1322/Battleground: Mitteous Plateau 5 - 3

**Prowl has posed:**
    The massive airborne carrier that currently serves as the Autobots' Mitteous Plateau outpost drifts lazily through the atmosphere, following a circular patrol route toward the east, near the outer perimeter of the recently-seized city-state of Polyhex.

    Prowl is sitting at a control console on the port side, monitoring the sensor arrays with a keen optic as Decepticon forces inevitably approach his position. He readies his typical opener, and fires an incendiary projectile out of one of the long-range artillery launchers at the encroaching forces!

**Sky Lynx has posed:**
Here there be dragons... and there they be Decepticons. Or...something to that end. Truthfully, the Decepticons shouldn't be too surprised to hear the tell-tale roar of the giant beast that is Sky Lynx as he bears down on the advancing column of Decepticreeps...

Really soon to be Deceptisnacks, because he just dives and barrels into the everything, capitalizing on the tower defenses opening up to hit the group in a very, very precarious situation while they undoubtedly hunker down to avoid the gunfire.

In short, Cons meet Dragonclaws.

**Goth has posed:**
     And from Prowl's explosive rain of fire, comes Goth, running out in his root mode of all things, gritting his denta in pain of the fire that's eating and melting away at his armor, but he really has not time to stop! He pulls a drone from his sub space and lobs it as hard as he can at the defenses a head of him! However he is also knocked /senseless/ by Sky Lynx, panicking and gasping as his alarms start going off in his audials as they /blare/ from the pain and energon loss he's suffering.

**Valour has posed:**
    Well, so much for stealth! Rather than attack pell-mell in jet mode, Val attempted to more sneakily approach from below in root mode... and boy did he literally get burned for it! Hammered by defenses and then torn into by Sky Lynx, Valour nevertheless presses forward. "Focus on the defenses, Goth!" he calls down to the burning batbot. "I'll take out the dragon!" Brave words for someone already down to 27% percent health, but his name is Valour, not Smarts.

**Scrapper has posed:**
For once Scrapper is not rushing the battlefield in vehicle mode. Why would he, just look at the terrain of the Plateau. Last thing he needs is to humiliatingly get his shovel stuck or some nonsense like that. So, no, the Constructicon is attempting a more tactical approach and use some of that rugged terrain as cover. It works decently against the rank and file troops.

It does not work so well against Prowl dousing the area in flammables, and Sky Lynx just sits is big fat shuttle-dino aft down on the area. Goth isn't going to be happy that fire is already involved. Thankfully he did get one of his drones into position, and that's all he needs.

Shrugging off the fact that his armor is burning and Lynx gouged a chunk out of what's not, the Constructicon hefts himself over the rocky outcropping and skids down closer to the defensive position. There's the drone, there's the nice opening it's making. Just enough for Scrapper to shove his own little present into, hit the timer, and scramble back for cover. Because this is the point where things start going KABOOM! Prowl might or might not feel that inside, but with is size Sky Lynx may have some debris and shrapnel from the explosion to worry about.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Oh, Prowl definitely felt that. In fact, there is a load groan as the carrier is shaken violently by the explosion, destroying one of its rear stabilizers. Well it's a good thing there are plenty of backups and redundancies in that area. Still, it causes a wild jolt on the port side, blowing out some walls, one of which collapses onto the strategist.

    "Slag it." he scrambles to his peds and brings up a diagnostic of the airbase, keeping tabs on various troop movements. Running several analyses, he determines the bomb was deployed by Scrapper. << Sky Lynx, focus on the Constructicon. >> he instructs the large spacer, and sends a data packet his way.

**Sky Lynx has posed:**
Gunshots! Lasers! EXPLOSIONS! It's all making for a glorious backdrop as Lynx's armor gets scorched and dented up from the attention he draws. Though, to be fair, the base gets some of that as well. But hey, Lynx is certainly going to make sure that every inch the Decepticons might gain is certainly gained in the most painful of ways possible.

Unfortunate for Scrapper, he's drawn aggro, and as the explosion envelopes Lynx and everything else, there's a brief moment of respite before that draconian head just breaks through the fire and brimstone of the blast, teeth coming to bear on the Constructicon to do what teeth do best.

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth see's Scrapper go down, he knits his ridges, he is already in bad shape, and he can tell on his readouts that valour is in bad shape so he does what he does best as a medic! He transforms into his bat mode and lets out a high pitched screech that Lynx ought to be familiar with, as he then goes to grab Scrapper with his pedes to attempt to get him out of here!

