously close to the Dinobot, as if to taunt 
  it, heading for the end of the flames again, this time to rejoin his 
  brethren. 
Bull thunders along the tank farm's pipelines kicking out at valves as he 
  goes.. 
Sludge slams down to the ground and keeps firing at Rampage....but his 
  heart dosen't really seem with it. As such his aim suffers 
  accordingly........then when the tiger gets near him and darts off he 
  takes to the air again, frowning. "Why Sludge no like?" he says to 
  himself. 
Lion opens his mouth with a hiss, and flick one eye off to the left. From 
  the oceans, a golden Rhino tears up the beach as it thunders towards his 
  leader. Razorclaw faints just a tad of a smile to Ultra Magnus as if to 
  say "gotcha" as he backs off fromt the commander. 
Eagle sighs resignedly and banks to the side, glancing down toward 
  Razorclaw. 
Swoop watches as Divebomb, as he keeps firing. "Sludge 'member Pred-eekons 
  no good, lie lot?!?" he yells to his brother, trying to keep his focus on 
  the upcoming battle. 
Bulloilstained and muddy clears the tank farm in a burst of speed.. 
Tiger comes sprinting around the wall of flames directly in front of the 
  Autobot commander and groups along with his brothers. 
Ultra Magnus gazes at the Predacon Commander. His Red, White, and Blue 
  frame actually manages to look somewhat sinister, backed by the towering 
  wall of flames. "Razorclaw!" he calls out, straining to be heard over the 
  crackling and roaring of the burning oil, "Take your lackeys and leave! 
  And pray I don't find any human casualities.." 
Ultra Magnus calls up to the Dinobots, hoping they can hear him, "Make sure 
  they don't escape with any of the fuel! Stop Tantrum!" 
Sludge scratches his head and glances at Swoop. "Which one tan-tum? Sludge 
  confused...." 
Swoop quickly yells out, "Him COW!!!" as he takes aim, at the slab of meat 
  with legs and tries to hit him. 
Lion turns to Ultra Magnus as he nears his brothers. "Oh I promise you - no 
  ....human casualties." with a jerk of his head the Decepticon bellows his 
  steely voice. "PREDACONS! Now we exact this....." 
Sludge ooooohhhhhhhhhhs and proceeds to fire at Tantrum too. Boy he's 
  getting alot of attention now. :) 
Bull screeches to a skidding halt and spins back to face the trail of 
  spattered oil and fires a lightning bolt across the oil trail, igniting 
  patches that will spread -to the tanks themselves... 
Grimlock shakes his head for a moment, and roars across the battlefield, 
  "Autobots!", he roars as Magnus exchanges pleasantries with Razorclaw, 
  "con-sin-trate fire on single Pred-con! need prevent merge!" 
Bull resumes his mad charge into the midst of his brethren.. 
Sludge actually comes up with a bright idea. "Him Tan-tum have boom fuel!" 
Ultra Magnus struggles internally for a second before Grimlock's voice cuts 
  through the blaze, he then lowers his rifle and begins strafing the 
  converging Predacons. 
Sludge wastes no time. He just sets his rifle to full auto and lets loose 
  for Tantrum. See Tantrum run.....run tantrum run! :) 
Swoop hears Grimlock's command and dives down to fly in and goes after the 
  orange bull, himself. His laser rifle taking aim at Tantrum. "We Dinobots 
  attack!" as he let's loose. 
Eagle flares his wings and dives down near Tantrum, doing his best to cover 
  his brother from fire, and taking a few glancing shots himself. 
Bull runs for his mechanical semblance of a life... 
Swoop twists away from the attack a microcycle before it hits. 
Bull leaps clear of the laser shot intended for Divebomb. 
Sludge sends sparks flying, as he hits Tantrum with his laser. 
Bull stumbles but continues to hoof it to the Clwaed father 
Eagle banks around after Tant, glancing back at the firing squad of 
  Dinobots every so often. 
Lion growls again, tightening his triangle with Rampage and Headstrong as 
  Tantrum approaches. "Move!" he demands as his talons sink into the terra 
  below. 
Bull leaps at his Commander's command! <booiing!> 
Ultra Magnus continues to strafe the Predacons with his plasma rifle, 
  hoping to hit the elusive Tantrum before a certain unnamed Decepticon 
  Gestalt comes into being. 