**Scrapper has posed:**
This mission was already frag in the handbasket though. The initial objective was going to be hard to reach, but just disrupting the Autobots and their position would be an asset regardless of the actual victory. Not like that has ever stopped and industrious Constructicon from trying hard and working his craft.

Scrapper hops back behind the (now half-shredded) outcrop he was using for cover. It was chunky and had jagged edges sticking out various ways, it would be dangerous for those drones the Autobots love to use to get to him through. There's a lovely sound of the explosion. Smoke and fire and chunks of debris falling. Heh. Those bombs work so well especially after Goth has put his drones to use. That would give the Autobots something to keep busy with.... And he might still be a little spiteful about the time they blew up and crashed HIS air platform, too.

When the fireworks die down a bit he peeks out of his spot to see the flames, the damage to the aircraft.

And a very big reptilloid shilouette in the flames, looking right at him just before lunging out of the blaze. Sometimes the evil genius was a little -too- effective it seems.

"Oh sum of a glit--" \*CRUNCH\*

**Valour has posed:**
    Valour assesses the battlefield and comes to the same conclusion - the battle is lost before it began. << I'll focus on Prowl, >> he radios Goth. << You get out of here! Once Scrapper is clear I'll follow! >> Using his boot jets to rise up, Valour opens up both chest pods, revealing multiple rows of mini-missiles. He releases them all at once, hovering backward to try to avoid the inevitable violent response.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Prowl watches with satisfaction as the Decepticons are pretty much getting utterly destroyed out there. They were very much out of their element and unprepared for this assault, it seems. Although it also helped that Bots also had support from Polyhex, which they had just taken possession of. They probably should have elected to attempt to advance the front elsewhere instead, in all honesty.

    Then some seeker flies right up the defense pod he's in and launches a bunch of mini-missiles at it, blowing the viewing pane away and damaging the artillery emplacement. The launcher groans as its supports are damaged, threatening to fall to the fragile terrain below and take the entire pod with it. But Prowl stands his ground, fixing Valour with his typical stoic expression. "You have made a serious tactical error, Decepticon." he states evenly, and launches a missile at the mech.

**Sky Lynx has posed:**
Lynx just leaves Scrapper to serve as...well, scrap, and turns his attention to the next nearest target as Goth unleashes that stupid annoyance of a thing, and it has the desired effect of simply throwing his whole gyroscopic balancing and motion system into a faint state of...well, not-so-balanced, and he mutters, shaking his head as he shutters his optical visor a moment.

**Scrapper has posed:**
Look at the bright side Goth. Scrapper isn't in his big heavy machinery mode. And is about half the mech he use to be in general, anyways.

**Valour has posed:**
    Valour had, indeed, made a serious tactical error, and pays for it dearly as a point-blank missile strike knocks him right out of the sky. Goth is once again doubly-lucky in the fact there's probably only enough of Valour left to bring home in a doggie bag.

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth gets scraper in the claws of one of his pedes as he keeps himself in the air, flapping his wings heavily, but then /Valour/ goes down and he lets out a string of Eukarian curses. "<<....It's almost like I KNEW this was going to happen but nooo nooo Bat-former doesn't know aaaanything!>>" He'd shout indignity, mostly to himself, before sighing. "<<Medical be on standby, both Valour and Scrapper are down and I am seriously injured, I'm bringing both in.>>"

      He'd carefully get both Scrapepr and Valour secured before calling off the rest of the attackers and started getting out of there himself! He was not about to waste that temporary paralyzation of Lynx on doing something dumb!

**Prowl has posed:**
    << Excellent work, Autobots. >> Prowl says over the comms as he watches the Decepticons retreat and Valour go down, still trailing fire and smoke toward the treacherous Plateau terrain. << Sky Lynx, get an Ops dispatch from Polyhex to repair the rear stabilizers. >>

**Sky Lynx has posed:**
Sky Lynx shakes his systems clear and mutters as Goth drags everyone off in an effective retreat. With a soft grunt, he just chuffs and nods curtly, straightening himself up and spitting some bits of (probably) Scrapper off to the side before his demeanor shapes up to a properly polite mech. "Well then... I daresay that went well enough. Hopefully they'll be too busy trying to put peg A into slot B to effect a proper retaliatory response." He chuckles softly. <<Of course...we'll have this place patched up in no time.>>