Swoop lands next to Sludge, as he keeps his laser fire coming. Trying to 
  take a chunk out Tantrum's hide. 
Razorclaw shouts, "Predacons, MERGE to form Predaking!" 
With a shudder of metal, the Predacons undergo a stunning transformation 
  and combine into the mighty form of Predaking! 
Orca does a double-check to make sure the humans are at a safe distance, 
  then darts his hand to his side. The compartment storing his laser 
  blaster opens and the Aquabot withdraws his weapon. He fires several wild 
  shots toward the Predacons, but none of them are taken with enough aim to 
  come close to hitting them. 
Sludge watches as the predacons merge together. "Uh ohhh...." he says 
  quietly. 
Orca's finger stops firing his weapon as he stands in awe. It has been 
  quite some time since he's seen a gestalt in person, and the Aquabot 
  seems pretty intimidated. His arm remains motionless pointing his 
  blaster. After a few moments, he slowly lowers it. The bewildered Orca 
  blinks his optics and looks with apprehension toward Ultra Magnus. 
Ultra Magnus looks up, and up, and up, as his worst nightmare towers into 
  the blackened sky. His optics dim, but he doesn't budge, merely tighens 
  his grip on his plasma rifle, and looks around at the positions of the 
  other Autobots. 
Predaking slams together, his form wavering slightly in the drafts of 
  superheated air coming from the burning fuel tanks. The X-ray cannon on 
  his arm begins to warm up with a soft whine as he slams one foot forward, 
  firing a volley of mortar sheels from his toes straight at Captain 
  America! 
Predaking misses Ultra Magnus with his Foot-Mounted Mortar Cannons attack. 
Sludge glances from Swoop to Grimlock uncertainly. "What leader Grimlock 
  say dinos do?" 
Swoop growls, as he grips his missile launcher in his hand. He waits for 
  the cue from Grimlock, before he let's loose on the Decepticon gestalt. 
Orca's face indicates an idea. Stowing his blaster back into its 
  compartment, he runs toward one of the oil pumping lines running along 
  the ground. Straddling several of them, he looks along the length of the 
  lines to find one that is not ruptured and would still have enough 
  pressure to be pumping oil. 
Grimlock growls as his intuition comes to reality and shakes his head, 
  "bah! do what always do!", he growls as he rockets towards the 
  Halloween-themed behemoth at top speed 
"DINOBOTS......ATTACK!" 
Ultra Magnus's optics blaze a brilliant blue as the Decepticon War 
  Machine's foot fires off a volley of mortal shells. The Autobot Commander 
  dives to the side, prefering the searing, oil-fed flames to the exploding 
  mortal shells. 
Sludge takes to the air right behind Grimlock, setting his jaw determined. 
There it is! The Dinobot flyer takes off, flying with his fist forward. His 
  missile launcher in his hand. As he grips it and them, takes aim at 
  Predaking and fires out tow missiles screaming out Predaking. 
Grimlock grunts to Sludge, "you, Sludge......trans-form....do tail 
  thing....you, Swoop....do missile-thing....me, Grimlock...kick butt!" 
Swoop nods, as he pulls the trigger on his missiles and let's them rocket 
  towards Predaking. 
Orca leans over to wrap his hands around one of the pipelines. He turns his 
  face toward the Dinobots and motions for one of them to come over. "Hey 
  there!" he tries to shout above the din, "Would one of you mind giving me 
  a light?" Nodding his head toward the pipeline, Orcatries to gesture what 
  he's looking for. 
Swoop strikes Predaking with 5000lb TNT Missiles. 
Sludge raises his arms as his torso flips around and folds..slamming down 
  into a huge Brontosaurus. 
Ultra Magnus rolls out of the flames, and comes up onto one knee. With a 
  ground-shaking roar, the Red, White, and Blue Justice Machine lets loose 
  with one of his shoulder-mounted missiles. 
Brontosaurus gets right next to Predaking....or his leg anyway....and 
  transforms, bearing his teeth and swinging his huge tail around. 
  Well.....Predaking's bigger......but maybe he can trip the big lug up.... 
Brontosaurus strikes Predaking with tail slam. 
Ultra Magnus strikes Predaking with Flaming Missile of Justice!. 
Grimlock fumbles with his Galaxial rocket launcher, drawing a bead on the 
  gigantic target, releasing a projectile that begins to roar towards 
  Predaking... 
Grimlock strikes Predaking with Galaxial Rocket. 
Ultra Magnus's features show nothing but battle-focused seriousness as he 
  gets up from his knees and dashes across the battlefield, searching the 
  towering monstrosity for any signs of weakness. 
Grimlock lowers his weapon as Orca signals from the pipeline, "bah! what 
  want?? Cant see me, Grimlock, have bigger problem-thing right now?? stop 
  playing with hoo-man toys and shoot Pred-king!" 
Predaking notices that he's being swarmed from below, pauses in his 
  mechanocidal charge on Ultra-Magnus. Raising a massive cannoned foot 
  easily as large as its saurian target, he casually applies all of the 
  15,000-odd tons of force availiable to the Decepticon's prise n 
Predaking strikes Brontosaurus with Big Stomp. 
Orca lets out a sigh and stands up, stepping away from the pipeline. He 
  pulls out his blaster and continues with supportive cover fire. The tiny 
  beams from the blaster do little more than flicker lightly about 
  Predaking's massively armored frame. 
Brontosaurus staggers to the side as Predaking brings his big foot down. 
  Unfortunately he's not what one would call very quick and while he sort 
  of gets into the clear.....it smashes down and knocks him to the side 
  hard, all four legs going right out from under him as he sits there, 
  stunned. 
Ultra Magnus winces as Sludge is crushed, and sighs internally as the 
  Autobot's attacks seem to do little more than scorch Predaking's armor. 
Brontosaurus decides that for once brute force just isn't going to work. 
  And well...maybe its time to shake things up in this case. He slowly 
  climbs to his feet, and rears up on his hind legs, hovering there for a 
  moment before he smashes both his front limbs onto the ground with a 
  deafening *KABOOOOM* as the ground splits and heaves violently under his 
  weight......great cracks appearing everywhere. 
Swoop growls, as he sees Sludge stunned. Not liking that. He 
  transforms...as he takes up into the air, higher above the gestalt. As he 
  circles, making a wide circle he narrow's his optics and lets loose with 
  a plethora of cluster bombs for anyone below him. 
Leaping into the air, Swoop compacts with wings unfolding into a ferocious 
  Pterodactyl. 
Brontosaurus devastates the area with earthquake devastation. 
You suffer 15 points of damage in the assault. 
Pterodactyl devastates the area with Cluster Bombs. 
You suffer 7 points of damage in the assault. 
Grimlock rockets forward, leading the assault on Predaking as he propels 
  himself as a flying spear towards the gestalts midsection.... 
Grimlock misses Predaking with his Flying Spear attack. 
Ultra Magnus does little to aim his plasma rifle, confident he can hit the 
  towering Decepticon Warrior, how much damage he thinks it will do, is a 
  different story. 
Ultra Magnus strikes Predaking with Plasma Rifle (of Justice). 
After Swoop cuts loose on Predaking, the sheer force of Sludge's attack 
  reverberates through the air, causing him to lose control slightly and 
  fall to the ground. His systems are knocked out slightly. 
Orca trips over one of the fallen cables as Sludge stomps his foot onto the 
  ground. Falling forward into a burning pool of oil, he grunts trying to 
  hold in the pain. Swoop's cluster bombs then fall from above, further 
  enraging the flames as they swirl to engulf him. Crawling on his hands 
  and knees, Orca tries to start making his way through the searing 
  inferno. 
Predaking is slowed by the massive attacks of the Dinobots, but hardly 
  stopped. The Decepticon gargantuan summons forth it's massive sword, 
  looking toward the aireil Dinobot as if it were a fly swatter. The 
  massive arms of the beast raise high above it's head and then quickly 
  slices through the air towards the flying Dinobot. 
Predaking strikes Pterodactyl with Preyseeker Sword. 
Grimlock expands and contracts into the form of a T-rex. 
Brontosaurus decides he's getting frustrated with this....and just outright 
  runs right for Predaking's back, his body coming up to somewhere about 
  the gestalt's waist. He lowers his head to go for a tripping move...... 
Brontosaurus strikes Predaking with ram. 
Tyrannosaurus Rex lands and quickly transforms, truding towards the gestalt 
  in close range as he flails his tail towards the large Transformer...at 
  best hoping to unbalance him....at worst, irritating him to some 
  degree... 
Tyrannosaurus Rex strikes Predaking with Tail-Whip. 
The flying Dinobot, who was on the ground already, gets literally driven in 
  6 feet under, alright maybe more than 6 feet. The chest of the Dinobot is 
  crushed in. His optics flicker in obvious combination of pain and anger. 
  More pain than anger. Swoop transforms...and pulls himself out of the 
  mini-crater. After a few minutes, he regains his composure and flies up, 
  with his Thermal Sword in hand and swings it at Predaking's head, trying 
  to hit one into the gap in left center. 
The Pterodactyl shifts and unfolds into the 30 foot tall Dinobot, known as 
  Swoop. 
Swoop misses Predaking with his 4000C Thermal Sword attack. 
Predaking flashes his optic band as numerous attacks pelt his monolithic 
  frame. As his unusually agile form slips past a few, he glares down at 
  the tyrant lizard slaps his tail against thick trunk of a leg. With a 
  look which gets to as close as Predking gets to pity, the master hunter 
  brings his open hand up and rotates his arm in a wide arc, heading for 
  Grimlock 
Orca sloshes through burning oil-saturated mud. Nearing a small tide-pool, 
  he rolls himself down an embankment and into the water. There is a loud 
  HISS of steam as salt water evaporates from around his blazing-hot 
  armored frame. Pulling himself from the water, blacked yet generally 
  okay, he glares intently toward the towering Predking. Orca flips down 
  his reflective faceplat and gathers himself to his feet. 
Predaking strikes Tyrannosaurus Rex with massive backhand. 
Ultra Magnus runs around the Oil-drenched battlefield, wincing as the 
  Dinobots are hit hard. There has to be another way, he thinks. Now, if 
  only he could figure out what way that was. He spots Orca crawling out of 
  the flames and dashes over towards him, "You okay there Orca? Looks like 
  you took a beating in those flames." he glances warily up at Predaking. 
Tyrannosaurus Rex reels backward severely from the swipe, shaking his snout 
  as he sports a large dent in his side now, "bah!! Pred-king fight like 
  mini-bot! We have him on run now!", he growls as he surges back into the 
  fight, trying to raise the morale of his fellow Dinobots as he charges 
  into the massive legs... 
Brontosaurus backs off after that last bit, shaking his head. "Sludge 
  hurt-ing...." he says. But seeing as how Grimlock isn't about to stop any 
  time soon he instead raises his foot and sends a large crack towards 
  Predaking through the ground, aiming to slow the gestalt up again.... 
Brontosaurus strikes Predaking with his fissure attack. 
Swoop circles back, his circuits still on fire from the pain. He comes 
  behind the orange and black gestalt and brings his two fists up and slam 
  them down into his back. His optics flaring, his anger and frustration 
  obvious. 
Swoop strikes Predaking with Two-fisted Smash. 
The red and yellow tendrils of flame flicker violently in the reflections 
  cast upon Orca faceplate. He posture is tense and stern, but his facial 
  expression is hidden behind the covering. With a gruff response to Ultra 
  Magnus, the Aquabot replies, "I'm...operative... still well enough to try 
  again." He points toward one of the in-tact pipelines on the ground. "We 
  can use these to our advantage, Magnus..." 
Tyrannosaurus Rex strikes Predaking with Dino-Charge. 
The red and yellow tendrils of flame flicker violently in the reflections 
  cast upon Orca's faceplate. His posture is tense and stern, but the 
  facial expression he wears is hidden behind the reflective covering. With 
  a gruff response to Ultra Magnus, the Aquabot replies, 
  "I'm...operative... still well enough to try again." He points toward one 
  of the in-tact pipelines on the ground. "We can use these to our 
  advantage, Magnus..." 
Ultra Magnus glances down to what Orca is talking about, "I think I see 
  where you're going with that." he sends out an Autobot-broadband, 
  "Dinobots! Change of plans! There's no way we can take him out with a 
  frontal assaut. See these half-full oil tankers? Dump as many as you can 
  on Predaking! " 
Orca points toward the pipeline. "This line is still active, and it has 
  enough pressure to spew oil several meters into the air if broken," he 
  hastily explains. "If we can get one of these pipes burst, we could 
  ignite the spewing oil... we could also find outselves could in the 
  middle of a destructive pressure-blast." 
Predaking actually stumbles a bit under the assault, but quickly regains 
  his footing, "That was.. unwise." A high-pitched whine becomes apparent 
  as his cannon charges to full power, and levels at the biggest, most 
  brightly-colored target on the battlefield: Ultra Magnus. With a blinding 
  flash, the massive X-ray cannon fires, sending a rain of death toward 
  Mags.. 
Predaking strikes Ultra Magnus with Predacannon. 
Tyrannosaurus Rex backs off from Predaking 
Ultra Magnus nods as Orca explains his plan, "Right. That lo--- 
  WWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!" Where the Autobot 
  Commander once was is only a bliding flash of light. Ultra Magnus is sent 
  arcing into the air, through the searing flames that refuse to die, large 
  chunks of armour and flaming debris trail behind his smoking frame as he 
  finally lands a good ways off with a ground-shaking THOOM! 
Orca screams the Earth Autobot commander's name with a myriad of concern, 
  fear, and utter awe at the firepower of Predaking's attack. His gaze 
  snaps back toward Predaking, then toward the pipeline between his legs. 
  Orca raises his hands above his head and clasps them together. A 
  shimmering yellow glow forms within them, a long shaft extending outward. 
  A three-pronged trident forms from Orca's energy systems. Thrusting 
  downward, the Aquabot forcibly punctures the pipeline, causing a shower 
  of spewing oil. 
Tyrannosaurus Rex backs off from Predaking, glances in the direction of 
  Magnus and Orca, "what want?" he growls, irritated as the battle seems to 
  be going the Dinobots way...for now..."uhoh....", he emits simply as 
  Predaking brings his weapon at the pair. 
Swoop circles around, as he hovers in the air. "What go on now? Dinobots 
  attack?" as he clenches his fists while in the air. 
Orca deactivates his trident, then he squats down and tears the pipeline's 
  shaft asunder. Leaning back, he tries to point the spewing hose of oil 
  toward the Predacon gestalt. Looking toward the Dinobots, he shoulds, 
  "Give me some fire at the end of this hose--any of you, and make it 
  FAST!" 
Brontosaurus watches in sort of.....awe as he sees Magnus get blasted by 
  the predcannon. "Sludge think that hurt.." he says through a cracked 
  optic bar. He then looks over at where Orca and says quickly. "Oooo! 
  Sludge make fire good!" with that he opens his mouth and gives a loud 
  belch.......flames soon stream out right after. 
Swoop nods and quickly transforms...as his beak opens and lets out a column 
  of flames, to ignite the stream of oil. 
Leaping into the air, Swoop compacts with wings unfolding into a ferocious 
  Pterodactyl. 
Orca braces his feet on the ground as tightly as possible, the pressure 
  from the pipeline requiring him to use all his strength to hold it into 
  place to douse Predaking. 
Ultra Magnus starts getting to his feet, and manages to get as far as his 
  knees before keeling over again and landing face-first into a rather 
  large lake of oil. 
Predaking asseses the situation as the Autobots desperately wash burning 
  oil over his frame. A rarely used defence mechanism must be employed, and 
  without delay. As th epyre begins to engulf Predaking, he widens his 
  stance, and throwing his arms wide engages his electrostatic forcefield! 
  Bluish energy mingles with crimson and black in a tempepest of rushing 
  energy. With a resounding *BOOOM* the oil is sublimated in a fireball 
  that reaches over a hundred feet into the tropic sky, saving Predaking 
  from th eworst, but not all of th eattack's effects. Black swathes of 
  firedamaged armor crackle as Predaking regathers himself for the next 
  assault, like a Fallen angel come to retake paradise. 
Predaking successfully activates a powerful protective forcefield, 
  shielding him from the next attack. 
Orca repositions his hands to tighten his grip on the hose. "Shoot missiles 
  at the ground directly in front of him!" he shouts sternly. "Make the 
  ground under him as unstable as possible!" His hands waver slightly, 
  continuting to sprew a firey plume toward the gestalt. 
Predaking separates into the individual Predacons. 
Bull approaches with the sound of metal hoofbeats. 
Lion enters with an uncomfortable silence 
Lion lands between his cloven brothers, his face now black as ash. He jerks 
  his face to the left, and nods at the intact fuel tanks on Tantrum. 
  "Enough of this leisure time. We have real business to attend to. 
  Predacons! Swift and strategic egressions!" 
the Bull lurches back on it's hind legs, and transforms into the brutish 
  robot mode of Tantrum. 
Tantrum gathers himself to take to the air... 
Ultra Magnus finally staggers to his feet, determination etched (burnt, 
  actually) into his features. He makes his way towards the battlefield 
  just as the towering Decepticon Behemoth separates. 
Ultra Magnuss frame is still smoking quite readily, but he doesn't seem to 
  notice. He merely grips his rifle, and begins taking pot shots at the 
  'departing' Decepticons. 
Tantrum lurches into the air, staggering under his maxed out capacity.. 
Tantrum begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots from 
  Eagle, Tiger, Lion, Pterodactyl, Orca, Ultra Magnus. 
Tiger begins to sprint out of the range of shots as his brother makes his 
  way into the air and away to safety. 
Rampage begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots from 
  Eagle, Lion, Pterodactyl, Ultra Magnus. 
Eagle spreads his charred wings and engages his rockets, soaring upward. 
Divebomb begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots 
  from Pterodactyl. 
Lion simply bounds forward, seemingly into the autobot line. However, his 
  graceful legs take him over in a beautiful leaping arc spanning 90 
  meters. He attempts to land with a splash in the cool waters. 
Razorclaw begins retreating, leaving himself vulnerable to parting shots 
  from Eagle, Pterodactyl. 
Orca bends over and ramps the hose into the ground, forcing the ignited 
  flames to keep from following up the tube to their source. He looks 
  toward Razorclaw's retreat into the water, but turns his attention back 
  toward the other Autobots. 
Pterodactyl growls, as the Predacons begin leaving. He quickly comes up 
  with a bright idea. His optics lock on to Tantrum. As he flies higher 
  slightly to get a better angle to fire on the Decepticon, suddenly 
  beneath his wings a twin pair of missiles ignite and fire out at Tantrum, 
  hoping to hit him. 
Pterodactyl twists away from the attack a microcycle before it hits. 
Lion simply lands in the water with an elegant dive, his form slipping 
  below and out of sight. 
Tiger leaves to the Panama Canal to the west. 
Tantrum soars upward into the sky. 
Eagle moves out over the waves to the expanse of the Central Atlantic 
  Ocean. 
Orca approaches Ultra Magnus and nods. "I'll turn off the oil pumps," he 
  offers. Turning and running toward the valve controls, Orca kneels and 
  puts his hand around one of the circular steering valves. Rotating it 
  counterclockwise, he closes it and moves to the next one. 
Lion leaves to the Panama Canal to the west. 
Pterodactyl flies back, to the other Autobots as he growls in apparent 
  frustration. "Nex' time me Swoop smash Cepti-kons." 
(Orca appears on the screen, his armor is blackened and charred. Behind him 
  is a thick veil of black smoke from oil fires.) The Predacons made a 
  devastating attack against the oil fields here in Trinidad and Tobago... 
  Ultra Magnus, Grimlock, Sludge, Swoop and I tried to arrive here as 
  quickly as we could, but much of the damage had already been done. (The 
  view pans to show billowing columns of smoke atop raging fires.) We 
  managed to fend off Predaking, but there were some substantial injures 
  done. We'll need all help that is available to try to help clean things 
  up here. I contacted UN hopsital units have been dispatched as well to 
  try to help the wounded. Autobot City medical staff should see to the 
  injures to Ultra Magnus and the Dinobots... Predaking appears to have 
  deemed them as more important threats than me. We could really use any 
  help that is available. Orca over n' out. (The Aquabot walks away from 
  the camera, which continues to show the scene of destruction for a few 
  more moments before cutting off.)

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